Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 44


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PrimeBOT 44
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Time filed: 13:24, Friday, March 1, 2024 (UTC)

Function overview:Replacing invisible space characters in short description templates

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: WP:AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): request, WP:MOS, discussion

Edit period(s): OTR to start, potential future runs if there turns out to be a recurring issue

Estimated number of pages affected: ~3500 based on the dbase report

Namespace(s): Article

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Fairly straight-forward find/replace of any whitespace that isn't a standard space, replacing it with a standard space.

Discussion
As a note, I ran this manually through my own account on AWB as a proof of concept (wanted to make sure AWB could handle the various whitespace types). Primefac (talk) 13:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * – SD0001  (talk) 19:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Edits. Primefac (talk) 20:46, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Appears to work as advertised. I note that AWB genfixes seem to be being applied, even though that's not mentioned anywhere in the details. I also hope that you're using the same definition of "whitespace" that the database report is using (which appears to be the first table at Whitespace character), and in particular not replacing various zero-width space-like characters (U+200B, U+200C, U+200D, U+FEFF) with a normal space. Anomie⚔ 20:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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