User:OAbot

Overview

This bot adds links to citation templates, providing alternative open access versions to references in Wikipedia articles, and maintains information about the open access status of the citations. See also:

• main page of the project;
• bot approval page;
• list of maintainers.

You can also simulate the bot on any page for additional references via its web interface: https://tools.wmflabs.org/oabot/

Update 2020: we've started the large-scale addition and maintenance of more identifier-related citation parameters, see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OAbot 3.

Scope

• The bot only edits in main space. It is compliant with the bot exclusion templates: to prevent OAbot from editing a particular page, you can use {{bots|deny=OAbot}} (for instance). There is no way to prevent OAbot from changing a particular template in a page.
• The bot only edits cite templates (based on CS1/2), excluding {{cite web}}, {{cite news}}, {{cite arxiv}} and {{cite book}}.
• The bot does not make changes to citations where at least one parameter is known to link to a freely available full text (such as |arxiv= or |pmc=).
• After running the bot, the operator manually fixes the very rare cases of ambiguity, which show up at Category:CS1 errors: URL–wikilink conflict and used to show up at Category:Pages with citations having redundant parameters.

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