Editing Forum:Edit bots

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== bot tasks==
Are there really edit bots available to do some grunt work as mentioned here [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team#Bots]]?
===to do===
* remove single digit category from {{tl|LE}}, {{tl|LEN}}, {{tl|DE}}, {{tl|DEN}}, etc.
* replacing duplicate/repeated citations with named references
* live check external links and mark defunct links with <code><nowiki>{{dead link}}</nowiki></code>
===done===
* done: <s>replace http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/issues/ with https://stellarreaches.wordpress.com/issues/</s>
* pending: replace <code>‘’Parameter name = TBD</code> in infoboxes with <code>Parameter name =</code>
* done: <s>replace <code>(defunct)</code> for external links with <code><nowiki>{{dead link}}</nowiki></code></s>
* done by [[user:BackworldTraveller]]: <s>update double redirects by replacing the indirect with the direct link</s>
[[User:Philoserf|—¿philoserf?]] ([[User talk:Philoserf|talk]]) 12:41, 10 June 2020 (EDT)

: There are. There are two parts to a bot. The user ([[User:AB-101]] is our resident bot user) and the code to make the changes. I have a chunk of code to do updates to the wiki and I'll start on these very good suggestions. [[User:Tjoneslo|Tjoneslo]] ([[User talk:Tjoneslo|talk]]) 18:44, 11 June 2020 (EDT)
:: Ok, I needed to do some minor updates to get my code to work again because I've not touched it in a while. But I got the Stellar Reaches external links updated. For the "TBD" in the template parameters, I would prefer to work through the articles affected by these by specific groups. And I've started on the "(defunct)" pages. But need more updates to the code. [[User:Tjoneslo|Tjoneslo]] ([[User talk:Tjoneslo|talk]]) 22:29, 11 June 2020 (EDT)
:: Thank you!¡ [[User:Philoserf|—¿philoserf?]] ([[User talk:Philoserf|talk]]) 09:11, 12 June 2020 (EDT)

::: [[User:AB-101]] has been busy working on cleanup tasks. It got all of the "defunct" notes updated to <code><nowiki>{{dead link}}</nowiki></code>. At starting there were 1300+ articles in the search, there are now 75. AB-101 is also going through [[:Category:Citation Missing]] and updating those many of those articles as well. There were about 500 articles cleaned so far, and it will continue to work on this. [[User:Tjoneslo|Tjoneslo]] ([[User talk:Tjoneslo|talk]]) 09:10, 13 June 2020 (EDT)

:::: [[User:AB-101]] has completed the pass through the [[:Category:Citation Missing]], updating the remaining 1500 articles. There are a few left which need their sources/cites updated but that requires more imagination than AB-101 currently possesses. [[User:Tjoneslo|Tjoneslo]] ([[User talk:Tjoneslo|talk]]) 12:05, 14 June 2020 (EDT)

::::: Great news. I couldn’t resolve everything I saw easily. So certainly the bot did the job well. [[User:Philoserf|—¿philoserf?]] ([[User talk:Philoserf|talk]]) 17:59, 14 June 2020 (EDT)