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Errors 553, 554 555, 562 & 565 have same head text

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Errors 553, 554 555, 562 & 565 contain same text: error_5xx_head_xxwiki=<nowiki> tags END in Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation. Its confusing unless you read corresponding error_5xx_desc_xxwiki=. Keeping @NicoV in loop. రుద్రుడు (talk) 07:20, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi రుద్రుడు. FYI, errors 5xx are pure WPCleaner, they're not handled at all by checkwiki project.

All these errors are about nowiki tags, but different situations, so needing a really different code, that's why I split them. I voluntarily used the same short description so that they're merged in the comment generated by WPCleaner. You can use different short description if you want on your wiki, WPCleaner will simply add the description of each in the edit comment when they are concerned. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 07:42, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

er#69 isbn with incorrect syntax on svg file

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on kn:ಅಂತರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ದರ್ಜೆಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ it shows error for | image = EAN-13-ISBN.svg రుద్రుడు (talk) 05:25, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi రుద్రుడు. Does it happen only in WPCleaner, or also on checkwiki ?

There's no way for the tools to know this template parameter is a file name, so it checks also for ISBN syntax there and reports a false positive. You can configure a whitelist page like enwiki (parameter error_069_whitelistpage_enwiki and the list) if you want to remove it from the detection, or otherwise, simply ignore it. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:35, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

use of break tag in wikitable

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Perhaps, this is one kind of thousand, but i found use of break tag in wikitable. ex: section "ಟಿಕೆಟ್ ದರಗಳು" on ಪುಣೆ ಮೆಟ್ರೊ. Just bringing to your attention. రుద్రుడు (talk) 09:40, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi రుద్రుడు. Yes, break tags are valid syntax for wiki pages. What is the problem ? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:36, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Bots can not cope with <noinclude> tag

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noted message v2.05b - Bot T19 CW#83 - Fix errors for CW project (Heading start with three "=" and later with level two) undo Tag: WPCleaner on page that had subclusion text I was monitoring and sure enough bot had created mess in the master page which was easy to correct for me but perhaps not others.

Apologies if known issue but can not read back through lots of talk pages. Current bot logic can not detect case where a subcluded portion of a page might have a higher level heading in noinclude tag after the part to be subcluded which for this reason has lower level headings. Issue in this case created by a best practice attribution heading because some of current subcluded text contributed over the years on master page. I have got around this feature by using trim template and its #section-h functionality and creating higher level heading first in a noinclude section and such read better so no harm. However some human editors might not understand the noinclude directives used to get around this bot behaviour and so remove them and will not know of such templates so create such pages for simple subclusion. I also note that bots do not read inline comments with artificial intelligence yet so minor heading issues may continue in subcluded pages at random.ChaseKiwi (talk) 19:15, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi ChaseKiwi. Sorry, I didn't see your message earlier.

I've modified WPCleaner to avoid applying fixes for CW#83 on pages with either includeonly, noinclude or onlyinclude tags.

Ping me if the problem is still happening. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 20:51, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Great, should help other editors not aware of trim template functionality ChaseKiwi (talk) 09:02, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Add meta ?

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Hi @Bamyers99. Is it possible to add meta to the list of wikis supported by checkwiki ? Some time ago, I created a translation file on my user subpages, meta:User:NicoV/WCW/Translation, I can move it somewhere else if it's more practical. NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:29, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

@NicoV: Meta has been added here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:46, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 13:54, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Bamyers99. Just to report a false positive on CW#31 (HTML table element) that reports several thousand pages: it reports <tr which matches <translate> a widely used tag on meta. I will disable this detection on meta, so no problem if no modification done on checkwiki. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:40, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

@NicoV: Fixed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:46, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

checkwiki on zhwiki

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Translation of checkwiki page was moved WikiProject:错误检查/翻译, it'S seems that the program can't read the setting. Please recheck, thanks. Willy1018(talk) 12:13, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

@Willy1018: It has now been updated. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:00, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

@Willy1018: Done also for WPCleaner configuration. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:07, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

CW#67 (reference after punctuation) false positive

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Hi @Bamyers99. I'm trying to improve my bot for automatically fixing as much as possible for CW#67, and I've just found some false positives : when a ; is before a reference, it may not be as a punctuation but as a HTML named character, like in Liste des grandes cavités pseudokarstiques with Pozzo dei Sogni&nbsp;<ref name=avant1992 />. NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:04, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

And similar problem with HTML numerical characters, like here, 2 en [[Départements d'outre-mer|outre-mer]]&#8203;<ref group="Note" name="OM" />. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:14, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

And similar problem with ; used at the beginning of a line, like here. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:27, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

@NicoV: It will now ignore HTML entities and punctuation at the beginning of a line. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:21, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:23, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Question on CW#67 (reference after punctuation)

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Hi @Bamyers99. Just a question on CW#67 configuration. Currently on frwiki, we have configured abbreviations like p. to avoid detecting p.<ref...>, but it also avoids detecting things like beaucoup.<ref...>. Is there a way to properly configure CW#67 to handle this situation? Thanks. NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 09:39, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

@NicoV: It will now check for a word boundary (regex \b) at the beginning of the abbreviation. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:19, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot ! --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:23, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Bamyers99. Thanks a lot but this change introduces some false positives for frwiki: we have voluntarily decided to ignore punctuations ! and ? because they yield too much false positives, so we've added them as abbreviations in CW#67 configuration. The whitespace before the exclamation mark or the question mark is not counted as a word boundary, so articles like Ahantas or Alain Goffin are now reported while they were previously ignored. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:37, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

@NicoV: Fixed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:29, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Joining Checkwiki

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I frequently hop on Wikipedia and fix small error in articles. I would like to know how I can join Checkwiki and start making edits.

Thanks, ItsCheck (talk) 00:49, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi ItsCheck and welcome. I think the best way is to install a tool that helps fix errors, like WPCleaner (but I'm partial as I'm its author...), and start tackle errors with it. If you see problems (false positives...), or if you're unsure of what to do for some situations, you can ask. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:56, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi NicoV. I am not interested in joining Checkwiki anymore. Thank you for the offer. ItsCheck (talk) 16:53, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Category:Module:Wd reference errors

For anyone with Wikidata knowledge there's now a category tracking reference errors caused by incorrect setup data. As I understand it the main issue is usually that the reference has a missing title value. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 19:24, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

itwikiquote

Hi, could you please include itwikiquote in the Check Wikipedia tools? I have created the it:q:Wikiquote:WikiProjekt Check Wikipedia/Translation page. GryffindorD (talk) 09:49, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

@GryffindorD: itwikiquote has been added here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:49, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

@Bamyers99 You could put the translation page in "Translation page" and the "No data" in "Local page"? Thank you and sorry for the trouble. GryffindorD (talk) 17:04, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

@GryffindorD: I made a mistake in the configuration. This has been fixed and the dump scan has been rerun. Any tasks marked as done will have been reset to not done. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:49, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Add "Wikiquote:Elenchi generati offline/Check Wikipedia" in "Local page." Thank you! GryffindorD (talk) 06:18, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

@GryffindorD: Done. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:12, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Mistaken ISSN

https://checkwiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=only&id=107 is claiming the article Carmel College, Thornlands contains a mistaken ISSN not featuring exactly 8 digits. Indeed, it doesn't: instead, the article briefly mentions an event titled QISSN that the bot is mistakenly flagging. Is there any way to manually remove this from the error list so it won't be listed again, or even better set the scanner to ignore "ISSNs" that are directly preceded by other letters? 2603:8001:4542:28FB:C42A:86EF:90BA:97A3 (talk) 00:57, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I wrapped it in {{notatypo}}, which usually fixes edge cases like this. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:16, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

dewiki Last dump 2018-11-01

 Resolved Moin Moin together and Moin Bamyers99, when I open the mainpage of CheckWikipedia I can easily see, that the last full dump for dewiki is now five years old. From the last time I asked for a new, I remember difficults in the setup from this. So I wanted to asked, if it will be possible to setup a newer full dump for dewiki because of nearly 500.000 new articles in it and many changed templates. Bamyers99 what do you think, is it possible? King regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 08:52, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

@Crazy1880: I will look into running the dump scan after the November 1st regular dump scans are complete. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:42, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, it will help ;) Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 17:03, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Moin Bamyers99, do you have a status for me? Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 06:07, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Crazy1880: Based on last months dump scans, it takes until the 12th for the regular dump scans to finish. I will start the dewiki dump scan when those are finished. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:09, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Moin Bamyers99, thank, got ya, it helps me to understand how it works ;) Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 17:53, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Crazy1880: The dump scan is done. I modified the dump scan so that it added the errors it found to the daily scans for rechecking. That way any dump scan found errors that had already been fixed would not be reported again. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:00, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Moin Bamyers99, really thanks a lot for the update, it will help, i saw that the last days already. ;) King regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 05:53, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

error #43 on frwiki

Hello
For some days we have on frwiki some errors #43, all related to {clade} model. (today's list).
When looking, I don't see anything wrong. Could you tell me what I'm missing ?
Thanks. Croquemort Nestor (talk) 09:38, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Is it related to checkwiki.pl - limit number template end not found errors ? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 09:43, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

@Croquemort Nestor: I had limited the nested template check to 10 templates deep to reduce the processing for articles with many unterminated templates (caused by a malfunctioning bot). I have increased the limit to 25 nested templates deep. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:55, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Good morning. No change : we still have 15 errors #43 related to {clade} today. Croquemort Nestor (talk) 06:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Bamyers99. Maybe, it shouldn't report an error if there are more templates than the limit ? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 07:01, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks. Croquemort Nestor (talk) 06:08, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

#11

For error id #11, HTML entities, it'd be neat if the list was on all Wikis (SKWiki lacks it, for example), together with the HTML entities. I've never seen some of these, I don't know what they are and what to look for in the code, so a full list of both HTML/Unicode would be quite nice. KormiSK (talk) 16:28, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

@KormiSK: The descriptions are configured on the translation page. Search for error_011_desc_skwiki=. Feel free to change the description. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:24, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

#41

Errors such as #41, HTML text style element <big> (description on SKWiki only partial), do not say what the new solution should be. This error links to WP:HTML5#Big, which does not exist, so no alternative is actually given. This tag is also normally used by both Source and Visual editors, so I'm not sure what the alternate to this tag even is. KormiSK (talk) 16:28, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

@KormiSK: Example: <span style="font-size: 150%;">...</span> --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:34, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Time out

Hello ! There is a "Webservice request timed out" message since this morning - french time. Croquemort Nestor (talk) 08:15, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Moin Moin Bamyers99, in the german too. Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 09:29, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@Croquemort Nestor, Crazy1880, and Msz2001: It has been restarted and is back up. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks ! Croquemort Nestor (talk) 14:09, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot ;) Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 16:46, 27 November 2023 (UTC)