Meta:Requests for interface adminship/MABot

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MABot[edit]

Ending 16 January 2019 16:25 (UTC)

Good day. I'd like to request interface adminship for my bot. One of its tasks is to resolve and fix double and broken redirects when possible (or tag them for deletion in case they're not resolvable/broken) using the redirect.py PywikiBot script. When renaming user accounts, redirects from/to old JS/CSS/JSON user subpages are left (User:$user_name/global.js is a frequent example). Those namespaces are now restricted to interface administrators thus when my bot is unable to work there I have to fix or delete those by hand, which is kind of cumbersome. Ideally GlobalRename should be moving those pages to their destination without leaving a redirect in all cases. Until such thing happens, if I can help keeping clean the double and broken redirect special pages it'd be my pleasure. Security notice: my bot operates through an owner-only OAuth grant with limited permissions, and the bot account has 2FA enabled as well. Thank you, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:25, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]


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