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changes direct URL to URL that redirects to direct URL #63

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Someone else used the bot; I don't know how. I saw the result in Wikipedia and 
I reverted the Wikipedia article to its prior state.

To see what the bot did in error, visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrea_Dworkin&action=historysubmit&di
ff=376393317&oldid=369971924

It changed two Google Books URLs to a form that causes redirection to the form 
that was already in the Wikipedia article. I tested the URL pairs and in my 
browser page caching is off.

What I don't know, because I don't know how to use the bot, is whether editing 
of the URLs is automatic or manual within the bot. If it's manual, then the 
error is the bot user's error. If it's automatic, i.e., if the bot recognizes 
the URL and proposes or performs the edit, then the bot is in error.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Nick_Lev...@yahoo.com on 31 Jul 2010 at 3:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The bot will now (in r179) only amend the root of Google Books URLs (i.e. 
removal of /books and replacement of .tld with .com) if it is also removing 
redundant parameters from that URL; otherwise it will leave it as specified.

Original comment by MartinS on 3 Aug 2010 at 2:05