Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MauritsBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

MauritsBot

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Operator: MauritsBot (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Overview: interwiki.py + cosmetic_changes.py (combined actions)

Edit period(s): continuous (with some breaks)

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

Function Details: see overview

Discussion

Please provide the username of the operator, and do not edit from the bot account until it is approved. What cosmetic changes will this bot be making? Will these changes be made any pages it encounters, or just pages it adds interwiki links to? Wronkiew (talk) 16:16, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

The operator of the bot is user:Maurits. Among others, the following changes are being made:

1. Fix self-interwiki's
2. Standardize interwiki's
3. Standardize categories
4. Cleanup links
5. Cleanup section headers
6. Translate and capitalize namespaces
7. Resolve HTML entities
8. Remove useless spaces
9. Hyphenate ISBN-numbers

These changes are only to be applied to pages it adds interwiki links to. --Maurits (talk) 16:31, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Okay, let's see it in action. – Quadell ^(talk) 22:14, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Trial complete. - see Special:Contributions/MauritsBot. --Maurits (talk) 08:21, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

 Approved. Looks great, thanks! – Quadell ^(talk) 12:38, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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Blocked

I have blocked this bot because it was breaking thousands of pages by putting interwiki tags on templates outside of the noincludes. For example {{Clade}}, {{Attribution}}, {{User ang-3}}, {{GSE}}, {{Floor}}, {{Euronext3}}, {{Efron}}, {{Gallery}}, {{User fr-5}}... and more. Hesperian 03:53, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking and reverting it. I will not run it in templatespace anymore before all problems are fixed. --Maurits (talk) 17:47, 29 April 2009 (UTC)