Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 39

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BattyBot 39

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

Time filed: 01:21, Sunday, February 8, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix incorrect piped wikilinks

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 63#Add a feature to a maintenance bot

Edit period(s): Monthly

Estimated number of pages affected: Hundreds in first run, less going forward

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

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

Function details: The pipe trick doesn't work in some places (such as within <ref> and <gallery> tags), which leaves code such as [[Subject (disambiguator)|]] visible to the readers. This bot would change these to [[Subject (disambiguator)|Subject]] so the intended wikilinks will be displayed properly. (e.g. this edit) As usual, AWB's general fixes will also be done with every edit. GoingBatty (talk) 01:21, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Discussion

I requested this bot task. Thanks a lot! Nyttend (talk) 01:58, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:32, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: Trial complete. without issues - please see these diffs. However, I will change the edit summary so it says "Fixed piped link(s)" instead of showing the exact replacement, since the edit summaries look like they were changed from [[Subject (disambiguator)]] to [[Subject]] unless you hover over them. GoingBatty (talk) 17:56, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

 Approved. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:00, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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