Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 4

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CitationCleanerBot 4

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

Time filed: 01:00, Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic (Mainspace/Draft/File/Category); Semi-automatic (other namespaces). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:06, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available:

• Find \[?PubMed\]?\s+PMID:?\s+(\d+) → {{PMID|$1}}
• Find PMID:?\s+(\d+) → {{PMID|$1}}
• Find \[?PubMed\]?\s+(Central)?\s*PMCID:?\s+(PMC)?(\d+) → {{PMC|$3}}
• Find PMCID:?\s+(PMC)?(\d+) → {{PMC|$2}}
• Skips external links, nowiki tags, etc... on automated runs

Function overview: Create links to PMID/PMC identifiers. This is the same idea as Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 2, but in a straight jacket for easier review/approval.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 2 and links therein.

Edit period(s): Whenever I start the bot, a few times per week.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~1300

Namespace(s): All

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Creating links to PMID/PMC identifiers, e.g. [1], [2], plus WP:GENFIXES.

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. (10 of each kind). — xaosflux ^Talk 01:58, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Trial complete. Full trial. They are so interlinked I couldn't separate them into neat batches, so I did 50 edits, and they show all types. I ran the trial semi-automatically, but saved things as if it were automatic. Two problem edits happened

• [3] (this was the only instance of insource:/ref name *= *"PubMed ID.*"/ in Wikipedia, which I've now fixed)
• [4] (GIGO mostly |pmid 234213= is a bad parameter, but for the multiple PMIDs in a row, that's a curveball. The bot didn't break anything there though.)

There is also

• [5], which required a follow up [6], due to the interactions of genfixes with the bot. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:25, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

 Approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:46, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

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