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Operator: Qwerfjkl (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 19:15, Thursday, January 20, 2022 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: supervised

Programming language(s): JavaScript

Source code available: User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/code/6

Function overview: Capitalise short descriptions.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:Short description#Automatic capitalization of first character

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: <10,000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: The bot will capitalise the short description's first character, and do other cosmetic cleanup, such as moving the short description to the top of the page. I will review all the edits, and if necessary, revert them and add words to a whitelist. The false positive rate is <1%. List at User:Qwerfjkl/lcSD.

Discussion[edit]

What's the relevant MOS provision? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:58, 20 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WP:SDFORMAT ― Qwerfjkltalk 22:00, 20 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I see. That doesn't seem to technically be part of the MOS (it's an information page), so can this task be advertised to the village pump (maybe WP:VPP) with a description of the task and a link to this BRFA? Would be good to give people an opportunity for input. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:07, 20 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I don't think it's necessary. The affected pages amount to 10,000 out of over 4,000,000 pages with short descriptions (0.25%), so this is more of a minor cleanup task to standardize a few outliers. The guidance to use sentence case has been in SDFORMAT for almost four years now, with no significant objections that I can remember. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:15, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeah, I don't anticipate any objections, but I still think it's reasonable to advertise it such that there's an opportunity for people to raise any concerns or add any comments. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:11, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A notice was posted two days ago at VPR. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:02, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. To run a parallel trial. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 15:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@ProcrastinatingReader: Trial complete. See these 21 contributions + these 4 contributions. There were no false positives.  ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:11, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I forgot to mention, the bot will also replace 'wikimedia/wikipedia list article' with 'None' per WP:SDNONE. This will affect ~1/3 of the list articles (at least 210 articles). ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:52, 23 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Sounds good to me. I wonder if we made the right call to capitalize short descriptions (Wikidata's approach seems to preserve more information, since it's easy to capitalize but hard to uncapitalize), but that's very much water under the bridge now. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 05:38, 25 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
•  Approved.. Noting, however, that Sdkb makes a decent observation above (albeit I think the ship has sailed re that) ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 20:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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