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{Improve categories} & {Uncategorized} moved from below categories to above categories[edit]

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T354582

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

True... perhaps then this is more of a feature request than a bug report... ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:49, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to disable ReorderReferences fix?[edit]

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)[reply]

This was disabled eons ago, no? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:05, 26 January 2024 (UTC) Do you have a diff?[reply]

I updated the WP:AWB/GF#ReorderReferences (ReorderReferences) documentation to indicate this function was removed from en.wiki in 2017. GoingBatty (talk) 00:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

👍 Thanks a lot! A.sav (talk) 11:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible to disable this with nogenfixes property in WP:AutoWikiBrowser/Config ? A.sav (talk) 21:54, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@A.sav: As Rjwilmsi 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#Before you post 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 Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Custom Modules#Customised "General Fixes". There is some documentation of the config page at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage format. GoingBatty (talk) 22:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I don't think the makers of Vector 2022 got that memo. Certes (talk) 18:47, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@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)[reply]

BLP tagging[edit]

I'm hoping somewhere here is more familiar with the correct policy on this. According to the section on this page, AWB "removes |blp=no, |activepol=no, |collapsed=no" from banner shells. It also says:

If WikiProject Biography exists inside the shell:

with |living=no then removes |blp=yes if exists

with |living=yes then adds |blp=yes

with |activepol=yes then adds |actipol=yes

with |blpo=yes then adds |blpo=yes

This means that talk pages with blp=no 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#Parameters. 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 |living= alias preferred over blp=? 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)[reply]