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Per the discussion over on WPCleaner, it seems that a <br> with a newline in it is just fine, but it shows up in the list. It's both valid HTML and handled fine by the parser. Jerod Lycett (talk) 19:57, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jerodlycett: I have refined the #2 check to allow any whitespace (newline, tab, etc.) between <br and >. --Bamyers99 (talk) 02:00, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bamyers99: This either got reverted or was not fully fixed as it's showing up at American Experience. Jerod Lycett (talk) 06:14, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jerodlycett: Fixed. This was not a regression. Just more fun with the 8 <br> specific regular expressions. For the code changes see here (GitHub). --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:31, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Two things for you:

1. The discussion at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse#Reply tool brings me here to ask how often, in your experience, unbalanced formatting (e.g., I make a word bold and forget to close it, or I open a span tag and forget to close it) causes problems on talk pages. If it were possible to clean up some of that automagically (e.g., automagically inserting the closing tag at the end of my comment), would that be desirable? If the devs say "everything's a tradeoff", then how much would you trade for that? (You're welcome to click the link and play with the tool in my sandbox over there. If you want to do really extensive testing, please try the Beta Cluster, preferably after the next SWAT deployment slot, when two bugs will get fixed there.)
2. Please note mw:New requirements for user signatures. It won't do everything, but I hope this will eventually result in fewer lint errors from signatures.

(Please ping me.) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:21, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Whatamidoing (WMF). For your first question, I think that would require testing, but I think it would be nice if this tool could close unbalanced formatting, as a reply should probably be self-contained. I'm not sure it's really causing trouble right now, it would just help reducing the number of new Linter errors... --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:38, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply, NicoV. The simplest (from the Editing devs' POV) way to clean up tags is just to run the talk page through Parsoid, so at least we'd know which problems to expect. But as a longer-term thing, they'd like to extend wikitext to give us a "put this mess in a container" syntax. Keep an eye out for anything about "Multi-line comments". The WMF trying to make some risk-reduction choices until the COVID-19 situation is more stable, and new wikitext syntax is always (somewhat) risky, but so this will probably not happen soon, but I think it'll be an even better solution in the end. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:10, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. If anyone is interested, I've added a few errors to WPCleaner in the last weeks:

• 544: Missing end template in a pair. It's currently disabled on enwiki. It requires configuration (see frwiki for an example) to define which templates should go by pair (begin/end)
• 545: Template with deprecated parameter. It's current enabled on enwiki. Initial configuration has been defined for a few templates.
• 546: Article without categories. It's currently disabled on enwiki. It requires configuration (see frwiki for an example) to define categorizing templates to avoid false positives.
• 547: Empty list item. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a dump analysis has been created.
• 548: Punctuation in link. It detects links with the text ending by a punctuation (which usually should be after the link). It's currently disabled on enwiki but a dump analysis has been created. Configuration could be added (see frwiki for an example) to define links that should be ignored (like [[Comma|,]]).
• 549: Split link. It detects links that are split in several parts. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a dump analysis has been created.

If you want, some of the errors can be activated here or on other wikis. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 11:52, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a page that has links to all recent dumps? --Guy Macon (talk) 13:32, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To the dump analysis? You can use the Special page All pages with prefix to list all the analysis pages. There's also Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/WPC all but it's too big so it currently fails to display (visible in edit mode), and doesn't contain the latest additions. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 14:10, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've added 550: Link without text. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a dump analysis has been created. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 17:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've added 551: Empty line. It's currently disabled on enwiki but a dump analysis should be created soon. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Resolved

Hi. Regarding the new errors added to WPCleaner, I've requested approval for fixing some of them with my bot, feel free to comment on them:

• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 11 for #547 (empty list item)
• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 12 for #548 (punctuation inside link): already approved
• Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 13 for #549 (split link)

--NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 16:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Resolved

Hi. I've found a lot of false positives for #111 on frwiki, and I don't understand what could be causing it. A few examples:

• fr:Vendôme: CW reports <ref>L'attribution de ses œuvres..., while there's 2 calls ((Références|)) later in the text (Références is listed in error_111_templates_frwiki)
• fr:Vendrennes: CW reports <ref>((Article|titre=Une énorme fleur..., while there's a call ((Références|)) and ((Références nombreuses| later in the text (both Références and Références nombreuses are listed in the configuration

It seems there are dozens of pages like that on the list for frwiki. Is it a bug in CW or is there something to change in the configuration? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 07:03, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: I have just fixed this. It was hard coded to check for <references and if found, it would ignore the template list. It found <references group="N" /> in the two examples above. I have fixed it to check the templates even if <references is found. Also, it uses the template list from #003, and ignores the #111 template list. I have not changed this as both template lists should be identical. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot Bamyers99! --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:51, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! The svwp dump is usually updated with new articles twice a month. It has been 33 days since the last time. Any reason why? I was contacted on svwp since I'm a contact perosn there. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 19:24, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Josve05a: There was only one dump for March per the Xmldatadumps-l mailing list --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:02, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks! Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 20:34, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a scan for reference contained in a heading? RJFJR (talk) 00:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello RJFJR. AFAIK, not by Check Wiki. I've added such error a long time ago, as CW Error #504, to WPCleaner. I don't remember what level of testing was done on that error, so it may have a lot of false positives or problems. If you're interested, I can try adding it to the dump analysis performed by WPCleaner (it will be at Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 504 dump). --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:11, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I'll take a loom at the dump when it is there. RJFJR (talk) 15:51, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello RJFJR. Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 504 dump has been generated. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Works great. Thank you. RJFJR (talk) 18:42, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Please add duplicate headers as an error to fix pages like Archdeacon of Halifax, Tahara Castle, Currant Creek (Juab and Utah counties, Utah) etc. I couldn't find more in the (Article:) namespace but in the File: namespace there are a lot of pages with duplicate headers, see for example file: insource:/== ?Summary ?==.== ?Summary ?==|== ?Licensing ?==.== ?Licensing ?==/ with 3922 entries.Jonteemil (talk) 08:36, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Jonteemil. There's already CW Error #92, but it's currently disabled for enwiki. If needed, I can add it to WPCleaner's dump analysis (it will be at Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 092 dump). Unfortunately, both of them will probably be restricted to main namespace. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: I see. Thanks for a fast response. Please add it to the dump analysis if it isn't that troublesome. How come it won't work in the file namespace?Jonteemil (talk) 09:10, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, there is also yet another error I've found. A very minor one so shouldn't be run by itself. It is all of these that should have the : removed since the template adds it automatically. Now the rendering is two :: after eachother.Jonteemil (talk) 09:14, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: It shouldn't be a problem to add it to the dump analysis, but as I've never tried #92 with the dump analysis, it may have false positives... Probably in the next few days, as a new dump should be available soon. The dump analysis is currently restricted to the main namespace (like Check Wiki), I may see later to extend it to the File namespace. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 09:49, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Perfect, thanks. How about the ((ping)) thing? Can/should it be added to the list? Or is the list only for problems in the (Article) namespace?Jonteemil (talk) 10:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: The ping thing should be discussed in a separate thread, but CW is really designed for the Article namespace, not for talk pages: fixing errors in talk pages isn't appreciated by everyone, so it's usually better to leave the errors (unless, I think, if they pollute categories that are filled automatically by MW like Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag... but I'm not even sure there's a consensus about that on enwiki). --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:07, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Okay, thanks a lot!Jonteemil (talk) 10:12, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 092 dump has been generated. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 06:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Thanks! Although though it was only going to list all duplicate headers seperated by \n i.e. a line. All of the ones in the dump aren't incorrect uses. Some are correct I think. Can you exclude everyone that are seperated by at least 3 \n?Jonteemil (talk) 11:06, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: For the moment, I can't keep only the ones with empty lines between them, but my bot could fix them automatically (WPCleaner is already able to do that, I just have to request an authorization for my bot). It also fixes cases where consecutive chapters are doubled with their contents too. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: That would be brilliant, thank you!Jonteemil (talk) 12:17, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: I've requested approval to run my bot on #92. I'm also generating the list again to include also File: and report only consecutive duplicate headers (but there can be text between). --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:57, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Thanks a lot! Appreciated.Jonteemil (talk) 19:59, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: New list has been generated, my bot would be able to modify more than 5.000 pages on the 12.000 pages reported. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 09:14, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Hi again! Why did the bot remove so many pages?Jonteemil (talk) 20:59, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: It's because I run the entire dump analysis, and for the moment I didn't include the File: namespace in it. I'm testing it on frwiki first for all pages, before using it on enwiki also. And as I'm still waiting for approval on my request to run my bot, I will add again the File: namespace once I've run the automatic fixing. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 10:21, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: The task was approved. I've already run my bot on the main namespace, it's going now through the File: namespace. It will require probably a dozen hours to complete. Later, I will re-run a dump analysis for you to see what's left after the bot has done what it could. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 14:34, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Awesome, thanks for that!Jonteemil (talk) 16:53, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Found an error: Here the last header should be kept, not the first.

@Jonteemil: It's too complex, it keeps the header with the longer content, so content doesn't end up under another section. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:56, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 092 dump has been updated. I'm running again the bot for automatic fixing, but only a few articles should be modified now, the rest needing human attention. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:26, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonteemil: In fact, my bot seems to find several dozen pages in File: with the same problem (doubled "Summary" title) for images created in the last month. As the error seems to be exactly the same for several editors, maybe there's a problem in the process to upload new images on enwiki? --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Are most of the doubled summary headings from the last month? In that case that's very weird. Perhaps you'sre right that it is some upload script that has malfunctioned.Jonteemil (talk) 20:53, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The 105 edits performed after the last update of the dump analysis are all for problems which happened after April 20th, and they all seem to have the exact same problem (doubled "Summary" title). So, yes, I think there's a bug in the upload process somewhere... --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 08:19, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please consider disabling error 61 on Romanian Wikipedia, because as per Romanian guideline on footnotes they are allowed before punctuation, and used as such, including in featured articles (e.g. ro:Jigoku Shoujo, ro:Franz Kafka). Rule on rowiki is just no not mix the styles in one single article. Footnotes after punctuation is still the style used in the majority of articles. Gikü (talk) 16:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gikü: I have disabled #61 with this edit. I only changed one line: error_061_prio_rowiki=0. The page save changed a lot of other stuff automatically. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:23, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't sure where to go, so I've cross-posted this at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser.

I think I made this kind of request several years ago, but I can't find it in the archives.

Occasionally people add text like [citation needed] or (reference needed) to articles, and these articles don't end up in maintenance categories because they're plain text instead of templates. Could someone write a bot that would go around making edits like this, or could an existing maintenance-bot operator add this task? I'm guessing that it would be rather simple — give it a list of phrases, tell it to look for them inside parentheses and brackets, and let it loose. Of course, this isn't a one-time problem, so if this is a good idea, it ought to be made an ongoing task. Nyttend backup (talk) 16:35, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

It's probably best to do this with AWB or another semi-auto tool, as there are some legitimate uses of "[citation needed]" in pages (on this page, citation needed, and links to citation needed for example). [1] is a good search term for the first one, then can regex search-and-replace \[?\[citation needed\]\]? with ((subst:cn)). --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 15:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

@Nyttend backup:  Doing... via AWB. GoingBatty (talk) 12:58, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

@Nyttend backup:  Done - except for those inside comments. GoingBatty (talk) 16:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Another one that could be picked-up is (dead link) or [dead link]. Keith D (talk) 14:29, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the help! I know there are some general maintenance tasks that AWB operators tend to look for. How do I ask that this kind of fix be added to their task list? Nyttend backup (talk) 19:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

@Nyttend backup: Seems like a good question for Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Check Wikipedia. GoingBatty (talk) 22:38, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

@Keith D:  Doing... but many can be deleted if there's already an archive-url or the link can be fixed. GoingBatty (talk) 01:40, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Can we include mentioned wikis on Check Wikipedia tools

• bnwiki
• bnwikibooks
• bnwikisource
• bnwikivoyage
• bnwiktionary
• commonswiki
• mediawikiwiki
• metawiki
• wikidatawiki

Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 13:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ZI Jony: I think the first step is to create a configuration page in each wiki (like Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation for enwiki, or fr:Projet:Correction syntaxique/Traduction for frwiki). It enables to configure the errors (which one are active, what is their name and description, and other parameters). I advise to start with one wiki to see the result. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 14:03, 27 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

And if you're interested in tools to help fixing the issues detected by Check Wikipedia, you can have a look at WPCleaner. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 14:07, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

NicoV, we already translated bn:উইকিপিডিয়া:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation, if https://tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki/ detect issues then we can fix via AWB, WPCleaner or AF. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 14:17, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ZI Jony: bnwiki has been included, see here. Checkwiki is for checking articles of language specific wiki projects, not commonswiki, mediawikiwiki, metawiki, wikidatawiki. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:58, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Articles are marked as missing <references /> tag (list 3) on cswiki even though they contain the following:

<references>
<ref name="abc">def</ref>
</references>

See for example the following page: cs:Klenový troják v Hřebenech. --Dvorapa (talk) 11:16, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dvorapa: This has now been fixed to allow space(s) after the references tag. ie. <references >. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:32, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"A specific interface – here for the English project –" ... it reports the scan being run the last time in 2017 ?!?! CommanderWaterford (talk) 06:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@CommanderWaterford: The semi-monthly Wikipedia dump files for enwiki and dewiki are not scanned due to their large file size which causes a long run time. enwiki, dewiki and some other wikis have their changed articles scanned daily. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:21, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tnx Bamyers99 for clarifying.CommanderWaterford (talk) 21:24, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Editing team is sorting out the upcoming mw:New requirements for user signatures. This should ultimately reduce your workload, if you happen to clean up talk pages. But even if you don't, I expect you all to get more questions, especially along the lines of "How do I make my sig look the same, only without screwing up the page?" You can check the Phab task (especially the dev's recent comment at the end) for more details than are currently on wiki. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's a redirect to reflist, should be added to the whitelist. Jerod Lycett (talk) 01:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jerodlycett: rfs has been added with this edit. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:10, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have searched through this and I can't seem to find what is triggering it even. Jerod Lycett (talk) 02:42, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

These errors are much easier to find with User:PerfektesChaos/js/lintHint. Ping me if you need help setting it up. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:19, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I use WPCleaner. Jerod Lycett (talk) 05:31, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jerodlycett: Jonesey95 fixed the invalid <sub|> tag in the article with this edit. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:19, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not even sure where to begin with this page to determine what is false and what is true. Jerod Lycett (talk) 02:32, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more specific about your concerns? – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:30, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There are several things showing up, mainly in ((code)). There are also three uses of h# tags as examples. I think all the ones in the template are false positives, but I'm not sure about the header examples. Jerod Lycett (talk) 07:09, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The tools.wmflabs.org domain is being replaced with toolforge.org. Tools are also being moved from a sub-directory to a subdomain. tools.wmflabs.org/checkwiki is moving to checkwiki.toolforge.org. The new domain is operational and CheckWiki appears to operate correctly on it. Sample new url. The old domain will eventually redirect to the new domain. For more information see wikitech:News/Toolforge.org. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:20, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The old domain is now redirecting to the new domain. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:07, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Per a request by Guy Macon, I'm reaching out to my fellow editors here to encourage checking for accessibility issues. Four in particular that are on my radar:

• Proper table semantics, like including scope="col" and table captions
• Alt text for images
• Proper color contrast and never using only color to distinguish values (e.g. a table row where the winner of a contest is in red).
• Misuse of <small>...</small>, which is an element that has semantic meaning of fine print, not a stylistic one.

Additionally, there are so many uses of <font>...</font> in signatures. :/ ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:48, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

For table semantics, there would need to be new WP:CWERRORS for those. I am also not sure what the issue is with the scope. For Alt, CW Error #30 exists but is turned off. For color issues, I am not sure if that would be possible to detect programmatically. Same with the misuse of small. We don't generally touch user signatures. (Nor talk pages.) Jerod Lycett (talk) 04:28, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with scope is that columns should have scope="col" and new rows should have scope="row" but they frequently don't. Semi-automated checking of color contrast is not a trivial thing but something that probably can be done with some false negatives. There are many color contrast tools that can give you an idea of how to think of this (I am not smart enough to solve this problem except for manually). ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a consensus established that tables should have those scopes set? Jerod Lycett (talk) 19:26, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Bamyers99:. Could you, please, add the Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia (arywiki) to the list of supported projects? I am interested in running my bot to fix errors on this wiki, so, it would help me if it was added to Checkwiki. This is a small wiki, so, it won't take a lot of resources to process its dump. Local translation page is ary:ويكيپيديا:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Translation. Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 12:31, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Meno25: New report is here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:50, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bamyers99: Thank you --Meno25 (talk) 16:55, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi folks. @WikiCleanerBot: is currently fixing heading hierarchies. Are you changes like [2] and [3] intended? If so, what was wrong about heading hierarchy that has been fixed? Robby.is.on (talk) 15:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: I hope this is the right place to inquire. Robby.is.on (talk) 15:41, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Robby.is.on:. This is done to apply WP:MOSHEAD: no title levels should be skipped to avoid accessibility issues. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:37, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: Oh, I hadn't seen that levels had been skipped but I do now. Thanks, Robby.is.on (talk) 07:03, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Even though I am very good at using AWB, I've never worked with checkwiki before. Since last 3-4 days, I have been trying to make list using the source "checkwiki error (number)". But I am getting errors everytime. I tried inputting different keywords in the source/error number bar. When I enter 2, 02, or 50; I get the error "The remote server returned an error: (308) Permanent Redirect." I am using AWB version 6.1.0.1 with default settings. I haven't tried the URL method as I couldn't find the URL(s) to be pasted. Any suggestions on how to create a list using error number or URL method will be appreciated a lot. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 13:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

found the URLs, but still noting on the checkwiki error (number). —usernamekiran (talk) 13:26, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Usernamekiran: Do you know what URL AWB is using? Recently, a domain migration has been done for toolforge servers (see a few posts above), so new URL are in use. Old URL are now redirects (#308), maybe AWB doesn't handle well the redirects? I think you should file a bug report for AWB about this, they either have to fix the handle of #308 redirects or change the URL for CheckWiki they're using. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 13:33, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NicoV: I found the URLs on https://checkwiki.toolforge.org/ → enwiki → (priority of error solving) → (error description) → list of pages with the particular error. On that list page, there is an option "list for bots". The URL of the "list for bots" can be used to "make list" by AWB under "checkwiki error". I will soon let the AWB guys know about this issue. —usernamekiran (talk) 13:53, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]