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Hi. My name is Dreamafter, and I woould like a small bot made to help me with my WikiProject. I would like it to check through users contribs, back two months, and see if they have made a contrib for the Project. If taught how, I myself would supervise it. Dreamy \*/ !$! 02:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Forgive me if this has already been proposed, but would it be possible to get a bot to automatically add {{
Trivia}}
directly beneath the heading of any section of any mainspace article that is literally called Trivia, presuming that {{
Trivia}}
or {{
Trivia small}}
are not already found on the page? ~
JohnnyMrNinja 06:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
CiterBot is going to me my bot. This bot can can cite any article wherever it needs to be cited! For example, if my bot spots an article with {{ unreferenced}}, it automatically adds a "doesn't cite its references or sources" template to the article or section. -- PNiddy Go! 0 15:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
hCalendar microformat mark-up has been added to Portal:Current events/DateHeader2. This is used on Portal:Current events pages dated on and after 1 July 2006. Please can someone add it to the Current events listings prior to that date? Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:27, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Please could someone make the changes detailed at Talk:List of road junctions in the United Kingdom/BOTREQ? Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:07, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I need a bot to remove any instance of the {{ European Union}} template from the talk pages of all articles in Category:Eurovision songs and its various layers of sub-categories. The template was originally put there by Alphachimp's bot Alphachimpbot at the request of a now banned user Parker007. My (now archived) discussions with Alphachimp can be read User talk:Alphachimp/Archive 14#BOT gone crazy ... must be destroyed!!!!! and User talk:Alphachimp/Archive 14#Further to Eurovision articles discussion.
The Eurovision Song Contest has no connection with the European Union and, in any case, falls well outside the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union. (See the scope statement on the mainpage and this discussion on the talk page. You might also read the page on the European Broadcasting Union which runs the Eurovision Song Contest.)
I found it difficult to convince Alphachimp to undo these changes. He is also currently on an Wikibreak and unlikely in the position to run his bot.
If anyone wants to they might also add the {{ Eurovision}} template to the articles in the Category:Eurovision songs category that don't have it already, as this would be the approtiate WikiProject. Caveat lector 12:21, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Not done I'm having problems running it, I can't do it, sorry. ~ Wikihermit 22:10, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Problem statement:
These articles can be seen here. An example edit to fix items can be seen here.
What the perl script needs to do:
Hopefully I've specified this in sufficient detail. I know a little Perl (well, I knew a little perl, and I have a Perl book) so if somebody wants to collaborate on this (mentor me), I am game. Thanks. TableManners 06:24, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Can a bot operator please make a bot for our Wikipedia, that will add pages to categories automatically? Thanks in advance. WeBuriedOurSecretsInTheGarden 17:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to request help creating a semi-bot that auto-signs unsigned comments and does spell check please. It's realy annoying to see unsigned messages and incorrectly spelled words, and it'd be hard to find all of those type of things myself. If we already have a large number of these, or it'd be too much of a hastle then please just delete my comment. Thanks.
Oh well. Thanks for your time then!-- Kkr ouni /Ккроунл /ΚκρΩυνι 12:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
There are many, many articles that mention a cameo appearance for an actor or actress. It links to cameo. However, the right link should be for cameo appearance.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Cameo&limit=500&from=0 for a big list of people who have the incorrect link.
In my mind, I think I know how a robot to fix this would work. It would basically operate like:
Does anyone know if any bot like this exists or can be modified to do this simple task? (Or if anyone is willing to manually edit these?).
An artistic cameo is much different than a film cameo, so I do not think flagging or changing actor/actress articles will create editing errors.
Let me know what you think or to point me in a good direction.
Guroadrunner 10:09, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Done :: maelgwn - talk 12:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
This isn't a bot request, it's a thank you to all the people who run bots because the bots do great things. There is one bot in particular that made me happy just now: the one that adds comments to section headers when they're link targets. But you are all deserving of great thanks, praise, and this picture of a chocolate-chip cookie. ← BenB4 03:59, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
{{ Infobox City PT}} and {{ Infobox City Estonia}} have coordinates entered in a manner unlike any other templates; requiring each value to be typed twice. I have now added to each of those templates the option to use a more standard entry, using {{ coord}}, and would like someone, please, to change the existing entries, as in this example edit. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 07:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Right now, Special:Unusedcategories is essentially useless as a tool for clearing out categories elligible for C1. Half of the entries are category redirects (using {{ categoryredirect}}, which is necessary until Bug 3311 is fixed), which makes combing the list for C1's neigh impossible. If we could get a bot to patrol that specialpage and then nominate (after 4 days) listings that are not redirects and should be deleted, that'd be great. ^ demon [omg plz] 16:20, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I would like to resubmit my idea for a bot that would find words for the Wiktionary (it could find words for any language wiktionary), the original discussion is here, I have since created a page for the algorithm (which, I might add, is more complete and well-written than the original).
Let me make clear that I do not plan on creating this bot because a) I'm not experienced enough with bots and b) I'm too busy.
Please note that this bot just creates a list of words that it thinks can be used in the Wiktionary, and it is up to a particular editor to actually create a page for that word. Also, the algorithm is designed to cancel out misspellings so there wouldn't be much problems there. Finally, "Delete words who's frequency changed significantly from each word's estimate" could mean delete words who's frequency change is approximately the same as known misspellings in it's database or an amount set by the person who runs the bot.
Jeffrey.Kleykamp 01:55, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, there is a Category:Chess and there is a WikiProject Chess, so obviously we would like to mark all articles in this Category (and in the corresponding subcategories) as part of the scope of the corresponding WikiProject. This is very similar to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 12#WikiProject Rugby league tabbing.
So that would mean something like:
FOR each article in the
Category:Chess and its subcategories DO
END FOR
Would it be authorised/possible/not-too-burdensome ? Thanks in advance! SyG 12:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Please look over these cats and make sure that they all need tagged.
Category:Chess and mathematics Category:Chess automatons Category:Chess by country Category:Chess checkmates Category:Chess clubs Category:Chess competitions Category:Chess endgames Category:Chess games Category:Chess history Category:Chess images Category:Chess notation Category:Chess openings Category:Chess organizations Category:Chess pieces Category:Chess players Category:Chess problems Category:Chess publications Category:Chess rules Category:Chess sets Category:Chess strategy Category:Chess stubs Category:Chess tactics Category:Chess terms Category:Chess titles Category:Chess traps Category:Chess variants Category:Chess websites Category:Computer chess Category:Films about chess Category:WikiProject Chess Category:Years in chess
All these categories sound very chess-related, so I would say all of them should be included. And I have asked (
here) people if they have reasons to oppose to such a move (for my part I do not see any, but who knows).
SyG 06:49, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Can someone make a bot which finds FA articles on other Wikipedia languages? The request is in response to this. Thanks. Miranda 17:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The templates {{
Infobox Album}}, {{
Infobox Single}} and {{
Infobox Film}} now have hCalendar mark-up. A bot is needed, to convert the release dates from normal wiki-linked dates to {{
Start date}} (which outputs an ISO8601 format date, wrapped in class="dtstart"
, hidden by CSS but designed to degrade gracefully) on each occurrence; but only if the full date is provided, not there is only a year or year and month pair. If more than one date exists, only the first (earliest) should be converted. Date/ month order should be preserved, by use of the "df" flag, in the date template. Examples of the date template in use are at
The Dark Side of the Moon,
I Want to Hold Your Hand and
The Piano respectively. Thank you.
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:54, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
{{ Infobox Biography}} has been redirected to {{ Infobox Person}}. Per consensus at Template talk:Infobox Person#Conclusion and Template talk:Infobox Person#Redirects completed, it would be a good idea for the legacy property names and instances of the former to be changes to match the latter (which currently recognises both alternatives) (or is that a job for "smackbot"?). Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 12:09, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Not done Sorry i've run out of bandwidth so I can't finish it. If you're patient I will finish when I get a toolserver account. :: maelgwn - talk 13:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone else assist, please? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 10:56, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
As discussed here, could someone please create a bot to search articles using the Template:Infobox VG and add those that include the dates 31 December or 1 January to Category:Video games with suspected incorrect release dates? Cheers, Miremare 17:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Apparently that doesn't work, according to the discussion here: Template talk:Infobox CVG (scroll to the bottom of the talk page, the entry titled {{editprotected}}, can't link directly to it!). Anyone up for making that bot after all? :) Miremare 23:13, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a wikibot that seeks out links in articles that point to redirect pages and changes them to point directly to the appropriate page? I've run across numerous links in articles that point to a redirect page; sometimes the redirect page will have dozens of articles linking to it. I'm actually kind of surprised there isn't such a bot already. FredMSloniker 18:20, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
I think we could create a bot that would identify pages that have previously been deleted under the same title. It could list the page on a repository of its own userpage (e.g., in the vein of User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult ), as there would be false positives. It would not include pages that have been undeleted by an administrator. I think this would weed out a ridiculous amount of recreated pages. The Evil Spartan 18:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Mr Richardson 15:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
The former template is deprecated and the latter is the standard. FMAFan1990 06:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Per discussion on its talk page, {{
Koreanname}} was moved to {{
Infobox Korean name}} to make it less ambiguous with {{
Korean name}}, which is something else entirely. Would it be possible to have a bot update articles using {{
Koreanname}} (and the redirects {{
Koreanname hanja noimage}}, {{
Koreanname noimage}} and {{
Koreanname image}}) so that they use the new template name? Thanks in advance.
PC78 08:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Done. 11 transclusions remain, but those can be done by hand.
A bot that could change any old signatures to the user's new name/signature would be good. I had my name changed today, but I have many comments in talk pages, etc. that still include my old name. Here is an example of what the bot could do:
Hayden120 09:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
If I change my signature, that won't change my previously signed comments will it? I thought some people might get confused when they look at the edit history of a page, then look at the discussion and see a different name talking about previous edits. Hayden120 11:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Ok, fair enough. I understand your points; the redirect is fine. Thanks. -- Hayden120 12:25, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
How would people feel about a bot that did the following (reiterating from my above post under Assessment bot),
{{
stub}}
templates on articles that meet the same size requirement and do not belong to a WikiProject{{
disney-stub}}
or {{
plant-stub}}
) based on which WikiProjects are listed on the Talk page. This would be for any article assessed as Stub (regardless of size or who assessed it)Does this sound doable and/or reasonable? It would be a great help to WP:Stub sorting, and it would help bring these stubs to the people who would expand them. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 05:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
My bot's doing a more limited version of the first part of this (using a size threshold of 100 words, FWIW), but only for uncategorised articles. That's partly as the starting point for that task was "get all articles categorised, by hook or by crook", but also because it's a "safer" task than the more general one: if a mainspace page isn't categorised at all, and isn't a well-formed redirect, then it certainly needs some sort of cleanup, so the worst that'll happen is it that it won't get the optimum tag. (Untagged disambig gets tagged as a stub, stub gets tagged as an uncategorised article, etc.) Doing this for every article under a certain threshold risks getting into slomo revert wars, with tags being repeatedly added by bot, and removed by humans, or the humans otherwise getting annoyed at the "erroneous" addition of stub tags. Obviously, though, this does miss some clear-cut stubs, that for some reason are categorised but not stub-tagged. That aspect is hopefully much smaller in scope, though, and may be better done on a human-assisted basis (say, a db-generated list of candidates, and processing via AWB).
The second aspect has some additional complications. Firstly, the WP1.0ish people have never made entirely clear what their criteria for something being a "stub class article" are. You might think that's the same as a "stub" (and obviously huge numbers of these are first tagged as stubs, then then "auto-assessed" on that basis as being SCAs), but it one point it was asserted that an article could be "longer than a stub, but still of stub quality". So it might be better to either a) get this distinction (or lack thereof) clarified once and for all (good luck with that!), or b) do this with a size threshold. There's also the issue of multiple wikiproject tags; in theory that could result in quite an excessive number of stub tags being applied. (Hopefully very large numbers of project tags will be less common on stubs than on certain longer articles, though.) Again, it would be interesting to get an idea of the size of this task, to see whether potentially-unreliable or unstable automation is really required. (I'd guess that there were more such articles where a stub stub had been applied and then removed, than never had one, so the question is, how often would this lead to tag-pong?) Alai 13:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
After attempting to asses a large number of un-assessed articles for various WikiProjects ( WikiProject Biography and WikiProject District of Columbia for example have 70130 and 5137 respectively), I realized that a huge majority of those articles fall under multiple projects and alot of those have already been assessed in one of those projects but not the others. So, my suggestion for a bot is for it to search talk pages for a pre-existing assessment and then add the same assessment to the other project tags on the same talk page. Seems pretty simple to me, and it would alleviate alot of assessment backlogs on pretty much every WikiProject. Hope someone can help me out here. Thanks! Drewcifer3000 03:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Just thinking about this some more.
Ok, awesome. Let me know when you have time to get a prototype or something up and running. I can't wait to see it in action. Thanks again! Drewcifer3000 03:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
So far it seems a great idea, but I do some thoughts on how this bot could be of great help to WP:Stub sorting:
{{
video-game-stub}}
, {{
Disney-stub}}
, etc. ) to the bottom of the article, which would greatly help in
stub sorting.Also, the bot should definitely leave a comment on the article's talk page, something like "This article has been automatically assessed for Wikiproject blahblah by BCbot, to match the existing assessment by WikiProject other. If you feel this assessment to be inaccurate, please adjust the assessment appropriately, or discuss it on the project's talk page. Please do not revert the assessment to Unassessed, as it will likely be automatically assessed again." ~ JohnnyMrNinja 04:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Odd request this one, and more interesting and celebratory than productive. I'd like to see a bot go through all the Wikipedia:Unusual articles and list the creator of each article. It would be interesting to see who is Wikipedia's most unusual contributor. violet/riga (t) 17:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
(outdent) I believe I have finally got it correct th is time. According to the results, you are indeed the most unusual contributor. Congrats :) ɑʀк ʏɑɴ 19:00, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Currently, every instance of the template {{ bbhof}} that uses an "id=" parameter links only to the main page of the Baseball Hall of Fame database. If a bot could run to remove that parameter, these would link directly to that player's page in the database. See this diff for an example of the appropriate edit. HokieRNB 13:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Why not have bot which checks for edits by new anon accounts, performs a WHOIS lookup and, if appropriate, adds {{ ISP}} to the user- ad talk- pages? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 09:30, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I think WHOIS has something about having to pay for using it service with automated tools. -- Chris G 12:44, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
In a decision completely against the spirit of wikipedia and the open source community, Android Mouse, sockpuppeteer and former bot operator, has pulled the code for his 'open source' bots and refuses to send them via email. As such, we need replacement bots up. The necessary bots are: -- ST47 Talk· Desk 12:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 2
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 3
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 4
Where does Android Mouse say that he is not coming back? This seems a bit hasty to me, he will still be around in the future. :: maelgwn - talk 12:58, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I have source code for thisl, I think it might've been debugged a little since my version and it is non urgent, but if somebody wants it I can email it :: maelgwn - talk 09:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Over at WP:DINO, we were getting kind of used to having AndroidMouse's DinoSizedBot updating our internal list of article sizes. Since you were already discussing AndroidMouse's bots here, I was wondering what the options concerning this bot would be. Thanks in advance - J. Spencer 02:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Request closed by nominator/discussion - see below discussion to see why this won't work. Guroadrunner 11:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
There's a big list of articles that need a parameter filled in. See this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biography_articles_without_listas_parameter What needs to be done is the WP:BIO box needs the parameter "listas" to be filled in.
It looks like 95 percent of these entries (everything from "A" to "Z") will need to be manually filled in - that's okay. However, I've scanned through the entries between "1" and "?" and they can be automatically done with a robot.
Here's what I'm looking for the robot to do, in laymen's terms: Take these category entries, and within the WP:BIO box add or replace "listas = " with "listas = (the pagename)"
This would be coded something like:
Is setting a robot to do this a possibility? I've overviewed all of the entries involved, and this will streamline the process correctly.
Let me know. Thank you in advance. Guroadrunner 08:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Some articles have several cleanup tags that could be easily condensed into the single template {{ Articleissues}}. Having multiple templates at the top of the page can make it difficult to read, which is the whole reason why Articleissues exists. I'd like to suggest a bot that can scan through pages in cleanup categories and:
I can help specify which templates correspond to which parameters (and add more if necessary) if this is a possibility. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 22:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
When an article is listed at WP:GA/R, the nominator leaves a message on the article talk page. I'm wanting to know if a bot could leave an automated message on the article talk page as well as the talk pages of any Wikiprojects for which there are banners on the page. Lara ♥Love 16:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Can a bot go through different projects (languages) and substitute Image:Kyokpae_banner.png to Image:Qxz-ad39.png. ( see this for more info). Miranda 21:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody make a list of all old (not edited for > 6 months, maybe split the list up into graduations) of non-transcluded templates for the purposes of delete old unused templates. Or if somebody can tell me how to make this list using my tool server account that would also be fine. — Dispenser 01:38, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
There is widespread agreement that Template:Trivia should appear in the section to which it applies, but it's been placed at the tops of small number of articles. I'm requesting that a bot check all of the articles in which the template is transcluded and remove the transclusions appearing in section 0. In most cases, it could simultaneously relocate the transclusion (including the date parameter) to a section titled Trivia. The remaining articles (the minority containing trivia sections with different titles) should be added to list (to enable manual insertion). — David Levy 19:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
From talk page:
I wonder if you could inform us if there is any bot which can help us to make an automatic to-do list of all articles mentioning "discovered in", "created by", "descending from", "first coined", "first discovered", "has its origins", "was created", "was founded" or "by first time" without been followed by a citations or reference. It is for WP:TIMETRACE. We will appreciate very much any help with this. Thank you Dao ken 21:52, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
If someone's bored and looking for a bot task to tackle, it might be a good task to search the DB dump
Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Shortcut for transclusions of the {{
shortcut}} template, and ensure all redirects listed are tagged as {{
R from shortcut}} per
Wikipedia:Shortcut. One could also check to ensure the redirects exist and that they do point at the page listing them as a shortcut... just a thought.
BigNate37
(T) 16:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC) (edited 17:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC))
Not a request, just a query to save a significant amount effort and space. Regarding the "What links here" pages, are new links always added at the end of the list?
Thanks
Verisimilus T 12:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
It would be really handy if, when a navbox was created or substantially changed, a bot could come along and propagate it to all the pages it linked to. Although this could be done with a page for requested propagations, I think the easiest way would be to use HTML comments or empty templates.
When a template needed to be propagated, the editor would create a particular HTML comment. The bot would search the template namespace for this comment nightly. When it found the comment on template X, it would check each page X linked to (except itself and its own talk page) for a transclusion of X, and add one if not already present. When done, it would remove the comment-command from the template.
A suggested list of commands:
The first four commands would be removed when completed; the last four would not. Neon Merlin 17:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
A bot is requested to recategorise any images categorised in article categories. For example, it would recategorise images appearing in "Category:llama" to "Category:llama images|{{PAGENAME}}", and mark "Category:llama images" as a subcategory of "Category:llama".
Thanks,
Verisimilus T 17:58, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have an API, a bot, a toolserver account, or some other sort of magic generate a list of all broken redirects on en.wiki? The Special page is restricted to 1,000 entries, and there seem to be a lot of dead redirects, some of which are kind of old. With the list, I could probably zap them pretty quickly. Cheers. -- MZMcBride 18:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at the dicussion there? Category:Usernames editors have expressed concern over is full of user talk pages of usernames other users have "Expressed concern about". Should a bot go through it and clean it out? ~ Wikihermit 02:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot to run through Category:WikiProjects once per week or per month, find any wikiprojects that are inactive (defined as "no edits to the project page or its talk page for a month") and marking them as such (by removing them from the category, and adding {{ inactive}} to the top). This work was previously done by AllyUnion's User:Kurando-san bot, but it appears to have been offline for several months. >Radiant< 10:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
This new task force needs a bit of tagging of articles, I have outlined the below, it should be easily to follow. A bot would speeden up the process. All of the following needs to be placed in the template {{ WikiProject Rugby league}} (which is on talk pages)as new parameters. The following should be done in order, though note my added note at the bottom.
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=low|state-of-origin-team=qld
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=mid|state-of-origin-team=qld
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=mid|state-of-origin-team=nsw
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=|state-of-origin-team=
If a page in the category dosen't have the template {{ WikiProject Rugby league}} on its talk page. Notify me on the talk page User talk:SpecialWindler. Don't add it if it's there, just notify me of the article in question. The template {{ WikiProject Rugby league}} should be on the talk pages of the articles in the categories. SpecialWindler talk 00:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
The template "{{ taxobox begin}}" and associated templates are still used in around 250 articles, and need updating to use the current {{ taxobox}}. It'd be greatly appreciated if someone would create a bot to complete this task. Many thanks, Verisimilus T 20:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
| $1 =
, that would solve most of it. There may also be Taxobox_(\w*_authority) used in some articles.
I found this bot very useful, but has not been working since May this year (see contributions). The purpose of the bot was to create a list (of a category) and what they were rated (A,B,Start,Stub,FA eg.). You can see the user page on User:PockBot for a good description.
Unfortenely, PockBot no longer works when I try to work it and the creator who made it, no longer edits Wikipedia. ( User:PocklingtonDan) So I'm requesting a clone be made.
Luckily for you PocklingtonDan left SourceCode behind, whcih can be found here ( User:PockBot/SourceCode) and written in Perl. PockingtonDan states (on the User:PockBot page) that we can modify/create it as we wish. Presuming the SourceCode is the same as the bot's programming, then the mistake, of why it dosen't work anymore, won't be fixed. SpecialWindler talk 08:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Be my guest, tell me how well you go and if you need any help. -- Chris G 08:54, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
This topic has cropped up again. I have just done another purge of templates on articles that have days of inactivity. Unfortunately, some people simply put them back on again. It may be a form of ownership. I do not think anyone should use these templates unless a serious edit conflict is likely (e.g. during a few minutes of serious editing). Leaving them on the page for weeks is just wrong.
Could we have something (like Shadowbot, Werdnabot, MiszaBot perhaps) that will automatically remove templates after a period of inactivity? Lightmouse 20:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking maybe we could have a bot that scans the words and links of new pages. and if it detects a violation of policy (such as having nonsense or spam in the page) it puts a "db" tag on the page. Cheers, Je t Lover 03:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have an API, a bot, a toolserver account, or some other sort of magic generate a list of all empty pages in the (Main) Template namespaces on en.wiki? (And other namespaces as well if you find it prudent.) As I've been cleaning out the Template namespace, I've run across quite a few templates that are entirely blank, i.e., their code has been cleared and the page now qualifies for WP:CSD#G7. With the list, I could zap the empty pages in both the (Main) namespace and the Template namespace and further my efforts to clean out some of the clutter. Cheers. -- MZMcBride 20:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
SELECT page_namespace, page_title, page_len FROM page WHERE page_len < 50 ORDER BY page_len ASC LIMIT 100;
. I'll write a script and put it at
[3] with a list of short pages by namespace later today. --
Erwin85 07:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
This might be a tough ask but with a little ingenuity it should be possible!
Is there any chance that the new {{ fossil range}} template could be added to the fossil_range parameter of taxoboxes, as at Velociraptor? The dates that periods start and end could probably be scraped from this table and applied to whatever's in that field with a minimum of effort.
Many thanks!
Verisimilus T 22:37, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
The Romanian language uses 5 diacritical signs: ă, â, î, ș and ț (and their uppercase variants). Due to an erronuous implementation the default Romanian keyboard for Windows versions prior to Vista the letters ș, Ș, ț and Ț are replaced with some incorrect characters ş, Ş, ţ and Ţ (notice that the correct characters use a comma bellow and the incorrect ones use a cedilla). Vista default keyboard inserts the correct characters and so does the Apple Romanian keyboard and the default keyboard configurations for X (Linux/BSD).
Because of the incorrect way in which 2000, XP, 2003 enter characters, many Romanian-related articles in Wikipedia use these incorrect characters. A bot that searches for these letters inside words and replaces them with the correct versions would be a nice correcting feature of Wikipedia and would help bring the standard more into use. This bot should search for these characters inside of words because the cedilla based ones may be correctly used as characters (not part of words) in some articles (e.g. an article which talks about the incorect way in which XP enters Romanina characters, or even this page). —Preceding unsigned comment added by GringoCroco ( talk • contribs) 22:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
This was previously requested here, but I'd like to second the request since it appears not to be implemented. Since almost all of the world uses metric units, a bot that states non-metric measurements in metric terms (perhaps in parentheses, like with the convert template) would be very helpful. Many articles that relate, for example, to the United States (my country) would be more informative to metric-using readers if miles were expressed in kilometers, acres in hectares, etc. Even a bot that focused on converting one unit, like miles, could improve a lot of articles. Michael Patrick 19:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Not done turns out to be a little hard for me :: maelgwn - talk 13:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I have created a British Army portal. Unfortunately, all the pages associated to the British Army (every page included within Category:British Army) need the following box added to every page: {{Portal|British Army|Flag of the British Army.svg|65}}. The box needs to go under the See Also section. If anyone can create a bot that could do this task for me, I would appreciate it. Jhfireboy Talk 23:13, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The portal has been fully completed. If there is any reason why a bot should not be created please inform me. Jhfireboy Talk 18:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
A bot to change {{ Fn}} and {{ Fnb}} to {{ Ref}} and {{ Note}}. Wikipedian 14:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
A task force was recently set up to categorise GAs (using the topic= parameter in {{ GA}}). It was then proposed that a bot do the job, by checking which section of WP:GA the article is listed in, and changing the parameter on the article's talk page accordingly.
If someone thinks they can do this, and would like to do this, please respond on the talk page, here, and we can give you the details and sort things out. Thanks in advance, Giggy U C P 06:48, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Done — Madman bum and angel ( talk – desk) 07:11, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
I would love it if a bot could replace the former hackneyed expression with the latter, simpler one. Building my own bot might be an interesting project, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Surely we have an existing style-bot that can have this added to its repertoire? Please advise. Josephgrossberg 14:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Properly done, a bot could do this task (ignoring anything in quotes or the cquote/blockquote templates/htmltags, but its simply not a suitable task for a bot. The bot would not know the stylistic concerns. I just don't think this is a good task. —— Eagle101 Need help? 15:47, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 | → | Archive 20 |
Hi. My name is Dreamafter, and I woould like a small bot made to help me with my WikiProject. I would like it to check through users contribs, back two months, and see if they have made a contrib for the Project. If taught how, I myself would supervise it. Dreamy \*/ !$! 02:16, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Forgive me if this has already been proposed, but would it be possible to get a bot to automatically add {{
Trivia}}
directly beneath the heading of any section of any mainspace article that is literally called Trivia, presuming that {{
Trivia}}
or {{
Trivia small}}
are not already found on the page? ~
JohnnyMrNinja 06:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
CiterBot is going to me my bot. This bot can can cite any article wherever it needs to be cited! For example, if my bot spots an article with {{ unreferenced}}, it automatically adds a "doesn't cite its references or sources" template to the article or section. -- PNiddy Go! 0 15:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
hCalendar microformat mark-up has been added to Portal:Current events/DateHeader2. This is used on Portal:Current events pages dated on and after 1 July 2006. Please can someone add it to the Current events listings prior to that date? Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:27, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Please could someone make the changes detailed at Talk:List of road junctions in the United Kingdom/BOTREQ? Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:07, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I need a bot to remove any instance of the {{ European Union}} template from the talk pages of all articles in Category:Eurovision songs and its various layers of sub-categories. The template was originally put there by Alphachimp's bot Alphachimpbot at the request of a now banned user Parker007. My (now archived) discussions with Alphachimp can be read User talk:Alphachimp/Archive 14#BOT gone crazy ... must be destroyed!!!!! and User talk:Alphachimp/Archive 14#Further to Eurovision articles discussion.
The Eurovision Song Contest has no connection with the European Union and, in any case, falls well outside the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union. (See the scope statement on the mainpage and this discussion on the talk page. You might also read the page on the European Broadcasting Union which runs the Eurovision Song Contest.)
I found it difficult to convince Alphachimp to undo these changes. He is also currently on an Wikibreak and unlikely in the position to run his bot.
If anyone wants to they might also add the {{ Eurovision}} template to the articles in the Category:Eurovision songs category that don't have it already, as this would be the approtiate WikiProject. Caveat lector 12:21, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Not done I'm having problems running it, I can't do it, sorry. ~ Wikihermit 22:10, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Problem statement:
These articles can be seen here. An example edit to fix items can be seen here.
What the perl script needs to do:
Hopefully I've specified this in sufficient detail. I know a little Perl (well, I knew a little perl, and I have a Perl book) so if somebody wants to collaborate on this (mentor me), I am game. Thanks. TableManners 06:24, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Can a bot operator please make a bot for our Wikipedia, that will add pages to categories automatically? Thanks in advance. WeBuriedOurSecretsInTheGarden 17:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to request help creating a semi-bot that auto-signs unsigned comments and does spell check please. It's realy annoying to see unsigned messages and incorrectly spelled words, and it'd be hard to find all of those type of things myself. If we already have a large number of these, or it'd be too much of a hastle then please just delete my comment. Thanks.
Oh well. Thanks for your time then!-- Kkr ouni /Ккроунл /ΚκρΩυνι 12:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
There are many, many articles that mention a cameo appearance for an actor or actress. It links to cameo. However, the right link should be for cameo appearance.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Cameo&limit=500&from=0 for a big list of people who have the incorrect link.
In my mind, I think I know how a robot to fix this would work. It would basically operate like:
Does anyone know if any bot like this exists or can be modified to do this simple task? (Or if anyone is willing to manually edit these?).
An artistic cameo is much different than a film cameo, so I do not think flagging or changing actor/actress articles will create editing errors.
Let me know what you think or to point me in a good direction.
Guroadrunner 10:09, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Done :: maelgwn - talk 12:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
This isn't a bot request, it's a thank you to all the people who run bots because the bots do great things. There is one bot in particular that made me happy just now: the one that adds comments to section headers when they're link targets. But you are all deserving of great thanks, praise, and this picture of a chocolate-chip cookie. ← BenB4 03:59, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
{{ Infobox City PT}} and {{ Infobox City Estonia}} have coordinates entered in a manner unlike any other templates; requiring each value to be typed twice. I have now added to each of those templates the option to use a more standard entry, using {{ coord}}, and would like someone, please, to change the existing entries, as in this example edit. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 07:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Right now, Special:Unusedcategories is essentially useless as a tool for clearing out categories elligible for C1. Half of the entries are category redirects (using {{ categoryredirect}}, which is necessary until Bug 3311 is fixed), which makes combing the list for C1's neigh impossible. If we could get a bot to patrol that specialpage and then nominate (after 4 days) listings that are not redirects and should be deleted, that'd be great. ^ demon [omg plz] 16:20, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I would like to resubmit my idea for a bot that would find words for the Wiktionary (it could find words for any language wiktionary), the original discussion is here, I have since created a page for the algorithm (which, I might add, is more complete and well-written than the original).
Let me make clear that I do not plan on creating this bot because a) I'm not experienced enough with bots and b) I'm too busy.
Please note that this bot just creates a list of words that it thinks can be used in the Wiktionary, and it is up to a particular editor to actually create a page for that word. Also, the algorithm is designed to cancel out misspellings so there wouldn't be much problems there. Finally, "Delete words who's frequency changed significantly from each word's estimate" could mean delete words who's frequency change is approximately the same as known misspellings in it's database or an amount set by the person who runs the bot.
Jeffrey.Kleykamp 01:55, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, there is a Category:Chess and there is a WikiProject Chess, so obviously we would like to mark all articles in this Category (and in the corresponding subcategories) as part of the scope of the corresponding WikiProject. This is very similar to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 12#WikiProject Rugby league tabbing.
So that would mean something like:
FOR each article in the
Category:Chess and its subcategories DO
END FOR
Would it be authorised/possible/not-too-burdensome ? Thanks in advance! SyG 12:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Please look over these cats and make sure that they all need tagged.
Category:Chess and mathematics Category:Chess automatons Category:Chess by country Category:Chess checkmates Category:Chess clubs Category:Chess competitions Category:Chess endgames Category:Chess games Category:Chess history Category:Chess images Category:Chess notation Category:Chess openings Category:Chess organizations Category:Chess pieces Category:Chess players Category:Chess problems Category:Chess publications Category:Chess rules Category:Chess sets Category:Chess strategy Category:Chess stubs Category:Chess tactics Category:Chess terms Category:Chess titles Category:Chess traps Category:Chess variants Category:Chess websites Category:Computer chess Category:Films about chess Category:WikiProject Chess Category:Years in chess
All these categories sound very chess-related, so I would say all of them should be included. And I have asked (
here) people if they have reasons to oppose to such a move (for my part I do not see any, but who knows).
SyG 06:49, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Can someone make a bot which finds FA articles on other Wikipedia languages? The request is in response to this. Thanks. Miranda 17:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The templates {{
Infobox Album}}, {{
Infobox Single}} and {{
Infobox Film}} now have hCalendar mark-up. A bot is needed, to convert the release dates from normal wiki-linked dates to {{
Start date}} (which outputs an ISO8601 format date, wrapped in class="dtstart"
, hidden by CSS but designed to degrade gracefully) on each occurrence; but only if the full date is provided, not there is only a year or year and month pair. If more than one date exists, only the first (earliest) should be converted. Date/ month order should be preserved, by use of the "df" flag, in the date template. Examples of the date template in use are at
The Dark Side of the Moon,
I Want to Hold Your Hand and
The Piano respectively. Thank you.
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:54, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
{{ Infobox Biography}} has been redirected to {{ Infobox Person}}. Per consensus at Template talk:Infobox Person#Conclusion and Template talk:Infobox Person#Redirects completed, it would be a good idea for the legacy property names and instances of the former to be changes to match the latter (which currently recognises both alternatives) (or is that a job for "smackbot"?). Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 12:09, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Not done Sorry i've run out of bandwidth so I can't finish it. If you're patient I will finish when I get a toolserver account. :: maelgwn - talk 13:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone else assist, please? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 10:56, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
As discussed here, could someone please create a bot to search articles using the Template:Infobox VG and add those that include the dates 31 December or 1 January to Category:Video games with suspected incorrect release dates? Cheers, Miremare 17:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Apparently that doesn't work, according to the discussion here: Template talk:Infobox CVG (scroll to the bottom of the talk page, the entry titled {{editprotected}}, can't link directly to it!). Anyone up for making that bot after all? :) Miremare 23:13, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a wikibot that seeks out links in articles that point to redirect pages and changes them to point directly to the appropriate page? I've run across numerous links in articles that point to a redirect page; sometimes the redirect page will have dozens of articles linking to it. I'm actually kind of surprised there isn't such a bot already. FredMSloniker 18:20, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
I think we could create a bot that would identify pages that have previously been deleted under the same title. It could list the page on a repository of its own userpage (e.g., in the vein of User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult ), as there would be false positives. It would not include pages that have been undeleted by an administrator. I think this would weed out a ridiculous amount of recreated pages. The Evil Spartan 18:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Mr Richardson 15:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
The former template is deprecated and the latter is the standard. FMAFan1990 06:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Per discussion on its talk page, {{
Koreanname}} was moved to {{
Infobox Korean name}} to make it less ambiguous with {{
Korean name}}, which is something else entirely. Would it be possible to have a bot update articles using {{
Koreanname}} (and the redirects {{
Koreanname hanja noimage}}, {{
Koreanname noimage}} and {{
Koreanname image}}) so that they use the new template name? Thanks in advance.
PC78 08:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Done. 11 transclusions remain, but those can be done by hand.
A bot that could change any old signatures to the user's new name/signature would be good. I had my name changed today, but I have many comments in talk pages, etc. that still include my old name. Here is an example of what the bot could do:
Hayden120 09:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
If I change my signature, that won't change my previously signed comments will it? I thought some people might get confused when they look at the edit history of a page, then look at the discussion and see a different name talking about previous edits. Hayden120 11:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Ok, fair enough. I understand your points; the redirect is fine. Thanks. -- Hayden120 12:25, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
How would people feel about a bot that did the following (reiterating from my above post under Assessment bot),
{{
stub}}
templates on articles that meet the same size requirement and do not belong to a WikiProject{{
disney-stub}}
or {{
plant-stub}}
) based on which WikiProjects are listed on the Talk page. This would be for any article assessed as Stub (regardless of size or who assessed it)Does this sound doable and/or reasonable? It would be a great help to WP:Stub sorting, and it would help bring these stubs to the people who would expand them. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 05:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
My bot's doing a more limited version of the first part of this (using a size threshold of 100 words, FWIW), but only for uncategorised articles. That's partly as the starting point for that task was "get all articles categorised, by hook or by crook", but also because it's a "safer" task than the more general one: if a mainspace page isn't categorised at all, and isn't a well-formed redirect, then it certainly needs some sort of cleanup, so the worst that'll happen is it that it won't get the optimum tag. (Untagged disambig gets tagged as a stub, stub gets tagged as an uncategorised article, etc.) Doing this for every article under a certain threshold risks getting into slomo revert wars, with tags being repeatedly added by bot, and removed by humans, or the humans otherwise getting annoyed at the "erroneous" addition of stub tags. Obviously, though, this does miss some clear-cut stubs, that for some reason are categorised but not stub-tagged. That aspect is hopefully much smaller in scope, though, and may be better done on a human-assisted basis (say, a db-generated list of candidates, and processing via AWB).
The second aspect has some additional complications. Firstly, the WP1.0ish people have never made entirely clear what their criteria for something being a "stub class article" are. You might think that's the same as a "stub" (and obviously huge numbers of these are first tagged as stubs, then then "auto-assessed" on that basis as being SCAs), but it one point it was asserted that an article could be "longer than a stub, but still of stub quality". So it might be better to either a) get this distinction (or lack thereof) clarified once and for all (good luck with that!), or b) do this with a size threshold. There's also the issue of multiple wikiproject tags; in theory that could result in quite an excessive number of stub tags being applied. (Hopefully very large numbers of project tags will be less common on stubs than on certain longer articles, though.) Again, it would be interesting to get an idea of the size of this task, to see whether potentially-unreliable or unstable automation is really required. (I'd guess that there were more such articles where a stub stub had been applied and then removed, than never had one, so the question is, how often would this lead to tag-pong?) Alai 13:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
After attempting to asses a large number of un-assessed articles for various WikiProjects ( WikiProject Biography and WikiProject District of Columbia for example have 70130 and 5137 respectively), I realized that a huge majority of those articles fall under multiple projects and alot of those have already been assessed in one of those projects but not the others. So, my suggestion for a bot is for it to search talk pages for a pre-existing assessment and then add the same assessment to the other project tags on the same talk page. Seems pretty simple to me, and it would alleviate alot of assessment backlogs on pretty much every WikiProject. Hope someone can help me out here. Thanks! Drewcifer3000 03:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Just thinking about this some more.
Ok, awesome. Let me know when you have time to get a prototype or something up and running. I can't wait to see it in action. Thanks again! Drewcifer3000 03:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
So far it seems a great idea, but I do some thoughts on how this bot could be of great help to WP:Stub sorting:
{{
video-game-stub}}
, {{
Disney-stub}}
, etc. ) to the bottom of the article, which would greatly help in
stub sorting.Also, the bot should definitely leave a comment on the article's talk page, something like "This article has been automatically assessed for Wikiproject blahblah by BCbot, to match the existing assessment by WikiProject other. If you feel this assessment to be inaccurate, please adjust the assessment appropriately, or discuss it on the project's talk page. Please do not revert the assessment to Unassessed, as it will likely be automatically assessed again." ~ JohnnyMrNinja 04:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Odd request this one, and more interesting and celebratory than productive. I'd like to see a bot go through all the Wikipedia:Unusual articles and list the creator of each article. It would be interesting to see who is Wikipedia's most unusual contributor. violet/riga (t) 17:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
(outdent) I believe I have finally got it correct th is time. According to the results, you are indeed the most unusual contributor. Congrats :) ɑʀк ʏɑɴ 19:00, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Currently, every instance of the template {{ bbhof}} that uses an "id=" parameter links only to the main page of the Baseball Hall of Fame database. If a bot could run to remove that parameter, these would link directly to that player's page in the database. See this diff for an example of the appropriate edit. HokieRNB 13:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Why not have bot which checks for edits by new anon accounts, performs a WHOIS lookup and, if appropriate, adds {{ ISP}} to the user- ad talk- pages? Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 09:30, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I think WHOIS has something about having to pay for using it service with automated tools. -- Chris G 12:44, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
In a decision completely against the spirit of wikipedia and the open source community, Android Mouse, sockpuppeteer and former bot operator, has pulled the code for his 'open source' bots and refuses to send them via email. As such, we need replacement bots up. The necessary bots are: -- ST47 Talk· Desk 12:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 2
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 3
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 4
Where does Android Mouse say that he is not coming back? This seems a bit hasty to me, he will still be around in the future. :: maelgwn - talk 12:58, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I have source code for thisl, I think it might've been debugged a little since my version and it is non urgent, but if somebody wants it I can email it :: maelgwn - talk 09:41, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Over at WP:DINO, we were getting kind of used to having AndroidMouse's DinoSizedBot updating our internal list of article sizes. Since you were already discussing AndroidMouse's bots here, I was wondering what the options concerning this bot would be. Thanks in advance - J. Spencer 02:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Request closed by nominator/discussion - see below discussion to see why this won't work. Guroadrunner 11:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
There's a big list of articles that need a parameter filled in. See this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biography_articles_without_listas_parameter What needs to be done is the WP:BIO box needs the parameter "listas" to be filled in.
It looks like 95 percent of these entries (everything from "A" to "Z") will need to be manually filled in - that's okay. However, I've scanned through the entries between "1" and "?" and they can be automatically done with a robot.
Here's what I'm looking for the robot to do, in laymen's terms: Take these category entries, and within the WP:BIO box add or replace "listas = " with "listas = (the pagename)"
This would be coded something like:
Is setting a robot to do this a possibility? I've overviewed all of the entries involved, and this will streamline the process correctly.
Let me know. Thank you in advance. Guroadrunner 08:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Some articles have several cleanup tags that could be easily condensed into the single template {{ Articleissues}}. Having multiple templates at the top of the page can make it difficult to read, which is the whole reason why Articleissues exists. I'd like to suggest a bot that can scan through pages in cleanup categories and:
I can help specify which templates correspond to which parameters (and add more if necessary) if this is a possibility. Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 22:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
When an article is listed at WP:GA/R, the nominator leaves a message on the article talk page. I'm wanting to know if a bot could leave an automated message on the article talk page as well as the talk pages of any Wikiprojects for which there are banners on the page. Lara ♥Love 16:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Can a bot go through different projects (languages) and substitute Image:Kyokpae_banner.png to Image:Qxz-ad39.png. ( see this for more info). Miranda 21:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody make a list of all old (not edited for > 6 months, maybe split the list up into graduations) of non-transcluded templates for the purposes of delete old unused templates. Or if somebody can tell me how to make this list using my tool server account that would also be fine. — Dispenser 01:38, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
There is widespread agreement that Template:Trivia should appear in the section to which it applies, but it's been placed at the tops of small number of articles. I'm requesting that a bot check all of the articles in which the template is transcluded and remove the transclusions appearing in section 0. In most cases, it could simultaneously relocate the transclusion (including the date parameter) to a section titled Trivia. The remaining articles (the minority containing trivia sections with different titles) should be added to list (to enable manual insertion). — David Levy 19:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
From talk page:
I wonder if you could inform us if there is any bot which can help us to make an automatic to-do list of all articles mentioning "discovered in", "created by", "descending from", "first coined", "first discovered", "has its origins", "was created", "was founded" or "by first time" without been followed by a citations or reference. It is for WP:TIMETRACE. We will appreciate very much any help with this. Thank you Dao ken 21:52, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
If someone's bored and looking for a bot task to tackle, it might be a good task to search the DB dump
Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Shortcut for transclusions of the {{
shortcut}} template, and ensure all redirects listed are tagged as {{
R from shortcut}} per
Wikipedia:Shortcut. One could also check to ensure the redirects exist and that they do point at the page listing them as a shortcut... just a thought.
BigNate37
(T) 16:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC) (edited 17:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC))
Not a request, just a query to save a significant amount effort and space. Regarding the "What links here" pages, are new links always added at the end of the list?
Thanks
Verisimilus T 12:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
It would be really handy if, when a navbox was created or substantially changed, a bot could come along and propagate it to all the pages it linked to. Although this could be done with a page for requested propagations, I think the easiest way would be to use HTML comments or empty templates.
When a template needed to be propagated, the editor would create a particular HTML comment. The bot would search the template namespace for this comment nightly. When it found the comment on template X, it would check each page X linked to (except itself and its own talk page) for a transclusion of X, and add one if not already present. When done, it would remove the comment-command from the template.
A suggested list of commands:
The first four commands would be removed when completed; the last four would not. Neon Merlin 17:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
A bot is requested to recategorise any images categorised in article categories. For example, it would recategorise images appearing in "Category:llama" to "Category:llama images|{{PAGENAME}}", and mark "Category:llama images" as a subcategory of "Category:llama".
Thanks,
Verisimilus T 17:58, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have an API, a bot, a toolserver account, or some other sort of magic generate a list of all broken redirects on en.wiki? The Special page is restricted to 1,000 entries, and there seem to be a lot of dead redirects, some of which are kind of old. With the list, I could probably zap them pretty quickly. Cheers. -- MZMcBride 18:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at the dicussion there? Category:Usernames editors have expressed concern over is full of user talk pages of usernames other users have "Expressed concern about". Should a bot go through it and clean it out? ~ Wikihermit 02:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot to run through Category:WikiProjects once per week or per month, find any wikiprojects that are inactive (defined as "no edits to the project page or its talk page for a month") and marking them as such (by removing them from the category, and adding {{ inactive}} to the top). This work was previously done by AllyUnion's User:Kurando-san bot, but it appears to have been offline for several months. >Radiant< 10:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
This new task force needs a bit of tagging of articles, I have outlined the below, it should be easily to follow. A bot would speeden up the process. All of the following needs to be placed in the template {{ WikiProject Rugby league}} (which is on talk pages)as new parameters. The following should be done in order, though note my added note at the bottom.
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=low|state-of-origin-team=qld
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=mid|state-of-origin-team=qld
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=mid|state-of-origin-team=nsw
|state-of-origin=yes|state-of-origin-importance=|state-of-origin-team=
If a page in the category dosen't have the template {{ WikiProject Rugby league}} on its talk page. Notify me on the talk page User talk:SpecialWindler. Don't add it if it's there, just notify me of the article in question. The template {{ WikiProject Rugby league}} should be on the talk pages of the articles in the categories. SpecialWindler talk 00:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
The template "{{ taxobox begin}}" and associated templates are still used in around 250 articles, and need updating to use the current {{ taxobox}}. It'd be greatly appreciated if someone would create a bot to complete this task. Many thanks, Verisimilus T 20:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
| $1 =
, that would solve most of it. There may also be Taxobox_(\w*_authority) used in some articles.
I found this bot very useful, but has not been working since May this year (see contributions). The purpose of the bot was to create a list (of a category) and what they were rated (A,B,Start,Stub,FA eg.). You can see the user page on User:PockBot for a good description.
Unfortenely, PockBot no longer works when I try to work it and the creator who made it, no longer edits Wikipedia. ( User:PocklingtonDan) So I'm requesting a clone be made.
Luckily for you PocklingtonDan left SourceCode behind, whcih can be found here ( User:PockBot/SourceCode) and written in Perl. PockingtonDan states (on the User:PockBot page) that we can modify/create it as we wish. Presuming the SourceCode is the same as the bot's programming, then the mistake, of why it dosen't work anymore, won't be fixed. SpecialWindler talk 08:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Be my guest, tell me how well you go and if you need any help. -- Chris G 08:54, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
This topic has cropped up again. I have just done another purge of templates on articles that have days of inactivity. Unfortunately, some people simply put them back on again. It may be a form of ownership. I do not think anyone should use these templates unless a serious edit conflict is likely (e.g. during a few minutes of serious editing). Leaving them on the page for weeks is just wrong.
Could we have something (like Shadowbot, Werdnabot, MiszaBot perhaps) that will automatically remove templates after a period of inactivity? Lightmouse 20:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I was thinking maybe we could have a bot that scans the words and links of new pages. and if it detects a violation of policy (such as having nonsense or spam in the page) it puts a "db" tag on the page. Cheers, Je t Lover 03:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have an API, a bot, a toolserver account, or some other sort of magic generate a list of all empty pages in the (Main) Template namespaces on en.wiki? (And other namespaces as well if you find it prudent.) As I've been cleaning out the Template namespace, I've run across quite a few templates that are entirely blank, i.e., their code has been cleared and the page now qualifies for WP:CSD#G7. With the list, I could zap the empty pages in both the (Main) namespace and the Template namespace and further my efforts to clean out some of the clutter. Cheers. -- MZMcBride 20:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
SELECT page_namespace, page_title, page_len FROM page WHERE page_len < 50 ORDER BY page_len ASC LIMIT 100;
. I'll write a script and put it at
[3] with a list of short pages by namespace later today. --
Erwin85 07:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
This might be a tough ask but with a little ingenuity it should be possible!
Is there any chance that the new {{ fossil range}} template could be added to the fossil_range parameter of taxoboxes, as at Velociraptor? The dates that periods start and end could probably be scraped from this table and applied to whatever's in that field with a minimum of effort.
Many thanks!
Verisimilus T 22:37, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
The Romanian language uses 5 diacritical signs: ă, â, î, ș and ț (and their uppercase variants). Due to an erronuous implementation the default Romanian keyboard for Windows versions prior to Vista the letters ș, Ș, ț and Ț are replaced with some incorrect characters ş, Ş, ţ and Ţ (notice that the correct characters use a comma bellow and the incorrect ones use a cedilla). Vista default keyboard inserts the correct characters and so does the Apple Romanian keyboard and the default keyboard configurations for X (Linux/BSD).
Because of the incorrect way in which 2000, XP, 2003 enter characters, many Romanian-related articles in Wikipedia use these incorrect characters. A bot that searches for these letters inside words and replaces them with the correct versions would be a nice correcting feature of Wikipedia and would help bring the standard more into use. This bot should search for these characters inside of words because the cedilla based ones may be correctly used as characters (not part of words) in some articles (e.g. an article which talks about the incorect way in which XP enters Romanina characters, or even this page). —Preceding unsigned comment added by GringoCroco ( talk • contribs) 22:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
This was previously requested here, but I'd like to second the request since it appears not to be implemented. Since almost all of the world uses metric units, a bot that states non-metric measurements in metric terms (perhaps in parentheses, like with the convert template) would be very helpful. Many articles that relate, for example, to the United States (my country) would be more informative to metric-using readers if miles were expressed in kilometers, acres in hectares, etc. Even a bot that focused on converting one unit, like miles, could improve a lot of articles. Michael Patrick 19:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Not done turns out to be a little hard for me :: maelgwn - talk 13:04, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I have created a British Army portal. Unfortunately, all the pages associated to the British Army (every page included within Category:British Army) need the following box added to every page: {{Portal|British Army|Flag of the British Army.svg|65}}. The box needs to go under the See Also section. If anyone can create a bot that could do this task for me, I would appreciate it. Jhfireboy Talk 23:13, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The portal has been fully completed. If there is any reason why a bot should not be created please inform me. Jhfireboy Talk 18:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
A bot to change {{ Fn}} and {{ Fnb}} to {{ Ref}} and {{ Note}}. Wikipedian 14:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
A task force was recently set up to categorise GAs (using the topic= parameter in {{ GA}}). It was then proposed that a bot do the job, by checking which section of WP:GA the article is listed in, and changing the parameter on the article's talk page accordingly.
If someone thinks they can do this, and would like to do this, please respond on the talk page, here, and we can give you the details and sort things out. Thanks in advance, Giggy U C P 06:48, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Done — Madman bum and angel ( talk – desk) 07:11, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
I would love it if a bot could replace the former hackneyed expression with the latter, simpler one. Building my own bot might be an interesting project, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Surely we have an existing style-bot that can have this added to its repertoire? Please advise. Josephgrossberg 14:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Properly done, a bot could do this task (ignoring anything in quotes or the cquote/blockquote templates/htmltags, but its simply not a suitable task for a bot. The bot would not know the stylistic concerns. I just don't think this is a good task. —— Eagle101 Need help? 15:47, 7 August 2007 (UTC)