Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage

AWB access for GoingBatty

Hi there! I'm a long time editor and AWB user at the English Wikipedia, and would like to manually run some of the tasks I run on the English Wikipedia here on Simple Wikipedia. The first one I would like to try is fixing incorrect links (e.g. some Billboard links should be changed to [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]). I respect that some of the rules I use on the English Wikipedia would need to be changed for Simple Wikipedia (e.g. some Slate links should be unlinked because there is no Slate (magazine) article here), and therefore I would have to work slowly and carefully, and make separate rules for the Simple Wikipedia. Thank you for your consideration. GoingBatty (talk) 05:20, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

@GoingBatty: I'll leave this for another admin to address, but I do want to say that on this wiki we do not want links removed just because there is no article. Red links are considered useful here because we are a small wiki and they help us see what articles we are missing.

If you would like to know about other things that are different here, feel free to look at this list that I created. The list itself is not official, but it does point to relevant policies and guidelines. If you have any questions about anything on the list, feel free to let me know. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:47, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

@Auntof6: Thank you for sharing your list. I'm happy to create redlinks instead of unlinking when no article exists, and respect that I will still need to review each link before changing it because the article may be called something different here. Thanks, and Happy New Year! GoingBatty (talk) 21:53, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

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Happy new year everyone! It's been a couple weeks since my last post, so I'm posting again in case this request got lost over the holidays. Thanks in advance for your consideration. GoingBatty (talk) 18:24, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

I don't think it got lost, more like there isn't anything in the request that we would necessarily approve AWB use for. Unlike on en.wiki we approve AWB for specific tasks and then remove it when they were done. We don't just give it out and the person keeps it to use whenever they want. If there is a specific set of links you need AWB to fix that can't be done easily by hand we can approve that, but then we will remove AWB when that task is done. -Djsasso (talk) 18:36, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

@Djsasso: OK, here's the specific set of links to be checked to see if they should be changed to a piped link for the magazine of the same name:

• Billboard
• Blender
• Ebony
• Empire
• Entrepreneur
• Interior Design
• Interview
• Life
• Magnet
• Mother Jones
• Motorcyclist
• Parade
• People
• Q
• Reason
• Slate
• Stern
• Time
• Vulture

Thank you for your consideration. Please ping me when replying. GoingBatty (talk) 22:53, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Alright I have added you, let me know when you are complete. -Djsasso (talk) 20:36, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

@Djsasso: Thank you for adding me (and my bot) to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage. I created an AWB settings file where the Preferences > Site > Language = "simple". However, when I use AWB to sign in to the Simple Wikipedia, I get a message stating "GoingBatty is not enabled to use this." When I click on the OK button, I'm taken to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON. I checked on en:Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser and was told that the latest AWB might only check the JSON permission list. Could you please try adding GoingBatty and BattyBot to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:25, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

 Done. -Djsasso (talk) 13:43, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Djsasso: Completed! I struck through those entries with no links to be changed. Thank you! GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Request for access for Mako001

Requesting AWB access to perform cleanup of some commonly occurring cs1 errors. At the moment many of the maintenance categories for CS1 errors are so backlogged that they are almost useless to most editors who want to help. I have been working through some, and I think that AWB could help with many types of common mistakes that I have noticed, such as typos in the month name. The AWB fixable errors seem to account for a decent proportion of all cs1 date errors. I'd like to get those sorted out before I try to push on with the non-AWB fixable ones. Some of this is going to be fairly bot-like stuff, where a bot could do it (looking at you Citation bot), but doesn't. If anyone thinks I should get bot approval for these changes, please say so. I also have a bot-name account User:Mako's Bot which I could use for the bot edits. Mako001 (C)  (T)  13:47, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mako001: By the looks of it, this is already something GoingBatty is looking to do above. --Ferien (talk) 13:50, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Didn't notice that someone had replied, and removed it after seeing that myself. I'd been going through manually, to get an idea of what was involved, and the sorts of things causing these errors. One that I've been seeing a lot of was the addition of "[last update]" to the "year" parameter. The value of the parameter always seems to be "2011 [last update]". This obviously throws a CS1 error, and is the single most numerous error cause I have seen. It also seems unnecessary anyway, and may not still be accurate, I.e. if the site has since been updated. I don't know that BattyBot is aimed at this sort of error though? Mako001 (C)  (T)  14:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mako001 and Ferien: Yes, BattyBot can do this - see this edit. GoingBatty (talk) 16:45, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Excellent, I'll watch what BattyBot gets and then try to cleanup the rest. Mako001 (C)  (T)  22:11, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mako001: I've run BattyBot though the CS1 categories listed in my section above. Bots can't fix every possible incorrect reference, but if you find any other patterns that BattyBot should fix, please let me know. GoingBatty (talk) 22:52, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mako001: Oops - that wasn't quite true. I realized I hadn't run the bot over the whole Category:CS1 errors: dates, so I'm doing that now, and it should update about 1,200 articles. GoingBatty (talk) 06:12, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

I've got Citation Bot tinkering around doing it's thing. AManWithNoPlan ported it here upon request. I don't need AWB anymore though, so this thread can be closed. Mako001 (C)  (T)  12:58, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Request

Hello, I see that {{R to disambiguation page}} has been existing for quite some time on here, but only 8 pages have been tagged as of now. Therefore, I would like to use AWB to tag the other ~210 from quarry:query/62222. I already have similar access on multiple other wikis, such as enwiki, ruwiki, and commonswiki. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:48, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: It appears there are 171 transclusions of this template. GoingBatty (talk) 02:49, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

It appears that this was mostly done by @Djsasso (as well as by you), which seems very weird given that I requested access to do it and they did not even leave a comment here. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:18, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

I meant to comment, some of it was already being done by GoingBatty when you requested I believe or maybe it was a different redirect template I saw and I was also doing some but was going to comment when I was done and it got away from me. For such a small number of edits it is often just faster to do them than to approve and then have to come back and remove permissions when a person is done so they often just get done. -Djsasso (talk) 13:21, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: I added redirect templates to User:NicoV/WikiCleanerConfiguration in this edit a few hours before your request, and then worked to disambiguate a lot of links (and occasionally categorize a redirect) before I saw this edit. GoingBatty (talk) 03:29, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that; the vast majority was done with AWB by Djsasso. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

AWB access for GoingBatty (bands/musicians)

I am requesting access to check the following links and change the appropriate ones to links to bands/musicians (e.g. Prince to Prince (musician), Styx to Styx (band))

• 311
• Air (changed some to Air Force without AWB)
• Ammonia
• Amulet
• Anthrax
• Apathy
• Audience
• Bastille
• Battles
• Brandy
• British India
• Cake
• Caribou
• Cinderella (changed 2 to Cinderella (1950 movie) & 2 to Cinderella (Disney character) without AWB)
• Cream (changed 1 to Cream (song) without AWB)
• Creed
• Custard
• Danzig
• Dissection
• Doves
• Eagles
• Elbow
• Emperor
• Faces
• Flea
• Foetus
• Fuel
• Fun
• Future
• Garbage
• Gomez
• Gong
• Gyroscope
• Heart
• Heatwave
• Helmet
• Incubus
• Infusion
• Inhaler
• Interpol
• Javelin
• Kiss
• Locksmith
• Logic
• Loudness
• Magma
• Maps
• Midget
• Millionaire
• Modern English
• Morphine
• Muscles
• Muse
• Nirvana
• Nutcracker
• Oasis
• Orgy
• Pacifier
• Parachute
• Peaches
• Phrase
• Pink
• Placebo
• Poison
• Police
• Pollyanna (changed 1 to Pollyanna (1960 movie) without AWB)
• Postal Service
• Prince
• Queen
• Recoil
• Reef
• Saliva
• Saxon
• Shapeshifter
• Silverfish
• Sneeze
• Spirit
• Sponge
• Spoon
• Styx
• Television
• The Butterfly Effect
• Tobacco (changed 1 to ATF without AWB)
• Tool
• Tortoise
• Tosca
• Traffic
• Train
• Tumbleweed
• Underworld
• War (changed 1 to War (Edwin Starr song) without AWB)
• Wire
• Wombats
• Yacht
• Yeti
• Youth

Thank you for your consideration. GoingBatty (talk) 03:16, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Ok readded you. Try not to flood RC. -Djsasso (talk) 12:20, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

@Djsasso: Thank you, but could you please readd me to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON? (On the English Wikipedia, en:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage became a redirect to en:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON in August 2021.) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 14:29, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

GoingBatty,  Done --Ferien (talk) 14:31, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Whoops going to take some time to remember that that page exists now. Old habbits die hard. But yeah we should probably redirect. I will do that. -Djsasso (talk) 15:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

@Djsasso and Ferien: All done - thank you! GoingBatty (talk) 01:18, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

I've removed you from the list as you're done. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 08:04, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Request for AWB for MrMeAndMrMe

• MrMeAndMrMe (talk · contribs · count) (assign permissions)

I wish to request the use of AutoWikiBrowser to make useful edits that are semi-automated, thereby enhancing the quality of the Simple English Wikipedia. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 17:24, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

You will need to be clear about the type of edits you'd like to make with AWB. Access is only granted for one task and then it's taken once your task is complete. If you need it again, we will grant it again for that other task and then take it again when you're finished. --Ferien (talk) 17:28, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Apologies, should have specified. I mostly want to go through and find "external link" and replace it with other websites and find "{{short description}}" and delete it. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 17:37, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I periodically fix the "external links" issue, as well as other headings that get used in place of both "other websites" and "related pages". FYI, you can't do a blanket replacement on those, because they get used in place of each other sometimes.

Why do you want to delete the short description template? If/when it gets supported here (assuming it isn't already), we'd have to put them all back. -- Auntof6 (talk) 18:51, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

@Auntof6: The short description template will probably never be added here (at least no time in the next few years) because we use Wikidata for short descriptions and there's no good reason to move them here, especially considering the amount of time it'd take. Me and a few other editors have dedicated a lot of time to short descriptions on enwiki and it's taken a couple of years to get to 3 million, with some editors spending most of their time on it, and there are a few bots simply copy from Wikidata. Also, all of them are copied from enwiki so a lot of them will be too complex for us to use, which is a problem that'd be very difficult to reverse, as there's no way we could track complex short descriptions specifically, and so we'd be stuck with a load of complex short descriptions. I have removed a few of them myself today (and whenever I see short descriptions, I remove them) and Djsasso has also removed a few hundred with AWB. --Ferien (talk) 19:10, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

@Ferien: Thanks. In that case, I'll remove them, too, as part of general cleanup when I happen across them. -- Auntof6 (talk) 19:35, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Yep every so often I go through and wipe them all out, I did so fairly recently so there shouldn't be that many around right at this moment. -Djsasso (talk) 12:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

There are actually about 1200 when I checked with AWB yesterday but I wasn't able to do many of them due to Internet problems. I'm able to do more of them in a few hours time unless you want to them now Djsasso? --Ferien (talk) 12:58, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Interesting, my guess is a new template came over that had it in automatically or maybe Auntof6 cleared them. There are only about 40 right now. Sometimes a template update slips by me and I don't strip out the short description template from an infobox template. That is the first thing I check when I do a run. See how many can go away just by fixing any infobox that might be causing them all. -Djsasso (talk) 12:59, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Opps I lied, I was looking at a redirect not the actual template. There are more. -Djsasso (talk) 13:02, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh, cool, have fun with those --Ferien (talk) 13:09, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Yeah there are about 1200, just clearing them now. I must have gotten pulled away when I was doing them last time, thought I had gotten through them all. -Djsasso (talk) 13:12, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

They are all done now. -Djsasso (talk) 15:49, 11 March 2022 (UTC)