Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rlink2 Bot 3

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Rlink2 Bot 3

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Operator: Rlink2 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 20:57, Friday, December 10, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Will clean up after IABot regarding phab:T291704 until the bug is fixed.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Multiple

Source code available: After bot is done with trial

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): phab:T291704

Edit period(s): Until phab:T291704 is fixed.

Estimated number of pages affected:

Namespace(s): Anything IABot edits

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

Function details: This will "follow" InternetArchiveBot's modifications and correct any accessdate mistakes. Because editors won't have to bother about "correcting" accessdate before running IABot, there should be fewer citation problems.

Discussion

Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:09, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note that it is important how the duplication is fixed. When the existing parameter lacks a dash, IAbot adds a new parameter ... and for access-date, it seem to add a random date (sometimes current date, but not always).

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&diff=prev&oldid=1046198801 :

Before: {{cite news|first=James|last=O'Shea|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/New-Irish-emigrant-senator-under-fire-for-Fine-Gael-Kenny-links.html|title=New Irish emigrant senator under fire for Fine Gael, Kenny links|work=Irish Central|date=29 May 2016|accessdate=22 June 2020}}

After: {{cite news|first=James|last=O'Shea|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/New-Irish-emigrant-senator-under-fire-for-Fine-Gael-Kenny-links.html|title=New Irish emigrant senator under fire for Fine Gael, Kenny links|work=Irish Central|date=29 May 2016|accessdate=22 June 2020|access-date=24 September 2021|archive-date=4 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704111948/http://www.irishcentral.com/news/New-Irish-emigrant-senator-under-fire-for-Fine-Gael-Kenny-links.html|url-status=live}}

It's important that the bot retains the original (green) value for accessdate. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:14, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a distinction i would have missed, thank you for commenting BHG. Your thoughtful insights always make my day. Rlink2 (talk) 01:57, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Rlink2. Glad that helped.

It seems that this bot task may be at least partially redundant, following the update to to v2.0.8.4 of IAbot on 10/11 December. See my post[1] just now at m:User_talk:InternetArchiveBot#phab:T291704.

I had already asked the bot owners for clarification of the upgrade.[2] But in the 11 weeks since I filed phab:T291704, the feedback from the bot owners Harej and Cyberpower678 has been very poor: neither of them has even commented at phab:T291704, let alone triaged the bug.

So rather than awaiting a reply from Godot, you may prefer to do some extensive testing of the latest version of IAbot.

Hope this helps. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:40, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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