Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Citation bot 7


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Citation bot 7
Operator:

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available:

Function overview: Facilitate the addition of references by adding ref tags where requested.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Citation_bot

Edit period(s): Continuous (when triggered by edits)

Estimated number of pages affected: dozens per day (depending on user take-up)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details:
 * User enters (or ref jstor, ref doi...)
 * Bot replaces with   or , as appropriate

Discussion
I take it this is almost the same as Cite doi replacement, and given task 6 approval, this would be a minor change. So I don't see any problems. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 23:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 22:44, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Related edits can be observed at Special:Contributions/Citation_bot_1. Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  03:22, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that I've got this implemented; interested parties are invited to examine the source code or to suggest test cases – scenarios that might be problematic would be warmly received before this goes live. Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  06:26, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * What is the current status of this request? ΔT The only constant 01:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like it's working fine to me. Just waiting for approval.  (It's difficult to just do a batch of 50 edits related to this task because the functionality is to be added to the existing bot tasks, which will be performed concurrently.)   Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  17:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 08:26, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
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