Here's something that's been annoying me lately:
Normally, with MediaWiki, the standard for potholing goes like this: "[[Link|pothole]]", which produces "pothole". Note the single vertical line ("|") in the link. However, something that I've noticed a lot is that a lot of potholes contain a vertical line at the beginning, i.e. "|pothole". Checking the source reveals that, instead of a single vertical line separating the link from the pothole, there are two vertical lines, i.e. "[[Link||pothole]]".
In another potholing goof-up, I've encountered potholes that were structured as such: "{{[[Link]] pothole}}". Note the curly brackets instead of square brackets.
Considering the fairly large number of both types of screwed-up potholes that I've encountered thus far, I'm willing to bet that trying to fix them manually would get tedious very quickly. Therefore, I recommend that either a bot be created specifically for fixing flawed potholes, or an already existing bot be upgraded to have this capability. I'll let you decide how to proceed.
Thank you.
Normally, with MediaWiki, the standard for potholing goes like this: "[[Link|pothole]]", which produces "pothole". Note the single vertical line ("|") in the link. However, something that I've noticed a lot is that a lot of potholes contain a vertical line at the beginning, i.e. "|pothole". Checking the source reveals that, instead of a single vertical line separating the link from the pothole, there are two vertical lines, i.e. "[[Link||pothole]]".
In another potholing goof-up, I've encountered potholes that were structured as such: "{{[[Link]] pothole}}". Note the curly brackets instead of square brackets.
Considering the fairly large number of both types of screwed-up potholes that I've encountered thus far, I'm willing to bet that trying to fix them manually would get tedious very quickly. Therefore, I recommend that either a bot be created specifically for fixing flawed potholes, or an already existing bot be upgraded to have this capability. I'll let you decide how to proceed.
Thank you.