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ZackBot 12

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Operator: Zackmann08 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 18:55, Friday, October 26, 2018 (UTC)

Function overview: Replace deprecated parameters on {{Infobox islands}}

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source code available: User:ZackBot/infobox islands

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template_talk:Infobox_islands#Can_we_clean_up_these_params?

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: all transclusions so currently 6821 pages.

Namespace(s):Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): yes

Function details: Very straight forward. There are a whole bunch of parameters on this template that have been deprecated (replacing spaces with underscores so for example {{{image name}}} → {{{image_name}}}). This bot would be a one time run to go through and replace the deprecated parameters with their new version. A very simple find and replace that would only make changes within the infobox. @Frietjes and Plastikspork: pinging you both in case you wish to chime in. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:55, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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@The Earwig: done. Did the first few one at a time and found a few small typos which I corrected (both in my script and in the page itself). But other than that, looks good to me. let me know if you see anything. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 06:18, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Earwig: any update? Would love to unleash this bad boy. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:15, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Looked through the edits; I see a couple small issues/nitpicks. Nothing too serious, but a few points worth fixing.
  • In [1], the bot replaced the valid |width min km= and |width max km= with the invalid |width_min km= and |width_max km=, causing the width to get removed from the infobox. (This is the only change I saw affecting an actual rendered page.) The page remains in the deprecated params maintenance cat, so we would've caught it eventually, but still should be fixed.
  • In [2], [3], [4], and [5], the bot either (1) messes with a (fake?) parameter, turning |locator map size= into |locator map size=, or (2) replaces "native name:" with "native_name:" in a comment that's not referring to a parameter name. Since the parameter doesn't seem to exist, it's not a serious issue (arguably GIGO), but I would still prefer not touching it in that case. For the latter thing, again, it's very minor, but we would ideally leave it alone.
  • In [6], the bot changed some text in the value of the |ethnic_groups= parameter. No actual effect because it was a link title, but if that link wasn't piped, it would have been visible. This is basically what I was worried about above, but it seems you didn't apply the fix to every parameter, only some of them?
Thanks! — Earwig talk 05:15, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@The Earwig: thank you for taking the time to go through all of these! Great catches. I've got a number of projects I'm working on right now but I will get to this ASAP. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 01:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@The Earwig: I have completely redone the bot. Can I get another 50 edit trial? --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Zackmann08: Sure. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — Earwig talk 03:07, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@The Earwig: Done! diffs. Let me know. :-) --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:22, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@The Earwig: any update on this? --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:12, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Not yet. — Earwig talk 19:23, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Approved. Looks good now. Thanks for your patience. — Earwig talk 07:36, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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