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Hello. Is it possible to add a search for usage of mw-content-ltr/rtl styles without usage of dir and lang altogether? Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 15:47, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IKhitron. Is this list Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 570 dump seems ok to you? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 05:12, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for being late. Looks good, but why they all are only divs? Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 21:12, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IKhitron. I'm not filtering on the type of tag, so they should be reported also. Do you think it happens for other types of tags? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:15, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprized that span and code are not there. IKhitron (talk) 15:49, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IKhitron. A simple search returns results for div tags outside main namespace, but not for span tags or code tags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=insource%3A%2F\%3Cdiv+class\%3D[%22%27]mw-content-(ltr|rtl)[%22%27]\%3E%2F&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1

(for div tags)

This search may miss some instances, but it seems normal that my bot doesn't find any. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 17:32, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You can rerun the original bot on hewiki, there is one there. IKhitron (talk) 18:39, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IKhitron. Yes, there's one article on hewiki with a span tag, see the dump analysis. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:31, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks. Now, does it check classes combinations? For example, <div style="..." class="... ...rtl ..." lang=...>. IKhitron (talk) 17:07, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IKhitron. Normally, yes, I check if class contains mw-content-ltr or mw-content-rtl, so class combination should be ok. There's just a theoretical risk of false positive if there was a class named mw-content-ltr2... --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I have no more questions. IKhitron (talk) 17:23, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Is there something new with this? IKhitron (talk) 17:17, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Any news, @NicoV? Thanks. IKhitron (talk) 02:24, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IKhitron. No, I thought everything was done. What news did you expect? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:36, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, @NicoV, turning it on would be nice, I think. IKhitron (talk) 03:21, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IKhitron. On enWP, it's on, last update. If you mean heWP, dump analysis takes time, so I try to restrict myself to enWP and frWP. I can explain how to run it on other wikis if someone is interested. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 07:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What about a page ID in CheckWiki? IKhitron (talk) 20:58, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bamyers99 ? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:31, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV and IKhitron: I only signed on as a maintainer to keep the program running. I am not interested in adding new reports. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:22, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

So, looks like we can't use it. A pity. IKhitron (talk) 23:06, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Break in list at North Platte, Nebraska

This change [1] messed up the format of a list within a Template:Expand section by merging the final item in a list with the text following the list. I can't really fault the script too much, because ending the list with a <br> was not correct, but the fact remains that it looked ok before the change and not after. What if anything should have been done here? GA-RT-22 (talk) 14:18, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

mistakes

Hello. In category &id=8 a lot of nornal headings, such as "== Известные носители ==</noinclude>" and "== Известные носители ==<onlyinclude>". It's work and requires no fix. Sorry for my english, --Jaguar K (talk) 20:49, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jaguar K: I have modified checkwiki to ignore noinclude, onlyinclude, includeonly tags for error #8. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:07, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Add bswiki

Hello! I'd like to request bswiki be added to CheckWiki. @Bamyers99:: configuration is here: bs:Korisnik:Ivi104/CheckWiki. @NicoV: I would also like to request WPCleaner support. Thank you! Ivi104 (talk) 13:31, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ivi104. I've added bswiki to WPCleaner, and I've created a basic configuration page for it bs:Korisnik:NicoV/WikiCleanerConfiguration. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 07:00, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Thank you, I will modify it. Small correction: in WPCleaner, when selecting the wiki, it says "bs - Slobodna enciklopedija", which translates to "bs - Free encyclopedia". The correct name is "Wikipedia na bosanskom jeziku". Similarly, please change the name for hrwiki to "Wikipedija na hrvatskom jeziku" (notice the j in Wikipedija here). All the best! Ivi104 (talk) 13:09, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ivi104. Done. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 14:03, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

bswiki has been added to CheckWiki, see: bswiki. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:31, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Bamyers99: Thank you! Please take a look at error #95 on bswiki. I do not see a link to userspace in any of the listed mainspace pages (197.871 in total). Is this a bug of some sort? Ivi104 (talk) 02:19, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ivi104: Sorry about that, I forgot to do a configuration step. The dump scan has been rerun. --Bamyers99 (talk) 05:08, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WPC 551 check is looking in commented text

Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 551 dump is listing articles that have errors in commented text, like Bijoy Krishna Handique. Can that check be set up to ignore errors in commented text? – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jonesey95. Yes, it will be in the next release. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 16:58, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Configuration for bnwiki

Bamyers99 could you please change the configuration for bnwiki like arwiki and cswiki? Dump scan will remain same, but list will update daily based on last dump. Because not possible to mark done every time manually, and it makes confused Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 08:27, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@ZI Jony: bnwiki is now scanning daily. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:43, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bamyers99, Thanks. Could you please disable permanently 6 and 37 for all Bangla Wikis, both are not working for Bangla. It's showing wrong info. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 08:15, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@ZI Jony: An error message can be disabled by setting its priority to -2 on the Translation page. Example: error_006_prio_bnwiki=-2 --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:43, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tentative bug report

First off, I am unsure if this is actually a bug. I am pretty sure that what I was doing with wikitext is nonstandard. Nevertheless, I had a table in a footnote, and the WikiCleaner bot did something weird that made the table gobble up the next footnote? Here's the diff that I take issue with. If you compare the before to after, I don't know any way to describe it other than "the table gobbled up the next footnote". I made a simplified example in my user sandbox of the issue with the script (specifically the issue is replacing }}} with }}). Here's the diff, here's the before, here's the after. As you can see, in the before, the table works just fine, but after WikiCleaner, the table has an extra column for some reason, and it has pulled the unrelated other footnote into it. I know this is a super weird edge case so I am not too concerned (I would not be surprised if this is only an issue on Space Launch System and no other page on the whole site), but perhaps the bot could be programmed to leave this specific pattern alone? Leijurv (talk) 00:13, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also I'm totally willing to accept the answer of "three curly brackets in a row is always bad practice / syntax error / not a good idea", if so I'd just like to know some alternate way to put the table in the footnote that doesn't need }}}. Leijurv (talk) 00:28, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I got the example of how to put a table in a footnote from Template:!, and the example there does indeed have the triple curly brackets at the end. Leijurv (talk) 00:33, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Leijurv. Yes, this seems to be a weird edge case... I tried an edit on your simplified example that seems to work and will normally prevent my tool from changing the syntax. I can also look into modifying my tool for ignoring the magic word {{!}}. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 17:17, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Leijurv. I checked: the edit was manual, WPCleaner is only reporting the strange syntax and suggesting to remove the extra curly bracket. I still changed the code so that it won't report {{!}} at the beginning of a line to avoid the risk of replacing a table end. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:00, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]