Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/AccidentalLangLinkFixer.pm
Function overview: Apply the Colon trick when someone forgot it.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Any pages added to Category:Pages automatically checked for accidental language links
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: The bot will monitor the language links and categories for pages added to Category:Pages automatically checked for accidental language links. When either list changes, the bot will apply the " Colon trick" to any category or interlanguage links that seem accidental. See User:AnomieBOT/docs/AccidentalLangLinkFixer for much more detail (that page will also be linked from all edit summaries).
See [1] for an example edit in my userspace. Anomie ⚔ 23:22, 11 September 2010 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial (15 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.
Mr.
Z-man 04:09, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
reply
Approved. Close enough, no objections.
Mr.
Z-man 04:37, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
reply
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/AccidentalLangLinkFixer.pm
Function overview: Apply the Colon trick when someone forgot it.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Any pages added to Category:Pages automatically checked for accidental language links
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: The bot will monitor the language links and categories for pages added to Category:Pages automatically checked for accidental language links. When either list changes, the bot will apply the " Colon trick" to any category or interlanguage links that seem accidental. See User:AnomieBOT/docs/AccidentalLangLinkFixer for much more detail (that page will also be linked from all edit summaries).
See [1] for an example edit in my userspace. Anomie ⚔ 23:22, 11 September 2010 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial (15 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.
Mr.
Z-man 04:09, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
reply
Approved. Close enough, no objections.
Mr.
Z-man 04:37, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
reply