Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JL-Bot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was

Approved.

JL-Bot

Operator: JLaTondre

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (operator initiated & supervised)

Programming Language(s): Perl (uses perlwikipedia)

Function Summary: Replace incorrect external links to Wikipedia & sister sites with internal link syntax

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily to weekly

Edit rate requested: 10 accesses per minute (built in delay of at least 6 seconds between any read or write)

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

Function Details: It will correct links, only within articles & templates, to Wikipedia & sister sites that are incorrectly formatted using the external link syntax. It uses Special:Linksearch to determine pages to process, but each run is limited to links starting with a random character (ex. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A) to keep the number of pages being processed to a reasonable number. It is conservative in the patterns that it matches.

The following replacements are made:

[link:target name] → [[target|name]]

target[link:target] → [[target]]

[[target]][link:target] → [[target]]

[[target|name]][link:target] → [[target|name]]

<a href="link:target">name</a> → [[target|name]]

where link: is of the form:

http://\w+.wikipedia.org/wiki/

http://\w+.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=

http://\w+.wikibooks.org/wiki/

http://\w+.wikinews.org/wiki/

http://\w+.wikisource.org/wiki/

http://\w+.wiktionary.org/wiki/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/

http://www.mediawiki.org/

The replacement target is properly prefixed if it is a Category:, Image:, or interwiki link.

It also fixes minor formatting errors with internal links, but only if an external to internal link fix has been made.

Discussion

Looks pretty good. My bot does something similar to this I believe. Does the bot change external links to interwiki links, does it correct interwiki links, or both? ~ Wikihermit 03:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It changes external links to interwiki links. The original purpose was to deal with "external" links to enwikipedia itself, but handling interwiki links was similar enough that I added it in. As far as correcting interwiki links, it doesn't validate that interwiki links lead to the correct page. It will do some minor clean-up such as remove excess spaces and decode URL-encoded characters. -- JLaTondre 11:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - How will this handle oldids and other cases where there is a query string? Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 12:02, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - It ignores them (with one exception). It looks for (using examples)
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_name and
      http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Page_name
      patterns only. The exception is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Page_name. It will also convert that as I cannot see a reason why, in article space, there should be a link to a search instead of linking to the actual page. -- JLaTondre 12:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. 50 edits. --ST47Talk 12:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

45 edits made. I had two issues at the start that I resolved. I forgot to specify an edit summary on my first edit. I also had two UTF-8 problems (edits 5-6) that I had to revert. Updating to the latest perlwikipedia resolved those & when re-ran (edits 10 & 12), everything was fine. -- JLaTondre 21:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

\n:Great, Approved! ----ST47Talk 13:36, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. --ST47Talk 13:36, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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