Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 19


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Monkbot 19
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Time filed: 16:48, Thursday, September 23, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: rewrite templates that use old-form urls using data from the IUCN Red List API; confirm, update, add status, status_system, status_ref parameters in  and  using data from the IUCN Red List API

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): awb/c#

Source code available: User:Monkbot/task 19: cite iucn update

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): continuous until done

Estimated number of pages affected: 13,000

Namespace(s): mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): yes

Function details: for a complete description of what task 19 does, see User:Monkbot/task 19: cite iucn update

Discussion
Here are 100 manual edits made using the bot's code.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:54, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 * – SD0001  (talk) 04:33, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
 * . Results.  Nothing in the results is unexpected.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 17:02, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Is there a reason why refs get shifted around in diffs such as Special:Diff/1048550873? Primefac (talk) 07:02, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * The only reference definition that gets shifted is one of possibly multiple identical definitions associated with status_ref in and  templates.  Most commonly, in  and  templates, status_ref holds the reference definition.  When task 19 adds a status reference where none previously existed, it adds the reference to the status_ref parameter in the  or  template.  Overwriting a self-closed  tag in status_ref is consistent with the way that task 19 adds new reference definitions to the  and  templates and makes it easier for task 19 to remove duplicate definitions.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 12:58, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * BAGAssistanceNeeded
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 15:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
 * For the record, I feel like some of the provided changes are little more than moving around deckchairs, but I also recognise that I don't really know much about this template or its uses, so what appear to be minor changes to me are likely significant. Primefac (talk) 11:51, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
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