the UN Security Council Resolution

“ To get rid of the red marks I'm most interested in to be rid of, a bot would have to be nearly realtime in autopatrolling trusted users. Edits are patrolled by recent change ID, not by revision ID, so it's not possible to just inspect the user contributions of trusted users. ”

“ Good point. I'd go even further and pipe all links. Sometimes, users hyperlink text in the main namespace. Changing them might destroy text integrity. Granted, it isn't necessary in all cases, but usually not harmful either. Since it's difficult for a bot to decide what to do, I'd lean towards piping unpiped links by default.--GrafZahl 17:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC) I'm not sure about the main namespace; piping inline links is necessary to maintain integrity, but piping links in a see-also section or in the header might lead to confusingly outdated link names ("see Wikisource:Title format") . ”

“ This would be easier to do with a dedicated script; Pathosbot is a pure regex bot.
—{admin} Pathoschild 03:50:50, 05 March 2007 (UTC)
Human review of every edit? There are tens of thousands of instances of {{header}}, so whatever the method; it will be an enormous task. Here is what I could offer: Write a script which loads a page containing {{header}} a time and compares the title against a list of rejected pages. If the page is not rejected, do the regex driven replacement and print a diff using python's difference library. ”

“ Not done Patrol edits by trusted users It'd be very useful to have a bot that automatically patrols edits by trusted users. Currently only edits by administrators are autopatrolled, which means that bots like Pathosbot and trusted users like Pmsyyz leave red flags whenever they edit. The bot should ideally get the list of trusted users from a protected Wikisource page. —{admin} Pathoschild 02:02:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I believe a bot is somewhat unsuitable for this kind of task. Instead, an autopatrol feature should be included in the MediaWiki software. ”

“ Or, if it's not too expensive, the software could check after each edit if the editor is an autopatrol user and not flag the edit in the first place. I just checked, there is a bugzilla entry with a similar feature request. ”

“ You volunteered to help with the header bot run, but I expanded the scope after you did so. Since it will be affecting most pages on Wikisource, I added various standardization and normalization tasks Pathosbot commonly performs. This will make reviewing some pages more difficult (typical changes: nearly standard, most common, less common) although the error rate for the extra tasks should be virtually zero. Are you still interested in reviewing the edits? —{admin} Pathoschild 04:09:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC) The new things that Pathosbot is doing is fine ”

“ The result requires very little time and effort per tab, although it will still take a long time. Ocasionally I need to edit pages to fix mistakes, but the bot can then check for that mistake and correct it automatically, steadily reducing the need for human editing. —{admin} Pathoschild 18:08:15, 05 March 2007 (UTC) I see. As long as the server can cope with the increased number of edits, your method is probably better because the diffs shown by MediaWiki are more colourful and thus easier to check. But how do you open all the diffs in tabs quickly? Have you got a special browser plugin? ”

“ A few (such as my table of soft redirects) are concerned with the page titles; those pages don't need to be updated, but there's no harm in updating them if exclusion requires extra effort. • I see no reason not to update links in discussion and on user pages, and the same benefits apply as anywhere else. —{admin} Pathoschild 06:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC) I didn't see your reply until now, sorry. Must have been too eager to get the script going. What you write makes sense. ”

“ Done. You can move many pages in just a few minutes using my WikilinkMoveTable script with a tab-based browser (which is what I used) . Pathosbot converted the 154 resulting redirects to soft redirects in 18 minutes. —{admin} Pathoschild 05:58:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC) Implement new header format, standardisation and normalisation Description Following previous discussion, Pathosbot will convert all pages using the former {{header}} standard to the transitional {{header2}} format, then switch pages back to {{header}} once the new format has been merged into the old name. ”

“ I'll incorporate that into the script.--GrafZahl 09:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC) What links not to correct? The script is able to automatically shortcut soft redirects. This raises the question of what links should not be corrected. I can think of
lists of soft redirects created by users to coordinate their own maintenance efforts. User:Pathoschild/Soft_redirects is an example. Comprehensive lists are easy to spot, but I might overlook the less comprehensive ones. discussion archives (pages containing the string /Archive) . Their integrity should be preserved. ”

“ I propose that the header for these documents be:
{{header | title = {{subst:PAGENAME}} | section = | author = | override_author=the UN Security Council Resolution | previous = [ [Wikisource:UN Security Council Resolutions] ] | next = | notes = }} —Zhaladshar (Talk) 22:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Also, not all pages have headers, some merely have the backlink "template will be used; notes will be copied. ”