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Hi @Bamyers99. I have a question regarding articles that have been added to white lists. When I call checkarticle.cgi, is there a way to know if the error would be detected if the article wasn't on a white list ? WPCleaner has a function to clean white lists, but it's not behaving well because I don't know how to decide if it's still relevant to keep an article on the white list. NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:14, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: These are reported with an error line of "<article> is in whitelist with error: <error number>". Example Monkey with error 34. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:55, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ! I will include this in WPCleaner. NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 18:41, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/List of errors appears to be missing a few error descriptions from its list. Is there someone here who has the knowledge to add them in the proper format? I'm seeing these subpages that do not appear to be listed. There may be more.

• Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 567 dump
• Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 568 dump
• Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 569 dump
• Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 570 dump
• Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 571 dump
• Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 572 dump
• Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 577 dump

Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:31, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jonesey95.

My fault, they're errors reported by WPCleaner only, I will try to complete the description.

Most of them are available in frwiki. NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:05, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jonesey95.

I added descriptions up to 583, which is the latest error detected by WPCleaner. NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:48, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The page looks great. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:04, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Errors 70-73 can be really time-consuming to fix (and sometimes almost impossible if the sources are in languages you don't read), so for editors who want to mark those articles as something for them or others to come back to, I've made Template:Wrong ISBN, which sends to Category:Articles with incorrect ISBNs. Moose (talk) 21:34, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this template as currently constructed is helpful, and it may be redundant. Putting a banner at the top of the page, as at Music of Brazil, is not helpful to editors who are trying to track down incorrect ISBNs. That article contains 19 ISBNs, by my count, but none of them were marked individually as incorrect. Expecting editors to check all 19 ISBNs is not reasonable. A better approach is to wrap the ISBNs in the {{ISBN}} template, which will create red error messages after the invalid ISBNs and categorize the article in Category:Pages with ISBN errors.

Is there a use case for this new template that is better than just wrapping ISBNs in the existing ISBN template? – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:13, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please add viwki to this project. Translation page: vi:Wikipedia:Dự án/Check Wikipedia/Bản dịch. Thanks. CHÓ VÀNG HÀI HƯỚC🗿 14:05, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Chó Vàng Hài Hước: It has been added: viwiki. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:47, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I have been working on this project for many years on eswiki, so thank you! I am asking (almost begging) if it is possible to add a new link to the history of the article in the single-page view (article details). Some errors are vandalism, and a link to the history would greatly improve my workflow (yes, it's a bit selfish, sorry about that!) The link could be placed right next to the edit link. Thanks for your consideration! Superzerocool (talk) 12:09, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Superzerocool: A history link has been added.--Bamyers99 (talk) 14:57, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh god... thanks a lot <3 Superzerocool (talk) 17:30, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Fact tags after refs, which is about sentences like this: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.^{[1][citation needed]}". WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:09, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your continuous support. In Japanese, there are eight types of punctuation marks commonly used: "。" "、" "，" "．" "：" "；" "？", and "！". In addition, according to the guideline at ja:Help:脚注#スタイルと用法, it is specified that references should be placed before "、" or "。" in Japanese texts. Therefore, regarding the jawiki case of cwid:67 "Reference after punctuation", could you please consider modifying checkwiki so that it can detect these eight punctuation marks ("。", "、", "，", "．", "：", "；", "？", "！") specifically for jawiki? --Oyyo37 (talk) 08:14, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Oyyo37: The 8 punctuation marks have been added to #067 for jawiki. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:57, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've confirmed it. I really appreciate your help.--Oyyo37 (talk) 10:23, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check is receiving the following error "Could not connect to database: User s51080 already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections". Restarting the web server did not fix it. This has been reported to Toolforge admins. --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:05, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Checkwiki is running again. For the daily updated wikis, several hours of recent changes were not scanned. I will try and run enwiki and dewiki dump scans after the November 20 dumps are complete. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:54, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to be down again, I don't know if because of the same reason. Benjavalero (talk) 07:50, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:HD#Diacritics_in_DEFAULTSORT for discussion on ID#06 and guidance on handling diacritics in DEFAULTSORT. Ecourter (talk) 03:49, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The check that was added to catch "table end tag templates that are not on a newline" reports some false positives because some templates have the preceding newline included in the template. ie. {{End}} via this edit and redirects to it such as {{Election box end}}.

I have added a special code to the translation pages to indicate that a template has the preceding newline in it. The code placed after the template name is @@HasNewline@@

Example usage: {{Election box end @@HasNewline@@ in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia/Translation search for: error_028_templates_enwiki

Original request: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Archive 9#S-end without a newline before it

The enwiki translation page has been updated. Other wikis can also use the special code for error 28 on their translation pages. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:11, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wonder if the same can be done for the soccer/football pages considering (from eye test) that most of the errors come from elections and football season pages. Ecourter (talk) 18:54, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ecourter: Thanks for the note. I have added several football templates to the Translation page: {{Efs end}}, {{Extended football squad end}}, {{Fb cap footer}}, {{fb si footer}}, {{Game log end}}. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:27, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thumbs up.

Looks like {{BundleEnd}}, {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal}}, {{CBB Yearly Record End}}, might have the same problem from the handful of pages I looked through. Ecourter (talk) 01:57, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 551 dump is reporting '' '' as an error, but there is no error there, Linter or otherwise. It's a blank placeholder for italic text to be inserted later. Can that false positive please be removed from the list of conditions that are checked for by that report? Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:46, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is still happening. How does this get fixed? – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:26, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That might not be an error, but that is horrible editing practices that shouldn't be allowed either. Best left in the report so editors can clean this mess up. It's also what the description says A line is only composed of non displayed elements (like ) which is exactly this. Gonnym (talk) 15:56, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One person's "horrible" is another person's "ready for the next person to edit the article with the correct formatting". I do not think that this is an error, or a mess, or horrible editing. It causes no problems. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:19, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bamyers99: Been getting 404 Not Found errors with Toolforge for the past few days or so. I can load the errors some of the time, but it feels pretty random. Believe this is the same problem mentioned here. Ecourter (talk) 17:09, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

same here. --Icy2008 (talk) 17:48, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ecourter and Icy2008: Bug report filed with Wikipedia tech support. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:07, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, lately i'm having a lot of problems reaching "check wikipedia" Multiple times i'm shown the message "

-Not found- The URL you have requested, https://checkwiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/checkwiki.cgi?project=nlwiki&view=only&id=5, doesn't seem to actually exist.

Is there a problem on my side? or is check Wikipedia the problem? Kind regards Saschaporsche (talk) 20:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The checkwiki toolforge webservice is restarting on its own every few minutes, see above. Ecourter (talk) 20:55, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But why? --Icy2008 (talk) 13:47, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Still having problems accessing the page. Any solutions? Saschaporsche (talk) 09:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

+1. Nothing has improved. --Icy2008 (talk) 20:46, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I will shortly be updating the database to try and improve performance. This may cause disruptions. --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:35, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderfull ! hope this helps, currently the problem is still persisting. Kind regards Saschaporsche (talk) 13:32, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The maintenance is done.

The following has been updated:

• The database Project field was changed from a string project name to a numeric project id. This was an internal change and does not affect the user interface or API.
• The sort by Notice option has been disabled. This was a performance killer as this field does not have an index.
• The Done and Set all articles as done! links require JavaScript to be enabled in the browser. This only applies to the user interface, not the API.

These measures were implemented to combat the increase in bot traffic that is accessing all links on a page. This means that bots were accessing the Done links and marking items as done. Some bots ignore the robots.txt file, which denies all bots.

Any problems, leave a note at the end of this section. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:18, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moin Bamyers99, the sort from Notice was always a really good thing, so in german, don't know in others. Is there any possibility to get this enabled again? Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 05:49, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Crazy1880: Notice sorting has been re-enabled. It requires that JavaScript be enabled in the web browser for the checkwiki website. This is to prevent bots from following the links. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:47, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Bamyers99, thats really helpful ;) Regards --Crazy1880 (talk) 18:56, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Performance got rly rly rly better. Thank you very much! :) --Icy2008 (talk) 12:08, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since yesterday pages cannot be set to done for the German Wikipedia. It only shows "404 Not Found". Best Thomas Dresler (talk) 08:39, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Thomas Dresler: Web browser script blockers (ie. NoScript) must be disabled for checkwiki.toolforge.org. The Done links, etc. use JavaScript to obfuscate the links so that bots can't follow the links. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:02, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Script blockers have been disabled. I just saw that it works again, no settings changed. Best Thomas Dresler (talk) 23:20, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]