Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 44

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PrimeBOT 44

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

Time filed: 13:24, Friday, March 1, 2024 (UTC)

Function overview:Replacing invisible space characters in short description templates

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: WP:AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): request, WP:MOS, discussion

Edit period(s): OTR to start, potential future runs if there turns out to be a recurring issue

Estimated number of pages affected: ~3500 based on the dbase report

Namespace(s): Article

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Fairly straight-forward find/replace of any whitespace that isn't a standard space, replacing it with a standard space.

Discussion

As a note, I ran this manually through my own account on AWB as a proof of concept (wanted to make sure AWB could handle the various whitespace types). Primefac (talk) 13:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – SD0001 (talk) 19:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Trial complete. Edits. Primefac (talk) 20:46, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

 Approved. Appears to work as advertised. I note that AWB genfixes seem to be being applied, even though that's not mentioned anywhere in the details. I also hope that you're using the same definition of "whitespace" that the database report is using (which appears to be the first table at Whitespace character#Unicode), and in particular not replacing various zero-width space-like characters (U+200B, U+200C, U+200D, U+FEFF) with a normal space. Anomie⚔ 20:25, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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