Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ZéroBot 2

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ZéroBot 2

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Operator: Toto Azéro (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Pywikipedia using interwiki.py

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia, but I've added a stop-function on bot's user page to stop the bot easier…

Function overview: Removing some wrong interwiki-links

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Normally every day, except when I don't have time...

Estimated number of pages affected: About from 50 to > 120 pages/day; but it may be more or less (depending of the time I run it)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: Removing some wrong interwiki-links, using the new option "-cleanup". This option removes interwiki links to non-existent or empty pages.

Discussion

• Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please make 25 edits that remove interwikis, so we can review the changes. Feel free to take however much time it takes to find pages with interwikis that need removing. - EdoDodo ^talk 17:32, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Trial complete. 26 edits done (sorry, there is 1 edit more than expected) : [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26]. Toto Azéro ^[0+0] 12:12, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Looks good. The thing I don't get is why we should remove interwiki links to empty pages, you can't create an empty page, so the only reason would be that the page was blanked. So surely it would be better to revert the blanking (likely vandalism)? But I suppose this is something to talk to the Pywikipedia developers about - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 12:29, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

In my opinion, removing interwiki links to empty pages permits to detect page which has been blanked because the person is not a administrator and wasn't able to delete the page. Anyway, this option seems not to be operational  : I tried it and the bot wanted to add interwiki-links on the blanked page… About reverting vandalism, I nearly understood what you said but the "blanker" may not be a vandal but might contrary revert vandalism, so I don't know if it's a good idea to make the bot revert the blanking…Toto Azéro ^{Follow the guide !} 08:16, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

 Approved. Edits look okay. Sorry for the delay. - EdoDodo ^talk 17:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

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