Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 6

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RileyBot 6

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

Time filed: 04:24, Wednesday February 20, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: AutomaticSupervised Modified per discussion below at 23:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Remove instances of "Add caption here" and "Example caption" from pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 5#Add_caption_here and Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Hazard-Bot 5

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: 1000+ for first run

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Remove instances of "Add caption here" and "Example caption" from contentmainspace pages using advanced find and replace. Modified for clarification at 23:14, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Examples:
[[File:Example|thumb|Add caption here]] --> [[File:Example|thumb]]
[[File:Example|thumb|Example caption]] --> [[File:Example|thumb]]

Discussion

Yes. -68.99.89.234 (talk) 07:33, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

It seems that such things would be a good indication of vandalism or at least edits that probably need repair. Perhaps these should be looked at by a human instead of blindly being "fixed" by a bot. Anomie⚔ 13:22, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

While this might show edits that need repair, I don't really think it would be a good indication of vandalism. If it matters, I could make this task supervised. (check all the edits after the run) -- Cheers, Riley 15:22, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

I'd support a supervised run, or at least logging users to a page on-wiki for further human review. —Theopolisme (talk) 23:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

• Supervised it is then! -- Cheers, Riley 23:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Taking account into last discussion. It will not edit userspace will it? WormTT has an adoption program the have example captions and I have concerns that the bot will start messing with that.—cyberpower ^Chat_Offline 16:34, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

• My apology, I meant "from content pages" as "from mainspace pages". Clarified in the function details. -- Cheers, Riley 23:14, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 14:41, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

• Trial complete. [1] -- Cheers, Riley 00:14, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

 'Approved.'·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 11:53, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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