Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Bots and gadgets/DabFix

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DabFix

Problem: The DabFix tool for rapidly populating disambiguation pages is no longer available.
Who would benefit: Editors who create disambiguation pages.
Proposed solution: Create an in-house version of DabFix capable of populating disambiguation pages with appropriate information (e.g., birth and death dates of human subjects, and short descriptions of their significance).
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: BD2412 T 00:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Yes, none of these tools seem to work anymore, and they have always been erratic. Too bad, because they were very helpful tools: Dabfix, Dabsolver, Commonfixes.
Vmavanti (talk) 18:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'd add Dablinks, which is the tool I use most. (Example page: [1].) Certes (talk) 16:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Code for Dablinks could be reused to warn when linking to disambiguation pages. Certes (talk) 17:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The tools are not currently available via their usual IP address. Even if they return, they may be unstable, which increases the priority of this wish. I have a backup of the source code, but no licence to use or deploy it. Certes (talk) 18:21, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Waddie96 (talk) 18:38, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vmavanti (talk) 18:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Movses (talk) 19:03, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Count Count (talk) 19:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support N8wilson (talk) 20:31, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support The tools still work via IP address but a more widely supported version would be welcome. Certes (talk) 20:47, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 01:50, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I haven't done work in this area, but this proposal seems like it will help out others who have and want to do more. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 04:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tmv (talk) 09:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support YES! We need this ASAP Oaktree b (talk) 16:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Would be helpful in dealing with the volume of dablinks Rodw (talk) 17:32, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Emanuele676 (talk) 00:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 08:46, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support this would be quite helpful Libcub (talk) 18:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tool needed to help creators of disambiguation pages. WikiFer ^msg 23:12, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Much time saved. BoldLuis (talk) 10:43, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alexcalamaro (talk) 14:18, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 15:29, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Watty62 (talk) 17:01, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support much needed. with better multilingual support please Aswn (talk) 17:47, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:21, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Redalert2fan (talk) 00:10, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support DGG (talk) 00:52, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:47, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Luan (discussão) 19:54, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I am actually working on a bot that would suggest where a disambiguation page would be needed (when there are several pages with the same name but the parenthesis part and where neither in the cluster is a disambiguation already), but my progress is rather slow. I am not sure what the tool mentioned was doing, but I definitely support any reasonable tool development related to better management of disambiguation pages. Base (talk) 19:52, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Owleksandra (talk) 19:52, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Golmore (talk) 11:03, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Never used this tool, however, seems it will benefit all VKG1985 (talk) 17:29, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support The tool is very much alive, and it's accessible from http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/view/Dabfix. However, some important functions (like the missing entries one) relied on some feature on the mediawiki side (or was it toolforge?) which apparently got disabled around March–April 2019 (the feature had to do with user tables or something like that). If that feature could be enabled again, that would be great. Uanfala 22:13, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support AdaHephais (talk) 05:49, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support WikiAviator (talk) 11:20, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Juan90264 (talk) 03:10, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]