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Bug 40607 - Add tracking category for pages that contain errors flagged by HTMLTidy
Add tracking category for pages that contain errors flagged by HTMLTidy
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: easy
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Reported: 2012-09-28 22:30 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2014-02-12 23:35 UTC (History)
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Description MZMcBride 2012-09-28 22:30:55 UTC 
The parser is aware if HTMLTidy found errors or not. If HTMLTidy finds (and auto-corrects) errors, these pages should be auto-categorized. Presumably the HTML can be fixed by humans or bots or something.

I guess there could be gradations, depending on how specific HTMLTidy is. That is, Category:HTMLTidy found very serious errors; Category:HTMLTidy found mildly serious errors; etc.
Comment 1 Nemo 2013-03-10 11:32:52 UTC 
If bots can fix them, why aren't they also able to find them?
And if tidy auto-corrects them, why should humans bother "fixing" them?
Comment 2 MZMcBride 2013-03-10 11:35:13 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> If bots can fix them, why aren't they also able to find them?

HTMLTidy is being run server-side. It's vastly more convenient for the server to auto-categorize the pages. Then a bot will be able to easily find them. :-)

> And if tidy auto-corrects them, why should humans bother "fixing" them?

Graceful deprecation.
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