Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LawBot


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

LawBot
Operator: MZMcBride

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python (wikitools)

Source code available: wikitools (specific script not yet written, though if someone's really interested, I can publish the source)

Function overview: Replacing "prettytable" with "wikitable"

Edit period(s): Mostly a one-time run

Estimated number of pages affected: Approx. 3,800

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Not really; I'll be more careful with non-articles (and won't touch user / user talk pages)

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

Function details: The bot does a simple replacement, replacing "prettytable" with "wikitable". "prettytable" has been deprecated for years; this task will hopefully finally kill it.

Discussion
If there are no objections in ~24 hours, I'll give this a trial. Mr.Z-man 00:50, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Experienced operator. Deprecated code is undesirable. Seems like good idea. --69.225.3.119 (talk) 01:06, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Mr.Z-man 05:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Code already exists in commonfixes (source). — Dispenser 04:30, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

This is still active. Hoping to get to it sometime this week. Ironically enough I've been caught up in (among other things) the Law drama. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:05, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Trial edits complete. Looks good to me.--MZMcBride (talk) 22:05, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * , will run with a flag —  Ree dy  22:08, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


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