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strange results today

Hello,
We have strange results this morning on frwiki:
List of errors is a partial list of yesterday's errors, which have been already corrected.
I mean "partial" because this is not the full list of yesterdays'errors : for exemple we had yesterday around 30 errors #3, and this morning we have only 13 from yesterday.
Thanks for your help.
--Croquemort Nestor (talk) 04:41, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

@Croquemort Nestor: The July 20 database dump was scanned at Wed Jul 21 12:01:41, so it would have reported again any errors that were fixed between July 20 and the dump scan. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:41, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Request to add wikis on Checkwiki

Hi NicoV, Can we include mentioned wikis on Check Wikipedia tools?

• bnwikibooks b:bn:উইকিবই:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation
• bnwikisource s:bn:উইকিসংকলন:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation
• bnwikivoyage voy:bn:উইকিভ্রমণ:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation
• bnwiktionary wikt:bn:উইকিঅভিধান:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation
• commonswiki c:Commons:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation (if possible)

The first step has done, created a configuration page for each wiki. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:31, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi ZI Jony. It's rather Bamyers99 that can add the wikis to Check Wikipedia. I can only add them to WPCleaner if you want. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 20:10, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

@ZI Jony: bnwikisource, bnwikivoyage, bnwiktionary have been added. Checkwiki doesn't support any wikibooks languages nor commonswiki. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:28, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Bamyers99, thanks for your work. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 14:21, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi ZI Jony. If you're interested, I've also configured WPCleaner to work on the 5 wikis (list), and link its configuration to Check Wikipedia configuration. Note that Check Wikipedia configuration on wikisource has been deleted. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 13:33, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi NicoV, Are you talking about run WPCleaner bot on those wikis? If yes, I can't say yes at the moment! because, community approval is required. Thanks also for your note. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 15:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi ZI Jony. I was talking about running WPCleaner manually with its user interface (like Wikipedia:WPCleaner/Check wiki), not as a bot. If you want to run WPCleaner as a bot on those wikis, you will have to do it yourself (but now WPCleaner can run there) because I don't operate my bot on wikis where I don't speak the language . --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 16:30, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi NicoV, Thanks for your helping thoughts, you are welcome to run WPCleaner manually. I'm the only one person who is doing Check Wikipedia on those wikis! Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:36, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi ZI Jony. Sorry, I wasn't clear: I won't run it manually (same as with running a bot, I don't when I don't speak the language), but you can use it yourself if it helps you fix the errors. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 16:40, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi NicoV, it will definitely helps me to fix the errors, but I'm not well aware that how to start and run WPCleaner! Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 17:02, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi ZI Jony: you have Wikipedia:WPCleaner/Installation if you're interested. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 20:34, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi NicoV, thanks, I've run WPCleaner itself on enwiki, its work for me here. However, Its not working for bnwikis! I can't recognize all Bangla words, maybe we need to add Bangla fonts (like, AWB "Set edit box font") for WPCleaner. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:08, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi ZI Jony. Ah, yes, it's difficult for some languages to display them properly with Java. I tried one thing, but it's far from perfect: I download unifont.ttf from Unifont project, and installed this font on my Windows 10 computer (right click on the file and select Install). Then I started WPCleaner, and in the Options (formatting tab), I selected Unifont as the font to use. There are still many places in WPCleaner were the Bangla characters will appear as squares, but the main edit area seem to be able to display both Bangla and Latin characters. Having WPCleaner properly display texts everywhere will require some work on my end. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:24, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi NicoV, I've tried same thing, I use Kalpurush (it is our Bangla wiki font) font in formatting tab but same issue. Please do the needful and let me know when you done. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 16:13, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Bamyers99, could you please clarify that which dump(s) you are using for updating Check Wikipedia? because, all Bangla Wikis Check Wikipedia updated based on July 20, (19 days ago). Could you please make the configuration that Check Wikipedia will update based on most recent dump(s), nor every week? Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 01:32, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@ZI Jony: Most of the dumps are stalled per Wikimedia Downloads. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:40, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Bamyers99, could you please check again, per most recent dumps last updated dumps for all Bangla Wikis is 2021-08-01, but per Check Wikipedia Last scanned dump 2021-07-20 (19 days old) and Last Check Wikipedia updated on 2021-07-21. Please try to update Check Wikipedia if possible. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 14:34, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@ZI Jony: Notice how it says "Partial dump" next the the bn... entries. That means that the dump has not finished yet. If you click on the link for bnwiktionary and search for the file that Checkwiki uses: bnwiktionary-20210801-pages-articles.xml.bz2, just above that line it says "waiting". --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:19, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 15:52, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

phab:T287701

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T287701
Resolved

Hello. Is it possible to add a search for usage of mw-content-ltr/rtl styles without usage of dir and lang altogether? Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 15:47, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. Is this list Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 570 dump seems ok to you? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 05:12, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for being late. Looks good, but why they all are only divs? Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 21:12, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. I'm not filtering on the type of tag, so they should be reported also. Do you think it happens for other types of tags? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:15, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm surprized that span and code are not there. IKhitron (talk) 15:49, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. A simple search returns results for div tags outside main namespace, but not for span tags or code tags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=insource%3A%2F\%3Cdiv+class\%3D[%22%27]mw-content-(ltr|rtl)[%22%27]\%3E%2F&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1 (for div tags)

This search may miss some instances, but it seems normal that my bot doesn't find any. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 17:32, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

You can rerun the original bot on hewiki, there is one there. IKhitron (talk) 18:39, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. Yes, there's one article on hewiki with a span tag, see the dump analysis. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:31, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Now, does it check classes combinations? For example, <div style="..." class="... ...rtl ..." lang=...>. IKhitron (talk) 17:07, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. Normally, yes, I check if class contains mw-content-ltr or mw-content-rtl, so class combination should be ok. There's just a theoretical risk of false positive if there was a class named mw-content-ltr2... --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I have no more questions. IKhitron (talk) 17:23, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi. Is there something new with this? IKhitron (talk) 17:17, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Any news, @NicoV? Thanks. IKhitron (talk) 02:24, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. No, I thought everything was done. What news did you expect? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:36, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Well, @NicoV, turning it on would be nice, I think. IKhitron (talk) 03:21, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. On enWP, it's on, last update. If you mean heWP, dump analysis takes time, so I try to restrict myself to enWP and frWP. I can explain how to run it on other wikis if someone is interested. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 07:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

What about a page ID in CheckWiki? IKhitron (talk) 20:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Bamyers99 ? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:31, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

@NicoV and IKhitron: I only signed on as a maintainer to keep the program running. I am not interested in adding new reports. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:22, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

So, looks like we can't use it. A pity. IKhitron (talk) 23:06, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

id91

Hi. Please add fandom to id91. Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 11:06, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

@IKhitron: id91 only looks for wikipedia.org language sub-domains. Example: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:32, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

This is why I've suggested to extend it. IKhitron (talk) 12:46, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi IKhitron. If you're interested, WPCleaner can also look for any external link that matches an interwiki link, provided the configuration is added to activate that check (error_091_only_local_enwiki and error_091_only_language_enwiki in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia/Translation#Errors 091 to 100, see fr:Projet:Correction syntaxique/Traduction#Erreurs 091 à 100). But the list of errors (see Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 091 dump), is already big with only the language sub-domains. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:26, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

I see. Thanks, I'll think about this. IKhitron (talk) 15:49, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

CW2

Why does WPC 002 dump include non-empty and not-obviously broken instances of <cite> in it? All those entries also don't match toolforge.

I don't mind cite in article space being tracked somewhere -- it's almost always an error or should be in a template, like currently-off 566 -- I'm just pretty sure it shouldn't be there. Izno (talk) 00:23, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Izno. I've added it to WPC because indeed cite tags directly in articles are almost always an error (most of the time probably due to CX2 adding junk to translated articles). I can extract it from error #2 and create a new error if you think it should be better. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 18:46, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Could you please? It is also a different fix usually than the 'broken tags' WPC 2 (fix the tag != revert the whole thing and turn it back into a template).

Separately, I don't know if it's possible, but it would be nice if I could get a one-off list of all articles with an HTML tag in the wikitext with the citation class on it. Izno (talk) 18:51, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Izno. Cite tags will appear in WPC 571 dump instead of WPC 002 dump. I will see if I can generate the list you're asking for. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 17:01, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

class="citation" and equivalent (class=citation, class="citation web", etc...) are indicative of the same kind of issues as <cite> appearing in wikitext, so you might consider putting those in the same report permanently. Up to you. Izno (talk) 20:14, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Izno. I will do the first generation in WPC 999 dump, and after I'll see if I group it with 571. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:26, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

It is remarkable that the first run only caught the one page that Special:Search catches now (I took care of several hundred others with Special:Search). Thanks! Izno (talk) 14:33, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Spurious error?

The Science Page statistics appears to display a spurious error --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 23:46, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

@Ancheta Wis: Checkwiki does not understand nested {{...{{'s, so it reported the wrong }}. Funny enough, it was an edit that you made on May 23, 2019 that introduced the error. I have fixed the Science article. --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:20, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining this. --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 01:45, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Help finding TemplateData errors

I recently fixed TemplateData on Template:Infobox organization but did not find an easy way to search for other potentially affected templates with errors, particularly high traffic ones. Is there a tracking category for this? This mainly impacts the editing experience when people add templates with the modern (2017?) visual editor ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 16:40, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

@Shushugah: You could perform an insource search in the Template space to search for similar code. For example, searching for insource:"proporcionar" in the Template space will find Template:Short description/doc. Hope this helps, and thanks for keeping the templates up to date! GoingBatty (talk) 17:54, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Request to add astwiki

Hi all. What is necessary to add a project to Check Wiki? I'd like to have astwiki here. YoaR (talk) 15:56, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi YoaR. I think it's mostly:

• Create a configuration page (like Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation) on astwiki, configure it, and report here what the page name is
• Bamyers99 will add astwiki to the list of wikis
• I can add it also to WPCleaner if interested

--NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 16:08, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

@NicoV: Ok, thanks. I'm going to create that page and I'll come back here. YoaR (talk) 21:32, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Break in list at North Platte, Nebraska

This change [1] messed up the format of a list within a Template:Expand section by merging the final item in a list with the text following the list. I can't really fault the script too much, because ending the list with a <br> was not correct, but the fact remains that it looked ok before the change and not after. What if anything should have been done here? GA-RT-22 (talk) 14:18, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

mistakes

Hello. In category &id=8 a lot of nornal headings, such as "== Известные носители ==</noinclude>" and "== Известные носители ==<onlyinclude>". It's work and requires no fix. Sorry for my english, --Jaguar K (talk) 20:49, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Jaguar K: I have modified checkwiki to ignore noinclude, onlyinclude, includeonly tags for error #8. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:07, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Add bswiki

Hello! I'd like to request bswiki be added to CheckWiki. @Bamyers99:: configuration is here: bs:Korisnik:Ivi104/CheckWiki. @NicoV: I would also like to request WPCleaner support. Thank you! Ivi104 (talk) 13:31, 4 January 2022 (UTC)