Operator: Anomie ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:51, Saturday May 12, 2012 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/RedirectBypasser.pm
Function overview: Bypass redirects when a formerly-used name is being usurped
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:BOTREQ#user:N
Edit period(s): As needed
Estimated number of pages affected: about 880 for the initial run
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: There are certain cases that are exceptions to WP:R2D. One example is where a user uses a particular name for a time, then changes to another name, and then a different user wants to usurp the original name; to avoid confusion, it may be helpful to update links to the old name in old discussions.
This bot task would be available to bypass redirects in these sort of cases, subject to consensus that the bypassing is actually needed.
The initial run will be to change reference to User:N, User talk:N, and subpages to the corresponding pages under User:Nard the Bard and User talk:Nard the Bard, as there is another user who wishes to use the name "N".
This bot task would only be used for the rare cases where an exception to WP:NOTBROKEN is to be made by consensus; for example, the common(er) case of a user who changed names and wants their signatures updated just to avoid the redirect from the old name would be denied, as there is no reason to avoid those redirects.
On a technical level, the bot will replace a link [[redirect]]
with [[target|redirect]]
and a link [[redirect|text]]
with [[target|text]]
; in other words, the visible text will remain the same. Any pages that are protected or bot-excluded, or pages with template-generated links, will be logged for human attention.
Anomie
⚔ 02:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
reply
[[target|text]]
then I would recommend making it [[target]]
rather than have something that looks like [[target|target]]
.Hmmm, seems a bit broad an approval for a task like this. How often do you expect to be doing these types of runs? It might be better to deal with these on a case by case basis, rather than giving carte blanche approval. -- Chris 17:24, 17 May 2012 (UTC) reply
Operator: Anomie ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:51, Saturday May 12, 2012 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/RedirectBypasser.pm
Function overview: Bypass redirects when a formerly-used name is being usurped
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:BOTREQ#user:N
Edit period(s): As needed
Estimated number of pages affected: about 880 for the initial run
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: There are certain cases that are exceptions to WP:R2D. One example is where a user uses a particular name for a time, then changes to another name, and then a different user wants to usurp the original name; to avoid confusion, it may be helpful to update links to the old name in old discussions.
This bot task would be available to bypass redirects in these sort of cases, subject to consensus that the bypassing is actually needed.
The initial run will be to change reference to User:N, User talk:N, and subpages to the corresponding pages under User:Nard the Bard and User talk:Nard the Bard, as there is another user who wishes to use the name "N".
This bot task would only be used for the rare cases where an exception to WP:NOTBROKEN is to be made by consensus; for example, the common(er) case of a user who changed names and wants their signatures updated just to avoid the redirect from the old name would be denied, as there is no reason to avoid those redirects.
On a technical level, the bot will replace a link [[redirect]]
with [[target|redirect]]
and a link [[redirect|text]]
with [[target|text]]
; in other words, the visible text will remain the same. Any pages that are protected or bot-excluded, or pages with template-generated links, will be logged for human attention.
Anomie
⚔ 02:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
reply
[[target|text]]
then I would recommend making it [[target]]
rather than have something that looks like [[target|target]]
.Hmmm, seems a bit broad an approval for a task like this. How often do you expect to be doing these types of runs? It might be better to deal with these on a case by case basis, rather than giving carte blanche approval. -- Chris 17:24, 17 May 2012 (UTC) reply