Operator: Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto
Programming Language(s):Regex/AWB
Function Summary:Add appropriate mark-up for references (footnotes)when the article has refs but no such markup. Add a "References" header where required.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Once per DB dump
Edit rate requested: 8-12 per minute
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):Y
Function Details: Driven off lists generated by User:SQL SmackBot inspects article to check existance of "ref" tags and lack of standard markup to display these as footnotes. Then checks for simple markup error, and corrects if found. Then tries to insert markup in appropriate place in page.
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — madman bum and angel 14:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Approved., given that the task is no longer triggered by <ref> elements inside HTML comments [2]. — madman bum and angel 16:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]