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Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Maintenance cleanups of pages in Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags. This is identical to Task 6 as performed on the English Wikipedia (see w:en:Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Fluxbot 6), but for commons:

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Batch runs

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 5-15 edits per minute. (In practice it hovers around 5, but may have occasional bursts).

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): This is an AWB bot.

— xaosflux ^Talk 02:06, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I have been doing most of these via my main account and AWB, however there are more batches to do, some of which will hit name user_talk: namespace, having this under a flagged bot will let me take advantage of nominornewtalk to not trigger the new user messages flag. All of these edits must be manually supervised, as even with well tested regex expressions there between 3-10% of pages require complex cleanup by hand. Note, that Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags is a Tracking Category and slowly updates its page list. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:06, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please note, will need to enable AWB for the bot account as well. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:30, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Test run

This test was made under my main account (avoiding anything in User talk:). — xaosflux ^Talk 02:21, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a batch of test run edits: testrun. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:24, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As far i can see this is a one time run. How much edits are needed on commons? --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:22, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steinsplitter cleaning up those errors will be ongoing, primarily because users will keep making them. The tracking category "category page" is the slowest to update, and may not update until an impacted page's cache is updated. The category does appear on pages when loaded by logged in users (if show hidden is available) - here is a quick search on just user_talk for just one of the parameters: insource search, click on any of those pages and you can see they are in the category. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:48, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks OK for me, but will be good idea to use HTML in edit summaries. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:00, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

+1. --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:02, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the bot edit summaries will point to the bot task, that it is html5 cleanup, and a link to the tracking category. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:05, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please don't use section headers in edit summaries? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:50, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, any of these run from the bot account will have a generic edit summary, like this one from enwiki: w:en:Special:Diff/732308520. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:58, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@EugeneZelenko: is there anything else you would like to see? — xaosflux ^Talk 04:41, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If there are no objections, I think task should be approved. ~riley (talk) 04:46, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Approved and flagged. --Krd 07:08, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]