Wikipedia talk:Database reports/Linked misspellings

Exclude piped links

This report has been very helpful to find misspellings that tools such as AWB and WPCleaner are programmed to ignore. However, with 1,000 entries, it's a daunting task to clean these up. In order to help prioritize the entries on this report, could someone please temporarily update the report to exclude piped links, so we can focus on those misspellings that are presented to the reader? For example, it's more important to fix [[Tennesee]] than it is to fix [[Tennesee|TN]]. I realize that this might exclude some piped links that present misspellings to the user, such as [[Millersberg, Michigan|Millersberg]] (instead of Millersburg), which is why I'm requesting this change to be temporary. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Anthropomorphization

Anthropomorphization (BrEng: Anthropomorphisation) should not be on this list. See any good dictionary. Anthropomorphization is the use or application of anthropmorphism, the act or process of anthropomorphizing. It should not be replaced with "anthropomorphism" or any other word as a matter of course, though some constructions using it can be completely rewritten (true of most any long word).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:08, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Since I made this edit, the bot will remove it from the list on the next run, since the word is no longer tagged with {{R from misspelling}}. The bot runs every Thursday. wbm1058 (talk) 01:52, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Source code and configuration

See Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings/Configuration. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:42, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: Can you set this up to run more than once a week? With it only running on Thursdays, it's hard to get the list to have under 100 items on it, as every week another ±100 items are added. If it's not too expensive to run this, can you run it on Mondays as well? Or even daily? I'm hoping to attract more editors to help work this list, and as you can see from the post at the top of this page, editors can find long work queues more daunting. This would also lead to already-fixed items lingering on the list for shorter durations. Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 14:56, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi wbm1058. Sure, done. --MZMcBride (talk) 15:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: another request. Please set up Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalisations/Configuration. See Template:R from miscapitalisation and Category:Redirects from miscapitalisations. I think you can just copy Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings/Configuration and change the template, category and report names. The logic for creating the report should be the same. Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 17:16, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi wbm1058. It sounds like you know what you want to do and you have the necessary source code. Can you set up the report yourself instead? --MZMcBride (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

MZMcBride, so all I need to do is create that file and the bot will auto-magically start operating? I was assuming the bot operator needed to do something. wbm1058 (talk) 21:21, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

OK, I created the configuration file. Will look for the first report to see whether I got it right. wbm1058 (talk) 21:37, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Hah, sorry, no. These scripts run on a server and the on-wiki configuration pages are just for reference. It would be incredibly dangerous to take raw Python from a wiki page and execute it directly. Do you have a strong preference for the spelling "miscapitalisation"? I'd prefer "miscapitalization" personally. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:57, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

As an American I would spell it with a "z" but Template:R from miscapitalisation and Category:Redirects from miscapitalisations use an "s" which is why I did too. But I don't care much, I suppose either is fine. wbm1058 (talk) 22:05, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Okay. I made this commit: <https://github.com/mzmcbride/database-reports/commit/3796b66657c6a353b25202d62845e64c48b7b8dd>. I also updated Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations/Configuration. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:39, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I see the first version of Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations is waiting for me! wbm1058 (talk) 21:58, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: another request for you to create another cousin of this report. {{R from incorrect name}} populates Category:Redirects from incorrect names. Can you create a similar report showing the articles that have links to redirects in this category? I'm not sure, but I supspect these aren't yet being tracked for correction. I have no idea how many artcles might be flagged by such a report. – wbm1058 (talk) 18:54, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

If you give a mouse a muffin, man. But seriously, it would be vastly simpler if you edited the Python files themselves and deployed the changes rather than having me do it. Are you able to use GitHub and SSH? --MZMcBride (talk) 09:57, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

@MZMcBride: If it's too much trouble, that's OK. I don't really know Python, and it would take me some time to figure it out, though at one time I was more familiar with database query languages. Same for GitHub and SSH. Since I began editing Wikipedia, I have become familar with the intracacies of template editing, which took a surprising amount of time to figure out... and it still can take some significant time to understand some of the more intricate templates. I can putz around with Lua but haven't yet taken time to become fluent with it. I've self-taught myself enough PHP, regex and bot API to be pretty handy with bots of that type, including writing my own library functions because nobody else has. I know my way around Microsoft Windows (Notepad and Task Scheduler) to run Wikipedia bots. Less so with Linux though I was running Ubuntu on a machine for a while. I worked with FORTRAN and COBOL back in the day but those aren't of much use around here. Picking up PHP wasn't too hard because I found it to be not that different from the dialect of FORTRAN I used 20 years ago. It would be nice if the WMF had more of an interest in training me, but about the only techie thing they were pushing at last October's Wikiconference was Wikidata. Sigh. And then if I can ever pull myself away from my gnome tasks, I was going to learn Javascript over at freeCodeCamp. Maybe it would be easier to install Python on my Windows machine and run the job with Task Scheduler. This week I've been working on the backlog at Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge, and at the current pace that task might keep me busy for a few years. LOL. Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 01:33, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Related report is now available

Hi. I recently created Potentially untagged misspellings (configuration). I'm hoping it can be used to feed this linked misspellings report. Any feedback or recommendations for this new report would be welcome anywhere. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:14, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Quantas

I cannot figure out for the life of me why Quantas is linked to (well actually from transclusion) by Qantas. Can anyone else take a peek? It is probably right in front of me but I cannot figure it out ~ Eejit43 (talk) 02:14, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Seems to have been fixed– was caused by {{Redirect}}. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 14:35, 14 December 2022 (UTC)