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Sorry if something like this has already been proposed...
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a bot that made redirects to articles that contain capital letters (other than the first letter) or punctuation. The bot would see Xena: Warrior Princess, and automatically make a redirect at Xena warrior princess, Xena: warrior princess, Xena: Warrior princess, etc. Obviously it would only create a redirect where no article currently exists. It could also do the same for currently existing redirects. For example, based on AAFCO, it would make Aafco, which would redirect to the original target (in this case Association of American Feed Control Officials.)
As I do most of my Wikipedia reading on my phone, I go to most articles by typing in the URL. My phone autocompletes the en. URL, and I just edit that last part, which is by far the easiest way for me to access Wikipedia.
I seriously doubt that I am the only one who assumes URLs, and since this bot wouldn't change anything on existing articles, I don't see any potential drawbacks. If, for whatever reason, the redirect is not logical, it can always be changed later by a human editor. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 05:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone create a bot to replace hyphens in numerical ranges with en dashes? I'm too lazy to use the right one myself and people keep hounding me. A bot could easily take care of this. Any takers? -- Adoniscik( t, c) 02:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Currently, Template:Infobox actor is fairly widespread in its usage. Several fields (i.e. "notable roles") have been deleted from the template page, but a very large number of individual infoboxes out there still contain them (i.e. because of their deletion from the template itself, they don't appear on the article itself, but are still there in the coding/html). I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but can a bot be programmed to remove the fields "notable roles", "notable role", "influences", "influenced", "height", "baconnum", "imdb_id", "bgcolour", "children", "parents", "relatives", "restingplace", "restingplace_coordinates", "deathcause" and "nationality" (all of which have long been deleted from the template itself) and replace the field "partner" with "domesticpartner" and the field "location" with "birthplace"? Thanks, All Hallow's Wraith ( talk) 05:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
Infobox actor}}
to identify the instances which use these two parameters; and I'm getting a bit worried.
Category:Infobox actor templates needing updating currently contains over 4,000 articles, and is growing all the time. That indicates that at least 20% of all instances of {{
Infobox actor}}
will need updating. Given that the functionality of the infobox is not adversely affected by having these duplicate parameters, are you sure this is really necessary?
Happy‑
melon 11:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)|location=
field is a duplicate of the |birthplace=
field - the two are coupled together in the code; so when people use that field, it displays correctly under "birthplace". The |partner=
field is unused, so any data passed to that parameter won't be displayed. My concern is not that it's 8,000 articles (actually 9,000 now), but that that represents 45% of the total.
Happy‑
melon 08:47, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Are there any handy-dandy ways to convert tables in CSV or PRN (comma or tab-separated) into wikitable formatting? Also can Wikitables do any calculations, i.e. percentages? Reason I'm asking is complex census data on a large number of topics/towns. Pls reply on my talkpage Skookum1 ( talk) 19:41, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can go through and automatically update all links to an article if the article has been renamed? I.E. such as changing all instances of Tessaiga to Tetsusaiga? Collectonian ( talk) 00:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Images uploaded in the PDF format cannot be displayed in articles, and as a result the vast majority of PDFs hosted here need to be converted into another image format, converted into plain text into an article, or (if the PDF is unencyclopedic) tranwikied or deleted. The template {{ BadPDF}} was created to notify people about this problem, but the vast majority of PDF files aren't tagged with it. If a bot could be programmed to add this template to all PDF files we currently have it would be great for people trying to fix this problem. There's an external tool here which can give a list of PDFs - there's about 1500. Hut 8.5 19:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
This question is more or less related to Wikipedia:Highly Active Users. Would there be any way to arrange a "this user is online/offline" template an editor could put on presumably their user page which could automatically be adjusted when a user logged on, possibly with an accompanying category? Also, would it be possible, perhaps, for that same bot to indicate the activity status of the user in question on the above page? I know it's a complicated question, but it might be useful in the future. John Carter ( talk) 01:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Per this page at Commons, a bunch of images have been identified as copyright of Library and Archives Canada. LAC allows use of these images but they can't be hosted at Commons. This means they will need to be uploaded to each wiki where they're used and given FUR's (if I understand this correctly).
There are two areas where a bot could help:
The image list is here and I am still working on getting the exact usage info. These are all historical and valuable images, it would be a shame to see them just vanish from so many places, any help is appreciated. Thanks! Franamax ( talk) 19:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Looking for someone to run a bot to deliver the following note:
And deliver it to editors listed in the following categories:
Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I can also help out with this, I'm already approved for this type of task. Me and Addshore have agreed to go 50/50 on this task. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 16:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Infact Doing... i will do Category:Wikipedians in the District of Columbia now as i have 150 trial edits. ·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 21:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to use a bot to change the references in such articles as Genomic_imprinting to the inline style, which allows easy flipping between the text and the references. ---- Seans Potato Business 15:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter May 2008 needs delivery to all members ASAP. Please see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach#Newsletter for options on delivery.
Delivery to all user talk pages on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Members, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Outreach#Instructions. Please contact if something remains unclear. feydey ( talk) 20:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
It seems You missed some people again, see User_talk:Feydey#Novels WikiProject Newsletter. Could You please double check Your delivery settings, that it includes all the 280 members from Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Members? Also please add a heading when delivering, like: "The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIII - April 2008" ( see here). feydey ( talk) 05:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
If you would like me to finish the task, I can, my bot is approved to do that task. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 05:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Can I get a list of people who have already received the newsletter? It's a relatively simple delivery to do. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 06:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Note: I'll need some clarification on the instructions, there is a list of people who want the newsletter, some who want a link, and some who don't want it at all, is that right? I'll need some clarification here before I can do the task. Thanks. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 06:25, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
I have a bit of an error, when I check using AWB, there are only 387 members on the member list. What would you like me to do about those who have received a newsletter already? Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 06:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Done All newsletters and links sent. I've saved the config file for these too, so I can deliver these in future. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 08:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone make a bot to post an invitation on the talk pages of Wikipedians interested in genetics? Liveste has created a nice invite template here that I think is appropriate: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Genetics/Invite. Thanks! Madeleine ✉ ✍ 14:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
e.g. for the redirect UN/LOCODE:USNYC put in template the variable and value like this: |un_locode = USNYC
UnLoCode ( talk) 19:15, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Template:Reqphotoin is used as, for example, {{Reqphotoin|France}} to populate
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in France. {{
Reqphoto}} has an "in=" parameter that replaces the function of Template:Reqphotoin. Now, such requests are made as {{Reqphoto|in=France}} to populate
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in France. Could you please have a bot change the Reqphotoin tags listed
here with Reqphoto? Basically, for example, {{Reqphotoin|France}}, {{Reqphotoin|San Francisco County, California}}, {{Reqphotoin|England|Germany|France}} would be changed by the bot to read {{Reqphoto|in=France}}, {{Reqphoto|in=San Francisco County, California}}, {{Reqphoto|in=England|in2=Germany|in3=France}}. Let's start with the simple situations and hope that takes care of most of the tags. Please change the tags that appear (1) exactly as {{Reqphotoin}} to {{Reqphoto}}, (2) exactly as {{Reqphotoin|}} to {{Reqphoto|in=}}. (3) For those having the pattern of a single location request, such as {{Reqphotoin|France}} and {{Reqphotoin|San Francisco County, California}}, please change them to {{Reqphoto|in=France}} and {{Reqphoto|in=San Francisco County, California}}. For now, skip the Reqphotoin templates having small=yes, those having two or more location requests (e.g. {{Reqphotoin|England|Germany|France}}), and those Reqphotoin tags using the not-so-well working "of" parameter.
GregManninLB (
talk) 06:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
In my travels, I've noticed that there's a lot of infobox templates that have been created, but are hardly being used because they're so damn difficult to incorporate into an article. For instance, look at the current version of Infobox Dancer, compared to this old version. In the current version, there's some sample code that can be easily copy and pasted into an article, in the former you have to poke around the template code just to figure out what the fields are, as the main Template page only shows the compulsory fields. As a result, noone bothers. It would be great if someone could just send a bot round the infobox templates, just parsing out all the fields (within {{{ }}} brackets) in the template, deduplicating them, then writing them to a /doc page and transcluding it with {{ template doc}}. A phase II version might be to layout subheadings where humans could fill in explanations of what the fields mean - {{ Infobox Person}} and others do it with a table, {{ Infobox Rugby Union biography}} does it with a straight list, I quite like the way {{ Infobox Company}} does it with semi-headings. Is there a style guide for template pages? One thing that would be nice would be a demonstration of image format - it's never obvious whether you should use [[Image:image.jpg]] or [[Image:image.jpg|150px]] or just image.jpg, and if you used Image:Replace this image male.svg or Image:Replace this image butterfly.png in the sample code it would have the extra benefit of encouraging casual users to contribute images to Wikipedia. Plus infoboxes just look more "infoboxey" if they have an image, even a dummy image. I'm way too busy to do anything about this myself at the moment, but thought it might make a nice little project for someone? FlagSteward ( talk) 14:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
There are two parts to archiving an editor review, and the order in which they are done is inconsequential.
Previously I have done both tasks myself. I've stopped doing it, and it's apparent that nobody else wants to do it either.
There are a couple of possibilities. One way is to place archive templates, which have not yet been created for this specific purpose, on an expired editor review page. Then a bot sees the archive templates and untranscludes the page and links to it in an archive list. This is similar to the process at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets. It may be necessary in this scenario to switch to a "by month" format instead of the current "by username" format.
Another way is to have the bot automatically add a link to the archive in Wikipedia:Editor review/Archive as soon as the request is filed, or at a designated time thereafter, e.g. if the bot runs once a week. Then a human untranscludes the editor review page at his or her discretion. This might be better because it's a less drastic change from the current system.
I don't know whether bots can be programmed to archive pages based on the alphabetical order of a subpage title. In other words, will a bot know how to sort Wikipedia:Editor review/WikiMan53 before Wikipedia:Editor review/WikipedianProlific just based on the fact that M comes before p? If yes, that's probably what I want. If not, switching to archiving based on month of the request will preserve some archiving system without requiring undue human intervention. Shalom ( Hello • Peace) 18:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
(Unindent) I think the best way to do this is to create an archive template for editor reviews. That way, a human decides that the page should be archived, and the bot takes care of the rest - same as with WP:SSP. If someone wants me to modify one of the existing archive templates, I'll give it a try. Shalom ( Hello • Peace) 02:30, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Please could someone replace all instances on article talk pages of {{ Irelandproj}} with {{ WikiProject Ireland}}. No parameters should be added or changed or removed, just a straightforward replace one template name with another on about 700 pages.
{{ Irelandproj}} is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Ireland}}, and it was used for tagging at a time when for some reason it existed as a near-clone; I redirected it some time last year.
I know that in general there is no need to bypass redirects, and that the practice is deprecated, However, this redirect is causing problems for WikiProject Ireland's article assessment drive. Several of us are using the User:Outriggr/metadatatest.js script, which not only allows rapid applications of assessment tags, it also displays on the article page the existing assessment, e.g. "Start/Low" or "GA/Mid". Unfortunately, the script doesn't parse redirects, so if it encounters the IrelandProj template it reports that the article has not been assessed using {{ WikiProject Ireland}}. The wastes assesors time in adding a duplicate assessment, only to find that it was un-needed.
There replacement is a simple regex, and I would set by BHGbot to do it AWB except that my windows PC is ill, so I have no AWB.
This change has been discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment#IrelandProj_template, where there is a consensus for the change. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 03:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
My bot can handle that task. So, it's a simple find/replace, no? Also, I'll need the category to find the templates from, or I could do a What links here search in AWB, but a category would help. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 09:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
No need to clarify. I've taken a look, should be a relatively simple task. Will take about 20 minutes for me to get started, then an hour or so to replace all the tags, depending on the talk page size. That OK with you? Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 09:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Will need to fix up the redirects, my bot is changing the transclusions. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 11:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Stuck. Having some issues replacing the class and importance bits, needs something with a regex, but I'm stuck on to what that is. Let me know, and I can do it with no issues (feels stupid) Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 11:40, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
s/\{\{Irelandproj/{{WikiProject Ireland/
Hmm, well, I'm trying to do a find/replace version, I was thinking something along the lines of find {{Irelandproj}} replace with {{Wikiproject Ireland}}, but needs a regex, so something like {{Irelandproj|class=|importance=}} replaces with {{Wikiproject Ireland|class=|importance=}}, but to keep the =class and =importance bit in. That bit needs a regex. I get kinda stuck when it comes to regexes. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 14:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
{{Irelandproj
and replace it with >{{Wikiproject Ireland
make it case insemsitive and non-regex.
βcommand 2 14:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
Irelandproj}}
works just as well as {{
irelandproj}}
). I usually do use regex, something like re.sub(r'(?i)\{\{\s*irelandproj\s*([\|\}])',r'{{WikiProject Ireland\1',text)
{{
irelandprojecttemplate (entirely unrelated)}}
). But in simple situations like this, non-regex works just as well and can be safer.
Happy‑
melon 14:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)I'm using AWB, and the suggestion BetaCommand is working like a charm. (smiles at Betacommand). Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 14:57, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Heh, Betacommand knows what he's talking about. And it's working. Thanks. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 14:48, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Done. And all errors are fixed. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 16:49, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot to count the pages in Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user and update Template:Adoption backlog/count with that number, daily, or a few times per day if possible. Thanks in advance, xenocidic ( talk) 20:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user}}
= 21. :D
Happy‑
melon 21:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
←Since this doesn't seem to work, any takers? xenocidic ( talk ¿ review ) 20:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please migrate usages of the redirect {{ self2}} to its target, {{ self}}? There appears to be several thousand usages. The reason is that this license template is being broken when image pages transcluding it are transferred to the Commons, and the name of the author is being dropped. Kelly hi! 20:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
85-odd asteroid-related articles need minor text-replacement updates. Replace at Siding Spring in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey with at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey and replace discovery_site = Siding Spring in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey with discovery_site = Siding Spring Observatory. Yes, I know this will leave a redlink, I was unable to find the topic in an article. See User talk:Davidwr/6227 Alanrubin for details.
I am from the
Assessment dept of
WikiProject India. This is a bot request for
Kerala work group.
The banner for the Project is {{WP India|kerala=yes}}
Many of the articles Talk pages doesnt have the importance tag for the workgroup kerala.
My request is to append "|kerala-importance=" to ALL article talk pages with {{WP India|kerala=yes}} and doesnt have |kerala-importance= already.
Can this be done by a bot ??. Thanks in advance -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 06:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
|kerala-importance=
parameter by bot if it is going to have to be filled in by human editors anyway? The whole point of having separate importance scales for task forces is that a TF might have assign a different importance to an article than its parent project, so you can't just copy from the main |importance=
parameter. Given that you're going to have to do this anyway, why not skip the bot step and go straight to digging through
Category:Unknown-importance Kerala articles and adding the |kerala-importance=
parameter by hand. Unless I've completely misread the situation, there's nothing that a bot can do to help you here.
Happy‑
melon 21:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
|kerala-importance=
to articles in
Category:WikiProject Kerala articles that don't already have it.
RichardΩ612
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ɸ 11:44, May 18, 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but is there a way where I could add {{TelevisionWikiProject|class=Redirect|importance=Low|avatar=yes|avatar-importance=Low}} to the talk page of any page that redirects to the article page of any page on this list. For example, one of the pages on that list is Talk:Appa. So any page that redirects to the article page, Appa, should have the template on its talk page. Some of the pages might already have something on them. Since they are redirect pages, I think just blanking the talk page and adding the template would be OK. — Parent5446 ( t n e l) 14:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Too often I see this [1]. <-- it looks ugly, it should look like this. [1] All we need is a bot that searches for: </ref>. removes the "." and looks for the <ref> that exists just before it, and places the "." in front of that. Many put extra spaces between the ref. also, so that needs to be accounted for, but I'm sure someone could come up with a bot to fix this, it is endemic to Wikipedia right now. 67.5.156.176 ( talk) 07:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
re.sub('<ref([^/]*?)>(.*?)</ref>([.,;!?])','\3<ref\1>\2</ref>',text)
Please do not do this. I consider it more logical to put the reference immediately after the fact, and that usually means before the punctuation. See Wikipedia:Cite your sources#Ref tags and punctuation, which allows both styles. — AlanBarrett 17:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Here is a straightforward one: can someone please replace all uses of {{
CanEd}} with {{
WikiProject Canada|education=yes}}
. The labelling of Canada-related articles is being standardized. Thanks. --
Arctic Gnome (
talk •
contribs) 21:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Done Gee, that was fast :D CWii( Talk| Contribs) 22:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I think this should be reverted. Standardization isn't a reason. GreenJoe 23:19, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
If I had been a client of User:SatyrTN's User:SatyrBot do I need to request new bot assistance.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 16:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
O.K. User:SatyrTN has been tagging categories at WP:CHIBOTCATS with {{ WikiProject Chicago}}. It has autostubbed talk pages that have preexiting templates with class=stub. It also auto-FA, FL, and GAed pages that have templates with such tags on them. I think he had to do some special things to avoid some railroad categories that have articles that don't belong to us, but I don't recall. He use to run this bot twice a week looking for new articles for us. Can I get a new bot that will take over this responsibility?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 19:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Would request that the articles in Category:Togo, Category:Assoli Prefecture, Category:Bassar Prefecture, Category:Bimah Prefecture, Category:Centrale Region, Category:Cities, towns and villages in Togo, Category:Doufelgou Prefecture, Category:Kara Region, Category:Lakes of Togo, Category:Landforms of Togo, Category:Lomé, Category:Maps of Togo, Category:Maritime Region, Category:Mountains of Togo, Category:National parks of Togo, Category:Neighborhoods of Lomé, Category:Old maps of Togo, Category:Parks in Togo, Category:People from Lomé, Category:Plateaux Region, Togo, Category:Prefectures of Togo, Category:Regions of Togo, Category:Rivers of Togo, Category:Savanes Region, Togo, Category:Settlements in Togo, Category:Subdivisions of Togo, and Category:Togo geography stubs all be tagged with {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Togo=yes|Togo-importance=}}, with autoassessment based on stub template if possible. John Carter ( talk) 19:53, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Genetics is a new WikiProject. As of 00:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC), [1] User:John Bot tagged the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics stubs with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Now, for those article talk pages not already tagged with {{WikiProject Genetics}}, can you get a bot to tag the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics and all of its sub categories with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=|importance=|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 05:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
← Let's do this the right way this time. Give me a list of all categories like the request here. Thanks, CWii( Talk| Contribs) 20:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
What's going on with this - is this running again? I see Age at first marriage got tagged in the last day and it clearly doesn't belong. Did someone give you a list of categories somewhere? Madeleine ✉ ✍ 04:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Okay, may I please say this is a TOP PRIORITY. We have tens/hundreds of thousands of articles missing on places all over the world. Myself and User:Blofeld of SPECTRE have been working so hard to create these articles but a bot would really help. We could use Maplandia.com to create stubs like Simaw. Many thanks to whoever creates such a bot. I'm an Editor of the wiki citation needed 21:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
I have some bad news for you. From http://www.maplandia.com/terms-of-use/:
“ | Provided you comply with these Terms of Use, Maplandia grants you a nonexclusive, non-transferable license to view and print the Materials solely for your own personal non-commercial use. You may share a map with another individual for that individual's personal non-commercial use using the email option on the map webpage. You may not commercially exploit the Materials or the underlying data, including without limitation, you may not create derivative works of the Materials, use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on the Materials, frame any portion of the Materials, or reprint, copy, modify, translate, port, publish, sublicense, assign, transfer, sell, or otherwise distribute the Materials without the prior written consent of Maplandia. You shall not derive or attempt to derive the source code or structure of all or any portion of the Materials by reverse engineering, disassembly, decompilation or any other means. | ” |
Emphasis mine. Also from FAQ: "However you may not copy any part of our webiste under any cirucumstances" (sic). Using robots is forbidden, and I'm not even sure whether using mplandia as a source for creating articles manually is ok (using it for one article is fine, but using it systematically could be considered copying). The problem is not the names and coordinates, that comes from US military and is PD. The administrative hierarchies are a different story. I'm not sure if I have seen any other site with such detailed information, so I think that's their own doing. Correlating the geoname databases with administrative division data is not tricky, it's quite trivial in fact, but the GIS data for administrative divisions tends to be proprietary and (very) expensive. Certainly somebody who actually understand copyright (I don't) needs to take a look at this.
I still believe it's better to approach the governments directly and ask what information they have available. Wikipedia is now big and well known. Pretty much every country has statistical and/or map making agencies, as the countries need that kind of data for their internal planning. As a rule, they do not make such a data publicly available (one reason is the large size of such data sets, especially if they have been meshed into full GIS system). Potentially that data could be very detailed... – Sadalmelik ☎ 17:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Well if it is years or a year no. But if you could sort something in a few weeks or months I wouldn't have any objections as long as you consider it important. Things can be done manually up until then. I seriously doubt the name and coordinates of towns are copywrightable and if maplandia tries to claim this it is clearly deluded. The site obviously used google data but they do appear to be claiming authorship of this. I;m certian if you studied that site you'd see how straightforward its system is ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:35, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot standardise the babel templates to the standards described here, and search for templates that are not in that category yet and standardise them too? Example of a good way to do it: fr. How not to do it: af. User:Krator ( t c) 21:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
user af}}
and {{
user fr}}
that I have no idea what features of 'af' are problematic (I'd guess all of them, but you can't be sure :D).
Happy‑
melon 15:54, 18 May 2008 (UTC)Often times, people mean to add <ref></ref>, but instead they put <ref><ref>, resulting in a lot of missing text. I don't think <ref></ref> tags can be nested inside one another, so finding these errors and changing the second to </ref> would fix most cases. Or, how about just even making a list of articles that have this occurrence that can be scanned. I think this would be a very useful bot. -- Rajah ( talk) 16:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Per WP:NFCC#9, non-free images are only allowed in mainspace. Apparently we used to have a bot to remove non-free content used elsewhere, but it is no longer active. I think we need a bot to automatically remove non-free images from user, template, etc. spaces. Kelly hi! 20:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
All pages that use Template:Infobox Settlement and have an incoming redirect from Category:Redirects from UN/LOCODE shall get the 5 char value of the redirect e.g. for the redirect UN/LOCODE:USNYC put in the Infobox at New York City the value like this: |un_locode = USNYC UnLoCode ( talk) 08:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
{{{un_locode}}}
. Are you sure you have the right template?
RichardΩ612
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ɸ 15:29, May 19, 2008 (UTC)Out of sheer ignorance of bots and how they work, I am unsure whether this has been done or thought of before, or even if this can be done, but I would like to request a bot who could possibly do RCP-ing and identification of certain kinds of inappropriate pages, in a similar way to User:ClueBot or User:VoABot but with new pages? For instance, the ability to detect when a page is created for pure vandalism, link spam, blatant copyvio's or just an empty or near-empty page, etc.? Thanks, Mizu onna sango15/ 水女珊瑚15 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC).
For those articles listed at Category:Engineering stubs, please tag their talk pages with {{Engineering|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Please do not modify any existing parameters on the talk pages and please do not tag the subcategories of Category:Engineering stubs. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 22:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Right now, the "alongside" field (also the "alongsideX" field, where X is any integer from 0 to 9) of Template:Infobox Officeholder is automatically wikilinked. This can pose problems in some cases, so I would like to remove the automatic wikilinking, and have proposed as much at the talk page. However, if I do that, there are going to be a bunch of wikilinks that should be there disappearing; I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a bot put wikilinks in to replace the ones that I'm removing from the template. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 18:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Maybe this got lost in the middle of a discussion above so I will create a separate section.
It seems User:SatyrTN and his bot User:SatyrBot are no longer active. WP:CHICAGO needs articles in WP:CHIBOTCATS tagged with {{ WikiProject Chicago}}. It would also be helpful if the bot autostubbed talk pages that have templates from other projects with class=stub. I think his bot also tagged newly found articles with FA, FL, and GA parameters and added them to class when it added the template. -- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 18:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I've been in the process of moving our Flickr-sourced free images to the Commons, so the license can be verified to protect us from license changes in the future. In the process I've been finding a lot of copyright violations. I'm sure most are good-faith mistakes; many people think that any Creative Commons license is acceptable and don't understand that NonCommercial and NoDerivs variants are not OK for Wikipedia, and some images have been the victim of license changes at Flickr since upload. Would it be possible to have a bot scan images that are sourced to Flickr, and check the license against the Flickr source page? If the license does not match, the image should be listed at WP:SCV or perhaps some subpage/subcategory for human checking. From what I've seen, the most commons false positives would be cases where the Flickr user is also a Wikipedian who has uploaded a duplicate copy here under a different license (but provided a link to the Flickr page regardless), and Flickr images with OTRS permission (those should have an OTRS ticket on the page). Images whose licenses "check out" could have a confirmatory note placed on the image page by the bot and/or be tagged with {{ Move to Wikimedia Commons}}. Thoughts? Kelly hi! 16:05, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
There are lots of former articles in the sub-categories of Category:Lists of World War II topics that show up as redlinks, and were probably created by renaming using diacritics in the title given they have a ? (character) in them now. It would be great if there was an easy way to clean this up. I suppose same may have occurred in other categories, so this may be a Wikipedia-wide issue.-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 00:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Since our referencing system is not showing any chance of improving or getting a real bibliographic system in the near future, we should create bots to do the same thing.
Currently, we have User:DumZiBoT, which converts bare URL refs like
<ref>http://www.google.com</ref>
into
<ref>[http://www.google.com Google]</ref>
based on the title of the retrieved page.
We should expand on this bot or create other bots that do the same thing for news articles, books, and journal articles.
For instance, a ref like
<ref>ISBN 354063293X</ref>
would be changed to
<ref>{{Cite book | edition = 2nd exp. ed. | publisher = Springer | isbn = 354063293X | pages = 304 | last = Mumford | first = David | title = The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes | date = 1999-10-29
}}</ref>
based on information from isbndb.com using the API.
And a ref like
<ref>PMID 4957203</ref>
could be fixed to
<ref>{{cite journal |author=Koprowski H, Wiktor TJ, Kaplan MM |title=Enhancement of rabies virus infection by lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus |journal=Virology |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=754–6 |year=1966 |month=April |pmid=4957203 |doi= |url= }}</ref>
based on the data retrieved by this tool.
There is also a link scraper for news sites
And so on for other types of references that have easily-retrieved metadata.
Also, the current DumZiBoT should be using a citation template like {{ cite web}}, so that it can add "retrieved on" information for better verifiability or to mark the link as dead. Yes, I know it's in the FAQ, and I don't care. There's no good reason not to do this. — Omegatron ( talk) 01:26, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I am from
WP:INDIA to request for a Bot Assisted Assessment. Please see the discussion on this
here .
Our banner is {{
WP India}}
Our request is
1) If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assessment from the other project banners on the same talk page. for articles in
Category:Unassessed-Class India articles |
Who can take this up ? -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Richard for working on our request. Let us know when done -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 06:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Doing... CWii( Talk| Contribs) 12:59, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Still doing... CWii( Talk| Contribs) 13:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Done CWii( Talk| Contribs) 17:00, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Bot Assisted Assessment is where "a bot looks at all unassessed pages and adds the highest assessment parameter from other project templates on the page to the {{ WP India}} template. E.g. if a page that has the WP India template has 'Start' and 'B' classes from other templates, '|class=B' will be added to the WP India one." [2] You can do this!?! I've been working on moving WikiProject Ecuador along and something like Bot Assisted Assessment would be great for WikiProject Ecuador as well. In view of this, is it possible that you guys can create a list of things you have done with the bots as they relate to regional WikiProjects so that not-bot people (e.g. me) are aware of what can be done and can pick an choose among bot options. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 14:38, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Recently created WikiProject. There is a list of neurological related articles ( here) and the diagnoses section needs every different diagnosis to be wiki linked? Is that possible? If so thanks so much! Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 13:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've updated my template to {{Neuro}} and it now contains parser functions. Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 15:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Neurology}}
?
This will eventually hit the road, and you'd be doing yourself a favour if you pre-empted it. Redirects from {{
Neuro}}
or wherever are still a good idea, but you have no idea how much easier it is to handle WikiProject banners if they use a standard naming convention.
Happy‑
melon 16:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Could anyone place {{WikiProject Neurology}} on every page listed in Neurotrauma? Thanks! Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 21:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Yep, I can do that. Doing... Steve Crossin (talk) 21:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Question: Include subcategories as well? Steve Crossin (talk) 22:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Alright then. Steve Crossin (talk) 22:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Done, finally. Steve Crossin (talk) 22:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I would be grateful if a bot changed "captive market" or "captive markets" in all articles into a internal links to the captive market page. If this is too vague i can provide a list of pages, but from doing a google search it seems all returns of the terms above are appropriote to be automatically changed. Thanks Chendy ( talk) 10:57, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
(?<!\[)(captive +market)
. —
Dispenser 21:52, 31 May 2008 (UTC)Per Template_talk:Infobox_Artist#Famous_works, the parameter "Famous works" has been changed to "Works". This means the existing template on article pages, e.g. Vincent van Gogh needs to be updated, so the template, which at the moment says "famous works", reads just "works", as has been done here. [3] This seems like a job for a bot, if anyone can help out. Thanks. Ty 23:23, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot that fix redirects in templates. Generally we discourage fixing links to redirects that are not broken, but in templates a correct link is better since the direct link will display in bold (and not as a link), making it easier to navigate through a series of articles using the template. See WP:R#NOTBROKEN. I tried bypassing redirects links on football templates with AWB, but it was a pain doing this manually. A bot could be tried out on templates in the subcategories of Category:Football squad by nation templates. Rettetast ( talk) 18:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to request that a bot patrol Special:Lonelypages whenever it is updated. This bot would go through each article, check if it met the orphan criteria, and, if so, tag it with {{ orphan}}.-- Aervanath's signature is boring 17:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, could a bot change all instances of the awful spelling error (currently redirect from misspelling) shot putt? It's written shot put. Thanks, Punkmorten ( talk) 08:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could program b=my bot, BarkBot for me! Please reply on my talk page.-- Barkjon 17:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
There are articles and lists on the Ten Outstanding Young Americans award and on The Outstanding Young Persons of the World award. After taking the time to add links for each recipient and their country manually to the TOYP list, can someone help add links to the TOYA list? I'm still learning the appropriate formatting for each page.
Also, at some point, one dream is to have every Wiki article on a past honoree may have a link to the TOYA or TOYP article or list.
Not sure if either of these requests are the jobs of bots or semi-bots or inappropriate requests... Dagordon01 ( talk) 21:14, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot help me finding incorrect use of {{ flagicon}} in football biographies. Per consensus at WP:FOOTY the flags should not be included inside the infobox like her. Could a bot help making a list of the articles with this error, or if the operator dare, make a bot that remove the flags? Rettetast ( talk) 00:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Template documentation#How to create a documentation subpage, the talk pages of template documentation should be redirected to the talk page of the associated template to keep discussion centralized. Would it be possible to have a bot automatically go through and create these redirects? There are a couple of minor complications that spring to mind - if the doc talk page already exists, the contents need to be moved to the redirect target. Also, if the talk page of the template does not yet exist, I think we have an adminbot out there somewhere that deletes redirects with no target. We would want an exception in this case to keep these redirects from being deleted. Kelly hi! 15:34, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
I strongly oppose an idea like this. It seems to be an unnecessary use of redirects. Why not use a JavaScript solution instead? -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
It'd be real nice if someone were to make a bot to move all the Title (computer game) and (arcade game) to Title (video game) to reflect naming conventions. Ideally it would also handle (computer/arcade game series), (YYYY computer/arcade game) and (computer gaming). If an article or a redirect to another article exists at (video game) it would do nothing; if the target is a redirect to the article in question, it would move over. It should only move articles with ( ), avoiding titles like WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. Also, if it could grab any (videogame) titles, that'd be great too, as that's not a real word. JohnnyMrNinja 12:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
We need a bot to mass-revert a few hundred deletions. See this AN/I discussion for details. Before firing off the bot, please post a notice in the ANI thread that you have such a bot, then wait 12-24 hours for objections. I don't anticipate any but given the history of this incident, it's better to go slow than jump the gun. Note - the AN/I thread will probably spill over into archives in the next day or so. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 14:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
From what I gather from the discussions, only a small portion of the several thousand redirect talk page deletions were contested. It seems like manual restoration of the contested ones would be a far better option than simply restoring all of them via a bot. VegaDark ( talk) 00:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
From what I understand, if an admin were to restore this particular type of deletion, it would be well over 100,000 restorations, possibly more than 150,000. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:28, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
User:ST47 has volunteered to run a bot to restore the "6307 deletions" he's identified. I asked him to wait half a day to see if anyone objects. He can also restore the "4859 from May 10, 1812 from Apr 12, and 13943 from Apr 7" similar deletions if the community wants it. I say go for it, but what do you guys say? Let him know over on WP:ANI. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 01:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
This is probably the easiest way to undelete the redirects that shouldn't have been deleted. There doesn't seem to be any great cost incurred if in doing so we undelete the others as well; even if they are not actually helpful, they are completely harmless. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes undeletion is needed to make the point that deletion is not, and never should be, the default. My analysis here indicates that the recent run deleted 6306 redirects split up by namespace as follows: Category talk (10), Help talk (21), Image talk (3), Mediawiki talk (5), Portal talk (39), Talk (3939), Template talk (1065), and Wikipedia talk (1224). User:ST47 has done a similar analysis, going into a bit more detail: "The 6307 are from that day only. 3940 are in Talk:, 1225 in Wikipedia talk:. Of the talk: ones, 105 contain archive, 162 have a /, 77 have a colon. In total, 2602 from that day and 8032 in total are outside of talk or contain a /, :, or the word archive." A list is at User:ST47/restores, though it is not completely clean (some article talk pages have colons in them from the article title, and some of those are on this list). I would suggest restoring all talk redirects outside the "Talk" namespace (that is a total of 2367 redirects), and keeping the list visible to prevent MZMcBride's script from redeleting them (they will then have an incoming link). This isn't to make a point, but to avoid the drama that would ensue if MZMcBride ran the script again and ended up redeleting any that were restored. On a more general point, the problem with MZMcBride's criterion of "absolutely zero incoming links", is that the talk page tab (at the top of pages where the talk page has been redirected to centralise discussion) is an incoming link that doesn't show up on "what links here". MZMcBride did make some point at User talk:Kelly about using the "breadcrumb" link instead (but that doesn't always work if the pages are not linked that way), and that some of the redirects are hardly ever used (which doesn't mean they won't be used in future), but, as I've said in parentheses, in my opinion both of those arguments are wrong, and MZMcBride has not rebutted the "people will create talk pages in the wrong place if they see redlinks" argument. He has suggesed a javascript solution, but I'm not certain is that would be universal, or whether there is any real advantage in doing things that way instead. MZMcBride, what do you think? Carcharoth ( talk) 08:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
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Sorry if something like this has already been proposed...
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a bot that made redirects to articles that contain capital letters (other than the first letter) or punctuation. The bot would see Xena: Warrior Princess, and automatically make a redirect at Xena warrior princess, Xena: warrior princess, Xena: Warrior princess, etc. Obviously it would only create a redirect where no article currently exists. It could also do the same for currently existing redirects. For example, based on AAFCO, it would make Aafco, which would redirect to the original target (in this case Association of American Feed Control Officials.)
As I do most of my Wikipedia reading on my phone, I go to most articles by typing in the URL. My phone autocompletes the en. URL, and I just edit that last part, which is by far the easiest way for me to access Wikipedia.
I seriously doubt that I am the only one who assumes URLs, and since this bot wouldn't change anything on existing articles, I don't see any potential drawbacks. If, for whatever reason, the redirect is not logical, it can always be changed later by a human editor. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 05:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone create a bot to replace hyphens in numerical ranges with en dashes? I'm too lazy to use the right one myself and people keep hounding me. A bot could easily take care of this. Any takers? -- Adoniscik( t, c) 02:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Currently, Template:Infobox actor is fairly widespread in its usage. Several fields (i.e. "notable roles") have been deleted from the template page, but a very large number of individual infoboxes out there still contain them (i.e. because of their deletion from the template itself, they don't appear on the article itself, but are still there in the coding/html). I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but can a bot be programmed to remove the fields "notable roles", "notable role", "influences", "influenced", "height", "baconnum", "imdb_id", "bgcolour", "children", "parents", "relatives", "restingplace", "restingplace_coordinates", "deathcause" and "nationality" (all of which have long been deleted from the template itself) and replace the field "partner" with "domesticpartner" and the field "location" with "birthplace"? Thanks, All Hallow's Wraith ( talk) 05:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
Infobox actor}}
to identify the instances which use these two parameters; and I'm getting a bit worried.
Category:Infobox actor templates needing updating currently contains over 4,000 articles, and is growing all the time. That indicates that at least 20% of all instances of {{
Infobox actor}}
will need updating. Given that the functionality of the infobox is not adversely affected by having these duplicate parameters, are you sure this is really necessary?
Happy‑
melon 11:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)|location=
field is a duplicate of the |birthplace=
field - the two are coupled together in the code; so when people use that field, it displays correctly under "birthplace". The |partner=
field is unused, so any data passed to that parameter won't be displayed. My concern is not that it's 8,000 articles (actually 9,000 now), but that that represents 45% of the total.
Happy‑
melon 08:47, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Are there any handy-dandy ways to convert tables in CSV or PRN (comma or tab-separated) into wikitable formatting? Also can Wikitables do any calculations, i.e. percentages? Reason I'm asking is complex census data on a large number of topics/towns. Pls reply on my talkpage Skookum1 ( talk) 19:41, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can go through and automatically update all links to an article if the article has been renamed? I.E. such as changing all instances of Tessaiga to Tetsusaiga? Collectonian ( talk) 00:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Images uploaded in the PDF format cannot be displayed in articles, and as a result the vast majority of PDFs hosted here need to be converted into another image format, converted into plain text into an article, or (if the PDF is unencyclopedic) tranwikied or deleted. The template {{ BadPDF}} was created to notify people about this problem, but the vast majority of PDF files aren't tagged with it. If a bot could be programmed to add this template to all PDF files we currently have it would be great for people trying to fix this problem. There's an external tool here which can give a list of PDFs - there's about 1500. Hut 8.5 19:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
This question is more or less related to Wikipedia:Highly Active Users. Would there be any way to arrange a "this user is online/offline" template an editor could put on presumably their user page which could automatically be adjusted when a user logged on, possibly with an accompanying category? Also, would it be possible, perhaps, for that same bot to indicate the activity status of the user in question on the above page? I know it's a complicated question, but it might be useful in the future. John Carter ( talk) 01:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Per this page at Commons, a bunch of images have been identified as copyright of Library and Archives Canada. LAC allows use of these images but they can't be hosted at Commons. This means they will need to be uploaded to each wiki where they're used and given FUR's (if I understand this correctly).
There are two areas where a bot could help:
The image list is here and I am still working on getting the exact usage info. These are all historical and valuable images, it would be a shame to see them just vanish from so many places, any help is appreciated. Thanks! Franamax ( talk) 19:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Looking for someone to run a bot to deliver the following note:
And deliver it to editors listed in the following categories:
Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I can also help out with this, I'm already approved for this type of task. Me and Addshore have agreed to go 50/50 on this task. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 16:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Infact Doing... i will do Category:Wikipedians in the District of Columbia now as i have 150 trial edits. ·Add§hore· Talk/ Cont 21:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to use a bot to change the references in such articles as Genomic_imprinting to the inline style, which allows easy flipping between the text and the references. ---- Seans Potato Business 15:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter May 2008 needs delivery to all members ASAP. Please see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach#Newsletter for options on delivery.
Delivery to all user talk pages on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Members, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Outreach#Instructions. Please contact if something remains unclear. feydey ( talk) 20:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
It seems You missed some people again, see User_talk:Feydey#Novels WikiProject Newsletter. Could You please double check Your delivery settings, that it includes all the 280 members from Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Members? Also please add a heading when delivering, like: "The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIII - April 2008" ( see here). feydey ( talk) 05:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
If you would like me to finish the task, I can, my bot is approved to do that task. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 05:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Can I get a list of people who have already received the newsletter? It's a relatively simple delivery to do. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 06:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Note: I'll need some clarification on the instructions, there is a list of people who want the newsletter, some who want a link, and some who don't want it at all, is that right? I'll need some clarification here before I can do the task. Thanks. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 06:25, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
I have a bit of an error, when I check using AWB, there are only 387 members on the member list. What would you like me to do about those who have received a newsletter already? Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 06:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Done All newsletters and links sent. I've saved the config file for these too, so I can deliver these in future. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 08:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone make a bot to post an invitation on the talk pages of Wikipedians interested in genetics? Liveste has created a nice invite template here that I think is appropriate: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Genetics/Invite. Thanks! Madeleine ✉ ✍ 14:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
e.g. for the redirect UN/LOCODE:USNYC put in template the variable and value like this: |un_locode = USNYC
UnLoCode ( talk) 19:15, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Template:Reqphotoin is used as, for example, {{Reqphotoin|France}} to populate
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in France. {{
Reqphoto}} has an "in=" parameter that replaces the function of Template:Reqphotoin. Now, such requests are made as {{Reqphoto|in=France}} to populate
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in France. Could you please have a bot change the Reqphotoin tags listed
here with Reqphoto? Basically, for example, {{Reqphotoin|France}}, {{Reqphotoin|San Francisco County, California}}, {{Reqphotoin|England|Germany|France}} would be changed by the bot to read {{Reqphoto|in=France}}, {{Reqphoto|in=San Francisco County, California}}, {{Reqphoto|in=England|in2=Germany|in3=France}}. Let's start with the simple situations and hope that takes care of most of the tags. Please change the tags that appear (1) exactly as {{Reqphotoin}} to {{Reqphoto}}, (2) exactly as {{Reqphotoin|}} to {{Reqphoto|in=}}. (3) For those having the pattern of a single location request, such as {{Reqphotoin|France}} and {{Reqphotoin|San Francisco County, California}}, please change them to {{Reqphoto|in=France}} and {{Reqphoto|in=San Francisco County, California}}. For now, skip the Reqphotoin templates having small=yes, those having two or more location requests (e.g. {{Reqphotoin|England|Germany|France}}), and those Reqphotoin tags using the not-so-well working "of" parameter.
GregManninLB (
talk) 06:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
In my travels, I've noticed that there's a lot of infobox templates that have been created, but are hardly being used because they're so damn difficult to incorporate into an article. For instance, look at the current version of Infobox Dancer, compared to this old version. In the current version, there's some sample code that can be easily copy and pasted into an article, in the former you have to poke around the template code just to figure out what the fields are, as the main Template page only shows the compulsory fields. As a result, noone bothers. It would be great if someone could just send a bot round the infobox templates, just parsing out all the fields (within {{{ }}} brackets) in the template, deduplicating them, then writing them to a /doc page and transcluding it with {{ template doc}}. A phase II version might be to layout subheadings where humans could fill in explanations of what the fields mean - {{ Infobox Person}} and others do it with a table, {{ Infobox Rugby Union biography}} does it with a straight list, I quite like the way {{ Infobox Company}} does it with semi-headings. Is there a style guide for template pages? One thing that would be nice would be a demonstration of image format - it's never obvious whether you should use [[Image:image.jpg]] or [[Image:image.jpg|150px]] or just image.jpg, and if you used Image:Replace this image male.svg or Image:Replace this image butterfly.png in the sample code it would have the extra benefit of encouraging casual users to contribute images to Wikipedia. Plus infoboxes just look more "infoboxey" if they have an image, even a dummy image. I'm way too busy to do anything about this myself at the moment, but thought it might make a nice little project for someone? FlagSteward ( talk) 14:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
There are two parts to archiving an editor review, and the order in which they are done is inconsequential.
Previously I have done both tasks myself. I've stopped doing it, and it's apparent that nobody else wants to do it either.
There are a couple of possibilities. One way is to place archive templates, which have not yet been created for this specific purpose, on an expired editor review page. Then a bot sees the archive templates and untranscludes the page and links to it in an archive list. This is similar to the process at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets. It may be necessary in this scenario to switch to a "by month" format instead of the current "by username" format.
Another way is to have the bot automatically add a link to the archive in Wikipedia:Editor review/Archive as soon as the request is filed, or at a designated time thereafter, e.g. if the bot runs once a week. Then a human untranscludes the editor review page at his or her discretion. This might be better because it's a less drastic change from the current system.
I don't know whether bots can be programmed to archive pages based on the alphabetical order of a subpage title. In other words, will a bot know how to sort Wikipedia:Editor review/WikiMan53 before Wikipedia:Editor review/WikipedianProlific just based on the fact that M comes before p? If yes, that's probably what I want. If not, switching to archiving based on month of the request will preserve some archiving system without requiring undue human intervention. Shalom ( Hello • Peace) 18:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
(Unindent) I think the best way to do this is to create an archive template for editor reviews. That way, a human decides that the page should be archived, and the bot takes care of the rest - same as with WP:SSP. If someone wants me to modify one of the existing archive templates, I'll give it a try. Shalom ( Hello • Peace) 02:30, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Please could someone replace all instances on article talk pages of {{ Irelandproj}} with {{ WikiProject Ireland}}. No parameters should be added or changed or removed, just a straightforward replace one template name with another on about 700 pages.
{{ Irelandproj}} is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Ireland}}, and it was used for tagging at a time when for some reason it existed as a near-clone; I redirected it some time last year.
I know that in general there is no need to bypass redirects, and that the practice is deprecated, However, this redirect is causing problems for WikiProject Ireland's article assessment drive. Several of us are using the User:Outriggr/metadatatest.js script, which not only allows rapid applications of assessment tags, it also displays on the article page the existing assessment, e.g. "Start/Low" or "GA/Mid". Unfortunately, the script doesn't parse redirects, so if it encounters the IrelandProj template it reports that the article has not been assessed using {{ WikiProject Ireland}}. The wastes assesors time in adding a duplicate assessment, only to find that it was un-needed.
There replacement is a simple regex, and I would set by BHGbot to do it AWB except that my windows PC is ill, so I have no AWB.
This change has been discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment#IrelandProj_template, where there is a consensus for the change. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 03:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
My bot can handle that task. So, it's a simple find/replace, no? Also, I'll need the category to find the templates from, or I could do a What links here search in AWB, but a category would help. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 09:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
No need to clarify. I've taken a look, should be a relatively simple task. Will take about 20 minutes for me to get started, then an hour or so to replace all the tags, depending on the talk page size. That OK with you? Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 09:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Will need to fix up the redirects, my bot is changing the transclusions. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 11:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Stuck. Having some issues replacing the class and importance bits, needs something with a regex, but I'm stuck on to what that is. Let me know, and I can do it with no issues (feels stupid) Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 11:40, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
s/\{\{Irelandproj/{{WikiProject Ireland/
Hmm, well, I'm trying to do a find/replace version, I was thinking something along the lines of find {{Irelandproj}} replace with {{Wikiproject Ireland}}, but needs a regex, so something like {{Irelandproj|class=|importance=}} replaces with {{Wikiproject Ireland|class=|importance=}}, but to keep the =class and =importance bit in. That bit needs a regex. I get kinda stuck when it comes to regexes. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 14:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
{{Irelandproj
and replace it with >{{Wikiproject Ireland
make it case insemsitive and non-regex.
βcommand 2 14:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
Irelandproj}}
works just as well as {{
irelandproj}}
). I usually do use regex, something like re.sub(r'(?i)\{\{\s*irelandproj\s*([\|\}])',r'{{WikiProject Ireland\1',text)
{{
irelandprojecttemplate (entirely unrelated)}}
). But in simple situations like this, non-regex works just as well and can be safer.
Happy‑
melon 14:50, 13 May 2008 (UTC)I'm using AWB, and the suggestion BetaCommand is working like a charm. (smiles at Betacommand). Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 14:57, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Heh, Betacommand knows what he's talking about. And it's working. Thanks. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 14:48, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Done. And all errors are fixed. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 16:49, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot to count the pages in Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user and update Template:Adoption backlog/count with that number, daily, or a few times per day if possible. Thanks in advance, xenocidic ( talk) 20:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user}}
= 21. :D
Happy‑
melon 21:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
←Since this doesn't seem to work, any takers? xenocidic ( talk ¿ review ) 20:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please migrate usages of the redirect {{ self2}} to its target, {{ self}}? There appears to be several thousand usages. The reason is that this license template is being broken when image pages transcluding it are transferred to the Commons, and the name of the author is being dropped. Kelly hi! 20:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
85-odd asteroid-related articles need minor text-replacement updates. Replace at Siding Spring in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey with at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey and replace discovery_site = Siding Spring in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey with discovery_site = Siding Spring Observatory. Yes, I know this will leave a redlink, I was unable to find the topic in an article. See User talk:Davidwr/6227 Alanrubin for details.
I am from the
Assessment dept of
WikiProject India. This is a bot request for
Kerala work group.
The banner for the Project is {{WP India|kerala=yes}}
Many of the articles Talk pages doesnt have the importance tag for the workgroup kerala.
My request is to append "|kerala-importance=" to ALL article talk pages with {{WP India|kerala=yes}} and doesnt have |kerala-importance= already.
Can this be done by a bot ??. Thanks in advance -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 06:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
|kerala-importance=
parameter by bot if it is going to have to be filled in by human editors anyway? The whole point of having separate importance scales for task forces is that a TF might have assign a different importance to an article than its parent project, so you can't just copy from the main |importance=
parameter. Given that you're going to have to do this anyway, why not skip the bot step and go straight to digging through
Category:Unknown-importance Kerala articles and adding the |kerala-importance=
parameter by hand. Unless I've completely misread the situation, there's nothing that a bot can do to help you here.
Happy‑
melon 21:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
|kerala-importance=
to articles in
Category:WikiProject Kerala articles that don't already have it.
RichardΩ612
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ɸ 11:44, May 18, 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but is there a way where I could add {{TelevisionWikiProject|class=Redirect|importance=Low|avatar=yes|avatar-importance=Low}} to the talk page of any page that redirects to the article page of any page on this list. For example, one of the pages on that list is Talk:Appa. So any page that redirects to the article page, Appa, should have the template on its talk page. Some of the pages might already have something on them. Since they are redirect pages, I think just blanking the talk page and adding the template would be OK. — Parent5446 ( t n e l) 14:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Too often I see this [1]. <-- it looks ugly, it should look like this. [1] All we need is a bot that searches for: </ref>. removes the "." and looks for the <ref> that exists just before it, and places the "." in front of that. Many put extra spaces between the ref. also, so that needs to be accounted for, but I'm sure someone could come up with a bot to fix this, it is endemic to Wikipedia right now. 67.5.156.176 ( talk) 07:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
re.sub('<ref([^/]*?)>(.*?)</ref>([.,;!?])','\3<ref\1>\2</ref>',text)
Please do not do this. I consider it more logical to put the reference immediately after the fact, and that usually means before the punctuation. See Wikipedia:Cite your sources#Ref tags and punctuation, which allows both styles. — AlanBarrett 17:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Here is a straightforward one: can someone please replace all uses of {{
CanEd}} with {{
WikiProject Canada|education=yes}}
. The labelling of Canada-related articles is being standardized. Thanks. --
Arctic Gnome (
talk •
contribs) 21:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Done Gee, that was fast :D CWii( Talk| Contribs) 22:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I think this should be reverted. Standardization isn't a reason. GreenJoe 23:19, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
If I had been a client of User:SatyrTN's User:SatyrBot do I need to request new bot assistance.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 16:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
O.K. User:SatyrTN has been tagging categories at WP:CHIBOTCATS with {{ WikiProject Chicago}}. It has autostubbed talk pages that have preexiting templates with class=stub. It also auto-FA, FL, and GAed pages that have templates with such tags on them. I think he had to do some special things to avoid some railroad categories that have articles that don't belong to us, but I don't recall. He use to run this bot twice a week looking for new articles for us. Can I get a new bot that will take over this responsibility?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 19:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Would request that the articles in Category:Togo, Category:Assoli Prefecture, Category:Bassar Prefecture, Category:Bimah Prefecture, Category:Centrale Region, Category:Cities, towns and villages in Togo, Category:Doufelgou Prefecture, Category:Kara Region, Category:Lakes of Togo, Category:Landforms of Togo, Category:Lomé, Category:Maps of Togo, Category:Maritime Region, Category:Mountains of Togo, Category:National parks of Togo, Category:Neighborhoods of Lomé, Category:Old maps of Togo, Category:Parks in Togo, Category:People from Lomé, Category:Plateaux Region, Togo, Category:Prefectures of Togo, Category:Regions of Togo, Category:Rivers of Togo, Category:Savanes Region, Togo, Category:Settlements in Togo, Category:Subdivisions of Togo, and Category:Togo geography stubs all be tagged with {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Togo=yes|Togo-importance=}}, with autoassessment based on stub template if possible. John Carter ( talk) 19:53, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Genetics is a new WikiProject. As of 00:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC), [1] User:John Bot tagged the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics stubs with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Now, for those article talk pages not already tagged with {{WikiProject Genetics}}, can you get a bot to tag the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics and all of its sub categories with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=|importance=|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 05:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
← Let's do this the right way this time. Give me a list of all categories like the request here. Thanks, CWii( Talk| Contribs) 20:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
What's going on with this - is this running again? I see Age at first marriage got tagged in the last day and it clearly doesn't belong. Did someone give you a list of categories somewhere? Madeleine ✉ ✍ 04:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
Okay, may I please say this is a TOP PRIORITY. We have tens/hundreds of thousands of articles missing on places all over the world. Myself and User:Blofeld of SPECTRE have been working so hard to create these articles but a bot would really help. We could use Maplandia.com to create stubs like Simaw. Many thanks to whoever creates such a bot. I'm an Editor of the wiki citation needed 21:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
I have some bad news for you. From http://www.maplandia.com/terms-of-use/:
“ | Provided you comply with these Terms of Use, Maplandia grants you a nonexclusive, non-transferable license to view and print the Materials solely for your own personal non-commercial use. You may share a map with another individual for that individual's personal non-commercial use using the email option on the map webpage. You may not commercially exploit the Materials or the underlying data, including without limitation, you may not create derivative works of the Materials, use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on the Materials, frame any portion of the Materials, or reprint, copy, modify, translate, port, publish, sublicense, assign, transfer, sell, or otherwise distribute the Materials without the prior written consent of Maplandia. You shall not derive or attempt to derive the source code or structure of all or any portion of the Materials by reverse engineering, disassembly, decompilation or any other means. | ” |
Emphasis mine. Also from FAQ: "However you may not copy any part of our webiste under any cirucumstances" (sic). Using robots is forbidden, and I'm not even sure whether using mplandia as a source for creating articles manually is ok (using it for one article is fine, but using it systematically could be considered copying). The problem is not the names and coordinates, that comes from US military and is PD. The administrative hierarchies are a different story. I'm not sure if I have seen any other site with such detailed information, so I think that's their own doing. Correlating the geoname databases with administrative division data is not tricky, it's quite trivial in fact, but the GIS data for administrative divisions tends to be proprietary and (very) expensive. Certainly somebody who actually understand copyright (I don't) needs to take a look at this.
I still believe it's better to approach the governments directly and ask what information they have available. Wikipedia is now big and well known. Pretty much every country has statistical and/or map making agencies, as the countries need that kind of data for their internal planning. As a rule, they do not make such a data publicly available (one reason is the large size of such data sets, especially if they have been meshed into full GIS system). Potentially that data could be very detailed... – Sadalmelik ☎ 17:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Well if it is years or a year no. But if you could sort something in a few weeks or months I wouldn't have any objections as long as you consider it important. Things can be done manually up until then. I seriously doubt the name and coordinates of towns are copywrightable and if maplandia tries to claim this it is clearly deluded. The site obviously used google data but they do appear to be claiming authorship of this. I;m certian if you studied that site you'd see how straightforward its system is ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:35, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot standardise the babel templates to the standards described here, and search for templates that are not in that category yet and standardise them too? Example of a good way to do it: fr. How not to do it: af. User:Krator ( t c) 21:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
user af}}
and {{
user fr}}
that I have no idea what features of 'af' are problematic (I'd guess all of them, but you can't be sure :D).
Happy‑
melon 15:54, 18 May 2008 (UTC)Often times, people mean to add <ref></ref>, but instead they put <ref><ref>, resulting in a lot of missing text. I don't think <ref></ref> tags can be nested inside one another, so finding these errors and changing the second to </ref> would fix most cases. Or, how about just even making a list of articles that have this occurrence that can be scanned. I think this would be a very useful bot. -- Rajah ( talk) 16:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Per WP:NFCC#9, non-free images are only allowed in mainspace. Apparently we used to have a bot to remove non-free content used elsewhere, but it is no longer active. I think we need a bot to automatically remove non-free images from user, template, etc. spaces. Kelly hi! 20:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
All pages that use Template:Infobox Settlement and have an incoming redirect from Category:Redirects from UN/LOCODE shall get the 5 char value of the redirect e.g. for the redirect UN/LOCODE:USNYC put in the Infobox at New York City the value like this: |un_locode = USNYC UnLoCode ( talk) 08:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
{{{un_locode}}}
. Are you sure you have the right template?
RichardΩ612
Ɣ
ɸ 15:29, May 19, 2008 (UTC)Out of sheer ignorance of bots and how they work, I am unsure whether this has been done or thought of before, or even if this can be done, but I would like to request a bot who could possibly do RCP-ing and identification of certain kinds of inappropriate pages, in a similar way to User:ClueBot or User:VoABot but with new pages? For instance, the ability to detect when a page is created for pure vandalism, link spam, blatant copyvio's or just an empty or near-empty page, etc.? Thanks, Mizu onna sango15/ 水女珊瑚15 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC).
For those articles listed at Category:Engineering stubs, please tag their talk pages with {{Engineering|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Please do not modify any existing parameters on the talk pages and please do not tag the subcategories of Category:Engineering stubs. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 22:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Right now, the "alongside" field (also the "alongsideX" field, where X is any integer from 0 to 9) of Template:Infobox Officeholder is automatically wikilinked. This can pose problems in some cases, so I would like to remove the automatic wikilinking, and have proposed as much at the talk page. However, if I do that, there are going to be a bunch of wikilinks that should be there disappearing; I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a bot put wikilinks in to replace the ones that I'm removing from the template. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 18:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Maybe this got lost in the middle of a discussion above so I will create a separate section.
It seems User:SatyrTN and his bot User:SatyrBot are no longer active. WP:CHICAGO needs articles in WP:CHIBOTCATS tagged with {{ WikiProject Chicago}}. It would also be helpful if the bot autostubbed talk pages that have templates from other projects with class=stub. I think his bot also tagged newly found articles with FA, FL, and GA parameters and added them to class when it added the template. -- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 18:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I've been in the process of moving our Flickr-sourced free images to the Commons, so the license can be verified to protect us from license changes in the future. In the process I've been finding a lot of copyright violations. I'm sure most are good-faith mistakes; many people think that any Creative Commons license is acceptable and don't understand that NonCommercial and NoDerivs variants are not OK for Wikipedia, and some images have been the victim of license changes at Flickr since upload. Would it be possible to have a bot scan images that are sourced to Flickr, and check the license against the Flickr source page? If the license does not match, the image should be listed at WP:SCV or perhaps some subpage/subcategory for human checking. From what I've seen, the most commons false positives would be cases where the Flickr user is also a Wikipedian who has uploaded a duplicate copy here under a different license (but provided a link to the Flickr page regardless), and Flickr images with OTRS permission (those should have an OTRS ticket on the page). Images whose licenses "check out" could have a confirmatory note placed on the image page by the bot and/or be tagged with {{ Move to Wikimedia Commons}}. Thoughts? Kelly hi! 16:05, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
There are lots of former articles in the sub-categories of Category:Lists of World War II topics that show up as redlinks, and were probably created by renaming using diacritics in the title given they have a ? (character) in them now. It would be great if there was an easy way to clean this up. I suppose same may have occurred in other categories, so this may be a Wikipedia-wide issue.-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 00:03, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Since our referencing system is not showing any chance of improving or getting a real bibliographic system in the near future, we should create bots to do the same thing.
Currently, we have User:DumZiBoT, which converts bare URL refs like
<ref>http://www.google.com</ref>
into
<ref>[http://www.google.com Google]</ref>
based on the title of the retrieved page.
We should expand on this bot or create other bots that do the same thing for news articles, books, and journal articles.
For instance, a ref like
<ref>ISBN 354063293X</ref>
would be changed to
<ref>{{Cite book | edition = 2nd exp. ed. | publisher = Springer | isbn = 354063293X | pages = 304 | last = Mumford | first = David | title = The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes | date = 1999-10-29
}}</ref>
based on information from isbndb.com using the API.
And a ref like
<ref>PMID 4957203</ref>
could be fixed to
<ref>{{cite journal |author=Koprowski H, Wiktor TJ, Kaplan MM |title=Enhancement of rabies virus infection by lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus |journal=Virology |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=754–6 |year=1966 |month=April |pmid=4957203 |doi= |url= }}</ref>
based on the data retrieved by this tool.
There is also a link scraper for news sites
And so on for other types of references that have easily-retrieved metadata.
Also, the current DumZiBoT should be using a citation template like {{ cite web}}, so that it can add "retrieved on" information for better verifiability or to mark the link as dead. Yes, I know it's in the FAQ, and I don't care. There's no good reason not to do this. — Omegatron ( talk) 01:26, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I am from
WP:INDIA to request for a Bot Assisted Assessment. Please see the discussion on this
here .
Our banner is {{
WP India}}
Our request is
1) If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assessment from the other project banners on the same talk page. for articles in
Category:Unassessed-Class India articles |
Who can take this up ? -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 05:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Richard for working on our request. Let us know when done -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 06:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Doing... CWii( Talk| Contribs) 12:59, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Still doing... CWii( Talk| Contribs) 13:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Done CWii( Talk| Contribs) 17:00, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Bot Assisted Assessment is where "a bot looks at all unassessed pages and adds the highest assessment parameter from other project templates on the page to the {{ WP India}} template. E.g. if a page that has the WP India template has 'Start' and 'B' classes from other templates, '|class=B' will be added to the WP India one." [2] You can do this!?! I've been working on moving WikiProject Ecuador along and something like Bot Assisted Assessment would be great for WikiProject Ecuador as well. In view of this, is it possible that you guys can create a list of things you have done with the bots as they relate to regional WikiProjects so that not-bot people (e.g. me) are aware of what can be done and can pick an choose among bot options. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 14:38, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Recently created WikiProject. There is a list of neurological related articles ( here) and the diagnoses section needs every different diagnosis to be wiki linked? Is that possible? If so thanks so much! Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 13:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've updated my template to {{Neuro}} and it now contains parser functions. Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 15:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Neurology}}
?
This will eventually hit the road, and you'd be doing yourself a favour if you pre-empted it. Redirects from {{
Neuro}}
or wherever are still a good idea, but you have no idea how much easier it is to handle WikiProject banners if they use a standard naming convention.
Happy‑
melon 16:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Could anyone place {{WikiProject Neurology}} on every page listed in Neurotrauma? Thanks! Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 21:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Yep, I can do that. Doing... Steve Crossin (talk) 21:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Question: Include subcategories as well? Steve Crossin (talk) 22:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Alright then. Steve Crossin (talk) 22:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Done, finally. Steve Crossin (talk) 22:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I would be grateful if a bot changed "captive market" or "captive markets" in all articles into a internal links to the captive market page. If this is too vague i can provide a list of pages, but from doing a google search it seems all returns of the terms above are appropriote to be automatically changed. Thanks Chendy ( talk) 10:57, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
(?<!\[)(captive +market)
. —
Dispenser 21:52, 31 May 2008 (UTC)Per Template_talk:Infobox_Artist#Famous_works, the parameter "Famous works" has been changed to "Works". This means the existing template on article pages, e.g. Vincent van Gogh needs to be updated, so the template, which at the moment says "famous works", reads just "works", as has been done here. [3] This seems like a job for a bot, if anyone can help out. Thanks. Ty 23:23, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot that fix redirects in templates. Generally we discourage fixing links to redirects that are not broken, but in templates a correct link is better since the direct link will display in bold (and not as a link), making it easier to navigate through a series of articles using the template. See WP:R#NOTBROKEN. I tried bypassing redirects links on football templates with AWB, but it was a pain doing this manually. A bot could be tried out on templates in the subcategories of Category:Football squad by nation templates. Rettetast ( talk) 18:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to request that a bot patrol Special:Lonelypages whenever it is updated. This bot would go through each article, check if it met the orphan criteria, and, if so, tag it with {{ orphan}}.-- Aervanath's signature is boring 17:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, could a bot change all instances of the awful spelling error (currently redirect from misspelling) shot putt? It's written shot put. Thanks, Punkmorten ( talk) 08:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could program b=my bot, BarkBot for me! Please reply on my talk page.-- Barkjon 17:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
There are articles and lists on the Ten Outstanding Young Americans award and on The Outstanding Young Persons of the World award. After taking the time to add links for each recipient and their country manually to the TOYP list, can someone help add links to the TOYA list? I'm still learning the appropriate formatting for each page.
Also, at some point, one dream is to have every Wiki article on a past honoree may have a link to the TOYA or TOYP article or list.
Not sure if either of these requests are the jobs of bots or semi-bots or inappropriate requests... Dagordon01 ( talk) 21:14, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot help me finding incorrect use of {{ flagicon}} in football biographies. Per consensus at WP:FOOTY the flags should not be included inside the infobox like her. Could a bot help making a list of the articles with this error, or if the operator dare, make a bot that remove the flags? Rettetast ( talk) 00:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Template documentation#How to create a documentation subpage, the talk pages of template documentation should be redirected to the talk page of the associated template to keep discussion centralized. Would it be possible to have a bot automatically go through and create these redirects? There are a couple of minor complications that spring to mind - if the doc talk page already exists, the contents need to be moved to the redirect target. Also, if the talk page of the template does not yet exist, I think we have an adminbot out there somewhere that deletes redirects with no target. We would want an exception in this case to keep these redirects from being deleted. Kelly hi! 15:34, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
I strongly oppose an idea like this. It seems to be an unnecessary use of redirects. Why not use a JavaScript solution instead? -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
It'd be real nice if someone were to make a bot to move all the Title (computer game) and (arcade game) to Title (video game) to reflect naming conventions. Ideally it would also handle (computer/arcade game series), (YYYY computer/arcade game) and (computer gaming). If an article or a redirect to another article exists at (video game) it would do nothing; if the target is a redirect to the article in question, it would move over. It should only move articles with ( ), avoiding titles like WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. Also, if it could grab any (videogame) titles, that'd be great too, as that's not a real word. JohnnyMrNinja 12:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
We need a bot to mass-revert a few hundred deletions. See this AN/I discussion for details. Before firing off the bot, please post a notice in the ANI thread that you have such a bot, then wait 12-24 hours for objections. I don't anticipate any but given the history of this incident, it's better to go slow than jump the gun. Note - the AN/I thread will probably spill over into archives in the next day or so. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 14:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
From what I gather from the discussions, only a small portion of the several thousand redirect talk page deletions were contested. It seems like manual restoration of the contested ones would be a far better option than simply restoring all of them via a bot. VegaDark ( talk) 00:25, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
From what I understand, if an admin were to restore this particular type of deletion, it would be well over 100,000 restorations, possibly more than 150,000. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:28, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
User:ST47 has volunteered to run a bot to restore the "6307 deletions" he's identified. I asked him to wait half a day to see if anyone objects. He can also restore the "4859 from May 10, 1812 from Apr 12, and 13943 from Apr 7" similar deletions if the community wants it. I say go for it, but what do you guys say? Let him know over on WP:ANI. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 01:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
This is probably the easiest way to undelete the redirects that shouldn't have been deleted. There doesn't seem to be any great cost incurred if in doing so we undelete the others as well; even if they are not actually helpful, they are completely harmless. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Sometimes undeletion is needed to make the point that deletion is not, and never should be, the default. My analysis here indicates that the recent run deleted 6306 redirects split up by namespace as follows: Category talk (10), Help talk (21), Image talk (3), Mediawiki talk (5), Portal talk (39), Talk (3939), Template talk (1065), and Wikipedia talk (1224). User:ST47 has done a similar analysis, going into a bit more detail: "The 6307 are from that day only. 3940 are in Talk:, 1225 in Wikipedia talk:. Of the talk: ones, 105 contain archive, 162 have a /, 77 have a colon. In total, 2602 from that day and 8032 in total are outside of talk or contain a /, :, or the word archive." A list is at User:ST47/restores, though it is not completely clean (some article talk pages have colons in them from the article title, and some of those are on this list). I would suggest restoring all talk redirects outside the "Talk" namespace (that is a total of 2367 redirects), and keeping the list visible to prevent MZMcBride's script from redeleting them (they will then have an incoming link). This isn't to make a point, but to avoid the drama that would ensue if MZMcBride ran the script again and ended up redeleting any that were restored. On a more general point, the problem with MZMcBride's criterion of "absolutely zero incoming links", is that the talk page tab (at the top of pages where the talk page has been redirected to centralise discussion) is an incoming link that doesn't show up on "what links here". MZMcBride did make some point at User talk:Kelly about using the "breadcrumb" link instead (but that doesn't always work if the pages are not linked that way), and that some of the redirects are hardly ever used (which doesn't mean they won't be used in future), but, as I've said in parentheses, in my opinion both of those arguments are wrong, and MZMcBride has not rebutted the "people will create talk pages in the wrong place if they see redlinks" argument. He has suggesed a javascript solution, but I'm not certain is that would be universal, or whether there is any real advantage in doing things that way instead. MZMcBride, what do you think? Carcharoth ( talk) 08:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)