commonsfiledesc method in cosmetic_changes does not work properly
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	May 4 2026, 7:56 AM

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commonsfiledesc method of cosmetic_changes.CosmeticChangesToolkit does not work for the FILE namespace as described:

"""Clean up file descriptions on Wikimedia Commons.

It works according to [1] and works only on pages in the file
namespace on Wikimedia Commons.

because the the FILE namespace is excluded from processing.

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[bugfix] Enable cc method commonsfiledesc for FILE namespace on commons	pywikibot/core	master	+1 -1

Xqt changed the task status from Open to In Progress.May 4 2026, 7:57 AM

Xqt triaged this task as Medium priority.

Xqt changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Bug Report".

Change #1282108 had a related patch set uploaded (by Xqt; author: Xqt):

[pywikibot/core@master] [bugfix] Enable cc method commonsfiledesc for FILE namespace on commons

Change #1282108 merged by jenkins-bot:

[pywikibot/core@master] [bugfix] Enable cc method commonsfiledesc for FILE namespace on commons

Xqt closed this task as Resolved.May 9 2026, 4:17 PM