Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions, everyone.
Maia
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:29:28 -0800
From: Travis Briggs <audiodude(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot
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I have contributed to py wikipedia bot, which could easily enable
functionality like this.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot
The user specifies an article or range of articles, the substitution to be
performed, and the bot prompts you with each instance in the text,
something like
"blah blah start an *unmanned* space mission
to find out blah blah
blah...
Replace this instance (y/n/cancel)?
Anyways, I think anyone who would like to make such automated changes would
have to install and learn how to use PyWIkiBot (which I have done) and then
I think you need some bot authorization for a bot account on English
Wikipedia (which I have not done).
Cheers,
-Travis
On 24 February 2015 at 19:09, JJ Marr <jjmarr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You should ask down at the village pump, then if
the response is
favorable, start a BRFA.
On Feb 24, 2015 10:04 PM, "Maia Weinstock" <maiapw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There have been numerous discussions among folks in the space
exploration
> community that use of the word
"manned" and "unmanned" in Wikipedia is
> outdated and gender-biased. Unfortunately, going in and fixing all of
these
> by hand would be rather labor-intensive...
>
> Someone recently created a browser plugin that replaces "manned" with
> "crewed." (See
https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/570409472818061312) It
> would be such an awesome thing if a bot existed that updated these
> instances for real on English Wikipedia. Anyone have ideas for making
this
> happen, perhaps just limiting it to space
exploration? I do see some
issues
> with it being done wholesale for the whole
site, as certain terms might
> contain terminology that would create confusion if changed
automatically.
(For
instance, "unmanned aerial vehicles," for better or for worse, is a
known term that I wouldn't advocate changing at this time.)
Anyway, just thinking out loud...
Maia (user:Girona7)
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