Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes

How to disable ReorderReferences fix?

Sometime reference order has its own logic, and ReorderReferences breaks it. Is it any way to disable this and only this fix? A.sav (talk) 22:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

This was disabled eons ago, no? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:05, 26 January 2024 (UTC) Do you have a diff?

I updated the WP:AWB/GF#ReorderReferences (ReorderReferences) documentation to indicate this function was removed from en.wiki in 2017. GoingBatty (talk) 00:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

This works in ruwiki/ukwiki (diff). Any way to disable in local preferences or I need to push Russian/Ukrainian adminstrators? --A.sav (talk) 07:20, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

The change to disable it covered en-wiki only. If there are other language wikis that would like it disabled then please raise an AWB phabricator ticket - you should confirm on the ticket that there is consensus on each wiki to do that - we're not in a position to verify ourselves any wiki discussions in other languages. Otherwise/in the meantime you can configure your own AWB to run genfixes via custom module - see here and disable the ones you don't want. Rjwilmsi 09:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

👍 Thanks a lot! A.sav (talk) 11:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Is it possible to disable this with nogenfixes property in WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Config ? A.sav (talk) 21:54, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@A.sav: WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Config only contains pages on the English Wikipedia. You would need to request additions to pages on the other Wikipedias, such as ru:Википедия:AutoWikiBrowser/Config and uk:Вікіпедія:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. GoingBatty (talk) 22:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I understand it. Is it technically possible to disable this feature and is it possible to read documentation about WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Config syntaх and features? A.sav (talk) 22:07, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@A.sav: As Rjwilmsi indicated above, it's possible for the developers to disable the feature for various wikis, but you have to make a request by going to Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Before you post and click "filing a new task", and provide a link to a discussion on that wiki that there is consensus to disable it. Rjwilmsi also mentioned that it is possible for YOU to disable it in your version of AWB by loading a custom module into your AWB - see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Custom Modules#Customised "General Fixes". There is some documentation of the config page at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage format. GoingBatty (talk) 22:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

In fact, Wikipedia works in the opposite way. First developers must obtain consensus to make changes, and then they can make a tool that implements them. Sneeuwschaap (talk) 17:01, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't think the makers of Vector 2022 got that memo. Certes (talk) 18:47, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

@Sneeuwschaap: I agree that consensus has to exist before developers make or change a tool. But it's OK for a user to suggest a change to a developer and quote existing consensus. There are dozens of examples of this in the AWB Phabricator board. GoingBatty (talk) 21:29, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Could you please tell me where in SVN I can get the latest version for customization and for updating the code here? Thanks! A.sav (talk) 12:30, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

BLP tagging

I'm hoping somewhere here is more familiar with the correct policy on this. According to the section on this page, AWB "removes |blp=no, |activepol=no, |collapsed=no" from banner shells. It also says:

If WikiProject Biography exists inside the shell:

with |living=no then removes |blp=yes if exists

with |living=yes then adds |blp=yes

with |activepol=yes then adds |actipol=yes

with |blpo=yes then adds |blpo=yes

This means that talk pages with blp=no in their banner shell will lose the living parameter when AWB is run on the page. The living parameter is required on all biographies per Template:WikiProject banner shell#Parameters. See this edit for example. The biography articles without a living parameter category has a sudden 650 page backlog because of this. I'm assuming this is supposed to happen but I don't understand the point. Are articles supposed to have the blp parameter in the banner shell or in the WikiProject Biography template? Is the |living= alias preferred over blp=? Does this change if the subject is living or dead? Because right now AWB just seems to be removing living parameters and not replacing them.

Thanks in advance, Clearfrienda ^💬 17:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

AWB 6.3.1.1 does not condense duplicated references

In Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf AWB set 4 unnamed references as <ref name="france24.com"> but does not condense these ones. It seems these refs meet all requirements. Is it OK? A.sav (talk) 12:45, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

It's because the first instance of the reference is used inside the infobox. As AWB can't tell from the source code of the page whether the infoxbox will render that parameter and hence the reference, AWB cannot safely condense later references. We had to have this restriction because of problems in the past. Rjwilmsi 13:03, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! BTW AWB does not treat <ref>{{Cite web|...}} and <ref>{{cite web|...}} as the same. They are differed by just one single (un)capitalized letter in template name. Is it worth implementing? A.sav (talk) 13:33, 25 October 2024 (UTC)