User:Ahechtbot

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Bot's tasks: Many of the pages in Category:Days by day contain both {{YMDcat}} and {{Date navbox}}, both of which have been outputting the current date into the category description. {{Date navbox}} also has output a navbox, which is more useful. I have now integrated {{YMDcat}} into {{Date navbox}} so that both are no longer needed on the same page.

1. The first task of the bot is to go through all category pages that transclude {{Date navbox}} and remove {{YMDcat}}.

   pwb.py replace -always -transcludes:Template:Date_navbox -ns:14 -log -v -summary:"Bot: Removing redundant {{[[Template:YMDcat|YMDcat]]}} template (v2)" -regex "{{YMDcat(.*?)}}\n{{Date navbox(.*?)}}|{{Date navbox(.*?)}}\n{{YMDcat(.*?)}}" "{{Date navbox\2\3}}"

2. The second task of the bot is to then go through all the remaining category pages that transclude {{YMDcat}} and replace it with {{Date navbox}}

   pwb.py replace -always -transcludes:Template:YMDcat -ns:14 -log -v -summary:"Bot: Replacing {{[[Template:YMDcat|YMDcat]]}} with {{[[Template:Date navbox|Date navbox]]}}" -regex "{{YMDcat\|(.*?)\|(.*?)\|(.*?)\|(.*?)}}" "{{Date navbox|\1\2|\3|\4}}"

Automatic or manually assisted: Bot will be started manually. Once it is running, pywikibot will continue automatically with occasional supervision.

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): Pywikibot default (6 edits per minute)

Programming language(s): Pywikibot