Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 10

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PkbwcgsBot 10

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

Time filed: 16:40, Saturday, December 22, 2018 (UTC)

Function overview: The bot will fix double redirects.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Whenever Special:DoubleRedirects is updated. This is normally three times a week.

Estimated number of pages affected: 250 to 1000

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: The bot will fix double redirects at Special:DoubleRedirects. I could use Pywikibot and this will make the process a lot faster but I don't know how to use Pywikibot properly. I only installed the whole package. It will skip fully protected pages.

Discussion

@Pkbwcgs: I think we already have several more robust bots doing this, that also include a hold-down to not 'fix' DR's that are very new and could still be getting worked on. Is there a backlog forming that they can't keep up with? I don't think AWB is the best tool for this job either as you mentioned. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:16, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

I concur. The bots mentioned above are fully automatic and do not require AWB to be manually started. I see no clear reason for this task. Primefac (talk) 15:50, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: I recently saw 4,973 double redirects and I thought the bots would not able to keep up with that. However, I have a pywikibot script that can fix double redirects but I don't know how to use pywikibot and I have been struggling to configure it. Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:35, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Any of the entries with a strikethrough have been handled, and it doesn't look like there are any mainspace doubles left. Primefac (talk) 16:43, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Denied. this is just the wrong tool for this job and the process is already being well handled by very experienced bots (with 1+ million edits). — xaosflux ^Talk 17:49, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

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