Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SigmaBot

SigmaBot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
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• flag)

Operator: Σ (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 23:42, Thursday June 16, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia

Function overview: Bypass unprintworthy redirects

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_42#Direct_links_after_move and Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Direct_links_after_move_2

Edit period(s): 1 time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 1013 ± 10

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function details: User:SigmaBot is not to be confused with User:Sigmabot. As was suggested here, the bot will replace all instances of the unprintworthy redirects with the direct link.