Template maintenance history

Infobox Person cleanup

Cleaned up approximately 30k pages with unsupported empty parameters of ((Infobox person)).

Tools Used: Auto Wiki Browser version 6.2.1.0
Direct assistance currently known: User:MB - cleanup of duplicate parameters accidentally created. User:FreeToDisagree - shadow helper manually removing pages from maintenance category, probably catching a few errors along the way as well.
Pagelist: Category:Pages using infobox person with unknown empty parameters
First edit: Alexander Gilkes 2022-07-28T23:42:14
Final edit: William Herbert St Quintin 2022-10-09T19:51:46
Approximate total edits: 29,736 including reverts due to erroneous AWB edit
Total elapsed time, first edit to last: 72 days, 20 hours, 9 minutes, 32 seconds
Average edit rate over elapsed time: 3 minutes 21.64 seconds per edit.
Follow up posted to template talk:Infobox person

Reactions

One editor User:Beyond My Ken and one admin User:NinjaRobotPirate expressed concern about the mass edit of infobox parameters. Ken responded positively when explained the purpose and effect of the project, while Ninja stopped responding when the task was explained.
Seven editors - User:Thirukannan, User:ClarityKTMpls, User:Bigturtle, User:Aboudaqn, User:Voidxor, User:Scope creep, and User:Sangdeboeuf - thanked project edits on pages. User:Hike395 awarded a barnstar of diligence for the completed project.

Deprecated net worth parameter at template:Infobox person

The net worth parameter was deprecated July 11, 2021, with the stipulation that the information be left for a reasonable time so that it can be moved from the infobox into the article text, if appropriate. On July 26, 2022, I ran an AWB run to delete the approximately 2500 remaining uses of net worth in articles' infobox person. The record of those removals was saved at User:Vanisaac/AWB log.

Sandbox other project

Updated members of Category:Template documentation pages to use ((Sandbox other)) to suppress template categorization in sandboxes 2020-04.

Task:

WP:AWBREQ#Cleaning up template categories requested by @Andrybak:.
Identify pages in Category:Template documentation pages that have categories or interwiki links, and add ((Sandbox other)) to suppress template categorization on sandbox pages as per WP:CAT#T.

Tools used: Auto-Wiki Browser v. 6.1.0.1, help from @DePiep: checking on anomalous pages.
Pagelists checked:

Category:Template documentation pages (first 25,000 in category can be loaded by AWB)
Additional 5,586 pages in category supplied by User:SD0001 using User:SDZeroBot to bypass 25,000 query return in standard API. Result posted to User:Vanisaac/test/4.

Total pages edited: 19,537 out of 30,599 pages in category (64%, including reverts due to erroneous AWB edit)
Total edits: 19,732
Error rate: .83% needed additional edit to fix or revert erroneous AWB edit. Thirty-two updates (.16%) reverted by other or pointed out/reverted by User:Jonesey95 for mistaken edit. Most were for ((basepage subpage)) or custom conditional already being present, and the template not closing out properly.
First edit: Template:!(/doc 2020-04-23 20:28:55
Final edit: Template:ZWE/doc 2020-05-01 20:43:14
Total elapsed time from first to final edits: 8 days, 14 minutes, 19 seconds.
Average edit rate over elapsed runtime: 35.13 seconds per edit.
Follow-up tasks posted at WikiProject Templates

Comments

My understanding is that template:SomeThing/sub-to-calculate-something would rarely have ((documentation)) on it in the first place, and it's also probable that we have a number of template:SomeThing/alternate-for-slightly-different-use-case that would want to get the template category even as a subpage anyway, so we've probably got the best universal template in ((Sandbox other)) already.. Van Isaac_WS^cont 20:52, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, my experience is that a template:../subpage often does have the /doc page, to add the main documenation (lol); but should not categorise. So, in general only the FULLPAGENAME is intended to be categorised. It drops all subpages, not just /sanbox etc. I like this. This is why I say ((subpage other)) is OK more mostly. HTH

Now if there is a template /subpage used as stand-alone: yes, that asks for a different, tailored solution. -DePiep (talk) 21:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

About ((Template categories)): looks like today, this one is redundant. ((Sandbox other)) now does handle /doc and /sandbox1 pages as being /sandbox.

When this Task is done, we might consider deleting ((Template categories)). -DePiep (talk) 19:07, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm thinking an all-purpose categorization template might be worth implementing here. You'd still have (({1))} for the basepage, (({2))} for all subpages, then be able to implement specific subpages with each pair of subsequent parameters: (({3))} would be a subpage name, (({4))} would be for content/categories on that page, (({5))} and (({6))} would be a second subpage... But maybe that should just be what ((basepage subpage)) does. Van Isaac_WS^cont 01:07, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Created templates

I created two of the core Wikipedia markup templates that have been copied to most other Wikimedia projects:

(())!))
((!(())

Foundational templates for WikiProject Writing Systems:

((Infobox Indic letter))
((Braille cell))
((Charmap))
((Letter reps))
((Indic glyph))
((Infobox Unicode block))
((UTF-8))
((UTF-8toScalar))
((UTF-16))
((WPWSredstar))
((WPWSstar))
((TextDir))
((ISO 15924 code))
((Unicode chart Myanmar Extended-A))
((Unicode chart Hangul Jamo Extended-B))
((Unicode chart Hangul Jamo Extended-A))
((ISO-9))

Text-handling and formatting utilities:

((Str len subst))
((Str crop subst))
((Trim leading))
((Bc subst))
((MirrorH))

Random templates:

((Infobox chess match))
((Energy production))
((NYP))
((Curling positions))
((Value))
((Project links))
((Yeoman lv4 Ribbon))
((Yeoman lv3 Ribbon))
((Yeoman lv2 Ribbon))
((Cross-wiki user))
All Senior Vanguard Editor / Supreme Gom service award templates.
All Sagacious Editor / Ephoros service award templates.

And the 18 ((Wplink)) series templates for WP:WikiProject links and utilities.