Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 6

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Approved.

BattyBot 6

Operator: GoingBatty (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 20:49, Saturday January 14, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Fix the links to the online version of Encyclopædia Iranica by changing links of the type http://www.iranica.com/articles/title to http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/title

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 45#Broken links to Encyclopædia Iranica Online

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 1,184 - per search results

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function details: Replace http://www.iranica.com/articles/ with http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ (e.g. this edit)

Discussion

This seems relatively trivial/uncontroversial Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --Chris 10:09, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. diffs - To ensure links such as http://www.iranica.com/articles/v7/v7f4/v7f446.html are not changed to the non-working http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/v7/v7f4/v7f446.html I used the following regex: iranica\.com\/articles\/([\w-]*)([\s\]}\|]) → iranicaonline.org/articles/$1$2 --GoingBatty (talk) 22:46, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. --Chris 10:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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