Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 51

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Approved.

BattyBot 51

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

Time filed: 21:57, Sunday, January 24, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Remove hashbangs from Twitter URLs

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Cited tweets

Edit period(s): One time run, unless editors continue to add these to Wikipedia

Estimated number of pages affected: 2,803

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Change URLs of the form http://twitter.com/#!/foobar to https://twitter.com/foobar (with variations for URLs with https and www.twitter.com) GoingBatty (talk) 21:57, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. If people are wondering why this is necessary, hashbang URLs do not work without JavaScript, so it is an accessibility concern. — Earwig ^talk 22:04, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@The Earwig:

Trial complete. - see these edits. GoingBatty (talk) 23:36, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note you probably want to link to Fragment identifier (see "hash-bang" under "Proposals") instead of Hashbang; the latter is the UNIX shell concept. — Earwig ^talk 23:51, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. No other issues. — Earwig ^talk 00:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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