How to help
Depending on the nature of the task, it can be either completely automated and run by a bot, or semi-automated via AWB, requiring a user's decision to whether or not implement the changes. Indeed, in order to minimize false positives, some of the operations should be performed by hand. For instance, {{Infobox Weapon}} is used in civilian firearms articles and some of articles using this infobox should therefore not be tagged as military history articles.
Rules of thumb:
- If you don't have a bot, don't take up a task that can be automated and involves a great number of articles - you will lose precious time pressing Ctrl-S in AWB.
- Don't create your own bot if there is no need to - a few bots will probably be more than enough.
- Don't assign yourself a task if you don't have time for it.
- If you can only do a part of a task, once finished, update the number of articles remaining, and change it back to unassigned.
- If the task is semi-automated only, it is because there are numerous false positives, so check every article before saving.
- Don't forget to uncheck "ignore unexisting pages" in AWB's "Set options" tab when dealing with talk pages!
- If you want to help, look at the list of unassigned tasks below, assign one to yourself by adding your name to it, and start kickin' :)
- Once completed, put this fact in a visible manner somewhere in the list.
General notes
When a task involves tagging articles from a stub tag and automatically rating them as "Stub-Class", the auto parameter in {{WPMILHIST}} must be set:
{{WPMILHIST
|class=Stub
|auto=yes
...
}}
