Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s):
Python and/or
AWB
Source code available: on request
Function overview: Add |alt=Stub icon
(or a more descriptive alternate text - to be determined) to images on stub templates for greater
web accessibility. May be done by converting stub templates to use {{
asbox}}.
Edit period(s): One time run (initially), periodically (if necessary)
Estimated number of pages affected:
2500+ 11,000+
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: When an image is the only content in a link, a screen reader will output the filename of the image [1]. For example, on encountering {{ album-stub}}, the screen reader will output "Gnome-dev-cdrom-audio.svg This album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it". This is suboptimal, as the filename of the image is irrelevant. It has been proposed ( permlink) to provide alternate text (eg. "Stub icon") for these stub templates.
Please note Xenobot is already approved for find/replace jobs of this nature; this BRFA is to ensure community consensus exists for this particular run.
Further to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting#Straw poll on standardizing with a meta-template, this task may involve converting the stub templates to use Template:Asbox which can then provide "Stub icon" as a default alt text.
[[Image:P Eiffel.png|24px|link=]]
generates an image with empty alt text." Going to ping around and see if this is preferable. –
xeno
talk 03:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s):
Python and/or
AWB
Source code available: on request
Function overview: Add |alt=Stub icon
(or a more descriptive alternate text - to be determined) to images on stub templates for greater
web accessibility. May be done by converting stub templates to use {{
asbox}}.
Edit period(s): One time run (initially), periodically (if necessary)
Estimated number of pages affected:
2500+ 11,000+
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: When an image is the only content in a link, a screen reader will output the filename of the image [1]. For example, on encountering {{ album-stub}}, the screen reader will output "Gnome-dev-cdrom-audio.svg This album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it". This is suboptimal, as the filename of the image is irrelevant. It has been proposed ( permlink) to provide alternate text (eg. "Stub icon") for these stub templates.
Please note Xenobot is already approved for find/replace jobs of this nature; this BRFA is to ensure community consensus exists for this particular run.
Further to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting#Straw poll on standardizing with a meta-template, this task may involve converting the stub templates to use Template:Asbox which can then provide "Stub icon" as a default alt text.
[[Image:P Eiffel.png|24px|link=]]
generates an image with empty alt text." Going to ping around and see if this is preferable. –
xeno
talk 03:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
reply