Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Bots and gadgets/DabFix

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DabFix

Problem: The DabFix tool for rapidly populating disambiguation pages is no longer available.
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).
Who would benefit: Editors who create disambiguation pages.
More comments: Copied from a 2021 suggestion by BD2412. See that page for more comments.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Certes (talk) 00:19, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Yes, please. BD2412 T 01:02, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's unfortunate the volunteer didn't want to host their tools on Toolforge, as if they did we could have multiple engineers maintaining it. I don't think the code, although open source, is licensed. So we will need a complete rewrite. Still seems doable by Community Tech. I'm hoping we can build something directly into mw:Extension:Disambiguator. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is pedantic, but source-available and open-source are two very different things. Software can only be considered open-source when the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Dispenser's source code is published publicly, but is not obviously distributed under any FOSS or proprietary license. -- BDavis (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
My understanding is that the reason he would not move to Toolforge is precisely because some of the code he was using was not open source. Izno (talk) 07:11, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Robertsky (talk) 18:31, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Leschnei (talk) 22:43, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 00:40, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:42, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support I am pro anything that helps prevent disambiguation pages to flood with files and categories. --JopkeB (talk) 05:08, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support EpicPupper (talk) 05:12, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 05:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Doktor Züm (talk) 07:15, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oltrepier (talk) 08:59, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Qwerfjkl (talk) 10:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bluerasberry (talk) 14:59, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support as it is badly needed. Thingofme (talk) 15:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 07:11, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ɱ (talk) 02:32, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Quiddity (talk) 21:34, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 11:44, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support PRmaster1 (talk) 13:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hey man im josh (talk) 15:15, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geraki ^T_L 10:56, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support 3mi1y (talk) 08:45, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jklamo (talk) 11:54, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hans5958 (talk) 02:50, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tommy Kronkvist (talk) 09:12, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support DrowssapSMM (talk) 16:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 02:14, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Althair (talk) 04:02, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support CmdrDan (talk) 17:26, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:37, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]