[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1971397 ] Enable cosmetic_changes; by default do only foolproof things

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Bugs item #1971397, was opened at 2008-05-24 18:46
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Category: General
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Enable cosmetic_changes; by default do only foolproof things

Initial Comment:
Currently cosmetic_changes is set to 'False'; thus cosmetic_changes.py is totally disabled! This is because some RegExps in that script are not ready for autonomous use or do controversial changes.

But bots could do little, *foolproof* changes like
            r'(?i)<br>': r'<br />',
            r'(?i)</br>': r'<br />',
etc. without making any problems (note: inside of <pre> or <nowiki> tags, changes are not considered in any event by the script)!

Please enable cosmetic_changes by operating with two groups; one for "foolproof" changes that are done by default, and one for yet to be tested and maybe controversial changes!

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>Comment By: Andre Engels (a_engels)
Date: 2008-05-31 08:23

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I agree with nicdumz here. If you want to use cosmetic changes, just
switch it on, but switched off should be the default.

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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Date: 2008-05-26 00:06

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mmh... I personally don't want my bot to do cosmetic changes on pages I
alter. It just depends on the bot owner, and that's why the default value
is set to False.

I'd answer *no*, but I'm not the only one here...

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