Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 5
Operator: Mdann52 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 07:40, Wednesday July 2, 2014 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Auto
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: standard AWB
Function overview: Mass-replacement of URL's due to changes in URL without permalinks
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:BOTREQ#fix CNET links
Edit period(s):When required
Estimated number of pages affected: 500 in first run, but variable depending on number of links that need updating
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): no
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): yes
Function details: After a bot request with no opposition, the bot will go through and replace all dead URL's with updated versions. For example, it will go through and replace [news.com.com news.com.com] to [news.cnet.com news.cnet.com]. This will allow pages to be quickly updated, and ensure a the number of links that are accidently removed are minimised. --Mdann52talk to me! 07:40, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Discussion
@Mdann52: Thank you for your willingness to take on this task. Instead of changing
news.com.com
→news.cnet.com
could you please have your bot change
http://news.com.com
→http://news.cnet.com
so it doesn't accidentally change a valid archive url? (e.g. Rubylith#References) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:35, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
- @GoingBatty: I was planning to do this; I may use regex to just catch the original URL's of changing the titles/publishers would be needed. --Mdann52talk to me! 05:56, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- @Mdann52: Great - thank you! GoingBatty (talk) 11:37, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- @GoingBatty: I was planning to do this; I may use regex to just catch the original URL's of changing the titles/publishers would be needed. --Mdann52talk to me! 05:56, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Approved for trial (40 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's see if we are missing something. @Mdann52: please do two bunches of 20 edits. If everything goes fine in the first 20 edits, then do 20 more and provide us the diffs. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:45, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- I'll aim to get this done ASAP - I am currently using AWB for other purposes, but should be able to run this by this time next week. --Mdann52talk to me! 12:04, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- FYI, I only see 50 results for "news.com.com". GoingBatty (talk) 13:30, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- GoingBatty why not do them manually then? It is safer and faster. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:48, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
I fixed everything I found via google search. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:02, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- There are a little under 400 articles with news.com.com links left. Ill paste the list below. Werieth (talk) 14:23, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- 1-800 Contacts
- 1-800 Contacts, Inc. v. WhenU.com, Inc.
- 1-Click
- 165 University Avenue
- 1998 MTV Video Music Awards
- 2000s (decade)
- 2000s in science and technology
- 2006 California Golden Bears football team
- 2006 in comics
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- 32 nanometer
- 3Com
- 3Com Audrey
- 3DA
- 45 nanometer
- @Home Network
- A Public Affair (song)
- A moron in a hurry
- AI winter
- AMD 10h
- AMD 700 chipset series
- AOL
- ATI Technologies
- Access Systems Americas
- Acer Inc.
- AdWords
- Adrian Lamo
- Alcatel-Lucent
- All-Pro Football 2K8
- AllAdvantage
- AllBusiness.com
- Amazon.com
- Andreas Heldal-Lund
- Anonymous post
- Anshe Chung
- Apache Derby
- Apple Corps v Apple Computer
- Apple Developer
- Apple TV
- Apple community
- April 2004
- Arden: The World of Shakespeare
- Ariel (Firefly episode)
- Arista Networks
- Arnie Lerma
- Artists Against 419
- Ashok Sukumaran
- AskMen
- Association for Competitive Technology
- Athlon 64
- AtomicPark.com
- Avie Tevanian
- Back-side bus
- Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008
- Bella Vista High School
- Ben Going
- Ben Goodger
- Beyond Security
- Blu-ray Disc Association
- Blufr
- Bob Minton
- Bob O. Evans
- Broadcast flag
- Bruce Woodcock (computer games analyst)
- CableCARD
- Caitlin Hill
- Caldera OpenLinux
- Carbon nanotube
- Carolyn Meinel
- Casey Serin
- Cell (microprocessor)
- Centrino
- Chemdex.com
- Chicago
- Chief privacy officer
- Christopher Walken
- Chumby
- Church of Scientology
- Citizendium
- Claria Corporation
- Classic Environment
- Click fraud
- Clinton Fein
- Cobalt Networks
- College Basketball on CBS
- ComScore
- Comparison of sites using the LiveJournal codebase
- Consumer Electronics Show
- CopyBot
- Copyright Alliance
- Copyright infringement
- Corel
- Cost-based anti-spam systems
- Covert listening device
- Craigslist
- Creative Zen
- Crime in New York City
- Criticism of Facebook
- Criticism of Yahoo!
- Crossfire (TV series)
- CyberThrill
- Cyberdog
- Daniel J. Bernstein
- Daniel Lyons
- Daniel Terdiman
- Dave Winer
- David Cheriton
- December 2006
- Deep linking
- Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006
- Digital Universe
- Distributed denial of service attacks on root nameservers
- Dot-com company
- Doug Dohring
- EBay
- ECHELON
- EOne
- EarthStation 5
- Egghead Software
- Electronic Yellow Pages
- Ellen Simonetti
- Elon Musk
- Embrace, extend and extinguish
- Eric Schmidt
- Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay
- Fear, uncertainty and doubt
- Features of Firefox
- February 2005
- Feed Magazine
- FeedBurner
- Field emission display
- Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network
- File Allocation Table
- File sharing in Canada
- File talk:Frogger game arcade.png
- Flash mob
- Freakonomics
- Fry's Electronics
- GO Corp.
- Gateway, Inc.
- Gene Kan
- Generation YES
- GigaOM
- Go Daddy
- Google Books
- Google China
- Google Maps
- Googleplex
- HD DVD
- HP 3000
- Harald Welte
- HavenCo
- History of Eastern role-playing video games
- History of MSNBC: 1996–2007
- History of alternate reality games
- History of email spam
- History of massively multiplayer online games
- History of tablet computers
- History of the Patriot Act
- History of the iPhone
- History of virtual learning environments in the 1990s
- History of web syndication technology
- Hollywood, Interrupted
- Holographic Versatile Disc
- Human billboard
- IA-64
- IBM Aptiva
- IBM Lotus SmartSuite
- ICANN
- IMac G3
- IPlanet
- IPod
- IPod Hi-Fi
- IPod Nano
- IPod Photo
- ITunes Store
- Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act
- Insider Pages
- Intel
- Intel 4004
- Intercast
- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Tonight
- Internet radio
- Internet2
- Itanium
- JPEG XR
- James Kim
- January 2006 in video gaming
- Jeremy Zawodny
- Jerry Garcia
- Jerry Sanders (businessman)
- Jessica Simpson
- Jesús Villasante
- Jew Watch
- Joanna Rutkowska
- John Mayer
- Jorn Barger
- July 2003
- July 2007
- June 2004
- Justin Frankel
- Karelia Watson
- Kazaa
- Kazuo Hirai
- Keith Henson
- Ken Kutaragi
- Kenneth Walton (writer)
- Lamar S. Smith
- Larry Sanger
- Legal issues with BitTorrent
- Leipzig Human Rights Award
- Linux kernel mailing list
- LinuxFund
- List of ICT4D organizations
- List of assets owned by Microsoft Corporation
- List of people from Florida
- List of software patents
- LiveJournal
- Loopt
- Lotus 1-2-3
- MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.
- MMode
- MP3
- MPlayer.com
- Mac OS 8
- Mac OS X v10.2
- Macintosh
- March 2004
- March 2006 in science
- MarchFirst
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Matt Drudge
- May 2005
- May 2005 in science
- MediaOne
- Melody Oliveria
- MetroFi
- Metroblogging
- Microsoft Tablet PC
- Microsoft litigation
- Milberg
- Milw0rm
- Minimo
- Mobile phone throwing
- Muze
- My Coke Rewards
- NBC
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
- Napster
- Napster (pay service)
- Net neutrality in the United States
- Net6
- Nicholas G. Carr
- Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
- November 2003
- October 2003
- October 2006
- Om Malik
- Open Invention Network
- Open Source and Linux Organization
- Open communication
- OpenDoc
- OpenOffice.org
- Opera Software
- Operation Clambake
- Option (finance)
- Overstock.com
- P.A. Semi
- Parintins
- Patch Tuesday
- Patent Reform Act of 2005
- Patent Reform Act of 2007
- Pathfinder (web site)
- Paul Maritz
- PayPal
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Photosynth
- Pimp That Snack
- Pogo.com
- Political positions of Ron Paul
- PowWow (chat program)
- Predicted effects of the FairTax
- Principality of Sealand
- Pseudonymity
- QuickTransit
- Qwest
- REAL ID Act
- RSS
- Randall Boe
- Ray Everett
- Rebate (marketing)
- ReiserFS
- Reliability of Wikipedia
- Revver
- Ribosome
- Rosetta (software)
- Rowan Trollope
- Rusty Russell
- Ryan Lackey
- Ryan Magnussen
- SCO Group
- SCO v. IBM
- SN 2006gy
- Sam Jain
- Sandals Resorts
- Sanford Wallace
- Sanitization (classified information)
- Sarah Deutsch
- Scientology
- Scientology and the Internet
- Scientology and the legal system
- Seamus Blackley
- Sean Egan
- Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
- September 2005 in rail transport
- Sequent Computer Systems
- Sherman Austin
- Sidewalk.com
- Silicon on insulator
- Smart tag (Microsoft)
- Snap Server
- Software patent
- Sony eVilla
- SoulPad
- Spyware
- Stephen J. Luczo
- Stuart Feldman
- Subnotebook
- Suck.com
- Sun Industry Standards Source License
- Sun Microsystems
- SuperHappyDevHouse
- Surface-conduction electron-emitter display
- T206
- TVU Networks
- TechTV
- Template talk:Time Warner
- Terms of service
- Terry Shannon (IT)
- The Spamhaus Project
- The iSONEWS
- Third generation photovoltaic cell
- Thomas Bayes
- Tilman Hausherr
- TimeTrax
- Timeline of Internet conflicts
- Timeline of Yahoo!
- Timeline of carbon nanotubes
- TippingPoint
- Togglethis
- Trade group efforts against file sharing
- TutorVista
- UUNET
- United States v. Councilman
- University of San Francisco International Business Plan Competition
- VJ Lucky
- Vegetable oil economy
- Video on demand
- Virtual tax
- Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp. et al.
- WatchGuard
- Wayback Machine
- Web syndication
- Web.com (1995 – 2007)
- WebMethods
- WebMethods Glue
- Webvan
- Wesley Chan
- Whitehouse.com
- Will Kreth
- Windows 2000
- Windows Live OneCare
- Windows Media Player
- Windows Vista
- World Summit on the Information Society
- Yahoo! Mail
- ZAP Xebra
- Zune 30