Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 18

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Yobot 18

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Operator: Magioladitis

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, supervised for most of the edits

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: No. I can provide it if requested but there nothing to see here.

Function overview: changes all transclusions of {{PD-old}} or {{pd-old}} to {{PD-old-100}}

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Simple_task. and Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KarlsenBot 3

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 11,000

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details: from the bot request by Mechamind90:

When an image is tagged with {{PD-old-70}} or {{PD-old-100}} on both English Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons, the Wikipedia templates are each practically identical to their Commons counterpart. However, when an image is just tagged with {{PD-old}}, it means 100 on Wikipedia but 70 on the Commons. Perhaps on Wikipedia this can be resolved, since it's probably a hassle for Commons users to replace 70-year with 100-year

when public domain images are copied from Wikipedia to Commons, which is a frequent practice for all free-content images that are initially uploaded locally. Therefore, every transclusion of {{PD-old}} or {{pd-old}} on an image will be converted to {{PD-old-100}}. ({{PD-old-100}}, presently a redirect to {{PD-old}}, will become a high-risk template as a result, and should be fully protected.)

Task was previously approved for KarlsenBot which was blocked recently. Check Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KarlsenBot 3.

Discussion

Speedily Approved. Task was already approved for a different bot, op is experienced in doing this sort of thing, and the general approval for replacing templates in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 15 may already cover it anyway. Anomie⚔ 02:29, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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