Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia

Excluding categories with
Please exclude categories containing, such as de:Kategorie:vPvB-Stoff, from this task.. The readability of the source is better if the common term (starting with a lowercase letter) is used. Leyo 09:22, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * The same would hold from for categories transcluding Template:Lowercase title, such as Category:pH indicators. --Leyo 14:40, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't see the point in checkwiki reporting this issue. Other projects that use Wikipedia dumps should be coded to handle a lowercase category first letter. You can turn the reporting of this off by changing  to   in Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Syntaxkorrektur/Übersetzung. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:40, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, it's not about turning off the lowercase category first letter check completely. And as shown, there are also cases in en.wikipedia. --Leyo 22:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * #18 is turned off for enwiki. You can add the articles to the Error 018 whitelist. That will stop #18 from being reported for them. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:36, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. However, it would be more useful to add categories (e.g. de:Kategorie:iOS-Spiel) to the whitelist instead of all affected articles. --Leyo 09:19, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The categories can now be added to  in Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Syntaxkorrektur/Übersetzung. Even though it is named templates, that is just a standard parameter to get variable data into Checkwiki. They are used as excluded categories in Checkwiki for #18.   needs to be after the last category. You can add additional categories. I could not find an article to test on, so it is untested. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:28, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your implementation and the addition of categories to de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Syntaxkorrektur/Übersetzung. I have modified de:Die Sims (Computerspiel) so that it may be used as a test case. --Leyo 22:02, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

no new dump
Hello ! There are no fresh errors diplayed for two days on fr-wiki, and a strange date for last dump ("2022-05-20 (613 days old") Thanks for your help. Croquemort Nestor (talk) 05:20, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The daily scan only scanned a few articles for an unknown reason. I have restarted the recent changes scanner. The dumps do not get processed for daily scanned projects anymore. The dumps for the large wikis take to long to process. I have implemented a program to process the large wiki dumps on request. I have started a dump scan for frwiki. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:39, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! Croquemort Nestor (talk) 16:07, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Good morning. I'm not sure the script ran fully properly. After two days of inactivity there should have been many errors reported. But it is not the case. For example error # 10 is 10-15 per day and today there are only 5, which looks strange.
 * Also the table list of errors has not been updated with correct quantities.
 * Best regards. Croquemort Nestor (talk) 06:24, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The missed days will not get re-scanned. See the next section for an explanation of the process. I will schedule another dump scan after February 1st. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:01, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Daily scan dewiki
Moin Moin Bamyers99, the daily scan didn't run yesterday and today, could you have a look at it and run it again? Big thanks --Crazy1880 (talk) 05:46, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The daily scan only scanned a few articles for an unknown reason. I have restarted the recent changes scanner. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:39, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Moin Bamyers99, I don't know how long the scan will run, but until now, there is no change!? Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 18:48, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The process is as follows: 1) Every 6 minutes the recent changes scanner looks at the last 600 changes for dewiki and saves the article titles. 2) Once a day, the Checkwiki processor scans the saved articles for errors. For some unknown reason the recent changes scanner was not working correctly the past 2 days. Article changes were not saved and therefore were not checked by Checkwiki. I can schedule a dump scan after the February 1st dump scans are done, to catch the missed errors. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:29, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Moin Bamyers99, thanks for the explanings, that help to understand it. The scan is running now. Your offer for the dump scan is good, but didn't it took a long time? Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 10:28, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Possible new CheckWiki error: URL with invalid character in domain name
I haven't investigated in depth, but suggests a Linter check for invalid characters in domain names. It would probably be better to use CheckWiki to monitor this error. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:04, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * CheckWiki is in maintenance mode, ie. bug fixes, keeping it running. There are no maintainers adding new rules. I can't speak for WPCleaner which is maintained by . --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:02, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I can always add such a rule in WPCleaner, independently of it being added to CheckWiki or Linter. If I understand correctly, it's just looking for some unauthorized characters in the part of the URL that's between  (or equivalent) and the following   : is it just that ? Linter has the advantage of working on the rendered page, so it's better at detecting problems caused through templates for example. NicoV (Talk on frwiki) 21:02, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
 * There is a suggested query at https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/77756 linked from the Phab ticket. I don't know if it is valid. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Link points to French wikipedia
The link to WPCleaner in this line:

Data for the list is compiled from the following locations: WPCleaner • AutoWikiBrowser • Auto-Formatter.

points to the French wikipedia. Is that intentional? 76.14.122.5 (talk) 04:13, 18 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Probably not, but which page are you talking about ? NicoV (Talk on frwiki) 07:50, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia/List_of_errors 76.14.122.5 (talk) 20:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, I never took the time to translate into English the list of errors... NicoV (Talk on frwiki) 06:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Section without content (84)
In eswiki, when the last section (External links) does not have links below it, it should also appear in "Section without content" (84). When you only have categories below, NF or Authority Control should appear in the list. I give an example. Thanks. Vanbasten 23 (talk) 06:09, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Translation more stuff phrases (for usage in other wikis)
Hi all! What about to add in translations some other phrases, for more comfortable usage by users, what is not able English?

Currently (e.g. in ruwiki) is not translated phrases like this:
 * Homepage
 * high priority / middle priority / low priority
 * Priorities: all - high - middle - low
 * This table will update every {0} minutes. /* there is needs PLURAL form support */
 * To do:
 * Done:
 * {0} article(s) /* there is needs PLURAL form support */
 * ID:
 * List for bots
 * Set all articles as done!
 * Show all done articles
 * {1} to {2}
 * Details
 * Article:
 * edit

Table headers:
 * To-do
 * Done
 * Description
 * ID
 * Article
 * Edit
 * Notice
 * More
 * Found
 * Error

Footer: Kaganer (talk) 12:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * projectpage
 * comments and bugs
 * Version
 * license:
 * Powered by
 * Wikimedia Labs

enwiki new dump
Moin Moin Bamyers99, I have a difficult question. Will it be possible, to insert a new full dump of english Wikiepdia? The last full dump is from 2017 (nearly 5 million article), now 7 years later nearly 7 million articles. Perhaps it will be possible? King regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 18:41, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I will give a try after the smaller dumps have completed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

hewiki new dump
hey Bamyers99, thank you for supporting the project. Is it possible to create a new dump for hewiki? last one is from 2022-06-01. Alternatively, if there's no need due to the daily scans, I would be happy to be linked to where I can learn more about the differences between the full dump and the daily scan. Thank you! Mod (talk) 08:09, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Checkwiki #6 DEFAULTSORT
Should examples such as: be excluded from the error, since they do parse out to the "wanted" result, despite the code having a template/magic word in it? Or should we replace these manually with the plain text version of the year in the titles? There are a ton of these matches for error #6. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 21:55, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The program did not process templates inside DEFAULTSORT. I have coded it to skip the check if a template is found. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:02, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Perhaps something for you to "patch" for WPCleaner as well. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 00:29, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Josve05a. Thanks for the notification. It should be fixed in the next release. NicoV (Talk on frwiki) 07:37, 8 June 2024 (UTC)