Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SteveBot 6


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SteveBot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 15:28, Saturday May 21, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Manually

Programming language(s): AWB and a normal web browser

Source code available:

Function overview: Moving case pages in line with new MedCab naming conventions, adding categories to old closed cases.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): here, as well as IRC.

Edit period(s): Until all pages are updated.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~2000 at least. see here

Exclusion compliant N/A

Already has a bot flag Y

Function details: Moving pages from in line with the new naming conventions (old cases with conduct issues are changed eg to /Cases/1 October 2011/User:Example with content issues being the same except the Article name instead, as well as dating formats from ISO to standard dates. It was partly discussed here at MedCab but was changed after some discussion in the MedCab channel. I've been doing the task manually for some time but am creating a lot of un-needed redirects. At the same time I am doing some maintenance to the cases (adding closed category as a majority of the cases haven't been marked as closed or even as a MedCab case) etc.

The main purpose of my request is to get permission to use suppress redirect for this task only. I am aware to ensure that any pages that link to the old case URL need to be updated, etc.

Discussion
Since this will be running manually -- Chris  03:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This is going to take me a while to complete. Should I ask for another trial? Steven Zhang  The clock is ticking....  04:40, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

There's no need. No one has raised any objections and it's a manual task, that doesn't really pose any risk of damage -- Chris  09:20, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


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