Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 19

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Approved.

Monkbot 19[edit]

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

Time filed: 16:48, Thursday, September 23, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: rewrite {{cite iucn}} templates that use old-form urls using data from the IUCN Red List API; confirm, update, add |status=, |status_system=, |status_ref= parameters in {{speciesbox}} and {{taxobox}} using data from the IUCN Red List API

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): awb/c#

Source code available: User:Monkbot/task 19: cite iucn update

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life § new IUCN update

Edit period(s): continuous until done

Estimated number of pages affected: 13,000

Namespace(s): mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): yes

Function details: for a complete description of what task 19 does, see User:Monkbot/task 19: cite iucn update

Discussion[edit]

Here are 100 manual edits made using the bot's code.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:54, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – SD0001 (talk) 04:33, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete.. Results. Nothing in the results is unexpected.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:02, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason why refs get shifted around in diffs such as Special:Diff/1048550873? Primefac (talk) 07:02, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The only reference definition that gets shifted is one of possibly multiple identical definitions associated with |status_ref= in {{taxobox}} and {{speciesbox}} templates. Most commonly, in {{taxobox}} and {{speciesbox}} templates, |status_ref= holds the reference definition. When task 19 adds a status reference where none previously existed, it adds the reference to the |status_ref= parameter in the {{taxobox}} or {{speciesbox}} template. Overwriting a self-closed <ref /> tag in |status_ref= is consistent with the way that task 19 adds new reference definitions to the {{taxobox}} and {{speciesbox}} templates and makes it easier for task 19 to remove duplicate definitions.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:58, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. For the record, I feel like some of the provided changes are little more than moving around deckchairs, but I also recognise that I don't really know much about this template or its uses, so what appear to be minor changes to me are likely significant. Primefac (talk) 11:51, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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