Hi all,
There have been numerous discussions among folks in the space exploration
community that use of the word manned and unmanned in Wikipedia is
outdated and gender-biased. Unfortunately, going in and fixing all of these
by hand would be rather labor-intensive...
Someone recently created a
you can also do a bot request here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:09 PM, JJ Marr jjm...@gmail.com wrote:
You should ask down at the village pump, then if the response is
favorable, start a BRFA.
On Feb 24, 2015 10:04 PM, Maia Weinstock
The mechanics of doing this aren't such a big deal. AutoWikiBrowser is
probably the best way to do it as you can eyeball each change before it
happens just to make you that you haven't done something inappropriate (like
the unmanned vehicle example). It's a little tedious (to eyeball each one)
but
I just had a look.
The category Space exploration's complete closure is around 8000 articles. I
ran a quick speed check with AutoWikiBrowser. It can skip an article that
doesn't contain manned in about 1 second (no human action required) and it
takes however long you take to make the decision
