You also need to avoid making such a change in uRLs and quotations, or at least quotations
that were originally in English.
Regards
Jonathan
On 25 Feb 2015, at 03:29, Travis Briggs
<audiodude(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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use of the word "manned" and "unmanned" in Wikipedia is outdated and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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