Wikipedia talk:Database reports

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Categories, added only into Category:Tracking categories and Category:Hidden categories

Some of the maintenance categories are effectively uncategorized, because they are categorized into exactly two categories: Category:Tracking categories and Category:Hidden categories. For example, this was the case for Category:Pages with misused citation needed templates. Such a report could be incorporated into Uncategorized categories, or be separate. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:45, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Broken links to a given page

I suspect this request isn't in quite the right place - if so, please let me know where would be better.

The use case I am considering is: a user makes edits to a page, perhaps in particular "refactoring"/restructuring the page and changing a number of section headings (I am in the process of doing this with a particular page). The result of this is that a number of incoming links to section headings (both from redirect pages and from other pages) will break. I would like to make it easier for the user to see which incoming links have broken.

The report "Broken section anchors" seems to be a good general tool for this, but does not allow filtering by target page.

Would it be possible to add, in the "Tools" section of the left-hand sidebar, either:

- an entry "Broken section links", which would produce the output of the "Broken section anchors" report, filtered for the target page in question
- or, within the "What links here" page, a filter/other link which would filter the list of "What links here" by those containing broken links?

It seems to me that this would empower responsible users to maintain link quality to a much higher degree than currently possible.

If I'm barking up the wrong tree and just haven't spotted how I can do this myself, please let me know :-). With thanks in advance, --James D DE (talk) 17:48, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@James D DE: Hi. I maintain anchors in enwiki. I should say, this kind of list will very very long. Please refer to w:ja:Category:Main page containing links with broken anchors. Kanashimi (talk) 06:01, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Polluted categories

Could someone please rerun Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories? The last time it was run was December 2019, and I'd like to have my bot start working on this again. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:21, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MZMcBride: Is this something you could please rerun? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 05:18, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MZMcBride: Thank you!!! GoingBatty (talk) 01:40, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MZMcBride: Could you please schedule the report to run monthly? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:54, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects

For the database reports which didn't have talk pages, I created redirects (using {{R from remote talk page}}) to this one. There were many that consisted only of, say, a single unanswered comment from 2011, which I didn't really know what to do with, so I left those alone (merging them here may be intelligent, or at least making the page a soft redirect, but whatever). jp×g 04:53, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've added {{central}} to the pages that weren't redirects (i.e. which had older discussions on them), which should direct editors to this page. jp×g 06:51, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG: Each database report is different; why make people try and find comments on a specific report in a big mass of mixed report comments? I have reverted this change for the database reports that I maintain. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:27, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly, my thinking here is that the vast majority of these pages have only one or two comments on them, and seem to languish in obscurity since very few people watch them. If you look at the PrefixIndex of all database report talk pages (excluding redirects), there are 69. While some of them have long discussion threads, most don't seem to. Here is a table of all the pages and their sizes (three of the entries give 0 as the page size, but this is only since there are a lot of calls to the function here). This one consists entirely of the text "Lame, to even consider such an act." added as an unsigned comment by an IP address in 2012. This one contains a single request from 2011 (unanswered); this one is a single request from 2019 (unanswered), this one is a single request from 2009 (unanswered). This one, the largest page that isn't an archive of Wikipedia talk:Database reports itself, still has less than 30 watchers; it was last edited in September 2018, by a bot (the last human edit was in March 2017). In comparison, this page has 269 watchers. jp×g 20:05, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Export this page

How can I export this page? 1005581473 is the revision ID but the special export page will not process it. Polymath uk (talk) 20:17, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikitext is more than 2,048 kilobytes long. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:48, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - I realise that but thanks for replying. Will this prevent it from exporting? I don't see anything in the manual about this restriction.