User:Matthewedwards/Nowrap problems/Create list


 * 1: First create a new empty directory on your disk. Then create three text files named "begin01.txt", "end01.txt" and "wrap01.txt" in that directory.
 * 2: Then go to nowrap begin -> "What links here" and set "Namespace" to "Template", click [Go], then click "View (500)". Then copy and paste all those "Template:... (transclusion)" links into "begin.txt". (That's one operation, just take all those lines in one big copy and paste operation.) Then "View (next 500)" + copy and paste, and so on until all those links are in "begin01.txt".
 * 3: Then do the same for nowrap end placing those links in "end01.txt".
 * 4: Then do the same for all the wrap, !wrap etc templates. But only for the actual templates, not for their shorter names that redirect to them. And put all those links into the same file, the "wrap01.txt". Note that some links might now occur more than once in "wrap01.txt", but we'll fix that later.
 * 5: Then open a DOS window, "cd" (change directory) to the directory where you have the "begin01.txt" etc files. There type the command " ". Which means we get a version with all lines sorted in "begin02.txt".
 * 6: Then do " " and " ". (Don't close the DOS window afterwards, since you will need it later.)
 * 7: Then open "begin02.txt" in a text editor and remove the junk lines you get before and after the link lines. Do the same for "end02.txt" and "wrap02.txt".
 * 8: Now comes one of the trickier parts, you might want to re-save the files as "begin03.txt" etc. before you do this since it is easy to mess up. You need a decent text editor with good search and replace functionality for this, the Windows Notepad is not good enough. Your word processor might be good enough. Use the "search and replace" feature in the editor to change this:
 * To this:
 * That is, mark the first part of the first line and choose "replace" in the editor menu and choose to replace with nothing and to "replace all". And then mark the end of the first line and replace all with nothing. Now all lines should be clean from junk before and after the actual template link.
 * 9: Next step is to fix duplicate lines in "wrap03.txt". Unfortunately there are no tools in Windows and in most editors for this. But since the list is now sorted the human eye can pretty easily spot any duplicates. So go through "wrap03.txt" manually and turn any duplicates into a single line. There might be triplicates or more in there too, make them single lines too.
 * 10: Now you should have three clean lists: "begin03.txt", "end03.txt" and "wrap03.txt". Now we can compare them to find templates that don't have all three of "nowrap begin" + "some kind of wrap" + "nowrap end".
 * 11: Create a file named "beginend01.txt" and paste all the lines from "begin03.txt" and "end03.txt" into it.
 * 12: Open the DOS window again if you don't already have it open and see to that you are in the right directory. Then sort "beginend01.txt" by running this command at the DOS prompt: " "
 * 13: Open "beginend02.txt" in your editor and take a look. Most lines should now be duplicates. The ones that are not duplicates are the ones who doesn't have both "nowrap begin" and "nowrap end". So the non-duplicates are the ones we want. Before you do the next step you might want to re-save as "beginend03.txt".
 * 14: Now comes the hardest work: Go through "beginend03.txt" manually and remove both lines of all duplicate lines, so you only retain those lines that were not duplicates.
 * 14: Now lets compare "nowrap begin" and "wrap": Create a file named "beginwrap01.txt" and paste all the lines from "begin03.txt" and "wrap03.txt" into it.
 * 15: Then sort "beginwrap01.txt" by running this command at the DOS prompt: " "
 * 16: Before you do the next step you might want to re-save "beginwrap02.txt" as "beginwrap03.txt".
 * 17: Now comes the hardest work again: Go through "beginwrap03.txt" manually and remove both lines of all duplicate lines, so you only retain those lines that were not duplicates.
 * 18: A good thing is that we don't need to compare "end03.txt" and "wrap03.txt". That probably seems contrary to intuition. (Explanation: Any template that doesn't have a "nowrap begin" is listed in either "beginend03.txt" or "beginwrap03.txt". Any template that doesn't have a "nowrap end" is listed in "beginend03.txt". Any template that doesn't have a "wrap" (or similar) is listed in "beginwrap03.txt".)
 * 19: Now we need to merge "beginend03.txt" and "beginwrap03.txt". So create a file named "total01.txt" and paste all the lines from "beginend03.txt" and "beginwrap03.txt" into it.
 * 20: Then sort "total01.txt" by running this command at the DOS prompt: " "
 * 21: Open "total02.txt" in your editor and take a look. There might be some duplicate lines there. That is templates that have a "nowrap begin" but no "wrap" and no "nowrap end", or templates that have no "nowrap begin" but both "wrap" and "nowrap end".
 * 22: Go through "total02.txt" and manually turn any duplicates into single lines. Now you have the full clean list of "templates with obvious nowrap problems".
 * 23: Re-save "total02.txt" as "total03.txt".
 * 24: Now you need to add some wikimarkup before and after the template names so you can use the list on a wiki page. So for each line turn this:
 * Into something like this:
 * There's several ways to do that efficiently, one is to use the search and replace feature of your text editor and search for the newlines and replace them with all that including a newline. That is to replace say " " with " ". And do "replace all" once it worked for one line. The trick to find what newline symbol your editor uses is to mark a newline before you choose "search and replace", then many editors automatically fill in the "search" field.
 * 25: And you're done! Good luck with all this!
 * Into something like this:
 * There's several ways to do that efficiently, one is to use the search and replace feature of your text editor and search for the newlines and replace them with all that including a newline. That is to replace say " " with " ". And do "replace all" once it worked for one line. The trick to find what newline symbol your editor uses is to mark a newline before you choose "search and replace", then many editors automatically fill in the "search" field.
 * 25: And you're done! Good luck with all this!
 * 25: And you're done! Good luck with all this!