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I need a bot to do a mass move of articles for Ontario Highways. The current articles are named Highway X (Ontario). However, according to WP:SRNC, the preferrable title is Ontario Provincial Highway X
X in this case is 2–169 and 400–427. There are around 100 articles. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 23:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Needs wider discussion. - No apparent consensus for this, and it would be extremely peculiar to refer to Canadian highways in this manner. See also Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Style guide where disambiguation is done with province in brackets after the subject. WT:ONTARIO or WT:CANADA would be places to see if consensus exists for this. – xeno talk 03:06, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
This is probably a task that could be added a bot. I'd like for a bot to check the url paramater of a citation template such as {{ cite news}}. If it starts with http://web.archive.org/web/<date>, then it should correct the url to the actual original url, and create/update the archiveurl and archivedate tag. The bot should also check the archiveurl paramater and make sure that the archivedate paramater is correctly set.
Archive.org urls are given as follows:
http://web.archive.org/web/<year><month><day><othernumber>/<original website>
So given the url http://web.archive.org/web/19970724174700/http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/index.htm
The year is 1997, the month 07, the day 24, and the original site is http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/index.htm
Also be aware that archive.org/...will not work...so that could be fixed as well.
If anybody would add this task to their bot, I'd appreciate it...otherwise when I get some more time , I'll write the bot. Thanks! Smallman12q ( talk) 00:37, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/19970709122848/www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/soon.htm|title=UdiWWW: Coming soon|last=Richter|first=Bernd|publisher=[[University of Ulm]]|date=September 4, 1996|accessdate=16 March 2010}}
to
{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/soon.htm|archivedate=1997-07-09|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/19970709122848/www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/soon.htm|title=UdiWWW: Coming soon|last=Richter|first=Bernd|publisher=[[University of Ulm]]|date=September 4, 1996|accessdate=16 March 2010}}
I planted this warning on several pages in the last weeks without much reaction:
Given that the honorable Mr. Wolterding seems to be dead (no edits since January 3rd), what is the Plan B for WolterBot ??? Then User:Rd232 picked it up and brought it on this page, from which it was archived in the last hours for lack of updates. Here it is: Hello all, User:WolterBot has not run since mid December. It generates cleanup listings for wikiprojects, which is a useful thing particularly for the less active ones, providing new content in terms of To Do tasks. The bot's owner hasn't been around since early January. Is there any other bot doing something similar? Could someone else take over the bot (might need source code requesting from the operator, it doesn't seem to be public)? Rd232 talk 10:18, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
So, is WolterBot dead or... is Wikipedia dead? -- AlainR345 Techno-Wiki-Geek 04:31, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)#Remember accessibility for the visually impaired —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manishearth ( talk • contribs) 10:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Might it be possible for a bot to go through the talk pages of all of the articles in all of the subcategories of
Category:Geography of Canada and tag them with {{
WikiProject Canada|class=|importance=|geography=yes}}
if they don't already have the template? If the article has a stub template on it, you might also want to modify it to be class=stub. Thank you! --
Arctic Gnome (
talk •
contribs) 03:12, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
I raised this issue at Template talk:Infobox_person#Upscaling of portraits in infoboxes with no response, so figure I should bring this here.
Basically: upscaling pictures of any detail is usually bad and should be avoided. Upscaling is fine for simple images like the Flag of France, but not for photographs, detailed portraits, and so on. To quote from the article on image scaling: "Enlarging an image (upsampling or interpolating) is generally less common. The main reason for this is that in "zooming" an image, it is not possible to discover any more information in the image than already exists, and image quality inevitably suffers."
Now, as it happens, practically 99.99% of images used in Infobox person are too detailed to upscale well. However, the default image size if imagesize is unspecified is 225px, and plenty of images have a smaller native resolution. Many users have directly specified a "too large" image as well, probably out of not realizing the image wouldn't scale well to that, or else simply copy-and-pasting a different infobox, replacing the picture, and not realizing they needed to adjust the imagesize as well. In other words, pretty much any time the specified resolution is larger than the native resolution for infobox pictures, it's a mistake. For a few examples, see Donald Kohn, Miep Gies, and Martti Ahtisaari.jpg. Note that even in the case of Maati, the upscaling is still quite noticeable even though the size difference is tiny (207->225). The original image is notably sharper, while the 225px image is blurry and seems out of focus. The upscaled pictures of Kohn and Gies just look terrible, on the other hand.
Anyway. I was hoping to fix this via a bot. Basically I imagine the bot would work like so: Examine all transclusions of {{ Infobox_person}}. If the image parameter is set, look up the imagesize parameter (or use 225 if unset). Compare it with the native resolution of the picture. If it's larger, then set the imagesize parameter to the native size.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance to anyone willing to work on this. SnowFire ( talk) 16:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
I've programmed a bot script to do this and ran it in read-only mode on the first 1000 transclusions of {{ Infobox person}} that have images. Out of those 1000, the bot proposed 28 edits. Details:
I'm interested in running this as a fully-automatic (or perhaps semi-automatic) bot; the above shows what it is likely to do on a normal run. Currently, it will ignore an edit if the size modification is two pixels or less, because changing image_size from 100px to 99px is a little pointless. I reviewed most of the edits; about half of them are making minor changes that aren't really visible, while the other half are making changes that are visible. So, before I go to WP:BRFA, what do we think? — The Earwig (talk) 03:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I just noticed that the {{ table}} template is being used all over the place without doing anything! After updating a number of pages, I realized there is more to clean up than a human can do, so here I am asking for a bot.
Background
{{ table}} allows easy creation of tables. There are a number of parameters that the editor can use, automatically creating headers, columns and rows.
Improper use
On dozens of pages, the template is being used paramterlessly (is that a word?) and thus serves no purpose whatsoever. For example:
{| {{table}} {| class="wikitable" ! blah ! blah
Clearly in this instance, the first line is absolutely pointless. Sometimes I've seen it this way:
{| {{table}} ! blah ! blah
or even this way:
{{table}} {| ! blah ! blah
How a bot can fix it
I think there are a couple ways a bot can automatically fix this:
In any case, anywhere that {{table}} shows up, it needs to be removed. It may also be helpful for the bot to list all the pages where changes were made (possibly added to Template talk:Table).
I hope someone creates this, it seems trivial! — Timneu22 ( talk) 16:39, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Withdrawn, for now. I went through and found some offensive pages. Not sure if I got them all, but I'll spot-check and see what really needs to be fixed. If something is bot-worth, I'll be back! Timneu22 ( talk) 13:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
This would immensely help WP:WBOOKS with the cleanup of all books, but is a bit different from the usual message delivery. The main idea is to intersect Category:Wikipedia books (community books with errors) with each subcategory of Category:Book-Class articles. Then, if there are books found in both category, post this message on the corresponding project's talk page:
Hadronic Matter
An overviewAn example of a book cover, taken from Book:Hadronic Matter As detailed in this week's Signpost, WildBot has been patrolling Wikipedia-Books and searched for various problems in them, such as books having duplicate articles or containing redirects. WikiProject Wikipedia-Books is in the process of cleaning them up, but help would be appreciated. For this project, the following books have problems:
- Book:Example ( problems)
- Book:Example2 ( problems)
- ...
- Book:Example10 ( problems)
The problem reports explain in details what exactly are the problems, why they are problems, and how to fix them. This way anyone can fix them even if they aren't familiar with books. If you don't see something that looks like this, then all problems have been fixed. (Please strike articles from this list as the problems get fixed.)
Also, the {{ saved book}} template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of books (title, subtitle, cover-image, cover-color), and gives are preview of the default cover on the book's page. An example of such a cover is found on the right. Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class FOO articles should have covers.
If you need help with cleaning up a book, help with the {{ saved book}} template, or have any questions about books in general, see Help:Books, Wikipedia:Books, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, or ask me on my talk page. Also feel free to join WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as we need all the help we can get.
This message was delivered by User:Bot, at TIMEOFDELIVERY, on behalf of Headbomb. Headbomb probably isn't watching this page, so if you want him to reply here, just leave him a message on his talk page. BOTSIGNATURE
If books aren't found in both category, then this message should be delivered instead:
Hadronic Matter
An overviewAn example of a book cover, taken from Book:Hadronic Matter As detailed in this week's Signpost, WikiProject Wikipedia books is undertaking a cleanup all Wikipedia books. Particularly, the {{ saved book}} template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of the books. Title, subtitle, cover-image, and cover-color can all be specified, and an HTML preview of the cover will be generated and shown on the book's page (an example of such a cover is found on the right). Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class FOO articles should have covers.
If you need help with the {{ saved book}} template, or have any questions about books in general, see Help:Books, Wikipedia:Books, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, or ask me on my talk page. Also feel free to join WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as we need all the help we can get.
This message was delivered by User:Bot, at TIMEOFDELIVERY, on behalf of Headbomb. Headbomb probably isn't watching this page, so if you want him to reply here, just leave him a message on his talk page. BOTSIGNATURE
If both categories are empty, then there is no need to deliver any message.
Just to make sure no one gets confused, Category:Book-Class FOO articles is the appropriate subcategory of Category:Book-Class articles. The rest, such as BOTSIGNATURE, should be relatively obvious, but if there is anything unclear, just let me know (I'm watching this page so you can reply here). So yeah, it would be great if someone unleashed some command-line fu on behalf of WP:WBOOKS. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Per MOS:ENDASH, redirects are required when an article title contains an endash (–). Would it be possible for a bot to go through Category:Seasons in English football (and all its subcategories) and create redirects for all of the articles that do not yet have them? Examples of required redirects include:
1870-71 in English football → 1870–71 in English football 1883-84 Newton Heath L&YR F.C. season → 1883–84 Newton Heath L&YR F.C. season 1892-93 Football League → 1892–93 Football League
This operation could be performed by a user or group of users, but there are far too many affected articles for that. Any help a bot could provide would be very useful. – Pee Jay 09:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Per this MOS discussion, could there be a bot which creates redirects from titles with hyphens to titles with dashes, like this one I just created? Such redirects will make articles with dashes in their titles more accessible to those who can't easily type the dashes. Ucucha 18:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Why was this discussion archived? No bot has been created yet! – Pee Jay 17:08, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry about the delay. I can create a bot to make redirects from titles with – to -. This will be done in all English Wikipedia, right? Not only to those in the football category of above. emijrp ( talk) 14:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
OK, I will open a BRFA. emijrp ( talk) 12:33, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Has anybody tried Bayesian filtering or CRM114-like approaches to vandalism identification? Any known failures/successes? (If yes, has anybody tried separate statistics files for different Wiki categories?)
Seems to be doable. I did a few quick hacks/tests:
Somewhat moderate success so far. I'll post the details if anybody shows any interest.
By the way, anybody interested in collaboration? (You'll need to know python). Or you may also help in this 'human assisted output evaluation' step; that's basically checking uncertain (from the engine POV) edits and identifying 'false positives'. The result of that is a verified list of bad/good edits/revisions (BTW have anybody seen any lists like that)?
-- Dc987 ( talk) 08:58, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
I've generated a data set (for the first 2000 revisions of the Rocket article) identifying good/bad revisions. See: User:Dc987/Dataset_for_the_Rocket_article. Most of it is auto-generated, but some questionable edits were human verified. I guess it is pretty accurate, but I'd like to see it cleaned up even more. Would anyone be willing to run their favorite vandalism identification bot against it? -- Dc987 ( talk) 01:54, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I want a bot that will look through all the video game articles, and read the information in the infobox to automatically compile relevant list articles.
There are articles about each decade in video games, such as 1990s in video gaming. We already have category articles for things like 1985_video_games [7], and Category:Arcade_games [8]. I want a list for each decade showing all games released during that decade, and a have whatever genre each game comes from automatically read from the infobox of its main article. Since thousands of games are released each decade, I'd like to be able to make one listing all notable games, those with Wikipedia articles for them anyway, for each genre. Platform, arcade, first person shooters, sports, role playing, turn based, real time strategy, etc. Whatever officially recognized genres things are classified into. Dream Focus 09:34, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Could I request a bot to fix URLs here? The Agency for Cultural Affairs' Japanese Cinema Database has recently changed its urls, dead-linking dozens of citations in our Japanese film articles. What used to be, for example, " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/searchDetails.php?id=11402" is now " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11402" All that would have to be done is to substitute any link in an article that starts out: " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/searchDetails.php?id=" with: " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/" Thanks! Dekkappai ( talk) 21:21, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion at Template talk:Infobox criminal#Status, a bot is needed, to change all instances of {{ Infobox criminal}}'s parameters as below:
please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:51, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion at Template talk:Infobox journalist#Ethnic, a bot is needed, to change all instances of {{ Infobox journalist}}'s parameter as below:
please. See #Infobox criminal parameter renames, above, for a very similar task. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:58, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Several days ago, a good faith (and very bold editor) added honorific prefixes to the infoboxes of apparently every United States Senator, Governor, and Congressman. Consensus has long been opposed to the widespread usage of these titles (see WP:HONOR and WP:HONORIFIC), and a discussion at the United States Congress WikiProject has reaffirmed that consensus. There are 585 current potential articles that could have been affected, and apparently multiple accounts may have been used. Some have since been reverted manually. Would it be possible, and would it be more efficient, to have a bot assist in restoring these articles to their humble states? Specifically:
The bot would search through:
...and remove, from any article in any of those categories, any infobox line that begins with:
|honorific-prefix=
For example: sample removal. Thanks! jæs (talk) 02:08, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't know whether bots can make sysop actions, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Most of the articles in Category:NA-Class Canada Roads articles are redirects, and that category should be limited to things like disambiguation pages and images. Pages are put in the cat by a wikiproject tag, so would it be possible for a bot to delete talk pages of all redirect pages in that category? -- Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
The World Database on Protected Areas has a downloadable database. I would like to see URLs of the files that match WP articles added as external links. I have added one to Pureora Forest Park by way of a simple example. Can we get a bot to do this? A list of close matches should also be made for actual humans to check. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 09:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
It is relatively easy to tag a large number of categories for deletion quickly when one has AWB, because the code to add the tags is the same for all categories in a given group nomination. It is more problematic, however, to use AWB to tag categories for renaming or merging, including speedy renaming or merging, because the code is generally not the same for all categories in a given group nomination.
Consider the hypothetical example of nominating the subcategories of Category:Years of the 20th century in Australia (e.g., Category:1901 in Australia):
{{subst:cfd|Years of the 20th century in Australia}}
{{subst:cfr|PROPOSED NAME|Years of the 20th century in Australia}}
{{subst:cfm|PROPOSED TARGET|Years of the 20th century in Australia}}
{{subst:cfr-speedy|PROPOSED NAME or TARGET}}
"Years of the 20th century in Australia" is the (again, hypothetical) title of the section on the appropriate CfD log page which contains the nomination, and it is specified in each case except speedy renaming or merging. The values of "PROPOSED NAME" and "PROPOSED TARGET", however, vary between categories (e.g., it might be "Australia in 1901" for Category:1901 in Australia, but it would be "Australia in 1902" for Category:1902 in Australia, and so on).
I think that a bot which could, when prompted by its operator, appropriately tag large numbers of categories for renaming or merging would be extremely helpful (tagging pages—and not necessarily just categories—for deletion would be useful too). (Note, please, that the use of "when prompted by its operator" is deliberate, since it seems like a bad idea to permit anyone to activate a bot and prompt it to edit hundreds or thousands of pages.) Editors requesting tagging help should, of course, be expected to provide a full, formatted list of which pages to tag and how. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:39, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
According to the usage instructions of Template:WPBiography, "living=no" should be specified on all pages that are tagged with {{ WPBiography}} but are not articles about living persons (such as lists of people). However, for all such pages which contain "sensitive information about ... living persons", "blpo=yes" should be specified so that {{ BLP others}} is added.
My request is for a bot to check Category:List-Class biography articles and perform two tasks:
I proposed this task to WikiProject Biography (see here) one week ago, and there have been no objections. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 21:05, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
The {{ Spoken Wikipedia}} template now emits an hAudio microformat. To include the publication date of the audio file in the microformat's metadata, a bot is needed, please, to change the date in ~900 instances of the template to use {{ Start date}}, thus:
old:
{{Spoken Wikipedia|black.ogg|2005-08-16|5.9 mega}}
new:
{{Spoken Wikipedia|black.ogg|{{Start date|2005|08|16}}|5.9 mega}}
Here's a sample conversion. For more information, see microformats project. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:09, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
The following syntax are the 1st 2 lines of a lot of infoboxes etc.:
{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|</td></tr><tr><td colspan=20>}} {| class="infobox vcard" style="{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|width:100%; border:0; margin:0; background:transparent|width:250px; font-size:90%}}"
This creates an extra space in articles:
Can we get a bot to please change the 1st 2 lines to:
{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|</td></tr><tr><td colspan=20>}}{| class="infobox vcard" style="{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|width:100%; border:0; margin:0; background:transparent|width:250px; font-size:90%}}"
This is an example of templates that are create "such" problems. Please be boldlike.
TIA 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 02:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I had noticed that Lukas-bot has been programmed to remove Construction tags after 7 days of inactivity. I was wondering if it could be programmed to remove Newpage tags as well. There is currently no agreed upon time, however 36 hours should be sufficient for now. Thanks! - Stillwaterising ( talk) 11:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
For the last couple of days I have been tagging uncategorized articles with {{ uncat}}. However the amount of articles is not managable to do manually. UnCatBot ( talk · contribs) has not been active for over a year and there is over 13000 articles listed in a toolserver report right now. It would be great if there is a bot operator that is willing to handle this on a regular basis. Rettetast ( talk) 13:15, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that the usage of {{ Unsigned}} indicates that it should be substituted, but there are thousands of transclusions. Is substitution of this template (and its various redirects) a good bot task, or is it just simply a waste of time? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:35, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
According to our MOS, punctuation is supposed to precede the reference, as in the fixed text above. Going through pages to fix this manually can be really tedious. I propose a constantly running bot action that goes through all articles to correct this. It seems simple enough and can probably be tacked onto an existing bot (like AWB's general fixes run by User:SmackBot). Equazcion (talk) 05:59, 14 Apr 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible to generate a complete list of articles edited by editors in the categories Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Brexx and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Brexx? Probably more of a script request than a bot request, but this is the only place I know to ask. Ideally, I'd like a tool that I can plug in any user name and get the articles edited by editors in those two categories. I'd think such an obvious script already exists somewhere on toolserver, but I can't find it.— Kww( talk) 16:54, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
As some of you may know, the original coder for User:ArticleAlertbot is nearly completely absent from WP. Well recently some API changes have been made and AAB isn't running at all, and won't be running until it gets updated. Needless to say that not getting Article alerts is a major inconvenience for several hundred Wikiprojects, which cripples their ability to monitor deletion discussions, peer reviews, nominations, and so on.
Coders interested in updating the bot should contact
User:Legoktm for the exact details and the source code. (And of course, fixing some
bugs and implementing
feature requests on the side wouldn't be unappreciated either if you find the time.) Apparently it's written in JavaScript.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 20:56, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Vandalism has been an important issue these days in Turkish Wikipedia pages. If the ClueBot's full source is availbale, I request a customized ClueBot for Turkish Wikipedia. A custom score list may be developped.
Thanks
-- Alperen ( talk) 09:46, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
We had two useful templates: {{ popular articles}} which returned the most popular articles in the latest hour and {{ Linked on Google News}} which returned articles linked on google news. Unfortunately, the bot operator Numbo3 is no longer active and they haven't been updated since resp. October and July of last year. Would anyone be interested in operating a bot to update those templates or one of them ? Cenarium ( talk) 05:49, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
As discussed here, WikiProject Insects is now up and running as a daughter project of WikiProject Arthropods. We would like a bot to go through the insect articles (articles in Category:Insects and its subcategories), and replace {{ ArthropodTalk}} (or {{ WikiProject Arthropods}}) with {{ WikiProject Insects}} on their talk pages. It would also be useful if any articles which had not previously been assessed for importance were given "importance=low", and any marked with a stub tag assessed as "class=stub". Since we're only asking for one banner to be replaced with another, there shouldn't be any risk of tagging articles in categories unexpectedly nested within Category:Insects. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 11:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Some problems that occurred:
Therefore, I can only move articles from one project to the other and add articles to the new project without parameters. Is it ok -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:02, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
I did about 9,000 edits. I think I managed to replace all of them. I performed a Wikipedia:CatScan to check which in there is any transclusion of the given projects in subcategories of Cat:Insects. The scan was able to reach level 4 of recursion and stopped after checking 499 categories. It didn't find any transclusions. I think I finished my part. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion at Template talk:Infobox journalist#Ethnic, a bot is needed, to change all instances of {{ Infobox journalist}}'s parameter as below:
please. See Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 35#Infobox criminal parameter renames, for a very similar, and completed, task. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:43, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
This template has been deprecated for some time, so I switched the backend to use {{
Infobox cricketer biography}} and all that is left to do is to substitute it on all pages that transclude it. To make the substitution look nice and pretty, a bot would just need to change {{Infobox historic cricketer
to {{subst:Infobox historic cricketer|subst=subst:
This will allow an if statement inside the template to get substituted as well. Note that {{
Infobox Historic Cricketer}} and {{
Infobox Historic cricketer}} are both redirects, and should be substituted in the same way. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 05:24, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Update: And the same thing for
Template:Infobox cricketer. Change {{Infobox cricketer
to {{subst:Infobox cricketer|subst=subst:
which is also deprecated, and using another template for the backend.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 05:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#Broken Maps? Urgent attention required and Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#Replacement, would it be possible for a bot to make the following changes to parameters of {{ BS}}, {{ BS1}}, {{ BS2}}, etc templates (see below):
|KBHFa|
→ |KBHFa|
|KBHFe|
→ |KBHFe|
|exKBHFa|
→ |exKBHFa|
|exKBHFe|
→ |exKBHFe|
|KDSTa|
→ |KDSTa|
|KDSTe|
→ |KDSTe|
=KBHFa|
→ =KBHFa|
=KBHFe|
→ =KBHFe|
=exKBHFa|
→ =exKBHFa|
=exKBHFe|
→ =exKBHFe|
=KDSTa|
→ =KDSTa|
=KDSTe|
→ =KDSTe|
|KBFa}
→ |KBHFa|}
|KBFe}
→ |KBHFe|}
|exKBFa}
→ |exKBHFa|}
|exKBFe}
→ |exKBHFe|}
|KDSa}
→ |KDSTa|}
|KDSe}
→ |KDSTe|}
=KBFa}
→ =KBHFa|}
=KBFe}
→ =KBHFe|}
=exKBFa}
→ =exKBHFa|}
=exKBFe}
→ =exKBHFe|}
=KDSa}
→ =KDSTa|}
=KDSe}
→ =KDSTe|}
I don't think the second group will actually occur, as it would be odd for them to be the final parameter of the template, but I'm not completely certain. – edit: it's possible to have an overlay icon at the end of the template ... the additional '|' will fix it ;-)
The strings can be in any positional parameter of the template, and can appear multiple times in the same template.
Every instance in the article and template namespaces need changing. Instances in other namespaces probably need changing also, but I think it would be best if the bot could just generate a list of where its used in other namespaces in the first instance.
I believe the full list of templates is everyting in the pattern, where # is a number between 1 and 14 (not all exist): Template:BS# Template:BS-# Template:BS#-2 Template:BS-startCollapsible Template:Bs#=startCollapsible
See Wikipedia:Route diagram template if you need help understanding the table. Thanks Thryduulf ( talk) 22:51, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Although a guideline states that bots should not be used to change one that redirects to another, to this other, I think in this instance, we this would be a good idea because:
I think we should get a request for a bot to go to the instances that uses otheruses4 and change them to about, so here is my request. 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 06:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
I totally agree on that. I could do it if we have consensus. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Could a bot be tasked to remove {{ current}} and {{ current-related}} tags from articles after (say) 12 hours without a human edit? Abductive ( reasoning) 19:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I have requested a bot to perform interwiki linking on Commons, to facilitate navigation between Wikipedia and Commons; the discussion may be found here. Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 20:14, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
The following categories are being speedy moved; but the categorization in them is done using a parameter for a template, which means that Cydebot can't handle them. I have supplied a sample edit for each of the categories, and the edit summary explicitly has the category name. I would like some bot to finish these speedy moves.
Thank you, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:07, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I am involved in clean-up of the ' Association football templates' category tree, and I find myself needing a list of categories which are in Category:Association football templates or its subcategories up to 10 levels deep (according to AWB's list generator, there are currently 842) and are not in Category:Categories for speedy renaming—i.e., a list of categories in the 'Association football templates' category tree which are not currently nominated for speedy renaming. Would this be possible? Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 06:19, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
This one shouldn't be too hard (basically just a really big parser), but would be extremely helpful. Could someone please make a bot that runs through the lists in Wikipedia:Templates with red links, removing from the list:
For quick reference, the list format is:
I've even made a basic run-through of a possible routine:
For extra credit, you could also have it check the template page itself to see if any of the links that are on the list have been completely removed from the template (I'd prefer if it didn't add new redlinks to the list, at least not for old database dumps), and also reorder the lists based on the new number of redlinks in each template.
You should probably run all of the lists through it one time once you get it finished, then maybe run it again once every couple of months or as needed.
Thanks. --
98.114.243.75 (
talk) 21:08, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Could the anti-vandalism bots be tweaked to search for the insertion of the phrase "your mom" into articles. It's a very common form of vandalism but no bot seems to pick it up. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 06:36, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Your Mom
ur mom yyyoooouuuurrrr mom urr mAMa yo mommy
and any combination of those. Tim1357 ( talk) 00:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Manually linking Wikipedia articles to Wikispecies articles, and the other way around, is time-consuming. I've looked through species:Special:ListUsers&group=bot and species:Category:Wikispecies bots without any luck in finding such a bot, but if one already do, or if this type of bot already has been dismissed, please ignore this message. Virtually all main namespace articles on Wikispecies are corresponding to the identically named other-language Wikipedia articles, so with a list of the non-corresponding articles compiled, a bot could perform this task much easier. So far the only exception I've found is the Main Page (including redirects, such as article "Wikispecies". Warning: don't trust the "what links here" function, it seems to be bugged). If we're lucky, all non-taxonomic articles are prefixed with "Wikispecies:", "Help:" and so on, but really, I don't know. If this turns out to be a viable idea, someone at Wikispecies will be able to give a certain answer for sure, and that would be awesome. jonkerz♠ 02:12, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've got a list of 1,823 article that all need some text removing. An example is at User:Mattgirling/Kenya. It's basically a few lines out of the infobox (one of which is identical through all the articles, the other two are values) and then a string in the article's body (which also contains the values in the infobox). The example probably explains this better than I ever could. I've never really dealt with this side of the bot world, so if I'm doing this wrong or if there's a different process please let me know! matt ( talk) 15:41, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Strong support -This data is false. This editor is clearly very responsible. The population data in particular is a random estimate of population in a 7 kilometres radius which is redudant anyway as often 20 odd villages and hamlets may lie in a 7km radius to information specific to that settlement is wrong. Also when the is run I strongly suggest that you re stub sort from Kenya-geo-stub to the province stub tags (Actually this is undergoing stub sorting proposal at the moment to split Kenyan geography stubs by province) and also categorize the articles . E.g Category:Cities, towns and villages in Rift Valley Province. The stubs should be categorized also. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:30, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
OK. That can be done later using AWB. Anyway the stub proposal has to go through anyway first. If you or Matt could take care of Matt's proposal I'd be happy with that as a first step. Perhaps Matt could add the categories later. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:37, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
That's currently undergoing discussion. I believe there is a consensus forming towards Populated places in... which I also support (if it must change). If so then the categories would have to be renamed anyway. So perhaps it would be best to wait until the decision is made. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:50, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Amazing. Thanks for doing that! Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:23, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
[[Image:Wikipedia-favicon.png|16px|Favicon of Wikipedia]]
→ {{
Wiki favicon}}
for article in Wikipedias by language. -- DolphinL ( talk) 12:01, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
I recently revived WikiProject U2, and when it was originally determined to be inactive, all the article talk pages were removed from their class/importance categories. Null edits will be required for each article with the {{ WikiProject U2}} banner on their talk page to put the pages back into the category pages ( list of pages). A bot would be most helpful to perform this task. Thanks. – Dream out loud ( talk) 00:15, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
This request remains outstanding. (There's a more up-to-date list of templates to act on) SmackBot started the work, but has made no such edits for some months; repeated requests for it to restart have been to no avail. The original request was made in August 2008! I'd be grateful for some help, please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible for someone to create a bot to remove instances of Image:No Photo Available.svg from all articles containing Template:Infobox Ship Image. The template has been updated to automatically add an article to a category for articles requiring images in the infobox if no image exists therefore making the usage of this image redundant. (The image is also not supposed to be used on articles) There are over 1,000+ usages of this on ship articles so a bot would be the most logical way to perform this change en masse.
| Ship image = [[Image:No Photo Available.svg]]
becomes
| Ship image =
JonEastham ( talk) 12:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
| Ship image = [[File:No Photo Available.svg|300px|AlternateTextHere]]
I need a bot to go through item Categories belonging to Canadian music and add a template. The logic: if the Category's name contains "Canadian music" add a template to the Category's talk page (if it does not have one). It can be done manually, but I don't even know how many there are. Please help. Argolin ( talk) 22:30, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm not being too specific at this point, because I'm sure there's already one out there. Thanks. Argolin ( talk) 23:15, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Can you have the bot place {{WikiProject Canada|class=Cat|importance=???|music=yes}} on the Talk page IF the WikiProject Canada template is not already there on the talk page? Yes, I realise that two portal items in the list get a different banner (just did that earlier). I need the ??? as I will be doing maintenance on the Cats and will change it's importance when I'm done. Thanks Argolin ( talk) 03:21, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Done. Argolin ( talk) 01:02, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I know, I know, this has been proposed many many times. However, my idea is a little different (I think, unless I missed a page in the archives): Only move images that have been manually reviewed. I'll volunteer to review. Instead of automatically moving all images in a given category, (which is bound to cause issues as some are listed do not move, incorrectly tagged, et cetera) it only moves images that have been human reviewed as safe to move to Commons. A page could be created for this bot to check - only files listed on this page would be moved, and only reviewed edits would be added to this page. Only trusted users should be able to add files to this page, else it could easily be abused - this could be solved by using something like User:Example/MTC.js for the page - only that user (and admins) can edit the page. (If I knew how, I would just setup pywikipediabot to do such a task, but my knowledge of python is lacking...) Thoughts, ideas, comments? All welcome. :) Avic enna sis @ 20:36, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Check all the Biography or subcategories (806000+ articles) and create the six following Database reports where the:
{{
Death date and age}}
,{{
BirthDeathAge}}
, {{
Death year and age}}
, {{
Death date}}
, {{
Dda}}
, {{
Date of death}}
, {{
Deathdateandage}}
. Careful, exclude <!-- marked out template code -->{{
date of birth and age}}
, {{
Birthdate and age}}
, {{
Bda}}
, {{
BDA}}
, {{
Date of birth and age}}
, {{
Birthdateandage}}
, {{
Birth Date and age}}
, {{
BDa}}
, {{
BdA}}
, {{
Euro birth date and age}}
, {{
Birth year and age}}
, {{
Date and age}}
, {{
Birthyearandage}}
Careful, exclude <!-- marked out template code -->At first only require a one time run but I expect it would sensible to have each report run at set intervals and be listed on Database reports. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 14:40, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Yobot is doing this already! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:58, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I hope I am covering everything this these methods. A database scan would be useful of course. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:29, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I am running Yobot and manually through Living and death categories to update the status. Check progress in User:Magioladitis/Sandbox. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:51, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
As of September 2009, the Cite.php extension was modified to support list-defined references. These can be implemented with the |refs=
parameter to the {{
reflist}} template, or by using a pair of HTML tags (<references>
and </references>
) in place of the <references/>
tag. These reduce clutter within articles, by putting all the citation details in the section at the end where the footnotes are displayed.
Is it possible to create a 'bot which would look through current articles (or newly-created articles) and convert inline citations to list-defined ones - here is a suggested algorithm:
current-ref=1
IF article is too old THEN
end-run // this means that stable articles aren't changed
ELSE
IF no-refs-present THEN
IF no-tag THEN
add tag
ELSE
end-run
ENDIF
ELSE
IF already-list defined THEN
end-run
ELSE
FOR each reference
IF named-reference THEN
IF first-one THEN
move reference to list
replace reference in article with <ref name="xxx"/>
ELSE
do nothing
ENDIF
ELSE
use reference name="Ref-"¤t-ref
current-ref=current-ref + 1
move reference to list
replace reference in article with <ref name="xxx"/>
ENDIF
ENDFOR
ENDIF
ENDIF
ENDIF
I've tried to get the idea in my head down there!
In-list defined refs make the markup easier to follow. An example of an article which was written from scratch with a lot of references list-defined is William Stanley (Victorian inventor) - look at the markup for the paragraph starting "William Stanley was born on Monday 2 February 1829" for the references:
William Stanley was born on Monday 2 February 1829<ref name="nat-biog"/> in Islington, London,<ref name="oxford-dnb"/> one of 9 children<ref name="na-births"/> of John Stanley (a mechanic and builder) and his wife, Selina Hickman.<ref name="oxford-dnb"/> He was baptised on Wednesday 4 March 1829 at St Mary’s Church, Islington.<ref name="oxford-dnb"/> At the age of 10 Stanley started going regularly to a day school run by a Mr Peil until he was 12. From the age of 12 until he was 14, his maternal uncle William Ford Hickman paid for his education at a different school.<ref name="akpan-13"/> Despite having limited formal learning, Stanley taught himself mathematics, mechanics, astronomy, music, French, geology, chemistry, architecture and theology.<ref name="cg-erased"/><ref name="wfs-org"/> He attended lessons in technical drawing at the London Mechanics’ Institution (now called Birkbeck College), where he enrolled in 1843, attending engineering and phrenology lessons.<ref name="wfs-org"/>
Compare this with Carlos Tévez with inline refs - look at the paragraph starting "His career has been dogged by a long-standing affair ...":
His career has been dogged by a long-standing affair with [[Media Sports Investments]], the company who owned the rights of Tévez,<ref>[http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/134193/WEST-HAMS-TEVEZ-EVIDENCE-We-reveal-documents-Hammers-will-use-in-their-defence.html WEST HAM'S TEVEZ EVIDENCE]</ref> and several other players and coaches.,<ref>[http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=390319&cc=5739 MSI rap Corinthians over Carlos Alberto axing]</ref>,<ref>[http://www.javiermascherano.net/ Javier Mascherano Bio]</ref><ref>[http://en.sambafoot.com/articles/118_MSI_the_Corinthians_Russian_connection_page_1.html MSI: the Corinthians' Russian connection]</ref><ref>[http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/3/4/sports/10320884&sec=sports Passarella arrives in Brazil to sign with Corinthians]</ref><ref>[http://en.sambafoot.com/articles/188_Crisis_at_Corinthians_page_1.html Crisis at Corinthians]</ref> This eventually resulted in West Ham United being fined over issues regarding third-party ownership.,<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-hit-by-16355m-fine-but-do-deal-for-tevez-to-play-446536.html West Ham hit by £5.5m fine but do deal for Tevez to play]</ref><ref>[http://www.sportspromedia.com/deals/_a/west_ham_and_sheffield_united_end_tevez_saga_with_us21m_settlement/ West Ham and Sheffield United end Tevez saga with US$21m settlement]</ref>
I feel that this would be a useful bot (in fact, if it can be got working, it could ultimately be used on all articles, not just newly-created ones, and after that on all newly-created articles)
Any comments (or bots!) would be most welcome -- PhantomSteve/ talk| contribs\ 19:15, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
I request someone to be able to design a bot that would be able to arrange a list from this data source:
[19]. I did page one
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Global_Names_Index/A although when trying to update page 2 I am getting error messages and I figure doing it by hand would take too long anyway. I need someone who can make the lists in the same format as the first page I showed as an example on all the remaining pages (A2, A3, A4 ETC. then B, B2, B3, B4 ETC. ETC.). Any help with this would be much appreciated. Note that page A2 through to A10 and the first page of letters B to Z were done by hand but will need to be updated because the lists are from an old source (unfiltered name list). Cheers!
Calaka (
talk) 09:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
:{{
BOTREQ}}
CrimsonBlue (
talk) 21:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Can't figure it out, the list is too big, someone else can pick this up CrimsonBlue ( talk) 01:18, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Could somebody please check each template in Category:People infobox templates and its subcategories, and draw up a list of those which do not include the class (or simply string, if easier) "vcard", which indicates the presence of the hCard microformat. That will enable me to add that microformat to any which do not yet include it but which should do. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:48, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Would like a bot to replace as many instances of my former username (a unique word), particularly signatures and user page/talk links, with my new one per the approved rename request [20], as feasible, and to avoid confusion in conversations, what not.-- AnmaFinotera ( talk · contribs) 22:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
I note SmackBot is now silently doing this (e.g. [21] [22] with a summary of "Subst unsigned template.") without approval. Anomie ⚔ 11:24, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | ← | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | Archive 36 | Archive 37 | → | Archive 40 |
I need a bot to do a mass move of articles for Ontario Highways. The current articles are named Highway X (Ontario). However, according to WP:SRNC, the preferrable title is Ontario Provincial Highway X
X in this case is 2–169 and 400–427. There are around 100 articles. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 23:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Needs wider discussion. - No apparent consensus for this, and it would be extremely peculiar to refer to Canadian highways in this manner. See also Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Style guide where disambiguation is done with province in brackets after the subject. WT:ONTARIO or WT:CANADA would be places to see if consensus exists for this. – xeno talk 03:06, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
This is probably a task that could be added a bot. I'd like for a bot to check the url paramater of a citation template such as {{ cite news}}. If it starts with http://web.archive.org/web/<date>, then it should correct the url to the actual original url, and create/update the archiveurl and archivedate tag. The bot should also check the archiveurl paramater and make sure that the archivedate paramater is correctly set.
Archive.org urls are given as follows:
http://web.archive.org/web/<year><month><day><othernumber>/<original website>
So given the url http://web.archive.org/web/19970724174700/http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/index.htm
The year is 1997, the month 07, the day 24, and the original site is http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/index.htm
Also be aware that archive.org/...will not work...so that could be fixed as well.
If anybody would add this task to their bot, I'd appreciate it...otherwise when I get some more time , I'll write the bot. Thanks! Smallman12q ( talk) 00:37, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/19970709122848/www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/soon.htm|title=UdiWWW: Coming soon|last=Richter|first=Bernd|publisher=[[University of Ulm]]|date=September 4, 1996|accessdate=16 March 2010}}
to
{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/soon.htm|archivedate=1997-07-09|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/19970709122848/www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/soon.htm|title=UdiWWW: Coming soon|last=Richter|first=Bernd|publisher=[[University of Ulm]]|date=September 4, 1996|accessdate=16 March 2010}}
I planted this warning on several pages in the last weeks without much reaction:
Given that the honorable Mr. Wolterding seems to be dead (no edits since January 3rd), what is the Plan B for WolterBot ??? Then User:Rd232 picked it up and brought it on this page, from which it was archived in the last hours for lack of updates. Here it is: Hello all, User:WolterBot has not run since mid December. It generates cleanup listings for wikiprojects, which is a useful thing particularly for the less active ones, providing new content in terms of To Do tasks. The bot's owner hasn't been around since early January. Is there any other bot doing something similar? Could someone else take over the bot (might need source code requesting from the operator, it doesn't seem to be public)? Rd232 talk 10:18, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
So, is WolterBot dead or... is Wikipedia dead? -- AlainR345 Techno-Wiki-Geek 04:31, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)#Remember accessibility for the visually impaired —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manishearth ( talk • contribs) 10:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Might it be possible for a bot to go through the talk pages of all of the articles in all of the subcategories of
Category:Geography of Canada and tag them with {{
WikiProject Canada|class=|importance=|geography=yes}}
if they don't already have the template? If the article has a stub template on it, you might also want to modify it to be class=stub. Thank you! --
Arctic Gnome (
talk •
contribs) 03:12, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
I raised this issue at Template talk:Infobox_person#Upscaling of portraits in infoboxes with no response, so figure I should bring this here.
Basically: upscaling pictures of any detail is usually bad and should be avoided. Upscaling is fine for simple images like the Flag of France, but not for photographs, detailed portraits, and so on. To quote from the article on image scaling: "Enlarging an image (upsampling or interpolating) is generally less common. The main reason for this is that in "zooming" an image, it is not possible to discover any more information in the image than already exists, and image quality inevitably suffers."
Now, as it happens, practically 99.99% of images used in Infobox person are too detailed to upscale well. However, the default image size if imagesize is unspecified is 225px, and plenty of images have a smaller native resolution. Many users have directly specified a "too large" image as well, probably out of not realizing the image wouldn't scale well to that, or else simply copy-and-pasting a different infobox, replacing the picture, and not realizing they needed to adjust the imagesize as well. In other words, pretty much any time the specified resolution is larger than the native resolution for infobox pictures, it's a mistake. For a few examples, see Donald Kohn, Miep Gies, and Martti Ahtisaari.jpg. Note that even in the case of Maati, the upscaling is still quite noticeable even though the size difference is tiny (207->225). The original image is notably sharper, while the 225px image is blurry and seems out of focus. The upscaled pictures of Kohn and Gies just look terrible, on the other hand.
Anyway. I was hoping to fix this via a bot. Basically I imagine the bot would work like so: Examine all transclusions of {{ Infobox_person}}. If the image parameter is set, look up the imagesize parameter (or use 225 if unset). Compare it with the native resolution of the picture. If it's larger, then set the imagesize parameter to the native size.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance to anyone willing to work on this. SnowFire ( talk) 16:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
I've programmed a bot script to do this and ran it in read-only mode on the first 1000 transclusions of {{ Infobox person}} that have images. Out of those 1000, the bot proposed 28 edits. Details:
I'm interested in running this as a fully-automatic (or perhaps semi-automatic) bot; the above shows what it is likely to do on a normal run. Currently, it will ignore an edit if the size modification is two pixels or less, because changing image_size from 100px to 99px is a little pointless. I reviewed most of the edits; about half of them are making minor changes that aren't really visible, while the other half are making changes that are visible. So, before I go to WP:BRFA, what do we think? — The Earwig (talk) 03:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I just noticed that the {{ table}} template is being used all over the place without doing anything! After updating a number of pages, I realized there is more to clean up than a human can do, so here I am asking for a bot.
Background
{{ table}} allows easy creation of tables. There are a number of parameters that the editor can use, automatically creating headers, columns and rows.
Improper use
On dozens of pages, the template is being used paramterlessly (is that a word?) and thus serves no purpose whatsoever. For example:
{| {{table}} {| class="wikitable" ! blah ! blah
Clearly in this instance, the first line is absolutely pointless. Sometimes I've seen it this way:
{| {{table}} ! blah ! blah
or even this way:
{{table}} {| ! blah ! blah
How a bot can fix it
I think there are a couple ways a bot can automatically fix this:
In any case, anywhere that {{table}} shows up, it needs to be removed. It may also be helpful for the bot to list all the pages where changes were made (possibly added to Template talk:Table).
I hope someone creates this, it seems trivial! — Timneu22 ( talk) 16:39, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Withdrawn, for now. I went through and found some offensive pages. Not sure if I got them all, but I'll spot-check and see what really needs to be fixed. If something is bot-worth, I'll be back! Timneu22 ( talk) 13:37, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
This would immensely help WP:WBOOKS with the cleanup of all books, but is a bit different from the usual message delivery. The main idea is to intersect Category:Wikipedia books (community books with errors) with each subcategory of Category:Book-Class articles. Then, if there are books found in both category, post this message on the corresponding project's talk page:
Hadronic Matter
An overviewAn example of a book cover, taken from Book:Hadronic Matter As detailed in this week's Signpost, WildBot has been patrolling Wikipedia-Books and searched for various problems in them, such as books having duplicate articles or containing redirects. WikiProject Wikipedia-Books is in the process of cleaning them up, but help would be appreciated. For this project, the following books have problems:
- Book:Example ( problems)
- Book:Example2 ( problems)
- ...
- Book:Example10 ( problems)
The problem reports explain in details what exactly are the problems, why they are problems, and how to fix them. This way anyone can fix them even if they aren't familiar with books. If you don't see something that looks like this, then all problems have been fixed. (Please strike articles from this list as the problems get fixed.)
Also, the {{ saved book}} template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of books (title, subtitle, cover-image, cover-color), and gives are preview of the default cover on the book's page. An example of such a cover is found on the right. Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class FOO articles should have covers.
If you need help with cleaning up a book, help with the {{ saved book}} template, or have any questions about books in general, see Help:Books, Wikipedia:Books, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, or ask me on my talk page. Also feel free to join WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as we need all the help we can get.
This message was delivered by User:Bot, at TIMEOFDELIVERY, on behalf of Headbomb. Headbomb probably isn't watching this page, so if you want him to reply here, just leave him a message on his talk page. BOTSIGNATURE
If books aren't found in both category, then this message should be delivered instead:
Hadronic Matter
An overviewAn example of a book cover, taken from Book:Hadronic Matter As detailed in this week's Signpost, WikiProject Wikipedia books is undertaking a cleanup all Wikipedia books. Particularly, the {{ saved book}} template has been updated to allow editors to specify the default covers of the books. Title, subtitle, cover-image, and cover-color can all be specified, and an HTML preview of the cover will be generated and shown on the book's page (an example of such a cover is found on the right). Ideally, all books in Category:Book-Class FOO articles should have covers.
If you need help with the {{ saved book}} template, or have any questions about books in general, see Help:Books, Wikipedia:Books, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, or ask me on my talk page. Also feel free to join WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as we need all the help we can get.
This message was delivered by User:Bot, at TIMEOFDELIVERY, on behalf of Headbomb. Headbomb probably isn't watching this page, so if you want him to reply here, just leave him a message on his talk page. BOTSIGNATURE
If both categories are empty, then there is no need to deliver any message.
Just to make sure no one gets confused, Category:Book-Class FOO articles is the appropriate subcategory of Category:Book-Class articles. The rest, such as BOTSIGNATURE, should be relatively obvious, but if there is anything unclear, just let me know (I'm watching this page so you can reply here). So yeah, it would be great if someone unleashed some command-line fu on behalf of WP:WBOOKS. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Per MOS:ENDASH, redirects are required when an article title contains an endash (–). Would it be possible for a bot to go through Category:Seasons in English football (and all its subcategories) and create redirects for all of the articles that do not yet have them? Examples of required redirects include:
1870-71 in English football → 1870–71 in English football 1883-84 Newton Heath L&YR F.C. season → 1883–84 Newton Heath L&YR F.C. season 1892-93 Football League → 1892–93 Football League
This operation could be performed by a user or group of users, but there are far too many affected articles for that. Any help a bot could provide would be very useful. – Pee Jay 09:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Per this MOS discussion, could there be a bot which creates redirects from titles with hyphens to titles with dashes, like this one I just created? Such redirects will make articles with dashes in their titles more accessible to those who can't easily type the dashes. Ucucha 18:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Why was this discussion archived? No bot has been created yet! – Pee Jay 17:08, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry about the delay. I can create a bot to make redirects from titles with – to -. This will be done in all English Wikipedia, right? Not only to those in the football category of above. emijrp ( talk) 14:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
OK, I will open a BRFA. emijrp ( talk) 12:33, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Has anybody tried Bayesian filtering or CRM114-like approaches to vandalism identification? Any known failures/successes? (If yes, has anybody tried separate statistics files for different Wiki categories?)
Seems to be doable. I did a few quick hacks/tests:
Somewhat moderate success so far. I'll post the details if anybody shows any interest.
By the way, anybody interested in collaboration? (You'll need to know python). Or you may also help in this 'human assisted output evaluation' step; that's basically checking uncertain (from the engine POV) edits and identifying 'false positives'. The result of that is a verified list of bad/good edits/revisions (BTW have anybody seen any lists like that)?
-- Dc987 ( talk) 08:58, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
I've generated a data set (for the first 2000 revisions of the Rocket article) identifying good/bad revisions. See: User:Dc987/Dataset_for_the_Rocket_article. Most of it is auto-generated, but some questionable edits were human verified. I guess it is pretty accurate, but I'd like to see it cleaned up even more. Would anyone be willing to run their favorite vandalism identification bot against it? -- Dc987 ( talk) 01:54, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I want a bot that will look through all the video game articles, and read the information in the infobox to automatically compile relevant list articles.
There are articles about each decade in video games, such as 1990s in video gaming. We already have category articles for things like 1985_video_games [7], and Category:Arcade_games [8]. I want a list for each decade showing all games released during that decade, and a have whatever genre each game comes from automatically read from the infobox of its main article. Since thousands of games are released each decade, I'd like to be able to make one listing all notable games, those with Wikipedia articles for them anyway, for each genre. Platform, arcade, first person shooters, sports, role playing, turn based, real time strategy, etc. Whatever officially recognized genres things are classified into. Dream Focus 09:34, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Could I request a bot to fix URLs here? The Agency for Cultural Affairs' Japanese Cinema Database has recently changed its urls, dead-linking dozens of citations in our Japanese film articles. What used to be, for example, " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/searchDetails.php?id=11402" is now " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11402" All that would have to be done is to substitute any link in an article that starts out: " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/searchDetails.php?id=" with: " http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/" Thanks! Dekkappai ( talk) 21:21, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion at Template talk:Infobox criminal#Status, a bot is needed, to change all instances of {{ Infobox criminal}}'s parameters as below:
please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:51, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion at Template talk:Infobox journalist#Ethnic, a bot is needed, to change all instances of {{ Infobox journalist}}'s parameter as below:
please. See #Infobox criminal parameter renames, above, for a very similar task. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:58, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Several days ago, a good faith (and very bold editor) added honorific prefixes to the infoboxes of apparently every United States Senator, Governor, and Congressman. Consensus has long been opposed to the widespread usage of these titles (see WP:HONOR and WP:HONORIFIC), and a discussion at the United States Congress WikiProject has reaffirmed that consensus. There are 585 current potential articles that could have been affected, and apparently multiple accounts may have been used. Some have since been reverted manually. Would it be possible, and would it be more efficient, to have a bot assist in restoring these articles to their humble states? Specifically:
The bot would search through:
...and remove, from any article in any of those categories, any infobox line that begins with:
|honorific-prefix=
For example: sample removal. Thanks! jæs (talk) 02:08, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't know whether bots can make sysop actions, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Most of the articles in Category:NA-Class Canada Roads articles are redirects, and that category should be limited to things like disambiguation pages and images. Pages are put in the cat by a wikiproject tag, so would it be possible for a bot to delete talk pages of all redirect pages in that category? -- Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:53, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
The World Database on Protected Areas has a downloadable database. I would like to see URLs of the files that match WP articles added as external links. I have added one to Pureora Forest Park by way of a simple example. Can we get a bot to do this? A list of close matches should also be made for actual humans to check. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 09:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
It is relatively easy to tag a large number of categories for deletion quickly when one has AWB, because the code to add the tags is the same for all categories in a given group nomination. It is more problematic, however, to use AWB to tag categories for renaming or merging, including speedy renaming or merging, because the code is generally not the same for all categories in a given group nomination.
Consider the hypothetical example of nominating the subcategories of Category:Years of the 20th century in Australia (e.g., Category:1901 in Australia):
{{subst:cfd|Years of the 20th century in Australia}}
{{subst:cfr|PROPOSED NAME|Years of the 20th century in Australia}}
{{subst:cfm|PROPOSED TARGET|Years of the 20th century in Australia}}
{{subst:cfr-speedy|PROPOSED NAME or TARGET}}
"Years of the 20th century in Australia" is the (again, hypothetical) title of the section on the appropriate CfD log page which contains the nomination, and it is specified in each case except speedy renaming or merging. The values of "PROPOSED NAME" and "PROPOSED TARGET", however, vary between categories (e.g., it might be "Australia in 1901" for Category:1901 in Australia, but it would be "Australia in 1902" for Category:1902 in Australia, and so on).
I think that a bot which could, when prompted by its operator, appropriately tag large numbers of categories for renaming or merging would be extremely helpful (tagging pages—and not necessarily just categories—for deletion would be useful too). (Note, please, that the use of "when prompted by its operator" is deliberate, since it seems like a bad idea to permit anyone to activate a bot and prompt it to edit hundreds or thousands of pages.) Editors requesting tagging help should, of course, be expected to provide a full, formatted list of which pages to tag and how. -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:39, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
According to the usage instructions of Template:WPBiography, "living=no" should be specified on all pages that are tagged with {{ WPBiography}} but are not articles about living persons (such as lists of people). However, for all such pages which contain "sensitive information about ... living persons", "blpo=yes" should be specified so that {{ BLP others}} is added.
My request is for a bot to check Category:List-Class biography articles and perform two tasks:
I proposed this task to WikiProject Biography (see here) one week ago, and there have been no objections. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 21:05, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
The {{ Spoken Wikipedia}} template now emits an hAudio microformat. To include the publication date of the audio file in the microformat's metadata, a bot is needed, please, to change the date in ~900 instances of the template to use {{ Start date}}, thus:
old:
{{Spoken Wikipedia|black.ogg|2005-08-16|5.9 mega}}
new:
{{Spoken Wikipedia|black.ogg|{{Start date|2005|08|16}}|5.9 mega}}
Here's a sample conversion. For more information, see microformats project. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:09, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
The following syntax are the 1st 2 lines of a lot of infoboxes etc.:
{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|</td></tr><tr><td colspan=20>}} {| class="infobox vcard" style="{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|width:100%; border:0; margin:0; background:transparent|width:250px; font-size:90%}}"
This creates an extra space in articles:
Can we get a bot to please change the 1st 2 lines to:
{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|</td></tr><tr><td colspan=20>}}{| class="infobox vcard" style="{{#ifeq:{{{embed|}}}|yes|width:100%; border:0; margin:0; background:transparent|width:250px; font-size:90%}}"
This is an example of templates that are create "such" problems. Please be boldlike.
TIA 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 02:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I had noticed that Lukas-bot has been programmed to remove Construction tags after 7 days of inactivity. I was wondering if it could be programmed to remove Newpage tags as well. There is currently no agreed upon time, however 36 hours should be sufficient for now. Thanks! - Stillwaterising ( talk) 11:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
For the last couple of days I have been tagging uncategorized articles with {{ uncat}}. However the amount of articles is not managable to do manually. UnCatBot ( talk · contribs) has not been active for over a year and there is over 13000 articles listed in a toolserver report right now. It would be great if there is a bot operator that is willing to handle this on a regular basis. Rettetast ( talk) 13:15, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that the usage of {{ Unsigned}} indicates that it should be substituted, but there are thousands of transclusions. Is substitution of this template (and its various redirects) a good bot task, or is it just simply a waste of time? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:35, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
According to our MOS, punctuation is supposed to precede the reference, as in the fixed text above. Going through pages to fix this manually can be really tedious. I propose a constantly running bot action that goes through all articles to correct this. It seems simple enough and can probably be tacked onto an existing bot (like AWB's general fixes run by User:SmackBot). Equazcion (talk) 05:59, 14 Apr 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible to generate a complete list of articles edited by editors in the categories Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Brexx and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Brexx? Probably more of a script request than a bot request, but this is the only place I know to ask. Ideally, I'd like a tool that I can plug in any user name and get the articles edited by editors in those two categories. I'd think such an obvious script already exists somewhere on toolserver, but I can't find it.— Kww( talk) 16:54, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
As some of you may know, the original coder for User:ArticleAlertbot is nearly completely absent from WP. Well recently some API changes have been made and AAB isn't running at all, and won't be running until it gets updated. Needless to say that not getting Article alerts is a major inconvenience for several hundred Wikiprojects, which cripples their ability to monitor deletion discussions, peer reviews, nominations, and so on.
Coders interested in updating the bot should contact
User:Legoktm for the exact details and the source code. (And of course, fixing some
bugs and implementing
feature requests on the side wouldn't be unappreciated either if you find the time.) Apparently it's written in JavaScript.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 20:56, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Vandalism has been an important issue these days in Turkish Wikipedia pages. If the ClueBot's full source is availbale, I request a customized ClueBot for Turkish Wikipedia. A custom score list may be developped.
Thanks
-- Alperen ( talk) 09:46, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
We had two useful templates: {{ popular articles}} which returned the most popular articles in the latest hour and {{ Linked on Google News}} which returned articles linked on google news. Unfortunately, the bot operator Numbo3 is no longer active and they haven't been updated since resp. October and July of last year. Would anyone be interested in operating a bot to update those templates or one of them ? Cenarium ( talk) 05:49, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
As discussed here, WikiProject Insects is now up and running as a daughter project of WikiProject Arthropods. We would like a bot to go through the insect articles (articles in Category:Insects and its subcategories), and replace {{ ArthropodTalk}} (or {{ WikiProject Arthropods}}) with {{ WikiProject Insects}} on their talk pages. It would also be useful if any articles which had not previously been assessed for importance were given "importance=low", and any marked with a stub tag assessed as "class=stub". Since we're only asking for one banner to be replaced with another, there shouldn't be any risk of tagging articles in categories unexpectedly nested within Category:Insects. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 11:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Some problems that occurred:
Therefore, I can only move articles from one project to the other and add articles to the new project without parameters. Is it ok -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:02, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
I did about 9,000 edits. I think I managed to replace all of them. I performed a Wikipedia:CatScan to check which in there is any transclusion of the given projects in subcategories of Cat:Insects. The scan was able to reach level 4 of recursion and stopped after checking 499 categories. It didn't find any transclusions. I think I finished my part. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Per discussion at Template talk:Infobox journalist#Ethnic, a bot is needed, to change all instances of {{ Infobox journalist}}'s parameter as below:
please. See Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 35#Infobox criminal parameter renames, for a very similar, and completed, task. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:43, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
This template has been deprecated for some time, so I switched the backend to use {{
Infobox cricketer biography}} and all that is left to do is to substitute it on all pages that transclude it. To make the substitution look nice and pretty, a bot would just need to change {{Infobox historic cricketer
to {{subst:Infobox historic cricketer|subst=subst:
This will allow an if statement inside the template to get substituted as well. Note that {{
Infobox Historic Cricketer}} and {{
Infobox Historic cricketer}} are both redirects, and should be substituted in the same way. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 05:24, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Update: And the same thing for
Template:Infobox cricketer. Change {{Infobox cricketer
to {{subst:Infobox cricketer|subst=subst:
which is also deprecated, and using another template for the backend.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 05:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#Broken Maps? Urgent attention required and Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template#Replacement, would it be possible for a bot to make the following changes to parameters of {{ BS}}, {{ BS1}}, {{ BS2}}, etc templates (see below):
|KBHFa|
→ |KBHFa|
|KBHFe|
→ |KBHFe|
|exKBHFa|
→ |exKBHFa|
|exKBHFe|
→ |exKBHFe|
|KDSTa|
→ |KDSTa|
|KDSTe|
→ |KDSTe|
=KBHFa|
→ =KBHFa|
=KBHFe|
→ =KBHFe|
=exKBHFa|
→ =exKBHFa|
=exKBHFe|
→ =exKBHFe|
=KDSTa|
→ =KDSTa|
=KDSTe|
→ =KDSTe|
|KBFa}
→ |KBHFa|}
|KBFe}
→ |KBHFe|}
|exKBFa}
→ |exKBHFa|}
|exKBFe}
→ |exKBHFe|}
|KDSa}
→ |KDSTa|}
|KDSe}
→ |KDSTe|}
=KBFa}
→ =KBHFa|}
=KBFe}
→ =KBHFe|}
=exKBFa}
→ =exKBHFa|}
=exKBFe}
→ =exKBHFe|}
=KDSa}
→ =KDSTa|}
=KDSe}
→ =KDSTe|}
I don't think the second group will actually occur, as it would be odd for them to be the final parameter of the template, but I'm not completely certain. – edit: it's possible to have an overlay icon at the end of the template ... the additional '|' will fix it ;-)
The strings can be in any positional parameter of the template, and can appear multiple times in the same template.
Every instance in the article and template namespaces need changing. Instances in other namespaces probably need changing also, but I think it would be best if the bot could just generate a list of where its used in other namespaces in the first instance.
I believe the full list of templates is everyting in the pattern, where # is a number between 1 and 14 (not all exist): Template:BS# Template:BS-# Template:BS#-2 Template:BS-startCollapsible Template:Bs#=startCollapsible
See Wikipedia:Route diagram template if you need help understanding the table. Thanks Thryduulf ( talk) 22:51, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Although a guideline states that bots should not be used to change one that redirects to another, to this other, I think in this instance, we this would be a good idea because:
I think we should get a request for a bot to go to the instances that uses otheruses4 and change them to about, so here is my request. 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 06:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
I totally agree on that. I could do it if we have consensus. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Could a bot be tasked to remove {{ current}} and {{ current-related}} tags from articles after (say) 12 hours without a human edit? Abductive ( reasoning) 19:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I have requested a bot to perform interwiki linking on Commons, to facilitate navigation between Wikipedia and Commons; the discussion may be found here. Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 20:14, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
The following categories are being speedy moved; but the categorization in them is done using a parameter for a template, which means that Cydebot can't handle them. I have supplied a sample edit for each of the categories, and the edit summary explicitly has the category name. I would like some bot to finish these speedy moves.
Thank you, עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:07, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I am involved in clean-up of the ' Association football templates' category tree, and I find myself needing a list of categories which are in Category:Association football templates or its subcategories up to 10 levels deep (according to AWB's list generator, there are currently 842) and are not in Category:Categories for speedy renaming—i.e., a list of categories in the 'Association football templates' category tree which are not currently nominated for speedy renaming. Would this be possible? Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 06:19, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
This one shouldn't be too hard (basically just a really big parser), but would be extremely helpful. Could someone please make a bot that runs through the lists in Wikipedia:Templates with red links, removing from the list:
For quick reference, the list format is:
I've even made a basic run-through of a possible routine:
For extra credit, you could also have it check the template page itself to see if any of the links that are on the list have been completely removed from the template (I'd prefer if it didn't add new redlinks to the list, at least not for old database dumps), and also reorder the lists based on the new number of redlinks in each template.
You should probably run all of the lists through it one time once you get it finished, then maybe run it again once every couple of months or as needed.
Thanks. --
98.114.243.75 (
talk) 21:08, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Could the anti-vandalism bots be tweaked to search for the insertion of the phrase "your mom" into articles. It's a very common form of vandalism but no bot seems to pick it up. Nunquam Dormio ( talk) 06:36, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Your Mom
ur mom yyyoooouuuurrrr mom urr mAMa yo mommy
and any combination of those. Tim1357 ( talk) 00:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Manually linking Wikipedia articles to Wikispecies articles, and the other way around, is time-consuming. I've looked through species:Special:ListUsers&group=bot and species:Category:Wikispecies bots without any luck in finding such a bot, but if one already do, or if this type of bot already has been dismissed, please ignore this message. Virtually all main namespace articles on Wikispecies are corresponding to the identically named other-language Wikipedia articles, so with a list of the non-corresponding articles compiled, a bot could perform this task much easier. So far the only exception I've found is the Main Page (including redirects, such as article "Wikispecies". Warning: don't trust the "what links here" function, it seems to be bugged). If we're lucky, all non-taxonomic articles are prefixed with "Wikispecies:", "Help:" and so on, but really, I don't know. If this turns out to be a viable idea, someone at Wikispecies will be able to give a certain answer for sure, and that would be awesome. jonkerz♠ 02:12, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've got a list of 1,823 article that all need some text removing. An example is at User:Mattgirling/Kenya. It's basically a few lines out of the infobox (one of which is identical through all the articles, the other two are values) and then a string in the article's body (which also contains the values in the infobox). The example probably explains this better than I ever could. I've never really dealt with this side of the bot world, so if I'm doing this wrong or if there's a different process please let me know! matt ( talk) 15:41, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Strong support -This data is false. This editor is clearly very responsible. The population data in particular is a random estimate of population in a 7 kilometres radius which is redudant anyway as often 20 odd villages and hamlets may lie in a 7km radius to information specific to that settlement is wrong. Also when the is run I strongly suggest that you re stub sort from Kenya-geo-stub to the province stub tags (Actually this is undergoing stub sorting proposal at the moment to split Kenyan geography stubs by province) and also categorize the articles . E.g Category:Cities, towns and villages in Rift Valley Province. The stubs should be categorized also. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:30, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
OK. That can be done later using AWB. Anyway the stub proposal has to go through anyway first. If you or Matt could take care of Matt's proposal I'd be happy with that as a first step. Perhaps Matt could add the categories later. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:37, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
That's currently undergoing discussion. I believe there is a consensus forming towards Populated places in... which I also support (if it must change). If so then the categories would have to be renamed anyway. So perhaps it would be best to wait until the decision is made. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:50, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Amazing. Thanks for doing that! Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:23, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
[[Image:Wikipedia-favicon.png|16px|Favicon of Wikipedia]]
→ {{
Wiki favicon}}
for article in Wikipedias by language. -- DolphinL ( talk) 12:01, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
I recently revived WikiProject U2, and when it was originally determined to be inactive, all the article talk pages were removed from their class/importance categories. Null edits will be required for each article with the {{ WikiProject U2}} banner on their talk page to put the pages back into the category pages ( list of pages). A bot would be most helpful to perform this task. Thanks. – Dream out loud ( talk) 00:15, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
This request remains outstanding. (There's a more up-to-date list of templates to act on) SmackBot started the work, but has made no such edits for some months; repeated requests for it to restart have been to no avail. The original request was made in August 2008! I'd be grateful for some help, please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible for someone to create a bot to remove instances of Image:No Photo Available.svg from all articles containing Template:Infobox Ship Image. The template has been updated to automatically add an article to a category for articles requiring images in the infobox if no image exists therefore making the usage of this image redundant. (The image is also not supposed to be used on articles) There are over 1,000+ usages of this on ship articles so a bot would be the most logical way to perform this change en masse.
| Ship image = [[Image:No Photo Available.svg]]
becomes
| Ship image =
JonEastham ( talk) 12:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
| Ship image = [[File:No Photo Available.svg|300px|AlternateTextHere]]
I need a bot to go through item Categories belonging to Canadian music and add a template. The logic: if the Category's name contains "Canadian music" add a template to the Category's talk page (if it does not have one). It can be done manually, but I don't even know how many there are. Please help. Argolin ( talk) 22:30, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm not being too specific at this point, because I'm sure there's already one out there. Thanks. Argolin ( talk) 23:15, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Can you have the bot place {{WikiProject Canada|class=Cat|importance=???|music=yes}} on the Talk page IF the WikiProject Canada template is not already there on the talk page? Yes, I realise that two portal items in the list get a different banner (just did that earlier). I need the ??? as I will be doing maintenance on the Cats and will change it's importance when I'm done. Thanks Argolin ( talk) 03:21, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Done. Argolin ( talk) 01:02, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I know, I know, this has been proposed many many times. However, my idea is a little different (I think, unless I missed a page in the archives): Only move images that have been manually reviewed. I'll volunteer to review. Instead of automatically moving all images in a given category, (which is bound to cause issues as some are listed do not move, incorrectly tagged, et cetera) it only moves images that have been human reviewed as safe to move to Commons. A page could be created for this bot to check - only files listed on this page would be moved, and only reviewed edits would be added to this page. Only trusted users should be able to add files to this page, else it could easily be abused - this could be solved by using something like User:Example/MTC.js for the page - only that user (and admins) can edit the page. (If I knew how, I would just setup pywikipediabot to do such a task, but my knowledge of python is lacking...) Thoughts, ideas, comments? All welcome. :) Avic enna sis @ 20:36, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Check all the Biography or subcategories (806000+ articles) and create the six following Database reports where the:
{{
Death date and age}}
,{{
BirthDeathAge}}
, {{
Death year and age}}
, {{
Death date}}
, {{
Dda}}
, {{
Date of death}}
, {{
Deathdateandage}}
. Careful, exclude <!-- marked out template code -->{{
date of birth and age}}
, {{
Birthdate and age}}
, {{
Bda}}
, {{
BDA}}
, {{
Date of birth and age}}
, {{
Birthdateandage}}
, {{
Birth Date and age}}
, {{
BDa}}
, {{
BdA}}
, {{
Euro birth date and age}}
, {{
Birth year and age}}
, {{
Date and age}}
, {{
Birthyearandage}}
Careful, exclude <!-- marked out template code -->At first only require a one time run but I expect it would sensible to have each report run at set intervals and be listed on Database reports. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 14:40, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Yobot is doing this already! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:58, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I hope I am covering everything this these methods. A database scan would be useful of course. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:29, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I am running Yobot and manually through Living and death categories to update the status. Check progress in User:Magioladitis/Sandbox. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:51, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
As of September 2009, the Cite.php extension was modified to support list-defined references. These can be implemented with the |refs=
parameter to the {{
reflist}} template, or by using a pair of HTML tags (<references>
and </references>
) in place of the <references/>
tag. These reduce clutter within articles, by putting all the citation details in the section at the end where the footnotes are displayed.
Is it possible to create a 'bot which would look through current articles (or newly-created articles) and convert inline citations to list-defined ones - here is a suggested algorithm:
current-ref=1
IF article is too old THEN
end-run // this means that stable articles aren't changed
ELSE
IF no-refs-present THEN
IF no-tag THEN
add tag
ELSE
end-run
ENDIF
ELSE
IF already-list defined THEN
end-run
ELSE
FOR each reference
IF named-reference THEN
IF first-one THEN
move reference to list
replace reference in article with <ref name="xxx"/>
ELSE
do nothing
ENDIF
ELSE
use reference name="Ref-"¤t-ref
current-ref=current-ref + 1
move reference to list
replace reference in article with <ref name="xxx"/>
ENDIF
ENDFOR
ENDIF
ENDIF
ENDIF
I've tried to get the idea in my head down there!
In-list defined refs make the markup easier to follow. An example of an article which was written from scratch with a lot of references list-defined is William Stanley (Victorian inventor) - look at the markup for the paragraph starting "William Stanley was born on Monday 2 February 1829" for the references:
William Stanley was born on Monday 2 February 1829<ref name="nat-biog"/> in Islington, London,<ref name="oxford-dnb"/> one of 9 children<ref name="na-births"/> of John Stanley (a mechanic and builder) and his wife, Selina Hickman.<ref name="oxford-dnb"/> He was baptised on Wednesday 4 March 1829 at St Mary’s Church, Islington.<ref name="oxford-dnb"/> At the age of 10 Stanley started going regularly to a day school run by a Mr Peil until he was 12. From the age of 12 until he was 14, his maternal uncle William Ford Hickman paid for his education at a different school.<ref name="akpan-13"/> Despite having limited formal learning, Stanley taught himself mathematics, mechanics, astronomy, music, French, geology, chemistry, architecture and theology.<ref name="cg-erased"/><ref name="wfs-org"/> He attended lessons in technical drawing at the London Mechanics’ Institution (now called Birkbeck College), where he enrolled in 1843, attending engineering and phrenology lessons.<ref name="wfs-org"/>
Compare this with Carlos Tévez with inline refs - look at the paragraph starting "His career has been dogged by a long-standing affair ...":
His career has been dogged by a long-standing affair with [[Media Sports Investments]], the company who owned the rights of Tévez,<ref>[http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/134193/WEST-HAMS-TEVEZ-EVIDENCE-We-reveal-documents-Hammers-will-use-in-their-defence.html WEST HAM'S TEVEZ EVIDENCE]</ref> and several other players and coaches.,<ref>[http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=390319&cc=5739 MSI rap Corinthians over Carlos Alberto axing]</ref>,<ref>[http://www.javiermascherano.net/ Javier Mascherano Bio]</ref><ref>[http://en.sambafoot.com/articles/118_MSI_the_Corinthians_Russian_connection_page_1.html MSI: the Corinthians' Russian connection]</ref><ref>[http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/3/4/sports/10320884&sec=sports Passarella arrives in Brazil to sign with Corinthians]</ref><ref>[http://en.sambafoot.com/articles/188_Crisis_at_Corinthians_page_1.html Crisis at Corinthians]</ref> This eventually resulted in West Ham United being fined over issues regarding third-party ownership.,<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-hit-by-16355m-fine-but-do-deal-for-tevez-to-play-446536.html West Ham hit by £5.5m fine but do deal for Tevez to play]</ref><ref>[http://www.sportspromedia.com/deals/_a/west_ham_and_sheffield_united_end_tevez_saga_with_us21m_settlement/ West Ham and Sheffield United end Tevez saga with US$21m settlement]</ref>
I feel that this would be a useful bot (in fact, if it can be got working, it could ultimately be used on all articles, not just newly-created ones, and after that on all newly-created articles)
Any comments (or bots!) would be most welcome -- PhantomSteve/ talk| contribs\ 19:15, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
I request someone to be able to design a bot that would be able to arrange a list from this data source:
[19]. I did page one
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Global_Names_Index/A although when trying to update page 2 I am getting error messages and I figure doing it by hand would take too long anyway. I need someone who can make the lists in the same format as the first page I showed as an example on all the remaining pages (A2, A3, A4 ETC. then B, B2, B3, B4 ETC. ETC.). Any help with this would be much appreciated. Note that page A2 through to A10 and the first page of letters B to Z were done by hand but will need to be updated because the lists are from an old source (unfiltered name list). Cheers!
Calaka (
talk) 09:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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CrimsonBlue (
talk) 21:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Can't figure it out, the list is too big, someone else can pick this up CrimsonBlue ( talk) 01:18, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Could somebody please check each template in Category:People infobox templates and its subcategories, and draw up a list of those which do not include the class (or simply string, if easier) "vcard", which indicates the presence of the hCard microformat. That will enable me to add that microformat to any which do not yet include it but which should do. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:48, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Would like a bot to replace as many instances of my former username (a unique word), particularly signatures and user page/talk links, with my new one per the approved rename request [20], as feasible, and to avoid confusion in conversations, what not.-- AnmaFinotera ( talk · contribs) 22:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
I note SmackBot is now silently doing this (e.g. [21] [22] with a summary of "Subst unsigned template.") without approval. Anomie ⚔ 11:24, 27 April 2010 (UTC)