Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KarlsenBot 3


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KarlsenBot 3
Operator:

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia

Function overview: changes all transclusions of or  to

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot_requests

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 11,000

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): yes, native to pywikipedia

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

Function details: from the bot request by Mechamind90: "When an image is tagged with or on both English Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons, the Wikipedia templates are each practically identical to their Commons counterpart. However, when an image is just tagged with, it means 100 on Wikipedia but 70 on the Commons. Perhaps on Wikipedia this can be resolved, since it's probably a hassle for Commons users to replace 70-year with 100-year" when public domain images are copied from Wikipedia to Commons, which is a frequent practice for all free-content images that are initially uploaded locally. Therefore, every transclusion of or  on an image will be converted to. (, presently a redirect to, will become a high-risk template as a result, and should be fully protected.)

Discussion
It might be better to go the full TfD route, having PD-old be renamed to PD-old-100 and then delete the redirect once it is orphaned. That would certainly solve the ambiguity problem. And then you could take care of it with KarlsenBot 4 ;) Anomie⚔ 00:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Users may prefer the convenience of being able to use the template through the PD-old or pd-old syntaxes to which they are accustomed, without having such invocations suddenly produce red links. The 100 year template is by far the most commonly used at 11,143 transclusions, while only has 854. I'd rather run an ongoing bot task than make life more difficult for a large number of editors. Peter Karlsen (talk) 06:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This situation differs from common template mergers at TFD, where the source template being deleted, instead of redirected to the target, probably has fewer than 1,000 uses. My estimate of up to 5,000 edits per day for task 4 is based on those rare instances in which somewhat heavily used but "bad" templates are simply removed altogether. Peter Karlsen (talk) 07:21, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok. Anomie⚔ 03:54, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * is a permanent link to the edits. Peter Karlsen (talk) 20:30, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Anomie⚔ 22:11, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
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