Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 6


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BattyBot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 20:49, Saturday January 14, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix the links to the online version of Encyclopædia Iranica by changing links of the type http://www.iranica.com/articles/title to http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/title

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests/Archive 45

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,184 - per search results

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: Replace  with   (e.g. this edit)

Discussion
This seems relatively trivial/uncontroversial -- Chris  10:09, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * diffs - To ensure links such as http://www.iranica.com/articles/v7/v7f4/v7f446.html are not changed to the non-working http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/v7/v7f4/v7f446.html I used the following regex:  →    --GoingBatty (talk) 22:46, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

-- Chris 10:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


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