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At MediaWiki:Booksources-summary, there is the summary displayed when users click on an ISBN number (1) or use Special:BookSources (2). Its previous text may account for some of the errors on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#ISBN_wrong_syntax_(CodeFixer) or the other reports. Personally, I think it's less likely that people use (2) and we could probably word it even more for (1). -- User:Docu
This error is a real problem. It's just mildly annoying to replace a direction control character with an XML named character when you have arabic or hebrew text and need to get punctuation in the right place, but it is a completely unacceptable when you are making tables that contain both LTR and RTL fields. Unknowing editors trying to fix this error make table code completely illegible and any content simply unmaintainable. This checkwiki criterion needs to be altered to keep critical direction controls in place. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 10:07, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
as a writer and redesigner of articles: WPCleaner became a gentle and effective Putzerfisch („cleaner wrasse”). Thanks! -- Erfundener ( talk) 22:57, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
What is "Checkwiki Error 17"? It was performed on the page for Freddie Young and I can't see why -- SteveCrook ( talk) 13:37, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of "reference list missing" on WPCleaner even though a reflist definitely exists. Not really sure why. Is it the toolserver lists messing up, or WPC itself? I'm just tired of seeing it in the checkwiki box for dablink analysis. Thanks! — kikichugirl inquire 07:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
error_003_references_templates_enwiki
), the following templates are currently defined as creating a reflist: {{
Reflist}}, {{
Ref-list}}, {{
Refs}}, {{
Reference list}}, {{
listaref}}, {{
Footnotes}}. Maybe the list is not complete ? --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
07:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Why is Stefan Kühn ( talk · contribs) listed as "Overall Project leader" and Magioladitis ( talk · contribs) as "English Check Wikipedia leader" - that's not how WikiProjects/Wikipedia does or should work. Giant Snowman 16:50, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Since today dewiki has a high number of #104 (e.g.
Altena is listed with notice <ref name="Kalonymos 1/1999" />
). WPCleaner didn't find most of them and shows the error message: The error n*104 hasn't been detected in page <pagename>, but CheckWiki still reports it.
It seems to be a problem with special characters in the ref name. It is shown for names with "/", "?", "'", "#". -- GünniX ( talk) 09:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
GünniX was updated yesterday to report pages with ref names that contain these characters. I do not know if this works correctly. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
# " ' / = > ? \ .
WPCleaner is also being updated. A beta version does catch these, see
Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 104 dump for the enwiki errors caught by WPCleaner. Nico is working out of a hotel room in his spare time, so no word on when a new version of WPCleaner will be released.
Bgwhite (
talk)
09:40, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[a-zA-Z0-9!$%&()*,\-.:;<@\[\]^_`{|}~ ]
for enwiki and just .
for project where is no consensus about ref name limitations. Thanks!
Facenapalm (
talk)
10:52, 7 December 2016 (UTC)# " ' / = > ? \ .
characters duplicate characters used by <ref>
tags. For example, <ref name="foo"foo">
and <ref name="foo'foo">
are clearly bad. These are not enwiki only, but dealing with the Mediawiki software. I'll double check with the WMF if anything has changed in the last four years
Bgwhite (
talk)
10:57, 7 December 2016 (UTC)<ref name="95/2/CE">
, where "95/2/CE" is the reference of a European Community standard, seems very logical to use this as the ref name, or things like <ref name="Le Point 30/06/2011">
for an article in a newspaper (newspaper + date). --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
01:35, 8 December 2016 (UTC)<ref name="Magazine mm/yyyy" />
, <ref name="DOI10.1056/xxx
, <ref name="EG1523/2007">
(EG is German for European Union, same style is used for German government decisions), <ref name="Saison 2015/16" />
and even <ref name="O'Connor2000">
. I think you should allow this characters in a quoted name. In my opinion, the only error should be a " in a name. --
GünniX (
talk)
07:42, 8 December 2016 (UTC)group
keyword. Yesterday CheckWiki reported even <ref name="a" group="A" />
! --
GünniX (
talk)
08:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Hi guys. Not much time, so I didn't read everything... WPCleaner should be already up to date regarding #104, but I doubt that it's doing the same as CW. I tried a first version where I was accepting only characters in WP:REFNAME but after doing a dump analysis with that, I decided it was really too much, so the version that I released is accepting all letters and digits even if they are not ASCII characters. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:53, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
The quotes are optional unless the name includes a space, punctuation or other mark.It's got a problem with one word names and "group" being set. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
<ref name=jpl-close/>
. If you want to keep this definition (which is OK in my opinion), a bot should fix this error soon. And you should fix the known problems with one word names and "group" before the next run.@ GünniX, NicoV, and Bgwhite: Right now neither Yobot not Dexbot fix ref names with dashes. Should they? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:00, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
name=:1
and name='Article about "Harry Miller"'
). --
GünniX (
talk)
18:24, 10 December 2016 (UTC)@
Bgwhite: Today I'm surprised by your long list for #104. The list contains many pages with simple names like <ref name=dt>
. Have you decided to put all this names in quotes? Or is something wrong with your check? Be aware that other wikis have no bot to fix it. --
GünniX (
talk)
01:09, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
# " ' / = > ? \ .
. However, I ooopsed by saying a reference without those characters is an error and not with those characters.
Bgwhite (
talk)
08:56, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
+ 104 10148 <ref name=CNRS>{{article|titre=L'héritag
@ Bgwhite: I think it's now obvious that you have an evil plan to leave Yobot blocked for ever. GünniX revealed this plan. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:10, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello. Please see here. There are some very strange false positives there, kind a " ISBN <some text>". Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 21:45, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Report Number 4 shouldn't show the case in below as error (have an exception for source tag)
<syntaxhighlight lang=html> <a href="http://example.com/">foo</a> </syntaxhighlight>
Yamaha5 ( talk) 06:23, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Yamaha5 Can you provide a page for this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:04, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
<syntaxhighlight lang=html> <a href="http://example.com/">مثال</a> </syntaxhighlight>
Yamaha5 ( talk) 08:08, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Yamaha5 I see <syntaxhighlight/>. Maybe it' my screen? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:11, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Article names with a '
are shown with escape character as \'
(e.g. St Mary\'s Christian Brothers\' Grammar School, Belfast
in list
#80).
When using the list in AWB, the article is not found. Please remove the escape character. Best regards --
GünniX (
talk)
04:05, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
St Andrew\'s Church, Aysgarth
, if it is done you will find it in
done Articles. --
GünniX (
talk)
08:27, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
\'
. Not sure what to say.
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:16, 5 January 2017 (UTC)Report Number 87 shouldn't show the case in below as error (have an exception for image name)
| image = Dieter Frowein Lyasso&Sigmar Polke.jpeg | caption=
Yamaha5 ( talk) 08:02, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
this regexs can find image name you can test them at here
regex1="\[\[ *(?:([Ff]ile|"+fileLocalAlias+") *:([^\.]+)\.(?:tiff|tif|png|gif|jpg|jpeg|xcf|pdf|mid|ogg|ogv|svg|djvu|oga|flac|opus|wav|webm) *[\|\]]"
regex2="\|[^\=]+\= *([^\.]+)\.(?:tiff|tif|png|gif|jpg|jpeg|xcf|pdf|mid|ogg|ogv|svg|djvu|oga|flac|opus|wav|webm) *[\|\]]"
Yamaha5 ( talk) 13:52, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite: It seems that frwiki is not updated anymore : last update is 2017-01-02 while many other wikis have 2017-01-05. Some other wikis have even older dates : fawiki, fiwiki=2016-12-26, many for 2016-12-25 or 2016-12-05. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 12:16, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Unpleasantly, I suddenly found a lot of categorizations using {{category:...}} instead [[category:...]]. IKhitron ( talk) 12:50, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
insource:/\{\{Category\:/
. On enwiki, there were 9 articles. French and German wikis didn't have any articles. I don't think this is a widespread problem. Do a search on your wiki and see what comes up.
Bgwhite (
talk)
22:26, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Resolved
Well-meaning editors have added ages to birth years, e.g. replacing 1966 by "1966 (age 50-51)". Some of them may forget to come back and update all the articles every January. Would it be possible/sensible to check for a pattern such as \d{4}\s*\(age\s+\d+[-–]\d+\)? A kind editor can then replace it by {{ birth year and age}} or similar. This occurs mainly within the birth_date parameter of {{ infobox person}} and its descendants, so could be limited to that case if helpful. Thanks, Certes ( talk) 09:08, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
hastemplate:"Infobox person" insource:/[0-9]{4} *\(age +[0-9]+[-–][0-9]+\)/
.
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
10:45, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I hope this isn't too far off topic but I've already tried elsewhere with no reply. The helpful Red Link Recovery Live [6] has been broken for a few weeks now, returning a header but no data. (A little hacking suggests that it may no longer be authorised to log in to the database it queries.) Topbanana usually looks after these things but has been inactive for a month - I do hope they're OK. Is there anyone else who could take a look at the problem please? Certes ( talk) 01:11, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Resolved
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite:, don't know the problem or if it is a bug. But for a few days I have the following behavior. Background is Opera 42, IE 11 on Windows 7, 10. I choose any ID, click to more and if I would like to click to "Done" and the article has a space then the complete entry disappears. On the ID-List I could click "Done" and its done. Either my browser nor my system changed? Can you tell me if something has changed in the code? mfg -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:25, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite:, @all, for first of all, I like to wish you a happy new year. I Would like to have a question for new errors. Priority low. There are many errors where is no space after a refs-end.
Example (No Space after </ref>-Tag):
<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref>And hier is normal text.
But right is:
<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref> And hier is normal text.
Example (Point before </ref>-end):
Normal text<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref>. And hier is normal text.
But right is:
Normal text.<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref> And hier is normal text.
What do you think about? mfg -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Crazy1880 Probably not. CheckWiki is getting criticism on enwiki for doing "minor" things. I also don't think this is a syntax fix. One can still find these in the search box. Type insource:/\/ref\>[a-zA-Z]/
into the search box and it should return you articles with the problem. We've already asked and were denied output from the search box to be more list-friendly.
Bgwhite (
talk)
19:23, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
The second point is already implemented as #61. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 17:43, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Sometimes the errors are done by new users and it should be Revert. Please add history column Yamaha5 ( talk) 11:34, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
AT CheckWiki web page, When the Notice column is started with Non-Arabic characters it is shown Backward . for example at #15 the notice for the first row should be <cod>همچنین میتوان چندین ربات را هم now shows <cod>مه ار تابر نیدنچ ناوتیم نینچمه For example, if the notice is "foo" it shows "oof". It is CSS bug and not the text bug (copy the text to the other place is ok) if
<td class="table" style="background-color:#D0F5A9;"><span style="unicode-bidi: bidi-override;">
is
<td class="table" style="background-color:#D0F5A9;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;">
It will be ok (I tested for Farsi and English for both of them it will be ok) Yamaha5 ( talk) 15:05, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
dir=auto
? It's fine for me.
IKhitron (
talk)
15:43, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
dir=auto
not supported at IE and edge but supported at chrome. I tested for this case at chrome doesn't work for me :(
Yamaha5 (
talk)
15:48, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
. It should work, at least in internet explorer.
IKhitron (
talk)
15:54, 5 January 2017 (UTC)Yamaha5 IKhitron You two have me at a disadvantage as I don't understand RTL languages, so I have to go by what you two think is best. I also would like to avoid any browser specific code. What is the difference between "bidi-override" and "embed"? What is best for the average RTL user? Yamaha, I'm not understanding what you are saying... what way does the notice text show up correctly for RTL? In the address bar, change "checkwiki.cgi" with "checkwikin.cgi" and "embed" will be used. Bgwhite ( talk) 18:44, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Yamaha5 ( talk) 20:03, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Meno25: If I just say I'm going with option A, then one of you will be happy and one not so happy. But that isn't the issue. I more interested in what is best for the average RTL user. There are atleast six wikis that CheckWiki handles that is RTL. I can see each of your points on why one way should be used. So...
you make a code that will show the notice field in ltr direction for all ltr wikis and in rtl direction for all rtl wikisI can do this. I can also make an alternative css stylesheet, but it requires javascript.
Bgwhite ( talk) 06:49, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Meno25, IKhitron, and Yamaha5: More questions to go along with the two above
Bgwhite ( talk) 09:28, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite: for rtl langs by changing
<table class="table">
with
<table class="table" dir="rtl">
it will be ok. you can test it at here original checkwiki page Yamaha5 ( talk) 10:27, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
when an article has {{{}}} inside it, the error #43 will have false positive for example at here and fa:آزاده (شاهنامه) Yamaha5 ( talk) 09:07, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
{{{reflist}}
. So... Why do you use "{{{foo|}}}" in articles? That's templates element, {{{foo|something}}}
is always equalent to something
since there are no parameters passed to article, including foo
.
Facenapalm (
talk)
13:30, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
import re
text2=text
while '{{{' in text2:
text2 = re.sub(r'\{\{\{[^\}]\}\}\}','',text2)
# after this cleaning we can check the text for {{}}
Yamaha5 ( talk) 12:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite: it seems that CW is generating lists for errors that have been deactivated since the 28th of December. See for example on frwiki, lists for #37 and #110. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 10:46, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Error #105 (completely missing =) now includes cases of error #8 (different amount of =), so #8 is now (almost) empty. I believe this was caused by mistake. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 09:22, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
Resolved
There several false positives in cswiki. They have in common that the reported bad syntax is inside an image which is at the very beginning of an article and which has an internal link inside its caption. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 08:57, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
By plan(jawiki) it will be about 3000 items. Is it possible? Thanks.-- Momijiro ( talk) 02:47, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
#95 seems to have been updated, so that links to talk pages are included as well. Now there are
false positives on links to pages starting with "Diskus" and similar. For instance,
Kyberšikana "[[Diskuzní fórum|diskuze]] provokují vkl"
.
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
13:07, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
@
Bgwhite: Now it looks like that talk pages links are only detected. Could you please check that both [[Wikipedista:
and [[User:
are also detected in cswiki?
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
09:03, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
[[Wikipedista:
and [[User:
as results. It still doesn't contain. [[User:
. Here are the ones I've hardcoded in:
Just wondering: how do unicode control characters get into Wikipedia text? Copy/paste? Could this be an indication of copyvio? — Iadmc ♫ talk 13:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
I know that several of the regulars here are preparing for mw:Parsing/Replacing Tidy. I'm guessing that late January will be the next opportunity to discuss when the first changes will be made (NB "discuss", not "implement without warning"). So with that possible discussion in mind, I wanted to check in with you. How are things going? What's going well? What's being difficult? Do you need specific kinds of help or information? What can I do to make this less painful? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:50, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
</br>
, been addressed via a workaround, maintenance category, or CheckWiki report? As of that discussion, CheckWiki was scanning only article space, which means that tens of thousands of pages will have errors that have not been looked at yet. Also see
Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 100 dump, which may be a barrier to replacing Tidy (NB that report also covers only article space). –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
22:01, 6 January 2017 (UTC)<br/>
and other self-closing tags.<small>...<small>
and <big>...<big>
Need to find way to not search in templates and tables to minimize the vast number.On a side note. Any timing on when the Magiclink's for ISBNs, PMIDs and RFCs are going away? Magioladitis was going to do a bot run on this, but now it looks like it's me. I mention the change in a discussion two weeks back. Sorry Jonesey, but you and I were specifically called "not real editors". Bgwhite ( talk) 11:12, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF): I just noticed that Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Garrysmith10/Archive appeared in Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags in the past few days. I have checked that category a couple of times a week since we emptied it. Since that page just showed up, it means that the job queue has not finished running through all of the pages on en.WP, even though the update to MW that created the error category was implemented six months ago. That, in turn, means that there are pages on en.WP that still have errors that we do not know about. Ultimately, that means that T132467, or something like it, is blocking Tidy migration, since the job queue does not run through all pages in a timely fashion to populate maintenance categories. And since insource searches are also not reliable, we are stuck with no reliable way to determine if we have fixed all of the outstanding problems.
At least that's how I interpret the evidence. I could be wrong. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:49, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF), has the late January discussion mentioned at the top of this section happened yet? Was there a discussion of the above requests? Resolution of one or more of the above requests is likely to be necessary for the gnomes to fix all of the problems prior to Tidy being replaced. At a minimum, we need a well defined list of the problematic strings to search for. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 23:12, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
I've made a proposal on the ARBCOM workshop page concerning how to deal with the Magiodilitis situation. Input by WP:BAG, bot owners, and the community at large is welcomed. Even if the proposal doesn't pass, some other ideas can be of interest, especially to WP:AWB/ WP:CHECKWIKI people. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:23, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, on frwiki,
fr:Bimbogami ga! gets reported for #43 with the notice {{TomeBD | couleur_ligne = | langage_u
, and checkarticle gives a location of "-1". I could find where the error is... Would it be possible to have at least the position ? --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
17:36, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
<mapframe>
tag Done
@
Bgwhite: Apparently, the <mapframe>
tag has been activated, at least on frwiki. It seems to be containing JSON data, leading to false positives for errors related to curly braces (like
#47 for
fr:Le Malesherbois#Composition). Could we ignore contents inside <mapframe>
tag ? --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
09:46, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
At here CheckWikis reports PubMed Url links. I checked the links and they are ok like PMID 19184489 which Checkwiki mentions as problem Yamaha5 ( talk) 21:03, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Please modify code so that it also detects small templates in addition to small tags. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:21, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
these need to be fixed. either (1) someone has substituted a template which should not have been substituted, or (2) substituted a template but didn't clean up after substituting the template. in either case, the edit link is not pointing to where you edit the content. the solution is either (1) unsubstitute the template, or (2) replace style="..." | {{T?navbar-header|title text|...fontcolor=fcolor}}
with style="...; text-align:center; color: fcolor;" | title text
. for example,
like this. not sure if this can be safely done by bot.
Frietjes (
talk)
21:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a possibility to ignore #48 in some imagemap templates? Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 15:17, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, please update fawiki's local setting. I changed the setting and whitelists some month ago, still checkwiki's reports doesn't change Yamaha5 ( talk) 11:57, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
someone thought it would be a good idea to mangle the css with with hyphens instead of a standard ASCII minus sign. all of these are broken and should be fixed. Frietjes ( talk) 16:46, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Frietjes I fixed all. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:52, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Frietjes and
IKhitron I think now I fixed everything even in user pages. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
18:06, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Parsoid occasionally created "links" like "[[Link target|<nowiki/>]]", and possibly still does. This outputs nothing, and most likely has to be simply deleted. Occasionally, this must be fixed to [[Link target]] or something else, but [[Link target|<nowiki/>]] is in any case wrong. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 12:09, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
This is a good one. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I tried to write a script which will automatically download list of errors for current page, display them in edit form and offer to choose the ones that should be automatically marked as "Done". However I met a problem: http-request, which is worked correctly in empty tab, can't load anything while being launched on wikipedia domain. Chrome writes something like this:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=ruwiki&view=detail&title=.mil. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://ru.wikipedia.org' is therefore not allowed access.
Is it possible to configure server in such a way to make such requests working? (If it's important, requests must be done via https, because request via http on https domain doesn't work too). Facenapalm ( talk) 14:53, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Could you check what's the problem, please? Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 19:34, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Resolved
Why has the detection on these lists for de.wiki been stopped? Perhaps there are even some more numbers that have been suspended.-- Hadibe ( talk) 08:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite: the second today. Since now some time in the ID 16 no new entries are added. But I had found in some articles which ones which should have been registered. Can it be that something isn't running? Regards -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:32, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to add Bengali wikipedia to this tool? Thanks -- Aftabuzzaman ( talk) 18:07, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#WP:COSMETICBOT update. This will be relevant to many people here.
After (and if) this is passed, I would also proposed creating a new 'Cosmetic' priority in WP:CWERRORS to mark fixes that are deemed desirable in the long run, but which are not to be done on their own. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:52, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
I'm talking about cases where the link display text with the link trail is identical to the link target text.
"[[Link target|Link tar]]get" is functionally identical to [[Link target]].
"[[Link target|Link tar]]<nowiki/>get" is not functionally identical, but it's likely that the intention was to write [[Link target]]. I fixed many such cases in the Hebrew Wikipedia, and I cannot recall even one case where something different was needed.
This should also check for "[[Link target|link tar]]get", i.e. the capitalization of the first letter doesn't matter. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 12:09, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
[а-яё]
is a regexp for russian lowercase symbols if it will be implemented).
Facenapalm (
talk)
19:26, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
I just realized that quite often, Foobar will be defaultsorted as {{DEFAULTSORT:Foobar}}. There's no reason for this, and in the long run can create issues (if the page is moved to Barfoo later). This would be a cosmetic fix that shouldn't be done by bots, but I can't think why it can't be bundled alongside other fixes. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 15:27, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
I suspect that some of you will want to look into this bug, which affects a small number of templates, but a large number of articles, at a couple of wikis. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:46, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
See Category:Pages_which_use_a_template_in_place_of_a_magic_word. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 21:30, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite:, since yesterday we have the feature "<references responsive />" to make references more columns. The ID 3, however, means that there is no TAG for references. Can it be that this new syntax is not yet understood by the script? Regards -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:29, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
<references responsive="0"/>
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
08:50, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
<references />
and <references responsive />
have the same behavior. (I assume that you'd still get the occasional <references responsive="0"/>
.) Do you think that the German Wikipedia is ready for that change? (The request can be filed as a subtask of
phab:T159895.)
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk)
17:56, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
In CW Error #3, lots of false positive occur, mostly due to a lack of regognition for the <references responsive /> tag (see e.g. Cavalleria rusticana). Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:37, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
In Greek Wikipedia we changed references tags and reflist template to be responsive by default. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:28, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Id 37 was turned off some month ago but still fawiki report shows it Yamaha5 ( talk) 07:00, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for running this tool. It's very helpful. I've noticed, however that in section 2, there are valid breaks pointed out. Typically those with attributes accepted in the wiki language like <br style="clear:both;" /> or <br clear="all" />. Hope this comment helps improving this tool.-- Ascánder ( talk) 17:14, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
They should be replaced by their template equivalents. - Magioladitis ( talk) 17:23, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
<br clear="right" />
to prevent this. An unexpected result will appear on small screens, where image height is less: there will be an empty line between text and list. Once again, it's small screen, so every line is very important.
Facenapalm (
talk)
16:52, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
I am OK either way. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:29, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF) I think AWB changes to the template only for English Wikipedia. Still I recall I created some templates for other Wikipedias in the past. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:04, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Template:Clear used div tags and not br tags if that matters. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:59, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF), Magioladitis: I believe that the clear attribute has been deprecated in HTML5 for the br tag : it's not valid HTML anymore. The clear attribute is still valid for div tag, that's why the template is using the div tag. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 13:31, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Looking at WP:CWERRORS, it seems to me that all current Top/Mid-priority fixes are non-cosmetic, but some of the Low-priority ones are.
Tentatively, a blind application of the "Does it change the rendering of anything, anywhere? / Does it prevent issues?" would mean the low-priority CW errors distribute themselves this way (feel free to edit the list)
|
|
|
|
Note that just that because an edit is cosmetic under this definition, doesn't necessarily mean it shouldn't be done. However, a bot task would have to demonstrate consensus that the error is consider egregious enough to fix on its own before getting approval.
What I'd like here, is a justification beyond "poor practice/against convention" for the "unsure" column. For instance, is CW Error #54 intended to fix WP:ACCESS/ WP:LISTGAP concerns, or something else? I'd also like for better categorization / justification for some of those in WP:CWERRORS. Many of those are left completely blank. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:04, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
CW Error #06 affects how the page is placed within its categories. I think Frietjes has some good reason why we convert list elements i.e. about CW Error #12. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:46, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
CW Error #20 has given only 1 entry the last 12 months. You can turn it off. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:08, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
I've added the cosmetic column. I've categorized things per the above discussion, but feel free to make some tweaks. I've left the "off" priority fixes out, however. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 15:16, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb Error 64 also fixes misplaced brackets etc. such as [[Foo (bar)|Foo(bar]]) and many others. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:10, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb Error 85 asks editors to add content in empty section or tag the section with empty section. This is not "cosmetic" by any means. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
I do not see
CW Error #02 on any of the lists above. It is currently listed as "not cosmetic" on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/List of errors, but changing </br>
to <br />
is currently a cosmetic change, and may continue to be cosmetic even after Tidy goes away. Some of the errors listed as 02 are real errors that will result in non-cosmetic changes, but many are purely cosmetic. This may have been discussed elsewhere and I just missed it. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
01:07, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Is everyone in [the above] discussion aware of mw:Parsing/Replacing Tidy? This upcoming work may affect what's "cosmetic". For example, I'm not certain that #65 will continue to have no visible effect. I've not seen any specific plan to change that behavior, but this may be one of the small things that Tidy did, and which therefore will be "broken" when Tidy is removed. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:32, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Here's a list of things that are guaranteed to need fixing: mw:Help:Extension:Linter. All of these errors appear in the lists for Special:LintErrors (which is not yet enabled for enwiki, but it is at most wikis), so you can get a clear list of pages that have problems. Each item has some decent documentation (as in, I was able to figure out how to fix a few pages myself, so it can't be that complicated. ;-)
There are a few things that I'm not sure how to fix, such as m:Template:Nospam. A few things get listed as "stripped" when they're actually "misnested". But overall I think this is a great place to start, and the problems it identifies can be fixed everywhere, even if you temporarily have to use other tools to identify pages with obsolete HTML (for example) at the larger wikis. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 06:22, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for a configuration change. On it.wiki, we introduced a new template ( it:Template:Note strette) to handle the Notes section; however, the articles with the template turns out in the report for error #3 (see [13]), since they do not directly contain <references/> nor it:Template:References (which has been deprecated). Would it be possible to add an exception for these articles? Thanks in advance-- Dr Zimbu ( talk) 17:48, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
error_003_templates_itwiki=
line and add a new line with the template name between =
and END
. If there will be some redirects to this template, you should add all of them. Errors 78 and 111 are also configurable to work with references template. For 111th error, it should be the equal list (don't forget to change 003 number to 111 when you copy it!), but, as I can see, last errors (109-113) are just misrepresented in this page - you can copy them from
english configuration page, replace "enwiki" with "itwiki", change priorities if that's needed, delete unneccessary _template_ sections and translate them. error_078_templates_itwiki=
should be a valid
regular expression, matching all references templates without "group" parameter - I can help you write it if you will tell me how "group" parameter will called in italian wikipedia (if it will - as I can see, there is no such parameter in template for now). You can see the example of regular expression at
russian configuration page.
Facenapalm (
talk)
20:20, 31 May 2017 (UTC)Hi, I have found ~130 cases of unclosed tags (mostly category and some broken images), see User:Rentier/Cleanup. Putting it out here (is this the right Wikiproject for this?) since I don't have the time to fix them myself. Rentier ( talk) 02:53, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
see
this search for {{http:...}}
(using misunderstanding of how to add external links).
Frietjes (
talk)
14:03, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Is there any purpose for <span>some text</span>
, without any tag parameters?
IKhitron (
talk)
11:41, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
I'm looking at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155125 which deals about replacing all ce tags with chem tags. The implementation of ce and chem is identical, so nothing will be changed by replacing the name of the tag. What would be the best method to do that replacement? -- Physikerwelt ( talk) 07:33, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
It appears that the next stage of the OOUI-ification of MediaWiki is going to change something about how the "Save" (aka "Publish") button is implemented in the API. There is a possibility that a small number of scripts or bots will break as a result. See phab:T162849 and mw:OOjs UI for more information.
If you think that this will be a problem for your work, then you might want to ask for help at WP:BOTN or WP:VPT.
This has been planned for years, announced in Tech News, etc., which probably means that nobody has paid attention to it. :-) I therefore ask for your help in sharing this information with technically minded editors at other projects. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:26, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Update: This is done, everywhere. Commons was the last wiki, about 9 days ago. During the next month, if you see new breakage in scripts, it's more likely to be Krinkle's jQuery 3 update than this OOjs UI change. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Quick note: mw:Extension:Linter (which helps editors find wikitext errors) is available on some small wikis. Have a look at mw:Special:LintErrors to see what it does. (I don't know what all of the categories are, but I see that lots of translations of mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide appear in a couple of the lists.) Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:14, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
<div />
should be changed to <div>
</div>
, and other times it is a typo for </div>
. Another tricky case is <b />
, which should be replaced with <nowiki />
, <br />
, or </b>
, depending on the context.Jonesey95, that amazing person that Subbu is added simplified instructions at mw:Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F. Let us know what you think of those. I think we're aiming at a first round of communications this week. TYVM! Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 09:23, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
For information, I've recently modified WPCleaner to integrate it with Linter. Currently, the following is available:
Still some work to do for it to be easier for users. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 09:28, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
<center>
tags, and suggests a fix when it's inside a gallery tag or an image description ; I have to make it automatic for some situations, add suggestions in other situations, and do the same for other tags. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
09:17, 17 July 2017 (UTC)Hi. May you also check zh-classical.wikipedia? Thank you! -- Kanashimi ( talk) 03:30, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
According to Check Wikipedia enwiki has not been updated since 2017-08-31. Used to be daily updates with new items. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 20:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Previously, on Tidy Replacement... The Parsing team wants to replace Tidy with a RemexHTML-based solution on the Wikimedia cluster by June 2018. This will require editors to fix pages and templates to address wikitext patterns that behave differently with RemexHTML. Please see the " What editors will need to do" section on the Tidy replacement FAQ. This is ongoing, although operations seem to go slowly at this wiki?
I now want to point your attention to the related update that Subbu provided on wikitech-l. Please do ping him ( User:SSastry (WMF)) if you have any questions or concerns, ideas about how to get more people involved here or communications venues we haven't explored yet (I will contact technical village pumps later this month, FWIW), etc. Hope this helps! Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 14:59, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
ISBN 978-9925-0-4481-8 on de:Willem de Haan and ISBN 978-9925-0-7752-6 on de:Gustav Heinrich Gottfried Siebeck from Cyprus are reported as wrong, although they are mathematically and logically correct. -- ThomasO. 17:33, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I can't open the server for about ten minutes. IKhitron ( talk) 14:21, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
I checked the check digital myself of the issn 1010-4143, which is correct (unless my calculation wrong and library wrong), but it shown error in the page. Is that the wikipedia coding on checking issn had error instead? or UFT8 character table or 8 bit character table error? Matthew_hk t c 20:36, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
If you're interested in how templates get placed on a page, then please see mw:Help:TemplateData#Custom formats. It's now possible to tell Parsoid that {{ unref}} and similar tags belong on separate lines. This change should make it easier to maintain wikitext whitespace conventions. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:38, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
This page has stopped being updated. It may shut down soon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:08, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
IKhitron which files do you use? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:57, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
IKhitron You wrote that you run a new dump. Where did you post it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:05, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Magioladitis You still have a few lists that are generated by WPC: Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC all. They are based on the dump from 20 March. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 08:42, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Magioladitis I have the same question ("What are you talking about?"). Ruwiki's web interface got new dump yesterday, and it's basic checkwiki feature, isn't it? There are 4 maintainers for checkwiki tool at WMFlabs tool list, you're in the list, so, even if Bgwhite left the project (I hope he's not), tool isn't dead. Who is going to close project and why? Facenapalm ( talk) 10:31, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Facenapalm I can't download and process the dump files (my laptop is rather old and my connection is not in a better shape) and in fact it's also not in my plans neither. You can ofcourse ask the other two persons if they want to keep working with it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:49, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
As far as I understand, for international team there is no panic. Marios is talking about on-wiki pages, which are generated with WPC, which uses slightly different algorithms for error detecting. Web interface (the "real" CW) isn't going anywhere. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 06:47, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
I am talking about the on-wiki pages generated every month based on the same algorithm with the daily scans. The lists are generated with 3 ways:
Item 2 will discontinue. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:01, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
FrescoBot also stopped since March. It's the fourth of fifth bot that was used in the project and stopped. Meanwhile, BAG still has not completed the process of reaffirming Yobot for the 100+ tasks it used to run. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:27, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb After some months passed, you now see it was not just a panic. It was info I had about it. In practise the project is stalled. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:15, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Maybe it's time to send this project for deletion? Certain people in the community worked systemtically against certain parts of this project (people, bots, tasks). There was even an Arbitration case that concluded recently. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:02, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb We have the following situation on bots:
Am I in panic? I don't know. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:10, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi. frwiki has not been updated since 2017-09-16 and I'm afflicted. Is the Check Wikipedia project definitively cancelled or replaced? Except for enwiki, it still seems to run from time to time in other languages... Thank you. Clumsy and stupid ( talk) 07:04, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I am a dedicated member of this project and I commit my time to clearing the problems of the English Wikipedia. I noticed the last update was August 31, 2017.
Is there any reason for that? Are you trying to reduce the backlog first before updating. I am bringing this to your attention because it used to be daily.
AmericanAir88 ( talk) 22:17, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
I've made some additions and improvements to error 521 so it catches more date errors, especially those caught by Category:CS1 errors: dates. Would it be possible to update the error so it catches more issues? (e.g. years with more than 4 digits, months > 12, days > 31) Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 16:43, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Polish Wikipedia has not been updated since yesterday. Is there any reason for that? -- The Polish ( talk) 07:41, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi everyone. Has someone else noticed the slowness problems as mentionned in Wikipedia talk:WPCleaner#WPCleaner is significantly slow? My analysis is that it comes from checkarticle.cgi or checkwiki_bots.cgi being slow on tools. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 17:14, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
The link to the translation page for English Wiktionary has been incorrectly placed. It is supposed to be [16] but it is placed at [17] which isn't even a page. Can you please rename it. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 17:41, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
see this search. some of these are false positives (e.g., inside comments), but many are not. Frietjes ( talk) 14:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
This project has a list of 15 errors where the community failed so far to identify as cosmetic or not. Any ideas of how to resolve this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:57, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
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At MediaWiki:Booksources-summary, there is the summary displayed when users click on an ISBN number (1) or use Special:BookSources (2). Its previous text may account for some of the errors on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia#ISBN_wrong_syntax_(CodeFixer) or the other reports. Personally, I think it's less likely that people use (2) and we could probably word it even more for (1). -- User:Docu
This error is a real problem. It's just mildly annoying to replace a direction control character with an XML named character when you have arabic or hebrew text and need to get punctuation in the right place, but it is a completely unacceptable when you are making tables that contain both LTR and RTL fields. Unknowing editors trying to fix this error make table code completely illegible and any content simply unmaintainable. This checkwiki criterion needs to be altered to keep critical direction controls in place. Van Isaac WS Vex contribs 10:07, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
as a writer and redesigner of articles: WPCleaner became a gentle and effective Putzerfisch („cleaner wrasse”). Thanks! -- Erfundener ( talk) 22:57, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
What is "Checkwiki Error 17"? It was performed on the page for Freddie Young and I can't see why -- SteveCrook ( talk) 13:37, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of "reference list missing" on WPCleaner even though a reflist definitely exists. Not really sure why. Is it the toolserver lists messing up, or WPC itself? I'm just tired of seeing it in the checkwiki box for dablink analysis. Thanks! — kikichugirl inquire 07:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
error_003_references_templates_enwiki
), the following templates are currently defined as creating a reflist: {{
Reflist}}, {{
Ref-list}}, {{
Refs}}, {{
Reference list}}, {{
listaref}}, {{
Footnotes}}. Maybe the list is not complete ? --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
07:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Why is Stefan Kühn ( talk · contribs) listed as "Overall Project leader" and Magioladitis ( talk · contribs) as "English Check Wikipedia leader" - that's not how WikiProjects/Wikipedia does or should work. Giant Snowman 16:50, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Since today dewiki has a high number of #104 (e.g.
Altena is listed with notice <ref name="Kalonymos 1/1999" />
). WPCleaner didn't find most of them and shows the error message: The error n*104 hasn't been detected in page <pagename>, but CheckWiki still reports it.
It seems to be a problem with special characters in the ref name. It is shown for names with "/", "?", "'", "#". -- GünniX ( talk) 09:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
GünniX was updated yesterday to report pages with ref names that contain these characters. I do not know if this works correctly. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
# " ' / = > ? \ .
WPCleaner is also being updated. A beta version does catch these, see
Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 104 dump for the enwiki errors caught by WPCleaner. Nico is working out of a hotel room in his spare time, so no word on when a new version of WPCleaner will be released.
Bgwhite (
talk)
09:40, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[a-zA-Z0-9!$%&()*,\-.:;<@\[\]^_`{|}~ ]
for enwiki and just .
for project where is no consensus about ref name limitations. Thanks!
Facenapalm (
talk)
10:52, 7 December 2016 (UTC)# " ' / = > ? \ .
characters duplicate characters used by <ref>
tags. For example, <ref name="foo"foo">
and <ref name="foo'foo">
are clearly bad. These are not enwiki only, but dealing with the Mediawiki software. I'll double check with the WMF if anything has changed in the last four years
Bgwhite (
talk)
10:57, 7 December 2016 (UTC)<ref name="95/2/CE">
, where "95/2/CE" is the reference of a European Community standard, seems very logical to use this as the ref name, or things like <ref name="Le Point 30/06/2011">
for an article in a newspaper (newspaper + date). --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
01:35, 8 December 2016 (UTC)<ref name="Magazine mm/yyyy" />
, <ref name="DOI10.1056/xxx
, <ref name="EG1523/2007">
(EG is German for European Union, same style is used for German government decisions), <ref name="Saison 2015/16" />
and even <ref name="O'Connor2000">
. I think you should allow this characters in a quoted name. In my opinion, the only error should be a " in a name. --
GünniX (
talk)
07:42, 8 December 2016 (UTC)group
keyword. Yesterday CheckWiki reported even <ref name="a" group="A" />
! --
GünniX (
talk)
08:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Hi guys. Not much time, so I didn't read everything... WPCleaner should be already up to date regarding #104, but I doubt that it's doing the same as CW. I tried a first version where I was accepting only characters in WP:REFNAME but after doing a dump analysis with that, I decided it was really too much, so the version that I released is accepting all letters and digits even if they are not ASCII characters. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:53, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
The quotes are optional unless the name includes a space, punctuation or other mark.It's got a problem with one word names and "group" being set. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
<ref name=jpl-close/>
. If you want to keep this definition (which is OK in my opinion), a bot should fix this error soon. And you should fix the known problems with one word names and "group" before the next run.@ GünniX, NicoV, and Bgwhite: Right now neither Yobot not Dexbot fix ref names with dashes. Should they? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:00, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
name=:1
and name='Article about "Harry Miller"'
). --
GünniX (
talk)
18:24, 10 December 2016 (UTC)@
Bgwhite: Today I'm surprised by your long list for #104. The list contains many pages with simple names like <ref name=dt>
. Have you decided to put all this names in quotes? Or is something wrong with your check? Be aware that other wikis have no bot to fix it. --
GünniX (
talk)
01:09, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
# " ' / = > ? \ .
. However, I ooopsed by saying a reference without those characters is an error and not with those characters.
Bgwhite (
talk)
08:56, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
+ 104 10148 <ref name=CNRS>{{article|titre=L'héritag
@ Bgwhite: I think it's now obvious that you have an evil plan to leave Yobot blocked for ever. GünniX revealed this plan. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:10, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello. Please see here. There are some very strange false positives there, kind a " ISBN <some text>". Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 21:45, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Report Number 4 shouldn't show the case in below as error (have an exception for source tag)
<syntaxhighlight lang=html> <a href="http://example.com/">foo</a> </syntaxhighlight>
Yamaha5 ( talk) 06:23, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Yamaha5 Can you provide a page for this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:04, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
<syntaxhighlight lang=html> <a href="http://example.com/">مثال</a> </syntaxhighlight>
Yamaha5 ( talk) 08:08, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Yamaha5 I see <syntaxhighlight/>. Maybe it' my screen? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:11, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Article names with a '
are shown with escape character as \'
(e.g. St Mary\'s Christian Brothers\' Grammar School, Belfast
in list
#80).
When using the list in AWB, the article is not found. Please remove the escape character. Best regards --
GünniX (
talk)
04:05, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
St Andrew\'s Church, Aysgarth
, if it is done you will find it in
done Articles. --
GünniX (
talk)
08:27, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
\'
. Not sure what to say.
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:16, 5 January 2017 (UTC)Report Number 87 shouldn't show the case in below as error (have an exception for image name)
| image = Dieter Frowein Lyasso&Sigmar Polke.jpeg | caption=
Yamaha5 ( talk) 08:02, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
this regexs can find image name you can test them at here
regex1="\[\[ *(?:([Ff]ile|"+fileLocalAlias+") *:([^\.]+)\.(?:tiff|tif|png|gif|jpg|jpeg|xcf|pdf|mid|ogg|ogv|svg|djvu|oga|flac|opus|wav|webm) *[\|\]]"
regex2="\|[^\=]+\= *([^\.]+)\.(?:tiff|tif|png|gif|jpg|jpeg|xcf|pdf|mid|ogg|ogv|svg|djvu|oga|flac|opus|wav|webm) *[\|\]]"
Yamaha5 ( talk) 13:52, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite: It seems that frwiki is not updated anymore : last update is 2017-01-02 while many other wikis have 2017-01-05. Some other wikis have even older dates : fawiki, fiwiki=2016-12-26, many for 2016-12-25 or 2016-12-05. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 12:16, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Unpleasantly, I suddenly found a lot of categorizations using {{category:...}} instead [[category:...]]. IKhitron ( talk) 12:50, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
insource:/\{\{Category\:/
. On enwiki, there were 9 articles. French and German wikis didn't have any articles. I don't think this is a widespread problem. Do a search on your wiki and see what comes up.
Bgwhite (
talk)
22:26, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Resolved
Well-meaning editors have added ages to birth years, e.g. replacing 1966 by "1966 (age 50-51)". Some of them may forget to come back and update all the articles every January. Would it be possible/sensible to check for a pattern such as \d{4}\s*\(age\s+\d+[-–]\d+\)? A kind editor can then replace it by {{ birth year and age}} or similar. This occurs mainly within the birth_date parameter of {{ infobox person}} and its descendants, so could be limited to that case if helpful. Thanks, Certes ( talk) 09:08, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
hastemplate:"Infobox person" insource:/[0-9]{4} *\(age +[0-9]+[-–][0-9]+\)/
.
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
10:45, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I hope this isn't too far off topic but I've already tried elsewhere with no reply. The helpful Red Link Recovery Live [6] has been broken for a few weeks now, returning a header but no data. (A little hacking suggests that it may no longer be authorised to log in to the database it queries.) Topbanana usually looks after these things but has been inactive for a month - I do hope they're OK. Is there anyone else who could take a look at the problem please? Certes ( talk) 01:11, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Resolved
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite:, don't know the problem or if it is a bug. But for a few days I have the following behavior. Background is Opera 42, IE 11 on Windows 7, 10. I choose any ID, click to more and if I would like to click to "Done" and the article has a space then the complete entry disappears. On the ID-List I could click "Done" and its done. Either my browser nor my system changed? Can you tell me if something has changed in the code? mfg -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:25, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite:, @all, for first of all, I like to wish you a happy new year. I Would like to have a question for new errors. Priority low. There are many errors where is no space after a refs-end.
Example (No Space after </ref>-Tag):
<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref>And hier is normal text.
But right is:
<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref> And hier is normal text.
Example (Point before </ref>-end):
Normal text<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref>. And hier is normal text.
But right is:
Normal text.<ref>Here is the ref-text</ref> And hier is normal text.
What do you think about? mfg -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Crazy1880 Probably not. CheckWiki is getting criticism on enwiki for doing "minor" things. I also don't think this is a syntax fix. One can still find these in the search box. Type insource:/\/ref\>[a-zA-Z]/
into the search box and it should return you articles with the problem. We've already asked and were denied output from the search box to be more list-friendly.
Bgwhite (
talk)
19:23, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
The second point is already implemented as #61. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 17:43, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Sometimes the errors are done by new users and it should be Revert. Please add history column Yamaha5 ( talk) 11:34, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
AT CheckWiki web page, When the Notice column is started with Non-Arabic characters it is shown Backward . for example at #15 the notice for the first row should be <cod>همچنین میتوان چندین ربات را هم now shows <cod>مه ار تابر نیدنچ ناوتیم نینچمه For example, if the notice is "foo" it shows "oof". It is CSS bug and not the text bug (copy the text to the other place is ok) if
<td class="table" style="background-color:#D0F5A9;"><span style="unicode-bidi: bidi-override;">
is
<td class="table" style="background-color:#D0F5A9;"><span style="unicode-bidi: embed;">
It will be ok (I tested for Farsi and English for both of them it will be ok) Yamaha5 ( talk) 15:05, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
dir=auto
? It's fine for me.
IKhitron (
talk)
15:43, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
dir=auto
not supported at IE and edge but supported at chrome. I tested for this case at chrome doesn't work for me :(
Yamaha5 (
talk)
15:48, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
. It should work, at least in internet explorer.
IKhitron (
talk)
15:54, 5 January 2017 (UTC)Yamaha5 IKhitron You two have me at a disadvantage as I don't understand RTL languages, so I have to go by what you two think is best. I also would like to avoid any browser specific code. What is the difference between "bidi-override" and "embed"? What is best for the average RTL user? Yamaha, I'm not understanding what you are saying... what way does the notice text show up correctly for RTL? In the address bar, change "checkwiki.cgi" with "checkwikin.cgi" and "embed" will be used. Bgwhite ( talk) 18:44, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Yamaha5 ( talk) 20:03, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Meno25: If I just say I'm going with option A, then one of you will be happy and one not so happy. But that isn't the issue. I more interested in what is best for the average RTL user. There are atleast six wikis that CheckWiki handles that is RTL. I can see each of your points on why one way should be used. So...
you make a code that will show the notice field in ltr direction for all ltr wikis and in rtl direction for all rtl wikisI can do this. I can also make an alternative css stylesheet, but it requires javascript.
Bgwhite ( talk) 06:49, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Meno25, IKhitron, and Yamaha5: More questions to go along with the two above
Bgwhite ( talk) 09:28, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite: for rtl langs by changing
<table class="table">
with
<table class="table" dir="rtl">
it will be ok. you can test it at here original checkwiki page Yamaha5 ( talk) 10:27, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
when an article has {{{}}} inside it, the error #43 will have false positive for example at here and fa:آزاده (شاهنامه) Yamaha5 ( talk) 09:07, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
{{{reflist}}
. So... Why do you use "{{{foo|}}}" in articles? That's templates element, {{{foo|something}}}
is always equalent to something
since there are no parameters passed to article, including foo
.
Facenapalm (
talk)
13:30, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
import re
text2=text
while '{{{' in text2:
text2 = re.sub(r'\{\{\{[^\}]\}\}\}','',text2)
# after this cleaning we can check the text for {{}}
Yamaha5 ( talk) 12:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite: it seems that CW is generating lists for errors that have been deactivated since the 28th of December. See for example on frwiki, lists for #37 and #110. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 10:46, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Error #105 (completely missing =) now includes cases of error #8 (different amount of =), so #8 is now (almost) empty. I believe this was caused by mistake. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 09:22, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
Resolved
There several false positives in cswiki. They have in common that the reported bad syntax is inside an image which is at the very beginning of an article and which has an internal link inside its caption. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 08:57, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
By plan(jawiki) it will be about 3000 items. Is it possible? Thanks.-- Momijiro ( talk) 02:47, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
#95 seems to have been updated, so that links to talk pages are included as well. Now there are
false positives on links to pages starting with "Diskus" and similar. For instance,
Kyberšikana "[[Diskuzní fórum|diskuze]] provokují vkl"
.
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
13:07, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
@
Bgwhite: Now it looks like that talk pages links are only detected. Could you please check that both [[Wikipedista:
and [[User:
are also detected in cswiki?
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
09:03, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
[[Wikipedista:
and [[User:
as results. It still doesn't contain. [[User:
. Here are the ones I've hardcoded in:
Just wondering: how do unicode control characters get into Wikipedia text? Copy/paste? Could this be an indication of copyvio? — Iadmc ♫ talk 13:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
I know that several of the regulars here are preparing for mw:Parsing/Replacing Tidy. I'm guessing that late January will be the next opportunity to discuss when the first changes will be made (NB "discuss", not "implement without warning"). So with that possible discussion in mind, I wanted to check in with you. How are things going? What's going well? What's being difficult? Do you need specific kinds of help or information? What can I do to make this less painful? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:50, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
</br>
, been addressed via a workaround, maintenance category, or CheckWiki report? As of that discussion, CheckWiki was scanning only article space, which means that tens of thousands of pages will have errors that have not been looked at yet. Also see
Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 100 dump, which may be a barrier to replacing Tidy (NB that report also covers only article space). –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
22:01, 6 January 2017 (UTC)<br/>
and other self-closing tags.<small>...<small>
and <big>...<big>
Need to find way to not search in templates and tables to minimize the vast number.On a side note. Any timing on when the Magiclink's for ISBNs, PMIDs and RFCs are going away? Magioladitis was going to do a bot run on this, but now it looks like it's me. I mention the change in a discussion two weeks back. Sorry Jonesey, but you and I were specifically called "not real editors". Bgwhite ( talk) 11:12, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF): I just noticed that Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Garrysmith10/Archive appeared in Category:Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags in the past few days. I have checked that category a couple of times a week since we emptied it. Since that page just showed up, it means that the job queue has not finished running through all of the pages on en.WP, even though the update to MW that created the error category was implemented six months ago. That, in turn, means that there are pages on en.WP that still have errors that we do not know about. Ultimately, that means that T132467, or something like it, is blocking Tidy migration, since the job queue does not run through all pages in a timely fashion to populate maintenance categories. And since insource searches are also not reliable, we are stuck with no reliable way to determine if we have fixed all of the outstanding problems.
At least that's how I interpret the evidence. I could be wrong. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:49, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF), has the late January discussion mentioned at the top of this section happened yet? Was there a discussion of the above requests? Resolution of one or more of the above requests is likely to be necessary for the gnomes to fix all of the problems prior to Tidy being replaced. At a minimum, we need a well defined list of the problematic strings to search for. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 23:12, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
I've made a proposal on the ARBCOM workshop page concerning how to deal with the Magiodilitis situation. Input by WP:BAG, bot owners, and the community at large is welcomed. Even if the proposal doesn't pass, some other ideas can be of interest, especially to WP:AWB/ WP:CHECKWIKI people. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 13:23, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, on frwiki,
fr:Bimbogami ga! gets reported for #43 with the notice {{TomeBD | couleur_ligne = | langage_u
, and checkarticle gives a location of "-1". I could find where the error is... Would it be possible to have at least the position ? --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
17:36, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
<mapframe>
tag Done
@
Bgwhite: Apparently, the <mapframe>
tag has been activated, at least on frwiki. It seems to be containing JSON data, leading to false positives for errors related to curly braces (like
#47 for
fr:Le Malesherbois#Composition). Could we ignore contents inside <mapframe>
tag ? --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
09:46, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
At here CheckWikis reports PubMed Url links. I checked the links and they are ok like PMID 19184489 which Checkwiki mentions as problem Yamaha5 ( talk) 21:03, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Please modify code so that it also detects small templates in addition to small tags. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:21, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
these need to be fixed. either (1) someone has substituted a template which should not have been substituted, or (2) substituted a template but didn't clean up after substituting the template. in either case, the edit link is not pointing to where you edit the content. the solution is either (1) unsubstitute the template, or (2) replace style="..." | {{T?navbar-header|title text|...fontcolor=fcolor}}
with style="...; text-align:center; color: fcolor;" | title text
. for example,
like this. not sure if this can be safely done by bot.
Frietjes (
talk)
21:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a possibility to ignore #48 in some imagemap templates? Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 15:17, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi, please update fawiki's local setting. I changed the setting and whitelists some month ago, still checkwiki's reports doesn't change Yamaha5 ( talk) 11:57, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
someone thought it would be a good idea to mangle the css with with hyphens instead of a standard ASCII minus sign. all of these are broken and should be fixed. Frietjes ( talk) 16:46, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Frietjes I fixed all. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:52, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Frietjes and
IKhitron I think now I fixed everything even in user pages. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
18:06, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Parsoid occasionally created "links" like "[[Link target|<nowiki/>]]", and possibly still does. This outputs nothing, and most likely has to be simply deleted. Occasionally, this must be fixed to [[Link target]] or something else, but [[Link target|<nowiki/>]] is in any case wrong. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 12:09, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
This is a good one. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello! I tried to write a script which will automatically download list of errors for current page, display them in edit form and offer to choose the ones that should be automatically marked as "Done". However I met a problem: http-request, which is worked correctly in empty tab, can't load anything while being launched on wikipedia domain. Chrome writes something like this:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=ruwiki&view=detail&title=.mil. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://ru.wikipedia.org' is therefore not allowed access.
Is it possible to configure server in such a way to make such requests working? (If it's important, requests must be done via https, because request via http on https domain doesn't work too). Facenapalm ( talk) 14:53, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Could you check what's the problem, please? Thank you. IKhitron ( talk) 19:34, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Resolved
Why has the detection on these lists for de.wiki been stopped? Perhaps there are even some more numbers that have been suspended.-- Hadibe ( talk) 08:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite: the second today. Since now some time in the ID 16 no new entries are added. But I had found in some articles which ones which should have been registered. Can it be that something isn't running? Regards -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:32, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, is it possible to add Bengali wikipedia to this tool? Thanks -- Aftabuzzaman ( talk) 18:07, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#WP:COSMETICBOT update. This will be relevant to many people here.
After (and if) this is passed, I would also proposed creating a new 'Cosmetic' priority in WP:CWERRORS to mark fixes that are deemed desirable in the long run, but which are not to be done on their own. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:52, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
I'm talking about cases where the link display text with the link trail is identical to the link target text.
"[[Link target|Link tar]]get" is functionally identical to [[Link target]].
"[[Link target|Link tar]]<nowiki/>get" is not functionally identical, but it's likely that the intention was to write [[Link target]]. I fixed many such cases in the Hebrew Wikipedia, and I cannot recall even one case where something different was needed.
This should also check for "[[Link target|link tar]]get", i.e. the capitalization of the first letter doesn't matter. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 12:09, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
[а-яё]
is a regexp for russian lowercase symbols if it will be implemented).
Facenapalm (
talk)
19:26, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
I just realized that quite often, Foobar will be defaultsorted as {{DEFAULTSORT:Foobar}}. There's no reason for this, and in the long run can create issues (if the page is moved to Barfoo later). This would be a cosmetic fix that shouldn't be done by bots, but I can't think why it can't be bundled alongside other fixes. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 15:27, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
I suspect that some of you will want to look into this bug, which affects a small number of templates, but a large number of articles, at a couple of wikis. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 19:46, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
See Category:Pages_which_use_a_template_in_place_of_a_magic_word. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 21:30, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Moin Moin @ Bgwhite:, since yesterday we have the feature "<references responsive />" to make references more columns. The ID 3, however, means that there is no TAG for references. Can it be that this new syntax is not yet understood by the script? Regards -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 18:29, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
<references responsive="0"/>
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
08:50, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
<references />
and <references responsive />
have the same behavior. (I assume that you'd still get the occasional <references responsive="0"/>
.) Do you think that the German Wikipedia is ready for that change? (The request can be filed as a subtask of
phab:T159895.)
Whatamidoing (WMF) (
talk)
17:56, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
In CW Error #3, lots of false positive occur, mostly due to a lack of regognition for the <references responsive /> tag (see e.g. Cavalleria rusticana). Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 20:37, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
In Greek Wikipedia we changed references tags and reflist template to be responsive by default. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:28, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Id 37 was turned off some month ago but still fawiki report shows it Yamaha5 ( talk) 07:00, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for running this tool. It's very helpful. I've noticed, however that in section 2, there are valid breaks pointed out. Typically those with attributes accepted in the wiki language like <br style="clear:both;" /> or <br clear="all" />. Hope this comment helps improving this tool.-- Ascánder ( talk) 17:14, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
They should be replaced by their template equivalents. - Magioladitis ( talk) 17:23, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
<br clear="right" />
to prevent this. An unexpected result will appear on small screens, where image height is less: there will be an empty line between text and list. Once again, it's small screen, so every line is very important.
Facenapalm (
talk)
16:52, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
I am OK either way. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:29, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF) I think AWB changes to the template only for English Wikipedia. Still I recall I created some templates for other Wikipedias in the past. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:04, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Template:Clear used div tags and not br tags if that matters. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:59, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Whatamidoing (WMF), Magioladitis: I believe that the clear attribute has been deprecated in HTML5 for the br tag : it's not valid HTML anymore. The clear attribute is still valid for div tag, that's why the template is using the div tag. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 13:31, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Looking at WP:CWERRORS, it seems to me that all current Top/Mid-priority fixes are non-cosmetic, but some of the Low-priority ones are.
Tentatively, a blind application of the "Does it change the rendering of anything, anywhere? / Does it prevent issues?" would mean the low-priority CW errors distribute themselves this way (feel free to edit the list)
|
|
|
|
Note that just that because an edit is cosmetic under this definition, doesn't necessarily mean it shouldn't be done. However, a bot task would have to demonstrate consensus that the error is consider egregious enough to fix on its own before getting approval.
What I'd like here, is a justification beyond "poor practice/against convention" for the "unsure" column. For instance, is CW Error #54 intended to fix WP:ACCESS/ WP:LISTGAP concerns, or something else? I'd also like for better categorization / justification for some of those in WP:CWERRORS. Many of those are left completely blank. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:04, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
CW Error #06 affects how the page is placed within its categories. I think Frietjes has some good reason why we convert list elements i.e. about CW Error #12. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:46, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
CW Error #20 has given only 1 entry the last 12 months. You can turn it off. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:08, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
I've added the cosmetic column. I've categorized things per the above discussion, but feel free to make some tweaks. I've left the "off" priority fixes out, however. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 15:16, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb Error 64 also fixes misplaced brackets etc. such as [[Foo (bar)|Foo(bar]]) and many others. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:10, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb Error 85 asks editors to add content in empty section or tag the section with empty section. This is not "cosmetic" by any means. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
I do not see
CW Error #02 on any of the lists above. It is currently listed as "not cosmetic" on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/List of errors, but changing </br>
to <br />
is currently a cosmetic change, and may continue to be cosmetic even after Tidy goes away. Some of the errors listed as 02 are real errors that will result in non-cosmetic changes, but many are purely cosmetic. This may have been discussed elsewhere and I just missed it. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
01:07, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
Is everyone in [the above] discussion aware of mw:Parsing/Replacing Tidy? This upcoming work may affect what's "cosmetic". For example, I'm not certain that #65 will continue to have no visible effect. I've not seen any specific plan to change that behavior, but this may be one of the small things that Tidy did, and which therefore will be "broken" when Tidy is removed. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:32, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Here's a list of things that are guaranteed to need fixing: mw:Help:Extension:Linter. All of these errors appear in the lists for Special:LintErrors (which is not yet enabled for enwiki, but it is at most wikis), so you can get a clear list of pages that have problems. Each item has some decent documentation (as in, I was able to figure out how to fix a few pages myself, so it can't be that complicated. ;-)
There are a few things that I'm not sure how to fix, such as m:Template:Nospam. A few things get listed as "stripped" when they're actually "misnested". But overall I think this is a great place to start, and the problems it identifies can be fixed everywhere, even if you temporarily have to use other tools to identify pages with obsolete HTML (for example) at the larger wikis. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 06:22, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for a configuration change. On it.wiki, we introduced a new template ( it:Template:Note strette) to handle the Notes section; however, the articles with the template turns out in the report for error #3 (see [13]), since they do not directly contain <references/> nor it:Template:References (which has been deprecated). Would it be possible to add an exception for these articles? Thanks in advance-- Dr Zimbu ( talk) 17:48, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
error_003_templates_itwiki=
line and add a new line with the template name between =
and END
. If there will be some redirects to this template, you should add all of them. Errors 78 and 111 are also configurable to work with references template. For 111th error, it should be the equal list (don't forget to change 003 number to 111 when you copy it!), but, as I can see, last errors (109-113) are just misrepresented in this page - you can copy them from
english configuration page, replace "enwiki" with "itwiki", change priorities if that's needed, delete unneccessary _template_ sections and translate them. error_078_templates_itwiki=
should be a valid
regular expression, matching all references templates without "group" parameter - I can help you write it if you will tell me how "group" parameter will called in italian wikipedia (if it will - as I can see, there is no such parameter in template for now). You can see the example of regular expression at
russian configuration page.
Facenapalm (
talk)
20:20, 31 May 2017 (UTC)Hi, I have found ~130 cases of unclosed tags (mostly category and some broken images), see User:Rentier/Cleanup. Putting it out here (is this the right Wikiproject for this?) since I don't have the time to fix them myself. Rentier ( talk) 02:53, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
see
this search for {{http:...}}
(using misunderstanding of how to add external links).
Frietjes (
talk)
14:03, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Is there any purpose for <span>some text</span>
, without any tag parameters?
IKhitron (
talk)
11:41, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
I'm looking at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155125 which deals about replacing all ce tags with chem tags. The implementation of ce and chem is identical, so nothing will be changed by replacing the name of the tag. What would be the best method to do that replacement? -- Physikerwelt ( talk) 07:33, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
It appears that the next stage of the OOUI-ification of MediaWiki is going to change something about how the "Save" (aka "Publish") button is implemented in the API. There is a possibility that a small number of scripts or bots will break as a result. See phab:T162849 and mw:OOjs UI for more information.
If you think that this will be a problem for your work, then you might want to ask for help at WP:BOTN or WP:VPT.
This has been planned for years, announced in Tech News, etc., which probably means that nobody has paid attention to it. :-) I therefore ask for your help in sharing this information with technically minded editors at other projects. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:26, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Update: This is done, everywhere. Commons was the last wiki, about 9 days ago. During the next month, if you see new breakage in scripts, it's more likely to be Krinkle's jQuery 3 update than this OOjs UI change. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 17:17, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
Quick note: mw:Extension:Linter (which helps editors find wikitext errors) is available on some small wikis. Have a look at mw:Special:LintErrors to see what it does. (I don't know what all of the categories are, but I see that lots of translations of mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide appear in a couple of the lists.) Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 20:14, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
<div />
should be changed to <div>
</div>
, and other times it is a typo for </div>
. Another tricky case is <b />
, which should be replaced with <nowiki />
, <br />
, or </b>
, depending on the context.Jonesey95, that amazing person that Subbu is added simplified instructions at mw:Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors_need_to_do.3F. Let us know what you think of those. I think we're aiming at a first round of communications this week. TYVM! Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 09:23, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
For information, I've recently modified WPCleaner to integrate it with Linter. Currently, the following is available:
Still some work to do for it to be easier for users. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 09:28, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
<center>
tags, and suggests a fix when it's inside a gallery tag or an image description ; I have to make it automatic for some situations, add suggestions in other situations, and do the same for other tags. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
09:17, 17 July 2017 (UTC)Hi. May you also check zh-classical.wikipedia? Thank you! -- Kanashimi ( talk) 03:30, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
According to Check Wikipedia enwiki has not been updated since 2017-08-31. Used to be daily updates with new items. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 20:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Previously, on Tidy Replacement... The Parsing team wants to replace Tidy with a RemexHTML-based solution on the Wikimedia cluster by June 2018. This will require editors to fix pages and templates to address wikitext patterns that behave differently with RemexHTML. Please see the " What editors will need to do" section on the Tidy replacement FAQ. This is ongoing, although operations seem to go slowly at this wiki?
I now want to point your attention to the related update that Subbu provided on wikitech-l. Please do ping him ( User:SSastry (WMF)) if you have any questions or concerns, ideas about how to get more people involved here or communications venues we haven't explored yet (I will contact technical village pumps later this month, FWIW), etc. Hope this helps! Elitre (WMF) ( talk) 14:59, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
ISBN 978-9925-0-4481-8 on de:Willem de Haan and ISBN 978-9925-0-7752-6 on de:Gustav Heinrich Gottfried Siebeck from Cyprus are reported as wrong, although they are mathematically and logically correct. -- ThomasO. 17:33, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I can't open the server for about ten minutes. IKhitron ( talk) 14:21, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
I checked the check digital myself of the issn 1010-4143, which is correct (unless my calculation wrong and library wrong), but it shown error in the page. Is that the wikipedia coding on checking issn had error instead? or UFT8 character table or 8 bit character table error? Matthew_hk t c 20:36, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
If you're interested in how templates get placed on a page, then please see mw:Help:TemplateData#Custom formats. It's now possible to tell Parsoid that {{ unref}} and similar tags belong on separate lines. This change should make it easier to maintain wikitext whitespace conventions. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:38, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
This page has stopped being updated. It may shut down soon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:08, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
IKhitron which files do you use? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:57, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
IKhitron You wrote that you run a new dump. Where did you post it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:05, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Magioladitis You still have a few lists that are generated by WPC: Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC all. They are based on the dump from 20 March. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 08:42, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Magioladitis I have the same question ("What are you talking about?"). Ruwiki's web interface got new dump yesterday, and it's basic checkwiki feature, isn't it? There are 4 maintainers for checkwiki tool at WMFlabs tool list, you're in the list, so, even if Bgwhite left the project (I hope he's not), tool isn't dead. Who is going to close project and why? Facenapalm ( talk) 10:31, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Facenapalm I can't download and process the dump files (my laptop is rather old and my connection is not in a better shape) and in fact it's also not in my plans neither. You can ofcourse ask the other two persons if they want to keep working with it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:49, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
As far as I understand, for international team there is no panic. Marios is talking about on-wiki pages, which are generated with WPC, which uses slightly different algorithms for error detecting. Web interface (the "real" CW) isn't going anywhere. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 06:47, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
I am talking about the on-wiki pages generated every month based on the same algorithm with the daily scans. The lists are generated with 3 ways:
Item 2 will discontinue. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:01, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
FrescoBot also stopped since March. It's the fourth of fifth bot that was used in the project and stopped. Meanwhile, BAG still has not completed the process of reaffirming Yobot for the 100+ tasks it used to run. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:27, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb After some months passed, you now see it was not just a panic. It was info I had about it. In practise the project is stalled. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:15, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Maybe it's time to send this project for deletion? Certain people in the community worked systemtically against certain parts of this project (people, bots, tasks). There was even an Arbitration case that concluded recently. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:02, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Headbomb We have the following situation on bots:
Am I in panic? I don't know. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:10, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi. frwiki has not been updated since 2017-09-16 and I'm afflicted. Is the Check Wikipedia project definitively cancelled or replaced? Except for enwiki, it still seems to run from time to time in other languages... Thank you. Clumsy and stupid ( talk) 07:04, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I am a dedicated member of this project and I commit my time to clearing the problems of the English Wikipedia. I noticed the last update was August 31, 2017.
Is there any reason for that? Are you trying to reduce the backlog first before updating. I am bringing this to your attention because it used to be daily.
AmericanAir88 ( talk) 22:17, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
I've made some additions and improvements to error 521 so it catches more date errors, especially those caught by Category:CS1 errors: dates. Would it be possible to update the error so it catches more issues? (e.g. years with more than 4 digits, months > 12, days > 31) Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 16:43, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Polish Wikipedia has not been updated since yesterday. Is there any reason for that? -- The Polish ( talk) 07:41, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi everyone. Has someone else noticed the slowness problems as mentionned in Wikipedia talk:WPCleaner#WPCleaner is significantly slow? My analysis is that it comes from checkarticle.cgi or checkwiki_bots.cgi being slow on tools. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 17:14, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
The link to the translation page for English Wiktionary has been incorrectly placed. It is supposed to be [16] but it is placed at [17] which isn't even a page. Can you please rename it. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 17:41, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
see this search. some of these are false positives (e.g., inside comments), but many are not. Frietjes ( talk) 14:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
This project has a list of 15 errors where the community failed so far to identify as cosmetic or not. Any ideas of how to resolve this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:57, 13 February 2018 (UTC)