Hello all,
In the last weeks, I have been applying protocol-relative URLs in links with an HTTP defined protocol, and converting links from external to internal link format with my bot in all content pages of some (few) Wikimedia projects (please see details in [1]). I think this is an important task to allow users to navigate without changing the protocol in use, and I will prepare and post the regular expressions in a few days so they can be used by other bot operators.
However, most of the projects are still pending, this task is not included in GBs scope, the community is raising many doubts, and I think that, in some way, running this task on all pages and projects, even without exceptions, should be allowed.
What can we do? Is there a common and workable solution? Best regards, and thanks in advance. :-)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Invadibot/scope/meta-2