Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OmniBot 5


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OmniBot 5
Operator:

Time filed: 01:02, Sunday, July 24, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replace External Links with External links.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot_requests

Edit period(s): One time run, although could be potentially run again sometime if needed

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,491

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: This bot will replace "External Links" in section headers with "External links", as per the manual of style. This should be a fairly uncontroversial task, AWB genfixes will be switched on, unless anyone has a problem with that. I was originally going to run this on my main account, but I decided that there were too many affected pages, and that it could be considered too minor a change.

Discussion

 * I fully support this. It's one of those little stylistic things that make a page look entirely unprofessional when gotten wrong. I don't think changing capitalization is purely cosmetic in the sense intended by WP:COSMETICBOT, but seeking approval is wise. ~ Rob 13 Talk 01:46, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * This is done by WP:GENFIXES. It brings the heading in alignment with the WP:ELCITE guideline. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:58, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, this is part of the AWB genfixes? I was just planning on using find and replace. Also, I forgot to mention that I'll be using this search to find pages that need to be fixed.  Omni Flames ( talk ) 02:14, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If you just run genfixes on these pages, which seems fine, be sure to include regex to skip any pages without the capitalized "External Links". Otherwise, a page which was fixed by another editor before your bot got there would likely receive a purely cosmetic edit. ~ Rob 13 Talk 02:20, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * — Earwig   talk  05:22, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Edits are here. Couldn't find any false positives, and the bot worked as expected. Only thing that you should note is that the actual number of edits needing to made is around 2000.  Omni Flames ( talk ) 10:32, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Trial edits checked – no issues. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 15:52, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Could you fix at the same time? --Leyo 20:42, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If BAG is okay with that, then sure, I can do that with the same program with only a few changes.  Omni Flames ( talk ) 22:36, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * extending trial to include additional functionality. — xaosflux  Talk 04:19, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The edits are the newest 50 at Special:Contributions/OmniBot. You'll notice that the early edits were pretty much all fixing external links, that's because I forgot to sort the list alphabetically. About halfway through I stopped and did this, and the edits were pretty much even after that. No false positives found as of yet.  Omni Flames ( talk ) 08:01, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Trial edits checked – working as intended with no issues. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 15:22, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Task approved. — xaosflux  Talk 19:15, 28 July 2016 (UTC)


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