Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 14


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Qwerfjkl (bot) 14
Operator:

Time filed: 16:16, Thursday, October 13, 2022 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AWB (+JavaScript if necessary)

Source code available: AWB (RedirectTagger)

Function overview: Tag redirects with various redirect categories.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests

Edit period(s): one time run, with more later if necessary

Estimated number of pages affected: large, in the hundreds of thousands

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Tag applicable redirects with:

Discussion

 * Instead of tagging hundreds of thousands of pages with these templates, wouldn't it be better to tweak Redirect category shell to apply them automatically? – SD0001  (talk) 09:54, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @SD0001, a lot of redirects don't have rcat shell. The rest can probably be done via that template. — Qwerfjkl  talk  15:04, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I too would support a tweaking of Redirect category shell to automatically handle these cases. But the task remains valid for pages that are missing these tags. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:48, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Concur with Headbomb - make the template change, then we'll see how many edits the bot will need to make. Primefac (talk) 17:45, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @Primefac, see Template talk:Redirect category shell — Qwerfjkl  talk  18:02, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * There's currently a discussion going on, on the rcat shell talk page. I've also written a redirect parser and tagger for another task, so I could probably use that for this as well. — Qwerfjkl  talk  09:28, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * BotOnHold Pending that discussion. — Qwerfjkl  talk  18:46, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * — Qwerfjkl  talk  07:14, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
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