Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bender the Bot 4

{{Newbot|Bender the Bot|4}}

Operator: {{botop|Bender235}}

Time filed: 15:01, Friday, December 2, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: on request

Function overview: replace http:// with https:// for selected 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 5,000 (see Special:LinkSearch for the amount of external links we have of each.)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: It's just the HTTP→HTTPS conversion as mentioned above. As for the particular domains, so far I'm thinking of https://www.eff.org/ (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and https://www.hrw.org/ (Human Rights Watch). Update: also https://www.amnesty.org/ (Amnesty International) and https://www.aclu.org/ (American Civil Liberties Union).

• The YouTube conversion (see third bot request) just finished, now I want to move on to non-Google domains. I converted Wikileaks manually (before I became aware of the bot-option) several months ago, so that one is done. I'm open for further suggestions. --bender235 (talk) 15:01, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

:{{BotTrial|edits=100}} (50 of each) - report back results and any issues. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

::Thanks. But before starting, I thought of maybe adding a few more websites of this kind to the list. Just now, I realized https://www.amnesty.org/ (Amnesty International) and https://www.aclu.org/ (American Civil Liberties Union) should also be included, both of which we also have a couple of thousand external links. --bender235 (talk) 16:46, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

:::OK, same trial - do 25 of each instead. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:43, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

::::Trial finished, results here. Can't guarantee it's exactly 25 for each domain, since I ran 100 articles selected at random from the complete batch. But it's definitely some of each. --bender235 (talk) 20:58, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

:{{BotApproved}} Task approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:51, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

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