Minecraft Wiki talk:Projects/Cleanup open tags

Should we also check the mentioned user and talk pages?
As mentioned on the page, there are some namespaces that I'm unsure about checking. Some of these have a lot of pages and some may not even be relevant. I'll do the smaller sets myself soon though. – [ Jack McKalling ] 23:24, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

In my opinion these issues can happen on all pages. In previously checked talk namespaces, I came across them also. So as far as I can take it myself, I'll do it myself. Maybe I'll break down the bigger ones in smaller sets, which was the plan all along. – [ Jack McKalling ] 14:31, 11 December 2017 (UTC)


 * . – ITechieGamertce 11:42, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

What exactly do I need to do to help?
I'm still not exactly sure how I could help with this project. As far as I understand this project just needs people to check all pages (divided into subsets) and check if someone messed up their tags? Asarta (talk) 08:07, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Regarding which namespaces to check
While I'm aware that a discussion concerning this already exists I didn't want to break into that so I'll state my thoughts here. I think we should do the Talk namespace but not User and User Talk. In my opinion the Talk namespace is still a part of the real wiki while User and User Talk are more socially orientated and not something that will be read by the casual reader. Anyone disagree? Asarta  (Talk)  18:06, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, checking the File namespace for unclosed tags is a waste of time. I think we should check tags with bots (humans will fix them later) and switch to checking the newest pages and the talk and user namespaces. Fadyblok240 (talk) 23:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Wile I'm not part of the project, I got to disagree; it is still faulty wiki code that should get corrected. Having overflowing html formatting is rather unprofessional. Dhranios (talk) 23:24, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * We can check pages a thousand times faster with Extension:Linter. There is no need to manually check every page. Fadyblok240 (talk) 23:55, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I was also beginning to think of automating but yeah, if this exists, why not do it this way? Sagessylu (discuss | edits) 10:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Checked automatically
I made a script to check if a page has problems with tags and runned it through the namespace main of the french wiki, with pretty good results. By good results I mean that a lot of pages listed have in fact incomplete or missing tags, and even if some pages are listed but doesn't have problems, I think every page with problems has been listed. I then runned it trough the file namespace of this wiki, and the results are here. Which means we could just check them and consider this namespace checked. What do you think ?
 * It turns out there were many false positives, but there were other problems associated with the pages. Now we can check all other namespaces, including the ones that were already checked because these were checked long ago. Fadyblok240 (talk) 20:34, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The false positives are due to things like  : it considers   as a tag. The only way to resolve this issue is to have an exhaustive list of existing tags and check if the supposed tag is in the list. The problem being that there are HTML5 tags, but also custom tags used by the wiki, such as  . So if you have this list, I could reduce a lot false positive ones.--Fusion thermonucleaire (talk) 21:03, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I made a list of tags used on the wiki, except HTML5 tags, do you see any missing tag on this list ? .  HTML5 tags :  .--Fusion thermonucleaire (talk) 10:48, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, do we accept  and   instead of   ? --Fusion thermonucleaire (talk) 13:21, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not too sure about that, but many of these tags could be replaced with wiki markup. Just checking for unclosed tags is not enough. Some entries on WP:CWERRORS also need checking. Fadyblok240 (talk) 15:02, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Searching for deprecated tags  or format is something else, this project is for open tags, I think we should do one thing at a time. I will soon update this page with a lot fewer false positives for the main namespace. And if this looks ok for contributors of this project, I'll do it for every other.--Fusion thermonucleaire (talk) 16:24, 3 November 2020 (UTC)