Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MelsaranAWB

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MelsaranAWB

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Operator: Melsaran

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary: Fix links to deleted redirects

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): When needed

Edit rate requested: I will place the interval at one second. It will do approximately 6 edits a minute, if I'm not mistaken, because AWB needs some time to do the changes.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: This bot will fix links to redirects that have been deleted by the redirects for deletion process. It has been requested on Wikipedia talk:RFD that a bot do this in the future, to save work for the closing admins. See for example Special:Whatlinkshere/BJAODN.

Discussion

Fix links? Do you mean "de-link"? ~ Wikihermit 14:40, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes I will de-link, but when cross-namespace redirects get deleted I will replace the link. For example, the redirect BJAODN was recently deleted as a cross-namespace redirect, but it still has hundreds of incoming links. I plan to replace every occurrence of [[BJAODN]] with [[WP:BJAODN|BJAODN]]. Melsaran (talk) 14:42, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, okay. You'll just use AWB's "find and replace" I'm assuming. Looks good then. ~ Wikihermit 14:53, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I tried to do it manually with AWB a while ago, and it worked fine. A bot would do it much faster. Melsaran (talk) 15:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. —METS501 (talk) 19:57, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

 Done see [1]. Melsaran (talk) 20:20, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

If your interested in python, m:replace.py can work for the replace part, it's faster then AWB and takes up less memory IMO. ~ Wikihermit 19:58, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not really sure how that works, I'll stick with AWB :) Melsaran (talk) 20:20, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Not too hard, I'll help if you'd like :-). ~ Wikihermit 20:21, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

The trial looks good. Just one more question: if you encounter a link such as [[BJAODN|this]], is your bot prepared to deal with that? —METS501 (talk) 20:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it'll replace it with [[WP:BJAODN|this]]. It currently replaced [[BJAODN]] with [[WP:BJAODN|BJAODN]], and [[BJAODN| with [[WP:BJAODN|. Melsaran (talk) 22:51, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

 Approved. – Please make sure that you create another task request before doing anything else automated with this account. — madman bum and angel 15:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

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