Operator: Peter Karlsen (talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Standard pywikipedia
Function overview: changes all transclusions of ((PD-old))
or ((pd-old))
to ((PD-old-100))
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Simple_task.
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: 11,000
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): yes, native to pywikipedia
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): yes
Function details: from the bot request by Mechamind90:
When an image is tagged with
((PD-old-70))
or((PD-old-100))
on both English Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons, the Wikipedia templates are each practically identical to their Commons counterpart. However, when an image is just tagged with((PD-old))
, it means 100 on Wikipedia but 70 on the Commons. Perhaps on Wikipedia this can be resolved, since it's probably a hassle for Commons users to replace 70-year with 100-year
when public domain images are copied from Wikipedia to Commons, which is a frequent practice for all free-content images that are initially uploaded locally. Therefore, every transclusion of ((PD-old)) or ((pd-old)) on an image will be converted to ((PD-old-100)). (((PD-old-100))
, presently a redirect to ((PD-old))
, will become a high-risk template as a result, and should be fully protected.)
It might be better to go the full TfD route, having ((PD-old)) be renamed to ((PD-old-100)) and then delete the redirect once it is orphaned. That would certainly solve the ambiguity problem. And then you could take care of it with KarlsenBot 4 ;) Anomie⚔ 00:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
((PD-old-70))
only has 854. I'd rather run an ongoing bot task than make life more difficult for a large number of editors. Peter Karlsen (talk) 06:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]