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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xenobot 2

Operator: –xenocidic (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (supervised)

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Template substitution in the User talk: namespace, updating userbox transclusions

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): No more than once per day

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

Function Details: The bot will substitute templates that are improperly transcluded on user talk pages. The list of such templates is found here. This will be done daily, or perhaps a few times a week (as required). Here is an example of such edits. While on the subject of find & replace, I would also like to use it to occasionally update transclusions of userboxen (example).

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJ^Talk 22:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trial  Done. For the first task (template substitution) here's 22 edits. There would've been more but another bot beat me to job list that I compiled this morning. Note the first four edits were problematic because AWB seemed to mistakenly identify some code as trancluding the {{subst}} template - so I removed that template from the list. For the second task, here's 20 edits. No issues were encountered. –xenocidic (talk) 23:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here's 8 more template substitution edits. –xenocidic (talk) 13:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just gone through about 125 transclusions under my username, to refine the method a bit, clean out some really old transclusions, and see what kind of false positives the bot might pick up. Should be good to go now. –xenocidic (talk) 15:18, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Go ahead with these 155 uses needed for WP:RTV. Gimmetrow 23:04, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the 155 edits I needed to do. Of course, I miscounted, so I did another 185 manually under my name. No issues - not much that can go wrong with updating userbox transclusions. –xenocidic (talk) 01:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} I can haz approval? –xenocidic (talk) 03:38, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. —Giggy 03:42, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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