Operator: Pascal666
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): AWB
Function Overview: Fix template parameters
Edit period(s): As needed
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):
Function Details: Users often accidentally type template parameters incorrectly. Unfortunately MediaWiki provides no method for a template to find if it has been passed a named parameter it does not recognize. The most common error users make is in parameter capitalization (most template parameters are case sensitive). I have been using database dumps to locate pages with template calls with parameters those templates do not recognize. AWB general fixes can fix many of these automatically: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. I just pulled a report for the cite templates, and now have a list of over 3000 articles that need to be fixed. I would like to use AWB in bot mode to fix those that it can, and I will then make a manual pass to fix stuff like this. -- Pascal 666 08:50, 28 May 2009 (UTC) reply
Approved. The edits look great, and the bug is not a bug at all. – Quadell ( talk) 01:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC) reply