Babel AutoCreate

User TeX

If anyone is monitoring this talk page, this "user" created Category:User tex and Category:User tex-N with incorrect text (for some reason using the nonsense word "Tennet" instead of "TeX"). When {{#babel:…|TeX}} is used on a user page, one gets a similar message (userbox with "Tennet" in the text):

Babel user information
TeXThis Wikipedian is a TeX user.
Users by language

Which looks nothing like the one shown at Template:User TeX:

TeXThis Wikipedian is a TeX user.

I have no idea where this reference to "Tennet" is coming from (in the "#babel" userbox, I mean), so I'm not sure how to fix it. Similarly, I'm not sure why the extension is not "respecting" the already-created template. - dcljr (talk) 14:48, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, now I've created Template:User tex-0 and specifically called that via {{#babel:tex-0}}, which obviously "should" work (i.e., use the existing template instead of the auto-generated "Tennet" version). But as you can see.... - dcljr (talk) 15:12, 25 February 2012 (UTC) {{#babel:tex-0}}

Tennet is not a nonsense word; it refers to the Tennet language. The Babel extension is set up so that when a code refers to a language, it displays the language regardless of existing templates. See the relevant bug 34680: Babel doesn't distinguish between lower and upper case. SPQRobin (talk) 16:47, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixed in r112402: lowercase code gives precedence to built-in boxes, codes with one or more uppercase letters give precedence to existing templates. It will hopefully be deployed soon. SPQRobin (talk) 17:38, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I knew about the upper-/lower-case thing (although, obviously I didn't get the precedence details right). I didn't notice that Tennet was a language because Tennet was being redirected to TenneT, a Dutch company name. I'll fix that, and get Template:User tex-0 deleted. - dcljr (talk) 02:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Notice

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Unauthorized bot? Babel AutoCreate. Thank you.  Ryan Vesey 18:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Blocked

I've just blocked this bot for mass-creating incorrectly capitalised categories and categories without parent categories. I'll shortly be posting some bugs at Bugzilla. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:16, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

I've just found out that the categories without parent categories problem can be solved by editing MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-main, which I will do now and see if I can figure out how it works. However, the incorrect capitalisation is the main problem, I think, so I think the bot should stay blocked until that issue is resolved as well. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:57, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

I've filed bugs about the various issues involved here at bugzilla:61993, bugzilla:61994 and bugzilla:61995. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:22, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

@Mr. Stradivarius: I think it's time to consider unblocking this bot given the bugfixes that have been made to the Babel extension codebase since 2014 by me and others. Any objection? * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:57, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

@Pppery: Looks good to me; now unblocked. Thank you for your contributions to the code. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:29, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:User pt-br has been nominated for renaming

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Category:User hak-5 has been nominated for deletion

Category:User hak-5 has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Q28 (talk) 06:49, 27 March 2022 (UTC)