Hi guys, some time ago the '!' parser function was added in MediaWiki to replace the homonym template. However, the latter still exists on lots of WMF wikis. I've come up with a rough tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/cleanup/excl-template.php to help identifying the wikis on which it's still on use and the ones on which it can be safely deleted. I've already made the server purge the link cache for almost all of them. But please don't use bots to nominate all those for speedy deletion, only handle wikis you're familiar with ;-) And don't forget to get the documentation page deleted too!
Thanks to the community for having taken up this challenge! Many local copies of the template were deleted, but most of them are still there. The progress for wikis that are connected to Wikidata can be monitored via this item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5400303. I also discovered that the parser function is only called if no arguments are present. For example, after two simple edits ([1] https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Definition&diff=408341 and [2] https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Fakt&diff=408342) on the German Wikiversity, the transclusion count dropped from 1608 to 45.
Il 24/12/2014 05:08, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:
Hi guys, some time ago the '!' parser function was added in MediaWiki to replace the homonym template. However, the latter still exists on lots of WMF wikis. I've come up with a rough tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/cleanup/excl-template.php to help identifying the wikis on which it's still on use and the ones on which it can be safely deleted. I've already made the server purge the link cache for almost all of them. But please don't use bots to nominate all those for speedy deletion, only handle wikis you're familiar with ;-) And don't forget to get the documentation page deleted too!
Might be worth talking to Guillaume and putting some informative text, with a pointer, for the Wikitech newsletter.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 05:05:10 +0100, Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org wrote:
Thanks to the community for having taken up this challenge! Many local copies of the template were deleted, but most of them are still there. The progress for wikis that are connected to Wikidata can be monitored via this item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5400303. I also discovered that the parser function is only called if no arguments are present. For example, after two simple edits ([1]
https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Definition&diff=408341
and [2]
https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Fakt&diff=408342)
on the German Wikiversity, the transclusion count dropped from 1608 to
45.
Il 24/12/2014 05:08, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:
Hi guys, some time ago the '!' parser function was added in MediaWiki to replace the homonym template. However, the latter still exists on lots of WMF wikis. I've come up with a rough tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/cleanup/excl-template.php to help identifying the wikis on which it's still on use and the ones on which it can be safely deleted. I've already made the server purge the link cache for almost all of them. But please don't use bots to nominate all those for speedy deletion, only handle wikis you're familiar with ;-) And don't forget to get the documentation page deleted too!
Guillaume already figured it by himself, the tool has been featured on the past Tech News item https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/03.
Il 17/01/2015 05:10, billinghurst ha scritto:
Might be worth talking to Guillaume and putting some informative text, with a pointer, for the Wikitech newsletter.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 05:05:10 +0100, Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org wrote:
Thanks to the community for having taken up this challenge! Many local copies of the template were deleted, but most of them are still there. The progress for wikis that are connected to Wikidata can be monitored via this item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5400303. I also discovered that the parser function is only called if no arguments are present. For example, after two simple edits ([1]
https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Definition&diff=408341
and [2]
https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Fakt&diff=408342)
on the German Wikiversity, the transclusion count dropped from 1608 to
Il 24/12/2014 05:08, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:
Hi guys, some time ago the '!' parser function was added in MediaWiki to replace the homonym template. However, the latter still exists on lots of WMF wikis. I've come up with a rough tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/cleanup/excl-template.php to help identifying the wikis on which it's still on use and the ones on which it can be safely deleted. I've already made the server purge the link cache for almost all of them. But please don't use bots to nominate all those for speedy deletion, only handle wikis you're familiar with ;-) And don't forget to get the documentation page deleted too!
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