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I'll raise this again, since last time the discussion fizzled out, and was archived without formal action from a BAG member.
The issue is that files in categories are displayed by default, and this violates
WP:NFCC#9 if there are non-free files in the category. They have to be tagged with __NOGALLERY__
if you want to disable display of non-free files in a category. This is an urgent issue, as categories without this tag thatt contain non-free files are everywhere, and because we take copyright very seriously it cannot wait for a human user to find the category and add the __NOGALLERY__
tag, which is why this task requires a bot. Every other routine task involving non-free files, such removing instances without a valid fair use tag, is already handled by a bot.
The previous discussion stalled after a user objected and suggested adding a new feature to MediaWiki to disable category galleries by default, which is less convenient due to requiring WMF action, and it would create the opposite problem: we would need a bot to enable gallery mode on categories that contain only free files. Even though most files hosted locally are non-free, there is no reason why a bot couldn't handle the task of adding necessary __NOGALLERY__
tags at the required scale. Only one other person contributed to the discussion, who objected the suggestion for a new MediaWiki feature because it would hinder navigation of categories specifically for free files, and nothing else happened after that. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄)
05:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select count(distinct cl2.cl_to) from categorylinks as cl1 join categorylinks as cl2 on cl1.cl_from=cl2.cl_from join page on page_title=cl2.cl_to left join page_props on page_id=pp_page and pp_propname="nogallery" where cl1.cl_to="All_non-free_media" and cl1.cl_type="file" and page_namespace=14 and pp_propname IS NULL; +---------------------------+ | count(distinct cl2.cl_to) | +---------------------------+ | 5070 | +---------------------------+ 1 row in set (1 hour 35 min 26.445 sec)
{{non-free category gallery}}
or something would make it explicit what the intention of the nogallery tag is so it can be safely removed once no longer necessary.
Legoktm (
talk)
17:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
__NOGALLERY__
really is the best idea in the first place, versus a report so humans can decide whether the best solution is to remove the non-free images instead.
Anomie
⚔
20:21, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
so humans can decide whether the best solution is to remove the non-free images instead. Although I was thinking more of Wikipedia:Database reports rather than a maintenance template and category. Anomie ⚔ 11:50, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now (I posted before, but nothing came of it)... ~ Lofty abyss 03:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Per this discussion on WikiProject Football, it appears to be the best course of action to edit match report external links to full cited templates because of WP:LINKROT. I am making a request for a bot that could automatically do this, as there are many football pages that use the direct link system. An example of a page that does not is 2024 OFC Nations Cup qualification, while a major page that does use the direct link is the 2022 FIFA World Cup page. Yoblyblob ( Talk) :) 13:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. As a part of the California State University task force, I'm looking to add {{WikiProject California|calstate=yes|calstate-importance=low}}
to all of miscellaneous sports seasons' talk pages. The categories below contain the pages I'm looking to add the tag to, the bulk of the pages are from the football programs at each institution.
SammySpartan ( talk) 17:32, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Currently has 1,000 entries. {{ Soft redirect with Wikidata item}} (or its redirect {{ Wikidata item}}) or {{ R with Wikidata item}} should be removed from each of them because it's untrue. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
Wikidata redirect|Q78588304}}
was added to
Hester Ford in
this edit; but that redirect currently appears in the tracking category, as this connection was never made on Wikidata itself. Simply removing all the templates and losing this information isn't the best thing to do here, in my opinion. All the best, —
a smart kitten[
meow
16:12, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Since correct placement of stub tags is impossible using the VisualEditor, I've seen a tendency for articles created using VE to exhibit a jumbled mess of stub templates, categories and reference tags at the bottom. This is actually already an AWB genfix, but I wonder if it would be appropriate to have a bot routinely monitor VE edits and implement just this fix, which shouldn't need human supervision. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 09:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it. (One blank line leaves the stub category notice butted up against any preceding navigation template; it takes two blank lines in the edited text to produce one blank line in the displayed text.)". ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 08:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
I'm writing this from the perspective of a new editor. I've been struggling a lot with the way citations are commonly inserted into articles, and I think it would be a good idea to automatically convert all articles to the list defined references citation standard.
As far as I understand this is only relevant for editors using the source edit mode (?). Here's my perspective: There's two main problems with the inline citation style. 1) It's very difficult to read the text and find the relevant positions in the article, since citations - especially several citations in a row - will create long breaks in the text. 2) The even bigger problem (especially for new editors) is that inserting an already existing citation (or citing something twice) becomes unnecessarily complicated. Finding the original citation in the text, inserting a name-tag, and then using that name-tag in the new citation is confusing and tedious. List-defined-references would alleviate all these problems and make the page source codes more readable and understandable.
I understand that while editing it can be tedious to go down to the ref list, edit that, and then go back to the position in the text. That's why I think a bot would be a good solution, that can clean up articles later without affecting the editors workflow. Apoptheosis ( talk) 16:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi! Would someone be able to help implement
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:AMQ and
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:FMQ? In a nutshell, this would entail finding {{
AMQ|<callsign>}}
and replacing it with {{
FCC-LMS-Facility|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
and friends. There is also
Category:Pages using AM station data without facility ID,
Category:Pages using FM station data without facility ID, and
Category:Pages using LPFM station data without facility ID, which have a similar problem which need a similar solution: replacing e.g. {{
AM station data|<callsign>}}
with {{
AM station data|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
.
Luckily, Wikidata has the facility IDs, so it should be a (relatively) simple job. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/they) 02:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
I am requesting assistance tagging the talk pages of women's basketball articles with {{
WikiProject Basketball|women=yes}}
and {{
WikiProject Women's sport|basketball=yes}}
if not already tagged.
<removed long list of subcats, see history> Hmlarson ( talk) 16:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
A bot currently removes categories from Drafts per WP:NODRAFTCAT, but there is a proposal to handle this in a more user-friendly way. Your feedback would be appreciated at User talk:DannyS712 bot#Task 3 – Draft categories. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:40, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Unfortunately Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 14 has expired as the operator is taking something of an indefinite hiatus from editing. Would anyone be interested in taking on this project? Primefac ( talk) 00:24, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Sometimes a user generates citations that point to the same source, but in a separate ref tag (Statement 1<ref>Me!</ref> Statement 2! <ref>Me!</ref>
), rather than using <ref name=me>Me!</ref>
for the first call, and <ref name=me/>
for subsequent ones. This results in a separate entry for each citation.
The easy case is to detect and fix exact copy-paste duplicates.
If you want to see how bad it can get, check out Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (perma: [2]). That one generates the same citation in different ways.
I'd be happy with a bot that only fixes the first type, however, I'd be overjoyed with something that fixes both.
Acebulf ( talk | contribs) 03:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
|page=
and |pages=
, see
Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Citing_multiple_pages_of_the_same_source).DuplicateNamedReferences()
and DuplicateUnnamedReferences()
in /WikiFunctions/Parse/References.cs
), probably better to just improve that.Where an unnamed reference is a duplicate of another named reference, set the unnamed one to use the named ref
|quote=
), and if not put them on a list.DuplicateUnnamedReferences()
contains a comment that says: On en-wiki AWB is asked not to add named references to an article if there are none currently, as some users feel this is a change of citation style, so is against the WP:CITE "don't change established style" guidelinesso we should probably get consensus to change that. Polygnotus ( talk) 10:51, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
A bot that looks through articles that contain {{ music ratings}} to look for direct links and converts them into a basic citation. This could be very crude, perhaps put into a temporary category to run WP:CITEBOT on. ( Example diff, and yes this was a long time ago) – The Sharpest Lives ( 💬• ✏️• ℹ️) 02:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
The URL scheme of the National Statistical Comitee of the Kyrgyz Republic changed from stat.kg to stat.gov.kg, everything else stayed the same. The website is often used as a reference, but the links to it don't work anymore (e.g. in Chaek: all the links lead to 404 not found) Is it possible that someone migrates the links? MarcelloIV ( talk) 09:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
I currently have the bot User:C1MM-bot which already adds image maps of assembly constituencies (previously uploaded) to Indian state assembly constituency page infoboxes. I would like to extend this to adding constituency numbers to those pages which don't have them in infoboxes already. Numbers are in the filename of the uploaded images and are from a reliable source, namely the eci.gov.in website. I would also like to add the total number of electors for the constituency with source. The bot is run one state at a time. C1MM ( talk) 13:47, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Commonly Requested Bots |
This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).
You can check the "Commonly Requested Bots" box above to see if a suitable bot already exists for the task you have in mind. If you have a question about a particular bot, contact the bot operator directly via their talk page or the bot's talk page. If a bot is acting improperly, follow the guidance outlined in WP:BOTISSUE. For broader issues and general discussion about bots, see the bot noticeboard.
Before making a request, please see the list of frequently denied bots, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Wikipedia community. If you are requesting that a template (such as a WikiProject banner) is added to all pages in a particular category, please be careful to check the category tree for any unwanted subcategories. It is best to give a complete list of categories that should be worked through individually, rather than one category to be analyzed recursively (see example difference).
Note to bot operators: The {{
BOTREQ}} template can be used to give common responses, and make it easier to keep track of the task's current status. If you complete a request, note that you did with {{
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I'll raise this again, since last time the discussion fizzled out, and was archived without formal action from a BAG member.
The issue is that files in categories are displayed by default, and this violates
WP:NFCC#9 if there are non-free files in the category. They have to be tagged with __NOGALLERY__
if you want to disable display of non-free files in a category. This is an urgent issue, as categories without this tag thatt contain non-free files are everywhere, and because we take copyright very seriously it cannot wait for a human user to find the category and add the __NOGALLERY__
tag, which is why this task requires a bot. Every other routine task involving non-free files, such removing instances without a valid fair use tag, is already handled by a bot.
The previous discussion stalled after a user objected and suggested adding a new feature to MediaWiki to disable category galleries by default, which is less convenient due to requiring WMF action, and it would create the opposite problem: we would need a bot to enable gallery mode on categories that contain only free files. Even though most files hosted locally are non-free, there is no reason why a bot couldn't handle the task of adding necessary __NOGALLERY__
tags at the required scale. Only one other person contributed to the discussion, who objected the suggestion for a new MediaWiki feature because it would hinder navigation of categories specifically for free files, and nothing else happened after that. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄)
05:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select count(distinct cl2.cl_to) from categorylinks as cl1 join categorylinks as cl2 on cl1.cl_from=cl2.cl_from join page on page_title=cl2.cl_to left join page_props on page_id=pp_page and pp_propname="nogallery" where cl1.cl_to="All_non-free_media" and cl1.cl_type="file" and page_namespace=14 and pp_propname IS NULL; +---------------------------+ | count(distinct cl2.cl_to) | +---------------------------+ | 5070 | +---------------------------+ 1 row in set (1 hour 35 min 26.445 sec)
{{non-free category gallery}}
or something would make it explicit what the intention of the nogallery tag is so it can be safely removed once no longer necessary.
Legoktm (
talk)
17:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
__NOGALLERY__
really is the best idea in the first place, versus a report so humans can decide whether the best solution is to remove the non-free images instead.
Anomie
⚔
20:21, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
so humans can decide whether the best solution is to remove the non-free images instead. Although I was thinking more of Wikipedia:Database reports rather than a maintenance template and category. Anomie ⚔ 11:50, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now (I posted before, but nothing came of it)... ~ Lofty abyss 03:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Per this discussion on WikiProject Football, it appears to be the best course of action to edit match report external links to full cited templates because of WP:LINKROT. I am making a request for a bot that could automatically do this, as there are many football pages that use the direct link system. An example of a page that does not is 2024 OFC Nations Cup qualification, while a major page that does use the direct link is the 2022 FIFA World Cup page. Yoblyblob ( Talk) :) 13:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. As a part of the California State University task force, I'm looking to add {{WikiProject California|calstate=yes|calstate-importance=low}}
to all of miscellaneous sports seasons' talk pages. The categories below contain the pages I'm looking to add the tag to, the bulk of the pages are from the football programs at each institution.
SammySpartan ( talk) 17:32, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Currently has 1,000 entries. {{ Soft redirect with Wikidata item}} (or its redirect {{ Wikidata item}}) or {{ R with Wikidata item}} should be removed from each of them because it's untrue. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
Wikidata redirect|Q78588304}}
was added to
Hester Ford in
this edit; but that redirect currently appears in the tracking category, as this connection was never made on Wikidata itself. Simply removing all the templates and losing this information isn't the best thing to do here, in my opinion. All the best, —
a smart kitten[
meow
16:12, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Since correct placement of stub tags is impossible using the VisualEditor, I've seen a tendency for articles created using VE to exhibit a jumbled mess of stub templates, categories and reference tags at the bottom. This is actually already an AWB genfix, but I wonder if it would be appropriate to have a bot routinely monitor VE edits and implement just this fix, which shouldn't need human supervision. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 09:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it. (One blank line leaves the stub category notice butted up against any preceding navigation template; it takes two blank lines in the edited text to produce one blank line in the displayed text.)". ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 08:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
I'm writing this from the perspective of a new editor. I've been struggling a lot with the way citations are commonly inserted into articles, and I think it would be a good idea to automatically convert all articles to the list defined references citation standard.
As far as I understand this is only relevant for editors using the source edit mode (?). Here's my perspective: There's two main problems with the inline citation style. 1) It's very difficult to read the text and find the relevant positions in the article, since citations - especially several citations in a row - will create long breaks in the text. 2) The even bigger problem (especially for new editors) is that inserting an already existing citation (or citing something twice) becomes unnecessarily complicated. Finding the original citation in the text, inserting a name-tag, and then using that name-tag in the new citation is confusing and tedious. List-defined-references would alleviate all these problems and make the page source codes more readable and understandable.
I understand that while editing it can be tedious to go down to the ref list, edit that, and then go back to the position in the text. That's why I think a bot would be a good solution, that can clean up articles later without affecting the editors workflow. Apoptheosis ( talk) 16:50, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi! Would someone be able to help implement
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:AMQ and
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 May 26#Template:FMQ? In a nutshell, this would entail finding {{
AMQ|<callsign>}}
and replacing it with {{
FCC-LMS-Facility|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
and friends. There is also
Category:Pages using AM station data without facility ID,
Category:Pages using FM station data without facility ID, and
Category:Pages using LPFM station data without facility ID, which have a similar problem which need a similar solution: replacing e.g. {{
AM station data|<callsign>}}
with {{
AM station data|<Facility ID>|<callsign>}}
.
Luckily, Wikidata has the facility IDs, so it should be a (relatively) simple job. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/they) 02:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
I am requesting assistance tagging the talk pages of women's basketball articles with {{
WikiProject Basketball|women=yes}}
and {{
WikiProject Women's sport|basketball=yes}}
if not already tagged.
<removed long list of subcats, see history> Hmlarson ( talk) 16:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
A bot currently removes categories from Drafts per WP:NODRAFTCAT, but there is a proposal to handle this in a more user-friendly way. Your feedback would be appreciated at User talk:DannyS712 bot#Task 3 – Draft categories. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:40, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Unfortunately Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 14 has expired as the operator is taking something of an indefinite hiatus from editing. Would anyone be interested in taking on this project? Primefac ( talk) 00:24, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Sometimes a user generates citations that point to the same source, but in a separate ref tag (Statement 1<ref>Me!</ref> Statement 2! <ref>Me!</ref>
), rather than using <ref name=me>Me!</ref>
for the first call, and <ref name=me/>
for subsequent ones. This results in a separate entry for each citation.
The easy case is to detect and fix exact copy-paste duplicates.
If you want to see how bad it can get, check out Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (perma: [2]). That one generates the same citation in different ways.
I'd be happy with a bot that only fixes the first type, however, I'd be overjoyed with something that fixes both.
Acebulf ( talk | contribs) 03:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
|page=
and |pages=
, see
Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Citing_multiple_pages_of_the_same_source).DuplicateNamedReferences()
and DuplicateUnnamedReferences()
in /WikiFunctions/Parse/References.cs
), probably better to just improve that.Where an unnamed reference is a duplicate of another named reference, set the unnamed one to use the named ref
|quote=
), and if not put them on a list.DuplicateUnnamedReferences()
contains a comment that says: On en-wiki AWB is asked not to add named references to an article if there are none currently, as some users feel this is a change of citation style, so is against the WP:CITE "don't change established style" guidelinesso we should probably get consensus to change that. Polygnotus ( talk) 10:51, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
A bot that looks through articles that contain {{ music ratings}} to look for direct links and converts them into a basic citation. This could be very crude, perhaps put into a temporary category to run WP:CITEBOT on. ( Example diff, and yes this was a long time ago) – The Sharpest Lives ( 💬• ✏️• ℹ️) 02:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
The URL scheme of the National Statistical Comitee of the Kyrgyz Republic changed from stat.kg to stat.gov.kg, everything else stayed the same. The website is often used as a reference, but the links to it don't work anymore (e.g. in Chaek: all the links lead to 404 not found) Is it possible that someone migrates the links? MarcelloIV ( talk) 09:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
I currently have the bot User:C1MM-bot which already adds image maps of assembly constituencies (previously uploaded) to Indian state assembly constituency page infoboxes. I would like to extend this to adding constituency numbers to those pages which don't have them in infoboxes already. Numbers are in the filename of the uploaded images and are from a reliable source, namely the eci.gov.in website. I would also like to add the total number of electors for the constituency with source. The bot is run one state at a time. C1MM ( talk) 13:47, 24 June 2024 (UTC)