Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes

{Improve categories} & {Uncategorized} moved from below categories to above categories
Instead, they should be placed immediately after categories, or as a hatnote at the top of the page, per MOS:ORDER. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 03:30, 9 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Note that these were templates added to MOS:ORDER in Dec 2021-Feb 2022, after the last official AWB release. GoingBatty (talk) 05:56, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
 * True... perhaps then this is more of a feature request than a bug report...  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:49, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

How to disable ReorderReferences fix?
Sometime reference order has its own logic, and ReorderReferences breaks it. Is it any way to disable this and only this fix? A.sav (talk) 22:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * This was disabled eons ago, no? &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:05, 26 January 2024 (UTC) Do you have a diff?
 * I updated the WP:AWB/GF to indicate this function was removed from en.wiki in 2017. GoingBatty (talk) 00:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * This works in ruwiki/ukwiki (diff). Any way to disable in local preferences or I need to push Russian/Ukrainian adminstrators? --A.sav (talk) 07:20, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The change to disable it covered en-wiki only. If there are other language wikis that would like it disabled then please raise an AWB phabricator ticket - you should confirm on the ticket that there is consensus on each wiki to do that - we're not in a position to verify ourselves any wiki discussions in other languages. Otherwise/in the meantime you can configure your own AWB to run genfixes via custom module - see here and disable the ones you don't want. Rjwilmsi  09:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 👍 Thanks a lot! A.sav (talk) 11:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to disable this with nogenfixes property in WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Config ? A.sav (talk) 21:54, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @A.sav: WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Config only contains pages on the English Wikipedia. You would need to request additions to pages on the other Wikipedias, such as ru:Википедия:AutoWikiBrowser/Config and uk:Вікіпедія:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. GoingBatty (talk) 22:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understand it. Is it technically possible to disable this feature and is it possible to read documentation about WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Config syntaх and features? A.sav (talk) 22:07, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @A.sav: As indicated above, it's possible for the developers to disable the feature for various wikis, but you have to make a request by going to Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser and click "filing a new task", and provide a link to a discussion on that wiki that there is consensus to disable it.  Rjwilmsi also mentioned that it is possible for YOU to disable it in your version of AWB by loading a custom module into your AWB - see AutoWikiBrowser/Custom Modules.  There is some documentation of the config page at AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage format.  GoingBatty (talk) 22:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * In fact, Wikipedia works in the opposite way. First developers must obtain consensus to make changes, and then they can make a tool that implements them. Sneeuwschaap (talk) 17:01, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think the makers of Vector 2022 got that memo. Certes (talk) 18:47, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Sneeuwschaap: I agree that consensus has to exist before developers make or change a tool. But it's OK for a user to suggest a change to a developer and quote existing consensus.  There are dozens of examples of this in the AWB Phabricator board. GoingBatty (talk) 21:29, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

BLP tagging
I'm hoping somewhere here is more familiar with the correct policy on this. According to the section on this page, AWB "removes,  ,  " from banner shells. It also says:


 * If WikiProject Biography exists inside the shell:
 * with  then removes   if exists
 * with  then adds
 * with  then adds
 * with  then adds

This means that talk pages with  in their banner shell will lose the living parameter when AWB is run on the page. The living parameter is required on all biographies per Template:WikiProject banner shell. See this edit for example. The biography articles without a living parameter category has a sudden 650+ page backlog because of this. I'm assuming this is supposed to happen but I don't understand the point. Are articles supposed to have the blp parameter in the banner shell or in the WikiProject Biography template? Is the  alias preferred over  ? Does this change if the subject is living or dead? Because right now AWB just seems to be removing living parameters and not replacing them.

Thanks in advance, Clear  friend  a  💬  17:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)