Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Bitbotje 2

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Approved--Ymblanter (talk) 20:45, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bitbotje 2 edit

Bitbotje (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Bdijkstra (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: remove redundant item aliases.

Code: I could share my code after starting a test run.

Function details: According to Help:Aliases, an item's aliases are supposed to list alternative names, yet thousands of items exist where one of the aliases equals the label (for the same language). Sometimes this was done on purpose, because of a misunderstanding. Sometimes a label was changed without paying attention to the aliases. Ideally one should examine the history of the item to investigate the reason and take appropriate action, but they are too many. My script will eliminate the redundant aliases, to hopefully give the right example and reduce misunderstanding. Additionally the help page suggests (but does not mandate) that alternative capitalizations should be excluded. If desirable I can expand the script to delete those as well (but leave aliases with different capitalization alone, as it is unknown which should be kept). --bdijkstra (overleg) 13:31, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support I perfectly agree with the motivation of the proposal, and I hope that in the future the software will not accept edits adding an alias which is already present as label, or editing a label so as to make it equal to an existing alias (see phab:T157774). --Epìdosis 17:11, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support thanks for this clean-up job Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 18:46, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please make some test edits or show us where they are. Ymblanter (talk) 20:08, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See these 50 edits. I could add a wikilink to Special:MyLanguage/Help:Aliases in the edit summary. I'm using this Quarry query. To be completely honest there's not much left now as I already did 150 000 or so without a botflag before a sysop complained and said I really need a botflag for this. bdijkstra (overleg) 20:39, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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For the record, my assessment that there was not much left, was based on a false assumption. Since the approval I've done about 50 000 items. There are now 575 000 items left to do. --bdijkstra (overleg) 07:37, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]