Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RjwilmsiBot 5

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RjwilmsiBot 5

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Operator: Rjwilmsi (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 13:56, Thursday October 21, 2010 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Create redirects for pages with special characters. Per Wikipedia:Page_naming#Special_characters there should be redirects for pages with special characters like dashes and diacritics. I would like authorisation to create missing redirects to pages with diacritics and or dashes, en-wiki mainspace only.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Page_naming#Special_characters

Edit period(s): on release of database dump.

Estimated number of pages affected: 4000 (endashes)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: The purpose is to create missing redirects to comply with Wikipedia:Page_naming#Special_characters Functionality will be:

• Use db dump to scan for pages with endashes or diacritics in name
• Convert matched pages into title without endashes or diacritics
• Of the above pages, if the redirect does not exist, create a redirect to the actual page, and tag with {{R from modification}} (dashes) or {{R from title without diacritics}} per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RjwilmsiBot 2.

This means that for this task:

• Only new redirects will be created, existing pages will not be affected/moved.

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 05:30, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Trial complete. contribs. Rjwilmsi 12:27, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

{{BAG assistance needed}} Rjwilmsi 17:15, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

 Approved. Bit hard to review this thanks to all of those persondata edits. However, those edits I've looked at appear to be fine. Only comment would be to place a space between "REDIRECT" and "[[...". Since this is a relatively small number of redirects needed, it makes sense to have a bot create them. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 23:13, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

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