Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 0

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SmackBot task approval IV[edit]

Task: To make a group of minor improvements to U.S. Census articles. Sample edit here.
Method: Automatically using AWB.
Speed: 1-4 per minute.
Number: c. 33,333 articles.
Frequency: Once.
Duration: Will take between 5 days and 2 months depending how many hours a day it is run.
Testing: 10% of the articles have already been changed. A similar run was done successfully earlier this year.

Regards, Rich Farmbrough 11:03 25 May 2006 (UTC).

The changes look great (shame rambot did not do it more sensibly in the first place), but can they really be done automatically and reliably? Martin 15:33, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, a great deal of effort has gone into the regular expressions, they are very robust. I'm happy to do a sample run of 100 under SmackBot if you like. Rich Farmbrough 15:46 25 May 2006 (UTC).

It's fine, the edits that it has made so far have been great. Martin 12:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good health! Rich Farmbrough 13:48 26 May 2006 (UTC).

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