Operator: Rannpháirtí anaithnid ( talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised.
Programming language(s): JavaScript
Source code available: This is the script. Framework is available here.
Function overview: Change " [[Main-belt Asteroid]]
" to " [[Asteroid belt|main-belt]] [[asteroid]]
" on all main-space backlinks to
Main-belt Asteroid (which now redirects to
Asteroid belt).
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Posted to Bot requests.
Edit period(s): One time run.
Estimated number of pages affected: 9483
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No Yes.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No.
Function details: As above. Performed a sand-boxed test on the first 10 back links. No errors found.
I'm unsure about this because it could be seen as a spell-checker process. I could add a human supervision element to the script but since this typo affects almost 10,000 articles I can't see anyone volunteering to supervise all of them. In practice, from my own inspection and the IP poster's description, who says he/she has fixed several hundred by hand, this looks like a consistent typo that is suitable for an automated process IMHO. It appears that all of these articles were created through an automated process by User:ClueBot II and the typo replicated across all of the affected articles by that original process. --RA ( talk) 18:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC) reply
foo.<ref /> [[Main-belt asteroid]]
" and "foo.{{fact}} [[Main-belt asteroid]]
". OTOH, it may be that the problematic string never occurs at the beginning of a sentence or paragraph so this worry is moot.$NAME is a [[Main-belt Asteroid]] discovered on $DATE by ...
", so it should easily catch the majority of problem strings.is a [[Asteroid belt|main-belt]] asteroid
" might be a better replacement, two wikilinks can look like one, leading to
surprise, and the more specific link is preferred over the general.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC).
reply
Ok, let's give this a trial. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Anomie ⚔ 01:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC) reply
Operator: Rannpháirtí anaithnid ( talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised.
Programming language(s): JavaScript
Source code available: This is the script. Framework is available here.
Function overview: Change " [[Main-belt Asteroid]]
" to " [[Asteroid belt|main-belt]] [[asteroid]]
" on all main-space backlinks to
Main-belt Asteroid (which now redirects to
Asteroid belt).
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Posted to Bot requests.
Edit period(s): One time run.
Estimated number of pages affected: 9483
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No Yes.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No.
Function details: As above. Performed a sand-boxed test on the first 10 back links. No errors found.
I'm unsure about this because it could be seen as a spell-checker process. I could add a human supervision element to the script but since this typo affects almost 10,000 articles I can't see anyone volunteering to supervise all of them. In practice, from my own inspection and the IP poster's description, who says he/she has fixed several hundred by hand, this looks like a consistent typo that is suitable for an automated process IMHO. It appears that all of these articles were created through an automated process by User:ClueBot II and the typo replicated across all of the affected articles by that original process. --RA ( talk) 18:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC) reply
foo.<ref /> [[Main-belt asteroid]]
" and "foo.{{fact}} [[Main-belt asteroid]]
". OTOH, it may be that the problematic string never occurs at the beginning of a sentence or paragraph so this worry is moot.$NAME is a [[Main-belt Asteroid]] discovered on $DATE by ...
", so it should easily catch the majority of problem strings.is a [[Asteroid belt|main-belt]] asteroid
" might be a better replacement, two wikilinks can look like one, leading to
surprise, and the more specific link is preferred over the general.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC).
reply
Ok, let's give this a trial. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Anomie ⚔ 01:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC) reply