https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61994
Bug ID: 61994
Summary: Babel AutoCreate should check for duplicate categories
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Babel
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: stradb...@gmail.com
CC: asha...@wikimedia.org, robinp.1...@gmail.com,
run...@gmail.com, siebr...@wikimedia.org
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On enwiki, [[User:Babel AutoCreate]] has been creating several duplicate
categories. The categories differ only in capitalisation, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_En
which is a duplicate of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:User_en
This seems to depend on what capitalisation users use in their #babel
invocations. (More on this specific point at bug 61993.)
I have blocked the Babel AutoCreate account on enwiki because of this issue,
but if there is a way round it I would be happy to unblock.
As well as the fix I suggested in bug 61993, I think Babel should check for
possible duplicate categories at different capitalisations, and avoid
automatically creating categories for which it finds a match.
Let's say a user uses a Babel invocation of {{#babel: Xyz}}. Before creating
the category "User Xyz", Babel should check for the existing categories "User
xyz" and "User XYZ". Checking things like "xYz" probably wouldn't be necessary.
However, it would be worth checking regional variations like "xyz-ab" versus
"xyz-AB". This has been an issue with enwiki's [[Category:User en-gb]] and
[[Category:User en-GB]].
If duplication checking is implemented, I would suggest getting Babel
AutoCreate to log possible duplicates to its user page or a user subpage so
that they can be checked by a human and created manually if necessary.
This bug might be fixed by fixing bug 61993, but the code would be more robust
if there was an explicit check for duplicate categories as well. An explicit
check would avoid the same problem happening in the future if category code
capitalisation was made configurable, for example.
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