Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SimplexityBot


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SimplexityBot
Operator:

Time filed: 21:52, Thursday, February 1, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available:

Function overview: Removes direct wikilinks to the same article.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): All edits would be minor visual fixes, and this task has been approved in the past (e.g. Bots/Requests for approval/MenoBot 4, checkwiki error 48), so I don't think discussion is necessary.

Edit period(s): Approximately once per month.

Estimated number of pages affected: 4000 initially, 100–200 per month thereafter.

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Removes direct wikilinks (i.e. not including redirects) to the same article, using this list. Such links do not function, and appear bold inadvertently or improperly. Links that would already be bold (e.g. Link or Link ) would be skipped, except in cases where the text would remain bold as a parameter of a template. Cases where the link is immediately preceded by ''' or  would be skipped.
 * On the article Word, word → word.
 * (regex: (?<!(?i)(?-i)|''')\[\[(%%fullpagename%%)]] → $1)
 * Also on Word, text → text.
 * (regex: (?<!(?i)(?-i)|''')\[\[%%fullpagename%%\|(.+?)]] → $1)

Discussion

 * So for example, on 10K this page will be skipped? — xaosflux  Talk 18:24, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be skipped. I've updated the wording above to be more clear. Simplexity22 (talk) 22:03, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * — xaosflux  Talk 19:55, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Simplexity22 (talk) 21:49, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Please update User:SimplexityBot with a description of the task. There are lots of ways to do this, any of them are OK. (Some examples: User:EarwigBot, User:MadmanBot, User:Fluxbot. (don't want to PING them) —  xaosflux  Talk 04:37, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Simplexity22 (talk) 05:16, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Task approved. — xaosflux  Talk 12:47, 7 February 2018 (UTC)


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