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, suggestions, or want any of my code, post on my talk page.

The script has several thousands of lines of code, some of which are only rarely used, 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
• 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"

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: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

• Encouraging 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)
• Removes intermediate administrative districts between cities and country, e.g. Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea → Ansan, South Korea (Template:Infobox person#birth place)
• 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.