Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WOSlinkerBot 11


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WOSlinkerBot 11
Operator:

Time filed: 16:33, Monday, August 23, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Replace some occurences of  with

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Javascript

Source code available: At User:WOSlinkerBot/linttask11.js

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 787 pages

Namespace(s): Mainly talk pages

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: AWB cannot process pages with characters from the unicode private area, so will update the 787 pages in the search above so that other bots that use AWB can the update those pages.

Discussion
I have been using to fix user signatures giving high-priority Lint errors per approval in Bots/Requests for approval/MalnadachBot 2. It skips pages that have characters from unicode private use area, because AWB cannot process pages that have it. Replacing the character with its hexadecimal equivalent will make those pages editable from AWB, so I support this task. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 17:19, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: MOS:PUA has some guidance on dealing with these characters. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:50, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Only one question: when you say some occurences, does that mean that not all will be replaced? What are the exceptions? Primefac (talk) 20:52, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * All the occurences listed in the search will be replaced. There are a few other occurences using a different formats of the sig (this search) which could be looked at as well. Wasn't sure what to do with these ones when I raised this request but I could do them as well, with some small changes to the javascript. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:14, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Go with what's listed, just was curious about the wording.
 * Primefac (talk) 21:17, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Here are the 25 edits. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:53, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Primefac (talk) 22:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
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