Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bender the Bot 5

{{Newbot|Bender the Bot|5}}

Operator: {{botop|Bender235}}

Time filed: 15:25, Sunday, December 4, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: upon 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: 50,000 ± 20,000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: As promised, the "NGO conversion" task took only a day to finish, so I want to convert external links to The Guardian, a fairly often used RS on Wikipedia. On the forefront of investigative journalism, they enabled HTTPS support for readers' privacy long ago. It's time we convert our old links.

Concretely, I want to convert http://www.theguardian.com/ to https://www.theguardian.com/. Notice, however, that their British TLD http://www.guardian.co.uk/ now also redirects to https://www.theguardian.com/. I want to convert both of these.

:{{BotTrial|edits=50}} — xaosflux ^Talk 16:30, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

::Trial complete, results as always here. I spotted no issues. However, I accidentally overlooked that you only approved a 50 edit trial; I ran 100 edits, like in the previous RfA. Sorry about that. --bender235 (talk) 17:29, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

:{{BotApproved}} Task approved. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:00, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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