Nomialbot is a Wikipedia bot that performs miscellaneous operations on taxoboxes. (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life.)
Nomialbot uses the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework. It is currently in development. It is operated from time to time by User:Gdrbot.
Nomialbot makes redirects from the Latin names of genera, species and subspecies to articles concerning those taxa. For example, the Lesser Sand Plover has the Latin species name Charadrius mongolus so the latter should redirect to the former.
It does this as follows:
Nomialbot adds a binomial section to a taxobox if these taxobox has entries for genus and species but no binomial. The binomial is deduced from the genus and species, if species takes one of these forms:
Between 2005-05-24 and 2005-05-30, Nomialbot updates taxoboxes so that they all use the fully templatized form documented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage.
Taxoboxes were originally written using HTML tables, then after the release of MediaWiki 1.3 were converted through several intermediate stages to use templates and MediaWiki table syntax. Before Nomialbot converted them, there were articles with taxoboxes at several stages of this development:
Nomialbot found taxoboxes at stages 1–6 by looking for articles that linked to Scientific classification or Binomial name or Binomial nomenclature or {{ Regnum}} but which didn't use {{ Taxobox begin}}. It then did its best to convert the taxobox to be fully templatized. In cases where it couldn't complete the the conversion, it added the partial conversion to the top of the article in a comment. These were then listed and converted by hand.
Nomialbot can assist with the addition of authorities to taxoboxes. See User:Gdr/authority.py.
From 2006-01-30 to 2006-02-01, Nomialbot converted about 16,000 multi-template taxoboxes to use {{ Taxobox}}.
There were about 70 articles that couldn't be converted, plus another 180 or so articles with virus taxoboxes. See /Report 2006-02-01 for the list.
Source code at User:Gdr/taxoconvert.py.
Nomialbot is a Wikipedia bot that performs miscellaneous operations on taxoboxes. (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life.)
Nomialbot uses the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework. It is currently in development. It is operated from time to time by User:Gdrbot.
Nomialbot makes redirects from the Latin names of genera, species and subspecies to articles concerning those taxa. For example, the Lesser Sand Plover has the Latin species name Charadrius mongolus so the latter should redirect to the former.
It does this as follows:
Nomialbot adds a binomial section to a taxobox if these taxobox has entries for genus and species but no binomial. The binomial is deduced from the genus and species, if species takes one of these forms:
Between 2005-05-24 and 2005-05-30, Nomialbot updates taxoboxes so that they all use the fully templatized form documented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage.
Taxoboxes were originally written using HTML tables, then after the release of MediaWiki 1.3 were converted through several intermediate stages to use templates and MediaWiki table syntax. Before Nomialbot converted them, there were articles with taxoboxes at several stages of this development:
Nomialbot found taxoboxes at stages 1–6 by looking for articles that linked to Scientific classification or Binomial name or Binomial nomenclature or {{ Regnum}} but which didn't use {{ Taxobox begin}}. It then did its best to convert the taxobox to be fully templatized. In cases where it couldn't complete the the conversion, it added the partial conversion to the top of the article in a comment. These were then listed and converted by hand.
Nomialbot can assist with the addition of authorities to taxoboxes. See User:Gdr/authority.py.
From 2006-01-30 to 2006-02-01, Nomialbot converted about 16,000 multi-template taxoboxes to use {{ Taxobox}}.
There were about 70 articles that couldn't be converted, plus another 180 or so articles with virus taxoboxes. See /Report 2006-02-01 for the list.
Source code at User:Gdr/taxoconvert.py.