Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JCW-CleanerBot 2


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JCW-CleanerBot 2
Operator:

Time filed: 16:29, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: To make null edits to force template/category updates related to WP:JOURNALS

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Every now and then [roughly daily for the next month or so], when Infobox journal is updated, or that a category like Category:Articles with missing ISO 4 redirects has had a lot of work done on it.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~ 5000

Namespace(s): None, but it'll null edit the mainspace.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

Function details: See overview. I might unleash it on similar categories, e.g. those populated by Infobox magazine, if they exist in the future. I it already as the bot flag, so a speedy approve is probably appropriate, but I figure I'd do a proper BRFA just to get the official stamp of approval to do this before I start doing it.

Discussion

 * (null edits!) - run a batch to make sure you have your code correct and are not running in to any unrelated to this task forced edits buried in AWB. — xaosflux  Talk 22:32, 5 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Mm... does anyone know how to make a null edit with AWB in autosave bot mode? It seems to skip them entirely. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:57, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I've done it with Prepend (c.f. w:no:Bruker:Fluxbot). —  xaosflux  Talk 23:14, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Clever! Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:15, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

500 null edits, reports none made tonight. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:23, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Please check on it every thousand edits or so at first to make sure no unintended edits got added by AWB. — xaosflux  Talk 00:54, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
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