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Can someone make a bot that can 'read' through an article and decide what spelling it appears to be using? For example if it mainly uses British spellings of words, one would conclude that the article is using British English and place such a tag at the top of the article (see my proposal at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (spelling)#A proposal to make spelling use clearer). It could give the percentages of words using each spelling as an output. It's difficult for a human to do this because reading takes time, and it's hard to find words that indicate the spelling being used. A list of most such words would be necessary for creating the bot, of course (see e.g. WP:MOSS for a short list), which I'm sure would be available somewhere. Just a British/American version would be a good start, as those are the main two varieties when it comes to spelling (and most familiar; if I said an article was written in New Zealand English many wouldn't know whether that was closer to British or American). Richard001 ( talk) 22:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
I realize that there are multiple bots already performing tasks on this page, but I was wondering how the BAG feels about one more. Basically, I have already been moving categories using AWB, and after clicking "save" 100-200 times, it gets a bit repetitious. Since AWB has the necessary functions already programmed in, I would not have to do any programming (good, considering I know nothing more than some VB.NET, not enough to make a bot). Obviously there may be room for another bot, as if there weren't, I (a non-bot) would not have been able to get in an edit. My ultimate question, what is the likelihood of the BAG giving a bot flag to such a bot account? -- Vox Rationis ( Talk | contribs) 22:29, 12 January 2008
I'm pretty sure this is work for a bot. I was wondering if a bot would be able to search
Category:Green Bay Packers articles by quality to see which pages have {{
dyktalk}} on them and then give me a list of those articles. I think there is only about 6 or 7 articles that do but there are 960 articles in the category and it would be a lot of work to search by hand. Thanks in advance!
Gonzo fan2007
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contribs 23:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible for someone to assess Category:Unassessed China-related articles (tagged {{ WPCHINA}}) by both class and importance? Thanks. Maork ( talk) 11:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Request that {{WikiProject Mexico|class=|importance=}} be added to the talk page of all articles not currently containing it from the following categories.
I would like the bot to tag all articles in the Category:Athens including all the subcategories: Category:Areas of Athens, Category:Buildings and structures in Athens, Category:Museums in Athens, Category:Sports venues in Athens, Category:Athens Olympic venues, Category:Culture in Athens, Category:Sport in Athens, Category:Education in Athens, Category:Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Greece, Category:Neighbourhoods in Athens, Category:Mayors of Athens, Category:People from Athens, Category:Ancient Athenians, Category:Kings of Athens, Category:Metics in Athens, Category:Streets in Athens, Category:Squares in Athens, Category:Transport in Athens, Category:Athens Metro, Category:Athens Metro stations, Category:Naval battles involving Athens, Category:Battles involving Athens, Category:Dukes of Athens, Category:Duchy of Athens. By adding |athens-task-force=yes to the current {{WPGR|class=|importance=}} El Greco( talk) 18:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
One of the problems several WikiProjects have is keeping up with the new articles relevant to their project constatly being created. The only way I know how to easily see which new articles haven't been tagged is to go through them and see which haven't been tagged, which can be problematic. This proposal, I think, might help alleviate those concerns, if it is possible.
The WikiProjects in question can tag the talk pages of categories they believe contain items all of which will be relevant to their project.
Category:Luxembourg's articles should all be relevant to that nation, for example.
Would there be any way to have a bot run through articles in categories which have already been tagged as directly relevant to a given project and place the appropriate banner on the talk pages of those articles which don't yet have the project banners?
If yes, then I can encourage several of the projects to tag categories for use in this function. I realize it is potentially a staggering task, but it is the only way I can think of for projects to keep track of newly created articles relevant to their project that they aren't necessarily informed of. Thank you for any and all responses.
John Carter (
talk) 15:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
This bot would tag pages with the project template.... and also note links to any GA/FA's the article went through. Anyone know how to code it?? -- Solumeiras talk 17:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello Bot requests team, I was wondering if someone would be able to run a bot through Category:Scottish clans and ALL (I've checked) its subcategories and tag the talk pages with the project banner - Template:WikiProject Clans of Scotland? This would mean editting in {{WikiProject Clans of Scotland|class=|importance=}} to the top of talk pages as standard. If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me. -- Jza84 · ( talk) 15:18, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Category:Scottish chiefs, Category:Scoto-Norman clans, Category:Clan Comyn, Category:Clan Grant, Category:Clan Campbell, Category:Clan Bruce, Category:Clan Bruce (Ghana), Category:Clan Comyn, Category:Clan Donald, Category:Clan Fraser, Category:Clan Grant, Category:Clan Henderson, Category:Clan MacDougall, Category:Clan Napier.
Hi all - I think it would be a useful addition to WP's "punctuation police" to have a bot regularly removing apostrophes from decades. I for one get annoyed reading of things that occurred "in the 1920's and 1930's" and the like, and I think it would be a pretty simple to program a bot to look for "the 19?0's" and remove the apostrophe. Grutness... wha? 09:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm bringing this here because it got archived before anyone listened to me. How bout a bot that creates articles on French towns with insee and the fr Wikipedia as a source? Editorofthewiki ( talk) 19:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I think I proposed this a while ago to no avail, but... I and other admins closing WP:AFD discussions would really appreciate a bot that automatically relists discussions that have been tagged with the {{ relist}} template. Doing it manually is a bother, particularly since the large AfD pages take quite some time to load. Thanks, Sandstein ( talk) 21:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Many times a user wiki-links a common term that is actually a redirect to the primary spelling. This is fine, so long as the redirect isn't turned into a disambig or article about the actual common term. While we have a bot that goes through and corrects double redirects, I'm wondering if a bot that went through and pointed articles at the redirect target, might reduce the redirect aging issue. It should only do it for article-space wikilinks that point at redirects. I'm not seeing any issue, since the re-linking would be hidden thanks to wiki-markeup magic MBisanz talk 05:44, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
On the same subject, why is the talk page of a redirected article not automatically redirected? We have to place a page move request and wait, wait. Please create a robot that will immediately move the talk page of a renamed/redirected article. Thanks. Emmanuelm ( talk) 16:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
On yet a similar note, why don't we have bot, or part of AWB, that redirect (and name) of links to their correct name. An example would be changing Gamecube → GameCube, SONY → Sony (Correct Capitalization), and Encyclopaedia Britannica → Encyclopædia Britannica (unicode name). The primary purpose here would be to make sure the correct title are used for links. — Dispenser ( talk) 03:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! I am asking for a bot to tag all articles in Category:Cricketers by nationality and its sub categories with {{WP Cricket|class=|importance=}} as long as the tag doesn't already exist. There are some glaring ommissions in the coverage of the wikiprojects tag, including some current players and coaches from the top teams in the world, despite some of the articles being quite well developed. It would be very much appreciated, thank you!
Could a bot add {{Portal|Professional wrestling|break=yes}} to all the articles in Category:WikiProject Professional wrestling articles? TJ Spyke 01:14, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm looking for bot script that automatically scans and moves pages from categories marked with {{ categoryredirect}} to the correct category. I'm planning to run such a bot on id.wiki. I asked User:selket to share the bot script, but still no answer. He owns User:Selketbot which the only bot I know so far that run such a program. Can anyone help me? borgx ( talk) 01:58, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
In order to clean up the confused use of three templates for the different Dictionary of Australian Biography and Australian Dictionary of Biography, a migration of wrong uses away from {{ Australian Dictionary of Biography}} has been done, mainly manually it seems (my former request was archived).
Now I request the help of a bot to replace all remaining uses of the abbreviated template name "ADB" to the proper "Australian Dictionary of Biography" in order to avoid future confusion. Please replace " {{ADB|" with "{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|" in the less than 200 articles that still use the short form. Thanks in advance! -- Matthead DisOuß 16:14, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I’m not sure if this is possible . . . probably because I’m not entirely clear on how these bots operate. Would it be possible for a bot to continuously (or at intervals) look through the
Articles for deletion Logs and place a
Transclusion of any deletion discussions for articles that are tagged with
Template:Contemporary music on a subpage of
WikiProject Contemporary music? Because of the highly specialist nature of these pages, and because there are relatively few of them it would be very helpful for all concerned if a bot could compile these discussions for us. Thanks, --
S.dedalus (
talk) 00:09, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
If it would be possible to replace the current {{ WikiProject Chad}} and {{ WikiProject South Africa}} on talk pages with {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Chad=yes}} and {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|South Africa=yes}}, respectively, retaining any existing assessment information from either, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 19:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
{{
AfricaProject}}
rather than expending hundreds of database write requests in changing them. If these projects ever start up again the banners can be easily separated out again. I have done the Chad one - let me know if you think this is ok.
Happy‑
melon 19:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Chad}}
this is exactly what I've done, and what you can do for all the others. You might want to check the wording outside the <onlyinclude> tags - I'm not sure I've summarised the situation correctly.
Happy‑
melon 19:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)Can a bot please deal with Category:Articles needing coordinates from January 08? The pages there all have {{Locateme|date=January 08}}, and the 08 needs to be fixed to 2008. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I know that this will be questioned, but it would really help for the new Africa project banner to have a list of all the subcats of Category:Africa. Please place the content at User:John Carter/Africa categories. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 16:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
It would be useful if a bot could automatically alphabetize 'see also' sections and disambiguation pages. Disambiguation pages would be a little more complicated on account of the different subheadings - each subheading should probably be in the proper alphabetical order and each item under each subheading should also. Do you think this is doable? It's a drag to do manually. ---- Seans Potato Business 23:12, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Most of the articles linked from this template use some sort of hand-made infobox thing. It is just awful. Could a bot be created that converts the articles to the correct infobox? Timneu22 ( talk) 14:47, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
See M:Talk:Migration to the new preprocessor #problem with comments on the same line as section headings. Can someone create a bot to fix all headings edited by User:Anchor Link Bot? Specifically I want a bot that adds a new line between the end of a heading and Anchor Link Bot's comment. The bot made over 9,000 edits so I don't particularly want to fix them by hand. Graham 87 02:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Please see also This discussion. The question has arisen as to whether it would be possible to have a Bot that counts Support, Oppose, and Neutral !votes for a candidate for Adminship, then updates a tally on that page showing the counts. A bot exists which updates a report on all RfAs, but we were thinking of a bot that would add an inline tally for each individual RfA. The tallys for current RfAs are plaintext, and are updated manually by whichever editor feels the need to do so. Thanks in advance, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 20:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Category:Song articles missing an audio sample lists all the song articles that do not have an audio sample. This is indicated by the lack of | Audio sample? = yes in the infobox. However, some songs do have a sample, but either | Audio sample? = yes has not been added to the box, or the box still says | Audio sample? = no (either scenario will add the article to the category). Can someone make a bot that can detect if the article contains any the templates {{ extra musicsample}}, {{ listen}}, or {{ Multi-listen item}} and then add | Audio sample? = yes to the infobox?--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 18:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
I would like help creating a bot that would automatically remind people, who miss more than 10 edit summaries a day with this message template: {{ Summary}}. It would also edit the edit summary - (is this possible?) and add: "Added to __________" <--- (section name they added to)) or something else. Hopefully someone can help out! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 22:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Within the scope of WikiProject Formula One, there are 803 race report articles, each of which contains a results table with a standard set of columns. A recent discussion at WP:F1 has decided that one of the column titles should be changed from "Team" to "Constructor". Rather than edit all 803 articles manually(!) we thought it would be more efficient to get a bot to make the change. I can provide further details (e.g. list of articles to be edited, exact change to be made) if someone is interested in taking up the task. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 00:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I would like the bot to tag all articles in the Category:Athens including all the subcategories: Category:Areas of Athens, Category:Buildings and structures in Athens, Category:Museums in Athens, Category:Sports venues in Athens, Category:Athens Olympic venues, Category:Culture in Athens, Category:Sport in Athens, Category:Education in Athens, Category:Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Greece, Category:Neighbourhoods in Athens, Category:Mayors of Athens, Category:People from Athens, Category:Ancient Athenians, Category:Kings of Athens, Category:Metics in Athens, Category:Streets in Athens, Category:Squares in Athens, Category:Transport in Athens, Category:Athens Metro, Category:Athens Metro stations, Category:Naval battles involving Athens, Category:Battles involving Athens, Category:Dukes of Athens, Category:Duchy of Athens. By adding |athens-task-force=yes to the current {{WPGR|class=|importance=}} El Greco( talk) 18:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello... It was recently brought to my attention that a bot that I help operate has been using a template syntax that is broken in with the new preprocessor. We've changed the bot so that all future uploads will be correct, but we're wondering if someone would be willing to help fix the past uploads. Essentially, the task boils down to scanning these images and replacing
{{self|GFDL-no-disclaimers|cc-by-sa-3.0{{!}}[[Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation]]}}
with:
{{GFDL-no-disclaimers}} {{cc-by-sa-3.0|[[Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation]]}}
Anyone able to help us with this? AndrewGNF ( talk) 18:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Please follow the (now undeleted) redirect to Talk:Tax protester/Request for comment/RfC, so the cross-name-space redirect can be properly "speedied". All refererences, even on user talk pages, must be redirected. My IE is broken, or I'd do it myself, using AWB. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
We'd like a bot tasked to automatically archive sections that are marked with the {{ Resolved}} template in Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve. -- I. Pankonin Review me! 01:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Can somebody make a bot that undoes any edits on User:jaytur1/Wiki points/list that is not made by that bot or me? -- Jay Lights! Camera! Action! 16:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
As Königsberg is a proper article now, all remaining [[Kaliningrad|Königsberg]] should be replaced. Thanks in advance. -- Matthead Discuß 01:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I have proposed at Wikipedia:IPtalk proposal to add the following template at the top of long user talk pages for anonymous IP addresses:
User:Shalom/Drafts and archives/Template:IPtalk
A bot may be programmed to do this, if the following two issues can be resolved:
For more information, please read Wikipedia:IPtalk proposal. Thank you. Shalom ( Hello • Peace) 20:12, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
As a result of this discussion, I'm guessing that the Wikipedia:Geographic references templates will be replaced by standard references. These templates are used in tens of thousands of US place articles, many of which have no reference sections, because the GRs link elsewhere. If the conversion takes place, could someone write a bot to add ==References==<br>{{reflist}} to all articles that have GR templates but no references section? One note, by the way: if this is done, it should be ensured that the reference sections go above the external links sections. Nyttend ( talk) 16:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
{{GR|#}}
with <ref>{{GR|#}}</ref>
, so that we can move the ref tags outside the template and thereby avoid numbering inconsistencies. If someone is interested in doing that, the migration shouldn't be too painful.
Happy‑
melon 19:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)I've just changed my username from Cedar-Guardian to Cedrus-Libani. But I intend to remove the redirect. Could a bot change all links to User:Cedar-Guardian or User talk:Cedar-Guardian to my new username, while keeping the same signature? Thank you. CG ( talk) 06:44, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on replacing Wikipedia:Bots/Status with a more intuitive system of templates that are cleaner, easier to use, and standard so that they could more easily be controlled by bots.
The foundation for the new system is over at User:Zenwhat/Sandbox. It's all finished, pretty much. The list just needs to be populated and the information proofread and verified.
I was going to start adding stuff manually by hand, but it occurred to me how much of a blatant waste of time it would be since it could be automated in a matter of minutes.
So, that's what I need ANYBODY to do:
This is automated editing, so shouldn't require any bot approval. If you need to wipe the existing list in order to create it, that's OK too.
Also, don't worry if it's not precise. I know that to fix stuff like putting the date in standard form, I'll probably have to do all that by hand. I just need the basic information wrapped within the template, so that it's easier to work with. ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 10:07, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
This article used to be about a UK TV station. It was moved to The Box (UK TV channel) due to their being a New Zealand TV channel with the same name. As a results, there are dozens of articles that link to The Box. Could a bot change all links to The Box (TV channel) to The Box (UK TV channel)? TJ Spyke 03:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could make a bot to search every article in a WikiProject {{ WikiProject Oregon}} for red links. I think there is a similar one for the entire encyclopedia. Then the output would be something like:
This would help to find high priority red links, as well as find instances of mis-titled links that may just need adjustment to become blue links, or even a need to standardize some red links that may have varying titles but really are the same thing. Thanks. Aboutmovies ( talk) 23:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Would anyone be able to generate for us a statistical table that shows key aspects about the articles in a category? The table would show, for any applicable articles within the category: article name and as much as is relevant/feasible: type of page protection, moves/RM, number of reverts, 3RR requests/results, RfC or 3PO and tags such as Disputed. Please let me know on my Talk if you might be able to create the table. Here's a prototype of the table that we've started to do manually. (FYI, the categories sought include Category:Israel and Category:Palestine, for this Wikiproject.) Thanks very much. Please reply to my talk if possible, HG | Talk 10:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Frequently a person or company will decide they deserve an article on Wikipedia. They'll create an account in the form of "company x" or "John D" and then create an article "Company X Inc." and "John Delorean". I'm looking for a bot that would scan NewPages and output a list to WP:COIN or WP:COIN/Bot that lists article that have 4 or more characters in the same order as the creating username. So Ryan Youens created by User:RyanYouens will be picked up, but the hypothetical article MANS BIZ created by User:MBisanz wouldn't be picked up. Its sorta like Coren's Search Bot, only without the tagging aspect. MBisanz talk 09:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
When we are talking about ref... We should have a bot that check for the removal of named refs and if that removal leaves any <ref name="aname" /> tags that subsequently break with "Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named facts_and_figures". It is a common problem that can be confusing for the less experienced users and at times remain for in articles for weeks on end. -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 11:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Can someone program a bot to correct some redirect links for me? Though I'd like to know if I can list a couple of those right here. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Request that the articles in the categories below each get tagged with the following template: {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Western Sahara=yes|Western Sahara-importance=}}:
A recent run by BCBot slammed our WikiProject with thousands of unassessed articles after having less than a hundred for months. BCBot has already assessed the articles that were assessed from another project. Any way I can get a bot run on Category:Unassessed college football articles that will automatically assess articles "Stub" class if they contain some form of stub template on the main article page?↔ NMajdan• talk 17:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Anybody?↔ NMajdan• talk 04:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I know, I'm being annoying/persistent. In addition to the request to tag articles as stubs if they are in a stub cat, I'm going through some articles and I'm seeing many that are not assessed for WP:CFB but are assessed for other projects. I thought BCBot took care of this last week? Anyway I can get another run of this?↔ NMajdan• talk 21:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Summary: Maybe re-summarizing my request will get it going. Run the bot that assesses articles that have been assessed by other projects on Category:Unassessed college football articles. Run a bot through Category:College football stubs and Category:American football biography stubs and if the WikiProject College football banner already exists, then assess as stub. Do not add any articles in the categories to the WikiProject. Thanks.↔ NMajdan• talk 19:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
I think it would be nice to link the categories of Foo albums and Foo songs. Example Category:Tracy Chapman albums and Category:Tracy Chapman songs. There's overwhelming precedent to keep eponymous categories to a minimum. That makes sense but people browsing these categories would probably like to flip from one to the other. For an example of what I think would be nice see my edits to Category:Beck albums and Category:Beck songs. Sure, small task. But worthwhile I think. I suppose this could be done through AWB or some author semi-automated script or other method but a bot would be able to maintain this in the future. Pichpich ( talk) 04:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Another proposed bot task. There was talk sometime ago at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Categories/uncategorized#Dregs_at_the_months_end to use Alaibot ( talk · contribs) (or some other bot) to populate a category of undercategorized articles. A whole bunch of articles are categorized solely in categories which are not intended for browsing, such as Category:Living people, Category:XXXX births, Category:XXXX deaths or Category:XXXX albums. These articles are often lost in Wikipedia neverland and it would be nice to identify them for cleanup purposes. There are probably thousands of these articles and there's really no rush in identifying them all in one go but a bot could periodically add a few hundred to something like Category:Undercategorized albums or Category:Undercategorized people so that the relevant WikiProjects could fix them. Pichpich ( talk) 17:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Easy one: can some friendly bot populate Category:Sega arcade games? This should simply be the intersection of Category:Arcade games and Category:Sega games. CatScan says there are 129 of them in depth 1, which should do for now (maybe go to depth 2 for the Sega games category since there are subcats like Category:OutRun. Thanks, Pichpich ( talk) 00:01, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, I want to change the taxon "Homobasidiomycetes" to the more current Agaricomycetes in articles on fungi (the former already redirects to the latter), but it's used in so many taxoboxes that according to Special:Whatlinkshere/Homobasidiomycetes, there are some 270 pages that need to be changed. Clearly, I need some kind of automated assistant to do this. Can anybody set up a bot account for me to do this, or run one of their own bots to make this change? Thanks, Peter G Werner ( talk) 18:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Request that the articles in the following categories be tagged with the following banner: {{ChristianityWikiProject|class=|importance=|indian-work-group=yes}}
Category:Archbishops of Kottayam; Category:Archbishops of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Changanassery; Category:Archdiocese of Changanassery; Category:Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly; Category:Archdiocese of Kottayam; Category:Archdiocese of Tellicherry; Category:Archdiocese of Thrissur; Category:Baptist churches in India; Category:Baptist churches in Tripura; Category:Basilica churches in India; Category:Bishops of Calcutta; Category:Bishops of Medak; Category:Cathedrals in India; Category:Christian missionaries in India; Category:Christian missions in India; Category:Christianity in India; Category:Christianity in Kolkata; Category:Christianity in Tripura; Category:Churches in India; Category:Churches in Mumbai; Category:Indian bishops; Category:Indian cardinals; Category:Indian clergy; Category:Indian Christians; Category:Indian Methodists; Category:Indian nuns; Category:Indian Orthodox Church; Category:Indian priests; Category:Indian Protestants; Category:Indian Quakers; Category:Indian Roman Catholic bishops; Category:Indian Roman Catholic priests; Category:Indian Roman Catholics; Category:Methodist missionaries in India; Category:Mormon missionaries in India; Category:Roman Catholic Church in India; Category:Roman Catholic churches in India; Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in India; Category:Sadar North Baptist Association; Category:Saint Thomas Christians; Category:Saint Thomas Christians people; Category:Seminaries and theological colleges in India; Category:Syro-Malabar archbishops; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholic Archbishops of Ernakulam-Angamaly; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholic Church; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholic dioceses; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholics; Category:Tripura Baptist Christian Union;
Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 18:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Request that the talk pages of articles in the following categories be tagged with {{WPReligion|class=|importance=|Interfaith=yes|InterfaithImp=}}:
Category:Abrahamic religions; Category:Albigensian Crusade; Category:Anti-Buddhism; Category:Anti-Catholicism; Category:Anti-Christianity; Category:Anti-Defamation League; Category:Anti-Gnosticism; Category:Anti-Hinduism; Category:Anti-Islam activists; Category:Anti-Islam sentiment; Category:Anti-Jewish pogroms; Category:Anti-Judaism; Category:Anti-Protestantism; Category:Antisemitic attacks and incidents; Category:Antisemitic canards; Category:Antisemitic forgeries; Category:Antisemitic propaganda; Category:Antisemitic publications; Category:Antisemitism; Category:Blood libel; Category:British Israelism; Category:Buddhist converts to Catholicism; Category:Carbonari; Category:Catholic converts; Category:Catholic converts by religion; Category:Catholic ecumenical and interfaith relations; Category:Catholicism and Freemasonry; Category:Christian and Jewish interfaith topics; Category:Christian ecumenism; Category:Christian interfaith and secular relations; Category:Classical elements; Category:Comparative Buddhism; Category:Comparative mythology; Category:Concepts of Heaven; Category:Conversion of non-Muslim places of worship into mosques; Category:Conversion to Christianity; Category:Converts from Judaism to Anglicanism; Category:Converts from Judaism to Christianity; Category:Converts from Judaism to Islam; Category:Converts from Judaism to Roman Catholicism; Category:Conversion to Islam; Category:Converts to Anglicanism; Category:Converts to Buddhism; Category:Converts to Christian Science; Category:Converts to Christianity; Category:Converts to Eastern Orthodox Christianity; Category:Converts to Hinduism; Category:Converts to Islam; Category:Converts to Scientology; Category:Converts to Sikhism; Category:Converts to Zoroastrianism; Category:Creation myths; Category:Creation stories; Category:Criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses; Category:Criticism of Mormonism; Category:Crusade literature; Category:Crusades; Category:Crypto-Judaism; Category:Culture heroes; Category:Exilarchs; Category:Former Muslims; Category:Former Roman Catholics; Category:Groups who converted to Judaism; Category:Hell; Category:Hindu clan conversions to Islam; Category:Hinduism and other religions; Category:Interfaith Dialog; Category:Islam and antisemitism; Category:Islam and other religions; Category:Islamic and Jewish interfaith topics; Category:Jainism and other religions; Category:Jews and Judaism and pluralism; Category:Jewish tribes of Arabia; Category:Jews for Jesus; Category:Judeo-Christian topics; Category:Judeo-Islamic topics; Category:Life after death; Category:Lists of religious converts; Category:Metaphysical cosmology; Category:Monomyths; Category:Muhammad and the Jews; Category:Muslim converts to Catholicism; Category:Mythemes; Category:Mythological archetypes; Category:Mythological cosmologies; Category:National councils of churches; Category:Nazi antisemitic propaganda films; Category:People executed for refusing to convert to Islam; Category:People of the Albigensian Crusade; Category:Persecution of Bahá'ís; Category:Persecution of early Christians; Category:Pluralistic Jewish day schools; Category:Prophecy; Category:Regional councils of churches; Category:Reincarnation; Category:Reincarnation research; Category:Religious comparison; Category:Religious conversion; Category:Religious conversion in India; Category:Religious converts; Category:Religious cosmologies; Category:Religious discrimination; Category:Religious persecution; Category:Religious pluralism; Category:Sahaba; Category:Scholars of antisemitism; Category:Victims of Anti-Catholicism;
Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:59, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Just a thought: wondering if there was a bot able to change incorrectly marked [<insert page name here>]] and [[<insert page name here>] to [[<insert page name here>]]. I've noticed this a lot around here recently. Editorofthewiki ( talk) 21:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I have constructed a minimal web-based variant of pywikipedia. It can run pywikipedia scripts with little modification. Would anybody like their script(s) to be ported to this framework? — Dispenser 20:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
“ | The toolserver's database is read-only — tools can't directly update Wikimedia pages — so toolserver tools tend to be report-oriented. | ” |
— m:Toolserver/Introduction |
Since they wre deleted, I'd like for a bot to remove every instance of {{ TNTF}}, {{ TNTF2}}, {{ TrollWarning}} and this category from Wikipedia. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 16:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Trying to clean up Category:Professional associations by diffusing when appropriate. Could a bot remove the redundant Category:Professional associations from every member of the following categories
Please do not do the same for the other subcategories for now: I've only checked the three above for correctness. Thank you. Pichpich ( talk) 00:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Pichpich ( talk) 00:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
About a year ago, I did a lot of editing due to a municipal reform in Denmark. Many municipalities were edited, and in most of those, I wrote some text with this wikilink: Municipalities of Denmark#Municipality Reform 2007. That's fine, it used to work, however, the section name has now been changed to Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007. So I would like a bot to go through and fix those. I'm guessing this has been an issue before on other pages so a bot probably already exists that can do it, right? - Lilac Soul ( talk • contribs • count) • I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 22:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Is it possible for a bot to find any article with {{F1-stub}} in the article mainspace, and produce the following statement in the article's talkpage if not already there -- {{WikiProject Formula One|class=stub}} ?
I am manually classifying these articles, and this will simply make a multitude of obvious stubs (there are many) faster and easier to classify.
Please let me know. Guroadrunner ( talk) 03:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Since they wre deleted, I'd like for a bot to remove every instance of {{ TNTF}}, {{ TNTF2}}, {{ TrollWarning}} and this category from Wikipedia. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 16:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Trying to clean up Category:Professional associations by diffusing when appropriate. Could a bot remove the redundant Category:Professional associations from every member of the following categories
Please do not do the same for the other subcategories for now: I've only checked the three above for correctness. Thank you. Pichpich ( talk) 00:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Pichpich ( talk) 00:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
About a year ago, I did a lot of editing due to a municipal reform in Denmark. Many municipalities were edited, and in most of those, I wrote some text with this wikilink: Municipalities of Denmark#Municipality Reform 2007. That's fine, it used to work, however, the section name has now been changed to Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007. So I would like a bot to go through and fix those. I'm guessing this has been an issue before on other pages so a bot probably already exists that can do it, right? - Lilac Soul ( talk • contribs • count) • I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 22:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Is it possible for a bot to find any article with {{F1-stub}} in the article mainspace, and produce the following statement in the article's talkpage if not already there -- {{WikiProject Formula One|class=stub}} ?
I am manually classifying these articles, and this will simply make a multitude of obvious stubs (there are many) faster and easier to classify.
Please let me know. Guroadrunner ( talk) 03:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I think it would help us all if it were possible to point out to various projects and other collaborations which articles that fall within their scope are currently assessed as Stub or Start class and also as Top importance by some project, their own or not. Would there be any way of getting a list of the Stub-Class/Top-importance and Start-Class/Top-importance articles according to the current assessments? I could then break it down so that many/most projects would see which articles they deal with might be good potential collaborations. John Carter ( talk) 19:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see archived ANI thread for details. In short, Gary King ( talk · contribs) used what seems to be an unauthorized AWB-bot to categorize articles in the uncategorized articles backlog. However, the resulting categorization suffers from serious problems: overly broad categories, incorrect categories, failure to recognize articles that need to be sent to some deletion process, etc. In short: all these articles should be returned to the backlog. I have suggested two solutions: use a bot to rollback all the categorization done by this bot or create a temporary Category:Categorization needs to be redone (or something like that) and populate it by identifying the edits of Gary King's bot. The latter solution is probably better since rolling back the edits of the bot will return articles to maintenance categories that have since been deleted such as Category:Uncategorized from December 2007. I know that this will be a bit of a headache but we need an automated way of fixing this. We're talking about at least a thousand, maybe two thousand articles so doing this manually is not an option, and categorization of uncategorized articles is an important filter of junk and one of the most effective ways of making sure that articles are not lost in Wikipedia nowhere land. Pichpich ( talk) 16:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
User:MZMcBride created a list here User:MZMcBride/Sandbox 8 of all pages in the userspace that don't have a registered user associated with them. i.e there is no User:X in Special:Listusers for page User:X/sandox. This is generally frowned upon since these pages don't have a user who they belong to. There is somewhat of a consensus at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Page_move_.2F_delete_cleanup that this task would be too lengthy to manage by hand. So I'm filing the following bot request:
Phase 1
A bot should scan the page history of each page, and move it to the userspace of the editor who has made more than 50% of the edits, so long as that user is also the page creator. If a person has made more than 50% of edits and is NOT the creator, it should be outputed to a special list. Restricted pasges such as monobook.js should result in the creating user receiving a notice to their talk page that this page will be deleted in so many days, as only admins would be able to access it.
Phase 2
All remaining pages should be scanned, and the creating user and anyone whose made more than 33% of the edits should be notified that this page will be deleted on X date and that they should copy any information they need from it or go to page Y and explain why the page should be kept.
This should deal with 90%+ of these pages and leave the really tough ones, like those where the creator is a bot or an IP address (old days), etc for admins to deal with by hand.
MBisanz
talk 06:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if there is a bot that searches for the use of "a" when it should be "an". If not could someone make a bot for me? Thanks 55david ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for answering I would willing to check over each edit a semi-automated bot would make. Considering this how hard would the programming be? 55david ( talk) 23:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok thanks for the answers Ill try and request AWB after I edit a bit more. 55david t 03:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Template:Deletable image-caption is used when an image is listed for deletion for whatever reason, mostly nowadays for lack of fairuse rationales. However, while people often fix the rationales, the article pages still list the images as being for deletion. Is it possible for a bot to check the image this is captioned in and if there is no longer a problem with the image, remove it? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 22:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Per the discussion at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Area_code_footer, could someone program their bot to move
Template:Area code footer to the "External links" section of every article it is transcluded in? An "External links" section will need to be created in most articles. If the bot could also place wikilinks to
List of NANP area codes and
North American Numbering Plan in the "See also section" of each article, that would be helpful.
Thank you,
--
JKeene (
talk) 23:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Most of the images in this category are not {{ PD-AM-exempt}} and some of them have got also problem with source. Who can help to tag them as No-license and No-source? Alex Spade ( talk) 12:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Exceptions:
Alex Spade ( talk) 12:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok. I've put subst:nld on problem images. If some bot will notify uploader, it will be good. Alex Spade ( talk) 08:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Deadbot has been offline for 3 months now, and we're sorely missing it at DEP. We'd dearly love a bot that could handle a few (hopefully!) simple tasks Deadbot used to do:
To see how Deadbot was marking the pages, take a look at this diff. You may notice that Deadbot was also adding notations for unref, uncat, etc. Nice, but definitely low priority for the project.
Deadbot used to run twice a day, but even running twice a week would be enormously helpful to the project. We're drowning with the manual maintenance of the list.
*Lists are found at Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/A-C, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/D-F, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/G-K, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/L-O, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/P-T, and Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/U-Z
Thanks!-- Fabrictramp ( talk) 15:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I would be very grateful if a friendly bot operator could tag the 220 or so categories listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 February 25#Category:American bassoonists by genre and similar categories. The appropriate template for "Fooian barplayers by genre" would appear to be {{subst:cfm|Fooian barplayers|Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 February 25#Category:American bassoonists by genre and similar categories}}, but I suspect someone here has done this type of thing before and so knows what to do anyway! Please let me know if there's a problem, or if this is the wrong place to ask. Many thanks, Bencherlite Talk 01:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. The page on Evolution has a long-term problem with a serial vandal who replaces the entire article with a large chunk of the bible eg diff and diff. This has been going on, with about a hundred sockpuppet accounts list, for over a year. Would it be possible to write a bot to watch for this specific edit to this specific page and revert it as soon as it occurs? Tim Vickers ( talk) 18:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
The page is permanently semi-protected, the vandal registers a set of accounts from an IP, waits until they can edit the page and then uses a set of 3-5 throwaway accounts to vandalise the article and its talk page. So far we've hardblocked a few IPs, but they just seem to move to another. I'm hoping that if they are unable to vandalise the main article, they will lose interest. Tim Vickers ( talk) 19:08, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
User:Ardfern has recently created at my last count 530 of the standard Category:YEAR in COUNTRY categories. Since I don't want to personally patrol every last one of them, and since they are all valid categories, and since I vouch for his creations, I was hoping someone could create a bot to go through and patrol them all to help clear the backlog. -- Hemlock Martinis ( talk) 20:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and I'd love to be an admin! Editor of the wiki 19:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Done I finished this a few days ago as a one-time pass. If somebody can go through the channels to get a page setup for a regular pass, I'm willing to go through the bot approval process for it. -- Auto ( talk / contribs) 01:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Anytime now, the previous thread will be archived. So I'm taking the liberty of renewing this important request:
The fact is that Gary King has undone only a handful of these automatic categorizations. I know this might be a bit more work than the usual bot requests presented here but we could really use the help. Thank you, Pichpich ( talk) 21:16, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Two weeks ago, I posted a request which got no feedback at all. No offense taken for being ignored of course, but since I still think it would be a valuable task and one that should be easy enough to do automatically, I'm taking the liberty of reposting it. If it's a silly idea, then by all means let me know! Pichpich ( talk) 02:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requested moves#Incomplete and contested proposals - re: proposed changes/moves of usage of {{ Scientology}} and {{ Scientology}} and {{ WikiProject Scientology}}. Your help/expertise in finding some quick way to fix the redirects of {{ Scientology}}, to directly instead be to {{ WikiProject Scientology}}, would be greatly appreciated. Cirt ( talk) 21:29, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
What about these ? Cirt ( talk) 22:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
In the past (and this week), we've had users who invoke the WP:RTV, have their accounts renamed to something vanish-ish like Vanished User or Hiding, etc. They then use that new name to go and refactor all occurences of their real life or former user name to that. I've seen at least a couple instances where it breaks the formatting of a conversation, etc. So would it be possible to get a VanishBot. Basically a person who wants to vanish, puts in a request to be renamed, etc. Once their renamed, the bot would go around and refactor all the occurances, using their contribution history and some sort of google/mediawiki search filter. This seems like a cleaner and more formal alternative to the rather adhoc and messy current system. MBisanz talk 18:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
An experienced user might easily have over 5,000 talk page edits, and you'd send a bot crawling through archives to change all of those? Doesn't appear justified, and the case is nowhere near the same urgency as oversight. EdJohnston ( talk) 16:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)Work on the project - Your work, including 'signatures' (text indicating your authorship of comments) on all but your own user and talk pages, will usually not be changed or removed. To change these would be a major source of disruption. Individual revisions of individual pages that contain personally identifying information may be oversighted instead.
Relisting: Please replace all "{{ADB|" with "{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|" in the less than 200 articles that still use the short form which was/is subject to confusion among Australian Dictionary of Biography, Dictionary of Australian Biography and Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, and the templates used for them. Thanks in advance! -- Matthead Discuß 18:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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Can someone make a bot that can 'read' through an article and decide what spelling it appears to be using? For example if it mainly uses British spellings of words, one would conclude that the article is using British English and place such a tag at the top of the article (see my proposal at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (spelling)#A proposal to make spelling use clearer). It could give the percentages of words using each spelling as an output. It's difficult for a human to do this because reading takes time, and it's hard to find words that indicate the spelling being used. A list of most such words would be necessary for creating the bot, of course (see e.g. WP:MOSS for a short list), which I'm sure would be available somewhere. Just a British/American version would be a good start, as those are the main two varieties when it comes to spelling (and most familiar; if I said an article was written in New Zealand English many wouldn't know whether that was closer to British or American). Richard001 ( talk) 22:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
I realize that there are multiple bots already performing tasks on this page, but I was wondering how the BAG feels about one more. Basically, I have already been moving categories using AWB, and after clicking "save" 100-200 times, it gets a bit repetitious. Since AWB has the necessary functions already programmed in, I would not have to do any programming (good, considering I know nothing more than some VB.NET, not enough to make a bot). Obviously there may be room for another bot, as if there weren't, I (a non-bot) would not have been able to get in an edit. My ultimate question, what is the likelihood of the BAG giving a bot flag to such a bot account? -- Vox Rationis ( Talk | contribs) 22:29, 12 January 2008
I'm pretty sure this is work for a bot. I was wondering if a bot would be able to search
Category:Green Bay Packers articles by quality to see which pages have {{
dyktalk}} on them and then give me a list of those articles. I think there is only about 6 or 7 articles that do but there are 960 articles in the category and it would be a lot of work to search by hand. Thanks in advance!
Gonzo fan2007
talk ♦
contribs 23:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible for someone to assess Category:Unassessed China-related articles (tagged {{ WPCHINA}}) by both class and importance? Thanks. Maork ( talk) 11:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Request that {{WikiProject Mexico|class=|importance=}} be added to the talk page of all articles not currently containing it from the following categories.
I would like the bot to tag all articles in the Category:Athens including all the subcategories: Category:Areas of Athens, Category:Buildings and structures in Athens, Category:Museums in Athens, Category:Sports venues in Athens, Category:Athens Olympic venues, Category:Culture in Athens, Category:Sport in Athens, Category:Education in Athens, Category:Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Greece, Category:Neighbourhoods in Athens, Category:Mayors of Athens, Category:People from Athens, Category:Ancient Athenians, Category:Kings of Athens, Category:Metics in Athens, Category:Streets in Athens, Category:Squares in Athens, Category:Transport in Athens, Category:Athens Metro, Category:Athens Metro stations, Category:Naval battles involving Athens, Category:Battles involving Athens, Category:Dukes of Athens, Category:Duchy of Athens. By adding |athens-task-force=yes to the current {{WPGR|class=|importance=}} El Greco( talk) 18:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
One of the problems several WikiProjects have is keeping up with the new articles relevant to their project constatly being created. The only way I know how to easily see which new articles haven't been tagged is to go through them and see which haven't been tagged, which can be problematic. This proposal, I think, might help alleviate those concerns, if it is possible.
The WikiProjects in question can tag the talk pages of categories they believe contain items all of which will be relevant to their project.
Category:Luxembourg's articles should all be relevant to that nation, for example.
Would there be any way to have a bot run through articles in categories which have already been tagged as directly relevant to a given project and place the appropriate banner on the talk pages of those articles which don't yet have the project banners?
If yes, then I can encourage several of the projects to tag categories for use in this function. I realize it is potentially a staggering task, but it is the only way I can think of for projects to keep track of newly created articles relevant to their project that they aren't necessarily informed of. Thank you for any and all responses.
John Carter (
talk) 15:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
This bot would tag pages with the project template.... and also note links to any GA/FA's the article went through. Anyone know how to code it?? -- Solumeiras talk 17:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello Bot requests team, I was wondering if someone would be able to run a bot through Category:Scottish clans and ALL (I've checked) its subcategories and tag the talk pages with the project banner - Template:WikiProject Clans of Scotland? This would mean editting in {{WikiProject Clans of Scotland|class=|importance=}} to the top of talk pages as standard. If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me. -- Jza84 · ( talk) 15:18, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Category:Scottish chiefs, Category:Scoto-Norman clans, Category:Clan Comyn, Category:Clan Grant, Category:Clan Campbell, Category:Clan Bruce, Category:Clan Bruce (Ghana), Category:Clan Comyn, Category:Clan Donald, Category:Clan Fraser, Category:Clan Grant, Category:Clan Henderson, Category:Clan MacDougall, Category:Clan Napier.
Hi all - I think it would be a useful addition to WP's "punctuation police" to have a bot regularly removing apostrophes from decades. I for one get annoyed reading of things that occurred "in the 1920's and 1930's" and the like, and I think it would be a pretty simple to program a bot to look for "the 19?0's" and remove the apostrophe. Grutness... wha? 09:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm bringing this here because it got archived before anyone listened to me. How bout a bot that creates articles on French towns with insee and the fr Wikipedia as a source? Editorofthewiki ( talk) 19:51, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I think I proposed this a while ago to no avail, but... I and other admins closing WP:AFD discussions would really appreciate a bot that automatically relists discussions that have been tagged with the {{ relist}} template. Doing it manually is a bother, particularly since the large AfD pages take quite some time to load. Thanks, Sandstein ( talk) 21:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Many times a user wiki-links a common term that is actually a redirect to the primary spelling. This is fine, so long as the redirect isn't turned into a disambig or article about the actual common term. While we have a bot that goes through and corrects double redirects, I'm wondering if a bot that went through and pointed articles at the redirect target, might reduce the redirect aging issue. It should only do it for article-space wikilinks that point at redirects. I'm not seeing any issue, since the re-linking would be hidden thanks to wiki-markeup magic MBisanz talk 05:44, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
On the same subject, why is the talk page of a redirected article not automatically redirected? We have to place a page move request and wait, wait. Please create a robot that will immediately move the talk page of a renamed/redirected article. Thanks. Emmanuelm ( talk) 16:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
On yet a similar note, why don't we have bot, or part of AWB, that redirect (and name) of links to their correct name. An example would be changing Gamecube → GameCube, SONY → Sony (Correct Capitalization), and Encyclopaedia Britannica → Encyclopædia Britannica (unicode name). The primary purpose here would be to make sure the correct title are used for links. — Dispenser ( talk) 03:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! I am asking for a bot to tag all articles in Category:Cricketers by nationality and its sub categories with {{WP Cricket|class=|importance=}} as long as the tag doesn't already exist. There are some glaring ommissions in the coverage of the wikiprojects tag, including some current players and coaches from the top teams in the world, despite some of the articles being quite well developed. It would be very much appreciated, thank you!
Could a bot add {{Portal|Professional wrestling|break=yes}} to all the articles in Category:WikiProject Professional wrestling articles? TJ Spyke 01:14, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm looking for bot script that automatically scans and moves pages from categories marked with {{ categoryredirect}} to the correct category. I'm planning to run such a bot on id.wiki. I asked User:selket to share the bot script, but still no answer. He owns User:Selketbot which the only bot I know so far that run such a program. Can anyone help me? borgx ( talk) 01:58, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
In order to clean up the confused use of three templates for the different Dictionary of Australian Biography and Australian Dictionary of Biography, a migration of wrong uses away from {{ Australian Dictionary of Biography}} has been done, mainly manually it seems (my former request was archived).
Now I request the help of a bot to replace all remaining uses of the abbreviated template name "ADB" to the proper "Australian Dictionary of Biography" in order to avoid future confusion. Please replace " {{ADB|" with "{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|" in the less than 200 articles that still use the short form. Thanks in advance! -- Matthead DisOuß 16:14, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I’m not sure if this is possible . . . probably because I’m not entirely clear on how these bots operate. Would it be possible for a bot to continuously (or at intervals) look through the
Articles for deletion Logs and place a
Transclusion of any deletion discussions for articles that are tagged with
Template:Contemporary music on a subpage of
WikiProject Contemporary music? Because of the highly specialist nature of these pages, and because there are relatively few of them it would be very helpful for all concerned if a bot could compile these discussions for us. Thanks, --
S.dedalus (
talk) 00:09, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
If it would be possible to replace the current {{ WikiProject Chad}} and {{ WikiProject South Africa}} on talk pages with {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Chad=yes}} and {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|South Africa=yes}}, respectively, retaining any existing assessment information from either, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 19:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
{{
AfricaProject}}
rather than expending hundreds of database write requests in changing them. If these projects ever start up again the banners can be easily separated out again. I have done the Chad one - let me know if you think this is ok.
Happy‑
melon 19:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Chad}}
this is exactly what I've done, and what you can do for all the others. You might want to check the wording outside the <onlyinclude> tags - I'm not sure I've summarised the situation correctly.
Happy‑
melon 19:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)Can a bot please deal with Category:Articles needing coordinates from January 08? The pages there all have {{Locateme|date=January 08}}, and the 08 needs to be fixed to 2008. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I know that this will be questioned, but it would really help for the new Africa project banner to have a list of all the subcats of Category:Africa. Please place the content at User:John Carter/Africa categories. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 16:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
It would be useful if a bot could automatically alphabetize 'see also' sections and disambiguation pages. Disambiguation pages would be a little more complicated on account of the different subheadings - each subheading should probably be in the proper alphabetical order and each item under each subheading should also. Do you think this is doable? It's a drag to do manually. ---- Seans Potato Business 23:12, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Most of the articles linked from this template use some sort of hand-made infobox thing. It is just awful. Could a bot be created that converts the articles to the correct infobox? Timneu22 ( talk) 14:47, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
See M:Talk:Migration to the new preprocessor #problem with comments on the same line as section headings. Can someone create a bot to fix all headings edited by User:Anchor Link Bot? Specifically I want a bot that adds a new line between the end of a heading and Anchor Link Bot's comment. The bot made over 9,000 edits so I don't particularly want to fix them by hand. Graham 87 02:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Please see also This discussion. The question has arisen as to whether it would be possible to have a Bot that counts Support, Oppose, and Neutral !votes for a candidate for Adminship, then updates a tally on that page showing the counts. A bot exists which updates a report on all RfAs, but we were thinking of a bot that would add an inline tally for each individual RfA. The tallys for current RfAs are plaintext, and are updated manually by whichever editor feels the need to do so. Thanks in advance, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 20:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Category:Song articles missing an audio sample lists all the song articles that do not have an audio sample. This is indicated by the lack of | Audio sample? = yes in the infobox. However, some songs do have a sample, but either | Audio sample? = yes has not been added to the box, or the box still says | Audio sample? = no (either scenario will add the article to the category). Can someone make a bot that can detect if the article contains any the templates {{ extra musicsample}}, {{ listen}}, or {{ Multi-listen item}} and then add | Audio sample? = yes to the infobox?--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 18:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
I would like help creating a bot that would automatically remind people, who miss more than 10 edit summaries a day with this message template: {{ Summary}}. It would also edit the edit summary - (is this possible?) and add: "Added to __________" <--- (section name they added to)) or something else. Hopefully someone can help out! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 22:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Within the scope of WikiProject Formula One, there are 803 race report articles, each of which contains a results table with a standard set of columns. A recent discussion at WP:F1 has decided that one of the column titles should be changed from "Team" to "Constructor". Rather than edit all 803 articles manually(!) we thought it would be more efficient to get a bot to make the change. I can provide further details (e.g. list of articles to be edited, exact change to be made) if someone is interested in taking up the task. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 00:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I would like the bot to tag all articles in the Category:Athens including all the subcategories: Category:Areas of Athens, Category:Buildings and structures in Athens, Category:Museums in Athens, Category:Sports venues in Athens, Category:Athens Olympic venues, Category:Culture in Athens, Category:Sport in Athens, Category:Education in Athens, Category:Foreign Archaeological Institutes in Greece, Category:Neighbourhoods in Athens, Category:Mayors of Athens, Category:People from Athens, Category:Ancient Athenians, Category:Kings of Athens, Category:Metics in Athens, Category:Streets in Athens, Category:Squares in Athens, Category:Transport in Athens, Category:Athens Metro, Category:Athens Metro stations, Category:Naval battles involving Athens, Category:Battles involving Athens, Category:Dukes of Athens, Category:Duchy of Athens. By adding |athens-task-force=yes to the current {{WPGR|class=|importance=}} El Greco( talk) 18:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello... It was recently brought to my attention that a bot that I help operate has been using a template syntax that is broken in with the new preprocessor. We've changed the bot so that all future uploads will be correct, but we're wondering if someone would be willing to help fix the past uploads. Essentially, the task boils down to scanning these images and replacing
{{self|GFDL-no-disclaimers|cc-by-sa-3.0{{!}}[[Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation]]}}
with:
{{GFDL-no-disclaimers}} {{cc-by-sa-3.0|[[Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation]]}}
Anyone able to help us with this? AndrewGNF ( talk) 18:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Please follow the (now undeleted) redirect to Talk:Tax protester/Request for comment/RfC, so the cross-name-space redirect can be properly "speedied". All refererences, even on user talk pages, must be redirected. My IE is broken, or I'd do it myself, using AWB. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
We'd like a bot tasked to automatically archive sections that are marked with the {{ Resolved}} template in Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve. -- I. Pankonin Review me! 01:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Can somebody make a bot that undoes any edits on User:jaytur1/Wiki points/list that is not made by that bot or me? -- Jay Lights! Camera! Action! 16:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
As Königsberg is a proper article now, all remaining [[Kaliningrad|Königsberg]] should be replaced. Thanks in advance. -- Matthead Discuß 01:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I have proposed at Wikipedia:IPtalk proposal to add the following template at the top of long user talk pages for anonymous IP addresses:
User:Shalom/Drafts and archives/Template:IPtalk
A bot may be programmed to do this, if the following two issues can be resolved:
For more information, please read Wikipedia:IPtalk proposal. Thank you. Shalom ( Hello • Peace) 20:12, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
As a result of this discussion, I'm guessing that the Wikipedia:Geographic references templates will be replaced by standard references. These templates are used in tens of thousands of US place articles, many of which have no reference sections, because the GRs link elsewhere. If the conversion takes place, could someone write a bot to add ==References==<br>{{reflist}} to all articles that have GR templates but no references section? One note, by the way: if this is done, it should be ensured that the reference sections go above the external links sections. Nyttend ( talk) 16:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
{{GR|#}}
with <ref>{{GR|#}}</ref>
, so that we can move the ref tags outside the template and thereby avoid numbering inconsistencies. If someone is interested in doing that, the migration shouldn't be too painful.
Happy‑
melon 19:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)I've just changed my username from Cedar-Guardian to Cedrus-Libani. But I intend to remove the redirect. Could a bot change all links to User:Cedar-Guardian or User talk:Cedar-Guardian to my new username, while keeping the same signature? Thank you. CG ( talk) 06:44, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on replacing Wikipedia:Bots/Status with a more intuitive system of templates that are cleaner, easier to use, and standard so that they could more easily be controlled by bots.
The foundation for the new system is over at User:Zenwhat/Sandbox. It's all finished, pretty much. The list just needs to be populated and the information proofread and verified.
I was going to start adding stuff manually by hand, but it occurred to me how much of a blatant waste of time it would be since it could be automated in a matter of minutes.
So, that's what I need ANYBODY to do:
This is automated editing, so shouldn't require any bot approval. If you need to wipe the existing list in order to create it, that's OK too.
Also, don't worry if it's not precise. I know that to fix stuff like putting the date in standard form, I'll probably have to do all that by hand. I just need the basic information wrapped within the template, so that it's easier to work with. ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 10:07, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
This article used to be about a UK TV station. It was moved to The Box (UK TV channel) due to their being a New Zealand TV channel with the same name. As a results, there are dozens of articles that link to The Box. Could a bot change all links to The Box (TV channel) to The Box (UK TV channel)? TJ Spyke 03:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could make a bot to search every article in a WikiProject {{ WikiProject Oregon}} for red links. I think there is a similar one for the entire encyclopedia. Then the output would be something like:
This would help to find high priority red links, as well as find instances of mis-titled links that may just need adjustment to become blue links, or even a need to standardize some red links that may have varying titles but really are the same thing. Thanks. Aboutmovies ( talk) 23:04, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Would anyone be able to generate for us a statistical table that shows key aspects about the articles in a category? The table would show, for any applicable articles within the category: article name and as much as is relevant/feasible: type of page protection, moves/RM, number of reverts, 3RR requests/results, RfC or 3PO and tags such as Disputed. Please let me know on my Talk if you might be able to create the table. Here's a prototype of the table that we've started to do manually. (FYI, the categories sought include Category:Israel and Category:Palestine, for this Wikiproject.) Thanks very much. Please reply to my talk if possible, HG | Talk 10:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Frequently a person or company will decide they deserve an article on Wikipedia. They'll create an account in the form of "company x" or "John D" and then create an article "Company X Inc." and "John Delorean". I'm looking for a bot that would scan NewPages and output a list to WP:COIN or WP:COIN/Bot that lists article that have 4 or more characters in the same order as the creating username. So Ryan Youens created by User:RyanYouens will be picked up, but the hypothetical article MANS BIZ created by User:MBisanz wouldn't be picked up. Its sorta like Coren's Search Bot, only without the tagging aspect. MBisanz talk 09:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
When we are talking about ref... We should have a bot that check for the removal of named refs and if that removal leaves any <ref name="aname" /> tags that subsequently break with "Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named facts_and_figures". It is a common problem that can be confusing for the less experienced users and at times remain for in articles for weeks on end. -- TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 11:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Can someone program a bot to correct some redirect links for me? Though I'd like to know if I can list a couple of those right here. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 03:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Request that the articles in the categories below each get tagged with the following template: {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Western Sahara=yes|Western Sahara-importance=}}:
A recent run by BCBot slammed our WikiProject with thousands of unassessed articles after having less than a hundred for months. BCBot has already assessed the articles that were assessed from another project. Any way I can get a bot run on Category:Unassessed college football articles that will automatically assess articles "Stub" class if they contain some form of stub template on the main article page?↔ NMajdan• talk 17:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Anybody?↔ NMajdan• talk 04:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I know, I'm being annoying/persistent. In addition to the request to tag articles as stubs if they are in a stub cat, I'm going through some articles and I'm seeing many that are not assessed for WP:CFB but are assessed for other projects. I thought BCBot took care of this last week? Anyway I can get another run of this?↔ NMajdan• talk 21:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Summary: Maybe re-summarizing my request will get it going. Run the bot that assesses articles that have been assessed by other projects on Category:Unassessed college football articles. Run a bot through Category:College football stubs and Category:American football biography stubs and if the WikiProject College football banner already exists, then assess as stub. Do not add any articles in the categories to the WikiProject. Thanks.↔ NMajdan• talk 19:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
I think it would be nice to link the categories of Foo albums and Foo songs. Example Category:Tracy Chapman albums and Category:Tracy Chapman songs. There's overwhelming precedent to keep eponymous categories to a minimum. That makes sense but people browsing these categories would probably like to flip from one to the other. For an example of what I think would be nice see my edits to Category:Beck albums and Category:Beck songs. Sure, small task. But worthwhile I think. I suppose this could be done through AWB or some author semi-automated script or other method but a bot would be able to maintain this in the future. Pichpich ( talk) 04:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Another proposed bot task. There was talk sometime ago at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Categories/uncategorized#Dregs_at_the_months_end to use Alaibot ( talk · contribs) (or some other bot) to populate a category of undercategorized articles. A whole bunch of articles are categorized solely in categories which are not intended for browsing, such as Category:Living people, Category:XXXX births, Category:XXXX deaths or Category:XXXX albums. These articles are often lost in Wikipedia neverland and it would be nice to identify them for cleanup purposes. There are probably thousands of these articles and there's really no rush in identifying them all in one go but a bot could periodically add a few hundred to something like Category:Undercategorized albums or Category:Undercategorized people so that the relevant WikiProjects could fix them. Pichpich ( talk) 17:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Easy one: can some friendly bot populate Category:Sega arcade games? This should simply be the intersection of Category:Arcade games and Category:Sega games. CatScan says there are 129 of them in depth 1, which should do for now (maybe go to depth 2 for the Sega games category since there are subcats like Category:OutRun. Thanks, Pichpich ( talk) 00:01, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
OK, I want to change the taxon "Homobasidiomycetes" to the more current Agaricomycetes in articles on fungi (the former already redirects to the latter), but it's used in so many taxoboxes that according to Special:Whatlinkshere/Homobasidiomycetes, there are some 270 pages that need to be changed. Clearly, I need some kind of automated assistant to do this. Can anybody set up a bot account for me to do this, or run one of their own bots to make this change? Thanks, Peter G Werner ( talk) 18:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Request that the articles in the following categories be tagged with the following banner: {{ChristianityWikiProject|class=|importance=|indian-work-group=yes}}
Category:Archbishops of Kottayam; Category:Archbishops of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Changanassery; Category:Archdiocese of Changanassery; Category:Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly; Category:Archdiocese of Kottayam; Category:Archdiocese of Tellicherry; Category:Archdiocese of Thrissur; Category:Baptist churches in India; Category:Baptist churches in Tripura; Category:Basilica churches in India; Category:Bishops of Calcutta; Category:Bishops of Medak; Category:Cathedrals in India; Category:Christian missionaries in India; Category:Christian missions in India; Category:Christianity in India; Category:Christianity in Kolkata; Category:Christianity in Tripura; Category:Churches in India; Category:Churches in Mumbai; Category:Indian bishops; Category:Indian cardinals; Category:Indian clergy; Category:Indian Christians; Category:Indian Methodists; Category:Indian nuns; Category:Indian Orthodox Church; Category:Indian priests; Category:Indian Protestants; Category:Indian Quakers; Category:Indian Roman Catholic bishops; Category:Indian Roman Catholic priests; Category:Indian Roman Catholics; Category:Methodist missionaries in India; Category:Mormon missionaries in India; Category:Roman Catholic Church in India; Category:Roman Catholic churches in India; Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in India; Category:Sadar North Baptist Association; Category:Saint Thomas Christians; Category:Saint Thomas Christians people; Category:Seminaries and theological colleges in India; Category:Syro-Malabar archbishops; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholic Archbishops of Ernakulam-Angamaly; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholic Church; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholic dioceses; Category:Syro-Malabar Catholics; Category:Tripura Baptist Christian Union;
Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 18:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Request that the talk pages of articles in the following categories be tagged with {{WPReligion|class=|importance=|Interfaith=yes|InterfaithImp=}}:
Category:Abrahamic religions; Category:Albigensian Crusade; Category:Anti-Buddhism; Category:Anti-Catholicism; Category:Anti-Christianity; Category:Anti-Defamation League; Category:Anti-Gnosticism; Category:Anti-Hinduism; Category:Anti-Islam activists; Category:Anti-Islam sentiment; Category:Anti-Jewish pogroms; Category:Anti-Judaism; Category:Anti-Protestantism; Category:Antisemitic attacks and incidents; Category:Antisemitic canards; Category:Antisemitic forgeries; Category:Antisemitic propaganda; Category:Antisemitic publications; Category:Antisemitism; Category:Blood libel; Category:British Israelism; Category:Buddhist converts to Catholicism; Category:Carbonari; Category:Catholic converts; Category:Catholic converts by religion; Category:Catholic ecumenical and interfaith relations; Category:Catholicism and Freemasonry; Category:Christian and Jewish interfaith topics; Category:Christian ecumenism; Category:Christian interfaith and secular relations; Category:Classical elements; Category:Comparative Buddhism; Category:Comparative mythology; Category:Concepts of Heaven; Category:Conversion of non-Muslim places of worship into mosques; Category:Conversion to Christianity; Category:Converts from Judaism to Anglicanism; Category:Converts from Judaism to Christianity; Category:Converts from Judaism to Islam; Category:Converts from Judaism to Roman Catholicism; Category:Conversion to Islam; Category:Converts to Anglicanism; Category:Converts to Buddhism; Category:Converts to Christian Science; Category:Converts to Christianity; Category:Converts to Eastern Orthodox Christianity; Category:Converts to Hinduism; Category:Converts to Islam; Category:Converts to Scientology; Category:Converts to Sikhism; Category:Converts to Zoroastrianism; Category:Creation myths; Category:Creation stories; Category:Criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses; Category:Criticism of Mormonism; Category:Crusade literature; Category:Crusades; Category:Crypto-Judaism; Category:Culture heroes; Category:Exilarchs; Category:Former Muslims; Category:Former Roman Catholics; Category:Groups who converted to Judaism; Category:Hell; Category:Hindu clan conversions to Islam; Category:Hinduism and other religions; Category:Interfaith Dialog; Category:Islam and antisemitism; Category:Islam and other religions; Category:Islamic and Jewish interfaith topics; Category:Jainism and other religions; Category:Jews and Judaism and pluralism; Category:Jewish tribes of Arabia; Category:Jews for Jesus; Category:Judeo-Christian topics; Category:Judeo-Islamic topics; Category:Life after death; Category:Lists of religious converts; Category:Metaphysical cosmology; Category:Monomyths; Category:Muhammad and the Jews; Category:Muslim converts to Catholicism; Category:Mythemes; Category:Mythological archetypes; Category:Mythological cosmologies; Category:National councils of churches; Category:Nazi antisemitic propaganda films; Category:People executed for refusing to convert to Islam; Category:People of the Albigensian Crusade; Category:Persecution of Bahá'ís; Category:Persecution of early Christians; Category:Pluralistic Jewish day schools; Category:Prophecy; Category:Regional councils of churches; Category:Reincarnation; Category:Reincarnation research; Category:Religious comparison; Category:Religious conversion; Category:Religious conversion in India; Category:Religious converts; Category:Religious cosmologies; Category:Religious discrimination; Category:Religious persecution; Category:Religious pluralism; Category:Sahaba; Category:Scholars of antisemitism; Category:Victims of Anti-Catholicism;
Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 17:59, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Just a thought: wondering if there was a bot able to change incorrectly marked [<insert page name here>]] and [[<insert page name here>] to [[<insert page name here>]]. I've noticed this a lot around here recently. Editorofthewiki ( talk) 21:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I have constructed a minimal web-based variant of pywikipedia. It can run pywikipedia scripts with little modification. Would anybody like their script(s) to be ported to this framework? — Dispenser 20:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
“ | The toolserver's database is read-only — tools can't directly update Wikimedia pages — so toolserver tools tend to be report-oriented. | ” |
— m:Toolserver/Introduction |
Since they wre deleted, I'd like for a bot to remove every instance of {{ TNTF}}, {{ TNTF2}}, {{ TrollWarning}} and this category from Wikipedia. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 16:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Trying to clean up Category:Professional associations by diffusing when appropriate. Could a bot remove the redundant Category:Professional associations from every member of the following categories
Please do not do the same for the other subcategories for now: I've only checked the three above for correctness. Thank you. Pichpich ( talk) 00:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Pichpich ( talk) 00:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
About a year ago, I did a lot of editing due to a municipal reform in Denmark. Many municipalities were edited, and in most of those, I wrote some text with this wikilink: Municipalities of Denmark#Municipality Reform 2007. That's fine, it used to work, however, the section name has now been changed to Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007. So I would like a bot to go through and fix those. I'm guessing this has been an issue before on other pages so a bot probably already exists that can do it, right? - Lilac Soul ( talk • contribs • count) • I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 22:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Is it possible for a bot to find any article with {{F1-stub}} in the article mainspace, and produce the following statement in the article's talkpage if not already there -- {{WikiProject Formula One|class=stub}} ?
I am manually classifying these articles, and this will simply make a multitude of obvious stubs (there are many) faster and easier to classify.
Please let me know. Guroadrunner ( talk) 03:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Since they wre deleted, I'd like for a bot to remove every instance of {{ TNTF}}, {{ TNTF2}}, {{ TrollWarning}} and this category from Wikipedia. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 16:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Trying to clean up Category:Professional associations by diffusing when appropriate. Could a bot remove the redundant Category:Professional associations from every member of the following categories
Please do not do the same for the other subcategories for now: I've only checked the three above for correctness. Thank you. Pichpich ( talk) 00:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Pichpich ( talk) 00:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
About a year ago, I did a lot of editing due to a municipal reform in Denmark. Many municipalities were edited, and in most of those, I wrote some text with this wikilink: Municipalities of Denmark#Municipality Reform 2007. That's fine, it used to work, however, the section name has now been changed to Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007. So I would like a bot to go through and fix those. I'm guessing this has been an issue before on other pages so a bot probably already exists that can do it, right? - Lilac Soul ( talk • contribs • count) • I'm watching this page so just reply to me right here! 22:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Is it possible for a bot to find any article with {{F1-stub}} in the article mainspace, and produce the following statement in the article's talkpage if not already there -- {{WikiProject Formula One|class=stub}} ?
I am manually classifying these articles, and this will simply make a multitude of obvious stubs (there are many) faster and easier to classify.
Please let me know. Guroadrunner ( talk) 03:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I think it would help us all if it were possible to point out to various projects and other collaborations which articles that fall within their scope are currently assessed as Stub or Start class and also as Top importance by some project, their own or not. Would there be any way of getting a list of the Stub-Class/Top-importance and Start-Class/Top-importance articles according to the current assessments? I could then break it down so that many/most projects would see which articles they deal with might be good potential collaborations. John Carter ( talk) 19:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see archived ANI thread for details. In short, Gary King ( talk · contribs) used what seems to be an unauthorized AWB-bot to categorize articles in the uncategorized articles backlog. However, the resulting categorization suffers from serious problems: overly broad categories, incorrect categories, failure to recognize articles that need to be sent to some deletion process, etc. In short: all these articles should be returned to the backlog. I have suggested two solutions: use a bot to rollback all the categorization done by this bot or create a temporary Category:Categorization needs to be redone (or something like that) and populate it by identifying the edits of Gary King's bot. The latter solution is probably better since rolling back the edits of the bot will return articles to maintenance categories that have since been deleted such as Category:Uncategorized from December 2007. I know that this will be a bit of a headache but we need an automated way of fixing this. We're talking about at least a thousand, maybe two thousand articles so doing this manually is not an option, and categorization of uncategorized articles is an important filter of junk and one of the most effective ways of making sure that articles are not lost in Wikipedia nowhere land. Pichpich ( talk) 16:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
User:MZMcBride created a list here User:MZMcBride/Sandbox 8 of all pages in the userspace that don't have a registered user associated with them. i.e there is no User:X in Special:Listusers for page User:X/sandox. This is generally frowned upon since these pages don't have a user who they belong to. There is somewhat of a consensus at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Page_move_.2F_delete_cleanup that this task would be too lengthy to manage by hand. So I'm filing the following bot request:
Phase 1
A bot should scan the page history of each page, and move it to the userspace of the editor who has made more than 50% of the edits, so long as that user is also the page creator. If a person has made more than 50% of edits and is NOT the creator, it should be outputed to a special list. Restricted pasges such as monobook.js should result in the creating user receiving a notice to their talk page that this page will be deleted in so many days, as only admins would be able to access it.
Phase 2
All remaining pages should be scanned, and the creating user and anyone whose made more than 33% of the edits should be notified that this page will be deleted on X date and that they should copy any information they need from it or go to page Y and explain why the page should be kept.
This should deal with 90%+ of these pages and leave the really tough ones, like those where the creator is a bot or an IP address (old days), etc for admins to deal with by hand.
MBisanz
talk 06:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if there is a bot that searches for the use of "a" when it should be "an". If not could someone make a bot for me? Thanks 55david ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for answering I would willing to check over each edit a semi-automated bot would make. Considering this how hard would the programming be? 55david ( talk) 23:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok thanks for the answers Ill try and request AWB after I edit a bit more. 55david t 03:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Template:Deletable image-caption is used when an image is listed for deletion for whatever reason, mostly nowadays for lack of fairuse rationales. However, while people often fix the rationales, the article pages still list the images as being for deletion. Is it possible for a bot to check the image this is captioned in and if there is no longer a problem with the image, remove it? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 22:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Per the discussion at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Area_code_footer, could someone program their bot to move
Template:Area code footer to the "External links" section of every article it is transcluded in? An "External links" section will need to be created in most articles. If the bot could also place wikilinks to
List of NANP area codes and
North American Numbering Plan in the "See also section" of each article, that would be helpful.
Thank you,
--
JKeene (
talk) 23:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Most of the images in this category are not {{ PD-AM-exempt}} and some of them have got also problem with source. Who can help to tag them as No-license and No-source? Alex Spade ( talk) 12:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Exceptions:
Alex Spade ( talk) 12:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok. I've put subst:nld on problem images. If some bot will notify uploader, it will be good. Alex Spade ( talk) 08:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Deadbot has been offline for 3 months now, and we're sorely missing it at DEP. We'd dearly love a bot that could handle a few (hopefully!) simple tasks Deadbot used to do:
To see how Deadbot was marking the pages, take a look at this diff. You may notice that Deadbot was also adding notations for unref, uncat, etc. Nice, but definitely low priority for the project.
Deadbot used to run twice a day, but even running twice a week would be enormously helpful to the project. We're drowning with the manual maintenance of the list.
*Lists are found at Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/A-C, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/D-F, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/G-K, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/L-O, Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/P-T, and Wikipedia:Dead-end pages/U-Z
Thanks!-- Fabrictramp ( talk) 15:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I would be very grateful if a friendly bot operator could tag the 220 or so categories listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 February 25#Category:American bassoonists by genre and similar categories. The appropriate template for "Fooian barplayers by genre" would appear to be {{subst:cfm|Fooian barplayers|Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 February 25#Category:American bassoonists by genre and similar categories}}, but I suspect someone here has done this type of thing before and so knows what to do anyway! Please let me know if there's a problem, or if this is the wrong place to ask. Many thanks, Bencherlite Talk 01:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. The page on Evolution has a long-term problem with a serial vandal who replaces the entire article with a large chunk of the bible eg diff and diff. This has been going on, with about a hundred sockpuppet accounts list, for over a year. Would it be possible to write a bot to watch for this specific edit to this specific page and revert it as soon as it occurs? Tim Vickers ( talk) 18:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
The page is permanently semi-protected, the vandal registers a set of accounts from an IP, waits until they can edit the page and then uses a set of 3-5 throwaway accounts to vandalise the article and its talk page. So far we've hardblocked a few IPs, but they just seem to move to another. I'm hoping that if they are unable to vandalise the main article, they will lose interest. Tim Vickers ( talk) 19:08, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
User:Ardfern has recently created at my last count 530 of the standard Category:YEAR in COUNTRY categories. Since I don't want to personally patrol every last one of them, and since they are all valid categories, and since I vouch for his creations, I was hoping someone could create a bot to go through and patrol them all to help clear the backlog. -- Hemlock Martinis ( talk) 20:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and I'd love to be an admin! Editor of the wiki 19:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Done I finished this a few days ago as a one-time pass. If somebody can go through the channels to get a page setup for a regular pass, I'm willing to go through the bot approval process for it. -- Auto ( talk / contribs) 01:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Anytime now, the previous thread will be archived. So I'm taking the liberty of renewing this important request:
The fact is that Gary King has undone only a handful of these automatic categorizations. I know this might be a bit more work than the usual bot requests presented here but we could really use the help. Thank you, Pichpich ( talk) 21:16, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Two weeks ago, I posted a request which got no feedback at all. No offense taken for being ignored of course, but since I still think it would be a valuable task and one that should be easy enough to do automatically, I'm taking the liberty of reposting it. If it's a silly idea, then by all means let me know! Pichpich ( talk) 02:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requested moves#Incomplete and contested proposals - re: proposed changes/moves of usage of {{ Scientology}} and {{ Scientology}} and {{ WikiProject Scientology}}. Your help/expertise in finding some quick way to fix the redirects of {{ Scientology}}, to directly instead be to {{ WikiProject Scientology}}, would be greatly appreciated. Cirt ( talk) 21:29, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
What about these ? Cirt ( talk) 22:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
In the past (and this week), we've had users who invoke the WP:RTV, have their accounts renamed to something vanish-ish like Vanished User or Hiding, etc. They then use that new name to go and refactor all occurences of their real life or former user name to that. I've seen at least a couple instances where it breaks the formatting of a conversation, etc. So would it be possible to get a VanishBot. Basically a person who wants to vanish, puts in a request to be renamed, etc. Once their renamed, the bot would go around and refactor all the occurances, using their contribution history and some sort of google/mediawiki search filter. This seems like a cleaner and more formal alternative to the rather adhoc and messy current system. MBisanz talk 18:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
An experienced user might easily have over 5,000 talk page edits, and you'd send a bot crawling through archives to change all of those? Doesn't appear justified, and the case is nowhere near the same urgency as oversight. EdJohnston ( talk) 16:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)Work on the project - Your work, including 'signatures' (text indicating your authorship of comments) on all but your own user and talk pages, will usually not be changed or removed. To change these would be a major source of disruption. Individual revisions of individual pages that contain personally identifying information may be oversighted instead.
Relisting: Please replace all "{{ADB|" with "{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|" in the less than 200 articles that still use the short form which was/is subject to confusion among Australian Dictionary of Biography, Dictionary of Australian Biography and Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, and the templates used for them. Thanks in advance! -- Matthead Discuß 18:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC)