Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 6


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RileyBot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 04:24, Wednesday February 20, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic Supervised  Modified per discussion below at 23:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Remove instances of "Add caption here" and "Example caption" from pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 5 and Bots/Requests for approval/Hazard-Bot 5

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: 1000+ for first run

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Remove instances of "Add caption here" and "Example caption" from content mainspace pages using advanced find and replace. Modified for clarification at 23:14, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Examples:

Discussion
Yes. -68.99.89.234 (talk) 07:33, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

It seems that such things would be a good indication of vandalism or at least edits that probably need repair. Perhaps these should be looked at by a human instead of blindly being "fixed" by a bot. Anomie⚔ 13:22, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * While this might show edits that need repair, I don't really think it would be a good indication of vandalism. If it matters, I could make this task supervised. (check all the edits after the run) -- Cheers, Ri l ey    15:22, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd support a supervised run, or at least logging users to a page on-wiki for further human review. — Theopolisme   ( talk )  23:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Taking account into last discussion. It will not edit userspace will it? WormTT has an adoption program the have example captions and I have concerns that the bot will start messing with that.— cyberpower ChatOffline 16:34, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Supervised it is then! -- Cheers, Ri l ey    23:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * My apology, I meant "from content pages" as "from mainspace pages". Clarified in the function details. -- Cheers, Ri l ey    23:14, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 14:41, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * -- Cheers, Ri l ey    00:14, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 *  ·Add§hore·  Talk To Me! 11:53, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
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