Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Chris G Bot 7
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Withdrawn by operator.
Operator: Chris
Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto
Programming language(s): PHP, using my classes
Function overview: Fixing links to the IUCN Red List
Edit period(s): one time run
Estimated number of pages affected: about 4000
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: (bot request)
- gets all the pages (mainspace only) that link to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ from the toolserver
- follows the link, if it's live, skip it. If it's a dead link...
- Search for the article title via a "post" call in their search.
- If there's a single hit, change the link in the Wikipedia article.
- otherwise list it on a subpage in the bot's userspace for a human to review
Discussion[edit]
- Relatively urgent/time-sensitive + non-controversial = trusted bot-op =
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. - Jarry1250 [ humourous – discuss ] 12:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Withdrawn by operator. - sorry, I thought I had time to do this but I don't (most of the links appear to have been fixed by hand anyway). --Chris 02:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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