User:Grapesurgeon/AWB explanation

This page explains my Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser scripts. Note that I manually review every individual change, and often manually adjust each edit. I will sometimes make mistakes. If you have concerns please post on my talk page.

The script has several thousand lines of code, some of which are only rarely active, so I won't be able to explain everything it does. I also add code basically every time I use the program.

If you're interested in getting code snippets from it, let me know. I write all these commands in text files, then use Python to format the commands and add them to the AWB .xml profile file directly.

• Wikilink publications in references (limited to North Korean, South Korean, and Japanese sources for now)
  • Note that repeat links are permitted for these (
    MOS:REPEATLINK
    )
  • Note: My script previously inserted {{Interlanguage link}}s within citation parameters, but I learned recently that this is bad practice. My script can now remove interlanguage links and replace with regular red links. I submitted a bot request to do this but nobody ever followed through on implementing it ¯\(ツ)/¯
• Tags Korea-related unreliable sources with {{
  WP:KO/RS
  )
• If a |title= is in Korean, I change the parameter to |script-title=ko: (
  MOS:KO-REF
  )
  • Note that this affects how Korean text is rendered (Template:Citation Style documentation/title), so it's permissible to make as the only change on the page with AWB. However, if there's only one or two of this type of change on a page I often just skip to avoid history bloat.
• If an entire Hangul name is squeezed into the |last= parameter, it splits it into |last=... |first=...
• Changes |language=kr (Kanuri language) to |language=ko
• Deletes non-essential elements of titles and publication names, e.g. everything after "Article title" here: |title=Article title {{!}} 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea
• Fixes if |last= and |first= parameters are flipped
• Deletes non-people names in |last= and |first= parameters
  • E.g. |last=JoongAng |first=Ilbo; this is the name of a newspaper (JoongAng Ilbo)
  • E.g. |last=기자 |first=박정현 → |last=박 |first=정현 "기자" means "reporter"
• If page range is placed incorrectly in |p=, replaces parameter with |pp=. Vice versa for single pages.

• For bios, if Hangul name is missing from the first parentheses, inserts it (
  MOS:KO-LEAD
  )
• For bios, if birth year or year range is missing from {{
  WP:SDDATES
  )
• Discourages Hanja in lead for modern North and South Korean topics if Hanja is already in infobox (
  MOS:HANJALEAD
  )
• Discourages the use of "Korean-American" in the lead of articles (
  MOS:KO-ETHNICITY
  )
• Standardizes spelling of terminology to match guidelines in
  WP:KO-CONSISTENT
  )
  • Have coded in around a thousand of these kinds of adjustments. E.g. "Rhee Syngman" → "Syngman Rhee"
• Converts hyphens (-) and tildes (~) for number/date ranges to the endash (–) (
  MOS:KO-TILDE
  )
• Converts curly quotes and apostrophes to straight variants (
  MOS:'
  )
• Changes many unnecessary redirects to direct links (
  MOS:NOPIPE
  )
  • As this is a non-visible change, I skip pages where this is the only change
• Merges some place links when possible, discourages linking of "North Korea" and "South Korea" (
  MOS:GEOLINK
  )
• Adjusts some frequent incorrect or poor prose
  • E.g. verbose phrases like "Seoul City" instead of just "Seoul"
• Some invisible template formatting (avoiding the use of template redirects, deleting several common empty params, using named parameters instead of skipping positional ones, moving parameters around to more common ordering); skip if only change

• Wraps bare Korean text using {{
  MOS:HANGULFORMAT
  )
  • E.g. [[Korean language|Korean]]: 식당 → {{Korean|hangul=식당}}
  • E.g. {{Korean|hangul=식당}} [[Hanja]]: 食堂 → {{Korean|hangul=식당|hanja=食堂}}
  • E.g. {{Korean|hangul=식당}}; {{literally|restaurant}} → {{Korean|hangul=식당|lit=restaurant}}
• Discourages the use of links to
  MOS:KO-WIKT
  )
• Converts direct links to the Korean Wikipedia to {{
  MOS:KO-WIKILINK
  )
• Discourages bolding or italicization of Korean characters (
  MOS:HANGULBOLD
  )

• Automatic romanization templates
  • {{Infobox Korean name}} → {{Infobox Korean name/auto}}
  • {{Infobox Korean television name}} → {{Infobox Korean television name/auto}}
  • {{Korean}} → {{Korean/auto}}
• Encourages use of contemporary place names (
  MOS:KO-BIRTHPLACE
  )
  • Although I prefer to match the current article titles, with the exceptions of [[United States Army Military Government in Korea|southern Korea]] and [[Soviet Civil Administration|northern Korea]]
• Discourages listing both birthplace and nationality in infobox when obvious (Template:Infobox person#citizenship)
• Discourages displaying of modern equivalent of birth/death places (
  MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE
  )
• Discourages hyphens in people names only when strict romanization is asked for (
  WP:KO-STRICT
  )
• Discourages giving province names if city names are given and there are no other cities with the same name (Template:Infobox person#birth_place)
• Discourages image_upright=1.15 on South Korean celebrity articles (Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#Increasing infobox image size for aesthetic purposes)
• Discourages showing monument number for South Korean heritage registers; numbers were deprecated by the Korea Heritage Service. Showing them may be confusing or create expectation that all entries should have numbers displayed, and they're not particularly important in the first place.

• I have a simple script that adds {{WikiProject Korea}} to the talk page of articles if not already present.
• I have another script that detects if the name order in |listas= for biographies is flipped.