Operator: Nihlus (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 03:10, Friday, October 13, 2017 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: AWB
Function overview: Fix double colons in internal links (i.e. [[::Test]]); see Special:LintErrors/multi-colon-escape
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Remove double colons from subpages of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
Edit period(s): One time run then monthly runs for Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team pages
Estimated number of pages affected: ~25,000?
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Matching (?<!<nowiki>[^<]*)\[\[::
and replacing with [[:
. This is an error that changes how the link is rendered on the page (i.e. it doesn't render as a link, it renders as just text). I'm unsure about the number of edits required since the error page lists about 3k while a database scan returns 25k.
([A-Za-z])
to the end of the regex and then change the replace to [[:$1
|
\* '''\[\[::([^\n]*?)\]\]''' \(\[\[:([^\n]*?)\|talk\]\]\)
with * '''[[:Draft:$1]]''' ([[Draft talk:$2|talk]])
. --Ahecht (TALK\* \[\[::([^\n]*?)\]\] renamed
→* '''[[:Draft:$1]]''' renamed
(as in this diff). --Ahecht (TALK@BU Rob13: Any update on this one? Nihlus 20:00, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging BU Rob13 for an update. Nihlus 02:14, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]