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Cleanup objects on arywiki after mass creation by single user on arywiki
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This task consists of cleaning up year articles and categories on Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia (arywiki), created en masse by a single user in good faith, but with several errors in spelling, formatting and categorization, as well as interlinking those pages. The editor tried to resolve all red links on the article list of years.

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Fixes:

  • Spelling errors of day names in articles => DONE
  • Wrong category names => DONE
  • Interlinking articles => DONE
  • Interlinking categories => DONE
  • Creating missing categories => DONE for categories up to 599 BC (600 BC and earlier need to be discussed)
  • Deleting articles for future years (beyond 2039) => DONE
  • Replacing free text with "main topic article" template => DONE
  • Other fixes (e.g. date conversion errors) will be done by the editor who originally created the articles and categories

Event Timeline

Example of fixes on AutoWikiBrowser (for the showcase)

AutoWikiBrowser - Moroccan Arabic fixes.png (1,636×768 px, 44 KB)

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