Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sambot 5


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Sambot 5
Operator: [[Sam Korn ]] (smoddy)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): PHP, using Pillar

Function Overview: Per request, migrate links from  to.

Edit period(s): Once

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details:

Code at User:Sambot/Code/Extlinkmigrate.php. The command is



Basically, the process is to use the API to get all article namespace pages linking to the first page and apply a regex to convert all links to the second link.

[[Sam Korn ]] (smoddy) 16:33, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

 * EL updates for dead URLs aren't a very controversial task Q  T C 22:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * . Successful.   [[Sam Korn ]] (smoddy) 23:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok by me.  MBisanz  talk 06:07, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


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