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I'm an admin at the Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL for short), now sometimes called ChoralWiki since it was ported to the wiki system in 2005. The site is a freely accessable archive of choral and solo vocal sheet music by public domain composers and modern composers who wish to release their work to the public. I'm not sure whether this is the correct place for my request for a bot for another wiki so if it isn't I would appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.
Basically, we over at CPDL would like a bot to mark broken links and do some (fairly simple) find and replace tasks. Of course, I would elaborate on these tasks if someone offers to help. No-one at CPDL has the necessary skill to create a bot and as the user base of Wikipedia is somewhat larger than CPDL, I thought I would ask over here. If there is anyone who has the necessary skill, time and willingness to design a bot for CPDL, I would be very grateful if they would get in touch. Of course, it may be possible for a bot that's currently in use over here at Wikipedia to be adapted for use at CPDL and if that's the case, I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of that bot's author. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Bobnotts talk 15:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for a bot that will monitor the feed at Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Requested_edits and post a summary report to a page that will be transcluded to WP:COIN. This will help us respond quicker to users who go to the trouble to not edit a page they have a conflict on. It would need to be run say once every 12 or 24 hours. MBisanz talk 10:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
I have made a template called The Random Button if you haven't ever heard of it. It is a collection of articles and I edit and update the page each day. But in the future, I will not be able to do this. Can a bot pick a random button article, and give the sneak previews, and update the article automatically? -- Nothing444 ( talk) 01:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I know one has been in the works, but was is the status of any archival bot that recognizes the {{ resolved}} template? Any change for a rollout soon? WP:GL is in dire need of one.↔ NMajdan• talk 15:13, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking, or hoping someone can make, a bot which will place a selected template globally across the talkpages of articles in a given category. I've discovered reams of articles which should have the Canada WikiProject and various subprojects on them and it's just too laborious going through them all placing templates by hand, page by page. Is there a way to automate this? Theoretically the bot should be able to recognize if the template is already present, if not then it would place it. The category that tweaked me off to this is Category:British Columbia school stubs where the template would be {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes|bc=yes}}. Is this at all possible, or am I going to have to recruit chimpanzees? Posted by Skootum1 ( talk)
Hi,
I apologize if this type of question has been asked and and answered before.
Yad Vashem--the central museum, memorial, and education center in Israel for the Holocaust--is cited in many, many articles and sections dealing with the Holocaust, Jewish History, anti-Semitism, etc. The thing is that it sometime it is spelled with upper-case "s": Yad VaShem, and sometimes with lower case "s": Yad Vashem. Both spellings within Wiki do point to the Vashem entry, so that aspect's OK.
But for consistency, especially for all the people who reference Wiki, could all uses of the word within entries be botically standardized to Vshem's?
Thanks,
--- Shlishke ( talk) 22:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
A bot that would check if images in the category Category:Orphaned fairuse images (and subcategories) are still orphaned, if they are not orphaned removed them from category. NanohaA'sYuri Talk, My master 18:31, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's index to Wikipedia has a large number of internal anchors (using "span id") so that links can be made to any major topic on the page, rather than to the index as a whole. (With the index being over 3000 lines, a link to just the index page, when answering a specific question, isn't that helpful). These anchors have been hidden; I'd like to make them explicit by using shortcuts.
My plan is to add the shortcuts to the Index page myself (I've done this for major topics starting with "A", as a demo/pilot), but I'd like to get a bot to actually create the redirect pages for these shortcuts. There will be a hundred or two of these. (Details of this idea are discussed at Wikipedia talk:Editor's index to Wikipedia#Proposed approach.)
The only thing that's perhaps a bit unusual is that the proposed shortcuts use the pseudo-namespace "EIW"; this was discussed at Wikipedia talk:Namespace#Procedure for creating a new pseudo-namespace?, and - after a bit of clarification - I believe there was no opposition to this. But I'm going to post a note regarding this proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals), so that if there are concerns or alternatives, they can be mentioned (here, preferably).
So, to return to the main question - would someone have a bot that can create these redirects? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I have a quick favor to ask someone with an idle bot. I would like to get a list of the articles in both Category:Baseball players and one of two major maintenance categories, namely Category:All articles lacking sources and Category:All articles with unsourced statements. If the results of the searches could be posted to my userspace, that would be awesome. Thanks, Caknuck ( talk) 20:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, fellow editors ... I have created a template that I'm using by hand now, but I think that several bots could use it as well ... please see
this talk page and tell me
what you think of my newly created {{
Oldprodfull}}
... would you use it, or update it if you encountered it?
Although it has 9 parameters, all of them are optional, and it "does the Right Thing" for display based on the input ... three user-ids (PROD, 2nd, and DECLINE) plus DATE and REASON for each of the three ... the idea is to insert the "boilerplate" with a PROD, and then the 2nd or declining editor add their own id, date, and reason.
Many editors do not even know that {{
Prod-2}}
exists, but this template will help document declined PRODs so that they won't get PRODed again after they have already been contested.
On a related matter, what are your thoughts on my proposed WP:FLAG-BIO and other flag templates?
Happy Editing! — 72.75.72.63 ( talk · contribs) 21:01, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
User Alternate Acct}}
userbox. <Heavy sigh!> —
The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome (
talk) 01:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)There are many articles that have a wrong layout of sections, See also, Notes, References, External Links.
I've been correcting these as I find them, but it'd be nice if a bot could list all the ones needing changes. This might be as simple as searching with a sophisticated regular expression, but I'm not sure. Mahanga Talk 03:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I would like something similar to MathBot. All I need it to do is count all Ohio related articles once a week or so. These articles would be found under Category:Ohio and its subcategories. Could this be possible?
Many thanks! §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 01:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys, I need the help from a bot and operator that can post templates on User talk pages - it'll be like a copy paste job thanks. The code will be the following
{| class="{{#ifeq:{{{nested|}}}|yes|collapsible collapsed messagebox nested-talk|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|messagebox small-talk|messagebox standard-talk}}}}"
|-
{{#ifeq:{{{nested|}}}|yes|
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center" {{!}} {{#if:{{{class|}}}| (Rated {{{class}}}-Class)}}
}}
|-
|align="center"|Hi, seeing from your recent contributions you have been fairly interested in the works of Raymond E. Feist. I am currently considering about starting a brand new Wiki-project (or maybe a task force) and will need your help – if you are interested could you please sign at [[WP:COUNCIL/P]]. Thanks very much ~~~~
|}
it'll show this:
I can't copy and paste it one by one because it'll take me for ages so I need your help! The user talk pages are listed below.
and as a token of thanks Ill give the helper a barnstar or something. Thanks PS there might be some more coming along Fattyjwoods ( Push my button) 06:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Alright then ill see if I can do it by hand Fattyjwoods ( Push my button) 02:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
It would be helpful to have a bot that would periodically go through all UCFD'd user categories and delete any members from them. This would speed up the WP:UCFD process in that editors wouldn't manually have to remove pages from the category (sometimes a tedious process requiring over 100 removals). As you can see here, there are several categories that have members in them that still need emptying, even from a long time ago. This would also help for those who re-add the category to their page after it has been deleted, as such actions disrupt Special:Wantedcategories in making it seem like the category should be recreated (which has happened several times before). There could be a fully-protected subpage in which admins could add user categories (along with a link to the UCFD or DRV authorizing deletion) which the bot would go through and see if anyone has on their userpage. If a userpage was protected, it would simply skip it and retry the next time it ran. VegaDark ( talk) 16:32, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
A request for the random tasks bots out there. I would like a bot that can go through the requests at the above page and if there has been no activity in each section in the last 10 days, add the following to the top of the section: {{Stale|1={{subst:plain now}}}} or {{Stale|1=~~~~}}. Thanks.↔ NMajdan• talk 20:10, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I can't seem to find one. I think a bot that auto corrects commonly misspelled words would be wonderful. I searched and found over 90,000* occurrences of "occured" in the article name space. (It's spelled occurred FYI.) I would be willing to be responsible for maintaining a list of words, and I do work as a programmer, but actually doing it on wikipedia is daunting. (Perhaps because I haven't looked into it enough). Mainly I think I don't know enough about "web friendly" languages.
*(ok, it's actually lower, wiki search automatically looks for commonly misspelled words, but there are still a lot of "occurences")
Bassg☢☢nist
Talk/
Contribs 17:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm wondering whether a bot could help me in identifying new sockpuppets of StealBoy ( talk · contribs). As some of you may know, this troll is incredibly persistent and has been creating hoax articles for over a year, possibly more. The list of his sockpuppets is too long to list and in fact, no admins really take the time to put the new puppets in the corresponding category, if only for WP:DENY reasons. Periodically, his semi-static IP is blocked for months and he returns once he gets a new IP. However, this guy has patterns which are very easy to spot: he creates only TV or film related hoaxes, almost invariably in the same time range, new puppets created have names with easy to identify patterns, anon edits are used to create links to the hoax articles and these links are always added to one of roughly twenty or so articles. So I was wondering if one of the tech-savy people here could periodically generate a list of suspicious edits/usernames. I do this manually from time to time by going through the list of new film-related articles and by spotting the IPs from a certain range on the aboved mentioned articles. If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to discuss privately the name patterns, IP range, articles which are usually vandalized and so on. Pascal.Tesson ( talk) 16:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
How can I run a bot to fix the many bare URLs in Antipsychiatry's footnotes? — Cesar Tort 23:33, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
See also User:DumZiBoT. Gimmetrow 04:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I came across this template {{ ACIDnom}} which is part of the Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive, a WikiProject that is now inactive. The template contains the phrase "The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive is now closed. Please remove this template." Unless I'm completely misunderstanding something, this template should be removed from each article talk page it is used on. But the template and a bunch of template-redirects are used on hundreds of pages. Perhaps a bot could quickly remove them all? Gnome de plume ( talk) 18:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I have changed my user name, and would like, for reasons of privacy, to edit the old signatures to my new one. Is it appropropriate to ask for a BOT to do so, or do I have to make the edits myself? I know the information will still be in the old histories, but would appreciate it if the average search didn't drag them up. My old user name should be determinable from my contribs, as I just moved some pages that referenced it, and I'dlike to not reference it any further. FrozenPurpleCube ( talk) 18:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I don't know how many people are aware but we are missing vast amounts of articles on towns and villages , and I mean VAST in a serious way -particularly on countries in the developing world, notably Latin America, Asia and Africa which comprises at least 85% of the world land cover. Given the enormous size and organization of wikipedia already, I would have thought that it was be an important goal for wikipedia to begin to address uneven coverage gegraphically and try to create an even coverage of the world like a neutral encyclopedia should, at least articles with a locator map and some basic details for starters as a reference point. I do a lot of work adding new articles on settlements using the same sources each time. I am certain a bot could be programmed to blue link articles on places by country and give the encyclopedia something of enormous benefit for people to try to work on. Given the sheer amount missing by now I;d be expecting wikipedia to be drilling bots to create these articles on a daily basis, but bots rarely seem to be taken to their full advantage and used to generate new articles, with the exception of the polbot and gene bots which run from time to time. Could somebody please explain how this could be done? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Well the nearest thing I;ve found is the list at MSN Encarta. e.g Nigeria which lists towns and villages by country but it isn't a proper source. Now I am aware that some of the place names are slightly differnetly transliterated or dated in places, I remember Darwinek discussing this, but when I've been creating articles I've been checking at least three or four others websites such as maplandia, google maps etc to try to get some authority that they are accurate names and I have to say that 99% of what I;ve come across seems to give some standard assertion that it is very accurate. I;m not certain if every places will meet everybody's notability requirements but they are all populated settlements which I believe the vast majority of could be written into informative articles. I think it would strengthen the encyclopedia considerably to begin to address the uneven coverage geographically. Maplandia for me appears to be the best geo site but because of huge uneveness in knowledge often accurate population data isn't available for the undeveloped countries. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
I agree. I;ve been trying to find a detailed list for each country in a long list with some basic data but I haven't found one. All I;ve found is world gazateer.com which lists probably 50 biggest cities in a country but isn't quite as full as I;d like it to be ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:39, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Mmm I don;t know it is potentially problematic due to the deficiencies in avilability of government sources for poorer parts of the world which is a great shame, but it is inevitable that the encyclopedia as it is will easily double in size anyway, and likely to be increasingly filled by articles which aren't considered traditionally encyclopedic. I remember several people saying "real world content is what this encyclopedia needs" which I fully agree with ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
OK. Its just I feel places form a backbone to the encyclopedia and while hundreds of topcis are equally important many articles are based around a location in the world whether its people, landmarks or whatever. Even films and books are based in a place. I just feel that it is more powerful not to ignore that these places exist and begin to construct the best coverage of the world on one site the best we can. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:28, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Pretty much every country in the world – apart from countries like Somalia or Democratic Republic of the Congo, which have more urgent things to take care – have a statistical agency, whose purpose is to provide geographic, demographic or economical data for other government organizations. The use of government data is strongly preferred to Encarta or other outside sources. The problem with using the data from Encarta (or similar lists) is that we don't know what they include and what is missing. In other words, we will end up with a huge disorganized pile of blue links. For example, Madagascar has about 150 places called Ambodimanga... without accurate coordinates nobody would ever be able to figure out what is what, or even what they are (villages, communes...). I'm all for expanding the geographic coverage of Wikipedia, but it needs to be done systematically, hierarchically and complete for whatever administrative level we are talking about (counties, departements, communes, munincipalities etc). My understanding is that such a data exists for most (perhaps almost all) of the developing countries, and increasingly in electronic format. The data may not be available publicly on-line, but I would assume if we were to ask the relevant agencies for it, they would probably give it. – Sadalmelik ( talk) 21:39, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
The best thing I have found to date is Global gazetteer. It lists places A-Z through an A-Z of all countries in the world. The information on population should be ignored though as it is an estimate but actual location, and elevation is reliable. I'd be amazed if a bot couldn't generate articles based on this. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 17:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Given the type of information that is contained in the Fallingrain database, I strongly disagree with having a bot carry out this task. Using a semi-automated process to create articles about cities that includes an infobox and a few sentences of information, like Sadalmelik has been doing with Malagasy settlements, is a good thing; however, creating thousands of stubs that say nothing more than "[Settlement] is a settlement in [Province], [Countrty]" is not, especially when the source used does not provide reliable population or elevation estimates, and does not really offer much else. Black Falcon ( Talk) 17:56, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I would like to put in a request to a talk page archiving bot with a similar syntax to User:MercuryBot, or at least the source code so I can run my own copy of the bot. Thanks, Nol888( Talk)( Review) 02:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to ask if you can use some bot in geographical articles. Problem is following: There are many references used in many articles about U.S. towns but the References section is missing, see e.g.
Gillsville, Georgia. Could some bot add
== References ==
{{reflist}}
to articles which need it? Thanks. -
Darwinek (
talk) 18:53, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Er, since when did {{ GR}} produce ref-tag references? That's not what the TfD said. People mentioned the idea, that's it. If a bot needs to go about editing the page, it could just as well replace the GR templates with a proper in-line non-templated reference. Gimmetrow 20:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way for a bot to:
This would be really neat if a bot could do this. (Not just for Norway, but for any other type of WikiProject talk page tag and associated Portal icon as well). Cirt ( talk) 09:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:Jewish Christians has been deleted. Could a bot please depopulate it? Thanks! — An gr If you've written a quality article... 20:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Is it possible for a bot to find any article with {{F1-bio-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.
Requests for help on how to do this myself with AWB were ignored, hence the bot request.
Please let me know Guroadrunner ( talk) 01:40, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if it would be possible to create a bot that would add the WikiProject Companies banner ( Template:WikiProject Companies) to the Talk page of any Mainspace article which includes the Infobox Company or Infobox Defunct Company templates (assuming of course that the banner is not already there).
As of the last count (Oct 2007) there were over 11,000 articles that included Infobox Company, and with the project standing at just over 2,000, this bot would allow us to focus on classing and improving articles. I envisage having this bot run maybe once a month. Thanks for your help! Richc80 ( talk) 05:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
References are much more useful when they provide a permanent link to an online copy of the paper to which they refer. This is provided in the form of a
doi, which can be placed in the template {{
cite journal}} in the form of a parameter doi =
. However, these codes are often cumbersome and unweildy, and for this reason and neglected by editors not using
automated tools to insert their citations.
DOIs follow an easy-to-spot pattern, and are easy to detect using regexp. I find the following syntax is very effective for retrieving them from the source of web pages:
|doi.*(10\.\d{4}/.*)[\s;\"]|Ui
It seems to be that it would be rather simple to program a bot to follow links already provided in a citation, which often point only to a mirror of the abstract page, and not the article itself, and to append a doi to the citation. It would also be possible for the bot to query google/google scholar with the authors and title where no URL is available, and search for a DOI in the result pages.
This would make verifying sources and using them to expand articles much simpler for editors, as well as futureproofing links with an unstable structure.
Anyone keen to make such a bot, or have any comments as to its feasibility?
Thanks,
Verisimilus T 17:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
An editor expressed concern that many uses of an infobox within articles are formated very tightly, as opposed to a cleaner table-like version, etc:
For example, within a template's parameter arguments, this is bad:
|param1 = blah
|param2 = blah
|longparametername = blah
|param3 = blah
instead of the cleaner:
|param1 = blah
|param2 = blah
|longparametername = blah
|param3 = blah
As this only affects the backend of the article and nothing display wise, it's not a high priority, but I'm wondering if a bot yet exists that can update the formatting for a given template through its use by simply doing this expansion (given the length of the longest parameter); if no bot does exist, I can see this being very generic for any template like Infobox or the like. (The specific template in question is {{
Infobox VG}}) --
MASEM 18:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
param1 = blah |
param2 = blah |
longparametername = blah |
param3 = blah |
Can anyone help replace instances of Christian name -> forename, christen -> name, etc.? -- kylet ( talk) 16:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#Project_traffic_statistics. See Jacoplane's 2008-03-14 00:16 comment; a bot that could post those stats somewhere would be cool and, I presume, fairly simple. Please comment there if interest. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide ( H2O) 08:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Something I can't currently do myself because continuous-operation bots are beyond me :D
. Currently protected pages are visibly flagged using one of a number of protection templates derived from {{
pp-meta}}
. There are several of these for specific problems, and also generic ones for each form of protection. However, this is dependent on the protecting admin placing the relevant notice on the page, which is not always done. In addition, all the templates take a parameter for expiry time, but this is rarely specified. A bot which could ensure that the protection templates on a page are always synchronised with the protection that is actually in place would be extremely useful, and improve the professional appearance of Wikipedia pages. "Yes, we disagree horribly over this page, but at least we're polite and professional enough to tell you that we're arguing" sort of thing.
The simplest way of implementing such a bot would be to monitor the IRC or API feed of
Special:Log/protect. Some simple regexes can extract the relevant data, and the relevant template prepended to the page text, or an existing template modified. A one-time script would also have to be run on all pages transcluding {{
pp-meta}}
, and all pages listed in
Special:protectedpages, to start from a clean sheet. As I say, I would run the bot myself if I had the knowledge or infrastructure to create continuously-running bots (or if anyone was prepared to teach me :D
).
The only problem I can forsee (and it might be a large one) is that in order to be able to update fully-protected pages, the bot would need the sysop bit <gulp>. Happy‑ melon 18:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Cross-posted from Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
I'm interested in developing my bot skills, particularly to running bots which operate on a continuous basis, rather than the more script-oriented bots I'm already operating. I'm looking for a more experienced bot coder/operator who can help me get to grips with the extra knowledge and tools required to operate continuously-running bots. Kind of an
adopt-a-bot-owner system :D
. I can work in C++ and VB, but all of my previous bot-coding experience has been in python. Anyone interested and willing to give me a hand?
Happy‑
melon 10:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I would love someone who knows more about this, to help with this:
I coulda sworn I've already seen something automated around wikipedia that does this, can't remember where or what. Could really use the help in doing this, it will help to assess what quality content to use at Portal:Theatre, which I want to work on next. Cirt ( talk) 04:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Betacommand ( talk · contribs) seems to be pretty busy - any help/ideas on this request? Cirt ( talk) 06:40, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Would the above idea be acceptable if it were a bot just to check for unassessed project tags or incorrect project tags on articles that are already successfully promoted WP:FAs, and rate them accordingly for quality=FA ? Cirt ( talk) 09:23, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Will someone please place {{WikiProject Green Bay Packers|class=|importance=}} on every talk page of any articles within
Category:Green Bay Packers and its 6 subcategories that does not have {{
WikiProject Green Bay Packers}} on its talk page? It shouldnt be that many, but I want to make sure that any newly created articles are added to the project. Thanks!
« Gonzo fan2007 (
talk ♦
contribs) 07:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering.... OK, so no consensus was made to create the articles -can we at least get a bot to generate a list of settlements by country and a globe locator by the next of them using falling rain?. If we have a list of settlements in the wikipedia database at least then there is a catalogue of missing articles to work through. I'd rather not have to generate the lists manually. This way if there are many settlments with the same name etc these can be fixed afterwards and we should have a clean list of missing articles ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 10:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Arthur C. Clarke has died and we're trying to improve the article. Could anyone of you run a bot to convert the bare footnotes please? Thank you. — Cesar Tort 02:11, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Can we have a bot to address the misconceived links to date fragments such as Wednesday and April? There are tens of thousands of these and probably only a few hundred make any sense at all. It is relatively easy to identify the nonsense ones.
There are many other ridiculous ways in which people handle dates. Many are fairly easy to identify e.g. '[February 8|8 February]'. This is a known side-effect of autoformatting and must be one of the most common diseases on Wikipedia. They are difficult for human editors to identify and fix but they are ideal bot fodder. Lightmouse ( talk) 20:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Here are some in-article examples:
Do you understand what I mean now?
Lightmouse ( talk) 11:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Convert | To |
---|---|
[[January 1st]] | [[January 1]] |
[[January 1]]st | [[January 1]] |
[[January 25]], [[2008 in music|2008]] | [[January 25]], [[2008]] |
I made this request last month I believe but it went unfulfilled so I am trying again. Per this discussion, please mark requests/sections that have had no activity in 14 days with {{Stale|1=~~~~}} at the top of the section. Thank you. Also, still hoping an archival bot comes around that looks for the {{ Resolved}} template.↔ NMajdan• talk 19:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I made this request last month I believe but it went unfulfilled so I am trying again. Per this discussion, please mark requests/sections that have had no activity in 14 days with {{Stale|1=~~~~}} at the top of the section. Thank you. Also, still hoping an archival bot comes around that looks for the {{ Resolved}} template.↔ NMajdan• talk 19:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot that reported on possible inappropriate page moves? I just noticed that Hell was left for almost an hour at "Anne Frank wuz here". A bot that left a report to be checked by a human might have some use and could speed up the reversion of such moves. On the other hand it's quite possible that the Hell page move is an exception and pages are restored much quicker. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 10:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Please see thread at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Barnstars_format for this problem that's rather a headscratcher at first sight, that's seemingly affecting a lot of userspace and mainspace images. Rather than waiting for this to be addressed by the overworked bugzilla developers, it seems the fix is quite simple and could be implemented by a bot, though I think an explanatory edit summary would be a very good idea, especially for the userspace edits. -- Dweller ( talk) 14:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
(\[\[Image:[^\]]+\|\n?\d+)pxpx([^\]]*\]\]) --> $1px$2
. (\{\{\n*[Cc]lick[^\}]+?\d+)px(([^\}]*\d+)px)?([^\}]*\}\}) --> $1$3$4
. MelonBot's running this regex on AWB, but there are 7730 pages transcluding {{
click}}
, so it'll take a while. Anyone who wants to start a thousand entries down the list, or who can think of a faster way of getting it done, go for it (someone ought to check my regexes too, better safe than sorry).
Happy‑
melon 16:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
{{
click}}
to categorise all instances which have it with "px" in... it just requires me to create a thousand user subpages first :D! If anyone can think of a better method than adding <includeonly>{{#ifexist:User:MelonBot/ClickFix/{{{width}}}|[[Category:Click templates needing fixing|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}
, please shout before I go creating
User:MelonBot/ClickFix/1px,
User:MelonBot/ClickFix/2px, etc!! The same code could be applied to other templates, but we now have to decide which way to standardise - do we put all "px" in the template, or in the template call?? Something to decide at VPT - for now it seems that in the template call is the more popular.
Happy‑
melon 17:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)The Template:missing-taxobox should be on the talk page of articles (per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#Cleanup) but this is often not the case. Could a bot move the template to the talk pages automatically? Is that a task big enough to be done by a bot or is it small enough to be done by a human? Pro bug catcher ( talk • contribs). 23:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm adept at throwing things like Category:Museum stubs at SQL and his bot but short of being a nudge, is there any bot that could handle the monster Category:Museums *AND* its sub cats, or is that beyond bot ability? That said, thank you too all of who you write and run bots that make our lives easier TRAVELLINGCARI My story Tell me yours 01:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The editors of the WPF1 Newsletter are looking for a bot that could deliver it. So far it is being delivered manually; it is becoming popular and becoming a bit of a handful to deliver manually. Does anyone have a bot or willing enough to have a bot that could deliver it. Chubb enna itor 21:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for a bot, not based on the toolserver, that can output the following 2 lists. An intersect of all images that appear in one of these Cats Category:Fair use images but are not in Category:All non-free media? And then intersect all images in both Category:All non-free media and any of the sub-Cats starting at Category:Free images? That would give two lists. One of non-free images that for some reason aren't in the master category (corrupt license, etc) and a second list of all images with conflicting free and non-free licenses. And the reason it can't be a toolserver bot is that this query involves comparing 300,000 images to 300,000, images and will apparently crash the server. MBisanz talk 02:08, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add {{OH-Project|class=|importance=}} on all article talk pages under Category:Ohio that don't have the project tag already? Also, would it be possible to automatically assess stub class, FA, FL, and GA articles for the articles once they have the templates added? Thanks, §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 23:19, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
But could it take from other banners around it and asses it for "class=" and automatiucally assess stub articles if they have the stub template on the article page? If not, no big deal, just trying to shorten the workload. Thanks for the help. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 19:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Thanks Soxred93, I have downloaded and setup AWB so I should be able to finish what is left (as soon as I get approved). Thank you fro your time. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 00:37, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Following on a previous request I made to have a bot for the cleanup of the wikitext used for "long" templates such as most infoboxes, I was wondering if there's still an interest in a bot for this? While I can point to a specific template to start cleanup on, I'd like to see this made as generic as possible for any possible template (whitelisting for those templates that would be affected, mind you). -- MASEM 16:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am not affiliated with the site but many stock car driver profiles include a link to either http://www.racing-reference.com or http://www.racing-reference.info - the same site with two URLs. For background, Racing-Reference is sort of like the IMDB of stock car racing. In October 2007, the racing-reference.com URL went offline, leaving only racing-reference.info as the correct way to get to the site. However, that may leave many old links added to Wikipedia in the dark.
Is it possible to scan for any Wikipedia articles that include the string "racing-reference.com" and have a bot change/update that part of the string to update it to "racing-reference.info" ?
Please let me know. Guroadrunner ( talk) 10:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to delete articles under 700KB, Furthermore tagging it with a "prod", or maybe a "afd". Dwilso 04:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
i am finding literally 100s of orphan-tagged articles that are not oprhans. can someone design a bot to remove all the orphan-tags from non-orphan articles? The bot would look at all the articles with orphan tags, and remove the tags of articles that are not orphans. the bot would have to be designed to discern what would constitute a genuine link. Articles linking only to talk pages, categories, Wikipedia: pages, and other non-article pages would not lose the orphan tag. Kingturtle ( talk) 22:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to request a bot to locate all talk pages that use the {{ BTGProject}} template with no "class" rating, and assign a class of "unassessed" to them. This way the project Wikipedia:WikiProject Board and table games can easily pick them up and assign a rating to them. I'd also like to request that any mainspace article that has {{ board-game-stub}} or {{ card-game-stub}} on the article page and no {{ BTGProject}} on the talk page, to have the BTGProject template inserted on the talk page with a class of "unassessed". In other words, I'd like to insert {{BTGProject|class=unassessed}} for the types of pages that I have mentioned.
I'm just trying to locate pages that do belong, or should belong, to the project so that they can be assessed. Thanks in advance. --Craw-daddy | T | 20:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
|#default=[[Category:Unassessed board and table game articles articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
Many thanks for this! --Craw-daddy | T | 10:37, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I wish there was a bot that could find Japanese or Korean or any other name that is originaly written "Last Name fisrt" but with it's article written "Fisrt Name first", and then create a page with the "Last Name first" and redirect it to the article. That is, if another different article doesn't exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianGo28 ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Greetings! This is one of the usual requests for tagging of a project's pages, in this case the Role-playing game project. The project's tag is {{ RPGproject}}. I'd like a bot to go through articles, tagging those with {{ rpg-stub}} on the main page to be in the "stub" class (assuming they're not there already of course). Also, at the same time, if it can identify any redirects and categories with the RPGproject tag on the talk page and classify them accordingly that would be much appreciated. Finally, (untagged) articles that use the RPGproject tag *and* with article titles that begin "List of ...", could these be filtered in the "list" class *and* be marked with "importance=low" at the same time? Thanks in advance! --Craw-daddy | T | 10:37, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm owning this one wholly, Beta gave us a list that BCBot got from Category:Museums and I thought we'd removed all of those that were not applicable but we missed some. Wholly my fault, but there are far too many for me to undo by hand. We've started a master list of those categories that need to be un-done, is there a bot who could help with this? Again, apologies for causing the problem. I really thought I'd caught these. Thanks! TRAVELLINGCARI My story Tell me yours 21:40, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
As a result of this discussion, the various GR templates were changed from being references to Wikipedia:Geographic references to being various templates that produce standard-looking references. There was originally a different format for these links (like [[Geographic references#2|<sup>2</sup>]] for {{GR|2}}), most of which were removed years ago with edits like this one. However, there are a lot remaining, and since the GR templates are standard references now rather than being links to Wikipedia:Geographic references, the old-style ones are inferior. Could we have a bot simply to go around and put the respective GR templates in place of all instances of links to [[Geographic references]] with numbers?
To explain:
Nyttend ( talk) 16:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
would it be possible to create a bot that shrinks images down, I have noticed several articles that have overblown pictures above 350px, and am tired of manually shrinking them down. Dwilso 20:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm somewhat active at WP:AFC, which sees many submissions each day. I'd like to see if there might be a way to get some stats for submissions. I originally posted my idea at [8], but since nobody has opposed my idea, I'll bring it here.
The long and the short is that each day, new articles for creation are submitted at WP:AFC. They're added to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Today, which is transcluded to WP:AFC. They are archived daily at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/List, which is in turn archived monthly.
The stats would be basically number of submissions per day, number of accepted requests (and by inference, number of declined requests). The submissions appear to be well-formed:
A completed day is listed in Wikipedia:AFC/LIST with the {{done}} template.
For each day that is listed as {{done}}, the individual pages are:
Since formats have changed over time, this can only be done from the present. I'd like to see a bot write out WP:AFC/Stats in something like:
2008-04-01: 21 submissions, 6 accepted
And maybe even with a link to the AFC page, in this example Wikipedia:Articles for creation/2008-04-01.
I hope I am being clear, I see it in my head, but sometimes writing it down in detail gets a little clumsy. Yngvarr (c) 16:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I have a bot idea that (if I understand the rules) would run in toolserver space since it is read only (it will analyze certain diffs). Do I request such a bot in this forum? Low Sea ( talk) 16:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Wanted: TagkerBot (pronounced "tagger", short for Tag Tracker). This bot could run slowly and execute read only actions to compile statistics on adding/removing of tags. Below is a rough outline of the output from the bot and some preliminary logic on how the bot might work.
The logic for this bot is roughly as follows (I am using crude logic and I know better tools may exist but hopefully this will help clarify how I think this bot can work).
NOTES:
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 15 | Archive 16 | Archive 17 | Archive 18 | Archive 19 | Archive 20 | → | Archive 25 |
I'm an admin at the Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL for short), now sometimes called ChoralWiki since it was ported to the wiki system in 2005. The site is a freely accessable archive of choral and solo vocal sheet music by public domain composers and modern composers who wish to release their work to the public. I'm not sure whether this is the correct place for my request for a bot for another wiki so if it isn't I would appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.
Basically, we over at CPDL would like a bot to mark broken links and do some (fairly simple) find and replace tasks. Of course, I would elaborate on these tasks if someone offers to help. No-one at CPDL has the necessary skill to create a bot and as the user base of Wikipedia is somewhat larger than CPDL, I thought I would ask over here. If there is anyone who has the necessary skill, time and willingness to design a bot for CPDL, I would be very grateful if they would get in touch. Of course, it may be possible for a bot that's currently in use over here at Wikipedia to be adapted for use at CPDL and if that's the case, I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the direction of that bot's author. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Bobnotts talk 15:41, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for a bot that will monitor the feed at Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Requested_edits and post a summary report to a page that will be transcluded to WP:COIN. This will help us respond quicker to users who go to the trouble to not edit a page they have a conflict on. It would need to be run say once every 12 or 24 hours. MBisanz talk 10:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
I have made a template called The Random Button if you haven't ever heard of it. It is a collection of articles and I edit and update the page each day. But in the future, I will not be able to do this. Can a bot pick a random button article, and give the sneak previews, and update the article automatically? -- Nothing444 ( talk) 01:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I know one has been in the works, but was is the status of any archival bot that recognizes the {{ resolved}} template? Any change for a rollout soon? WP:GL is in dire need of one.↔ NMajdan• talk 15:13, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking, or hoping someone can make, a bot which will place a selected template globally across the talkpages of articles in a given category. I've discovered reams of articles which should have the Canada WikiProject and various subprojects on them and it's just too laborious going through them all placing templates by hand, page by page. Is there a way to automate this? Theoretically the bot should be able to recognize if the template is already present, if not then it would place it. The category that tweaked me off to this is Category:British Columbia school stubs where the template would be {{WikiProject Canada|education=yes|bc=yes}}. Is this at all possible, or am I going to have to recruit chimpanzees? Posted by Skootum1 ( talk)
Hi,
I apologize if this type of question has been asked and and answered before.
Yad Vashem--the central museum, memorial, and education center in Israel for the Holocaust--is cited in many, many articles and sections dealing with the Holocaust, Jewish History, anti-Semitism, etc. The thing is that it sometime it is spelled with upper-case "s": Yad VaShem, and sometimes with lower case "s": Yad Vashem. Both spellings within Wiki do point to the Vashem entry, so that aspect's OK.
But for consistency, especially for all the people who reference Wiki, could all uses of the word within entries be botically standardized to Vshem's?
Thanks,
--- Shlishke ( talk) 22:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
A bot that would check if images in the category Category:Orphaned fairuse images (and subcategories) are still orphaned, if they are not orphaned removed them from category. NanohaA'sYuri Talk, My master 18:31, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
The Editor's index to Wikipedia has a large number of internal anchors (using "span id") so that links can be made to any major topic on the page, rather than to the index as a whole. (With the index being over 3000 lines, a link to just the index page, when answering a specific question, isn't that helpful). These anchors have been hidden; I'd like to make them explicit by using shortcuts.
My plan is to add the shortcuts to the Index page myself (I've done this for major topics starting with "A", as a demo/pilot), but I'd like to get a bot to actually create the redirect pages for these shortcuts. There will be a hundred or two of these. (Details of this idea are discussed at Wikipedia talk:Editor's index to Wikipedia#Proposed approach.)
The only thing that's perhaps a bit unusual is that the proposed shortcuts use the pseudo-namespace "EIW"; this was discussed at Wikipedia talk:Namespace#Procedure for creating a new pseudo-namespace?, and - after a bit of clarification - I believe there was no opposition to this. But I'm going to post a note regarding this proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals), so that if there are concerns or alternatives, they can be mentioned (here, preferably).
So, to return to the main question - would someone have a bot that can create these redirects? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I have a quick favor to ask someone with an idle bot. I would like to get a list of the articles in both Category:Baseball players and one of two major maintenance categories, namely Category:All articles lacking sources and Category:All articles with unsourced statements. If the results of the searches could be posted to my userspace, that would be awesome. Thanks, Caknuck ( talk) 20:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, fellow editors ... I have created a template that I'm using by hand now, but I think that several bots could use it as well ... please see
this talk page and tell me
what you think of my newly created {{
Oldprodfull}}
... would you use it, or update it if you encountered it?
Although it has 9 parameters, all of them are optional, and it "does the Right Thing" for display based on the input ... three user-ids (PROD, 2nd, and DECLINE) plus DATE and REASON for each of the three ... the idea is to insert the "boilerplate" with a PROD, and then the 2nd or declining editor add their own id, date, and reason.
Many editors do not even know that {{
Prod-2}}
exists, but this template will help document declined PRODs so that they won't get PRODed again after they have already been contested.
On a related matter, what are your thoughts on my proposed WP:FLAG-BIO and other flag templates?
Happy Editing! — 72.75.72.63 ( talk · contribs) 21:01, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
User Alternate Acct}}
userbox. <Heavy sigh!> —
The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome (
talk) 01:31, 12 February 2008 (UTC)There are many articles that have a wrong layout of sections, See also, Notes, References, External Links.
I've been correcting these as I find them, but it'd be nice if a bot could list all the ones needing changes. This might be as simple as searching with a sophisticated regular expression, but I'm not sure. Mahanga Talk 03:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I would like something similar to MathBot. All I need it to do is count all Ohio related articles once a week or so. These articles would be found under Category:Ohio and its subcategories. Could this be possible?
Many thanks! §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 01:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys, I need the help from a bot and operator that can post templates on User talk pages - it'll be like a copy paste job thanks. The code will be the following
{| class="{{#ifeq:{{{nested|}}}|yes|collapsible collapsed messagebox nested-talk|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|messagebox small-talk|messagebox standard-talk}}}}"
|-
{{#ifeq:{{{nested|}}}|yes|
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center" {{!}} {{#if:{{{class|}}}| (Rated {{{class}}}-Class)}}
}}
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|align="center"|Hi, seeing from your recent contributions you have been fairly interested in the works of Raymond E. Feist. I am currently considering about starting a brand new Wiki-project (or maybe a task force) and will need your help – if you are interested could you please sign at [[WP:COUNCIL/P]]. Thanks very much ~~~~
|}
it'll show this:
I can't copy and paste it one by one because it'll take me for ages so I need your help! The user talk pages are listed below.
and as a token of thanks Ill give the helper a barnstar or something. Thanks PS there might be some more coming along Fattyjwoods ( Push my button) 06:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Alright then ill see if I can do it by hand Fattyjwoods ( Push my button) 02:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
It would be helpful to have a bot that would periodically go through all UCFD'd user categories and delete any members from them. This would speed up the WP:UCFD process in that editors wouldn't manually have to remove pages from the category (sometimes a tedious process requiring over 100 removals). As you can see here, there are several categories that have members in them that still need emptying, even from a long time ago. This would also help for those who re-add the category to their page after it has been deleted, as such actions disrupt Special:Wantedcategories in making it seem like the category should be recreated (which has happened several times before). There could be a fully-protected subpage in which admins could add user categories (along with a link to the UCFD or DRV authorizing deletion) which the bot would go through and see if anyone has on their userpage. If a userpage was protected, it would simply skip it and retry the next time it ran. VegaDark ( talk) 16:32, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
A request for the random tasks bots out there. I would like a bot that can go through the requests at the above page and if there has been no activity in each section in the last 10 days, add the following to the top of the section: {{Stale|1={{subst:plain now}}}} or {{Stale|1=~~~~}}. Thanks.↔ NMajdan• talk 20:10, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I can't seem to find one. I think a bot that auto corrects commonly misspelled words would be wonderful. I searched and found over 90,000* occurrences of "occured" in the article name space. (It's spelled occurred FYI.) I would be willing to be responsible for maintaining a list of words, and I do work as a programmer, but actually doing it on wikipedia is daunting. (Perhaps because I haven't looked into it enough). Mainly I think I don't know enough about "web friendly" languages.
*(ok, it's actually lower, wiki search automatically looks for commonly misspelled words, but there are still a lot of "occurences")
Bassg☢☢nist
Talk/
Contribs 17:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm wondering whether a bot could help me in identifying new sockpuppets of StealBoy ( talk · contribs). As some of you may know, this troll is incredibly persistent and has been creating hoax articles for over a year, possibly more. The list of his sockpuppets is too long to list and in fact, no admins really take the time to put the new puppets in the corresponding category, if only for WP:DENY reasons. Periodically, his semi-static IP is blocked for months and he returns once he gets a new IP. However, this guy has patterns which are very easy to spot: he creates only TV or film related hoaxes, almost invariably in the same time range, new puppets created have names with easy to identify patterns, anon edits are used to create links to the hoax articles and these links are always added to one of roughly twenty or so articles. So I was wondering if one of the tech-savy people here could periodically generate a list of suspicious edits/usernames. I do this manually from time to time by going through the list of new film-related articles and by spotting the IPs from a certain range on the aboved mentioned articles. If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to discuss privately the name patterns, IP range, articles which are usually vandalized and so on. Pascal.Tesson ( talk) 16:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
How can I run a bot to fix the many bare URLs in Antipsychiatry's footnotes? — Cesar Tort 23:33, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
See also User:DumZiBoT. Gimmetrow 04:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I came across this template {{ ACIDnom}} which is part of the Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive, a WikiProject that is now inactive. The template contains the phrase "The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive is now closed. Please remove this template." Unless I'm completely misunderstanding something, this template should be removed from each article talk page it is used on. But the template and a bunch of template-redirects are used on hundreds of pages. Perhaps a bot could quickly remove them all? Gnome de plume ( talk) 18:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I have changed my user name, and would like, for reasons of privacy, to edit the old signatures to my new one. Is it appropropriate to ask for a BOT to do so, or do I have to make the edits myself? I know the information will still be in the old histories, but would appreciate it if the average search didn't drag them up. My old user name should be determinable from my contribs, as I just moved some pages that referenced it, and I'dlike to not reference it any further. FrozenPurpleCube ( talk) 18:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I don't know how many people are aware but we are missing vast amounts of articles on towns and villages , and I mean VAST in a serious way -particularly on countries in the developing world, notably Latin America, Asia and Africa which comprises at least 85% of the world land cover. Given the enormous size and organization of wikipedia already, I would have thought that it was be an important goal for wikipedia to begin to address uneven coverage gegraphically and try to create an even coverage of the world like a neutral encyclopedia should, at least articles with a locator map and some basic details for starters as a reference point. I do a lot of work adding new articles on settlements using the same sources each time. I am certain a bot could be programmed to blue link articles on places by country and give the encyclopedia something of enormous benefit for people to try to work on. Given the sheer amount missing by now I;d be expecting wikipedia to be drilling bots to create these articles on a daily basis, but bots rarely seem to be taken to their full advantage and used to generate new articles, with the exception of the polbot and gene bots which run from time to time. Could somebody please explain how this could be done? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Well the nearest thing I;ve found is the list at MSN Encarta. e.g Nigeria which lists towns and villages by country but it isn't a proper source. Now I am aware that some of the place names are slightly differnetly transliterated or dated in places, I remember Darwinek discussing this, but when I've been creating articles I've been checking at least three or four others websites such as maplandia, google maps etc to try to get some authority that they are accurate names and I have to say that 99% of what I;ve come across seems to give some standard assertion that it is very accurate. I;m not certain if every places will meet everybody's notability requirements but they are all populated settlements which I believe the vast majority of could be written into informative articles. I think it would strengthen the encyclopedia considerably to begin to address the uneven coverage geographically. Maplandia for me appears to be the best geo site but because of huge uneveness in knowledge often accurate population data isn't available for the undeveloped countries. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
I agree. I;ve been trying to find a detailed list for each country in a long list with some basic data but I haven't found one. All I;ve found is world gazateer.com which lists probably 50 biggest cities in a country but isn't quite as full as I;d like it to be ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 20:39, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Mmm I don;t know it is potentially problematic due to the deficiencies in avilability of government sources for poorer parts of the world which is a great shame, but it is inevitable that the encyclopedia as it is will easily double in size anyway, and likely to be increasingly filled by articles which aren't considered traditionally encyclopedic. I remember several people saying "real world content is what this encyclopedia needs" which I fully agree with ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
OK. Its just I feel places form a backbone to the encyclopedia and while hundreds of topcis are equally important many articles are based around a location in the world whether its people, landmarks or whatever. Even films and books are based in a place. I just feel that it is more powerful not to ignore that these places exist and begin to construct the best coverage of the world on one site the best we can. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:28, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Pretty much every country in the world – apart from countries like Somalia or Democratic Republic of the Congo, which have more urgent things to take care – have a statistical agency, whose purpose is to provide geographic, demographic or economical data for other government organizations. The use of government data is strongly preferred to Encarta or other outside sources. The problem with using the data from Encarta (or similar lists) is that we don't know what they include and what is missing. In other words, we will end up with a huge disorganized pile of blue links. For example, Madagascar has about 150 places called Ambodimanga... without accurate coordinates nobody would ever be able to figure out what is what, or even what they are (villages, communes...). I'm all for expanding the geographic coverage of Wikipedia, but it needs to be done systematically, hierarchically and complete for whatever administrative level we are talking about (counties, departements, communes, munincipalities etc). My understanding is that such a data exists for most (perhaps almost all) of the developing countries, and increasingly in electronic format. The data may not be available publicly on-line, but I would assume if we were to ask the relevant agencies for it, they would probably give it. – Sadalmelik ( talk) 21:39, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
The best thing I have found to date is Global gazetteer. It lists places A-Z through an A-Z of all countries in the world. The information on population should be ignored though as it is an estimate but actual location, and elevation is reliable. I'd be amazed if a bot couldn't generate articles based on this. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 17:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Given the type of information that is contained in the Fallingrain database, I strongly disagree with having a bot carry out this task. Using a semi-automated process to create articles about cities that includes an infobox and a few sentences of information, like Sadalmelik has been doing with Malagasy settlements, is a good thing; however, creating thousands of stubs that say nothing more than "[Settlement] is a settlement in [Province], [Countrty]" is not, especially when the source used does not provide reliable population or elevation estimates, and does not really offer much else. Black Falcon ( Talk) 17:56, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I would like to put in a request to a talk page archiving bot with a similar syntax to User:MercuryBot, or at least the source code so I can run my own copy of the bot. Thanks, Nol888( Talk)( Review) 02:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to ask if you can use some bot in geographical articles. Problem is following: There are many references used in many articles about U.S. towns but the References section is missing, see e.g.
Gillsville, Georgia. Could some bot add
== References ==
{{reflist}}
to articles which need it? Thanks. -
Darwinek (
talk) 18:53, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Er, since when did {{ GR}} produce ref-tag references? That's not what the TfD said. People mentioned the idea, that's it. If a bot needs to go about editing the page, it could just as well replace the GR templates with a proper in-line non-templated reference. Gimmetrow 20:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way for a bot to:
This would be really neat if a bot could do this. (Not just for Norway, but for any other type of WikiProject talk page tag and associated Portal icon as well). Cirt ( talk) 09:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Category:Jewish Christians has been deleted. Could a bot please depopulate it? Thanks! — An gr If you've written a quality article... 20:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Is it possible for a bot to find any article with {{F1-bio-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.
Requests for help on how to do this myself with AWB were ignored, hence the bot request.
Please let me know Guroadrunner ( talk) 01:40, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if it would be possible to create a bot that would add the WikiProject Companies banner ( Template:WikiProject Companies) to the Talk page of any Mainspace article which includes the Infobox Company or Infobox Defunct Company templates (assuming of course that the banner is not already there).
As of the last count (Oct 2007) there were over 11,000 articles that included Infobox Company, and with the project standing at just over 2,000, this bot would allow us to focus on classing and improving articles. I envisage having this bot run maybe once a month. Thanks for your help! Richc80 ( talk) 05:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
References are much more useful when they provide a permanent link to an online copy of the paper to which they refer. This is provided in the form of a
doi, which can be placed in the template {{
cite journal}} in the form of a parameter doi =
. However, these codes are often cumbersome and unweildy, and for this reason and neglected by editors not using
automated tools to insert their citations.
DOIs follow an easy-to-spot pattern, and are easy to detect using regexp. I find the following syntax is very effective for retrieving them from the source of web pages:
|doi.*(10\.\d{4}/.*)[\s;\"]|Ui
It seems to be that it would be rather simple to program a bot to follow links already provided in a citation, which often point only to a mirror of the abstract page, and not the article itself, and to append a doi to the citation. It would also be possible for the bot to query google/google scholar with the authors and title where no URL is available, and search for a DOI in the result pages.
This would make verifying sources and using them to expand articles much simpler for editors, as well as futureproofing links with an unstable structure.
Anyone keen to make such a bot, or have any comments as to its feasibility?
Thanks,
Verisimilus T 17:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
An editor expressed concern that many uses of an infobox within articles are formated very tightly, as opposed to a cleaner table-like version, etc:
For example, within a template's parameter arguments, this is bad:
|param1 = blah
|param2 = blah
|longparametername = blah
|param3 = blah
instead of the cleaner:
|param1 = blah
|param2 = blah
|longparametername = blah
|param3 = blah
As this only affects the backend of the article and nothing display wise, it's not a high priority, but I'm wondering if a bot yet exists that can update the formatting for a given template through its use by simply doing this expansion (given the length of the longest parameter); if no bot does exist, I can see this being very generic for any template like Infobox or the like. (The specific template in question is {{
Infobox VG}}) --
MASEM 18:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
param1 = blah |
param2 = blah |
longparametername = blah |
param3 = blah |
Can anyone help replace instances of Christian name -> forename, christen -> name, etc.? -- kylet ( talk) 16:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#Project_traffic_statistics. See Jacoplane's 2008-03-14 00:16 comment; a bot that could post those stats somewhere would be cool and, I presume, fairly simple. Please comment there if interest. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide ( H2O) 08:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Something I can't currently do myself because continuous-operation bots are beyond me :D
. Currently protected pages are visibly flagged using one of a number of protection templates derived from {{
pp-meta}}
. There are several of these for specific problems, and also generic ones for each form of protection. However, this is dependent on the protecting admin placing the relevant notice on the page, which is not always done. In addition, all the templates take a parameter for expiry time, but this is rarely specified. A bot which could ensure that the protection templates on a page are always synchronised with the protection that is actually in place would be extremely useful, and improve the professional appearance of Wikipedia pages. "Yes, we disagree horribly over this page, but at least we're polite and professional enough to tell you that we're arguing" sort of thing.
The simplest way of implementing such a bot would be to monitor the IRC or API feed of
Special:Log/protect. Some simple regexes can extract the relevant data, and the relevant template prepended to the page text, or an existing template modified. A one-time script would also have to be run on all pages transcluding {{
pp-meta}}
, and all pages listed in
Special:protectedpages, to start from a clean sheet. As I say, I would run the bot myself if I had the knowledge or infrastructure to create continuously-running bots (or if anyone was prepared to teach me :D
).
The only problem I can forsee (and it might be a large one) is that in order to be able to update fully-protected pages, the bot would need the sysop bit <gulp>. Happy‑ melon 18:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Cross-posted from Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
I'm interested in developing my bot skills, particularly to running bots which operate on a continuous basis, rather than the more script-oriented bots I'm already operating. I'm looking for a more experienced bot coder/operator who can help me get to grips with the extra knowledge and tools required to operate continuously-running bots. Kind of an
adopt-a-bot-owner system :D
. I can work in C++ and VB, but all of my previous bot-coding experience has been in python. Anyone interested and willing to give me a hand?
Happy‑
melon 10:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I would love someone who knows more about this, to help with this:
I coulda sworn I've already seen something automated around wikipedia that does this, can't remember where or what. Could really use the help in doing this, it will help to assess what quality content to use at Portal:Theatre, which I want to work on next. Cirt ( talk) 04:01, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Betacommand ( talk · contribs) seems to be pretty busy - any help/ideas on this request? Cirt ( talk) 06:40, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Would the above idea be acceptable if it were a bot just to check for unassessed project tags or incorrect project tags on articles that are already successfully promoted WP:FAs, and rate them accordingly for quality=FA ? Cirt ( talk) 09:23, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Will someone please place {{WikiProject Green Bay Packers|class=|importance=}} on every talk page of any articles within
Category:Green Bay Packers and its 6 subcategories that does not have {{
WikiProject Green Bay Packers}} on its talk page? It shouldnt be that many, but I want to make sure that any newly created articles are added to the project. Thanks!
« Gonzo fan2007 (
talk ♦
contribs) 07:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering.... OK, so no consensus was made to create the articles -can we at least get a bot to generate a list of settlements by country and a globe locator by the next of them using falling rain?. If we have a list of settlements in the wikipedia database at least then there is a catalogue of missing articles to work through. I'd rather not have to generate the lists manually. This way if there are many settlments with the same name etc these can be fixed afterwards and we should have a clean list of missing articles ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 10:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Arthur C. Clarke has died and we're trying to improve the article. Could anyone of you run a bot to convert the bare footnotes please? Thank you. — Cesar Tort 02:11, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Can we have a bot to address the misconceived links to date fragments such as Wednesday and April? There are tens of thousands of these and probably only a few hundred make any sense at all. It is relatively easy to identify the nonsense ones.
There are many other ridiculous ways in which people handle dates. Many are fairly easy to identify e.g. '[February 8|8 February]'. This is a known side-effect of autoformatting and must be one of the most common diseases on Wikipedia. They are difficult for human editors to identify and fix but they are ideal bot fodder. Lightmouse ( talk) 20:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Here are some in-article examples:
Do you understand what I mean now?
Lightmouse ( talk) 11:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Convert | To |
---|---|
[[January 1st]] | [[January 1]] |
[[January 1]]st | [[January 1]] |
[[January 25]], [[2008 in music|2008]] | [[January 25]], [[2008]] |
I made this request last month I believe but it went unfulfilled so I am trying again. Per this discussion, please mark requests/sections that have had no activity in 14 days with {{Stale|1=~~~~}} at the top of the section. Thank you. Also, still hoping an archival bot comes around that looks for the {{ Resolved}} template.↔ NMajdan• talk 19:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I made this request last month I believe but it went unfulfilled so I am trying again. Per this discussion, please mark requests/sections that have had no activity in 14 days with {{Stale|1=~~~~}} at the top of the section. Thank you. Also, still hoping an archival bot comes around that looks for the {{ Resolved}} template.↔ NMajdan• talk 19:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot that reported on possible inappropriate page moves? I just noticed that Hell was left for almost an hour at "Anne Frank wuz here". A bot that left a report to be checked by a human might have some use and could speed up the reversion of such moves. On the other hand it's quite possible that the Hell page move is an exception and pages are restored much quicker. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 10:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Please see thread at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Barnstars_format for this problem that's rather a headscratcher at first sight, that's seemingly affecting a lot of userspace and mainspace images. Rather than waiting for this to be addressed by the overworked bugzilla developers, it seems the fix is quite simple and could be implemented by a bot, though I think an explanatory edit summary would be a very good idea, especially for the userspace edits. -- Dweller ( talk) 14:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
(\[\[Image:[^\]]+\|\n?\d+)pxpx([^\]]*\]\]) --> $1px$2
. (\{\{\n*[Cc]lick[^\}]+?\d+)px(([^\}]*\d+)px)?([^\}]*\}\}) --> $1$3$4
. MelonBot's running this regex on AWB, but there are 7730 pages transcluding {{
click}}
, so it'll take a while. Anyone who wants to start a thousand entries down the list, or who can think of a faster way of getting it done, go for it (someone ought to check my regexes too, better safe than sorry).
Happy‑
melon 16:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
{{
click}}
to categorise all instances which have it with "px" in... it just requires me to create a thousand user subpages first :D! If anyone can think of a better method than adding <includeonly>{{#ifexist:User:MelonBot/ClickFix/{{{width}}}|[[Category:Click templates needing fixing|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}
, please shout before I go creating
User:MelonBot/ClickFix/1px,
User:MelonBot/ClickFix/2px, etc!! The same code could be applied to other templates, but we now have to decide which way to standardise - do we put all "px" in the template, or in the template call?? Something to decide at VPT - for now it seems that in the template call is the more popular.
Happy‑
melon 17:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)The Template:missing-taxobox should be on the talk page of articles (per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#Cleanup) but this is often not the case. Could a bot move the template to the talk pages automatically? Is that a task big enough to be done by a bot or is it small enough to be done by a human? Pro bug catcher ( talk • contribs). 23:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm adept at throwing things like Category:Museum stubs at SQL and his bot but short of being a nudge, is there any bot that could handle the monster Category:Museums *AND* its sub cats, or is that beyond bot ability? That said, thank you too all of who you write and run bots that make our lives easier TRAVELLINGCARI My story Tell me yours 01:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The editors of the WPF1 Newsletter are looking for a bot that could deliver it. So far it is being delivered manually; it is becoming popular and becoming a bit of a handful to deliver manually. Does anyone have a bot or willing enough to have a bot that could deliver it. Chubb enna itor 21:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for a bot, not based on the toolserver, that can output the following 2 lists. An intersect of all images that appear in one of these Cats Category:Fair use images but are not in Category:All non-free media? And then intersect all images in both Category:All non-free media and any of the sub-Cats starting at Category:Free images? That would give two lists. One of non-free images that for some reason aren't in the master category (corrupt license, etc) and a second list of all images with conflicting free and non-free licenses. And the reason it can't be a toolserver bot is that this query involves comparing 300,000 images to 300,000, images and will apparently crash the server. MBisanz talk 02:08, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add {{OH-Project|class=|importance=}} on all article talk pages under Category:Ohio that don't have the project tag already? Also, would it be possible to automatically assess stub class, FA, FL, and GA articles for the articles once they have the templates added? Thanks, §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 23:19, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
But could it take from other banners around it and asses it for "class=" and automatiucally assess stub articles if they have the stub template on the article page? If not, no big deal, just trying to shorten the workload. Thanks for the help. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 19:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. Thanks Soxred93, I have downloaded and setup AWB so I should be able to finish what is left (as soon as I get approved). Thank you fro your time. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 00:37, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Following on a previous request I made to have a bot for the cleanup of the wikitext used for "long" templates such as most infoboxes, I was wondering if there's still an interest in a bot for this? While I can point to a specific template to start cleanup on, I'd like to see this made as generic as possible for any possible template (whitelisting for those templates that would be affected, mind you). -- MASEM 16:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am not affiliated with the site but many stock car driver profiles include a link to either http://www.racing-reference.com or http://www.racing-reference.info - the same site with two URLs. For background, Racing-Reference is sort of like the IMDB of stock car racing. In October 2007, the racing-reference.com URL went offline, leaving only racing-reference.info as the correct way to get to the site. However, that may leave many old links added to Wikipedia in the dark.
Is it possible to scan for any Wikipedia articles that include the string "racing-reference.com" and have a bot change/update that part of the string to update it to "racing-reference.info" ?
Please let me know. Guroadrunner ( talk) 10:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to delete articles under 700KB, Furthermore tagging it with a "prod", or maybe a "afd". Dwilso 04:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
i am finding literally 100s of orphan-tagged articles that are not oprhans. can someone design a bot to remove all the orphan-tags from non-orphan articles? The bot would look at all the articles with orphan tags, and remove the tags of articles that are not orphans. the bot would have to be designed to discern what would constitute a genuine link. Articles linking only to talk pages, categories, Wikipedia: pages, and other non-article pages would not lose the orphan tag. Kingturtle ( talk) 22:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to request a bot to locate all talk pages that use the {{ BTGProject}} template with no "class" rating, and assign a class of "unassessed" to them. This way the project Wikipedia:WikiProject Board and table games can easily pick them up and assign a rating to them. I'd also like to request that any mainspace article that has {{ board-game-stub}} or {{ card-game-stub}} on the article page and no {{ BTGProject}} on the talk page, to have the BTGProject template inserted on the talk page with a class of "unassessed". In other words, I'd like to insert {{BTGProject|class=unassessed}} for the types of pages that I have mentioned.
I'm just trying to locate pages that do belong, or should belong, to the project so that they can be assessed. Thanks in advance. --Craw-daddy | T | 20:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
|#default=[[Category:Unassessed board and table game articles articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
Many thanks for this! --Craw-daddy | T | 10:37, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I wish there was a bot that could find Japanese or Korean or any other name that is originaly written "Last Name fisrt" but with it's article written "Fisrt Name first", and then create a page with the "Last Name first" and redirect it to the article. That is, if another different article doesn't exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BrianGo28 ( talk • contribs) 15:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Greetings! This is one of the usual requests for tagging of a project's pages, in this case the Role-playing game project. The project's tag is {{ RPGproject}}. I'd like a bot to go through articles, tagging those with {{ rpg-stub}} on the main page to be in the "stub" class (assuming they're not there already of course). Also, at the same time, if it can identify any redirects and categories with the RPGproject tag on the talk page and classify them accordingly that would be much appreciated. Finally, (untagged) articles that use the RPGproject tag *and* with article titles that begin "List of ...", could these be filtered in the "list" class *and* be marked with "importance=low" at the same time? Thanks in advance! --Craw-daddy | T | 10:37, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm owning this one wholly, Beta gave us a list that BCBot got from Category:Museums and I thought we'd removed all of those that were not applicable but we missed some. Wholly my fault, but there are far too many for me to undo by hand. We've started a master list of those categories that need to be un-done, is there a bot who could help with this? Again, apologies for causing the problem. I really thought I'd caught these. Thanks! TRAVELLINGCARI My story Tell me yours 21:40, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
As a result of this discussion, the various GR templates were changed from being references to Wikipedia:Geographic references to being various templates that produce standard-looking references. There was originally a different format for these links (like [[Geographic references#2|<sup>2</sup>]] for {{GR|2}}), most of which were removed years ago with edits like this one. However, there are a lot remaining, and since the GR templates are standard references now rather than being links to Wikipedia:Geographic references, the old-style ones are inferior. Could we have a bot simply to go around and put the respective GR templates in place of all instances of links to [[Geographic references]] with numbers?
To explain:
Nyttend ( talk) 16:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
would it be possible to create a bot that shrinks images down, I have noticed several articles that have overblown pictures above 350px, and am tired of manually shrinking them down. Dwilso 20:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm somewhat active at WP:AFC, which sees many submissions each day. I'd like to see if there might be a way to get some stats for submissions. I originally posted my idea at [8], but since nobody has opposed my idea, I'll bring it here.
The long and the short is that each day, new articles for creation are submitted at WP:AFC. They're added to Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Today, which is transcluded to WP:AFC. They are archived daily at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/List, which is in turn archived monthly.
The stats would be basically number of submissions per day, number of accepted requests (and by inference, number of declined requests). The submissions appear to be well-formed:
A completed day is listed in Wikipedia:AFC/LIST with the {{done}} template.
For each day that is listed as {{done}}, the individual pages are:
Since formats have changed over time, this can only be done from the present. I'd like to see a bot write out WP:AFC/Stats in something like:
2008-04-01: 21 submissions, 6 accepted
And maybe even with a link to the AFC page, in this example Wikipedia:Articles for creation/2008-04-01.
I hope I am being clear, I see it in my head, but sometimes writing it down in detail gets a little clumsy. Yngvarr (c) 16:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I have a bot idea that (if I understand the rules) would run in toolserver space since it is read only (it will analyze certain diffs). Do I request such a bot in this forum? Low Sea ( talk) 16:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Wanted: TagkerBot (pronounced "tagger", short for Tag Tracker). This bot could run slowly and execute read only actions to compile statistics on adding/removing of tags. Below is a rough outline of the output from the bot and some preliminary logic on how the bot might work.
The logic for this bot is roughly as follows (I am using crude logic and I know better tools may exist but hopefully this will help clarify how I think this bot can work).
NOTES: