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Active tasks

Archiving dead links via Internet Archive (ADL, MCD, MDY, RDT)
Converting citation urls pointing to archived copy to archive fields (U2A, A2U, MAD)
Remove incorrect Wayback usage from citation fields (RWF)
Converting {{Wayback}} template to preceding citation's archive fields (W2A)
Move links from author/editor fields to author/editorlink= (ALA)

Task explanation

Quite often authors and editors are linked to their article directly in |author= and |editor= fields, but the article name and displayed part differ. Even more inconsistent if |first= or |last= are linked alone or both to the same target. These links should be placed in the |authorlink= and |editor-link= fields instead. This makes parsing easier, potentially allowing automatic generation of hidden metadata parser/scraper info for external tools, such as, already produced COinS. It also makes potential changes to linking possible from the main citation templates. The bot won't change unpiped links.

Algorithm

If |first= and |last= are set; and |author= and |authorlink= are not set

If |first= is a piped1 wikilink and |last= is text
Strip wikilink from |first= and move to |authorlink=
If |last= is a piped wikilink and |first= is text
Strip wikilink from |last= and move to |authorlink=
If both |first= and |last= are piped wikilinks to the same target
Strip wikilink from |last= and move to |authorlink=

If |author= is set; and |first=, |last=, and |authorlink= are not set

If |author= is a piped wikilink to different target
Strip wikilink from |author= and move to |authorlink=
Temporarily disabled pending discussion

The logic is applied to numbered fields as well: |author=, |author1=, |author2= .. |author8=; as well as |editor=, |editor-first=, |editor-last=, |editor-link= group and numbered fields thereof.

  • 1 If the link is not piped, then the target article is only the visible part of the link, which needs human review. For example, with |last=[[Smith]] and |first=John, is the target really Smith?

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