Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 6


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Bot1058 6
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Time filed: 14:39, Thursday, December 5, 2019 (UTC)

Function overview: Remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available:

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template talk:Long comment, Template talk:Short pages monitor

Edit period(s): One time run, followed by periodic runs as needed to keep the category clean

Estimated number of pages affected: 53,400 (initial run)

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: This is a followup task to task 5. Remove the text added by {{subst:long comment}} from disambiguation pages (members of Category:All article disambiguation pages) listed in Category:Monitored short pages; since this January 2016 MediaWiki update these pages no longer need this text to keep the page off the top of the Special:ShortPages listings. As with task 5, there is no reason to make this process exclusion compliant. Category:Monitored short pages currently has about 64,700 members; removing around 53,400 of them will leave about 11,300 members, ~300 of which are disambiguation pages whose long comment string does not conform with the string left by {{subst:long comment}} (either because it was manually placed or edited by someone later). These will be removed later, either manually or tweaking the set of long-comment strings recognized by the bot. The remaining ~11,000 category members are things like set index articles or soft redirects (e.g. Wiktionary redirect).

Discussion
Primefac (talk) 15:07, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

50 edits, no issues. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:36, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Looks good to me. . As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. -- The SandDoctor Talk 10:15, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
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