Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 4


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CitationCleanerBot 4
Operator:

Time filed: 01:00, Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic (Mainspace/Draft/File/Category); Semi-automatic (other namespaces). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:06, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available:
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 * Skips external links, nowiki tags, etc... on automated runs

Function overview: Create links to PMID/PMC identifiers. This is the same idea as Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 2, but in a straight jacket for easier review/approval.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): See Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 2 and links therein.

Edit period(s): Whenever I start the bot, a few times per week.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~1300

Namespace(s): All

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Creating links to PMID/PMC identifiers, e.g., , plus WP:GENFIXES.

Discussion
(10 of each kind). — xaosflux  Talk 01:58, 1 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Full trial. They are so interlinked I couldn't separate them into neat batches, so I did 50 edits, and they show all types. I ran the trial semi-automatically, but saved things as if it were automatic. Two problem edits happened
 * (this was the only instance of insource:/ref name *= *"PubMed ID.*"/ in Wikipedia, which I've now fixed)
 * (GIGO mostly pmid 234213 is a bad parameter, but for the multiple PMIDs in a row, that's a curveball. The bot didn't break anything there though.)
 * There is also
 * , which required a follow up, due to the interactions of genfixes with the bot. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:25, 1 August 2018 (UTC)


 * — xaosflux  Talk 02:46, 4 August 2018 (UTC)


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