Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TolBot 13

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard. The result of the discussion was  Approved.

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

Time filed: 21:25, Monday, January 10, 2022 (

Function overview: Move Southeast Asia district pages

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: simple mass move script

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

• AWB request (permalink)
• WikiProject Southeast Asia discussion which led to that request (permalink)
  • List of pages (permalink)
• Related RM for lowercasing "province" (permalink)

Edit period(s): one-time

Estimated number of pages affected: 1705 (pages to be moved, does not include redirects to be moved over or created)

Namespace(s): (Article)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): no

Function details:

• The bot would be given a list of pages to be moved (at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southeast Asia#Districts (permalink)).
  • It would get the pages from the wikitext using this regex:

    ^\* \[\[(.*?)\]\] to \[\[(.*?)\]\]$

• It would iterate through the pages to be moved and move the pages.
  • If the new title already exists:
    • If it is a single-revision redirect to the old title, it would move it over the redirect.
    • If it is a multiple-revision redirect to the old title, it would perform a
      round-robin move
      .

      The bot account would need the page mover permission to do this.

    • If it is a redirect to another title or a non-redirect, it would notify me so that I could take care of it manually.

Discussion

• I'm aware of the generalised RM consensus, but still please notify Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southeast Asia of the existence of this BRFA in a new section, as well as the WikiProjects for Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (where they exist). I think it's reasonable to allow a period for objections before proceeding. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:22, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

   Done (

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  ). Tol (talk | contribs) @ 23:35, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  How long do we need to wait? Dicklyon (talk) 21:39, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Are we there yet? Dicklyon (talk) 01:50, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  @ProcrastinatingReader: It's been nearly a week with no objections; is that enough? Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:42, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Probably no round-robin moves are needed, so this can be done without page-mover rights. If there are exceptions, they can be dealt with by hand; I'll be happy to handle exceptions via
  WP:RMTR if there are any. Dicklyon (talk) 18:48, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  @Dicklyon, I think there are a few cases in which round-robin moves are needed (mainly multiple-revision redirects). It's not complicated to implement, anyway. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:39, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Trial for 50 moves. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 16:03, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  And I'll be happy to work on cleanup edits for those 50 when they're done. I may create some redlinks in the process, to articles not yet moved. Dicklyon (talk) 03:30, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Thank you, @

  Phonhong district

• Phaxay district