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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Hello,
some long article names are stripped on checkwiki pages which makes fixing them much harder. Example: http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=plwiki&view=only&id=83 - please have a look. ToSter ( talk) 10:52, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Maybe we should extend the scope of error #2 from "break tag with incorrect syntax" to "tag with incorrect syntax"? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:26, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
@ Bgwhite and NicoV: I think we can add soft hyphen (00AD) in our list. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:33, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Part 1 done. Bgwhite added this in CHECKWIKI's code. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Since the move to wmflabs, cawiki got updated only once a month. During the December update, something went wrong, and the whole list was screwed up, so no cleanup has been done for more than a month now. I figured we should wait for this month's update, but it's not coming, and I have noticed that several other wikis (whose list wasn't screwed up to begin with) are getting updated. Can you please update cawiki more often? -- Joutbis ( talk) 17:48, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
@ Bgwhite and NicoV: Checkwiki now finds cases of empty gallery and center tags. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:19, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Done
Hi, I wonder if we should extend #85 to look also for empty unnamed ref tags (like in this buggy VE edit). -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 10:13, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Hi, I've added #524 to WPCleaner to detect template calls with duplicate arguments (several arguments with the same name). On frwiki, this allows to work on the pages in fr:Catégorie:Page utilisant des arguments dupliqués dans les appels de modèle. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 23:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Update:
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 08:45, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
The main page currently reads " ... facilitates the correction of detected by the program ... ".
This seems to be a typo? Trafford09 ( talk) 00:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
I have noticed that the Check Wikipedia process runs the day after the monthly dump is complete. But the dump takes a very long time because of the "All pages with complete page edit history" dumps. Take cawiki, for instance: the dump started on February 12 and the "All pages, current versions only" was done at 0:45 the next day. The whole process, though, didn't end until February 14, 05:21. Check Wikipedia ran on the 16. This delay means the fixes made during those four days will get flagged again. Could you run your process when the "current version" dump is done, without waiting for the historic one?
-- Joutbis ( talk) 11:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
OK, thanks -- Joutbis ( talk) 19:50, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis, NicoV, Meno25, Josve05a, Matěj Suchánek, and ToSter: Error 102 will check for proper syntax of PMID. This is similar to error #69. See WP:PMID for more info. It "should" start checking in the next run. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:26, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
@ Bgwhite and NicoV: CHECKWIKI now detects cases such as those described in rev 10811 (i.e. <br clear=both /> and similar). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:33, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
/<\s*br\s*clear/
to find cases
error_002_clear_all_enwiki={{Clear}} END
error_002_clear_left_enwiki={{Clear|left}} END
error_002_clear_right_enwiki={{Clear|right}} END
Error number 61 (reference before punctuation)also appears when an en dash ( - ) appears instead of an em dash ( — ) in references to page numbers in periodicals and journals. This error doesn't seem to be a reference before punctuation error, so error number 61 doesn't seem to apply. Is this a bug in the wiki coding or is it really intended to exclude the ordinary dash? I have learned that the ordinary dash ("en dash") is easy (next to the number nine on the keyboard), but the "em dash" requires the typist to hold the ALT key while typing 0151. I would like to suggest a disambiguation for error number 61 to correct this. 50.159.6.134 ( talk) 18:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
The article " Gutai group" is causing an error #70 for "10679847" in this citation (10. in the "Notes" section):
Tiampo, Ming (2013). "Gutai Chain: The Collective Spirit of Individualism" 21 (2). Positions. pp. 383–415. doi:10.1215/10679847-2018292
The doi value is good. See here The doi resolves properly. See here
It's the first citation I've encountered with a doi value, so my initial question is...why does the Checkwiki software bother with this number if it doesn't begin with "ISBN"? Knife-in-the-drawer ( talk) 12:37, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Knife-in-the-drawer I think I fixed the problem. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:31, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Per WP:REFPUNC, punctuation comes before citation. This is a long standing "house style". Furthermore there are bots such as User:BG19bot that standardize using this style. Boghog ( talk) 04:44, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Robert Clark Young has a user link that may be a false positive. Jerodlycett ( talk) 20:59, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Character '&' is allowed after the danish rules. see. And the rules says how to handle '&' in sortkeys. -- Steenth ( talk) 07:46, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Steenth. ping. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:30, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
I think WPCleaner catches the list found at el:Βικιπαίδεια:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia/Μετάφραση while CHECKWIKI script does not. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:48, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Bgwhite. Nope. The problem still occurs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:26, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
We are good now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:39, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Remember to exclude headers consisted by a sole letter from checking. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:41, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Bgwhite I can't remember anymore which page caused the problem. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:11, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Done
do we have a scan for 'subst:' in articles? for example, for cleaning up this type of issue? Frietjes ( talk) 20:59, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Not done
Hi! I was wondering whether a headline as the first stuff of an article (excluding templates) is an error which could be also checked by CheckWiki. See example (cswiki). Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 18:38, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
AWB already fixes things like these. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
We better avoid adding this error. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Many false positives. Big troubles. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
could be interesting to find
these, basically, a {{!}}
inside of [[ ]]
.
Frietjes (
talk)
17:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
\[\[(.*)\{\{\!\}\}(.*)\]\]
-> [[$1|$2]]
This did catch some false positives, so the F&R needs to be refined. See
"Weird Al" Yankovic discography.I agree. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
<ref>{{cite web|title=foo|url=foo|website=[[Foo|test]]}}</ref>
<ref>{{webbref|titel=foo|url=foo|websida=[[Foo{{!}}test]]}}</ref>
( t) Josve05a ( c) 06:20, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
\[\[([^\[\]]*)\{\{!\}\}([^\[\]]*)\]\]
-> [[$1|$2]]
which wouldn't do anything in your false-positive case.
Frietjes (
talk)
15:04, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite and Frietjes: I ran the bot with the regex and I am done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite and Frietjes: Found exception at Toreador Song. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
\[\[([^\[\]\|]*)\{\{!\}\}([^\[\]]*)\]\]
-> [[$1|$2]]
which would exclude that case (basically no actual pipe before the escaped pipe).
Frietjes (
talk)
14:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
@
Matěj Suchánek,
NicoV,
Meno25,
Josve05a,
ToSter, and
Frietjes: It has been added as error #102. It should show up today in the daily scans. There is a problem with dumps in which no dumps are being produced for alot of languages. Many languages haven't been dumped since December.
Bgwhite (
talk)
01:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
rev 10835 now in AWB general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Now this is error #103. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
[[Valeur absolue|{{!}}''f''{{!}}]]
where the goal is to display pipes around "f" (absolute value of "f" in maths). --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
14:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)Added to WPCleaner. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 18:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
I've found another bug in the "all priorities" page on the interface: basically it switches middle with low priorities. Bye! -- Vittorioo ( talk) 20:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Due to a bug in Wikimedia's backup system, dumps have been offline for a week. WMF is working on the problem. Bug report is at
T98585.
Bgwhite (
talk)
23:08, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Projects without a translation page, or with a partial translation, get some old names for errors in the web interface, like "No bold title" for error #1. Also missing errors from 100 to 103. Example: hrwiki. -- Vittorioo ( talk) 20:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
I fixed several broken ISBNs in the article " Manlio Sgalambro" using Template:EAN (i.e. they were EANs, not ISBNs). As you can see, the article got trashed.
I fiddled with the EAN template in my sandbox. If I enter
{{EAN|724383289820}}some text
then no problems--the output renders properly.
However, when I add an asterisk for a bullet item:
* {{EAN|724383289820}}some text
then everything after the EAN template gets thrown down to the next line.
I don't see a problem with how the article is formatted, and I don't see a problem with my usage of the EAN template. Therefore, I'm guessing that the problem lies either in the EAN template or in the bullet or both in combination (because I've used the EAN template previously without problems). Any ideas? Knife-in-the-drawer ( talk) 15:51, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes may know why. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
For a couple of days, at least, I haven't been able to get to the pages that list the errors. Is wmflabs down, or has the location changed? The pages I've tried to get to are here for English and here for Simple English. Thanks. -- Auntof6 ( talk) 03:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Done
The script should be become first letter case insensitive so that we spot things like these:
[1],
[2],
[3]. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
06:19, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
I just noticed that the last dump listed is from May 15. If that's correct, there's a major bug, if it's wrong, a minor bug. Given we are down to 0 errors on en, I'm leaning towards the first.
Why are "Category is english", "Reference duplication" and "Heading double" not working? -- אריה ה. ( talk) 08:36, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone give me a with as to why this simple WebClient call (C#) failes with 403 Forbidden?
string s = webcl.DownloadString(url);
The same url works from curl and from Chrome: (Same for http, https)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=hewiki&view=bots&id=48
Thanks 08:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kotz ( talk • contribs)
Done
Moin Moin @ all, Moin Bgwhite, since last week the ID 95 gives many items, who have no errors. Look: Example 1 and Example 2. Yesterday I set all errors as done, today I have over 11.000 errors again. Could you have a look at. Thanks -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 06:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Done
The link "comments and bugs" at the bottom of this page takes you to this non-existent page which is incorrect. It should lead you here. -- Meno25 ( talk) 16:07, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
%26
represents a &
(ampersand) but it needs to be a ?
(question mark), which gives
this. Percent-encoding of three other characters also breaks the URL in some browsers, so the second %26
should be a &
(ampersand), and both %3D
should be =
(equals), i.e.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia?action=edit§ion=new --
Redrose64 (
talk)
08:31, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
The proper way to resolve Error #48, a link to the article title in the text, is to replace the double brackets with triple quotes rather than deleting the entire link, e.g., [[article title]] → '''article title'''. This leaves the article appearance unchanged. Yours aye, Buaidh 20:49, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I found this project a couple of weeks ago. It is very helpful, thank you very much. I already cleaned all 4,500 the high priority errors in our wiki. But there is a strange problem. Every day I can see hundreds of errors that are marked as done, not by me, and without any actual article fix. And I checked: the error is indeed there. Can it be a bug that marks an article as done when I fixed another error in it? And if can't, and this is indeed a troll, can I somehow restore these marks? Thank you, IKhitron ( talk) 13:43, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello, the script is flagging four entries with valid ISBNs here:
Is it possible that ISBNs starting with 999 get flagged regardless of checksum? -- Joutbis ( talk) 17:58, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
6050000-9999999
has a length of 0, and I think it means that the range is currently reserved (at least, that's what #72 is doing). <Group>
<Prefix>978-99913</Prefix>
<Agency>Andorra</Agency>
<Rules>
<Rule>
<Range>0000000-2999999</Range>
<Length>1</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>3000000-3599999</Range>
<Length>2</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>3600000-5999999</Range>
<Length>0</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>6000000-6049999</Range>
<Length>3</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>6050000-9999999</Range>
<Length>0</Length>
</Rule>
</Rules>
</Group>
Joutbis Ran into the same problem on enwiki with that book. We ended up just using OCLC 801960401 Bgwhite ( talk) 20:31, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
@ NicoV: After a discussion I had with Bgwhite, he changed
elsif ( $test_text =~ / \[\[ISBN\]\]\s*([:]|[-]|[#])+\s*\d/g ) {
with
elsif ( $test_text =~ / \[\[ISBN\]\]\s*([:]|[-]|[#])*\s*\d/g ) {
Just letting you know in case you have to change something in WPCleaner. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:09, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
[[ISBN]]
stuff. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
13:58, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Hi Bamyers99. It seems that recently (maybe a few weeks), #16 started to detect also non-breaking spaces, but nothing in the description mentions it. Is it normal? On frwiki, we now have more than 300k articles in the list for #16 due to this...
When I run the dump analysis on frwiki with WPCleaner (twice a month), at the end I perform a cleanup on the CheckWiki lists:
With this list of 300k, it takes a very long time to process... What should I do? Also detect nbsp for #16 or wait for a modification of CW? -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 18:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
I just undid this change on .NET Core:
The tool being used evidently has a false positive for sentences that start with a period, as is sometimes the case in articles discussing .NET, if they follow a sentence that has <ref>s at the end. It erroneously thinks these instances are "Reference before punctuation" violations, and removes the space between sentences and the period at the beginning of ".NET". -- Dan Harkless ( talk) 03:43, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I just finished a trial for my bot, which is intended to cut down on the backlog of #17 errors. But, as far as I know AWB can't automatically mark pages as fixed, and I don't want to click each one manually - is there an option to have the project rebuild the list at the end of the bot run, so that it automatically accounts for errors solved? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 21:24, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, the current regex for #16 contains several characters that are not converted to something readable in the list: the list of conversions lacks \x{202B} and \x{200F} compared to the regular expression. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 09:11, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello. For several hours, the CheckWiki pages are unaccessible, at least for cs-wiki (see f. e. https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=cswiki&view=high). The page remains blank in the "read" state, and after bunch of time finally displays 504 Gateway Time-out. See also cs:Pod lípou (technika)#CheckWiki nefunguje?. -- Vachovec1 ( talk) 19:32, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Looks like #46 (Square brackets without correct beginning) generates false positives when there is a wikilink inside the image description.
See:
-- Vachovec1 ( talk) 11:07, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
In addition to already covered ones, some other cases could be checked for. In particular, missing / invalid number of slashes/colons. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 10:04, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to propose checking for malformed entities. Eg. typos like
&(nsbp|nbps|bnsp);
or
missing ampersands.
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
09:46, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I added some automatic fixing in WPC for some cases of #46 (square brackets without correct beginning), see more details in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 3 where I asked to run it as a bot on enwiki (if anyone want to participate in the discussion). I already ran it on frwiki which allowed me to fix several hundreds pages. It should work on other wikis if someone is interested. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 12:17, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
See
WT:MOS#source substantiating latter part of sentence. It's not correct that a <ref>...</ref>
may not appear immediately before a punctuation mark. See that thread, and
MOS:REFPUNCT. When it does happen properly, it will almost always be a bracket (usually a round one) or a dash. It would probably be better to limit this to specific punctuation marks, and adjust the wording to say so. —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼
08:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
.,?:;!
--
Bamyers99 (
talk)
16:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello fellow project mates,
It took a while, but I finally cleared the entire section of 62. All 355 of them. One less category we have to worry about for now!
AmericanAir88( talk) 14:39, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
User Mathglot explained, that the error definition "#104 Unbalanced quotes in ref name or illegal character." is not according tot the Wikipedia’s policies. Please check your error definitions, -- GünniX ( talk) 06:00, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi. It seems that checkarticle.cgi is not responding any more. Does anyone know how to check it? Example -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 21:28, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi. When running my bot to fix #17 errors, I stumbled on several articles which are false positives : they are redirects to a category in which they are categorized, see for example Academic Journal of Animal Diseases (and all Academic Journal... in #17). In WPC, I've currently modified #17 to avoid detection in redirects: it's not a perfect solution, but it avoids a lot of false positives. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:05, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Moin Moin together, Bamyers99, since yesterday the daily scan for the german CheckWiki isn't running any more. Could you please have a look? Thanks -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 07:21, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Start time: Sun May 19 00:05:13 2019 Articles checked: 1610 Errors found: 1833 Program run time: 0 hours, 8 minutes and 24 seconds
-- Bamyers99 ( talk) 14:34, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
See Help:Strip markers for the documentation. Seems like there's a few hits around. Pawngpawng ( talk) 17:27, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
@ Bamyers99:
Check Wikipedia is completely down. Please check it and maybe restart, thank you. Doc Taxon ( talk) 11:10, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia Software error: Could not connect to database: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'tools-db' (111 "Connection refused") For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
Clicking on the projects on
https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/ gives this:
Software error: Could not connect to database: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'tools-db' (113 "No route to host") For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
Doc Taxon ( talk) 11:28, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Do we need to do something automatically with such links: file:///C:
(
1), <ref>file:///home</ref>
(
2)? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Fractaler (
talk •
contribs)
There are false positives in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 071 dump.
Example: Hiyokoi: isbn=X78-4-08-867044-7
The string occurs within a URL: http://books.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/search/zen_list.cgi?siries_isbn=X78-4-08-867044-7&siries_kanren_isbn=&mode=2
Can the code that generates this report be modified to ignore patterns within URLs? I believe that this problem also occurs in the other ISBN reports (69, 70, 72, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISBN errors). I can look for other examples if that is helpful. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 20:51, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Checkwiki returns a 503 error. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 13:32, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Whilst using WPcleaner recently, I've come across a few changes from ’ to ', under Spelling and typography. See Special:Diff/934429763 for an example.
If this is the only change to be made, should it be done?
I was thinking in terms of AWB users not being permitted to make insignificant or inconsequential edits under wp:AWBRULES 4. I assume the same principle applies to all tools?
Thanks, ~~ OxonAlex - talk 16:11, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
This seems to indicate that there has been no dump analyzed in forever, but I know daily updates are done. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 11:17, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis: Turns out {{ Schubert's compositions (references)}} has the reflist in it. This is an example of where it's being used. If you could whitelist that template it would be useful. (Per the diff, only just discovered it myself). Jerod Lycett ( talk) 23:36, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Jerod Lycett, Bamyers99 I suggest that we remove the Reflist outside because it's easier to control reflist section when not inside the template, it allows more flexibility, it may be adjusted per page, etc. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:12, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Bamyers99 I am semi-active to the project pending some discussions on the CHECKWIKI errors that, per ARBCOM, have to be done without me and I am still waiting two years for that. I have been banned from discussing the nature of the CHECKWIKI errors. I think the banned was supposed to be temporary until the discussion is over. But the discussion does not seem to ever occur. I can still help with technical issues and solutions. I can also perform bot edits and discuss practices we used in the past. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:14, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Old revision of Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska was flagged as having the signature. It was in the In use template though. I think this qualifies as a false positive even though it's an incorrect use of the template which seeks five tilde instead of four. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 11:18, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was checking Check Wikipedia and for " Editor's signature or link to User space" it says there is a signature on User talk:CyberTroopers. (see https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=detail&title=User%20talk:CyberTroopers). I'm not sure if its a bug or not but shouldn't talk pages have signatures? Thanks. OkayKenji ( talk page) 09:57, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Could someone (e.g., with AWB) go through [https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Search&limit=100&offset=0&ns0=1&search=-intitle%3Aelectoral+-intitle%3Aelection+insource%3A%2F__NOEDITSECTION__%2F&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&searchToken=dr8ah9bin9udl39puis3hqp6z
these search results] and remove all of the NOEDITSECTION magic words? I looked at everything in that list, and with the exception of the Main Page itself, it shouldn't have that switch on the page.
WhatamIdoing (
talk)
19:10, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
The placedby parameter is for a user name... should this be whitelisted or should we suggest they don't do that? Jerod Lycett ( talk) 11:52, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Two things for you:
(Please ping me.) Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:21, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Resolved
Hi. Regarding the new errors added to WPCleaner, I've requested approval for fixing some of them with my bot, feel free to comment on them:
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 16:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Resolved
Hi. I've found a lot of false positives for #111 on frwiki, and I don't understand what could be causing it. A few examples:
<ref>L'attribution de ses œuvres...
, while there's 2 calls {{Références|}}
later in the text (Références is listed in
error_111_templates_frwiki)<ref>{{Article|titre=Une énorme fleur...
, while there's a call {{Références|}}
and {{Références nombreuses|
later in the text (both Références and Références nombreuses are listed in the configurationIt seems there are dozens of pages like that on the list for frwiki. Is it a bug in CW or is there something to change in the configuration? -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 07:03, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
<references
and if found, it would ignore the template list. It found <references group="N" />
in the two examples above. I have fixed it to check the templates even if <references
is found. Also, it uses the template list from #003, and ignores the #111 template list. I have not changed this as both template lists should be identical. --
Bamyers99 (
talk)
19:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello! The svwp dump is usually updated with new articles twice a month. It has been 33 days since the last time. Any reason why? I was contacted on svwp since I'm a contact perosn there. Jonatan Svensson Glad ( talk) 19:24, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. If anyone is interested, I've added a few errors to WPCleaner in the last weeks:
[[Comma|,]]
).If you want, some of the errors can be activated here or on other wikis. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
I've added 550: Link without text. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a
dump analysis has been created. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
17:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
I've added 551: Empty line. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a
dump analysis should be created soon. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
10:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Please consider disabling error 61 on Romanian Wikipedia, because as per Romanian guideline on footnotes they are allowed before punctuation, and used as such, including in featured articles (e.g. ro:Jigoku Shoujo, ro:Franz Kafka). Rule on rowiki is just no not mix the styles in one single article. Footnotes after punctuation is still the style used in the majority of articles. Gikü ( talk) 16:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
error_061_prio_rowiki=0
. The page save changed a lot of other stuff automatically. --
Bamyers99 (
talk)
17:23, 21 April 2020 (UTC)I wasn't sure where to go, so I've cross-posted this at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser.
I made a request at WP:BOTR the other day, and the discussion proceeded as follows:
I think I made this kind of request several years ago, but I can't find it in the archives.
Occasionally people add text like [citation needed] or (reference needed) to articles, and these articles don't end up in maintenance categories because they're plain text instead of templates. Could someone write a bot that would go around making edits like this, or could an existing maintenance-bot operator add this task? I'm guessing that it would be rather simple — give it a list of phrases, tell it to look for them inside parentheses and brackets, and let it loose. Of course, this isn't a one-time problem, so if this is a good idea, it ought to be made an ongoing task. Nyttend backup ( talk) 16:35, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
- It's probably best to do this with AWB or another semi-auto tool, as there are some legitimate uses of "[citation needed]" in pages (on this page, citation needed, and links to citation needed for example). [7] is a good search term for the first one, then can regex search-and-replace
\[?\[citation needed\]\]?
with{{subst:cn}}
. -- AntiCompositeNumber ( talk) 15:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Nyttend backup:
Doing... via AWB. GoingBatty ( talk) 12:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Nyttend backup:
Done - except for those inside comments. GoingBatty ( talk) 16:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- Another one that could be picked-up is (dead link) or [dead link]. Keith D ( talk) 14:29, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the help! I know there are some general maintenance tasks that AWB operators tend to look for. How do I ask that this kind of fix be added to their task list? Nyttend backup ( talk) 19:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Nyttend backup: Seems like a good question for Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia. GoingBatty ( talk) 22:38, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Keith D:
Doing... but many can be deleted if there's already an archive-url or the link can be fixed. GoingBatty ( talk) 01:40, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible for your project to start looking for typed-out messages [citation needed] as one of the routine checks that you do? Thank you. Nyttend backup ( talk) 18:06, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Is there a scan for reference contained in a heading? RJFJR ( talk) 00:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Can we include mentioned wikis on Check Wikipedia tools
Warm Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 13:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/
detect issues then we can fix via AWB, WPCleaner or AF. Warm Regards,
ZI Jony
(Talk)
14:17, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Articles are marked as missing <references /> tag (list 3) on cswiki even though they contain the following:
<references>
<ref name="abc">def</ref>
</references>
See for example the following page: cs:Klenový troják v Hřebenech. -- Dvorapa ( talk) 11:16, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
"A specific interface – here for the English project –" ... it reports the scan being run the last time in 2017 ?!?! CommanderWaterford ( talk) 06:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
The Editing team is sorting out the upcoming mw:New requirements for user signatures. This should ultimately reduce your workload, if you happen to clean up talk pages. But even if you don't, I expect you all to get more questions, especially along the lines of "How do I make my sig look the same, only without screwing up the page?" You can check the Phab task (especially the dev's recent comment at the end) for more details than are currently on wiki. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 01:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello!
Please add duplicate headers as an error to fix pages like Archdeacon of Halifax, Tahara Castle, Currant Creek (Juab and Utah counties, Utah) etc. I couldn't find more in the (Article:) namespace but in the File: namespace there are a lot of pages with duplicate headers, see for example file: insource:/== ?Summary ?==.== ?Summary ?==|== ?Licensing ?==.== ?Licensing ?==/ with 3922 entries. Jonteemil ( talk) 08:36, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
@ NicoV: Thanks! Although though it was only going to list all duplicate headers seperated by \n i.e. a line. All of the ones in the dump aren't incorrect uses. Some are correct I think. Can you exclude everyone that are seperated by at least 3 \n? Jonteemil ( talk) 11:06, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
@ NicoV: Awesome, thanks for that! Jonteemil ( talk) 16:53, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
It's a redirect to reflist, should be added to the whitelist. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 01:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
I have searched through this and I can't seem to find what is triggering it even. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 02:42, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Per the discussion over on WPCleaner, it seems that a <br> with a newline in it is just fine, but it shows up in the list. It's both valid HTML and handled fine by the parser. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 19:57, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm not even sure where to begin with this page to determine what is false and what is true. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 02:32, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Per a request by Guy Macon, I'm reaching out to my fellow editors here to encourage checking for accessibility issues. Four in particular that are on my radar:
scope="col"
and
table captions<small>...</small>
, which is an element that has semantic meaning of
fine print, not a stylistic one.Additionally, there are so many uses of <font>...</font>
in signatures. :/ ―
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
22:48, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
scope="col"
and new rows should have scope="row"
but they frequently don't. Semi-automated checking of color contrast is not a trivial thing but something that probably can be done with some false negatives. There are many
color contrast tools that can give you an idea of how to think of this (I am not smart enough to solve this problem except for manually). ―
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
21:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
The tools.wmflabs.org
domain is being replaced with toolforge.org
. Tools are also being moved from a sub-directory to a subdomain. tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki
is moving to checkwiki.toolforge.org
. The new domain is operational and CheckWiki appears to operate correctly on it. Sample
new url. The old domain will eventually redirect to the new domain. For more information see
wikitech:News/Toolforge.org. --
Bamyers99 (
talk)
17:20, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi, @ Bamyers99:. Could you, please, add the Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia (arywiki) to the list of supported projects? I am interested in running my bot to fix errors on this wiki, so, it would help me if it was added to Checkwiki. This is a small wiki, so, it won't take a lot of resources to process its dump. Local translation page is ary:ويكيپيديا:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation. Thank you. -- Meno25 ( talk) 12:31, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi folks. @ WikiCleanerBot: is currently fixing heading hierarchies. Are you changes like [8] and [9] intended? If so, what was wrong about heading hierarchy that has been fixed? Robby.is.on ( talk) 15:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Even though I am very good at using AWB, I've never worked with checkwiki before. Since last 3-4 days, I have been trying to make list using the source "checkwiki error (number)". But I am getting errors everytime. I tried inputting different keywords in the source/error number bar. When I enter 2, 02, or 50; I get the error "The remote server returned an error: (308) Permanent Redirect." I am using AWB version 6.1.0.1 with default settings. I haven't tried the URL method as I couldn't find the URL(s) to be pasted. Any suggestions on how to create a list using error number or URL method will be appreciated a lot. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 13:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Moin Moin together, in the first screen of the tool you could see, that the last update for dewiki was on 2019-09-08. Could somebody have a look on, if the is any problem and perhaps fix it? Regards -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 05:55, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I think there's a false positive on
1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike, CW is reporting an error for {{refn|group=note|Also given as Seligmann.{{sfn|Joseph|2018|p=184}}{{sfn|Kirkpatrick|2018}}}},
but the {{
sfn}} is inside a {{
refn}} and the comma is outside. For information, I've started running my bot on this list a few weeks ago, and I've reduced it by 20,000 errors: I just finished letter C, so the size will go down a lot in the next weeks
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
16:30, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
{{Cite news |date=January 22, 1913 |title=COLT MADE SENATOR |page=4 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/01/22/100249881.html?pageNumber=4 |ref={{sfnRef|The New York Times, January 22, 1913}}}},
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
16:36, 20 October 2020 (UTC)There's also a false positive on
1931 China floods, CW is reporting an error for {{sfn|Buck|1932|ps={{Page needed|date=May 2020}}, as cited in {{harvnb|National Flood Relief Commission|1933|p=150}}}}
: I think it's the comma after {{
Page needed}} that's triggering the error. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
16:33, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
The database used by Checkwiki is undergoing maintenance since Nov 10. It is in read-only mode. This means that the daily scans can not save recent changes. Fixed issues will not get logged as fixed. Stats will not update. The anticipated return to read-write mode is late Nov 11. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 15:48, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
For some errors, it is highly unlikely that we can fix them in a timely fashion. My suggestion is to add a dump that is not sorted by alphabetical order, but instead sorted by number of views total or number of views per month. This would allow us to target highly active articles first, where the most good can be done, then going through less popular articles that may only see a few views a month. While I have faith in the WCW community, I don't think it will be possible to complete 182,443 reviews in a timely manner, even if new issues were not created in the meantime. I have done this via the pageviews tool as an example Gsquaredxc ( talk) 06:41, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 December 3#Template:Hover title and Template:Tooltip
Summary:
{{
Abbr}}
(a wrapper for <abbr>...</abbr>
) has long been abused for non-abbreviation markup (against the HTML specs).{{
Tooltip}}
, with <span>...</span>
for non-abbreviation use, but it was "merged" (not really) and redirected to {{Abbr}}
.{{
Hover title}}
was created to do the same thing, but with backwards parameters (and some additional features).{{Tooltip}}
then-redirect and {{
Hover title}}
template have been transcluded in tens of thousands of articles, mainly via infoboxes and other templates.{{
Tooltip}}
template, with all the features of {{Hover title}}
but preserving the {{
Abbr}}
parameter order (to not break deployed translcusions).{{
Hover title}}
, but it's going to require flipping the |1=
and |2=
parameters of its extant instances.— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:26, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
The CheckWiki database is going down for more maintenance on 16 December 2020 at 1700 UTC for a couple of hours. Same effects as last time. Announcement details. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 19:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the german list of ISBN-13 with wrong Checksum (ID 73) [10] detects more and more false positives. It claims a certain ISBN-13 as having the wrong checksum, but the website of the publisher (famous like "Springer") declares these ISBNs as correct, same for the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB). I'm not sure whether this happens only for E-Book ISBNs. Examples are
{{
citation}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)" in article
de:Legal TechnologyIs there a bug in the algorithm? Any other reason? Many thanks -- Bicycle Tourer ( talk) 04:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
On 2 Novenber 2020 this edit was made with comment "(v2.03 - WP:WCW project (Category duplication - Template programming element - Spelling and typography))". Are any of the tools used in WCW responsible for the crap created or is it the responsibility of the editor Gsquaredxc? -- Sb008 ( talk) 16:08, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
{{#expr: 9100 + 3605 + 1300 + 1900 + 4900 + 2864 + 1450 + 1800 + 1300 + 2230 + 1871 + 1400 + 1580 + 1910 + 1450 + 1850 + 1600 + 1380 + 5570 + 6628 + 4476 + 4690 + 1680 + 2100 + 6765 + 5060 + 1750 + 1950 + 1600 + 1985 + 2280 + 1540 + 1810 + 6375 + 1970 + 1000 + 1590 + 2000 + 1700 + 1950 + 2020 + 1100 + 5520 + 6729 + 2460 + 6220 + 1870 + 2442 + 4680 + 1490 + 2000 + 1700 + 8310 + 2680 + 2950 + 2100 + 2500 + 3380 + 1600 + 3826 + 800 + 3430 + 3726 + 1000 + 5870 + 3450 + 1100 + 7356 + 4020 + 600 + 2132 + 1890 + 6920 + 1700 + 6464 + 5090 + 1900 + 2920 + 2200 + 600 + 2120 + 6338 + 3428 + 1980 + 6281 + 5070 + 3962 + 3080 + 1926 + 3520 + 5690 + 6860 + 4240 + 4261 + 8664 + 9624}}
Perhaps there is something that can replace the Lua functions that are in direct wiki code, as most people will have issues editing if they have to search code in order to understand how to edit a table.
Gsquaredxc (
talk)
00:59, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
The current layout makes it very difficult to read in mobile devices. The border fits the screen but text is not getting wrapped up to fit the screen. I have to keep scrolling back and forth horizontally to read a full line. Can anyone please modify this so that is friendly for mobile view? Thanks AVSmalnad77 chat 17:13, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
This is detected as an error:
<br />>
But it is valid. I have tables with br-separated lines and numbers, and there can be a < or > to indicate the number range, e. g. "> 60". This will result in the code :<br />>60
. Suggest to allow this in syntax check. --
PM3 (
talk)
10:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
{{break}}
will help in your tables? —
Scottyoak2 (
talk)
12:30, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Hello,
some long article names are stripped on checkwiki pages which makes fixing them much harder. Example: http://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=plwiki&view=only&id=83 - please have a look. ToSter ( talk) 10:52, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Maybe we should extend the scope of error #2 from "break tag with incorrect syntax" to "tag with incorrect syntax"? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:26, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
@ Bgwhite and NicoV: I think we can add soft hyphen (00AD) in our list. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:33, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Part 1 done. Bgwhite added this in CHECKWIKI's code. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Since the move to wmflabs, cawiki got updated only once a month. During the December update, something went wrong, and the whole list was screwed up, so no cleanup has been done for more than a month now. I figured we should wait for this month's update, but it's not coming, and I have noticed that several other wikis (whose list wasn't screwed up to begin with) are getting updated. Can you please update cawiki more often? -- Joutbis ( talk) 17:48, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
@ Bgwhite and NicoV: Checkwiki now finds cases of empty gallery and center tags. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:19, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Done
Hi, I wonder if we should extend #85 to look also for empty unnamed ref tags (like in this buggy VE edit). -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 10:13, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Hi, I've added #524 to WPCleaner to detect template calls with duplicate arguments (several arguments with the same name). On frwiki, this allows to work on the pages in fr:Catégorie:Page utilisant des arguments dupliqués dans les appels de modèle. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 23:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Update:
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 08:45, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
The main page currently reads " ... facilitates the correction of detected by the program ... ".
This seems to be a typo? Trafford09 ( talk) 00:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
I have noticed that the Check Wikipedia process runs the day after the monthly dump is complete. But the dump takes a very long time because of the "All pages with complete page edit history" dumps. Take cawiki, for instance: the dump started on February 12 and the "All pages, current versions only" was done at 0:45 the next day. The whole process, though, didn't end until February 14, 05:21. Check Wikipedia ran on the 16. This delay means the fixes made during those four days will get flagged again. Could you run your process when the "current version" dump is done, without waiting for the historic one?
-- Joutbis ( talk) 11:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
OK, thanks -- Joutbis ( talk) 19:50, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis, NicoV, Meno25, Josve05a, Matěj Suchánek, and ToSter: Error 102 will check for proper syntax of PMID. This is similar to error #69. See WP:PMID for more info. It "should" start checking in the next run. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:26, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
@ Bgwhite and NicoV: CHECKWIKI now detects cases such as those described in rev 10811 (i.e. <br clear=both /> and similar). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:33, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
/<\s*br\s*clear/
to find cases
error_002_clear_all_enwiki={{Clear}} END
error_002_clear_left_enwiki={{Clear|left}} END
error_002_clear_right_enwiki={{Clear|right}} END
Error number 61 (reference before punctuation)also appears when an en dash ( - ) appears instead of an em dash ( — ) in references to page numbers in periodicals and journals. This error doesn't seem to be a reference before punctuation error, so error number 61 doesn't seem to apply. Is this a bug in the wiki coding or is it really intended to exclude the ordinary dash? I have learned that the ordinary dash ("en dash") is easy (next to the number nine on the keyboard), but the "em dash" requires the typist to hold the ALT key while typing 0151. I would like to suggest a disambiguation for error number 61 to correct this. 50.159.6.134 ( talk) 18:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
The article " Gutai group" is causing an error #70 for "10679847" in this citation (10. in the "Notes" section):
Tiampo, Ming (2013). "Gutai Chain: The Collective Spirit of Individualism" 21 (2). Positions. pp. 383–415. doi:10.1215/10679847-2018292
The doi value is good. See here The doi resolves properly. See here
It's the first citation I've encountered with a doi value, so my initial question is...why does the Checkwiki software bother with this number if it doesn't begin with "ISBN"? Knife-in-the-drawer ( talk) 12:37, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Knife-in-the-drawer I think I fixed the problem. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:31, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Per WP:REFPUNC, punctuation comes before citation. This is a long standing "house style". Furthermore there are bots such as User:BG19bot that standardize using this style. Boghog ( talk) 04:44, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Robert Clark Young has a user link that may be a false positive. Jerodlycett ( talk) 20:59, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Character '&' is allowed after the danish rules. see. And the rules says how to handle '&' in sortkeys. -- Steenth ( talk) 07:46, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Steenth. ping. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:30, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
I think WPCleaner catches the list found at el:Βικιπαίδεια:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia/Μετάφραση while CHECKWIKI script does not. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:48, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Bgwhite. Nope. The problem still occurs. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:26, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
We are good now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:39, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Remember to exclude headers consisted by a sole letter from checking. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:41, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Bgwhite I can't remember anymore which page caused the problem. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:11, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Done
do we have a scan for 'subst:' in articles? for example, for cleaning up this type of issue? Frietjes ( talk) 20:59, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Not done
Hi! I was wondering whether a headline as the first stuff of an article (excluding templates) is an error which could be also checked by CheckWiki. See example (cswiki). Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 18:38, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
AWB already fixes things like these. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
We better avoid adding this error. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Many false positives. Big troubles. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
could be interesting to find
these, basically, a {{!}}
inside of [[ ]]
.
Frietjes (
talk)
17:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
\[\[(.*)\{\{\!\}\}(.*)\]\]
-> [[$1|$2]]
This did catch some false positives, so the F&R needs to be refined. See
"Weird Al" Yankovic discography.I agree. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
<ref>{{cite web|title=foo|url=foo|website=[[Foo|test]]}}</ref>
<ref>{{webbref|titel=foo|url=foo|websida=[[Foo{{!}}test]]}}</ref>
( t) Josve05a ( c) 06:20, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
\[\[([^\[\]]*)\{\{!\}\}([^\[\]]*)\]\]
-> [[$1|$2]]
which wouldn't do anything in your false-positive case.
Frietjes (
talk)
15:04, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite and Frietjes: I ran the bot with the regex and I am done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Bgwhite and Frietjes: Found exception at Toreador Song. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
\[\[([^\[\]\|]*)\{\{!\}\}([^\[\]]*)\]\]
-> [[$1|$2]]
which would exclude that case (basically no actual pipe before the escaped pipe).
Frietjes (
talk)
14:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
@
Matěj Suchánek,
NicoV,
Meno25,
Josve05a,
ToSter, and
Frietjes: It has been added as error #102. It should show up today in the daily scans. There is a problem with dumps in which no dumps are being produced for alot of languages. Many languages haven't been dumped since December.
Bgwhite (
talk)
01:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
rev 10835 now in AWB general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Now this is error #103. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
[[Valeur absolue|{{!}}''f''{{!}}]]
where the goal is to display pipes around "f" (absolute value of "f" in maths). --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
14:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)Added to WPCleaner. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 18:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
I've found another bug in the "all priorities" page on the interface: basically it switches middle with low priorities. Bye! -- Vittorioo ( talk) 20:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Due to a bug in Wikimedia's backup system, dumps have been offline for a week. WMF is working on the problem. Bug report is at
T98585.
Bgwhite (
talk)
23:08, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Resolved
Projects without a translation page, or with a partial translation, get some old names for errors in the web interface, like "No bold title" for error #1. Also missing errors from 100 to 103. Example: hrwiki. -- Vittorioo ( talk) 20:49, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
I fixed several broken ISBNs in the article " Manlio Sgalambro" using Template:EAN (i.e. they were EANs, not ISBNs). As you can see, the article got trashed.
I fiddled with the EAN template in my sandbox. If I enter
{{EAN|724383289820}}some text
then no problems--the output renders properly.
However, when I add an asterisk for a bullet item:
* {{EAN|724383289820}}some text
then everything after the EAN template gets thrown down to the next line.
I don't see a problem with how the article is formatted, and I don't see a problem with my usage of the EAN template. Therefore, I'm guessing that the problem lies either in the EAN template or in the bullet or both in combination (because I've used the EAN template previously without problems). Any ideas? Knife-in-the-drawer ( talk) 15:51, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes may know why. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
For a couple of days, at least, I haven't been able to get to the pages that list the errors. Is wmflabs down, or has the location changed? The pages I've tried to get to are here for English and here for Simple English. Thanks. -- Auntof6 ( talk) 03:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Done
The script should be become first letter case insensitive so that we spot things like these:
[1],
[2],
[3]. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
06:19, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
I just noticed that the last dump listed is from May 15. If that's correct, there's a major bug, if it's wrong, a minor bug. Given we are down to 0 errors on en, I'm leaning towards the first.
Why are "Category is english", "Reference duplication" and "Heading double" not working? -- אריה ה. ( talk) 08:36, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone give me a with as to why this simple WebClient call (C#) failes with 403 Forbidden?
string s = webcl.DownloadString(url);
The same url works from curl and from Chrome: (Same for http, https)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=hewiki&view=bots&id=48
Thanks 08:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kotz ( talk • contribs)
Done
Moin Moin @ all, Moin Bgwhite, since last week the ID 95 gives many items, who have no errors. Look: Example 1 and Example 2. Yesterday I set all errors as done, today I have over 11.000 errors again. Could you have a look at. Thanks -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 06:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Done
The link "comments and bugs" at the bottom of this page takes you to this non-existent page which is incorrect. It should lead you here. -- Meno25 ( talk) 16:07, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
%26
represents a &
(ampersand) but it needs to be a ?
(question mark), which gives
this. Percent-encoding of three other characters also breaks the URL in some browsers, so the second %26
should be a &
(ampersand), and both %3D
should be =
(equals), i.e.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia?action=edit§ion=new --
Redrose64 (
talk)
08:31, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
The proper way to resolve Error #48, a link to the article title in the text, is to replace the double brackets with triple quotes rather than deleting the entire link, e.g., [[article title]] → '''article title'''. This leaves the article appearance unchanged. Yours aye, Buaidh 20:49, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I found this project a couple of weeks ago. It is very helpful, thank you very much. I already cleaned all 4,500 the high priority errors in our wiki. But there is a strange problem. Every day I can see hundreds of errors that are marked as done, not by me, and without any actual article fix. And I checked: the error is indeed there. Can it be a bug that marks an article as done when I fixed another error in it? And if can't, and this is indeed a troll, can I somehow restore these marks? Thank you, IKhitron ( talk) 13:43, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello, the script is flagging four entries with valid ISBNs here:
Is it possible that ISBNs starting with 999 get flagged regardless of checksum? -- Joutbis ( talk) 17:58, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
6050000-9999999
has a length of 0, and I think it means that the range is currently reserved (at least, that's what #72 is doing). <Group>
<Prefix>978-99913</Prefix>
<Agency>Andorra</Agency>
<Rules>
<Rule>
<Range>0000000-2999999</Range>
<Length>1</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>3000000-3599999</Range>
<Length>2</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>3600000-5999999</Range>
<Length>0</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>6000000-6049999</Range>
<Length>3</Length>
</Rule>
<Rule>
<Range>6050000-9999999</Range>
<Length>0</Length>
</Rule>
</Rules>
</Group>
Joutbis Ran into the same problem on enwiki with that book. We ended up just using OCLC 801960401 Bgwhite ( talk) 20:31, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
@ NicoV: After a discussion I had with Bgwhite, he changed
elsif ( $test_text =~ / \[\[ISBN\]\]\s*([:]|[-]|[#])+\s*\d/g ) {
with
elsif ( $test_text =~ / \[\[ISBN\]\]\s*([:]|[-]|[#])*\s*\d/g ) {
Just letting you know in case you have to change something in WPCleaner. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:09, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
[[ISBN]]
stuff. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
13:58, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Hi Bamyers99. It seems that recently (maybe a few weeks), #16 started to detect also non-breaking spaces, but nothing in the description mentions it. Is it normal? On frwiki, we now have more than 300k articles in the list for #16 due to this...
When I run the dump analysis on frwiki with WPCleaner (twice a month), at the end I perform a cleanup on the CheckWiki lists:
With this list of 300k, it takes a very long time to process... What should I do? Also detect nbsp for #16 or wait for a modification of CW? -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 18:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
I just undid this change on .NET Core:
The tool being used evidently has a false positive for sentences that start with a period, as is sometimes the case in articles discussing .NET, if they follow a sentence that has <ref>s at the end. It erroneously thinks these instances are "Reference before punctuation" violations, and removes the space between sentences and the period at the beginning of ".NET". -- Dan Harkless ( talk) 03:43, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I just finished a trial for my bot, which is intended to cut down on the backlog of #17 errors. But, as far as I know AWB can't automatically mark pages as fixed, and I don't want to click each one manually - is there an option to have the project rebuild the list at the end of the bot run, so that it automatically accounts for errors solved? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 21:24, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, the current regex for #16 contains several characters that are not converted to something readable in the list: the list of conversions lacks \x{202B} and \x{200F} compared to the regular expression. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 09:11, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello. For several hours, the CheckWiki pages are unaccessible, at least for cs-wiki (see f. e. https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=cswiki&view=high). The page remains blank in the "read" state, and after bunch of time finally displays 504 Gateway Time-out. See also cs:Pod lípou (technika)#CheckWiki nefunguje?. -- Vachovec1 ( talk) 19:32, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello. Looks like #46 (Square brackets without correct beginning) generates false positives when there is a wikilink inside the image description.
See:
-- Vachovec1 ( talk) 11:07, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
In addition to already covered ones, some other cases could be checked for. In particular, missing / invalid number of slashes/colons. Matěj Suchánek ( talk) 10:04, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to propose checking for malformed entities. Eg. typos like
&(nsbp|nbps|bnsp);
or
missing ampersands.
Matěj Suchánek (
talk)
09:46, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I added some automatic fixing in WPC for some cases of #46 (square brackets without correct beginning), see more details in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 3 where I asked to run it as a bot on enwiki (if anyone want to participate in the discussion). I already ran it on frwiki which allowed me to fix several hundreds pages. It should work on other wikis if someone is interested. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 12:17, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
See
WT:MOS#source substantiating latter part of sentence. It's not correct that a <ref>...</ref>
may not appear immediately before a punctuation mark. See that thread, and
MOS:REFPUNCT. When it does happen properly, it will almost always be a bracket (usually a round one) or a dash. It would probably be better to limit this to specific punctuation marks, and adjust the wording to say so. —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼
08:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
.,?:;!
--
Bamyers99 (
talk)
16:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello fellow project mates,
It took a while, but I finally cleared the entire section of 62. All 355 of them. One less category we have to worry about for now!
AmericanAir88( talk) 14:39, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
User Mathglot explained, that the error definition "#104 Unbalanced quotes in ref name or illegal character." is not according tot the Wikipedia’s policies. Please check your error definitions, -- GünniX ( talk) 06:00, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi. It seems that checkarticle.cgi is not responding any more. Does anyone know how to check it? Example -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 21:28, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi. When running my bot to fix #17 errors, I stumbled on several articles which are false positives : they are redirects to a category in which they are categorized, see for example Academic Journal of Animal Diseases (and all Academic Journal... in #17). In WPC, I've currently modified #17 to avoid detection in redirects: it's not a perfect solution, but it avoids a lot of false positives. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:05, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Moin Moin together, Bamyers99, since yesterday the daily scan for the german CheckWiki isn't running any more. Could you please have a look? Thanks -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 07:21, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Start time: Sun May 19 00:05:13 2019 Articles checked: 1610 Errors found: 1833 Program run time: 0 hours, 8 minutes and 24 seconds
-- Bamyers99 ( talk) 14:34, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
See Help:Strip markers for the documentation. Seems like there's a few hits around. Pawngpawng ( talk) 17:27, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
@ Bamyers99:
Check Wikipedia is completely down. Please check it and maybe restart, thank you. Doc Taxon ( talk) 11:10, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia Software error: Could not connect to database: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'tools-db' (111 "Connection refused") For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
Clicking on the projects on
https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/ gives this:
Software error: Could not connect to database: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'tools-db' (113 "No route to host") For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
Doc Taxon ( talk) 11:28, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Do we need to do something automatically with such links: file:///C:
(
1), <ref>file:///home</ref>
(
2)? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Fractaler (
talk •
contribs)
There are false positives in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 071 dump.
Example: Hiyokoi: isbn=X78-4-08-867044-7
The string occurs within a URL: http://books.shueisha.co.jp/CGI/search/zen_list.cgi?siries_isbn=X78-4-08-867044-7&siries_kanren_isbn=&mode=2
Can the code that generates this report be modified to ignore patterns within URLs? I believe that this problem also occurs in the other ISBN reports (69, 70, 72, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISBN errors). I can look for other examples if that is helpful. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 20:51, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Checkwiki returns a 503 error. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 13:32, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Whilst using WPcleaner recently, I've come across a few changes from ’ to ', under Spelling and typography. See Special:Diff/934429763 for an example.
If this is the only change to be made, should it be done?
I was thinking in terms of AWB users not being permitted to make insignificant or inconsequential edits under wp:AWBRULES 4. I assume the same principle applies to all tools?
Thanks, ~~ OxonAlex - talk 16:11, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
This seems to indicate that there has been no dump analyzed in forever, but I know daily updates are done. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 11:17, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis: Turns out {{ Schubert's compositions (references)}} has the reflist in it. This is an example of where it's being used. If you could whitelist that template it would be useful. (Per the diff, only just discovered it myself). Jerod Lycett ( talk) 23:36, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Jerod Lycett, Bamyers99 I suggest that we remove the Reflist outside because it's easier to control reflist section when not inside the template, it allows more flexibility, it may be adjusted per page, etc. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:12, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Bamyers99 I am semi-active to the project pending some discussions on the CHECKWIKI errors that, per ARBCOM, have to be done without me and I am still waiting two years for that. I have been banned from discussing the nature of the CHECKWIKI errors. I think the banned was supposed to be temporary until the discussion is over. But the discussion does not seem to ever occur. I can still help with technical issues and solutions. I can also perform bot edits and discuss practices we used in the past. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:14, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Old revision of Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska was flagged as having the signature. It was in the In use template though. I think this qualifies as a false positive even though it's an incorrect use of the template which seeks five tilde instead of four. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 11:18, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I was checking Check Wikipedia and for " Editor's signature or link to User space" it says there is a signature on User talk:CyberTroopers. (see https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=detail&title=User%20talk:CyberTroopers). I'm not sure if its a bug or not but shouldn't talk pages have signatures? Thanks. OkayKenji ( talk page) 09:57, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Could someone (e.g., with AWB) go through [https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Search&limit=100&offset=0&ns0=1&search=-intitle%3Aelectoral+-intitle%3Aelection+insource%3A%2F__NOEDITSECTION__%2F&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&searchToken=dr8ah9bin9udl39puis3hqp6z
these search results] and remove all of the NOEDITSECTION magic words? I looked at everything in that list, and with the exception of the Main Page itself, it shouldn't have that switch on the page.
WhatamIdoing (
talk)
19:10, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
The placedby parameter is for a user name... should this be whitelisted or should we suggest they don't do that? Jerod Lycett ( talk) 11:52, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Two things for you:
(Please ping me.) Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:21, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Resolved
Hi. Regarding the new errors added to WPCleaner, I've requested approval for fixing some of them with my bot, feel free to comment on them:
-- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 16:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Resolved
Hi. I've found a lot of false positives for #111 on frwiki, and I don't understand what could be causing it. A few examples:
<ref>L'attribution de ses œuvres...
, while there's 2 calls {{Références|}}
later in the text (Références is listed in
error_111_templates_frwiki)<ref>{{Article|titre=Une énorme fleur...
, while there's a call {{Références|}}
and {{Références nombreuses|
later in the text (both Références and Références nombreuses are listed in the configurationIt seems there are dozens of pages like that on the list for frwiki. Is it a bug in CW or is there something to change in the configuration? -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 07:03, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
<references
and if found, it would ignore the template list. It found <references group="N" />
in the two examples above. I have fixed it to check the templates even if <references
is found. Also, it uses the template list from #003, and ignores the #111 template list. I have not changed this as both template lists should be identical. --
Bamyers99 (
talk)
19:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello! The svwp dump is usually updated with new articles twice a month. It has been 33 days since the last time. Any reason why? I was contacted on svwp since I'm a contact perosn there. Jonatan Svensson Glad ( talk) 19:24, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. If anyone is interested, I've added a few errors to WPCleaner in the last weeks:
[[Comma|,]]
).If you want, some of the errors can be activated here or on other wikis. -- NicoV ( Talk on frwiki) 11:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
I've added 550: Link without text. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a
dump analysis has been created. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
17:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
I've added 551: Empty line. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a
dump analysis should be created soon. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
10:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Please consider disabling error 61 on Romanian Wikipedia, because as per Romanian guideline on footnotes they are allowed before punctuation, and used as such, including in featured articles (e.g. ro:Jigoku Shoujo, ro:Franz Kafka). Rule on rowiki is just no not mix the styles in one single article. Footnotes after punctuation is still the style used in the majority of articles. Gikü ( talk) 16:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
error_061_prio_rowiki=0
. The page save changed a lot of other stuff automatically. --
Bamyers99 (
talk)
17:23, 21 April 2020 (UTC)I wasn't sure where to go, so I've cross-posted this at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser.
I made a request at WP:BOTR the other day, and the discussion proceeded as follows:
I think I made this kind of request several years ago, but I can't find it in the archives.
Occasionally people add text like [citation needed] or (reference needed) to articles, and these articles don't end up in maintenance categories because they're plain text instead of templates. Could someone write a bot that would go around making edits like this, or could an existing maintenance-bot operator add this task? I'm guessing that it would be rather simple — give it a list of phrases, tell it to look for them inside parentheses and brackets, and let it loose. Of course, this isn't a one-time problem, so if this is a good idea, it ought to be made an ongoing task. Nyttend backup ( talk) 16:35, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
- It's probably best to do this with AWB or another semi-auto tool, as there are some legitimate uses of "[citation needed]" in pages (on this page, citation needed, and links to citation needed for example). [7] is a good search term for the first one, then can regex search-and-replace
\[?\[citation needed\]\]?
with{{subst:cn}}
. -- AntiCompositeNumber ( talk) 15:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Nyttend backup:
Doing... via AWB. GoingBatty ( talk) 12:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Nyttend backup:
Done - except for those inside comments. GoingBatty ( talk) 16:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- Another one that could be picked-up is (dead link) or [dead link]. Keith D ( talk) 14:29, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the help! I know there are some general maintenance tasks that AWB operators tend to look for. How do I ask that this kind of fix be added to their task list? Nyttend backup ( talk) 19:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Nyttend backup: Seems like a good question for Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia. GoingBatty ( talk) 22:38, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- @ Keith D:
Doing... but many can be deleted if there's already an archive-url or the link can be fixed. GoingBatty ( talk) 01:40, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Is it possible for your project to start looking for typed-out messages [citation needed] as one of the routine checks that you do? Thank you. Nyttend backup ( talk) 18:06, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Is there a scan for reference contained in a heading? RJFJR ( talk) 00:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Can we include mentioned wikis on Check Wikipedia tools
Warm Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 13:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/
detect issues then we can fix via AWB, WPCleaner or AF. Warm Regards,
ZI Jony
(Talk)
14:17, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Articles are marked as missing <references /> tag (list 3) on cswiki even though they contain the following:
<references>
<ref name="abc">def</ref>
</references>
See for example the following page: cs:Klenový troják v Hřebenech. -- Dvorapa ( talk) 11:16, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
"A specific interface – here for the English project –" ... it reports the scan being run the last time in 2017 ?!?! CommanderWaterford ( talk) 06:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
The Editing team is sorting out the upcoming mw:New requirements for user signatures. This should ultimately reduce your workload, if you happen to clean up talk pages. But even if you don't, I expect you all to get more questions, especially along the lines of "How do I make my sig look the same, only without screwing up the page?" You can check the Phab task (especially the dev's recent comment at the end) for more details than are currently on wiki. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 01:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello!
Please add duplicate headers as an error to fix pages like Archdeacon of Halifax, Tahara Castle, Currant Creek (Juab and Utah counties, Utah) etc. I couldn't find more in the (Article:) namespace but in the File: namespace there are a lot of pages with duplicate headers, see for example file: insource:/== ?Summary ?==.== ?Summary ?==|== ?Licensing ?==.== ?Licensing ?==/ with 3922 entries. Jonteemil ( talk) 08:36, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
@ NicoV: Thanks! Although though it was only going to list all duplicate headers seperated by \n i.e. a line. All of the ones in the dump aren't incorrect uses. Some are correct I think. Can you exclude everyone that are seperated by at least 3 \n? Jonteemil ( talk) 11:06, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
@ NicoV: Awesome, thanks for that! Jonteemil ( talk) 16:53, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
It's a redirect to reflist, should be added to the whitelist. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 01:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
I have searched through this and I can't seem to find what is triggering it even. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 02:42, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Per the discussion over on WPCleaner, it seems that a <br> with a newline in it is just fine, but it shows up in the list. It's both valid HTML and handled fine by the parser. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 19:57, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm not even sure where to begin with this page to determine what is false and what is true. Jerod Lycett ( talk) 02:32, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Per a request by Guy Macon, I'm reaching out to my fellow editors here to encourage checking for accessibility issues. Four in particular that are on my radar:
scope="col"
and
table captions<small>...</small>
, which is an element that has semantic meaning of
fine print, not a stylistic one.Additionally, there are so many uses of <font>...</font>
in signatures. :/ ―
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
22:48, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
scope="col"
and new rows should have scope="row"
but they frequently don't. Semi-automated checking of color contrast is not a trivial thing but something that probably can be done with some false negatives. There are many
color contrast tools that can give you an idea of how to think of this (I am not smart enough to solve this problem except for manually). ―
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
21:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
The tools.wmflabs.org
domain is being replaced with toolforge.org
. Tools are also being moved from a sub-directory to a subdomain. tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki
is moving to checkwiki.toolforge.org
. The new domain is operational and CheckWiki appears to operate correctly on it. Sample
new url. The old domain will eventually redirect to the new domain. For more information see
wikitech:News/Toolforge.org. --
Bamyers99 (
talk)
17:20, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi, @ Bamyers99:. Could you, please, add the Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia (arywiki) to the list of supported projects? I am interested in running my bot to fix errors on this wiki, so, it would help me if it was added to Checkwiki. This is a small wiki, so, it won't take a lot of resources to process its dump. Local translation page is ary:ويكيپيديا:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation. Thank you. -- Meno25 ( talk) 12:31, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi folks. @ WikiCleanerBot: is currently fixing heading hierarchies. Are you changes like [8] and [9] intended? If so, what was wrong about heading hierarchy that has been fixed? Robby.is.on ( talk) 15:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Even though I am very good at using AWB, I've never worked with checkwiki before. Since last 3-4 days, I have been trying to make list using the source "checkwiki error (number)". But I am getting errors everytime. I tried inputting different keywords in the source/error number bar. When I enter 2, 02, or 50; I get the error "The remote server returned an error: (308) Permanent Redirect." I am using AWB version 6.1.0.1 with default settings. I haven't tried the URL method as I couldn't find the URL(s) to be pasted. Any suggestions on how to create a list using error number or URL method will be appreciated a lot. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 13:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Moin Moin together, in the first screen of the tool you could see, that the last update for dewiki was on 2019-09-08. Could somebody have a look on, if the is any problem and perhaps fix it? Regards -- Crazy1880 ( talk) 05:55, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I think there's a false positive on
1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike, CW is reporting an error for {{refn|group=note|Also given as Seligmann.{{sfn|Joseph|2018|p=184}}{{sfn|Kirkpatrick|2018}}}},
but the {{
sfn}} is inside a {{
refn}} and the comma is outside. For information, I've started running my bot on this list a few weeks ago, and I've reduced it by 20,000 errors: I just finished letter C, so the size will go down a lot in the next weeks
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
16:30, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
{{Cite news |date=January 22, 1913 |title=COLT MADE SENATOR |page=4 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/01/22/100249881.html?pageNumber=4 |ref={{sfnRef|The New York Times, January 22, 1913}}}},
. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
16:36, 20 October 2020 (UTC)There's also a false positive on
1931 China floods, CW is reporting an error for {{sfn|Buck|1932|ps={{Page needed|date=May 2020}}, as cited in {{harvnb|National Flood Relief Commission|1933|p=150}}}}
: I think it's the comma after {{
Page needed}} that's triggering the error. --
NicoV (
Talk on frwiki)
16:33, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
The database used by Checkwiki is undergoing maintenance since Nov 10. It is in read-only mode. This means that the daily scans can not save recent changes. Fixed issues will not get logged as fixed. Stats will not update. The anticipated return to read-write mode is late Nov 11. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 15:48, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
For some errors, it is highly unlikely that we can fix them in a timely fashion. My suggestion is to add a dump that is not sorted by alphabetical order, but instead sorted by number of views total or number of views per month. This would allow us to target highly active articles first, where the most good can be done, then going through less popular articles that may only see a few views a month. While I have faith in the WCW community, I don't think it will be possible to complete 182,443 reviews in a timely manner, even if new issues were not created in the meantime. I have done this via the pageviews tool as an example Gsquaredxc ( talk) 06:41, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 December 3#Template:Hover title and Template:Tooltip
Summary:
{{
Abbr}}
(a wrapper for <abbr>...</abbr>
) has long been abused for non-abbreviation markup (against the HTML specs).{{
Tooltip}}
, with <span>...</span>
for non-abbreviation use, but it was "merged" (not really) and redirected to {{Abbr}}
.{{
Hover title}}
was created to do the same thing, but with backwards parameters (and some additional features).{{Tooltip}}
then-redirect and {{
Hover title}}
template have been transcluded in tens of thousands of articles, mainly via infoboxes and other templates.{{
Tooltip}}
template, with all the features of {{Hover title}}
but preserving the {{
Abbr}}
parameter order (to not break deployed translcusions).{{
Hover title}}
, but it's going to require flipping the |1=
and |2=
parameters of its extant instances.— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:26, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
The CheckWiki database is going down for more maintenance on 16 December 2020 at 1700 UTC for a couple of hours. Same effects as last time. Announcement details. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 19:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the german list of ISBN-13 with wrong Checksum (ID 73) [10] detects more and more false positives. It claims a certain ISBN-13 as having the wrong checksum, but the website of the publisher (famous like "Springer") declares these ISBNs as correct, same for the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB). I'm not sure whether this happens only for E-Book ISBNs. Examples are
{{
citation}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)" in article
de:Legal TechnologyIs there a bug in the algorithm? Any other reason? Many thanks -- Bicycle Tourer ( talk) 04:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
On 2 Novenber 2020 this edit was made with comment "(v2.03 - WP:WCW project (Category duplication - Template programming element - Spelling and typography))". Are any of the tools used in WCW responsible for the crap created or is it the responsibility of the editor Gsquaredxc? -- Sb008 ( talk) 16:08, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
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Perhaps there is something that can replace the Lua functions that are in direct wiki code, as most people will have issues editing if they have to search code in order to understand how to edit a table.
Gsquaredxc (
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00:59, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
The current layout makes it very difficult to read in mobile devices. The border fits the screen but text is not getting wrapped up to fit the screen. I have to keep scrolling back and forth horizontally to read a full line. Can anyone please modify this so that is friendly for mobile view? Thanks AVSmalnad77 chat 17:13, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
This is detected as an error:
<br />>
But it is valid. I have tables with br-separated lines and numbers, and there can be a < or > to indicate the number range, e. g. "> 60". This will result in the code :<br />>60
. Suggest to allow this in syntax check. --
PM3 (
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10:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
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will help in your tables? —
Scottyoak2 (
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12:30, 20 February 2021 (UTC)