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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bender the Bot 3

Operator: Bender235 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 15:19, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available:

Function overview: HTTP → HTTPS conversion for YouTube

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 127#RfC: Should we convert existing Google and Internet Archive links to HTTPS?

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 50,000 to 100,000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Find http://www.youtube.com, replace with https://www.youtube.com.

Discussion[edit]

• I finished the conversion of basically all links to the Google domain (see previous bot request). Now I want to extend the conversion to Google-owned services that also offer HTTPS, starting with YouTube. The number of pages affected is not much more than a guess. There were about 250,000 pages with Google Books/News links, I figure the amount of YouTube links will be no higher than that. Probably much lower. --bender235 (talk) 15:19, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please post results here when done. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:26, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ran the trial. Results here. --bender235 (talk) 17:21, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Bender235: Regarding this edit: Special:Diff/750422396 I see you made a non-realted to http to https conversion for that google books link. This is also being discussed at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 11. (Which appears to be competing with your Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Bender_the_Bot_2 request. Recent concern for converting already English google TLD's to other English google TLD's is being discussed. Additional ping to @Mdann52:. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:44, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This secondary edit was made because I basically amended the previously approved AWB rules. Should I turn it off? --bender235 (talk) 19:01, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a problem per se, however the recent discussion about not changing English TLD's for google books to .com may need to be reviewed. What are your thoughts on this? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:04, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think all Google links should point to the generic .com top level domain if possible. It's not something we should make the effort to run a bot over a million articles for, but if it is done as a secondary task it is fine. --bender235 (talk) 19:19, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why? One problem I ran in to is this An editor leaves a link to a google book, google includes resources to help you obtain the book - but they are locale specific. By changing them to .com you are making this be US-centric, not English-centric. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:59, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What makes you believe .com is US-centric? If anything that is a global TLD.

Anyhow, this is a minor, almost cosmetic fix. If it is controversial, I have no problem leaving this aside for now. --bender235 (talk) 22:56, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(this is not a "big deal") for example, if you follow to books.google.co.uk US-example you will be presented with primarily US retails for where you can obtain the book; if you follow the same book to the UK site UK-example you will be presented with primarily UK retailers for where you can obtain the book. In some cases the book may have no retailers available on the .com version, while having some on the version that the editor originally presented. Anyway, this has nothing to do with fixing youtube links. This conversations should probably go back to a Village Pump to decide - can you hold of on changing any English google links to .com while I get that going? — xaosflux ^Talk 00:18, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, no problem. Is the bot approved for further runs now? --bender235 (talk) 00:26, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Changing_google.xxx_links_to_google.com opened. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:28, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As far as the rest of the task, lets see a long test to see if anything pops up. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:28, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for extended trial (1000 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:28, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Ran second trial. Results here. I didn't spot any erroneous edit. --bender235 (talk) 03:16, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bender235 not sure if there has been enough input on the .co.uk --> .com discussion yet, but the http-->https for youtube.com seems to be fine - will you be able to proceed on this without also doing the books TLD task at the same time? — xaosflux ^Talk 03:20, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, not a showstopper - but could you use a edit summary specific to the youtube http-->https conversion when doing this task? Or link to a task anchor on your bot's userpage. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:22, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes on both. --bender235 (talk) 16:35, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Task approved (for youtube.com http-->https update), please verify your new edit summary is working and links function before doing thousands of these. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:00, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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