User:Pathoschild/Standardization

Changes

All namespaces

• Syntax
  • Templates: remove msg: and template modifiers, and remove parameter whitespace.
  • Headers: normalize whitespace (no space between syntax and header text; no blank lines between header and following text; one blank line above header, unless it follows another header).
  • Lists: normalize whitespace (one space between item syntax and text).
  • Categories: normalize capitalization and parameter whitespace.
  • Links: normalize pipe whitespace, remove redundant link text ([[foo|foo]] to [[foo]], replace underscores with spaces.
• Sorting
  • Group license templates, categories, and interlanguage links at the bottom of the page in separate lists by type delineated by a single blank line between each.
  • Sort each list alphabetically (case-insensitive).

Author namespace

• Normalize {{author}} parameter layout.
• Convert deprecated {{author}} parameters and add new parameters.
• Remove categories added automatically by {{author}}.
• Update redirects from {{author-PD-*}} to {{PD-*}}.

Main namespace

• Normalize {{header}} or {{header2}} parameter layout.
• Convert {{header}} to the transitional {{header2}} format.

Known glitches

Author pages

• When no date categories are present and a full date is given in the deprecated {{author}} 'date' parameter, the script mistakenly uses the first number instead of the year for the birthyear (ie, "June 18, 1986").
  1. Causes: regex pattern matches the first number; difficult to resolve, may need to get all numbers and use the biggest (will work in most cases).
  2. Workaround: correct manually.

All namespaces

1. Occasionally, an extra blank line will be inserted above the sorted elements. This is a non-issue.
   • Causes: unknown, possibly related to the end whitespace regex.
   • Workaround: remove the extra line, or ignore it (no significant effect on the output).