Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 23

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BattyBot 23

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

Time filed: 23:26, Sunday April 28, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix citation templates to add http:// to start of www URL when missing

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 54#Cleanup citation URL errors

Edit period(s): Once in a while

Estimated number of pages affected: hundreds

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Go through Category:Pages with URL errors and use AWB's general fixes to add http:// to the start of www URL when missing. GoingBatty (talk) 23:26, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

• I would support this as believe this is already one of the general fixes in AWB. Apart from urls, there is nothing likely to populate the field |url= except for wrongly filled in urls or text incorrectly identified as such, the error rate is close to zero. -- Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 04:24, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 09:55, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Trial complete. - diffs available here. GoingBatty (talk) 00:38, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

 Approved. No problems that I can see ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 14:17, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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