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I want to add the articles under the following categories+subcategories to wikiproject: Indian caste system. Is this a good request for a bot?
Miximon ( talk) 19:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, is there a bot that can automatically update the leaderboard for the unreferenced articles backlog drive? Ideally, it would count the number of edit summaries made by each participant with "feb24" (not case-sensistive) to unique articles. Then, it would update the "Points from references" column in the leaderboard with that number. The rest of the leaderboard doesn't need to be updated by the bot, as the points from reviews is simpler to update, and the total points is automatically provided by a template. There's a bit of prior discussion at the talk page. Thanks! ARandomName123 ( talk)Ping me! 23:14, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Right now, there is a category "Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" - which is added to all ACM Fellows. I created a bunch of categories "Category:202x Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" as subcategories of the main category to organize these by year. The recepients are already organised by year in this page.
KNivedat ( talk) 18:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles#About adding a link to each hangul syllable using Template:Linktext, I am submitting this bot request. Please perform the following.
[ ]?[0-9가-힣][ ]?
in each parameter.|
, but retain the text entered as parameters (including space characters before and/or after [0-9가-힣]
).[0-9가-힣]
, or (2) two or more adjacent [0-9가-힣]
in at least one parameter), leave it as-is.The following examples would help you understand this request.
{{linktext|국|립|중|앙|도|서|관}}
→ 국립중앙도서관
(currently found in
National Library of Korea){{Linktext|수|도|권|제|1|순|환|고|속|도|로}}
→ 수도권제1순환고속도로
(currently found in
Capital Region First Ring Expressway){{linktext|새|터|데|이| 나|이|트| 라|이|브| 코|리|아|}}
→ 새터데이 나이트 라이브 코리아
(space characters have to be retained; currently found in
Saturday Night Live Korea){{linktext|구|름|은}} {{linktext|흘|러|가|도}}
→ 구름은 흘러가도
((added this example just in case) a space character between two instances of Template:Linktext has to be retained; currently found in
Even the Clouds Are Drifting){{linktext|中|文|維|基|百|科}}
(contains any character other than [0-9가-힣]
; currently found in
Chinese Wikipedia){{linktext|새|마을|호}}
(contains two or more adjacent [0-9가-힣]
in at least one parameter; currently found in
Saemaeul-ho)172.56.232.167 ( talk) 00:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello,
Geardona (
talk to me?) 22:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
I was looking around for something like this, and did not find it, could a bot run a page against earwigs copyvio detector automatically, and flag it for human review if its score is too high? (I am willing to attempt to code this if there is not a glaring issue with it)
Thanks
Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata contains 20,576 articles tagged with {{
coord missing}}, but they all have coordinates available on Wikidata. Would it be possible for this template to be removed and replaced with {{
Coord|display=title}}
which will fetch the coordinates from Wikidata? I am not familiar with previous discussion on this, but I have also contacted
The Anome for comments — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 09:32, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Bot to look through the page on the list of protected pages, find ones missing the padlock and add it at the correct level, and to correct the padlock level if needed. Thanks Geardona ( talk to me?) 14:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Google cache is shutting down, it is making the news. We have 5,000 pages on Enwiki. It is at WP:URLREQ#Google_cache. Thanks. -- Green C 15:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Done -- Green C 16:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
This bot is programmed to use a wide range of VPN services; using so, it detects the IP addresses, and then blocks them. This means that a lot of time could be saved. HedgehogLegend ( talk) 18:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
This is also related to the #Bot request for Korean hangul text above.
Any instance of Template:Linktext in Korean personal names should also be removed.
Korean personal names are usually in the "one-syllable surname + two-syllable given name" format (e.g. 홍길동 – surname 홍, given name 길동), so some people added Linktext like this: {{linktext|홍|길동}}
. There are currently 726 pages containing such instances of Linktext (see
this), and these are mostly—but not always—personal names.
In this case, you should not look for any space characters and [0-9]
. You only need to look for \{\{[Ll]inktext\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣][가-힣]\|?\}\}
(that is {{[Ll]inktext|[가-힣]|[가-힣][가-힣]|?}}
without the backslashes), and remove Template:Linktext and |
, but retain the text entered as parameters (i.e. change {{linktext|홍|길동}}
to 홍길동
).
Here are my questions:
{{linktext|집|으로}}
(found in
The Way Home (2002 film)) should not be affected.172.56.232.179 ( talk) 21:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
가|나다
)" was also part of the discussion. Look under "For personal names (including pseudonyms such as pen names, stage names, etc.), no links should be added." in
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles#About adding a link to each hangul syllable using Template:Linktext.
172.56.232.188 (
talk) 04:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
\{\{[Ll]inktext\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣][가-힣]\|?\}\}
is not a personal name. (As of 02:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC), this list still remains the same)
{{linktext|달|샤벳}}
{{linktext|당|적삼}}
, {{linktext|당|한삼}}
{{linktext|대|탈출}}
{{linktext|옥|피리}}
{{linktext|산|이름}}
{{linktext|눈|으로}}
{{linktext|쇼|박스}}
{{linktext|집|으로}}
{{linktext|세|자매}}
{{linktext|꽃|부리}}
{{linktext|꽃|부리}}
insource:/\{\{[Ll]inktext\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣]\|?\}\}/
also has two. Also, I'm curious if it's necessary to leave something like {{
linktext|黄|喜|燦}}
behind?
Kanashimi (
talk) 07:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
I don't want to urge anyone, but can anyone please take care of this? I also want to move on. 172.56.232.179 ( talk) 21:51, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
@ Primefac Can you please also take care of this? Just don't worry about the CONTEXTBOT issue. It's not really worth worrying in this case. 172.56.232.239 ( talk) 14:26, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
{{ BOTREQ}} (for the bot). Primefac ( talk) 18:31, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
This is a request to replace invisible space characters with regular space characters in {{ short description}} templates within articles. As the MOS says, these characters are typically placed inadvertently via copying and pasting, and they can cause problems of various sorts. The task would be to replace invisible nbsp and thinsp characters found within short descriptions in the articles listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing invalid space characters.
I am pretty sure this would be a cosmetic task that would need explicit BRFA approval. Fixing the existing 3,000 or so instances of the problem will help us understand the root causes of the problem by identifying how new instances are occurring. I have some regexes that might help at User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/pages.js. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
{{ BOTREQ}} (for the bot). Primefac ( talk) 18:31, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Would it be possible to get a bot to expand the match report citations at 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round (Main Path) to stop the article exceeding template size limits? I've tried sandboxing a couple of different ways to try and reduce the number of templates on the page and I think the best (and possibly easiest) way to do so would be to expand the Cite web templates but there are quite a few so it would take a while to do so manually. As an example, <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaconferenceleague/match/2038534/ |title=Sutjeska-Cosmos |website=UEFA.com |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=13 July 2023}}</ref> would become <ref>[https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaconferenceleague/match/2038534/ "Sutjeska-Cosmos"]. UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 July 2023.</ref>
Any help would be much appreciated. Stevie fae Scotland ( talk) 12:08, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hey all! I know there is previous consensus to remove tracking parameters from URLs in articles (ex: PrimeBOT 17 and its predecessor), and I've noticed a parameter that appears in many URLs from The New York Times (in almost 3,700 articles as of now). There's also this particular link from the Mona Lisa article that shows a few more tracking parameters used by NYT: https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/mona-lisas-identity-solved-for-good/?searchResultPosition=2&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=9DE4B32CC79812F2537467E9D52707E9&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL.
I'd like to create a bot task to remove these but wanted to start a conversation on-wiki first to ensure there's consensus. I believe I have some draft code started that would work well, matching all NYT subdomains and whatnot. (Using the following regex to find NYT links in source code and
this library to edit them \b(?:https?://)?(?:[\w-]+\.)*nytimes\.com/[\w/.\-#?&=]*\b
—
test it)
Overall thoughts from the community? Bsoyka ( t • c • g) 03:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
mtrref
, gwt
, and gwh
, yes?
Primefac (
talk) 08:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Primefac (
talk) 08:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
searchResultPosition
, along with assetType
, seem like they'd have potential uses on other sites that could break the linked page if they're not included in the URL. (
A few potential examples)
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 14:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I am wanting to propose the idea of creating a bot that notifies Articles for creation acceptors when an article they accept gets AfDed around 100 days within them accepting it via their talk page. GMH Melbourne ( talk) 05:41, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse § Bot inoperable. Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 02:11, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
This seems uncontroversial.
It would be pretty cool if some kind bot could go through the pre-current (should never change) archives of the boards listed in the dramaboard archivebox series, extract the earliest and latest timestamps, truncate them to dates, and use those dates to annotate the links somehow. Inactive archives at time of writing are:
User story: I was recently trying to find an archived conversation from a few months ago, and the best tools I had available were a scattershot "tap an archive number, wait for the entire page to load, check top and bottom timestamps" and "search archives for exact string matched date". Improved navigability gained from annotating the archive links with date ranges should save people time.
Implementation ideas: The quickest implementation would just be a plaintext date range edited onto the archive list pages linked above. A further step could be to add a |date-span=
(or similar) to {{
Administrators' noticeboard navbox all}} which, if present, would display the date range of comments posted at the top of the page itself, so the information is available both on the archive page and the index of archives. The most elegant, stupid, and expensive implementation would be to add {{
shortdesc}} to all the archives, set the |1=
to the date range, and convert the indices to use {{
annotated link}}.
Anyway though: Anyway though the first step is getting the date ranges. Maybe this is already in a report somewhere? Folly Mox ( talk) 18:30, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Identify pages with Template:WikiProject Albums in their talk page but not Template:Infobox album on their main page and add |needs-infobox=yes to them. Please and thank you, J04n( talk page) 15:24, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Bot to help identify album pages missing infoboxes, which generated pretty much no interest one way or the other. I would like to go on with this as a one-time sweep of pages in the subcategories of Albums by year that do not have an infobox, if redirects could be filtered out it would be a big help. Can this be done? Thanks! J04n( talk page) 18:33, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Links to talk page discussions often break when the discussions are archived by User:Lowercase sigmabot III. Could this bot be configured to replace the links (by linking to archived discussions) instead of breaking them? Jarble ( talk) 18:58, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
I've started a tool request about the recent "bots don't trigger email watchlist notifications" change to the backend at VPT (since it's not a botreq) but thought folks here might want to know. Primefac ( talk) 12:12, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
There seems to be (at least a rough) consensus at WP:BOTN#Rollback Proposal to mass-undo at least a set of the edits and pagemoves that were proposed for reversal. I originally said that I would be happy to submit a BRFA to do this myself, but I am no longer personally able to take on this task.
Let me know if there are any queries. All the best, — a smart kitten[ meow 18:44, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
(I am contacting WP:BOTREQ at the suggestion of Andy Mabbett)
The National Library of Medicine's Drug Information Portal has been retired, with all information moved to the Library's PubChem database. I think all the links to the Drug Information Portal should be updated to the corresponding article in PubChem. I suspect that someone can set up a bot to do this, but I don't know how. Perhaps someone can point me to instructions to do this or turn this over to someone who already knows how? — HowardBGolden ( talk) 20:40, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
For example: Here's an example of a change I made manually:
Synopsis:
BEFORE
* {{cite web |title=Activated charcoal |url=https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/name/charcoal |work=Drug Information Portal |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine}}
AFTER
* {{cite web |title=Activated charcoal |url=https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Activated%20Charcoal#section=Drug-and-Medication-Information |work=PubChem |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine}}
HowardBGolden ( talk) 22:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
|Pubchem=
parameter for {{
Infobox drug}}, and presumably many/most of the affected articles have that infobox, so I don't think it should also be listed in
WP:EL. And it's maybe even already populated with the correct entry, so in many cases this item should simply be removed altogether. That would certainly limit the scope of the pages needing actual attention. And in many of those cases, it probably merits an infobox update (and then nuking the EL) rathe than changing the EL.
DMacks (
talk) 02:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
I wish to add the Category:Banaras Hindu University alumni to all articles listed in List of Banaras Hindu University people. The bot should automatically update/add Category to any article added in the List. This List-Category linker can not only be used across WP:UNI but also other such relations where a list and category exist for same theme. Thank you, User4edits ( talk) 04:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I want to create a bot that automatically reverts obvious date change vandalism. For example:
And the goal of the bot is to revert these changes as accurately as possible. And here's how it's gonna work:
A bot sees that someone changed the birth date. The bot looks up the name of the person on wikidata. If the person appears on wikidata, The bot searches for his birth date on his wikidata page. And if the birth date written on wikidata is different than the date the vandal changed it to, the bot automatically revert these changes. I hope this bot can be coded for me. It seems like a great idea for a bot. 93.173.38.154 ( talk) 11:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC) Very minor formatting changes made for readability. Primefac ( talk) 12:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Could we have a bot to automatically add the Template:Uncategorized tag to untagged uncategorized pages? BlueberryIntoTheWild ( talk) 06:29, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
I would like to request that a bot add the IMDb template to all articles that needs it. If possible (actors bios, entertainers etc). It is a very useful template. BabbaQ ( talk) 13:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I am working on bringing both of these lists to WP:FLC in the future. Unfortunately, the style of the tables is based on an older layout not typically used any more. Fixing each individual table (like 90 tables comprising like 1,500 different players) is going to be a time drain of repetitive editing. After working on a few, I wondered if someone would be able to automate these steps. The idea would be running an input of a table and receiving an updated table as an output. This wouldn't need to actually edit the article, it could just be placement of the tables in my user space for me to QA/QC and then update the table accordingly. As an example, the following table would be the input:
Round | Pick # | Overall | Name | Position | College |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | 7 | Russ Letlow | Guard | San Francisco |
2 | 7 | 16 | J.W. Wheeler | Tackle | Oklahoma |
3 | 7 | 25 | Bernie Scherer | End | Nebraska |
4 | 7 | 34 | Theron Ward | Back | Idaho |
5 | 7 | 43 | Darrell Lester | Center | TCU |
6 | 7 | 52 | Bob Reynolds | Tackle | Stanford |
7 | 7 | 61 | Wally Fromhart | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
8 | 7 | 70 | Wally Cruice | Back | Northwestern |
9 | 7 | 79 | J. C. Wetsel | Guard | SMU |
And the output would be this:
Round | Pick # | Overall | Name | Position | College |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | 7 | Russ Letlow | Guard | San Francisco |
2 | 7 | 16 | J. W. Wheeler | Tackle | Oklahoma |
3 | 7 | 25 | Bernie Scherer | End | Nebraska |
4 | 7 | 34 | Theron Ward | Back | Idaho |
5 | 7 | 43 | Darrell Lester | Center | TCU |
6 | 7 | 52 | Bob Reynolds | Tackle | Stanford |
7 | 7 | 61 | Wally Fromhart | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
8 | 7 | 70 | Wally Cruice | Back | Northwestern |
9 | 7 | 79 | J. C. Wetsel | Guard | SMU |
What steps would this entail? Well here are the main things:
This would save me a ridiculous amount of time and energy. I know this isn't the typical "bot request", but it seemed the most appropriate venue for such a request. Note again that this request would not require any bot editing to the mainspace, it could just paste the tables to my user space for me to add in, QA/QC and make some smaller changes not easily automated. Thanks for any help! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
After seeing the use of ’ in place of ' in the titles of several references, I noticed similar broken characters and determined that most of them are likely on this list. Further research indicated that the issue is known as Mojibake, with there being one prior bot request for the issue that appears to have been left unresolved.
As the character combinations in the chart are unlikely to occur by happenstance, their use of any given article likely corresponds to the characters on the chart. Assuming the chart I found isn't missing any commonly broken characters, the current number of articles with characters broken in this manner to be around 800. As periodically scanning for and correcting all of such occurrences would be repetitive, perhaps its a task a bot could handle? CoolieCoolster ( talk) 07:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
’
, the first result links to
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/269366-cm-doubles-baloch-students’-quota;
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/269366-cm-doubles-baloch-students'-quota throws a soft 404. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 16:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. At Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 13#Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related film articles, consensus was reached to move Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related articles and its subcategories from hidden mainspace categories to each article's talk page. (The category tree is used by User:Rachel Helps (BYU) and her students to keep track of their work.) I have created {{ WikiProject Harold B. Lee Library/sandbox}}, which has associated task forces corresponding to each of the categories. Would it be possible for a bot to do this conversion?
The TL;DR is a bot which takes an article in (e.g.)
Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related 19th century articles, removes it from that category, and adds {{
WikiProject Harold B. Lee Library|19th century=yes}}
to the talk page. Thanks,
House
Blaster (
talk · he/him) 02:21, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Please can someone process
Category:WikiProject Arthropods articles using positional parameters and change the syntax of {{
WikiProject Arthropods}} to use named parameters, e.g. {{WikiProject Arthropods|C|low}}
to {{WikiProject Arthropods|class=C|importance=low}}
I have posted on the template talk with the reasons and no has responded — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
I made a technical request asking Baetylus to be moved to Baetyl and it has been granted. Baetylus is now a redirect to Baetyl. All pages previously linking to Baetylus are therefore now redirects to Baetyl. I want a bot to go through all the pages that directly link to [ [ Baetylus ] ] and change them to link to [ [ Baetyl ] ] instead so that all the pages linking to Baetyl are not redirects but direct links. Pogenplain ( talk) 23:29, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
A bot to make edits like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia%3ABacklog&diff=1214091029&oldid=1197405012. Also used at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links#Current disambiguation collaborations. OrdinaryGiraffe ( talk) 23:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
The report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations shows something over 20,000 links to over-capitalized redirects after the NFL Draft downcasing moves, and there are of course lots of other over-capitalizations in the text other than links. User:Bagumba has fixed a few thousand over the last few days, but I think it might be better to take his JWB setup and make a bot run of it. Someone with more experience with such things could tune up his regular expressions to be more precise and effective, I expect. See our discussion at User talk:Bagumba#JWB followups. Dicklyon ( talk) 05:05, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
From my understanding of the RfC, I do agree that it says "draft" should be lowercase across NFL-related articles, not just in the titles but in the content as well. I believe that with my intended method of parsing the wikicode itself with mwparserfromhell rather than simple regexes, everything can be taken care of, including piped links. (i.e. [[2024 NFL Draft|2024 Draft]]
-> [[2024 NFL draft|2024 draft]]
) If this is decided to be a good bot task, I'd love to take it on, but if not, I respect the consensus of the community.
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 15:11, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
[[2024 NFL Draft|2024]]
); where other things are being fixed, these are worth fixing at the same time. I don't think this will leave many articles linking to the NFL Draft articles, as they pretty much all have the capitalized Draft in text, too, per Bagumba's experience.
Dicklyon (
talk) 07:03, 19 March 2024 (UTC){{
R from miscapitalization}}
template, so no worries on my end.
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 02:25, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Some relevant tasks include:
Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
|needs-infobox=
where it's no longer needed, so I'll start that up now.
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
|needs-image=
parameter if there is an image on the article? I believe it's possible that an article needs another image or a better image even though it already has one.
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
It is a residual indicator, not a general-purpose "no image present" indicator (for that, use {{improve images}}
)
Cocobb8 (💬
talk • ✏️
contribs) 14:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
|needs image=
parameter (and presumably all its variations) from WikiProject templates.
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Having just learned that the preference for superscript and subscript usage is to use sup and sub tags rather than Unicode superscript and subscript characters, I generated a list of 3000 articles in AutoWikiBrowser and fixed around 1500 articles with Unicode superscripts via that method. As fixing all superscripts and subscripts on Wikipedia would take a while with that method, perhaps a bot could be tasked with replacing all such instances automatically? Reviewing the exceptions for when Unicode characters should be used, they seem relatively easy for a bot to avoid. Another such case for replacement would be № with No., though as I found at least one case where the character was used in a file name, any automated means of replacement would need to avoid replacing characters in file names. CoolieCoolster ( talk) 10:07, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
In 2018, during this Special:Diff/849981928/849983506, this error occurred:
The dash in 1405-1445 was changed from normal to long. This broke the URL. Since no archive exists for a broken URL, it was tagged dead and has been dead ever since:
Special:Diff/886267655/916302781 (the fix-attempted=yes
means the bot has given up looking for an archive replacement).
This is not the only instance -- humans, search-replace commands, AWB, scripts and bots -- change normal dashes to long dashes. In the process breaking URLs permanently. The fix is "easy": find URLs with long dashes (grep the external links database dump enwiki-20240401-externallinks.sql.gz at here), convert longs to short, verify the repaired URL works, commit the change. -- Green C 22:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
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I want to add the articles under the following categories+subcategories to wikiproject: Indian caste system. Is this a good request for a bot?
Miximon ( talk) 19:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, is there a bot that can automatically update the leaderboard for the unreferenced articles backlog drive? Ideally, it would count the number of edit summaries made by each participant with "feb24" (not case-sensistive) to unique articles. Then, it would update the "Points from references" column in the leaderboard with that number. The rest of the leaderboard doesn't need to be updated by the bot, as the points from reviews is simpler to update, and the total points is automatically provided by a template. There's a bit of prior discussion at the talk page. Thanks! ARandomName123 ( talk)Ping me! 23:14, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Right now, there is a category "Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" - which is added to all ACM Fellows. I created a bunch of categories "Category:202x Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery" as subcategories of the main category to organize these by year. The recepients are already organised by year in this page.
KNivedat ( talk) 18:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles#About adding a link to each hangul syllable using Template:Linktext, I am submitting this bot request. Please perform the following.
[ ]?[0-9가-힣][ ]?
in each parameter.|
, but retain the text entered as parameters (including space characters before and/or after [0-9가-힣]
).[0-9가-힣]
, or (2) two or more adjacent [0-9가-힣]
in at least one parameter), leave it as-is.The following examples would help you understand this request.
{{linktext|국|립|중|앙|도|서|관}}
→ 국립중앙도서관
(currently found in
National Library of Korea){{Linktext|수|도|권|제|1|순|환|고|속|도|로}}
→ 수도권제1순환고속도로
(currently found in
Capital Region First Ring Expressway){{linktext|새|터|데|이| 나|이|트| 라|이|브| 코|리|아|}}
→ 새터데이 나이트 라이브 코리아
(space characters have to be retained; currently found in
Saturday Night Live Korea){{linktext|구|름|은}} {{linktext|흘|러|가|도}}
→ 구름은 흘러가도
((added this example just in case) a space character between two instances of Template:Linktext has to be retained; currently found in
Even the Clouds Are Drifting){{linktext|中|文|維|基|百|科}}
(contains any character other than [0-9가-힣]
; currently found in
Chinese Wikipedia){{linktext|새|마을|호}}
(contains two or more adjacent [0-9가-힣]
in at least one parameter; currently found in
Saemaeul-ho)172.56.232.167 ( talk) 00:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello,
Geardona (
talk to me?) 22:28, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
I was looking around for something like this, and did not find it, could a bot run a page against earwigs copyvio detector automatically, and flag it for human review if its score is too high? (I am willing to attempt to code this if there is not a glaring issue with it)
Thanks
Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata contains 20,576 articles tagged with {{
coord missing}}, but they all have coordinates available on Wikidata. Would it be possible for this template to be removed and replaced with {{
Coord|display=title}}
which will fetch the coordinates from Wikidata? I am not familiar with previous discussion on this, but I have also contacted
The Anome for comments — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 09:32, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Bot to look through the page on the list of protected pages, find ones missing the padlock and add it at the correct level, and to correct the padlock level if needed. Thanks Geardona ( talk to me?) 14:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Google cache is shutting down, it is making the news. We have 5,000 pages on Enwiki. It is at WP:URLREQ#Google_cache. Thanks. -- Green C 15:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
Done -- Green C 16:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
This bot is programmed to use a wide range of VPN services; using so, it detects the IP addresses, and then blocks them. This means that a lot of time could be saved. HedgehogLegend ( talk) 18:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
This is also related to the #Bot request for Korean hangul text above.
Any instance of Template:Linktext in Korean personal names should also be removed.
Korean personal names are usually in the "one-syllable surname + two-syllable given name" format (e.g. 홍길동 – surname 홍, given name 길동), so some people added Linktext like this: {{linktext|홍|길동}}
. There are currently 726 pages containing such instances of Linktext (see
this), and these are mostly—but not always—personal names.
In this case, you should not look for any space characters and [0-9]
. You only need to look for \{\{[Ll]inktext\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣][가-힣]\|?\}\}
(that is {{[Ll]inktext|[가-힣]|[가-힣][가-힣]|?}}
without the backslashes), and remove Template:Linktext and |
, but retain the text entered as parameters (i.e. change {{linktext|홍|길동}}
to 홍길동
).
Here are my questions:
{{linktext|집|으로}}
(found in
The Way Home (2002 film)) should not be affected.172.56.232.179 ( talk) 21:27, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
가|나다
)" was also part of the discussion. Look under "For personal names (including pseudonyms such as pen names, stage names, etc.), no links should be added." in
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles#About adding a link to each hangul syllable using Template:Linktext.
172.56.232.188 (
talk) 04:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
\{\{[Ll]inktext\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣][가-힣]\|?\}\}
is not a personal name. (As of 02:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC), this list still remains the same)
{{linktext|달|샤벳}}
{{linktext|당|적삼}}
, {{linktext|당|한삼}}
{{linktext|대|탈출}}
{{linktext|옥|피리}}
{{linktext|산|이름}}
{{linktext|눈|으로}}
{{linktext|쇼|박스}}
{{linktext|집|으로}}
{{linktext|세|자매}}
{{linktext|꽃|부리}}
{{linktext|꽃|부리}}
insource:/\{\{[Ll]inktext\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣]\|[가-힣]\|?\}\}/
also has two. Also, I'm curious if it's necessary to leave something like {{
linktext|黄|喜|燦}}
behind?
Kanashimi (
talk) 07:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
I don't want to urge anyone, but can anyone please take care of this? I also want to move on. 172.56.232.179 ( talk) 21:51, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
@ Primefac Can you please also take care of this? Just don't worry about the CONTEXTBOT issue. It's not really worth worrying in this case. 172.56.232.239 ( talk) 14:26, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
{{ BOTREQ}} (for the bot). Primefac ( talk) 18:31, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
This is a request to replace invisible space characters with regular space characters in {{ short description}} templates within articles. As the MOS says, these characters are typically placed inadvertently via copying and pasting, and they can cause problems of various sorts. The task would be to replace invisible nbsp and thinsp characters found within short descriptions in the articles listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Short descriptions containing invalid space characters.
I am pretty sure this would be a cosmetic task that would need explicit BRFA approval. Fixing the existing 3,000 or so instances of the problem will help us understand the root causes of the problem by identifying how new instances are occurring. I have some regexes that might help at User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/pages.js. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
{{ BOTREQ}} (for the bot). Primefac ( talk) 18:31, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Would it be possible to get a bot to expand the match report citations at 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying phase and play-off round (Main Path) to stop the article exceeding template size limits? I've tried sandboxing a couple of different ways to try and reduce the number of templates on the page and I think the best (and possibly easiest) way to do so would be to expand the Cite web templates but there are quite a few so it would take a while to do so manually. As an example, <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaconferenceleague/match/2038534/ |title=Sutjeska-Cosmos |website=UEFA.com |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=13 July 2023}}</ref> would become <ref>[https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaconferenceleague/match/2038534/ "Sutjeska-Cosmos"]. UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 July 2023.</ref>
Any help would be much appreciated. Stevie fae Scotland ( talk) 12:08, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Hey all! I know there is previous consensus to remove tracking parameters from URLs in articles (ex: PrimeBOT 17 and its predecessor), and I've noticed a parameter that appears in many URLs from The New York Times (in almost 3,700 articles as of now). There's also this particular link from the Mona Lisa article that shows a few more tracking parameters used by NYT: https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/mona-lisas-identity-solved-for-good/?searchResultPosition=2&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=9DE4B32CC79812F2537467E9D52707E9&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL.
I'd like to create a bot task to remove these but wanted to start a conversation on-wiki first to ensure there's consensus. I believe I have some draft code started that would work well, matching all NYT subdomains and whatnot. (Using the following regex to find NYT links in source code and
this library to edit them \b(?:https?://)?(?:[\w-]+\.)*nytimes\.com/[\w/.\-#?&=]*\b
—
test it)
Overall thoughts from the community? Bsoyka ( t • c • g) 03:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
mtrref
, gwt
, and gwh
, yes?
Primefac (
talk) 08:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Primefac (
talk) 08:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
searchResultPosition
, along with assetType
, seem like they'd have potential uses on other sites that could break the linked page if they're not included in the URL. (
A few potential examples)
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 14:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I am wanting to propose the idea of creating a bot that notifies Articles for creation acceptors when an article they accept gets AfDed around 100 days within them accepting it via their talk page. GMH Melbourne ( talk) 05:41, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse § Bot inoperable. Rotideypoc41352 ( talk · contribs) 02:11, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
This seems uncontroversial.
It would be pretty cool if some kind bot could go through the pre-current (should never change) archives of the boards listed in the dramaboard archivebox series, extract the earliest and latest timestamps, truncate them to dates, and use those dates to annotate the links somehow. Inactive archives at time of writing are:
User story: I was recently trying to find an archived conversation from a few months ago, and the best tools I had available were a scattershot "tap an archive number, wait for the entire page to load, check top and bottom timestamps" and "search archives for exact string matched date". Improved navigability gained from annotating the archive links with date ranges should save people time.
Implementation ideas: The quickest implementation would just be a plaintext date range edited onto the archive list pages linked above. A further step could be to add a |date-span=
(or similar) to {{
Administrators' noticeboard navbox all}} which, if present, would display the date range of comments posted at the top of the page itself, so the information is available both on the archive page and the index of archives. The most elegant, stupid, and expensive implementation would be to add {{
shortdesc}} to all the archives, set the |1=
to the date range, and convert the indices to use {{
annotated link}}.
Anyway though: Anyway though the first step is getting the date ranges. Maybe this is already in a report somewhere? Folly Mox ( talk) 18:30, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
Identify pages with Template:WikiProject Albums in their talk page but not Template:Infobox album on their main page and add |needs-infobox=yes to them. Please and thank you, J04n( talk page) 15:24, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums#Bot to help identify album pages missing infoboxes, which generated pretty much no interest one way or the other. I would like to go on with this as a one-time sweep of pages in the subcategories of Albums by year that do not have an infobox, if redirects could be filtered out it would be a big help. Can this be done? Thanks! J04n( talk page) 18:33, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Links to talk page discussions often break when the discussions are archived by User:Lowercase sigmabot III. Could this bot be configured to replace the links (by linking to archived discussions) instead of breaking them? Jarble ( talk) 18:58, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
I've started a tool request about the recent "bots don't trigger email watchlist notifications" change to the backend at VPT (since it's not a botreq) but thought folks here might want to know. Primefac ( talk) 12:12, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
There seems to be (at least a rough) consensus at WP:BOTN#Rollback Proposal to mass-undo at least a set of the edits and pagemoves that were proposed for reversal. I originally said that I would be happy to submit a BRFA to do this myself, but I am no longer personally able to take on this task.
Let me know if there are any queries. All the best, — a smart kitten[ meow 18:44, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
(I am contacting WP:BOTREQ at the suggestion of Andy Mabbett)
The National Library of Medicine's Drug Information Portal has been retired, with all information moved to the Library's PubChem database. I think all the links to the Drug Information Portal should be updated to the corresponding article in PubChem. I suspect that someone can set up a bot to do this, but I don't know how. Perhaps someone can point me to instructions to do this or turn this over to someone who already knows how? — HowardBGolden ( talk) 20:40, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
For example: Here's an example of a change I made manually:
Synopsis:
BEFORE
* {{cite web |title=Activated charcoal |url=https://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/name/charcoal |work=Drug Information Portal |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine}}
AFTER
* {{cite web |title=Activated charcoal |url=https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Activated%20Charcoal#section=Drug-and-Medication-Information |work=PubChem |publisher=U.S. National Library of Medicine}}
HowardBGolden ( talk) 22:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
|Pubchem=
parameter for {{
Infobox drug}}, and presumably many/most of the affected articles have that infobox, so I don't think it should also be listed in
WP:EL. And it's maybe even already populated with the correct entry, so in many cases this item should simply be removed altogether. That would certainly limit the scope of the pages needing actual attention. And in many of those cases, it probably merits an infobox update (and then nuking the EL) rathe than changing the EL.
DMacks (
talk) 02:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
I wish to add the Category:Banaras Hindu University alumni to all articles listed in List of Banaras Hindu University people. The bot should automatically update/add Category to any article added in the List. This List-Category linker can not only be used across WP:UNI but also other such relations where a list and category exist for same theme. Thank you, User4edits ( talk) 04:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I want to create a bot that automatically reverts obvious date change vandalism. For example:
And the goal of the bot is to revert these changes as accurately as possible. And here's how it's gonna work:
A bot sees that someone changed the birth date. The bot looks up the name of the person on wikidata. If the person appears on wikidata, The bot searches for his birth date on his wikidata page. And if the birth date written on wikidata is different than the date the vandal changed it to, the bot automatically revert these changes. I hope this bot can be coded for me. It seems like a great idea for a bot. 93.173.38.154 ( talk) 11:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC) Very minor formatting changes made for readability. Primefac ( talk) 12:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Could we have a bot to automatically add the Template:Uncategorized tag to untagged uncategorized pages? BlueberryIntoTheWild ( talk) 06:29, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
I would like to request that a bot add the IMDb template to all articles that needs it. If possible (actors bios, entertainers etc). It is a very useful template. BabbaQ ( talk) 13:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I am working on bringing both of these lists to WP:FLC in the future. Unfortunately, the style of the tables is based on an older layout not typically used any more. Fixing each individual table (like 90 tables comprising like 1,500 different players) is going to be a time drain of repetitive editing. After working on a few, I wondered if someone would be able to automate these steps. The idea would be running an input of a table and receiving an updated table as an output. This wouldn't need to actually edit the article, it could just be placement of the tables in my user space for me to QA/QC and then update the table accordingly. As an example, the following table would be the input:
Round | Pick # | Overall | Name | Position | College |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | 7 | Russ Letlow | Guard | San Francisco |
2 | 7 | 16 | J.W. Wheeler | Tackle | Oklahoma |
3 | 7 | 25 | Bernie Scherer | End | Nebraska |
4 | 7 | 34 | Theron Ward | Back | Idaho |
5 | 7 | 43 | Darrell Lester | Center | TCU |
6 | 7 | 52 | Bob Reynolds | Tackle | Stanford |
7 | 7 | 61 | Wally Fromhart | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
8 | 7 | 70 | Wally Cruice | Back | Northwestern |
9 | 7 | 79 | J. C. Wetsel | Guard | SMU |
And the output would be this:
Round | Pick # | Overall | Name | Position | College |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | 7 | Russ Letlow | Guard | San Francisco |
2 | 7 | 16 | J. W. Wheeler | Tackle | Oklahoma |
3 | 7 | 25 | Bernie Scherer | End | Nebraska |
4 | 7 | 34 | Theron Ward | Back | Idaho |
5 | 7 | 43 | Darrell Lester | Center | TCU |
6 | 7 | 52 | Bob Reynolds | Tackle | Stanford |
7 | 7 | 61 | Wally Fromhart | Quarterback | Notre Dame |
8 | 7 | 70 | Wally Cruice | Back | Northwestern |
9 | 7 | 79 | J. C. Wetsel | Guard | SMU |
What steps would this entail? Well here are the main things:
This would save me a ridiculous amount of time and energy. I know this isn't the typical "bot request", but it seemed the most appropriate venue for such a request. Note again that this request would not require any bot editing to the mainspace, it could just paste the tables to my user space for me to add in, QA/QC and make some smaller changes not easily automated. Thanks for any help! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
After seeing the use of ’ in place of ' in the titles of several references, I noticed similar broken characters and determined that most of them are likely on this list. Further research indicated that the issue is known as Mojibake, with there being one prior bot request for the issue that appears to have been left unresolved.
As the character combinations in the chart are unlikely to occur by happenstance, their use of any given article likely corresponds to the characters on the chart. Assuming the chart I found isn't missing any commonly broken characters, the current number of articles with characters broken in this manner to be around 800. As periodically scanning for and correcting all of such occurrences would be repetitive, perhaps its a task a bot could handle? CoolieCoolster ( talk) 07:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
’
, the first result links to
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/269366-cm-doubles-baloch-students’-quota;
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/269366-cm-doubles-baloch-students'-quota throws a soft 404. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 16:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. At Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 13#Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related film articles, consensus was reached to move Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related articles and its subcategories from hidden mainspace categories to each article's talk page. (The category tree is used by User:Rachel Helps (BYU) and her students to keep track of their work.) I have created {{ WikiProject Harold B. Lee Library/sandbox}}, which has associated task forces corresponding to each of the categories. Would it be possible for a bot to do this conversion?
The TL;DR is a bot which takes an article in (e.g.)
Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related 19th century articles, removes it from that category, and adds {{
WikiProject Harold B. Lee Library|19th century=yes}}
to the talk page. Thanks,
House
Blaster (
talk · he/him) 02:21, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Please can someone process
Category:WikiProject Arthropods articles using positional parameters and change the syntax of {{
WikiProject Arthropods}} to use named parameters, e.g. {{WikiProject Arthropods|C|low}}
to {{WikiProject Arthropods|class=C|importance=low}}
I have posted on the template talk with the reasons and no has responded — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
I made a technical request asking Baetylus to be moved to Baetyl and it has been granted. Baetylus is now a redirect to Baetyl. All pages previously linking to Baetylus are therefore now redirects to Baetyl. I want a bot to go through all the pages that directly link to [ [ Baetylus ] ] and change them to link to [ [ Baetyl ] ] instead so that all the pages linking to Baetyl are not redirects but direct links. Pogenplain ( talk) 23:29, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
A bot to make edits like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia%3ABacklog&diff=1214091029&oldid=1197405012. Also used at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links#Current disambiguation collaborations. OrdinaryGiraffe ( talk) 23:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
The report Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations shows something over 20,000 links to over-capitalized redirects after the NFL Draft downcasing moves, and there are of course lots of other over-capitalizations in the text other than links. User:Bagumba has fixed a few thousand over the last few days, but I think it might be better to take his JWB setup and make a bot run of it. Someone with more experience with such things could tune up his regular expressions to be more precise and effective, I expect. See our discussion at User talk:Bagumba#JWB followups. Dicklyon ( talk) 05:05, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
From my understanding of the RfC, I do agree that it says "draft" should be lowercase across NFL-related articles, not just in the titles but in the content as well. I believe that with my intended method of parsing the wikicode itself with mwparserfromhell rather than simple regexes, everything can be taken care of, including piped links. (i.e. [[2024 NFL Draft|2024 Draft]]
-> [[2024 NFL draft|2024 draft]]
) If this is decided to be a good bot task, I'd love to take it on, but if not, I respect the consensus of the community.
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 15:11, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
[[2024 NFL Draft|2024]]
); where other things are being fixed, these are worth fixing at the same time. I don't think this will leave many articles linking to the NFL Draft articles, as they pretty much all have the capitalized Draft in text, too, per Bagumba's experience.
Dicklyon (
talk) 07:03, 19 March 2024 (UTC){{
R from miscapitalization}}
template, so no worries on my end.
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 02:25, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Some relevant tasks include:
Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
|needs-infobox=
where it's no longer needed, so I'll start that up now.
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
|needs-image=
parameter if there is an image on the article? I believe it's possible that an article needs another image or a better image even though it already has one.
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:38, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
It is a residual indicator, not a general-purpose "no image present" indicator (for that, use {{improve images}}
)
Cocobb8 (💬
talk • ✏️
contribs) 14:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
|needs image=
parameter (and presumably all its variations) from WikiProject templates.
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Having just learned that the preference for superscript and subscript usage is to use sup and sub tags rather than Unicode superscript and subscript characters, I generated a list of 3000 articles in AutoWikiBrowser and fixed around 1500 articles with Unicode superscripts via that method. As fixing all superscripts and subscripts on Wikipedia would take a while with that method, perhaps a bot could be tasked with replacing all such instances automatically? Reviewing the exceptions for when Unicode characters should be used, they seem relatively easy for a bot to avoid. Another such case for replacement would be № with No., though as I found at least one case where the character was used in a file name, any automated means of replacement would need to avoid replacing characters in file names. CoolieCoolster ( talk) 10:07, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
In 2018, during this Special:Diff/849981928/849983506, this error occurred:
The dash in 1405-1445 was changed from normal to long. This broke the URL. Since no archive exists for a broken URL, it was tagged dead and has been dead ever since:
Special:Diff/886267655/916302781 (the fix-attempted=yes
means the bot has given up looking for an archive replacement).
This is not the only instance -- humans, search-replace commands, AWB, scripts and bots -- change normal dashes to long dashes. In the process breaking URLs permanently. The fix is "easy": find URLs with long dashes (grep the external links database dump enwiki-20240401-externallinks.sql.gz at here), convert longs to short, verify the repaired URL works, commit the change. -- Green C 22:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)