Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 4

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FrescoBot 4

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Operator: Basilicofresco (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: automatic

Programming language(s): python

Source code available: ask me

Function overview: checking and fixing broken section wikilinks

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): few times per year

Estimated number of pages affected: not much

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: wikilinks to sections are case sensitive (eg.#discussion vs. #Discussion). This task is actually an extension of FrescoBot Task 3. It is going to:

1. check selected pages for broken section wikilinks
2. generate a list of possible section name variants
3. check for the existence of one of the above variants
4. fix the wikilink or mark the talk page with the WildBot tag.

Discussion

I will start for example checking pages that link articles with {{anchor}}. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:03, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Could you just clarify how this is any different from Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 3 please (or is it just the way it identifies/fixes the links, rather than the actual edits)? Thanks, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 11:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, both scripts fix section wikilinks and they are actually pretty similar. For this reason I was not sure that a new BRFA was needed... however there are also some differences:

• Task 3 checks the whole dump for any lowcase section wikilink with case errors on the first letter of the section name. This is a common mistake and the script does not have to check a very large number of pages.
• Task 4 is much slower so it is going to check only selected groups of pages. Within these pages it is going to check any section wikilink for problems. If a broken link is found it will try a good number of alternative spellings/variants.

Basilicofresco (msg) 14:17, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Very well, let's see if it works Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 14:28, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Trial complete. [1]. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

 Approved. The trial edits were successful. Josh Parris 03:57, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

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