Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Citation bot 7

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Citation bot 7

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Operator: Smith609 (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: [1]

Function overview: Facilitate the addition of references by adding ref tags where requested.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Citation_bot#Suggestion

Edit period(s): Continuous (when triggered by edits)

Estimated number of pages affected: dozens per day (depending on user take-up)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details:

• User enters {{ref pmid|1234}} (or ref jstor, ref doi...)
• Bot replaces {{ref pmid|1234}} with <ref name="AuthorYear">{{cite pmid|1234}}</ref> or <ref name="AuthorYear" />, as appropriate

Discussion

I take it this is almost the same as Cite doi replacement, and given task 6 approval, this would be a minor change. So I don't see any problems. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 23:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 22:44, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Related edits can be observed at Special:Contributions/Citation_bot_1. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 03:22, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I think that I've got this implemented; interested parties are invited to examine the source code or to suggest test cases – scenarios that might be problematic would be warmly received before this goes live. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 06:26, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

What is the current status of this request? ΔT _{^{The only constant}} 01:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks like it's working fine to me. Just waiting for approval. (It's difficult to just do a batch of 50 edits related to this task because the functionality is to be added to the existing bot tasks, which will be performed concurrently.) Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 17:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Trial complete.

{{BAG assistance needed}}  Approved. MBisanz ^talk 08:26, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

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