User:BrownHairedGirl/Articles with new bare URL refs

Explanation edit

This page exists solely as a list of articles for processing to cleanup bare URLs (see WP:Bare URLs). I do that by feeding these lists to Citation bot.

In the vast majority of cases, these are articles in which I have no interest other than fixing bare URL references (BURs).

Note that the definition of "bare URL reference" (BUR) used here is narrow: ref tags which contain only the URL, optionally preceded or followed by spaces, and/or enclosed in square brackets [].

For example:

bare URL, with no spaces: <ref>https://www.example.com/foo</ref>
bare URL, with spaces: <ref> https://www.example2.com/foobar </ref>
bracketed URL, with no spaces: <ref>[https://www.example.com/foo]</ref>
bracketed URL, with spaces: <ref> [https://www.example2.com/foobar] </ref>

There are of course many other types of inadequately described citation. This exercise targets only the simplest, worst examples. However, when Citation bot processes a page, it can fix many other citation issues, so this exercise fixes more than just the targeted problem.

Methodology edit

These lists of pages with new bare URL refs are derived from the database dumps published twice a month at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/.

The methodology is simple:

use WP:AWB's database scanner to find all the articles with BURs (ABURs) in the most recent database dump, using the regex <ref[^>]*?>\s*https?:[^>< \|\[\]]+(?<!\.pdf)\s*<\s*/\s*ref.
(Note that this regex ignores URLs which end with ".pdf". That is because citation bot cannot find titles or other metadata for PDFs.)
use the same method to find all the ABURs in a previous database dump
use AWB's list comparer tool to find the articles which are in the newer list, but not the older list
use AWB's pre-parse mode to find only articles which:
- still have one or more BURs. Checked by using the same regex as above; <ref[^>]*?>\s*https?:[^>< \|\[\]]+(?<!\.pdf)\s*<\s*/\s*ref

Scope edit

This list is based on a comparison of the 20220920 dump (44,594 ABURs) with the previous 20220901 dump (46,734 ABURs).

The comparison found:

4,171 ABURs which are only in the older (20220901) dump
42,563 ABURs which are in both old and new database dumps
2,031 ABURS which are only in the newer (20220920) dump

After pre-parsing the list of 2,031 new ABURS to remove any where the refs had been filled since the database dump was made, there were 1,458 ABURs to be processed by Citation bot.

Lists edit

The first pass filled (or inline-tagged) all the bare refs on 844 pages. The other 614 pages were processed again as "Take 2", because some URLs need multiple passes before they are filled.

After Take 2 was processed, 523 pages still had one or more untagged bare links. Those pages are Take 3.

After Take 3 was processed, 492 pages still had one or more untagged bare links. Those pages are Take 4.

After Take 4 was processed, 480 pages still had one or more untagged bare links. Those pages are Take 5.

After Take 5 was processed, 478 pages still had one or more untagged bare links. Those pages are Take 6.

After Take 6 was processed, 467 pages still had one or more untagged bare links. Those pages are Take 7.

New ABURs between 20220901 and 20220920, Take 7 edit

(467 pages)