Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MalnadachBot 2

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MalnadachBot 2

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Operator: ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 07:51, Wednesday, June 16, 2021 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB, replacement strings are posted in User:MalnadachBot/Task 2

Function overview: Fix high priority Lint errors caused by 50 specific user signatures.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Same function as Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MalnadachBot but for different signatures

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 84,500

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: This task is a continuation of Task 1 but for different signatures. All 50 selected user signatures that are listed in User:MalnadachBot/Task 2 cause a high priority Lint error. The first 3 signatures give misnested tag with different rendering in HTML5 and HTML4 error and the others give old behaviour of link-wrapping font tags error. If the signature uses the obsolete <font> tag, it will be converted to CSS. This will also fix obsolete html tag Lint error in relevant signatures. The number of pages in which these signatures are present range from a few hundred to several thousand, totaling about 84,500 pages. This bot task when completed will fix approximately 250,000 Lint errors.

Discussion

Would you consider fixing the following signature?

'''''— [[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850 (Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue"> '''''</span><sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]</sup>

replaced with

'''''— [[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850 (Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue"> </span>'''''<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]</sup>

The last span tag moves inside the bold/italic markup, fixing a misnesting error. There appear to be about 2,700 instances. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:29, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Sorry but I am drawing the line at 50 signatures for this task. These will take me about a month to fix. However I have opened User:MalnadachBot/Signature submissions where you and anyone else can add new signatures for the bot fix. I will be happy to include them in a future task. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 06:49, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Have these 50 users been notified of this? – SD0001 (talk) 09:05, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Many of the users are no longer active. I checked some active users and they have changed their signature. The old behaviour of link wrapping font tag error creates visual difference by suppressing the color attribute. So the users would have noticed their signatures do not work and unlikely anyone is still using these signatures. Gnomes and bots have been fixing signatures without asking users for a long time. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 11:18, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

If the editors have tried to modify their signatures recently, they have been notified by the Wikimedia software that their signature contains a syntax error. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:47, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Approved for trial (200 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Try to include each of the 50 sigs in the trial run. – SD0001 (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Trial complete. Done 4 edits per signature. Results can be see here. I have added username in edit summary to make it easier to identify which signature was replaced in an edit. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 12:23, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Approved for extended trial (5,000 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Looking perfect so far. Let's see if any issues arise in the extended trial. If not, I think this can be approved in general for high-priority signature lint fixes without restriction on the set of signatures fixed. – SD0001 (talk) 19:25, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Just noting that my laptop has stopped working due to some problems. I won't be able to run the bot in the next few days to weeks depending on how long it takes to get fixed. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 11:26, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Trial complete. I have roughly done 100 edits per signature. Results are these and the older 4000. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 19:19, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

 Approved. for fixing all lint errors in signatures containing high-priority lint errors. No need to open new BRFAs for fixing more signatures, though you may want to continue doing the record-keeping in userspace as you've been doing thus far. – SD0001 (talk) 14:02, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

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