User:Seefooddiet/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.

Reference formatting

• Tags Korea-related unreliable sources with {{Unreliable source?}} (WP:KO/RS)
• 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)
• 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 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.

Article body adjustments

• Standardizes spelling of terminology to match guidelines in MOS:KO and WP:NCKO; standardized spelling is generally the most relevant current article title (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:DASH, 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

Korean text formatting

• Wraps bare Korean text using {{Korean}} (MOS:NON-ENG, 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 Wiktionary for Korean characters (MOS:KO-WIKT)
• Converts direct links to the Korean Wikipedia to {{Interlanguage link}}, e.g. [[:ko:식당|sikdang]] → {{ill|sikdang|ko|식당}} and sikdang ([[:ko:식당|식당]]) → {{ill|sikdang|ko|식당}}(MOS:KO-WIKILINK)
• Discourages bolding or italicization of Korean characters (MOS:HANGULBOLD)

Infobox adjustments

• Encourages use of contemporary place names (Template:Infobox person#birth place, 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 (Template:Infobox person#citizenship)
• Discourages displaying of modern equivalent of birth/death places (MOS:KO-BIRTHPLACE, MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE)
• Discourages hyphens in people names only when strict romanization is asked for (MOS:KO-ROMAN, 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)

Talk banner page

I have a simple script that adds {{WikiProject Korea}} to the talk page of articles if not already present.