Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 4
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Approved.
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:
- check selected pages for broken section wikilinks
- generate a list of possible section name variants
- check for the existence of one of the above variants
- fix the wikilink or mark the talk page with the WildBot tag.
Discussion
[edit]I will start for example checking pages that link articles with {{anchor}}. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 10:03, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
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)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- Very well, let's see if it works
Trial complete. [1]. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 17:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Approved. The trial edits were successful. Josh Parris 03:57, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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