Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Plasticbot 2


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Plasticbot
Operator:  Plasticup  T / C

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB, using regex find and replace

Function Summary: Correct common errors in the accessdate field of citation templates

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): When I have time to download/scan db dumps.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: Correct multiple common errors in the accessdate field of citation templates. This will allows the dates be wikilinked, identically formatted, displayed according to user preferences, and generally make correct citations.

e.g.
 * accessdate=2005/05/16 and accessdate=2005_05_16 → accessdate=2005-05-16
 * accessdate=2005-5-16 → accessdate=2005-05-16
 * accessdate=2005-05-6 → accessdate=2005-05-06
 * accessdate=2005-16-05 → accessdate=2005-05-06
 * acessdate=2005-05-06 → accessdate=2005-05-06 (note the typo)
 * accesdate=2005-05-06 → accessdate=2005-05-06 (note the typo)

Discussion
-- Tawker (talk) 22:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 50 edits.  Plasticup  T / C  00:00, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


 * --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs (st47) 00:05, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


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