Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Chris G Bot 7


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Chris G Bot
Operator: Chris

Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto

Programming language(s): PHP, using my classes

Function overview: Fixing links to the IUCN Red List

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: about 4000

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

Function details: (bot request)
 * gets all the pages (mainspace only) that link to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ from the toolserver
 * follows the link, if it's live, skip it. If it's a dead link...
 * Search for the article title via a "post" call in their search.
 * If there's a single hit, change the link in the Wikipedia article.
 * otherwise list it on a subpage in the bot's userspace for a human to review

Discussion

 * Relatively urgent/time-sensitive + non-controversial = trusted bot-op = . - Jarry1250 [ humourous – discuss ] 12:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

- sorry, I thought I had time to do this but I don't (most of the links appear to have been fixed by hand anyway). -- Chris 02:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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