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Some discussions/arguments/wars cover more than one article. For example, the question could be "Should these two article be merged?". Another example would be a discussion about an image; ideally, it should be held simultaneously in the talk pages of the image and of all the articles that use it. It would be nice to have a bot or HTML command to cross-post a segment of text between several pages.
This code could also be useful in the articles themselves. For example, the summary of a main article could be its lead paragraph cross-posted at the appropriate place in the summary article. Another example would be a lexicon to clarify several closely-related concepts, cross-posted in all the corresponding articles.
Is there a bot or code to cross-post a segment of text between two pages? If not, could it be created? Emmanuelm ( talk) 17:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
To aid in the dicussion here could a bot be used to make a list of all the pages whose titles are full dates (e.g. January 1, 2000)? Additionally, could it identify which are redirects? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 23:58, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Or, if not {{Vandalism information}}, then a new template? My idea is this: I use huggle and it, as well as various antivandal bots, are well aware of edits per minute and reverts per minute. Would it not be too difficult to create a bot that monitors recent changes, specifically vandalism warning templates issued to vandal's talk pages by users and Cluebot like bots?. This bot could update a template in real time from real statistics concerning the levels of vandalism (rather than the somewhat subjective updates made irregularly to {{Vandalism information}}. It could also issue regular updates on various irc channels that focus on countervandalism. Just a thought... If I am talking about something already in place, could you let me know? κaτaʟaveno T C 13:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone please set up a bot to go through the 1190 pages in
Category:Unassessed Canada-related articles and for any pages whose corresponding article has a stub template (most of them), add |stub=yes|autostub=yes to the {{
WikiProject Canada}} or {{
WPCANADA}} template. Note that many of them already have an importance assessment, so if you could leave that alone while making the change I would appreciate it. I wonder if it would also be possible to tag them as stubs based on their length; many of them are about electoral districts and have just one line followed by a small table, but are missing stub templates. Thanks a lot! --
Arctic Gnome (
talk •
contribs) 18:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
This arena and the article about it has had a few name changes. I would like to update the following links as follows:
-- 76.205.25.141 ( talk) 22:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Just redirect the old pages to the new ones, this should happen automatically when the page is moved. Performing the above changes is a waste of resources. -- maelgwn - talk 02:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Yahoo! News links die after a week or two and are not archived by the Wayback Machine. Since cite templates are rarely used by people who use Yahho as a news source it's hard to find other versions of the sources. Can a bot please post a user_talk message to users who add news.yahoo.com links, asking them for a better source? Please put a prominent mention of wp:v in the message which states that unverifiable info may be remoevd by anyone. -- Jeandré, 2008-03-30 t19:59z
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter April 2008 needs delivery now that User:KevinalewisBot by User:Kevinalewis (he's semi-retired from WP) is inactive. Please see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach#Newsletter for options on delivery.
Delivery to all user talk pages on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Members, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Outreach#Instructions. Please contact if something remains unclear. feydey ( talk) 18:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I am from
Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity. We need automatic delivery of the newsletter to our members , every month with a BOT . Is this possible ? Kindly let me know on my
talkpage at the earliest.
To do: {{subst:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/April 2008}} to all user talk pages on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Members .
Please contact me before delivery to avoid mutiple deliveries by different bots . Thanks in advance.
-
Tinucherian (
talk) 06:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I wonder whether it would be possible to tag the talk pages of all articles marked as {{
paleo-stub}}, {{
geol-stub}} and redirects to these with {{WikiProject Geology|class=stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
? This would assist us greatly in working out where to focus our attention.
Many thanks, Verisimilus T 09:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Done CWii( Talk| Contribs) 23:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Last year, Many rugby league free images of logos such as were made .svg files from the original .png files. Some of those .png files are still in use where they would be better used by the .svg version. Because this is a long and tedious task, I request that a bot to the task. To change all instances (of the images in the table below) from the .png version to the .svg version of the image.
I have noticed that Betacommand has done a few of these already. ( proof) The images that Betacommand changes have been deleted (.png versions), so once there are no versions of the .png image left, it could be deleted.
There are many that need doing as the full list below examples.
The Windler talk 03:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Request that any articles in the following categories not already so tagged be tagged with {{WkiProject Caribbean|class=|importance=|Dominican Republic=yes|Dominican Republic-importance=}}.
Category:2004 in the Dominican Republic; Category:2008 in the Dominican Republic; Category:Airlines of the Dominican Republic; Category:Airports in the Dominican Republic; Category:Bachata; Category:Banks of the Dominican Republic; Category:Baseball in the Dominican Republic; Category:Baseball teams in the Dominican Republic; Category:Baseball venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Basketball in the Dominican Republic; Category:Bays of the Dominican Republic; Category:Beaches of the Dominican Republic; Category:Bridges in the Dominican Republic; Category:Buildings and structures in the Dominican Republic; Category:Cardinals of the Dominican Republic; Category:Caves of the Dominican Republic; Category:Christian missionaries in the Dominican Republic; Category:Christianity in the Dominican Republic; Category:Cinema of the Dominican Republic; Category:Cities and towns in the Dominican Republic; Category:Communications in the Dominican Republic; Category:Companies of the Dominican Republic; Category:Companies of the Dominican Republic by industry; Category:Conservation in the Dominican Republic; Category:Crime in the Dominican Republic; Category:Culture of the Dominican Republic; Category:Defunct airlines of the Dominican Republic; Category:Disasters in the Dominican Republic; Category:Dominican cuisine; Category:Dominican Republic; Category:Dominican Republic activists; Category:Dominican Republic actors; Category:Dominican Republic adoptive parents; Category:Dominican Republic anti-communists; Category:Dominican Republic architects; Category:Dominican Republic art; Category:Dominican Republic artists; Category:Dominican Republic at the Olympics; Category:Dominican Republic Baptists; Category:Dominican Republic baseball biography stubs; Category:Dominican Republic beauty queens; Category:Dominican Republic Christians; Category:Dominican Republic composers; Category:Dominican Republic death metal musical groups; Category:Dominican Republic diplomats; Category:Dominican Republic engineers; Category:Dominican Republic fashion models; Category:Dominican Republic female models; Category:Dominican Republic film actors; Category:Dominican Republic film directors; Category:Dominican Republic football competitions; Category:Dominican Republic geography stubs; Category:Dominican Republic golfers; Category:Dominican Republic heavy metal musical groups; Category:Dominican Republic Jehovah's Witnesses; Category:Dominican Republic journalists; Category:Dominican Republic literature; Category:Dominican Republic models; Category:Dominican Republic music arrangers; Category:Dominican Republic musical groups; Category:Dominican Republic musicians; Category:Dominican Republic people; Category:Dominican Republic people by occupation; Category:Dominican Republic people by religion; Category:Dominican Republic people stubs; Category:Dominican Republic pianists; Category:Dominican Republic players of American football; Category:Dominican Republic poets; Category:Dominican Republic politicians; Category:Dominican Republic Protestants; Category:Dominican Republic-related lists; Category:Dominican Republic Roman Catholics; Category:Dominican Republic singers; Category:Dominican Republic songwriters; Category:Dominican Republic sportscasters; Category:Dominican Republic sportspeople; Category:Dominican Republic sportspeople in doping cases; Category:Dominican Republic stage actors; Category:Dominican Republic stubs; Category:Dominican Republic television; Category:Dominican Republic television series; Category:Dominican Republic women; Category:Dominican Republic women by occupation; Category:Dominican Republic writers; Category:Economy of the Dominican Republic; Category:Education in the Dominican Republic; Category:Energy in the Dominican Republic; Category:Environment of the Dominican Republic; Category:First Ladies of Dominican Republic; Category:Football in the Dominican Republic; Category:Football venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Foreign relations of the Dominican Republic; Category:Geography of the Dominican Republic; Category:Golf in the Dominican Republic; Category:Government of the Dominican Republic; Category:Health in the Dominican Republic; Category:History of the Dominican Republic; Category:Hurricanes in the Dominican Republic; Category:Indoor arenas in the Dominican Republic; Category:Islands of the Dominican Republic; Category:Lakes of the Dominican Republic; Category:Landforms of the Dominican Republic; Category:Languages of the Dominican Republic; Category:Law of the Dominican Republic; Category:Libraries in the Dominican Republic; Category:Maps of the Dominican Republic; Category:Mayors of places in the Dominican Republic; Category:Media of the Dominican Republic; Category:Mormon missionaries in the Dominican Republic; Category:Mountain ranges of the Dominican Republic; Category:Mountains of the Dominican Republic; Category:Municipalities of the Dominican Republic; Category:Music festivals in the Dominican Republic; Category:Music of the Dominican Republic; Category:Music venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Natural history of the Dominican Republic; Category:National parks of the Dominican Republic; Category:National sports teams of the Dominican Republic; Category:National symbols of the Dominican Republic; Category:Natural disasters in the Dominican Republic; Category:Newspapers published in the Dominican Republic; Category:Old maps of the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic athletes of the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic boxers of the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic competitors for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic medalists for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic volleyball players of the Dominican Republic; Category:Opera houses in the Dominican Republic; Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of the Dominican Republic; Category:Parks in the Dominican Republic; Category:Planned airlines of the Dominican Republic; Category:Political office-holders in the Dominican Republic; Category:Politics of the Dominican Republic; Category:Presidents of the Dominican Republic; Category:Provinces of the Dominican Republic; Category:Radio stations in the Dominican Republic; Category:Religion in the Dominican Republic; Category:Rivers of the Dominican Republic; Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in the Dominican Republic; Category:Roman Catholic schools in the Dominican Republic; Category:Rugby union in the Dominican Republic; Category:Schools in the Dominican Republic; Category:Science and technology in the Dominican Republic; Category:Settlements in the Dominican Republic; Category:Society of the Dominican Republic; Category:Sport in the Dominican Republic; Category:Sports festivals hosted in the Dominican Republic; Category:Sports teams in the Dominican Republic; Category:Sports venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Subdivisions of the Dominican Republic; Category:Television stations in the Dominican Republic; Category:Tennis in the Dominican Republic; Category:Theatre in the Dominican Republic; Category:Theatres in the Dominican Republic; Category:Tourism in the Dominican Republic; Category:Trade unions of the Dominican Republic; Category:Transportation in the Dominican Republic; Category:Universities and colleges in the Dominican Republic; Category:Urban planning in the Dominican Republic; Category:Vice Presidents of the Dominican Republic; Category:Visitor attractions in the Dominican Republic; Category:World Heritage Sites in the Dominican Republic; Category:Years in the Dominican Republic;
Also, if it would be possible to indicate which if any of these articles were ever main page DYK selections, as per the talk page, that would help a lot as well. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 22:10, 10 April 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)
I do not understand your question. The request contains examples. Do you want examples of links to '[Wednesday]' or examples of links to '[February 8|8 February]'? Lightmouse ( talk) 09:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
We do not seem to be understanding each other. I hoped that the example of '[February 8|8 February]' would explain what I meant. Are you saying that example is not clear? Lightmouse ( talk) 19:02, 13 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]] |
It would be easy for a bot to periodically clean out WhatLinksHere for the redirects like 1st January, 2nd February, etc. In fact, there are many MOS:DATE fixes that could probably be done reliably by bot. Maybe I'll try and cook something up. Happy‑ melon 16:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
True. What conversions would be uncontroversial? Feel free to add to the table to the right. Happy‑ melon 15:33, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
User:Happy-melon says that he is involved in other things now. Would anyone else like to take it on? Lightmouse ( talk) 08:27, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Here is what wp:mosnum says: Links to date elements that do not contain both a day number and a month are not required; for example, solitary months, solitary days of the week, solitary years, decades, centuries, and month and year combinations. Such links must not be used unless the reader needs to follow the link to understand the topic see WP:CONTEXT. Autoformatting must not be used for the following purposes:
[[20 June|20]]
, [[20 June]] [[1997 in South African sport|1997]]
) (several forms of piped links break the date formatting function);Regex to do some of that is at User:Lightmouse/javascript conversion but it will need modification and I can work with you on that. Lightmouse ( talk) 21:43, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Convert | To |
---|---|
January 1 2008 | [[January 1]] [[2008]] |
January 1, 2008 | [[January 1]] [[2008]] |
January 1st, 2008 | [[January 1]] [[2008]] |
1 January 2008 | [[1 January]] [[2008]] |
1st January 2008 | [[1 January]] [[2008]] |
I think you have misunderstood. That section does not require the wikilinking of bare dates. As I understand it, the wording was written very carefully to avoid that requirement. Lightmouse ( talk) 21:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Whether MOS does or does not require a comma, I think it would be a good idea to insert a comma if the [[January 1]] [[2008]] format is used. User preferences are enabled only for those who are logged in, which many readers are not. For them, either [[January 1]], [[2008]] or [[1 January]] [[2008]] would probably be more visually appealing. Black Falcon ( Talk) 07:06, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
The aim is to correct broken dates. I have no opinion on the comma issue but it sounds fine to me. I would be unhappy if the scope was increased to creating more links that add to the sea of blue and serve no purpose for me. Lightmouse ( talk) 09:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. That is what I thought. I agree fully with your other comments. The bullet points in wp:mosnum (quoted above) need to be considered too. This issue is ideal bot fodder. If anyone wants to take it on and wants some regex examples, please see User:Lightmouse/javascript conversion. Lightmouse ( talk) 11:07, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
When an article includes inline citations and a ref tag is not closed properly, all the text after the reference "disappears" (though it is still visible in the edit screen). Is there a bot which can look for unclosed ref tags and close them, or, if there isn't, could one be made? Disappearing text is quite a common problem (judging from the number of threads I have seen about it at various noticeboards), and I think that such a bot would be very helpful to the Wikipedia. Thanks, DuncanHill ( talk) 13:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
<ref\s?(name=[^>/]*)?>
does not equal the number of matches for </ref>
, and hence there are unclosed citations somewhere; but a bot to actually fix problems like this would be much, much harder. Where does the bot place the </ref>
tag? After the end of the citation template? But what if extra notes have been added after the template proper? What about references which don't use citation templates? There are far too many possibilities to be able to create a bot that could fix problems like this reliably in all but the simplest situations.
Happy‑
melon 13:46, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
All articles in Thailand-related cats should have their discussion pages tagged with "Template:WikiProject Thailand" (and also "Template:WikiProject Southeast Asia", if possible). Badagnani ( talk) 07:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
I guess Category:Thailand and all subcats? Would that work for the bot? Badagnani ( talk) 06:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Thailand}}
. Essentially, yes we can help you tag articles, and there are several bot operators who fulfil requests like this regularly, but if you cause a bot to tag
Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944-1946 with {{
WikiProject Thailand}}
, which would happen if your request was fulfilled as suggested, you are the one that gets the stick... and the trout. So, once again, which categories and subcategories do you want tagged? :D?
Happy‑
melon 14:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)I didn't know...I thought all subcats of Category:Thailand would be Thailand related. I'll make a list. Badagnani ( talk) 16:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
There are a lot--I think your examples might be some of the few that would be problematic. However, I've identified a few that are "clean" and can be added; can we start with these?
Thank you again,
Badagnani ( talk) 16:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Big thanks, DyceBot! Badagnani ( talk) 05:08, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
User:NrhpBot only ran for a while in July of 2007. I'm seeking someone to write a bot that can take all red links of List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio and create stubs for each place from the NRIS database and tag articles with: {{ Ohio-NRHP-struct-stub}}, Fill out a {{ Infobox nrhp}}, and Category:Registered Historic Places in Ohio and tag the talk pages with {{OH-Project|importance=|class=stub}}. Can this be done? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
There's almost 500 articles in Category:-importance Geology articles. Could someone quickly conduct a null edit on the talk pages which would force the articles into Category:Unknown-importance Geology articles? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot please do the following for all pages in Category:Unassessed Africa articles:
The project's discussion for this request can be found here. Thank you, Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
can i hav a bot. I'm On Base 23:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I can't understand the steps. I'm On Base 23:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
can u make 1 for me. I'm On Base 00:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC).
what do you mean by standerd english? I'm On Base 12:46, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I just learned to understand the steps. and i write in slang to save time. now can someone achually anwser my feraken question. I'm On Base 17:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
User:NrhpBot only ran for a while in July of 2007. I'm seeking someone to write a bot that can take all red links of List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio and create stubs for each place from the NRIS database and tag articles with: {{ Ohio-NRHP-struct-stub}}, Fill out a {{ Infobox nrhp}}, and Category:Registered Historic Places in Ohio and tag the talk pages with {{OH-Project|importance=|class=stub}}. Can this be done? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Category:Images lacking a description (which has close to 9000 images) contains a TON of images that aren't used anywhere. Is it possible for a bot to create of a list of those that (a) aren't currently listed for deletion for lack of a copyright (i.e., not in Category:All images with unknown copyright status); (b) aren't currently used in article space (or are just used in user space); and (c) organized by tag and then by date of upload if possible? I tried going through that mess but it would be better if there was a systematic way to deal with them. I'm not even going to ask for a bot to tag these for deletion as that is NOT a can of worms I want to get into. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 06:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Just need {{ WPTCT}} removed from all the following pages, as the project has been merged with Wikipedia:WikiProject Terrorism. Sherurcij ( Speaker for the Dead) 06:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WPTCT}}
to {{
WikiProject Terrorism}}
?? Or will that create duplication of banners on talk pages?
Happy‑
melon 08:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I would like to request a bot update the wikilinks that connect to Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present) so they go to the now-correct wikilink of 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, or preferably if someone could help teach me how to do this work using AWB (I am certified to use it, but haven't figured out how.)
The coding would be for the bot to seek any page that uses the tag " [[Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present)| " (note pipe bar) or "Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present)" and update that string to " 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ".
The list of pages that use the old wikilink is here at this What Links Here page: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Writers_Guild_of_America_strike_%282007%E2%80%93present%29&limit=500&from=0
If you can teach me how to do this with AWB, that would be valuable as I would not need to make bot requests similar to this in future, meaning less work for your bots.
Please let me know, Guroadrunner ( talk) 07:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I guess a bot could do this, but I am not sure there is an official policy for this templates to bee in "See also".-- Kozuch ( talk) 20:49, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone like to run a bot to delink common units of measurement (see wp:overlink)? Lightmouse ( talk) 18:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm creating a number of formatting templates for scientific pages:
The goals for these templates are:
They are nearing completion and I'm introducing them to the community for feedback. When they are finished and accepted, I would like to see them used throughout wikipedia in order to reach the goals of uniformity for which they were created. I've found that there are quite a few common ways to write these values and symbols that should be easy to replace with the template version automatically. I'm hoping that somebody who runs a bot can help me determine to what extend we can automatically replace existing values. I have no experience with bots, but I imagine that a bot that will take regular expressions for replacing strings would be perfect for this.
--
SkyLined
(
talk) local time:13:40,
30 April
2024 (
CET), server time: 11:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
We've recently had a request at Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion#Think we could find a bot? for a bot which might be able to maintain the page, including archiving closed days and keeping the old business marker five days back. It is, as I'm sure you will gather, a truly enthralling task for any editor. Would there be any way to set up a bot to automate these tasks? And, if yes, how would we go about setting up the bot? John Carter ( talk) 01:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
A system which will undertake the process of archiving old Did you know hooks, refresh the relevant clock and the Next updates page, and post templates at the appropriate talk pages, leaving to the administrators only the task of updating the transcluded template.
1. On Template:Did you know/Next update/Clear there shall be an invisible time-stamp, which shall be copied to Template:Did you know/Next update every time that page needs to be cleared after an update (see #6).
2. For an update, an administrator shall replace the old hooks with the new ones in Template:Did you know, copying the time-stamp as well; if the time-stamp is not copied, an error message shall be displayed.
3. The bot shall compare the time-stamps of T:DYK and T:DYK/N on each edit of the former; when these time-stamps are identical, that will signify an update, and the bot shall read the immediately previous version of the page, and copy the hooks.
4. The bot shall subsequently insert the copied hooks in the Wikipedia:Recent additions page, exactly as they were before their substitution; the only edit that it will do to them shall be to make the time-stamp visible, in order to aid browsing of the archives.
5. Then, the bot shall read the credits, locate the new hooks' articles' talk pages and post the {{dyktalk}} template on each. Then, it shall read the hook nominators' and article creators' names and post at their talk pages templates {{UpdatedDYKNom}} and {{UpdatedDYK}} respectively; in order to distinguish nominators from creators, a standard way of writing credits will need to be enforced, possibly but not necessarily by means of a template.
6. Having finished with the credits, the bot shall clear T:DYK/N, copying the template's empty version from T:DYK/N/C along with the time-stamp, so that it shall no longer be the same as that of T:DYK.
7. Finally, it shall refresh the clock, showing that everything is in order; if the clock is not reset several minutes after an update, that shall be an indicator of a problem.
The Duke of Waltham ( talk) and Art LaPella ( talk) 05:50, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot be made or configured to check a talk page's history for the last level of warning received and display it to opted-in users (somehow, maybe with something in their monobook.js). This was suggested at WP:VPP and it sounds like a great idea. I don't know if it's possible but it would be useful. Thanks in advance, George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help 17:23, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Someone's going to love me for this one. There's almost 50000 articles in Category:Unknown-importance album articles. Could someone quickly conduct a null edit on the talk pages which would force the articles into Category:Unknown-importance Album articles? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 08:25, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WPBeatles}}
, so several thousand articles were actually correctly tagged into that category. Now that I've redirected those category links, the number of articles in the category is falling rapidly.
Happy‑
melon 16:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)I do a lot of moving of free images to the Commons. Some of the best candidates for moving to Commons are images with OTRS permission on file, because the free license is confirmed by the copyright holder and is basically rock-solid. However, I found when moving these images via CommonsHelper that multiple templates have been used to tag this images with OTRS permission, and only one of them - {{ PermissionOTRS}} - is recognized by Commons. So when an image is moved over with another OTRS template, a lot of hand-massaging is required to get the permission details straight on the Commons side. The redundant OTRS templates, {{ PermissionOTRS-ID}}, {{ ConfirmationOTRS}}, {{ ConfirmationImageOTRS}}, and {{ Confirmation}} (itself a redirect to {{ ConfirmationOTRS}}) have now been deprecated in favor of {{ PermissionOTRS}}. However, the deprecated templates are still transcluded on hundreds/thousands of pages, making manual replacement time-consuming and difficult. It would be great if a bot could replace the deprecated templates with {{ PermissionOTRS}}.
Unfortunately it's not as simple as a simple replacement of the template name...the OTRS ticket number needs to be carried over, and the deprecated templates use a slightly different format. While {{ PermissionOTRS}} uses the parameter "id=ticket number", {{ PermissionOTRS-ID}} simply includes the bare ticket number after a pipe as its sole parameter, while the other three templates ({{ Confirmation}}, {{ ConfirmationOTRS}}, and {{ ConfirmationImageOTRS}}) use the parameter "otrs=ticket number" to identify the ticket.
Can someone with a bot help out with this? Kelly hi! 22:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
PermissionOTRS-ID}}
, but {{
Confirmation}}
, {{
ConfirmationOTRS}}
and {{
ConfirmationImageOTRS}}
have extra information (source URL, usually, but also |license=
for the last one) which can't be displayed on the {{
PermissionOTRS}}
template. I don't think this information should be lost.
Happy‑
melon 20:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Need a BOT help ! I am from WikiProject Christianity . There are other wikiprojects that are subsets of this project , but uses different independant banners. The idea is to add WikiProject Christianity banners to those project articles but doesnt have the {{ ChristianityWikiProject}} banner
The work is to :-
Step 1) Identify article talk pages WITH banners {{ Project Catholicism}} , {{ Anglicanismproject}} , {{ Orthodoxyproject}} ,{{ CharismaticWikiProject}} , {{ WikiProject Lutheranism}} , {{ WP Adventist}} , {{ WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy}} {{ JWProject}} and WITHOUT the Banner {{ ChristianityWikiProject}}
Step 2) Add {{ChristianityWikiProject|class=|importance=}} to all the above talk pages.
Make sure you dont add the {{ ChristianityWikiProject}} banner to already existing talkpages.
Who can take this up? Thanks in advance. - Tinucherian ( talk) 17:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Hold : please hold the request - Tinucherian ( talk) 17:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone run a bot through this list and subst: the templates? Thanks! Vassyana ( talk) 05:40, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I need a bot to find all items in Category:International Baccalaureate schools which are definitely in the United States and change the category to Category:International Baccalaureate schools in the United States. It's okay if you miss a few, I can pick up the stragglers by hand.
One possible technique is to see if any ancestor category is Category:Schools in the United States or better yet, Category:United States. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 23:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Could someone make a list of articles about Living people that contains a non-free image. There are still many NFCC#1 violations out there, and such a list will make it easier to find them. Rettetast ( talk) 21:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
The WP Opera Project is hoping to dip a toe in the assessment water. With the aid of SatyrTN's SatyrBot, we've already had a successful trial using a small subset of articles from an opera sub-project - Category:WikiProject Richard Wagner articles - and would now like to enable assessment for the rest. I contacted SatyrTN on 25 March, but he was busy. Subsequently, he's been absent from WP for 9 days, and I thought I'd try here. Here's what we would like a suitable Bot to do for us:
We'd like a "Start" rating to be given automatically to those articles that are tagged with the Opera Project banner ({{WikiProject Opera}}) and are not already classified as Stub.
Exceptions: articles which have been promoted to Good Article, Featured Article or Featured List should show those ratings on the banner. Also, it would be good if any articles which currently show Stub on the banner but have been manually de-stubbed without the banner having been altered could be rated Start.
We'd also like the facility to comment when we start doing the assessments. For the Wagner project, SatyrTN organised it so that the banner carries a dormant link: if a comments page is present, there's a link, but if not, not. The link will nevertheless appear (and work) if a comments page is subsequently added.
I can give some examples of the various possibilities outlined above if that would help.
Hoping for a helpful reply! -- GuillaumeTell ( talk) 16:36, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Opera}}
|class=stub
|auto=yes
|class=FA
or |class=GA
|class=start
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
, a meta-template for project banners which makes it very easy to add or remove functionality from the banner with minimal fuss. Check out the documentation to see some of the possibilities - it can get very complicated if you want it to, but it can also be very simple; if you're interested, I'd be happy to convert the banner for you (I created the meta-template, so I hope I know what I'm doing :D). If you can confirm that the summary above is correct I can get to work.
Happy‑
melon 17:15, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
There most likely is a bot that has already replaced this one but I haven't been able to find it. Does anyone have the information? Mkdw talk 06:02, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
There is currently a sizable backlog at Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons. For those unfamiliar with the category: these are images that exist on Commons under a different name and that should be deleted once the occurrences of the Wikipedia image have been replaced by the Commons image. Naturally, this is a pain in the neck to do manually, especially since some of these images have a dozen occurrences. I suppose a simple tweak of Twinkle could automate the process, so could a bot. There's a similar category Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons for images that exist on Commons under the same name so a bot could easily go through images in Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons and
This is probably a cinch to program but it would be a big big timesaver. Pascal.Tesson ( talk) 14:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
I think this can be done with API or DB dump queries, which is why I am asking here as I don't have the technical skill for such things. I was wondering if there was a way to gets stats on long-term unreverted vandalism. It is unfortunate that rollbacks don't have edit summaries, but I'm sure someone could generate a list of edits that were either undos, rollbacks, or had "rvv", "rv", "revert", "revert vandalism", etc. in the edit summaries, but were made a month or more after the previous edit. Or maybe two weeks or more. Or a range of times to see what the distribution is. Hopefully most of the edits will be only a few minutes or hours after the previous one, but it is the volume of the long tail that I am interested in. How long does the really long-term unreverted vandalism stay there for, and (impossible to find out) how much is out there that hasn't been found yet? Example. Carcharoth ( talk) 13:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Replace "{{/doc}}
" with "{{documentation}}
" and some more work, on template pages.
For several reasons
documentation for templates is put on /doc subpages. In the old days such documentation was made visible on the template page itself by putting {{/doc}}
between two <noinclude> </noinclude>
tags. Nowadays we instead use the template {{
documentation}} that causes a nice green box with links to the /doc page and the /sandbox page etc. See {{
shortcut}} for an example how it looks.
I still frequently find templates that use the old {{/doc}}
code. I do not know how many are still out there but it can be anything between some hundred to a couple of thousand.
The templates {{ Template doc}} and {{ Documentation, template}} have also been used but are now redirected to {{documentation}}. They are together currently used on about 2600 pages.
Here is the detailed request:
Replace all the following exact strings on pages in the template namespace:
{{/doc}}
{{/Doc}}
{{template doc}}
{{Template doc}}
{{documentation, template}}
{{Documentation, template}}
Replace them with this string: "{{documentation}}
"
Do NOT replace occurrences of the all upper case "{{/DOC}}
".
Only replace them if they are between <noinclude> </noinclude>
tags. (Or if it is easier to detect, only if they are not on a page that ends with "/doc" like "Template:Something/doc" or "Template:Something/Something/doc". But I think this will be slightly less robust.)
Unfortunately some of the affected pages are fully protected. I could have good use of a list of the affected pages that the bot could not edit, so I can edit them manually.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 06:01, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
{{/doc}}
should be created, as should a list of all protected templates which do not currently transclude {{
documentation}}
, but this task should not be automated, or should be automated only very, very slowly (I'm talking 1 edit/10 minutes). The documentation system was created for a reason: so that templates wouldn't have to be edited as often! 2600 templates each transcluded on an average of what, 500 pages? Bang, that's 1.3 million recaches. It's probably closer to 2500 pages each, which would push five million. Don't hit the servers with that all at once - take it easy, do them one at a time. Actually, come to think of it, perhaps a slow-running script (on an admin account so it can do the complete list) wouldn't be that bad an idea, but editing all these templates at 10epm would put an unnecessary load on the servers. It's something that needs to be done, but we shouldn't put ourselves in too much of a rush to do it right now.
Happy‑
melon 20:31, 17 April 2008 (UTC){{/doc}}
strings is not supposed to put the pages that use those templates into the job queue anymore? Since {{/doc}}
should exist in and only be changed if it is between <noinclude> </noinclude>
tags. And nowadays MediaWiki is smart about that. Right?{{/DOC}}
in their code? It would be very nice. (Those ones will need more work fixing since that involves moving the /DOC page to /doc.){{
documentation}}
to everything in an intersection of "is fully-protected" and "in Template: namespace" and not "transcludes {{
documentation}}
".
Happy‑
melon 11:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)GuillaumeTell's explanatory message is above (see Opera Project assessment process/1). Our original bot driver ( SatyrTN) is moving house. Happy Melon thought he could help us, but it didn't work out for technical reasons. I wonder whether anyone else could hep us with our assessments set-up? Best wishes from an obscure corner of WP facing the prospect of severe long-term bot-deprivation. -- Kleinzach ( talk) 02:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Request a bot replacement of {{ CommonsImageSummary}} with {{ Information}} for standardization. CommonsImageSummary was apparently used before the en Wikipedia version of {{ Information}} was made compliant with the Commons version. So far as I can tell all parameters work the same, and the only thing that needs to be changed is the template name. Kelly hi! 03:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not just talking about auto-archived pages; I would love to able to run a bot on my userpage that would check to make sure section links still work, and if they don't, then make an intelligent guess what the name of the most recent archive is and look for the section link there, and update my userpage to reflect the change. Has anyone written a bot to do this yet?
Could someone quickly change everything in Template:WikiProject Milton Keynes to the one it is redirect to, Template:WikiProject Buckinghamshire? There's only about 100 articles to change. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 01:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Before I knew there was an MoS guideline, I had inserted Image:Red Army flag.svg in all articles that are part of the
. I am not experienced in writing bots, and have no desire to be, but I'm sure that someone has a written one that can be easily used to remove these images from the selected articles, and would appreciate this help.-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 04:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
A decent-sized task. There are about 1900 articles in Category:Album articles without infoboxes. A bot would need to (1) Go to the article page for the talk page listed; (2) Check if the article uses {{ Infobox Album}} and if it does, (3) go back to the article talk page and remove the "|needs-infobox=yes" parameter from {{ album}}. I hope that's not too hard. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 10:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Just ran the query again, output here. If anybody is still going to work through these. Q T C 01:15, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
User:NrhpBot only ran for a while in July of 2007. I'm seeking someone to write a bot that can take all red links of List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio and create stubs for each place from the NRIS database and tag articles with: {{ Ohio-NRHP-struct-stub}}, Fill out a {{ Infobox nrhp}}, and Category:Registered Historic Places in Ohio and tag the talk pages with {{OH-Project|importance=|class=stub}}. Can this be done? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 2008-04-10 6:29 pm (UTC-4)
When <ref> tags are not properly closed (or a closing </ref> tag is deleted by a later edit) the entire {{ reflist}} output becomes corrupted. Editors do not always notice this because the problem is way at the bottom. This can however be easily fixed by simply restoring the missing </ref> data and tag. So far I have found and fixed two such cases here [3] and here [4] (scroll through the "References" section to see the problem). Additionally what is happening is that the article text you see inside the References section ought to be displaying in the article but instead it is being hidden at the point where the </ref> tag is missing until the next </ref> tag is encountered. Pretty ugly problem.
Can a bot be built to spot this problem and add a category tag {Category:Articles with damaged reflists to be repaired}? If a bot can find affected pages I can try and fix the problem by reviewing what changes happened later and restoring the /ref without disrupting whatever edits followed. If a bot cannot do this what about the {{ reflist}} software being modified to spot problems as it builds the output? -- Low Sea ( talk) 21:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
The best way would be to wait for the patch from bug 12757 to be reviewed and committed. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 13:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm requesting a bot that would go through a single page defined by me (page would be able to be changed) and create redirects to the main link (most pages based on a template). For example on this page, if the first link is blue it would redirect all links in that specific template to that blue link. I don't know of a bot that does this. Thanks. Dividing 17:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I tagged Ecuador category talk pages with Template:WikiProject Ecuador to place the categories in Category:Category-Class Ecuador pages. This also placed the categories in Category:WikiProject Ecuador articles. Categories are not articles, so I modified Template:WikiProject Ecuador to fix this. The categories still appear in Template:WikiProject Ecuador. One way to fix this is to, for example, open each category page and save them to purge the page. That takes a lot of time. Is there a bot that can purge each page listed in Category:Category-Class Ecuador pages so that I don't have to open up each category page and save? Gimmetrow did purge the Category:Category-Class Ecuador pages pages, [5] but this issue comes up every so often for me and I would like to know where to make such a purge request in the future. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 01:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on letting possibly interested editors know about Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4. Does someone have a bot who would deliver a standard note to everyone on a list of editors - very similar to a WikiProject newsleter?
I've compiled a list of editors who posted on the page for the prior meetup, but haven't indicated whether or not they will attend this meetup. The list is at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC 4. The proposed note to go to each person on that list is at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC 4/Proposed reminder note - May 1.
Thanks in advance for any help on this! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
There are two cases I can think of where inactivity by Wikipedians is a concern. The first is WikiProjects, where participant lists can often give the impression of activity when the members have actually mostly been gone for more than a year! Of course, we don't know if active members are active related to the project, but we can certainly say that people who haven't edited Wikipedia for a long time are inactive. I think all projects should strive to keep these lists up to date, moving inactive people to an inactive list and then deleting them. As for how long it takes to become 'inactive', that's a subjective matter, but a bot could surely be programmed to see how long it was since a user's last edit and take an action if it meets a certain minimum (perhaps specified by each project?).
Another is the somewhat controversial subject of article maintenance. Here it is vital that 'maintainers'/'stewards'/whatever-you-want-to-call-them are currently active. If you are maintaining and/or working on an article you must have made an edit within a certain amount of time, otherwise you should be removed as a maintainer (and template:maintained taken down if there is nobody else). It's a very bad look to present someone as a maintainer when they are no longer active, especially when they have been gone for more than a year.
Notifications to the talk page of the person removed would be a good idea too. This isn't a request for a bot as such, but more a question of whether it could be done and how it would work, and any general feedback on the idea. I'd probably have to take these issues to the WikiProject Council and perhaps the village pump for the maintained thing first before I can come up with a specific request. Richard001 ( talk) 02:45, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there guys. Any chance someone could do me a favour by creating a bot that will rename all of the articles in this category so that the years are in the format "YYYY-YY"? The reason for this is because that is the format used by the majority of other football-related articles, and therefore the remainder should be retitled to follow the same standard. Any help with this would be much appreciated. – Pee Jay 23:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
What ab0ut 1999-2000? Rich Farmbrough, 13:14 29 April 2008 (GMT).
Would someone be able to take the list found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Green Bay Packers/Infobox needed and search through all the articles for {{ Infobox gridiron football person}} and create a list of those articles that lack that template? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ♦ contribs) @ 02:35, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone with a handy bot please migrate all usages of the redirect {{ Painting}} to its target, {{ Infobox Painting}}? It looks there are somewhere around 800-900 usages. The reason is that I would like to use {{ Painting}} for a local copy of Commons:Template:Painting. Thanks! Kelly hi! 13:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
There are redirects from UN/LOCODEs in the form UN/LOCODE:ABCDE (see Category:Redirects from UN/LOCODE ), if such a redirect goes to a page that has a Template:Infobox Settlement a new variable un_locode should be added after the variable area_code and the value should be the 5 chars, e.g. USNYC for UN/LOCODE:USNYC. The value is currently not displayed, as agreed by Template_talk:Infobox_Settlement#UN.2FLOCODE . UnLoCode ( talk) 15:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that will clean out redlinks from particular articles? I would like the redlinks removed from User:Ricky81682/Missing descriptions and the page might load better once it shrinks from its current huge size. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 04:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Genetics is a new WikiProject. Would you please have a bot tag the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics stubs with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. If the bot can determine that the article is unreferenced, please have the bot use |unref=yes as well. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 01:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like to propose a bot to help start to clean up the formatting of descriptions/source/authorship information on at least some of our free images. New uploads are now including {{ Information}} with correct fields filled in based on choices made during upload, but our older images are lacking this in most cases. Many also lack descriptions...often the uploader relied on the context of the image's usage for a description, but as images are orphaned over time due to article changes, this context is lost...and as uploaders leave over time, we lose the chance to obtain this information.
I propose the bot do the following:
This should correct a lot of the entries we have in Category:Images with unknown source, since the authorship claim is clear when a user places the "self" license tags. And even if they do not return to add a description, the image will at least be categorized into Category:Images lacking a description for human attention. Kelly hi! 17:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I had a brainstorm this morning and came up with this question:
Wouldn't it be convenient if Wikipedia had a bot that could read the ANI board and automatically notify those parties who are involved in a thread?
Let's say I were to reach a situation with a specific editor where I felt that it was necessary to bring that person to ANI. As a courtesy, someone needs to notify that editor that they and/or their recent activity are being discussed at ANI. But, sometimes it seems like it does nothing but further escalate the situation if the user bringing that editor to ANI is the one that notifies them. If a bot existed that could automatically do that, however....
The problem is, I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to most scripts, so I don't think I would be the right person to create the bot. I'd be more than happy to help maintain it and monitor its activities once it's created and running, but as far as the creation goes... -- InDeBiz1 ( talk) 22:52, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
=D
Lol, its a good idea, I just don't think bots are that smart ;-) But who knows, maybe someone with the no-how will figure something out. Cheers,
« Gonzo fan2007 (
talk ♦
contribs) @ 00:11, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Could a bot please do the following for all pages in Category:Unassessed Africa articles:
The project's discussion for this request can be found here. Thank you, Black Falcon ( Talk) 18:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
On hold more bugs
CWii(
Talk|
Contribs) 18:15, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
I know this has been proposed before and I know it'll be hard to have the community agree on this but I still think it would be worthwhile for a group of experienced bot operators to design a simple image deletion bot. (I also suppose that there have been many discussions in the past about this, though I'm not sure where to find them.) From what I understand, there hasn't been much complaint about the work of RedirectCleanupBot ( talk · contribs) so the community might be more open to this. Specifically, I'm thinking about two tasks.
Let me quickly make the case for this and give my thoughts on why and how these bots should operate and on how to sell this as a plus for everyone rather than a dangerous slippery slope.
These are not difficult tasks to automate and so it's possible to write a very transparent bot code, which would go a long way into providing the insurances that the community will want before giving the green light to a deletion bot. Furthermore both tasks are as uncontroversial as they come and having admins performing them by hand is just a stupid waste of admin clicks. Pascal.Tesson ( talk) 15:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm afraid that making a safe image-deleting bot is impossible. There are two principal points of failure:
BEANS!!!, but how can you be sure that a vandal cannot tag a free image as FU, or fake the MetsBot template? MaxSem( Han shot first!) 18:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I find it highly unlikely that any image deletion bot would ever get approved. The Skynet/I, Robot/etc crazies aside, image deletion is controversial enough as it is. The only reason the redirect bot bot was approved was because it was maybe 15 lines of code, was impossible to fool by its very nature, and was doing something that no one could argue shouldn't be done. This bot would be, by your own admission, highly complicated and not impossible to fool. (As stupid as admins may be, people are unwilling to accept that they are less fool-proof than bots.)-- Dycedarg ж 20:14, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
My memory for remembering exact instances of these things is rather terrible, but the only one I can remember rather clearly was the one that Dragons flight tried for a bot that was meant to protect all the templates that appear on the main page, as that was sorely needed at the time. That RFA was a posterchild for failed bot RFAs, and was eventually withdrawn due to the timely arrival of cascading protection, which rendered the issue moot. I don't remember the details particularly well (or for that matter the name of the bot so as to direct you to the RFA page), but I don't remember any particular lack of the operator being willing to address the community's concerns. In any case, you are correct that the redirect bot is a proof of concept. Perhaps future bot RFAs will be easier with a live example of one that hasn't destroyed Wikipedia. I still don't think that this bot will pass, due to the fiery combination of bot admin rights and image deletion. But I wish you luck regardless.-- Dycedarg ж 06:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 15 | ← | Archive 17 | Archive 18 | Archive 19 | Archive 20 | Archive 21 | → | Archive 25 |
Some discussions/arguments/wars cover more than one article. For example, the question could be "Should these two article be merged?". Another example would be a discussion about an image; ideally, it should be held simultaneously in the talk pages of the image and of all the articles that use it. It would be nice to have a bot or HTML command to cross-post a segment of text between several pages.
This code could also be useful in the articles themselves. For example, the summary of a main article could be its lead paragraph cross-posted at the appropriate place in the summary article. Another example would be a lexicon to clarify several closely-related concepts, cross-posted in all the corresponding articles.
Is there a bot or code to cross-post a segment of text between two pages? If not, could it be created? Emmanuelm ( talk) 17:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
To aid in the dicussion here could a bot be used to make a list of all the pages whose titles are full dates (e.g. January 1, 2000)? Additionally, could it identify which are redirects? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 23:58, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Or, if not {{Vandalism information}}, then a new template? My idea is this: I use huggle and it, as well as various antivandal bots, are well aware of edits per minute and reverts per minute. Would it not be too difficult to create a bot that monitors recent changes, specifically vandalism warning templates issued to vandal's talk pages by users and Cluebot like bots?. This bot could update a template in real time from real statistics concerning the levels of vandalism (rather than the somewhat subjective updates made irregularly to {{Vandalism information}}. It could also issue regular updates on various irc channels that focus on countervandalism. Just a thought... If I am talking about something already in place, could you let me know? κaτaʟaveno T C 13:37, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone please set up a bot to go through the 1190 pages in
Category:Unassessed Canada-related articles and for any pages whose corresponding article has a stub template (most of them), add |stub=yes|autostub=yes to the {{
WikiProject Canada}} or {{
WPCANADA}} template. Note that many of them already have an importance assessment, so if you could leave that alone while making the change I would appreciate it. I wonder if it would also be possible to tag them as stubs based on their length; many of them are about electoral districts and have just one line followed by a small table, but are missing stub templates. Thanks a lot! --
Arctic Gnome (
talk •
contribs) 18:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
This arena and the article about it has had a few name changes. I would like to update the following links as follows:
-- 76.205.25.141 ( talk) 22:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Just redirect the old pages to the new ones, this should happen automatically when the page is moved. Performing the above changes is a waste of resources. -- maelgwn - talk 02:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Yahoo! News links die after a week or two and are not archived by the Wayback Machine. Since cite templates are rarely used by people who use Yahho as a news source it's hard to find other versions of the sources. Can a bot please post a user_talk message to users who add news.yahoo.com links, asking them for a better source? Please put a prominent mention of wp:v in the message which states that unverifiable info may be remoevd by anyone. -- Jeandré, 2008-03-30 t19:59z
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter April 2008 needs delivery now that User:KevinalewisBot by User:Kevinalewis (he's semi-retired from WP) is inactive. Please see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach#Newsletter for options on delivery.
Delivery to all user talk pages on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Members, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Outreach#Instructions. Please contact if something remains unclear. feydey ( talk) 18:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I am from
Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity. We need automatic delivery of the newsletter to our members , every month with a BOT . Is this possible ? Kindly let me know on my
talkpage at the earliest.
To do: {{subst:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/April 2008}} to all user talk pages on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Members .
Please contact me before delivery to avoid mutiple deliveries by different bots . Thanks in advance.
-
Tinucherian (
talk) 06:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I wonder whether it would be possible to tag the talk pages of all articles marked as {{
paleo-stub}}, {{
geol-stub}} and redirects to these with {{WikiProject Geology|class=stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
? This would assist us greatly in working out where to focus our attention.
Many thanks, Verisimilus T 09:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Done CWii( Talk| Contribs) 23:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Last year, Many rugby league free images of logos such as were made .svg files from the original .png files. Some of those .png files are still in use where they would be better used by the .svg version. Because this is a long and tedious task, I request that a bot to the task. To change all instances (of the images in the table below) from the .png version to the .svg version of the image.
I have noticed that Betacommand has done a few of these already. ( proof) The images that Betacommand changes have been deleted (.png versions), so once there are no versions of the .png image left, it could be deleted.
There are many that need doing as the full list below examples.
The Windler talk 03:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Request that any articles in the following categories not already so tagged be tagged with {{WkiProject Caribbean|class=|importance=|Dominican Republic=yes|Dominican Republic-importance=}}.
Category:2004 in the Dominican Republic; Category:2008 in the Dominican Republic; Category:Airlines of the Dominican Republic; Category:Airports in the Dominican Republic; Category:Bachata; Category:Banks of the Dominican Republic; Category:Baseball in the Dominican Republic; Category:Baseball teams in the Dominican Republic; Category:Baseball venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Basketball in the Dominican Republic; Category:Bays of the Dominican Republic; Category:Beaches of the Dominican Republic; Category:Bridges in the Dominican Republic; Category:Buildings and structures in the Dominican Republic; Category:Cardinals of the Dominican Republic; Category:Caves of the Dominican Republic; Category:Christian missionaries in the Dominican Republic; Category:Christianity in the Dominican Republic; Category:Cinema of the Dominican Republic; Category:Cities and towns in the Dominican Republic; Category:Communications in the Dominican Republic; Category:Companies of the Dominican Republic; Category:Companies of the Dominican Republic by industry; Category:Conservation in the Dominican Republic; Category:Crime in the Dominican Republic; Category:Culture of the Dominican Republic; Category:Defunct airlines of the Dominican Republic; Category:Disasters in the Dominican Republic; Category:Dominican cuisine; Category:Dominican Republic; Category:Dominican Republic activists; Category:Dominican Republic actors; Category:Dominican Republic adoptive parents; Category:Dominican Republic anti-communists; Category:Dominican Republic architects; Category:Dominican Republic art; Category:Dominican Republic artists; Category:Dominican Republic at the Olympics; Category:Dominican Republic Baptists; Category:Dominican Republic baseball biography stubs; Category:Dominican Republic beauty queens; Category:Dominican Republic Christians; Category:Dominican Republic composers; Category:Dominican Republic death metal musical groups; Category:Dominican Republic diplomats; Category:Dominican Republic engineers; Category:Dominican Republic fashion models; Category:Dominican Republic female models; Category:Dominican Republic film actors; Category:Dominican Republic film directors; Category:Dominican Republic football competitions; Category:Dominican Republic geography stubs; Category:Dominican Republic golfers; Category:Dominican Republic heavy metal musical groups; Category:Dominican Republic Jehovah's Witnesses; Category:Dominican Republic journalists; Category:Dominican Republic literature; Category:Dominican Republic models; Category:Dominican Republic music arrangers; Category:Dominican Republic musical groups; Category:Dominican Republic musicians; Category:Dominican Republic people; Category:Dominican Republic people by occupation; Category:Dominican Republic people by religion; Category:Dominican Republic people stubs; Category:Dominican Republic pianists; Category:Dominican Republic players of American football; Category:Dominican Republic poets; Category:Dominican Republic politicians; Category:Dominican Republic Protestants; Category:Dominican Republic-related lists; Category:Dominican Republic Roman Catholics; Category:Dominican Republic singers; Category:Dominican Republic songwriters; Category:Dominican Republic sportscasters; Category:Dominican Republic sportspeople; Category:Dominican Republic sportspeople in doping cases; Category:Dominican Republic stage actors; Category:Dominican Republic stubs; Category:Dominican Republic television; Category:Dominican Republic television series; Category:Dominican Republic women; Category:Dominican Republic women by occupation; Category:Dominican Republic writers; Category:Economy of the Dominican Republic; Category:Education in the Dominican Republic; Category:Energy in the Dominican Republic; Category:Environment of the Dominican Republic; Category:First Ladies of Dominican Republic; Category:Football in the Dominican Republic; Category:Football venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Foreign relations of the Dominican Republic; Category:Geography of the Dominican Republic; Category:Golf in the Dominican Republic; Category:Government of the Dominican Republic; Category:Health in the Dominican Republic; Category:History of the Dominican Republic; Category:Hurricanes in the Dominican Republic; Category:Indoor arenas in the Dominican Republic; Category:Islands of the Dominican Republic; Category:Lakes of the Dominican Republic; Category:Landforms of the Dominican Republic; Category:Languages of the Dominican Republic; Category:Law of the Dominican Republic; Category:Libraries in the Dominican Republic; Category:Maps of the Dominican Republic; Category:Mayors of places in the Dominican Republic; Category:Media of the Dominican Republic; Category:Mormon missionaries in the Dominican Republic; Category:Mountain ranges of the Dominican Republic; Category:Mountains of the Dominican Republic; Category:Municipalities of the Dominican Republic; Category:Music festivals in the Dominican Republic; Category:Music of the Dominican Republic; Category:Music venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Natural history of the Dominican Republic; Category:National parks of the Dominican Republic; Category:National sports teams of the Dominican Republic; Category:National symbols of the Dominican Republic; Category:Natural disasters in the Dominican Republic; Category:Newspapers published in the Dominican Republic; Category:Old maps of the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic athletes of the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic boxers of the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic competitors for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic medalists for the Dominican Republic; Category:Olympic volleyball players of the Dominican Republic; Category:Opera houses in the Dominican Republic; Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of the Dominican Republic; Category:Parks in the Dominican Republic; Category:Planned airlines of the Dominican Republic; Category:Political office-holders in the Dominican Republic; Category:Politics of the Dominican Republic; Category:Presidents of the Dominican Republic; Category:Provinces of the Dominican Republic; Category:Radio stations in the Dominican Republic; Category:Religion in the Dominican Republic; Category:Rivers of the Dominican Republic; Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in the Dominican Republic; Category:Roman Catholic schools in the Dominican Republic; Category:Rugby union in the Dominican Republic; Category:Schools in the Dominican Republic; Category:Science and technology in the Dominican Republic; Category:Settlements in the Dominican Republic; Category:Society of the Dominican Republic; Category:Sport in the Dominican Republic; Category:Sports festivals hosted in the Dominican Republic; Category:Sports teams in the Dominican Republic; Category:Sports venues in the Dominican Republic; Category:Subdivisions of the Dominican Republic; Category:Television stations in the Dominican Republic; Category:Tennis in the Dominican Republic; Category:Theatre in the Dominican Republic; Category:Theatres in the Dominican Republic; Category:Tourism in the Dominican Republic; Category:Trade unions of the Dominican Republic; Category:Transportation in the Dominican Republic; Category:Universities and colleges in the Dominican Republic; Category:Urban planning in the Dominican Republic; Category:Vice Presidents of the Dominican Republic; Category:Visitor attractions in the Dominican Republic; Category:World Heritage Sites in the Dominican Republic; Category:Years in the Dominican Republic;
Also, if it would be possible to indicate which if any of these articles were ever main page DYK selections, as per the talk page, that would help a lot as well. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 22:10, 10 April 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)
I do not understand your question. The request contains examples. Do you want examples of links to '[Wednesday]' or examples of links to '[February 8|8 February]'? Lightmouse ( talk) 09:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
We do not seem to be understanding each other. I hoped that the example of '[February 8|8 February]' would explain what I meant. Are you saying that example is not clear? Lightmouse ( talk) 19:02, 13 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]] |
It would be easy for a bot to periodically clean out WhatLinksHere for the redirects like 1st January, 2nd February, etc. In fact, there are many MOS:DATE fixes that could probably be done reliably by bot. Maybe I'll try and cook something up. Happy‑ melon 16:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
True. What conversions would be uncontroversial? Feel free to add to the table to the right. Happy‑ melon 15:33, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
User:Happy-melon says that he is involved in other things now. Would anyone else like to take it on? Lightmouse ( talk) 08:27, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Here is what wp:mosnum says: Links to date elements that do not contain both a day number and a month are not required; for example, solitary months, solitary days of the week, solitary years, decades, centuries, and month and year combinations. Such links must not be used unless the reader needs to follow the link to understand the topic see WP:CONTEXT. Autoformatting must not be used for the following purposes:
[[20 June|20]]
, [[20 June]] [[1997 in South African sport|1997]]
) (several forms of piped links break the date formatting function);Regex to do some of that is at User:Lightmouse/javascript conversion but it will need modification and I can work with you on that. Lightmouse ( talk) 21:43, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Convert | To |
---|---|
January 1 2008 | [[January 1]] [[2008]] |
January 1, 2008 | [[January 1]] [[2008]] |
January 1st, 2008 | [[January 1]] [[2008]] |
1 January 2008 | [[1 January]] [[2008]] |
1st January 2008 | [[1 January]] [[2008]] |
I think you have misunderstood. That section does not require the wikilinking of bare dates. As I understand it, the wording was written very carefully to avoid that requirement. Lightmouse ( talk) 21:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Whether MOS does or does not require a comma, I think it would be a good idea to insert a comma if the [[January 1]] [[2008]] format is used. User preferences are enabled only for those who are logged in, which many readers are not. For them, either [[January 1]], [[2008]] or [[1 January]] [[2008]] would probably be more visually appealing. Black Falcon ( Talk) 07:06, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
The aim is to correct broken dates. I have no opinion on the comma issue but it sounds fine to me. I would be unhappy if the scope was increased to creating more links that add to the sea of blue and serve no purpose for me. Lightmouse ( talk) 09:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. That is what I thought. I agree fully with your other comments. The bullet points in wp:mosnum (quoted above) need to be considered too. This issue is ideal bot fodder. If anyone wants to take it on and wants some regex examples, please see User:Lightmouse/javascript conversion. Lightmouse ( talk) 11:07, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
When an article includes inline citations and a ref tag is not closed properly, all the text after the reference "disappears" (though it is still visible in the edit screen). Is there a bot which can look for unclosed ref tags and close them, or, if there isn't, could one be made? Disappearing text is quite a common problem (judging from the number of threads I have seen about it at various noticeboards), and I think that such a bot would be very helpful to the Wikipedia. Thanks, DuncanHill ( talk) 13:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
<ref\s?(name=[^>/]*)?>
does not equal the number of matches for </ref>
, and hence there are unclosed citations somewhere; but a bot to actually fix problems like this would be much, much harder. Where does the bot place the </ref>
tag? After the end of the citation template? But what if extra notes have been added after the template proper? What about references which don't use citation templates? There are far too many possibilities to be able to create a bot that could fix problems like this reliably in all but the simplest situations.
Happy‑
melon 13:46, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
All articles in Thailand-related cats should have their discussion pages tagged with "Template:WikiProject Thailand" (and also "Template:WikiProject Southeast Asia", if possible). Badagnani ( talk) 07:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
I guess Category:Thailand and all subcats? Would that work for the bot? Badagnani ( talk) 06:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Thailand}}
. Essentially, yes we can help you tag articles, and there are several bot operators who fulfil requests like this regularly, but if you cause a bot to tag
Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944-1946 with {{
WikiProject Thailand}}
, which would happen if your request was fulfilled as suggested, you are the one that gets the stick... and the trout. So, once again, which categories and subcategories do you want tagged? :D?
Happy‑
melon 14:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)I didn't know...I thought all subcats of Category:Thailand would be Thailand related. I'll make a list. Badagnani ( talk) 16:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
There are a lot--I think your examples might be some of the few that would be problematic. However, I've identified a few that are "clean" and can be added; can we start with these?
Thank you again,
Badagnani ( talk) 16:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Big thanks, DyceBot! Badagnani ( talk) 05:08, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
User:NrhpBot only ran for a while in July of 2007. I'm seeking someone to write a bot that can take all red links of List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio and create stubs for each place from the NRIS database and tag articles with: {{ Ohio-NRHP-struct-stub}}, Fill out a {{ Infobox nrhp}}, and Category:Registered Historic Places in Ohio and tag the talk pages with {{OH-Project|importance=|class=stub}}. Can this be done? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
There's almost 500 articles in Category:-importance Geology articles. Could someone quickly conduct a null edit on the talk pages which would force the articles into Category:Unknown-importance Geology articles? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot please do the following for all pages in Category:Unassessed Africa articles:
The project's discussion for this request can be found here. Thank you, Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:09, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
can i hav a bot. I'm On Base 23:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I can't understand the steps. I'm On Base 23:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
can u make 1 for me. I'm On Base 00:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC).
what do you mean by standerd english? I'm On Base 12:46, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I just learned to understand the steps. and i write in slang to save time. now can someone achually anwser my feraken question. I'm On Base 17:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
User:NrhpBot only ran for a while in July of 2007. I'm seeking someone to write a bot that can take all red links of List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio and create stubs for each place from the NRIS database and tag articles with: {{ Ohio-NRHP-struct-stub}}, Fill out a {{ Infobox nrhp}}, and Category:Registered Historic Places in Ohio and tag the talk pages with {{OH-Project|importance=|class=stub}}. Can this be done? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Category:Images lacking a description (which has close to 9000 images) contains a TON of images that aren't used anywhere. Is it possible for a bot to create of a list of those that (a) aren't currently listed for deletion for lack of a copyright (i.e., not in Category:All images with unknown copyright status); (b) aren't currently used in article space (or are just used in user space); and (c) organized by tag and then by date of upload if possible? I tried going through that mess but it would be better if there was a systematic way to deal with them. I'm not even going to ask for a bot to tag these for deletion as that is NOT a can of worms I want to get into. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 06:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Just need {{ WPTCT}} removed from all the following pages, as the project has been merged with Wikipedia:WikiProject Terrorism. Sherurcij ( Speaker for the Dead) 06:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WPTCT}}
to {{
WikiProject Terrorism}}
?? Or will that create duplication of banners on talk pages?
Happy‑
melon 08:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I would like to request a bot update the wikilinks that connect to Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present) so they go to the now-correct wikilink of 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, or preferably if someone could help teach me how to do this work using AWB (I am certified to use it, but haven't figured out how.)
The coding would be for the bot to seek any page that uses the tag " [[Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present)| " (note pipe bar) or "Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present)" and update that string to " 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ".
The list of pages that use the old wikilink is here at this What Links Here page: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Writers_Guild_of_America_strike_%282007%E2%80%93present%29&limit=500&from=0
If you can teach me how to do this with AWB, that would be valuable as I would not need to make bot requests similar to this in future, meaning less work for your bots.
Please let me know, Guroadrunner ( talk) 07:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I guess a bot could do this, but I am not sure there is an official policy for this templates to bee in "See also".-- Kozuch ( talk) 20:49, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone like to run a bot to delink common units of measurement (see wp:overlink)? Lightmouse ( talk) 18:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm creating a number of formatting templates for scientific pages:
The goals for these templates are:
They are nearing completion and I'm introducing them to the community for feedback. When they are finished and accepted, I would like to see them used throughout wikipedia in order to reach the goals of uniformity for which they were created. I've found that there are quite a few common ways to write these values and symbols that should be easy to replace with the template version automatically. I'm hoping that somebody who runs a bot can help me determine to what extend we can automatically replace existing values. I have no experience with bots, but I imagine that a bot that will take regular expressions for replacing strings would be perfect for this.
--
SkyLined
(
talk) local time:13:40,
30 April
2024 (
CET), server time: 11:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
We've recently had a request at Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion#Think we could find a bot? for a bot which might be able to maintain the page, including archiving closed days and keeping the old business marker five days back. It is, as I'm sure you will gather, a truly enthralling task for any editor. Would there be any way to set up a bot to automate these tasks? And, if yes, how would we go about setting up the bot? John Carter ( talk) 01:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
A system which will undertake the process of archiving old Did you know hooks, refresh the relevant clock and the Next updates page, and post templates at the appropriate talk pages, leaving to the administrators only the task of updating the transcluded template.
1. On Template:Did you know/Next update/Clear there shall be an invisible time-stamp, which shall be copied to Template:Did you know/Next update every time that page needs to be cleared after an update (see #6).
2. For an update, an administrator shall replace the old hooks with the new ones in Template:Did you know, copying the time-stamp as well; if the time-stamp is not copied, an error message shall be displayed.
3. The bot shall compare the time-stamps of T:DYK and T:DYK/N on each edit of the former; when these time-stamps are identical, that will signify an update, and the bot shall read the immediately previous version of the page, and copy the hooks.
4. The bot shall subsequently insert the copied hooks in the Wikipedia:Recent additions page, exactly as they were before their substitution; the only edit that it will do to them shall be to make the time-stamp visible, in order to aid browsing of the archives.
5. Then, the bot shall read the credits, locate the new hooks' articles' talk pages and post the {{dyktalk}} template on each. Then, it shall read the hook nominators' and article creators' names and post at their talk pages templates {{UpdatedDYKNom}} and {{UpdatedDYK}} respectively; in order to distinguish nominators from creators, a standard way of writing credits will need to be enforced, possibly but not necessarily by means of a template.
6. Having finished with the credits, the bot shall clear T:DYK/N, copying the template's empty version from T:DYK/N/C along with the time-stamp, so that it shall no longer be the same as that of T:DYK.
7. Finally, it shall refresh the clock, showing that everything is in order; if the clock is not reset several minutes after an update, that shall be an indicator of a problem.
The Duke of Waltham ( talk) and Art LaPella ( talk) 05:50, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot be made or configured to check a talk page's history for the last level of warning received and display it to opted-in users (somehow, maybe with something in their monobook.js). This was suggested at WP:VPP and it sounds like a great idea. I don't know if it's possible but it would be useful. Thanks in advance, George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help 17:23, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Someone's going to love me for this one. There's almost 50000 articles in Category:Unknown-importance album articles. Could someone quickly conduct a null edit on the talk pages which would force the articles into Category:Unknown-importance Album articles? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 08:25, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WPBeatles}}
, so several thousand articles were actually correctly tagged into that category. Now that I've redirected those category links, the number of articles in the category is falling rapidly.
Happy‑
melon 16:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)I do a lot of moving of free images to the Commons. Some of the best candidates for moving to Commons are images with OTRS permission on file, because the free license is confirmed by the copyright holder and is basically rock-solid. However, I found when moving these images via CommonsHelper that multiple templates have been used to tag this images with OTRS permission, and only one of them - {{ PermissionOTRS}} - is recognized by Commons. So when an image is moved over with another OTRS template, a lot of hand-massaging is required to get the permission details straight on the Commons side. The redundant OTRS templates, {{ PermissionOTRS-ID}}, {{ ConfirmationOTRS}}, {{ ConfirmationImageOTRS}}, and {{ Confirmation}} (itself a redirect to {{ ConfirmationOTRS}}) have now been deprecated in favor of {{ PermissionOTRS}}. However, the deprecated templates are still transcluded on hundreds/thousands of pages, making manual replacement time-consuming and difficult. It would be great if a bot could replace the deprecated templates with {{ PermissionOTRS}}.
Unfortunately it's not as simple as a simple replacement of the template name...the OTRS ticket number needs to be carried over, and the deprecated templates use a slightly different format. While {{ PermissionOTRS}} uses the parameter "id=ticket number", {{ PermissionOTRS-ID}} simply includes the bare ticket number after a pipe as its sole parameter, while the other three templates ({{ Confirmation}}, {{ ConfirmationOTRS}}, and {{ ConfirmationImageOTRS}}) use the parameter "otrs=ticket number" to identify the ticket.
Can someone with a bot help out with this? Kelly hi! 22:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
PermissionOTRS-ID}}
, but {{
Confirmation}}
, {{
ConfirmationOTRS}}
and {{
ConfirmationImageOTRS}}
have extra information (source URL, usually, but also |license=
for the last one) which can't be displayed on the {{
PermissionOTRS}}
template. I don't think this information should be lost.
Happy‑
melon 20:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Need a BOT help ! I am from WikiProject Christianity . There are other wikiprojects that are subsets of this project , but uses different independant banners. The idea is to add WikiProject Christianity banners to those project articles but doesnt have the {{ ChristianityWikiProject}} banner
The work is to :-
Step 1) Identify article talk pages WITH banners {{ Project Catholicism}} , {{ Anglicanismproject}} , {{ Orthodoxyproject}} ,{{ CharismaticWikiProject}} , {{ WikiProject Lutheranism}} , {{ WP Adventist}} , {{ WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy}} {{ JWProject}} and WITHOUT the Banner {{ ChristianityWikiProject}}
Step 2) Add {{ChristianityWikiProject|class=|importance=}} to all the above talk pages.
Make sure you dont add the {{ ChristianityWikiProject}} banner to already existing talkpages.
Who can take this up? Thanks in advance. - Tinucherian ( talk) 17:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Hold : please hold the request - Tinucherian ( talk) 17:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone run a bot through this list and subst: the templates? Thanks! Vassyana ( talk) 05:40, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I need a bot to find all items in Category:International Baccalaureate schools which are definitely in the United States and change the category to Category:International Baccalaureate schools in the United States. It's okay if you miss a few, I can pick up the stragglers by hand.
One possible technique is to see if any ancestor category is Category:Schools in the United States or better yet, Category:United States. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 23:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Could someone make a list of articles about Living people that contains a non-free image. There are still many NFCC#1 violations out there, and such a list will make it easier to find them. Rettetast ( talk) 21:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
The WP Opera Project is hoping to dip a toe in the assessment water. With the aid of SatyrTN's SatyrBot, we've already had a successful trial using a small subset of articles from an opera sub-project - Category:WikiProject Richard Wagner articles - and would now like to enable assessment for the rest. I contacted SatyrTN on 25 March, but he was busy. Subsequently, he's been absent from WP for 9 days, and I thought I'd try here. Here's what we would like a suitable Bot to do for us:
We'd like a "Start" rating to be given automatically to those articles that are tagged with the Opera Project banner ({{WikiProject Opera}}) and are not already classified as Stub.
Exceptions: articles which have been promoted to Good Article, Featured Article or Featured List should show those ratings on the banner. Also, it would be good if any articles which currently show Stub on the banner but have been manually de-stubbed without the banner having been altered could be rated Start.
We'd also like the facility to comment when we start doing the assessments. For the Wagner project, SatyrTN organised it so that the banner carries a dormant link: if a comments page is present, there's a link, but if not, not. The link will nevertheless appear (and work) if a comments page is subsequently added.
I can give some examples of the various possibilities outlined above if that would help.
Hoping for a helpful reply! -- GuillaumeTell ( talk) 16:36, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Opera}}
|class=stub
|auto=yes
|class=FA
or |class=GA
|class=start
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
, a meta-template for project banners which makes it very easy to add or remove functionality from the banner with minimal fuss. Check out the documentation to see some of the possibilities - it can get very complicated if you want it to, but it can also be very simple; if you're interested, I'd be happy to convert the banner for you (I created the meta-template, so I hope I know what I'm doing :D). If you can confirm that the summary above is correct I can get to work.
Happy‑
melon 17:15, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
There most likely is a bot that has already replaced this one but I haven't been able to find it. Does anyone have the information? Mkdw talk 06:02, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
There is currently a sizable backlog at Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons. For those unfamiliar with the category: these are images that exist on Commons under a different name and that should be deleted once the occurrences of the Wikipedia image have been replaced by the Commons image. Naturally, this is a pain in the neck to do manually, especially since some of these images have a dozen occurrences. I suppose a simple tweak of Twinkle could automate the process, so could a bot. There's a similar category Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons for images that exist on Commons under the same name so a bot could easily go through images in Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons and
This is probably a cinch to program but it would be a big big timesaver. Pascal.Tesson ( talk) 14:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
I think this can be done with API or DB dump queries, which is why I am asking here as I don't have the technical skill for such things. I was wondering if there was a way to gets stats on long-term unreverted vandalism. It is unfortunate that rollbacks don't have edit summaries, but I'm sure someone could generate a list of edits that were either undos, rollbacks, or had "rvv", "rv", "revert", "revert vandalism", etc. in the edit summaries, but were made a month or more after the previous edit. Or maybe two weeks or more. Or a range of times to see what the distribution is. Hopefully most of the edits will be only a few minutes or hours after the previous one, but it is the volume of the long tail that I am interested in. How long does the really long-term unreverted vandalism stay there for, and (impossible to find out) how much is out there that hasn't been found yet? Example. Carcharoth ( talk) 13:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Replace "{{/doc}}
" with "{{documentation}}
" and some more work, on template pages.
For several reasons
documentation for templates is put on /doc subpages. In the old days such documentation was made visible on the template page itself by putting {{/doc}}
between two <noinclude> </noinclude>
tags. Nowadays we instead use the template {{
documentation}} that causes a nice green box with links to the /doc page and the /sandbox page etc. See {{
shortcut}} for an example how it looks.
I still frequently find templates that use the old {{/doc}}
code. I do not know how many are still out there but it can be anything between some hundred to a couple of thousand.
The templates {{ Template doc}} and {{ Documentation, template}} have also been used but are now redirected to {{documentation}}. They are together currently used on about 2600 pages.
Here is the detailed request:
Replace all the following exact strings on pages in the template namespace:
{{/doc}}
{{/Doc}}
{{template doc}}
{{Template doc}}
{{documentation, template}}
{{Documentation, template}}
Replace them with this string: "{{documentation}}
"
Do NOT replace occurrences of the all upper case "{{/DOC}}
".
Only replace them if they are between <noinclude> </noinclude>
tags. (Or if it is easier to detect, only if they are not on a page that ends with "/doc" like "Template:Something/doc" or "Template:Something/Something/doc". But I think this will be slightly less robust.)
Unfortunately some of the affected pages are fully protected. I could have good use of a list of the affected pages that the bot could not edit, so I can edit them manually.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 06:01, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
{{/doc}}
should be created, as should a list of all protected templates which do not currently transclude {{
documentation}}
, but this task should not be automated, or should be automated only very, very slowly (I'm talking 1 edit/10 minutes). The documentation system was created for a reason: so that templates wouldn't have to be edited as often! 2600 templates each transcluded on an average of what, 500 pages? Bang, that's 1.3 million recaches. It's probably closer to 2500 pages each, which would push five million. Don't hit the servers with that all at once - take it easy, do them one at a time. Actually, come to think of it, perhaps a slow-running script (on an admin account so it can do the complete list) wouldn't be that bad an idea, but editing all these templates at 10epm would put an unnecessary load on the servers. It's something that needs to be done, but we shouldn't put ourselves in too much of a rush to do it right now.
Happy‑
melon 20:31, 17 April 2008 (UTC){{/doc}}
strings is not supposed to put the pages that use those templates into the job queue anymore? Since {{/doc}}
should exist in and only be changed if it is between <noinclude> </noinclude>
tags. And nowadays MediaWiki is smart about that. Right?{{/DOC}}
in their code? It would be very nice. (Those ones will need more work fixing since that involves moving the /DOC page to /doc.){{
documentation}}
to everything in an intersection of "is fully-protected" and "in Template: namespace" and not "transcludes {{
documentation}}
".
Happy‑
melon 11:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)GuillaumeTell's explanatory message is above (see Opera Project assessment process/1). Our original bot driver ( SatyrTN) is moving house. Happy Melon thought he could help us, but it didn't work out for technical reasons. I wonder whether anyone else could hep us with our assessments set-up? Best wishes from an obscure corner of WP facing the prospect of severe long-term bot-deprivation. -- Kleinzach ( talk) 02:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Request a bot replacement of {{ CommonsImageSummary}} with {{ Information}} for standardization. CommonsImageSummary was apparently used before the en Wikipedia version of {{ Information}} was made compliant with the Commons version. So far as I can tell all parameters work the same, and the only thing that needs to be changed is the template name. Kelly hi! 03:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not just talking about auto-archived pages; I would love to able to run a bot on my userpage that would check to make sure section links still work, and if they don't, then make an intelligent guess what the name of the most recent archive is and look for the section link there, and update my userpage to reflect the change. Has anyone written a bot to do this yet?
Could someone quickly change everything in Template:WikiProject Milton Keynes to the one it is redirect to, Template:WikiProject Buckinghamshire? There's only about 100 articles to change. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 01:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Before I knew there was an MoS guideline, I had inserted Image:Red Army flag.svg in all articles that are part of the
. I am not experienced in writing bots, and have no desire to be, but I'm sure that someone has a written one that can be easily used to remove these images from the selected articles, and would appreciate this help.-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 04:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
A decent-sized task. There are about 1900 articles in Category:Album articles without infoboxes. A bot would need to (1) Go to the article page for the talk page listed; (2) Check if the article uses {{ Infobox Album}} and if it does, (3) go back to the article talk page and remove the "|needs-infobox=yes" parameter from {{ album}}. I hope that's not too hard. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 10:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Just ran the query again, output here. If anybody is still going to work through these. Q T C 01:15, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
User:NrhpBot only ran for a while in July of 2007. I'm seeking someone to write a bot that can take all red links of List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio and create stubs for each place from the NRIS database and tag articles with: {{ Ohio-NRHP-struct-stub}}, Fill out a {{ Infobox nrhp}}, and Category:Registered Historic Places in Ohio and tag the talk pages with {{OH-Project|importance=|class=stub}}. Can this be done? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 2008-04-10 6:29 pm (UTC-4)
When <ref> tags are not properly closed (or a closing </ref> tag is deleted by a later edit) the entire {{ reflist}} output becomes corrupted. Editors do not always notice this because the problem is way at the bottom. This can however be easily fixed by simply restoring the missing </ref> data and tag. So far I have found and fixed two such cases here [3] and here [4] (scroll through the "References" section to see the problem). Additionally what is happening is that the article text you see inside the References section ought to be displaying in the article but instead it is being hidden at the point where the </ref> tag is missing until the next </ref> tag is encountered. Pretty ugly problem.
Can a bot be built to spot this problem and add a category tag {Category:Articles with damaged reflists to be repaired}? If a bot can find affected pages I can try and fix the problem by reviewing what changes happened later and restoring the /ref without disrupting whatever edits followed. If a bot cannot do this what about the {{ reflist}} software being modified to spot problems as it builds the output? -- Low Sea ( talk) 21:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
The best way would be to wait for the patch from bug 12757 to be reviewed and committed. MaxSem( Han shot first!) 13:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm requesting a bot that would go through a single page defined by me (page would be able to be changed) and create redirects to the main link (most pages based on a template). For example on this page, if the first link is blue it would redirect all links in that specific template to that blue link. I don't know of a bot that does this. Thanks. Dividing 17:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I tagged Ecuador category talk pages with Template:WikiProject Ecuador to place the categories in Category:Category-Class Ecuador pages. This also placed the categories in Category:WikiProject Ecuador articles. Categories are not articles, so I modified Template:WikiProject Ecuador to fix this. The categories still appear in Template:WikiProject Ecuador. One way to fix this is to, for example, open each category page and save them to purge the page. That takes a lot of time. Is there a bot that can purge each page listed in Category:Category-Class Ecuador pages so that I don't have to open up each category page and save? Gimmetrow did purge the Category:Category-Class Ecuador pages pages, [5] but this issue comes up every so often for me and I would like to know where to make such a purge request in the future. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 01:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on letting possibly interested editors know about Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4. Does someone have a bot who would deliver a standard note to everyone on a list of editors - very similar to a WikiProject newsleter?
I've compiled a list of editors who posted on the page for the prior meetup, but haven't indicated whether or not they will attend this meetup. The list is at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC 4. The proposed note to go to each person on that list is at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC 4/Proposed reminder note - May 1.
Thanks in advance for any help on this! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
There are two cases I can think of where inactivity by Wikipedians is a concern. The first is WikiProjects, where participant lists can often give the impression of activity when the members have actually mostly been gone for more than a year! Of course, we don't know if active members are active related to the project, but we can certainly say that people who haven't edited Wikipedia for a long time are inactive. I think all projects should strive to keep these lists up to date, moving inactive people to an inactive list and then deleting them. As for how long it takes to become 'inactive', that's a subjective matter, but a bot could surely be programmed to see how long it was since a user's last edit and take an action if it meets a certain minimum (perhaps specified by each project?).
Another is the somewhat controversial subject of article maintenance. Here it is vital that 'maintainers'/'stewards'/whatever-you-want-to-call-them are currently active. If you are maintaining and/or working on an article you must have made an edit within a certain amount of time, otherwise you should be removed as a maintainer (and template:maintained taken down if there is nobody else). It's a very bad look to present someone as a maintainer when they are no longer active, especially when they have been gone for more than a year.
Notifications to the talk page of the person removed would be a good idea too. This isn't a request for a bot as such, but more a question of whether it could be done and how it would work, and any general feedback on the idea. I'd probably have to take these issues to the WikiProject Council and perhaps the village pump for the maintained thing first before I can come up with a specific request. Richard001 ( talk) 02:45, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there guys. Any chance someone could do me a favour by creating a bot that will rename all of the articles in this category so that the years are in the format "YYYY-YY"? The reason for this is because that is the format used by the majority of other football-related articles, and therefore the remainder should be retitled to follow the same standard. Any help with this would be much appreciated. – Pee Jay 23:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
What ab0ut 1999-2000? Rich Farmbrough, 13:14 29 April 2008 (GMT).
Would someone be able to take the list found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Green Bay Packers/Infobox needed and search through all the articles for {{ Infobox gridiron football person}} and create a list of those articles that lack that template? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 ( talk ♦ contribs) @ 02:35, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Could someone with a handy bot please migrate all usages of the redirect {{ Painting}} to its target, {{ Infobox Painting}}? It looks there are somewhere around 800-900 usages. The reason is that I would like to use {{ Painting}} for a local copy of Commons:Template:Painting. Thanks! Kelly hi! 13:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
There are redirects from UN/LOCODEs in the form UN/LOCODE:ABCDE (see Category:Redirects from UN/LOCODE ), if such a redirect goes to a page that has a Template:Infobox Settlement a new variable un_locode should be added after the variable area_code and the value should be the 5 chars, e.g. USNYC for UN/LOCODE:USNYC. The value is currently not displayed, as agreed by Template_talk:Infobox_Settlement#UN.2FLOCODE . UnLoCode ( talk) 15:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that will clean out redlinks from particular articles? I would like the redlinks removed from User:Ricky81682/Missing descriptions and the page might load better once it shrinks from its current huge size. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 04:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Genetics is a new WikiProject. Would you please have a bot tag the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics stubs with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. If the bot can determine that the article is unreferenced, please have the bot use |unref=yes as well. Thanks. GregManninLB ( talk) 01:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like to propose a bot to help start to clean up the formatting of descriptions/source/authorship information on at least some of our free images. New uploads are now including {{ Information}} with correct fields filled in based on choices made during upload, but our older images are lacking this in most cases. Many also lack descriptions...often the uploader relied on the context of the image's usage for a description, but as images are orphaned over time due to article changes, this context is lost...and as uploaders leave over time, we lose the chance to obtain this information.
I propose the bot do the following:
This should correct a lot of the entries we have in Category:Images with unknown source, since the authorship claim is clear when a user places the "self" license tags. And even if they do not return to add a description, the image will at least be categorized into Category:Images lacking a description for human attention. Kelly hi! 17:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I had a brainstorm this morning and came up with this question:
Wouldn't it be convenient if Wikipedia had a bot that could read the ANI board and automatically notify those parties who are involved in a thread?
Let's say I were to reach a situation with a specific editor where I felt that it was necessary to bring that person to ANI. As a courtesy, someone needs to notify that editor that they and/or their recent activity are being discussed at ANI. But, sometimes it seems like it does nothing but further escalate the situation if the user bringing that editor to ANI is the one that notifies them. If a bot existed that could automatically do that, however....
The problem is, I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to most scripts, so I don't think I would be the right person to create the bot. I'd be more than happy to help maintain it and monitor its activities once it's created and running, but as far as the creation goes... -- InDeBiz1 ( talk) 22:52, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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Lol, its a good idea, I just don't think bots are that smart ;-) But who knows, maybe someone with the no-how will figure something out. Cheers,
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contribs) @ 00:11, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Could a bot please do the following for all pages in Category:Unassessed Africa articles:
The project's discussion for this request can be found here. Thank you, Black Falcon ( Talk) 18:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
On hold more bugs
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I know this has been proposed before and I know it'll be hard to have the community agree on this but I still think it would be worthwhile for a group of experienced bot operators to design a simple image deletion bot. (I also suppose that there have been many discussions in the past about this, though I'm not sure where to find them.) From what I understand, there hasn't been much complaint about the work of RedirectCleanupBot ( talk · contribs) so the community might be more open to this. Specifically, I'm thinking about two tasks.
Let me quickly make the case for this and give my thoughts on why and how these bots should operate and on how to sell this as a plus for everyone rather than a dangerous slippery slope.
These are not difficult tasks to automate and so it's possible to write a very transparent bot code, which would go a long way into providing the insurances that the community will want before giving the green light to a deletion bot. Furthermore both tasks are as uncontroversial as they come and having admins performing them by hand is just a stupid waste of admin clicks. Pascal.Tesson ( talk) 15:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm afraid that making a safe image-deleting bot is impossible. There are two principal points of failure:
BEANS!!!, but how can you be sure that a vandal cannot tag a free image as FU, or fake the MetsBot template? MaxSem( Han shot first!) 18:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I find it highly unlikely that any image deletion bot would ever get approved. The Skynet/I, Robot/etc crazies aside, image deletion is controversial enough as it is. The only reason the redirect bot bot was approved was because it was maybe 15 lines of code, was impossible to fool by its very nature, and was doing something that no one could argue shouldn't be done. This bot would be, by your own admission, highly complicated and not impossible to fool. (As stupid as admins may be, people are unwilling to accept that they are less fool-proof than bots.)-- Dycedarg ж 20:14, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
My memory for remembering exact instances of these things is rather terrible, but the only one I can remember rather clearly was the one that Dragons flight tried for a bot that was meant to protect all the templates that appear on the main page, as that was sorely needed at the time. That RFA was a posterchild for failed bot RFAs, and was eventually withdrawn due to the timely arrival of cascading protection, which rendered the issue moot. I don't remember the details particularly well (or for that matter the name of the bot so as to direct you to the RFA page), but I don't remember any particular lack of the operator being willing to address the community's concerns. In any case, you are correct that the redirect bot is a proof of concept. Perhaps future bot RFAs will be easier with a live example of one that hasn't destroyed Wikipedia. I still don't think that this bot will pass, due to the fiery combination of bot admin rights and image deletion. But I wish you luck regardless.-- Dycedarg ж 06:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)