Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WolfBot 5


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WolfBot 5
Operator:

Time filed: 21:58, Friday November 23, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: on GitHub

Function overview: Replace instances of the template with.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template talk:Authority control

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 360

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Using a standard template-replace task I wrote (previously used for Bots/Requests for approval/WolfBot 3), the bot will replace usages of BPN, which has been obsoleted by Authority control.

Discussion
BAGAssistanceNeeded &mdash; Wolfgang42 (talk) 13:50, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the wait, but this BRFA wasn't listed . — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK
 * Oops, sorry about that. I must have gotten distracted halfway through. &mdash; Wolfgang42 (talk) 20:13, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

If I get this right, we are replacing site-specific template with a generic one, meaning it is straightforward and non-controversial. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:06, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Someone seems to have gotten fed up with waiting and done this manually. Sorry about that. &mdash; Wolfgang42 (talk) 20:19, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Closing. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 20:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


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