Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 8


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Monkbot 8
Operator:

Time filed: 17:39, Saturday, July 25, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: authomatic

Programming language(s): awb

Source code available: yes, find this →  and replace it with this →

Function overview: replace with

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): probably just one-time

Estimated number of pages affected: 3000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): yes

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

Function details: The 25 July 2015 update to Module:Citation/CS1 added support for vauthors and veditors. vauthors was initially created as part of. The content of this parameter is parsed into multiple last / first pairs. To do this, requires vauthors to be a comma-delimited list of author names where each name is one or more surnames, a space, and one or two initials: Last FM, Last FM; the Vancouver system style. The parsed name-list (along with all of the other template parameters) is passed to for rendering.

That functionality with additional error checking has been added to Module:Citation/CS1 and is now available to all of the cs1|2 citation templates. As such, is no longer required and becomes an extra step in the citation rendering process. This bot request is made to rename all of the instances of in article and template space to. (selfishly, this request is made so that the bot operator doesn't have to spend several hours at the computor in a bleary-eyed haze: clicking ... clicking ... clicking ...)

I've made a hundred or so edits with this script. The results can be found in Special:Contributions/Trappist_the_monk search for

Discussion

 * You may also want to add rules to AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects to make these conversions. GoingBatty (talk) 17:49, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I added the support. Now only thing needed is to run with general fixes urned on. No find and replace is needed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:00, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 01:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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