Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot

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Approved.

RileyBot[edit]

Operator: Riley Huntley (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 11:44, Sunday January 20, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Simple find and replace task.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Domains_changes_WARFARE.RU_.3C.3E_WARFARE.BE

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: approx. 946 pages

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: Search Wikipedia for the link "http://warfare.ru" and change to "http://warfare.be" because the domain has moved. All links to "http://warfare.ru" are broken but work if changed to "http://warfare.be". No changes are going to be made to reference titles and such because the website has only moved their domain, not changed names. Example edit: diff -- Cheers, Riley 11:44, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

You don't need a bot for this and it is a tiny, easy task. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 18:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- 800-900 pages editing stupid manually? Uhm why? mabdul 19:06, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - It is a small task and I wouldn't even consider having a bot for this. 800-900 pages could be done by any user with AWB. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 19:28, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    - I would like to ask you to make changes across all Wiki languages. Please help. I can't do it manually by myself even in just English version.--188.191.19.243 (talk) 19:37, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

188.191.19.243, this discussion only flags the bot on the English Wikipedia. I will take a search of other common language Wikipedias and if there is a good amount of pages, I will see what I can do. :) -- Cheers, Riley 19:42, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. But if not,.. what should I do? Do it manually page by page?--188.191.19.243 (talk) 20:06, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- If not, I will do it with a tool on my account (although I was not doing that originally because it is not prefered but I will have no choice if this is unsuccessful) -- Cheers, Riley 20:13, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 23:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

- Trial complete. - All went well except when I accidently switched the edit summary and didn't notice until closer to the end. (which I then fixed) -- Cheers, Riley 00:46, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at a random selection of diffs and they all looked good ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 00:51, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. MBisanz ^talk 04:10, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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