The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

Operator: Chris

Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto

Programming language(s): PHP, using my classes

Function overview: Fixing links to the IUCN Red List

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: about 4000

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

Function details: (bot request)

• gets all the pages (mainspace only) that link to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ from the toolserver
• follows the link, if it's live, skip it. If it's a dead link...
• Search for the article title via a "post" call in their search.
• If there's a single hit, change the link in the Wikipedia article.
• otherwise list it on a subpage in the bot's userspace for a human to review

Relatively urgent/time-sensitive + non-controversial = trusted bot-op = Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. - Jarry1250 ^{[ humourous – discuss ]} 12:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. - sorry, I thought I had time to do this but I don't (most of the links appear to have been fixed by hand anyway). --Chris 02:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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