User talk:TedderBot/R uncategorized removal BRFA
[[Category:Open Wikipedia bot requests for approval|]]
[[User:|User:]]
[edit]- (BRFA
- Approved BRFAs
- [[User talk:|talk]]
- contribs
- count
- SUL
- logs
- page moves
- block log
- rights log
- flag)
Operator: Tedder
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, supervised
Programming language(s): perl
Source code available: yes, git
Function overview: Remove Template:R uncategorized from all transcluded pages.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 33#Orphaning a template, Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 December 1#Template:R uncategorized, Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 November 15#Category:Uncategorized redirects, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Redirect#Notification: The category Category:Uncategorized redirects has been nominated for discussion
Edit period(s): One-time run.
Estimated number of pages affected: Up to 4614 pages
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes, looks for basic case (skips page if {{bots}} exists)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No
Function details: Performs a simple regex page edit. Will run at whatever rate is recommended- perhaps two per minute? That would take about 40 hours to run, giving time for feedback.
Discussion
[edit]A dry run showed this can process all ~4600 pages, none have the bot exclusion tag. Also, User:Rettetast has started removing these templates with AWB, but doesn't have plans to remove all of them. tedder (talk) 05:20, 19 December 2009 (UTC)