Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 13

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Theo's Little Bot 13

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

Time filed: 22:40, Friday May 17, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python + mwclient + mwparserfromhell

Source code available: on github

Function overview: Adds url parameter to {{cite web}} templates that include archiveurl, but not url.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Archiveurl_bot

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: Roughly the number of pages in Category:Pages with archiveurl citation errors

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Uses Category:Pages with archiveurl citation errors as a generator. For articles containing the archiveurl part of the cite web template, but not having the regular url part (which is required, or else it generates an error), the bot adds a url tag by grabbing the archiveurl, stripping out the archive bit of that url, and then copying it into the url tag. Here's an example.

Discussion

• As the person who requested this bot, obviously I support this becoming a proper one. I've seen it a few times where people haven't put the url in, and anything that gets rid of those bright red errors is good for me! Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:58, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

sounds good Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 15:57, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

• Trial complete. [1] Theopolisme (talk) 00:26, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

 Approved. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 21:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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