Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LawBot
- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was
Approved.
Operator: MZMcBride
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python (wikitools)
Source code available: wikitools (specific script not yet written, though if someone's really interested, I can publish the source)
Function overview: Replacing "prettytable" with "wikitable"
Edit period(s): Mostly a one-time run
Estimated number of pages affected: Approx. 3,800
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Not really; I'll be more careful with non-articles (and won't touch user / user talk pages)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function details: The bot does a simple replacement, replacing "prettytable" with "wikitable". "prettytable" has been deprecated for years; this task will hopefully finally kill it.
Discussion[edit]
If there are no objections in ~24 hours, I'll give this a trial. Mr.Z-man 00:50, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
- Experienced operator. Deprecated code is undesirable. Seems like good idea. --69.225.3.119 (talk) 01:06, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Mr.Z-man 05:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
- Code already exists in commonfixes (source). — Dispenser 04:30, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
This is still active. Hoping to get to it sometime this week. Ironically enough I've been caught up in (among other things) the Law drama. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:05, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Trial edits complete. Looks good to me.--MZMcBride (talk) 22:05, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
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