James Fawcus

> Looks like there's a dedicated bot for this task: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PagesBot . It has only done a few test edits, and it uses a different regex. Good job finding it!...

> I would still prefer to have a dedicated bot, but no response so far from the PagesBot operator. @Daniel-Mietchen: Sorry for the delay! The day job has swallowed up...

So, so many! The regex [I used](https://github.com/guyfawcus/PagesBot/blob/e1dc79a066c72e2e431f006118573d151fbe9518/pagesbot.py#L42) (`^(\d*)\s*(-|‐|‑|‒|–|—|―|−)\s*(\d*)$`) tested for the following: * `U+002D` `-` [Hyphen-minus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus) * `U+2010` `‐` [Hyphen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen) * `U+2011` `‑` [Non-breaking_hyphen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Non-breaking_hyphens) * `U+2012` `‒` [Figure dash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Figure_dash) *...

Good point, a most of those are easy pickings with a small change. https://regexr.com/72pr9:  I'm a little hesitant to put too much work into the others though to be...

### Current statistics: **38,683,591** scholarly articles — https://scholia.toolforge.org/statistics **1,472,969** P1104 statements — https://w.wiki/5$P6 **1,278,126** derived P1104 statements — https://w.wiki/5$P2 @fnielsen: Sorry for somewhat co-opting this issue! Thought these were useful...

Finally [submitted a bot request](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/PagesBot) for PagesBot! Apologies for the insane delay :sweat_smile:

Last month, the General Device Type Format (GDTF) was officially recognised as a DIN standard: * [Press release](https://gdtf-share.com/forum/index.php?/topic/351-gdtf-11-din-spec-15800/) * [DIN SPEC 15800:2020-07](https://www.beuth.de/en/technical-rule/din-spec-15800/324748671)  I thought this was going to just...

Oops, sorry, thought I'd commented on this! Fair enough 👍 I'll see if there's anything I can do to help out around here