RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XX
07-13-2021, 09:06 AM (This post was last modified: 07-13-2021, 09:14 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
07-13-2021, 09:06 AM (This post was last modified: 07-13-2021, 09:14 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
While we're on the topic, whose bot is "Maintenance Script"? It's just dumped a whole bunch of changes into the Moderation Queue. Checking a few at random, along with a few approved change from its recent history, I have a lot of concerns about what it's doing:
EDIT: The only edit summary Maintenance Script uses is "Request". Whose request? What was requested?
- It's adding new, nonexistent categories to pages, like "Funny (animation)" on Mission Hill/Funny.
- It's unnecessarily converting spaces in file names to underscores (such as seen on Category:Animal Tropes). Mediawiki handles that just fine already.
- The {{disambiguation}} template already includes the __DISAMBIG__ magic word -- it doesn't need to be appended to disambiguation pages that appear to lack it.
- Any time it changes "Watchmen (comics)" to "Watchmen", it's changing a direct link to a specific work to a disambiguation page.
- For some reason, on some pages -- like Tombstone/YMMV -- it's changing the proper page template to a wrong one.
EDIT: The only edit summary Maintenance Script uses is "Request". Whose request? What was requested?
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....