Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Joe's Null Bot 14


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Joe's Null Bot 14
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Time filed: 20:35, Sunday, November 18, 2018 (UTC)

Function overview:

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automated

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: yes

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:Categorization

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 1500

Namespace(s):Category

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):No

Function details: Purges each category in Category:Disambiguation categories with the goal of flush empty disambiguation categories into Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories. As implemented, this would be a parameter change to an existing function, most similar to task 5.

Discussion

 * let us know how it goes. — xaosflux  Talk 12:11, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it'll run about 1111 UTC the next seven days, will report back. --joe deckertalk 05:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)


 * So, a funny thing happened on the way to the Bot Request. As near as I can tell (and this explains one or two other reports I was looking into), the underlying forcelinkupdate function may be broken.  I'd recommend putting this on hold until there's clarity on T210307, or alternatively closing this and asking me to refile once it's addressed.  *shrug*  --joe deckertalk 20:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Let's call this... for now. Feel free to undo my close, and re-open this once you're ready.  SQL Query me!  01:01, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
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