Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot 3


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

Thehelpfulbot 3
Operator: The  Helpful  One

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB or Python

Function Overview: The bot will run simple and regex find/replace tasks for WikiProject Topic outline and any other articles that need it.

Edit period(s): Whenever required.

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

Function Details: The bot will run simple and regex find/replace tasks for WikiProject Topic outline and any other articles that need it. The Python script would be from pywikipedia, replace.py

Discussion

 * Basic find and replace is what bots were made for, really. For later reference the bot is intended to make changes such as this and this.  Richard 0612  18:41, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * n.b. TheHelpfulOne isn't ignoring this page, they've been off Wikipedia altogether since 2009-02-11. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 08:50, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Trial complete. The  Helpful  One  10:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * So to add in broken wikicode? (as in the second example. Q  T C 11:00, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * As the page in question is a draft, I would imagine that the code is being added automatically now, and then a human fills in the appropriate time zone later before moving the page to mainspace.  Richard 0612  11:04, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed, that's what the user who asked me to run this find/replace task wanted, all of the articles in the Wikipedia: namespace won't be moved to the article mainspace until they are 100% complete. The  Helpful  One  11:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Meh, missed that it wasn't in mainspace. Q  T C 11:07, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Now that all concerns look to have been resolved, I see no reason not to approve.  Richard 0612  11:20, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


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