I am familiar with the enwiki template that uses <code>| IUPACName=</code>, causing a lot of issues apparently. Can I claim the fixup routine, or can we know if someone else is working on this? -DePiep (talk) 09:02, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
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Go ahead! No one else has volunteered yet, it would be great to get that fixed up. Thanks!
@DePiep ... FYI in case you didn't notice this update.
Done for enwiki. See my notes in the table, I expect some 75 pages are kept. Unfortunately, I have no permission for other wikis like de or fr (now).
What rights do you need, to be able to do this work?
[[:en:WP:AWB|AWB]] is my tool of choice. I could do this cleanup in all listed wikis, except: zhwiki, mediawikiwiki (so 13 + enwiki remain). A this-task-only, April-limited AWB-permission would be OK too.
I am not an admin anywhere. Manually, for example dewiki permission I should ask through [[:de:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage|this]] page.
I see that there are false positives in these lists, so especially in unknown languages I'll have to be on the safe side (when unclear don't edit).
IMO the global bot policy is in need of some updates to address this kind of situation. It appears that the policy wants AWB users to visit every single wiki separately, figure out the local process (and hope that there both is a process and that there's a community there to make the process work), and then fix the problems. I don't think that's entirely functional for this kind of problem.
(Why can't you do this here at mw.org?)
Required to "visit every page" - sure, that's how I use AWB, and I must do so. Stricktly speaking, it's not a bot (I must manually check & save each edit. For these ~1000 pages that's doable).
I got the impression you knew of some general all-wiki AWB permission, but alas, its all local. I'll see what I can do.
(and: the mw.org list is full of intentional uses of "-{", or possibly intentional. See the /Release Notes listings for example. I am not familiar enough with that code, and most should stay anyway. btw, total is 60 pages only, so a manual check is viable.)
It's the visit-every-wiki-for-local-permission thing that shouldn't be necessary. Maybe we should go to Meta and find out what would be necessary to update the global policy (or policies).
I'll go on with this task by local wiki. These days, I don't have the time nor mindset to pursue that Meta proposal.
Thank you.
People were talking about this last year on Meta, so I've tried to re-start that discussion. I don't know if anything will come of it at all, but nothing is likely to happen soon. You'll probably be done with this list by then.
Thank you, thank you very much, for doing this. I really appreciate it.