Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AvicBot 2

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User:AvicBot

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Operator: Avicennasis (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 23:52, Saturday April 23, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic unsupervised

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: Yes.

Function overview: Find one category and replaces it with two, as needed.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): This has been done manually at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual for quite some time. I posted to the talk page about a bot for this task. This is essentially the same thing User:Cydebot does, with a minor change.

Edit period(s): As needed.

Estimated number of pages affected: Varies by request.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: Category multiple merge targets. Loads all articles from Category:XXX. Then, finds Category:XXX on all articles and replaces them with Category:YYY and Category:ZZZ.

Discussion

Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:19, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Limited demand for this currently, but I have done 17 edits without any issue, as seen at Special:Contributions/AvicBot. Will complete the other 13 when needed and update here. ^Avic_ennasis @ 14:40, 10 Iyar 5771 / 14 May 2011 (UTC)

{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} Any update? MBisanz ^talk 16:58, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Nope. While this task can sometimes involve tens to hundreds of pages when needed, the frequency of such tasks are low. Since the last run stated above, there have been no new entires for multiple merge targets. ^Avic_ennasis @ 17:37, 23 Iyar 5771 / 27 May 2011 (UTC)

 Approved. In that case, I'll cut the trial short. MBisanz ^talk 23:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

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