The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.

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

Time filed: 10:42, Sunday July 29, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: The script will be based on pywikipedia, but it's too simple to be published.

Function overview: To make it easier to access articles about website, the English Wikipedia currently has many redirects from website URLs (e.g. twitter.com, thepiratebay.se, megaupload.com) to their corresponding articles (e.g. Twitter, The Pirate Bay, Megaupload). This bot will create more of these redirects.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~ 1,000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Not applicable.

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: The bot will depend on this list this list to create more redirects to make it easier and quicker to link to and search for articles about websites.

Discussion[edit]

How was the list generated? I notice a few problems with it. For example, there are a lot of pages where the URL and the name are exactly the same (e.g. ebay.com, for one), or where only the case is changed (e.g. Break.com, SAYNOTO0870.COM). In most cases (!), Wikipedia will automatically redirect different casings of the article title to the correct page, so there is no need to have a lot of those. Additionally, a lot of the redirects are already created (e.g. Tagged.com -> Tagged), is it possible to remove these from the list too, so we get a better idea of what edits the bot will actually carry out? Another problem I noticed is that some URLs appear twice (you have fab.com twice, once pointing to "Fab.com" and the other to "Fab (social network)", you also have musicomh.com twice), these would need to be fixed. Similar to this, you have sahibinden.com and Sahibinden.com both pointing to Sahibinden.com, as mentioned, due to the casing there is no point creating either of these. I'm slightly confused by this entry:

"FOK!" fok.nl local

What is "local" doing in there? The following entry seems to be an invalid URL:

"Gorilla vs. Bear" gorillasvsbear.net

In summary, my thoughts at the moment are that the list is going to need a lot more work for this bot to work out. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 15:24, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The list is originally used by OKBot to update Alexa rankings. The local flag will not be used by this bot. About 50% of the list was collected manually, the other half was extracted from |url= fields in article infoboxes. In the Gorilla vs. Bear example, it was the |url= field that was wrong (both, list entry and url field, are now fixed). The bot will not overwrite existing redirects, but duplication with different letter cases was an actual mistake. I removed all duplicated entries from the final list.--OsamaK (talk) 19:31, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. This seems like a good task for a bot, and fairly straightforward. I don't see any immediate issues with the new list. Lets do a quick trial run to make sure everything goes smoothly. In the meantime you may want to post a notification at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Websites. I'm not sure how much input that will garner, but it's worth a try. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 07:45, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. and notification added. One error occurred during the trial with AddThis.com and Addthis.com: after creating the first few redirects, I changed the code to crate all redirects with lower-case letters, resulting in two redirects for AddThis. This error shouldn't occur in the upcoming run.--OsamaK (talk) 10:21, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. As I said above, this is a pretty straightforward task. Seems to be implemented well by OsamaK, and the number of redirects to be created is small enough that any problems can be dealt with without too much effort. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 21:50, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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