Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 25

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WikiCleanerBot 25

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

Time filed: 17:51, Thursday, January 14, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Cleanup unnecessary nowiki tags in simple text, like [[Irish American]]s<nowiki/>, in 10th Ohio Infantry Regiment.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Java (WPCleaner)

Source code available: On GitHub (especially algorithm 555)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): As it will probably considered cosmetic, only with other non-cosmetic edits or during CBD (if approved for).

Estimated number of pages affected: A dump analysis returned 10446 pages in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 555 dump. So a few thousands for the initial run if approved for CBD.

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

Function details: It's just a bit of cleanup to remove unnecessary nowiki tags which make the wikitext more difficult to understand.

I performed the same kind of modifications on frWP (fr:Projet:Correction syntaxique/Analyse 555).

Discussion

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please run this independently of any other tasks. Primefac (talk) 23:21, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Trial complete. Hi Primefac. I've done the 25 edits. No problems seen. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 17:16, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

I submitted the task for COSDAY. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 13:09, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

 Approved. Since this is a cosmetic task, it should only (for the moment) run when other non-cosmetic tasks are enabled. Primefac (talk) 16:14, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

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