Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 33
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Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/AltLinkTemplateSubster.pm
Function overview: Replace templates such as {{cbb link}} when no longer necessary with the generated wikilink to reduce the expensive parser function count.
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: For the initial run, 86 for {{cbb link}} and 121 for {{cfb link}}. Then it depends on how frequently people add new instances of the templates and how frequently people create the missing pages.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: There exist some templates, such as {{
These templates must use the expensive #ifexists parser function to determine which link to display, and
Discussion
At the moment, the bot will process {{cbb link}} and {{cfb link}}. But other similar templates (e.g. {{ct link}}) may be added to the list as needed. Anomie⚔ 21:56, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks straight-forward to me. Someone has already decided the template use is excessive (hence the cat) and marked the article, the bot will just be doing work identified by human editors, the task is bot appropriate, zero coding issues for this particular bot operator, appear to be no communications issues with bot operator, either. IMO, looks good. --69.225.14.204 (talk) 02:25, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Go on then. - Jarry1250 [Humorous? Discuss.] 11:56, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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