Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DixonDBot 2


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DixonDBot 2
Operator:

Time filed: 08:29, Thursday March 21, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: a pywikipedia-based script, will be available soon

Function overview: removing interwiki which are on Wikidata already

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: all templates and other pages with no langlinks converted yet by other bots. The langlinks on documentation subpages are also checked

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): yes

Function details: I haven't seen bots that do this task on template documentation pages. This one will do. Right now the bot runs successfully on this task in Ukrainian Wikipedia:.

Discussion

 * I don't recall any bots handling langlinks on the template documentation pages. Barring this, this looks like a worthwhile suggestion to me, especially since the bot has a proven record performing a similar task over at the Ukrainian WP. I think it's worth a trial once ready. Tyrol5   [Talk]  13:34, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 00:59, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * --DixonD (talk) 02:01, 25 March 2013 (UTC)


 *  MBisanz  talk 12:08, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
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