Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 14
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Operator: Qwerfjkl (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 16:16, Thursday, October 13, 2022 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): AWB (+JavaScript if necessary)
Source code available: AWB (RedirectTagger)
Function overview: Tag redirects with various redirect categories.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Adding {{r to category}}
Edit period(s): one time run, with more later if necessary
Estimated number of pages affected: large, in the hundreds of thousands
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Tag applicable redirects with:
- {{R to category namespace}}
- {{R to draft namespace}}
- {{R to help namespace}}
- {{R to portal namespace}}
- {{R to main namespace}}
- {{R to project namespace}}
- {{R to talk page}}
- {{R to template namespace}}
Discussion
edit- Instead of tagging hundreds of thousands of pages with these templates, wouldn't it be better to tweak {{Redirect category shell}} to apply them automatically? – SD0001 (talk) 09:54, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @SD0001, a lot of redirects don't have rcat shell. The rest can probably be done via that template. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:04, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I too would support a tweaking of {{Redirect category shell}} to automatically handle these cases. But the task remains valid for pages that are missing these tags. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:48, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Concur with Headbomb - make the template change, then we'll see how many edits the bot will need to make. Primefac (talk) 17:45, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- There's currently a discussion going on, on the rcat shell talk page. I've also written a redirect parser and tagger for another task, so I could probably use that for this as well. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:28, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- {{BotOnHold}} Pending that discussion. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:46, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn by operator.— Qwerfjkltalk 07:14, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- {{BotOnHold}} Pending that discussion. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:46, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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