Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BrokenRedirectBot


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BrokenRedirectBot
Operator: X clamation point

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Overview: Clone of User:RedirectCleanupBot

Edit period(s): Daily

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N, will also need +admin

Function Details: Runs a database query to get broken redirects. For each redirect, it gets the last edit. If the last edit was within 10 minutes, the bot skips the page. If it was not, it then it gets the redirect. If the redirect page does not exist, it deletes the redirect. Source: here. [Apparently this is not the source code the bot will be using. --MZMcBride (talk) 00:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)]

Confirm: Source the bot will be using is here. X clamation point  00:04, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Discussion
Not needed. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Stupid me, Thehelpfulbot is in trial for this. I knew that there was one around somewhere... X clamation point  00:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)


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