Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bender the Bot 8

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Approved.

Bender the Bot 8[edit]

Operator: Bender235 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 19:21, Friday, March 3, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: upon request

Function overview: convert http:// to https:// for certain domains.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WPR: Why we should convert external links to HTTPS wherever possible and WPR: Should we convert existing Google and Internet Archive links to HTTPS?

Edit period(s): one-time run

Estimated number of pages affected: about 50,000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: I'm about to finish the New York Times task, and want to continue with more news outlets from the Secure The News list. Specifically, for the first batch I want to convert

Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/ to https://www.bloomberg.com/
Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/ to https://www.wsj.com/
The New Republic: http://newrepublic.com/ to https://newrepublic.com/
The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/ to https://www.theatlantic.com/
Wired: http://www.wired.com/ to https://www.wired.com/
Handelsblatt: http://www.handelsblatt.com/ to https://www.handelsblatt.com/
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/ to https://www.welt.de/
Foreign Policy: http://foreignpolicy.com/ to https://foreignpolicy.com/

and finally, one more that some user specifically asked me about recently (unfortunately I can't remember who it was), that is

Foradejogo: http://www.foradejogo.net/ to https://www.foradejogo.net/

Most of these websites have a few thousand external links on Wikipedia, so my guess is about 50,000 affected articles in total.

Discussion[edit]

Speedily Approved. An extension to the previously approved task, adding additional websites for conversion. Previous trial already covers the technical side of this. I'm seeing no opposition and general consensus from previous task's discussion to bot's work. For the previous discussions, it seems this is a wanted change for any website. I would say you have approval to run this task on any domain that redirects by default to https and that you have verified works as expected after such conversion.

One minor point is to add a link to the task description in bot's summary. Probably should have been mentioned in the last BRFA. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 20:46, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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