Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 11


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Mdann52 bot 11
Operator:

Time filed: 22:43, Friday, November 11, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: Standard AWB, config available on request

Function overview: Fix all Google Books/News (etc.) links to link to the English version interface of the site.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): see above (also Village_pump_(idea_lab))

Edit period(s): Intended as a one-time-run

Estimated number of pages affected: potentially 10,000+

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Changes interface links to non-English forms of Google books to en, and changes all "books.google.co.X" links to "books.google.com", as per this botreq. Examples: and

Discussion
Since this is for changing "non-English forms of Google books", will you be SKIPPING changes to links like ? This has other impacts on what someone who follows the link is presented. — xaosflux  Talk 03:57, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * For example, if someone wants to obtain the source material google provides them off-links to book vendors, but these vary depending on the domain name. Mostly I'm making sure we are not trying to change all of these to US-centric as opposed to English specific. —  xaosflux  Talk 04:01, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note, this does not occur for just the  parameter. —  xaosflux  Talk 15:58, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks like google.com redirects to the local site where avalible, while google.co.xx does not. I can still impliment this, but from a brief bit of testing, it doesn't seem to be needed - just let me know if you find similar results! Mdann52 (talk) 18:57, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you interested in only changing the ?hl parameter, it doesn't seem that the domain name change is needed. — xaosflux  Talk 19:13, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean. I can, however my preferred solution is changing it to .com (to provide automatic localisation). If you think the external links need to be conserved, however, I'm happy to defer to your judgement. Using ?hl is less reliable - if you go back, for example, the language does not appear to be retained, so you are dumped on the other language site. Mdann52 (talk) 19:18, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Is there a reliable list of google books sites that are in English, that are using .co.xx sites that could be exempted, while the others are still done? — xaosflux  Talk 02:54, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

not that I can find - I am, however, happy to just change the ?hl after looking into this a bit more. Mdann52 (talk) 22:23, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * (?hl=en) only. — xaosflux  Talk 22:47, 13 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Village_pump_(idea_lab) opened for some input. — xaosflux  Talk 00:29, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Quick update here, I'll complete the trial in the next week, and put any further work on hold until the discussion is complete. Mdann52 (talk) 19:22, 21 November 2016 (UTC)


 * - any update? — xaosflux  Talk 01:53, 4 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Should you want to revisit, please list this. — xaosflux  Talk 00:19, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


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