Gebruiker:MauritsBot/cosmetic changes

Cosmetic changes are mutations of the raw text of an article, with the goal to make the editing version easier to understand. Most of these changes do not appear in the reading version of the article.

This type of automatic changes will only be applied in combination with some other script (e.g. interwiki.py or featured.py), to save server capacity.

AWB

The AWB-bot makes some cosmetic changes automatically; most AWB-users use this option and when they do, this fact doesn't appear in the edit summary.

Pywikipedia

The pywikipedia-bot has a similar faculty. It makes the following extra changes:

standardize interwiki's
standardize categories
cleanup links (for example: [[pagetitle|link]]name becomes [[pagetitle|linkname]] and [[pagetitle|pagetitle]] becomes [[pagetitle]])
cleanup section headers (for example: ==Title== becomes == Title ==)
translate and capitalize namespaces (for example: in sv: [[kategori:title]] becomes [[Kategori:Title]] and [[Category:title]] becomes [[Kategori:Title]])
remove deprecated templates (if there are any)
resolve html-entities (translate &code; into it's proper understandable form)
valid Xhtml (for example, change <br> tot <br />)
remove useless spaces
hyphenate ISBN numbers

If cosmetic changes are applied, then this will be visible in the edit summary; in your own language or in English.

Contact

If you have any questions, please let me know on my talk page.
If there are any bugs or requests for alteration of the bot script, please file them on Sourceforge (as with any other bot).