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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)
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 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)
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)
This is a rather big and somewhat complex job. Per the RfC, we need to move all articles on individual TV seasons from, e.g., Loki (season 2) titles to "Loki season 2" titles (get rid of the parens and add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "| italic_title=no" to the television infobox to avoid a conflict). BD2412 T 01:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "I think all of this will eventually be handled on the infobox level, so we shouldn't need a multitude of DISPLAYTITLEs (and thus that parameter in the infobox). - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 18:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
|italic_title=no
to the infobox{{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol (season 1)}}
to {{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol season 1}}
. This could be done through a bot or AWB, either works; the latter would need a find-and-replace with (\{\{Episode list\/sublist\|).+
to $1{{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}
(regex enabled).
This was a test edit of exactly that. --
Alex_21
TALK 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
hastemplate:"Episode list/sublist" insource:/\{\{\s*[Ee]pisode list\/sublist[^}]*\(season/
:
66 hits. Someone with AWB rights?
Wikiwerner (
talk) 17:49, 20 April 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)
Could we have a bot to automatically bypass redirects in navboxes? It would simplify part of the
WP:POSTMOVE work that page movers have to perform. –
Hilst
[talk]
00:39, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Hilst
[talk]
20:18, 13 March 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 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)
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)
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)
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'll raise this again, since last time the discussion fizzled out, and was archived without formal action from a BAG member.
The issue is that files in categories are displayed by default, and this violates
WP:NFCC#9 if there are non-free files in the category. They have to be tagged with __NOGALLERY__
if you want to disable display of non-free files in a category. This is an urgent issue, as categories without this tag thatt contain non-free files are everywhere, and because we take copyright very seriously it cannot wait for a human user to find the category and add the __NOGALLERY__
tag, which is why this task requires a bot. Every other routine task involving non-free files, such removing instances without a valid fair use tag, is already handled by a bot.
The previous discussion stalled after a user objected and suggested adding a new feature to MediaWiki to disable category galleries by default, which is less convenient due to requiring WMF action, and it would create the opposite problem: we would need a bot to enable gallery mode on categories that contain only free files. Even though most files hosted locally are non-free, there is no reason why a bot couldn't handle the task of adding necessary __NOGALLERY__
tags at the required scale. Only one other person contributed to the discussion, who objected the suggestion for a new MediaWiki feature because it would hinder navigation of categories specifically for free files, and nothing else happened after that. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 05:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now (I posted before, but nothing came of it)... ~ Lofty abyss 03:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
So, as I said in Wikipedia talk:Redirect#Deprecation of redirecting the talk page of a mainspace redirect, sometimes the talk page of a redirect is itself a redirect, most commonly after a page move. The problem is that sometimes, like in Acts of God (book) (before I corrected it in [2], 10 years later), someone retargets the redirect but forgets to retarget the talk page redirect, so any editor that tries to discuss the redirect is sent to the wrong place. I think that a bot should exist that retargets the talk page redirect to the talk page of the new target. One more thing that needs to be taken into account is that because of WP:TALKCENT, the bot needs to make sure it doesn't make a double redirect.
Just to be clear, despite what I wrote in the thread linked above, I would be against the bot changing every talk page redirect with {{ talk page of redirect}}. I can explain the reasons why if necessary. Nickps ( talk) 23:43, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
R avoided double redirect|B}}
but not necessarily tagged as such. Talk:B is an actual talk page rather than a redirect to Talk:C. Talk:A should redirect to Talk:B, rather than to Talk:C, even though A redirects to C. Is that correct?
Certes (
talk) 17:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Per this discussion on WikiProject Football, it appears to be the best course of action to edit match report external links to full cited templates because of WP:LINKROT. I am making a request for a bot that could automatically do this, as there are many football pages that use the direct link system. An example of a page that does not is 2024 OFC Nations Cup qualification, while a major page that does use the direct link is the 2022 FIFA World Cup page. Yoblyblob ( Talk) :) 13:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. 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)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. As a part of the California State University task force, I'm looking to add {{WikiProject California|calstate=yes|calstate-importance=low}}
to all of miscellaneous sports seasons' talk pages. The categories below contain the pages I'm looking to add the tag to, the bulk of the pages are from the football programs at each institution.
SammySpartan ( talk) 17:32, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed a major past screwup that resulted in a significant number of people using an incorrect infobox for their notability claim.
There was formerly a generic {{ Infobox gridiron football person}}, used on articles about players in gridiron football (NFL, AFL, CFL, etc.) regardless of their league — but because the two major American gridiron football leagues also had their own more specific infobox templates ({{ Infobox NFL biography}}, {{ Infobox AFL biography}}), in 2017 the generic "gridiron" template got unwisely moved to {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} on a faulty assumption that all American football players were using those infoboxes so that only CFL players were still using the generic "gridiron". But that wasn't the case at all, and in actual fact hundreds upon hundreds of NFL or AFL players who never had anything whatsoever to do with the CFL were still using the generic "gridiron" infobox.
I've recreated the generic gridiron template back to what it looked like shortly before the move, which has resolved the issue on some of the articles — however, there are still several hundred other articles where later bot or AWB edits had "genfixed" the template from "gridiron" to "Canadian Football League" despite the person's lack of any affiliation with the CFL. So I wanted to ask if there's a bot that could more or less generate a list of all articles that are using the CFL infobox but cannot be found under Category:Canadian Football League, and then wham through that list flipping {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} (or the {{ Infobox CFL biography}} redirect) back to {{ Infobox gridiron football person}} in those articles. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 18:55, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Currently has 1,000 entries. {{ Soft redirect with Wikidata item}} (or its redirect {{ Wikidata item}}) or {{ R with Wikidata item}} should be removed from each of them because it's untrue. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
Wikidata redirect|Q78588304}}
was added to
Hester Ford in
this edit; but that redirect currently appears in the tracking category, as this connection was never made on Wikidata itself. Simply removing all the templates and losing this information isn't the best thing to do here, in my opinion. All the best, —
a smart kitten[
meow 16:12, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
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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)
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 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)
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)
This is a rather big and somewhat complex job. Per the RfC, we need to move all articles on individual TV seasons from, e.g., Loki (season 2) titles to "Loki season 2" titles (get rid of the parens and add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "| italic_title=no" to the television infobox to avoid a conflict). BD2412 T 01:00, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
add a DISPLAYTITLE template to maintain the italicization scheme; and add "I think all of this will eventually be handled on the infobox level, so we shouldn't need a multitude of DISPLAYTITLEs (and thus that parameter in the infobox). - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 18:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
|italic_title=no
to the infobox{{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol (season 1)}}
to {{
Episode list/sublist|American Idol season 1}}
. This could be done through a bot or AWB, either works; the latter would need a find-and-replace with (\{\{Episode list\/sublist\|).+
to $1{{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}
(regex enabled).
This was a test edit of exactly that. --
Alex_21
TALK 20:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
hastemplate:"Episode list/sublist" insource:/\{\{\s*[Ee]pisode list\/sublist[^}]*\(season/
:
66 hits. Someone with AWB rights?
Wikiwerner (
talk) 17:49, 20 April 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)
Could we have a bot to automatically bypass redirects in navboxes? It would simplify part of the
WP:POSTMOVE work that page movers have to perform. –
Hilst
[talk]
00:39, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Hilst
[talk]
20:18, 13 March 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 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)
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 (
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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 •
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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)
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)
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'll raise this again, since last time the discussion fizzled out, and was archived without formal action from a BAG member.
The issue is that files in categories are displayed by default, and this violates
WP:NFCC#9 if there are non-free files in the category. They have to be tagged with __NOGALLERY__
if you want to disable display of non-free files in a category. This is an urgent issue, as categories without this tag thatt contain non-free files are everywhere, and because we take copyright very seriously it cannot wait for a human user to find the category and add the __NOGALLERY__
tag, which is why this task requires a bot. Every other routine task involving non-free files, such removing instances without a valid fair use tag, is already handled by a bot.
The previous discussion stalled after a user objected and suggested adding a new feature to MediaWiki to disable category galleries by default, which is less convenient due to requiring WMF action, and it would create the opposite problem: we would need a bot to enable gallery mode on categories that contain only free files. Even though most files hosted locally are non-free, there is no reason why a bot couldn't handle the task of adding necessary __NOGALLERY__
tags at the required scale. Only one other person contributed to the discussion, who objected the suggestion for a new MediaWiki feature because it would hinder navigation of categories specifically for free files, and nothing else happened after that. –
LaundryPizza03 (
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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)
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)
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)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now (I posted before, but nothing came of it)... ~ Lofty abyss 03:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
So, as I said in Wikipedia talk:Redirect#Deprecation of redirecting the talk page of a mainspace redirect, sometimes the talk page of a redirect is itself a redirect, most commonly after a page move. The problem is that sometimes, like in Acts of God (book) (before I corrected it in [2], 10 years later), someone retargets the redirect but forgets to retarget the talk page redirect, so any editor that tries to discuss the redirect is sent to the wrong place. I think that a bot should exist that retargets the talk page redirect to the talk page of the new target. One more thing that needs to be taken into account is that because of WP:TALKCENT, the bot needs to make sure it doesn't make a double redirect.
Just to be clear, despite what I wrote in the thread linked above, I would be against the bot changing every talk page redirect with {{ talk page of redirect}}. I can explain the reasons why if necessary. Nickps ( talk) 23:43, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
R avoided double redirect|B}}
but not necessarily tagged as such. Talk:B is an actual talk page rather than a redirect to Talk:C. Talk:A should redirect to Talk:B, rather than to Talk:C, even though A redirects to C. Is that correct?
Certes (
talk) 17:15, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Per this discussion on WikiProject Football, it appears to be the best course of action to edit match report external links to full cited templates because of WP:LINKROT. I am making a request for a bot that could automatically do this, as there are many football pages that use the direct link system. An example of a page that does not is 2024 OFC Nations Cup qualification, while a major page that does use the direct link is the 2022 FIFA World Cup page. Yoblyblob ( Talk) :) 13:01, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. 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)
Hi! This is my first request here, so please tell me if I did something wrong. As a part of the California State University task force, I'm looking to add {{WikiProject California|calstate=yes|calstate-importance=low}}
to all of miscellaneous sports seasons' talk pages. The categories below contain the pages I'm looking to add the tag to, the bulk of the pages are from the football programs at each institution.
SammySpartan ( talk) 17:32, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed a major past screwup that resulted in a significant number of people using an incorrect infobox for their notability claim.
There was formerly a generic {{ Infobox gridiron football person}}, used on articles about players in gridiron football (NFL, AFL, CFL, etc.) regardless of their league — but because the two major American gridiron football leagues also had their own more specific infobox templates ({{ Infobox NFL biography}}, {{ Infobox AFL biography}}), in 2017 the generic "gridiron" template got unwisely moved to {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} on a faulty assumption that all American football players were using those infoboxes so that only CFL players were still using the generic "gridiron". But that wasn't the case at all, and in actual fact hundreds upon hundreds of NFL or AFL players who never had anything whatsoever to do with the CFL were still using the generic "gridiron" infobox.
I've recreated the generic gridiron template back to what it looked like shortly before the move, which has resolved the issue on some of the articles — however, there are still several hundred other articles where later bot or AWB edits had "genfixed" the template from "gridiron" to "Canadian Football League" despite the person's lack of any affiliation with the CFL. So I wanted to ask if there's a bot that could more or less generate a list of all articles that are using the CFL infobox but cannot be found under Category:Canadian Football League, and then wham through that list flipping {{ Infobox Canadian Football League biography}} (or the {{ Infobox CFL biography}} redirect) back to {{ Infobox gridiron football person}} in those articles. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 18:55, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
Currently has 1,000 entries. {{ Soft redirect with Wikidata item}} (or its redirect {{ Wikidata item}}) or {{ R with Wikidata item}} should be removed from each of them because it's untrue. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
Wikidata redirect|Q78588304}}
was added to
Hester Ford in
this edit; but that redirect currently appears in the tracking category, as this connection was never made on Wikidata itself. Simply removing all the templates and losing this information isn't the best thing to do here, in my opinion. All the best, —
a smart kitten[
meow 16:12, 21 April 2024 (UTC)