Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 9

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Approved.

Bot1058 9

Operator: Wbm1058 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 21:16, Saturday, January 18, 2025 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: User:Bot1058/bypasspipe.php

Function overview: Bypass bad (e.g., misspelled) piped links to link directly to the title displayed to readers

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: varies

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: I've spent a lot of time working to clear Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings, a workflow that usually has a significant backlog and is time-intensive to clear. This bot task is an effort to ease the human workload by automatically making edits to help clear this list, which are almost certainly safe to make. When there is a piped link to a misspelling, the bot will simply remove the link to the bad spelling, leaving a direct link to the correct spelling, which is what was already shown to the reader. For example,

[[Edingburgh|Edinburgh]] is replaced with [[Edinburgh]]

I've taken the liberty to make some test (supervised) runs under my personal account, you may review the edits listed below. Automatic bot edits will be set up to run on the Toolforge, to avoid needing to tunnel to the replica database.

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – SD0001 (talk) 22:09, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note about one reason for the frequency of need for these edits. See User talk:wbm1058#Cursor, which is an explanation for why I needed to make this 10 January 2023 edit, which would now be made by this bot task. TL;DR: it's a workaround for a shortcoming of edits made using Wikipedia:VisualEditor. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:50, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete.

2 edits on 20 January 2025
1 edit on 21 January 2025 – total 3 edits
7 edits on 22 January 2025 – total 10 edits
1 edit on 24 January 2025 – total 11 edits
7 edits on 28 January 2025 – total 18 edits
24 edits on 29 January 2025 – total 42 edits
5 edits on 30 January 2025 – total 47 edits
17 edits on 31 January 2025 – total 64 edits

– no problems seen. – wbm1058 (talk) 21:40, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Primefac (talk) 12:31, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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