Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 51


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BattyBot 51
Operator:

Time filed: 21:57, Sunday, January 24, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Remove hashbangs from Twitter URLs

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests

Edit period(s): One time run, unless editors continue to add these to Wikipedia

Estimated number of pages affected: 2,803

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Change URLs of the form  to   (with variations for URLs with   and  )  GoingBatty (talk) 21:57, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Discussion
If people are wondering why this is necessary, hashbang URLs do not work without JavaScript, so it is an accessibility concern. —  Earwig   talk 22:04, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * - see . GoingBatty (talk) 23:36, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note you probably want to link to Fragment identifier (see "hash-bang" under "Proposals") instead of Hashbang; the latter is the UNIX shell concept. —  Earwig   talk 23:51, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * No other issues. —  Earwig   talk 00:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
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