Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 2

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

Time filed: 20:13, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Convert category lists to wikilinks in draft pages

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:DRAFTNOCAT

Edit period(s): As needed (weekly?). Usually there are only a handful of pages in Category:AfC submissions with categories and they can be done manually, but if it gets to be over 100 pages it's tedious to fix them all by hand.

Estimated number of pages affected: For the initial run, approximately 180 pages. I expect that I will mostly be using it when the total number is 100+.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Straightforward find-and-replace: convert [[Category: to [[:Category:

Discussion

Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:22, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Primefac (talk) 20:29, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Primefac What happened here ?

As near as I can tell (by copy/pasting into Word) there were some Unicode spaces present and AWB replaced them with regular spaces. This must be an inbuilt thing that AWB does, because find/replace was the only change I had enabled. Primefac (talk) 02:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Task approved, and should you be asked to tweak the formatting (e.g. use comments instead of :'s, or add : list tags in front of the categories) you can just adjust and not need a new task. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:46, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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