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I'm not sure what to request exactly, but articles with {{ WPBeatles}} on their talk page have redlink categories due to this project banner being converted to use {{ WPBannerMeta}}. For example, Category:Start-Class Beatles articles has been emptied and the redlink Category:Start-Class The Beatles articles has been filled. See the discussions:
I've never heard of it before, so I'm guessing a category can't be moved. So I guess the contents of each of these article classification categories (for example, {{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/ClassificationCategoryHeader}} and some parent categories) need to be copied to the new, currently redlink, categories. There are a lot of them, so this is probably a job for a bot. -- Geniac ( talk) 14:35, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I tried scripting a simple bot to fix typos, and failed. I could run and maintain a bot, but I do not understand programming languages enough to produce this bot. I was thinking of a simple bot that checked pages for common typos. A problem with the bot is that one could easily find it correcting typos where there are none. I'd program it to use a dictionary to fix "prblems" with typing. One of the worse things i've seen is going down an article and finding that little annoying typo.
Cindy About/ T/ P/ C/ 02:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Agony's orphantalk tool ( here) finds plenty of orphaned talk pages. I've nominated a few for CSD under category G8, but this is a tiresome process. Is there any way that a bot can add CSD takes for all these articles. I appreciate the current list is not actually on the en wiki, but if I create I user subpage with a list of the pages, would it then be possible? — CycloneNimrod Talk? 20:58, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, would it be possible/feasible to have a bot automatically revert anyone adding big chunks of data to templates, maybe anything over 100 kilobytes? This would help guard against the type of vandalism that can be seen in the edit histories of Template:G8 nations [1] and Template:Anglophone states [2], vandalism that can sometimes be tricky to detect and revert quickly. If this is a good idea, should this task have its own bot, or would it be better/easier to add this functionality onto an existing bot such as ClueBot? Thanks. -- Bongwarrior ( talk) 07:39, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
If this were to be done, I think using a percentage of the total size (say 50%) would be more appropriate -- T- rex 22:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I am willing to write a bot that does this, but so far my bot does no anti-vandalism things, so it will be some work, and quite awhile until I get around to doing so -- T- rex 20:39, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Following this discussion, I now propose that a bot be made that edits the titles of all pages with the {{ disambig}} template which do not end with "(Disambiguation)" are renamed so that they do. This should make searching for articles easier. It Is Me Here ( talk) 14:35, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure why an author is required but could someone check the 4700 Category:Images lacking an author for images having (1) {{ PD-USGov-Military-Air Force}} and fill in "US Air Force" for author (like Image:32d Air Refueling Squadron.jpg) and (2) {{ PD-USGov-Military-Army}} and fill in "US Army" (like Image:William C Bryan.jpg). If it's possible, could someone just cross-check against everything in Category:United States military image templates? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:24, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Can a robot be used to add articles to new categories to produce a new child wikiproject assessment table from a parent wiki project banner? Would assessments given by the Template:WikiProject Canada, be able to produce categories for the various classes for the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles? The Template:WikiProject Canada gives assessments for the provinces, in this case, Saskatchewan, and it also assesses the departments in this case Canadian communities. Can new assessment categories be created from this template which would give an assessment table exclusively for an active assessment department at WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods without creating another talk page banner. It is possible to compare for example Category:Stub-Class Canada-related articles and Category:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles using AWB to get an idea of stub class Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles and so on. Is there a better way to make a new assessment table from the parent talk page banner? SriMesh | talk 19:12, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
A bot that would add links or cite sources or basically anything to help you make a perfect edit. (Sound good?) Wikidude 57 23:52, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
A while back I proposed creating a "conversion bot" that could find all stand alone instances of measurements given either in stadard or metric form and convert them into dual measurements listing both standard and metric measurements. I think the idea died off, but I still think that the utility of such a bot would be a welcome addition to Wikipedia, and with the conversion templates now in use here I think the time is right to bring up the suggestion again. Would there be any interst in creating a bot of this nature here on wikipedia? TomStar81 ( Talk) 02:47, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Strong oppose: Bots do not possess the ability to discern if conversions are necessary and this would yield unnecessary articles cluttered with conversions every 2 lines. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 08:20, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
There used to be a bot who listed subpages of WP:PUI at WP:PUI#Holding cell once they were 14 days old or older, so that they could be cleared out by an admin. But there doesn't seem to be any more. Now someone (usually me) has to manually add each new day. Can someone please create a bot task which runs once per day (ideally soon after midnight UTC) to add
*[[Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/{{subst:#time:Y F j|-14 days}}]]
to the bottom of section 1 of WP:PUI? Stifle ( talk) 11:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Just need a bot that will search for typos I give it and correct them for me. Have some programming experience so I could do some simple maintenance on it. Please write on my page if you would be kind enough to build it for me. DxNate 18:33, 30 Apr 2024 User- Talk- Contribs
As per this; WesleyDodds needs someone to deliver a newsletter for WP:ALM monthly. He'll leave you a note when the newsletter is ready. Please leave a note on his talk page if you can do this (and tell him I sent you). — Giggy 03:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of support for this bot, so I will go ahead with the implementation. Since this is a quite complex project, to be implemented over an extended timeframe, I have set up a separate specification page at User:B. Wolterding/Article alerts. Comments are welcome there. I have copied this discussion to User talk:B. Wolterding/Article alerts and will be closing it here. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 10:02, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I got the idea a while ago when updating the Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity page. It would be very useful to have a bot going around Wikipedia every day and update these lists automatically.
What it would need to check (IMO)
A useful parameter would be something to specify that the first X number of articles in each sections are to be transcluded so very active Wikiprojects can have a "Current Activity" section that's of reasonable length on their main page.
It would also be nice if such a bot would produce short messages similar to those on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity to tell people who nominated, to congratulate when their articles passed, link to the article talk page when it failed, etc... Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 13:13, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Well considering I "run" WikiProject physics, I guess we could say that there's at least that one that's interested. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 21:08, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I had posted at Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Automate_Deletion_sorting_to_Candidates_for_Deletiona week ago about how it would be great it would be if our articles nominated for deletion list could be updated by a bot. I was waiting for more of a community response of support before coming here or approaching Maelgwnbot directly to have this automated. I think having the above workflows automated is even better. As shown over at Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians'_notice_board/AfD, this type of programming can be done. DigitalC ( talk) 12:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
We've just had an editor on WP:Anglicanism complain taht many of "his" Anglican articles are being afd'd and so on, so wider notificaiton to the project would probably be useful. I glance at AFD from time to time, but a more focused idea of articles of interest would be useful. David Underdown ( talk) 14:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I can definitely see this being using in WikiProject Video Games, among others. Would there be any breakdown by Task Force with this as well? -- MASEM 15:07, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Yes please! This would definitely be useful to WikiProject Aircraft, and probably our parent the Aviation WikiProject. -- Rlandmann ( talk) 19:42, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Agree. Would be very nice for wp:ships to know when someone has nominated something project related for deletion or review. Has happened to us several times in the past where we were never aware of the nominations. -- Brad ( talk) 03:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Can't speak for everyone at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants, but I like this idea. We tend to hear about such things in a manual way, but a bot would be less likely to miss things. Because the bot would only tell us about articles tagged with our wikiproject, I don't really see a problem with seeing irrelevant information, and the volume of information should also be manageable, I would think. I'll leave it to others to discuss what is feasible from a technical point of view. Kingdon ( talk) 04:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I need to add the parameter "ManUtd=yes" to the {{ Football}} template on the talk page of every article in Category:Manchester United F.C. and its sub-categories. However, there are hundreds of articles in those categories: too much for one man to do alone. Therefore, I would like a bot to add the parameter for me and, in the case that the {{ Football}} template is not present on an article's talk page, it should be added with the "ManUtd=yes" parameter. – Pee Jay 13:08, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Done -- maelgwn - talk 09:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but I have been moving tons of PD pictures from WP to the commons, but occasionally there are images that need renaming in the process (for example Image:Cathal Brugha commemorative plague.jpg -> Image:Cathal Brugha commemorative plaque.jpg). Is there a bot that updates links to these images in articles? Normally it is not a problem as most images are uploaded with the same name, but if there is a typo, or another already exists, or the name just isn't descriptive, it would be great if a bot would catch that and move the links, so the WP version can be seamlessly deleted. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 05:09, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
As per the discussion at WP:VPP#ALL disambiguation pages to end "(disambiguation)", a bot is being requested to create "Foo (disambiguation)" pages that redirect to "Foo" in cases where
Again, only redirects will be created. -- Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 14:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Articles in Category:National Cycle Routes beginning "NCR" - the following to be added to the top of their talk pages:
{{multimove|new name|Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Roads#National Cycle Routes move request}}
where the "new name" is s/NCR /National Cycle Route /. Thanks. 217.36.107.9 ( talk) 15:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Done wouldve been quicker to do it by hand than figure out how to code it, but where is the fun in that *-) -- maelgwn - talk 13:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I've just tagged the following categories with {{subst:cfd|Unqualified "Terrorism"}}:
But I believe there are an enormous number of (first level only) sub-categories that need to be tagged similarly before debate can continue. Is it possible that someone could do this with a bot, please? Thanks in advance. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 14:37, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
I started, but then the cfd template was linking incorrectly. Might be able to do it later. -- maelgwn - talk 05:25, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Done Post here if there are some missing but I think I got them. -- maelgwn - talk 13:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
What I'd like, is a bot which, whenever [[domain:xxx text]] is in [[Category:xxx ntext]], the sort key is set to Otext where:
To avoid possible accidential sort key errors due to something else starting with 2000 being in Category:2000 AD, we might restrict ntext to be null for years. It's less likely that something would be in a category such as Category:20th Century Fox with the "Century" not capitalized.
The bot should log its output in such a way that it can be reversed if it goes
WP:ROUGE, remembering that a sort key of " " is not the same as a sort key of "". Remember, if the bot works at all as I request, it won't change any categories, merely change the sort order of within categories.
Some of the categories are populated by templates, so the bot won't effect those. A couple months ago, I changed Template:DeathsInCenturyBC to properly tag the nth Century BC deaths articles.
— Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:41, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I can do this, but I'd like to get some more feedback as to whether this would be useful and non-problematic. Any other opinions from folks out there? – Quadell ( talk) 01:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm going on vacation soon, and wouldn't want to start it before I go. I'll be back on the 23rd. (If someone else wants to create this instead of me, I don't mind a bit.) In the mean time, you could ask at those projects, yes, and perhaps set up an official request for bot authorization. Or I'll write up a BRfA when I get back, if no one else has tackled the project by then. – Quadell ( talk) 22:23, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
A basic story. A newb comes along to an article like this and goes OMG!, there are no images, I'll put this tag on it!:{{ reqphoto}}. He inadvertently places the image on the article, not realizing that it should go on the talk page, and this ugly message shows up. I think someone should design a bot to move these templates to the top of its talk pages. However, make it only for article namespace, as for User: and Wikipedia: namespaces, there are a lot of uses for some reason like ths category says as of 29 July 2008: Category:Main pages with misplaced talk page templates. The bot would work from this category, ignoring Wikipedia: and User: namespaces. When the template is moved, the article is now (kinda-)perfect! TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 20:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Generally speaking, newer editors don't understand why a page gets protected, and suddenly finding that they can't edit it can be frustrating. Over at VP/Proposals, I brought up the idea that we should automatically include the RFPP entry on the talk page of any article which gets protected, and they suggested I take it here. Essentially, the bot might be triggered by the opening of (or changes in) a protection log, and would automatically take the RFPP proceeding for any page which gets protected on the talk page for that page. Here is the discussion at VP/P:
For a lot of users, it can be frustrating or confusing to find that an article has been protected. In some cases, anyone can figure it out, but in others, the reason is mysterious and can take some digging. Might it be a good idea to include the text of the RFPP entry on the article talk page automatically? And good policy to require this inclusion? I've never worked closely with protections, so any refinement of the idea is appreciated. Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 17:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Never requested a bot before, and I would like to help in any way possible. Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 17:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
This could likely be done with automated editing, but I don't know how to do that. If anyone here could, I'd appreciate it.
The slang term "rastas", which sounds really, really bad in an encyclopedia, is all over Wikipedia. Could a bot scan all the cases of the words "rasta" and "rastas" and replace it with "rastafarian" and "rastafarians"? ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 07:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for a bot that can perform similar duties as did DyceBot did for WP:GL/IMPROVE. After Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image to improve was moved to Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop, DyceBot stopped performing it's actions. I tried contacting it's creator but no response. The bot performed the following actions:
Any help? -- pbroks13 talk? 05:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like to create a list of articles under the Aviation WikiProject's scope, sorted by popularity, in order to get an idea of which articles are most visible to the public and our project should work at improving to FA's quickly. The category with all the articles is Category:WikiProject Aviation articles, or alternately Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WPAVIATION. Can the program used on Wikipedia:Popular pages be modified for this? - Trevor MacInnis ( Contribs) 01:47, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to compile this for Utah Highways Wikiproject as well? The category is Category:Utah road transport articles by quality but only the sub-categories, not the three articles in the root directory. I like the format that you provided Trevor with the Rank (by views)/Views/Views Per Day/Class Thanks -- Admrb♉ltz ( t • c • log) 06:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, it'd be quite useful if a bot could take up the task of adding a new section header and Portal:Current events transclusion, like so, to Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates at midnight UTC, and remove the last section (older than 7 days) to the archive for that month. It's embarrassing when nobody remembers to add a day and we sit around wondering why we aren't getting any suggestions for Template:In the news. Also, it would be great if it could create new archive pages, so it's entirely hands free from the users perspective. Thanks! - Banyan Tree 02:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
After discussion of an odd coding problem at this Help Desk page, I'd like to have a bot to help with United States micropolitan area links. There's a difference in the Unicode between the following links:
As you can see in the Help Desk page, someone recommended having a bot work with these, going exclusively to the micron character. Could someone write a bot to convert all the "mu" links to "micron" links? I'm not entirely sure which of these characters is a mu and which is a micron, but I believe that the vast majority of links are the lower of the two Mankato links, and from what was said in the Help Desk comment, I'm guessing that these links are "mu". Ask me for clarification if this request isn't clear: as you can see in the Help Desk section, I've been quite confused with this problem, which has just appeared to me today anyway. Nyttend ( talk) 00:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
It looks like articles in Category:United_States_micropolitan_areas are typically titled '... micropolitan area' and you just want to make sure that their are redirects from '..., State µSA' and '..., State μSA' ? -- maelgwn - talk 04:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
You want just the 940 listed at Table of United States Micropolitan Statistical Areas? – Quadell ( talk) 21:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
My take on this is: If the micropolitan area article itself is at a "mu"-title, then it needs to be moved to be at a "micron" title. But this doesn't happen often, or at all, so far as I can tell. If the "mu"-title is a redirect to another article name, then the "micron"-title needs to be an identical redirect. There's no need to delete the "mu"-redirect. And there's no need to fix links to the "mu"-redirects to link to "micron"-redirects instead, in my opinion.
I am willing to create a bot which will create the "micron"-redirects where they are missing. – Quadell ( talk) 15:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Done Redirects created. – Quadell ( talk) 18:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
There are quite a few large templates used on various mammal species and I was wondering if I could enlist a bot for some help. For example, the template {{ Diprotodontia}} is on about 150 or so species articles. I go through periodically and check that the template: 1) is either on all of the species' articles or if it has legitimately been removed, then I remove the link from the template; and 2) that no page moves snuck by me (which quite a few do, since many of the animal articles on WP are still in their formative stages), and if there was a page move I fix the redirect (I currently use the "Related Changes" tool which has its drawbacks).
I've been doing these templates through WP:MAMMAL and the goal is to link all of the species (there's only 4-5 thousand or so, I say "only" because I'm nearing completion) via these templates. Is there any way a bot can compare the links on the template to the articles that contain the template and provide a report on demand? This would allow me to ensure there are no redirects on the templates and also that there is consistency on the WP articles about what is a living or extinct species, and what is a species or sub-species. Thoughts? -- Tombstone ( talk) 07:53, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Template displays | Linked article | article contains template? |
---|---|---|
Koala (P. cinereus) | Koala | yes |
Common Wombat (V. ursinus) | Common Wombat | No |
Doing...: As an update, I have run through the cetacea, putting the results here. The code notes redirects, checks to see if the template is present, checks for the taxobox template, notes in the status is extinct, and notes if it's listed as a subspecies. (None of the cetacea listed are extinct or subspecies though.) I also listed all such mammal templates at User:Polbot/templatelist.
If you're happy with the demo, I'll run it for each of the templates on User:Polbot/templatelist, but instead of depositing the results on my user subpage I thought I would put the table at, say, Template:Cetacea/stats, and leave a note on Template talk:Cetacea about its existence. Does this sound good to you? – Quadell ( talk) 13:24, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on it, but Wikipedia seems overloaded at the moment. (Rejecting edits right and left so the servers can catch up.) I'll try running it later. – Quadell ( talk) 01:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Done: It's at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Article templates/stats. There may still be a few errors where Wikipedia failed to return a page, so my bot thought it was a redlink when it wasn't. But it's done, and 99% right or so, and it should be obvious when it's wrong. Enjoy! – Quadell ( talk) 15:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
From my talk page but I dont have time to do it at the moment:
Wikipedia:Bots/Status lists Maelgwnbot as doing "occasional template replacement". Does include deprecated infobox replacement? -- Geniac ( talk) 17:47, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
-- maelgwn - talk 13:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
So, all you need is each instance of, say,
{{Cheese | Parmigiano Reggiano | [[Image:Parmigiano reggiano piece.jpg|260px]] | [[Italy]] | [[Parma]], [[Reggio Emilia]], [[Modena]], [[Bologna]], [[Mantua]] | [[Cow]]s | No | Hard | 24 months or more | [[protected designation of origin|PDO]] [[1992]] }}
...changed to...
{{Infobox Cheese | name = Parmigiano Reggiano | image = [[Image:Parmigiano reggiano piece.jpg|260px]] | othernames = | country = [[Italy]] | regiontown = [[Parma]], [[Reggio Emilia]], [[Modena]], [[Bologna]], [[Mantua]] | region = | town = | source = [[Cow]]s | pasteurised = No | texture = Hard | fat = | protein = | dimensions = | weight = | aging = 24 months or more | certification = [[protected designation of origin|PDO]] [[1992]] }}
Is that it? – Quadell ( talk) 02:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Plz, update ru-iwiki in categories from Category:1956 albums to Category:2008 albums. Replace:
[[ru:Музыкальные альбомы .... года]]
by
[[ru:Альбомы .... года]]
Alex Spade ( talk) 12:08, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Stepshep usually helps me out but I know he's out of commission. Not talking articles here, but rather categories. Also not entirely sure this can be done by bot because of the wildcard, but I thought I'd try. I'd like to have museum categories and their descendant categories, i.e. Category: Automobile museums, Category:Automobile museums in the United States, Category:History museums and Category:History museums in Canada tagged with the project template and class as Cat: {{ WikiProject Museums}}
Is this doable by bot? I'm happy to vet a list of categories and sub-cats. Just let me know, thanks! TravellingCari 16:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Doing... : Tagging categories in User:TinucherianBot/Autotagg/WPMUS/Cats after approval from the task requester -- Tinu Cherian - 04:48, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Done -- Tinu Cherian - 06:02, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Need a bot to work through Category:B-Class Ships articles and splice in a checklist to our project template for B-Class. Text to add would be:
<!-- B-Class-1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations. -->
|B-Class-1=yes
<!-- B-Class-2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. -->
|B-Class-2=yes
<!-- B-Class-3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. -->
|B-Class-3=yes
<!-- B-Class-4. It is free from major grammatical errors. -->
|B-Class-4=yes
<!-- B-Class-5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. -->
|B-Class-5=yes
We have not previously used a checklist but are having it activated soon and don't want to lose the B articles we already have. If the above text is spliced in prior to the activation it will prevent that loss. -- Brad ( talk) 16:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody generate a bot for Wikiproject Artemis Fowl? The Log of Active users ( here) needs one.-- Leolisa1997 ( talk) 09:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way for a bot to check all articles that include {{ ChicagoWikiProject}} and determine whether they are at WP:FAC, WP:FAR, WP:GAC, WP:GAR, WP:FLC, WP:PR, WP:AFD, WP:CFD, WP:IFD, WP:TFD, WP:FPC, WP:FPOC, WP:FTC, or WP:DRV so that our project can easily find discussions that we want to be involved in? It would be optimal if it ran daily.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 05:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I need a know if a bot can identify and replace similar patterns of code in a template.
I'm looking at reforming {{ Maintained}}, whose function is to indicate that a given page is being "looked after" by a user or group of users. The way the template works at the moment is that it says something like "This page is being maintained by _____. They can help with questions.", where editors fill in the blank with whatever they like, but mostly either their bare username or templates like {{user|Username}}, {{user2|Username}}, {{user4|Username}} etc. This leads to discrepancy in the use of the template, with some pages having only a link to the userpage, others to talk and contribs, others to an editcounter or email link for the user and so on. I am intent on standardising it to use {{ User4}} by default. The question is, if I change {{ Maintained}} to include {{ User4}} by default, can a bot successfully isolate only the usernames from all the various talkpages with {{ maintained}} on them? So for example, the bot would need to replace: {{Maintained|{{User4|Username}}, Username2}} with {{Maintained|Username|Username2}} There are few enough maintained pages (less than 1000, I'd estimate) that if the bot could put the pages it couldn't deal with into Category:Maintained errors or something, I could fix those easily.
So, can this be done? Any help appreciated, Skomorokh 03:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Is this technically feasible even? Skomorokh 15:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can fix the common use of a hyphen in places where an en or em dash is required? Simply replacing all instances of [space][hyphen][space] with [space][en][space] or simply [em] would probably be right 95% of the time, and if the bot could identify dates or numbers on each side of the sequence, and replace the sequence with an unspaced en, that would likely bump it up to 99%. — Swpb τ • c 02:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Formatter handles this also, I believe, though it is out of line with MOS:DASH at this point. Skomorokh 15:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Since BetacommandBot is now blocked, I imagine there isn't a bot that is moving tagged images to the commons. Is this correct? Before, approved users could tag images with {{ commons ok}} and then they would automatically get moved. I'm going through a bunch of (mainly orphaned) images now, and this is sorely needed. Could someone take up the cause, now that Beta can't, due to other not-really-related issues? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 06:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to notify the uploader of an image that their image has been moved to the commons and it's new location (especially if it has a different name). Currently these images are deleted under CSD i8 and it is possible that original uploader will have no idea what happened to their image, particularly images that are not used on WP. If the image is just in their watchlist, they will come back and find it missing. For numerous examples of this confusion, see User talk:Mets501. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 08:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
This sounds like a great idea. I hope someone implements this. – Quadell ( talk) 14:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
i have a suggestion that when a page gets archived, links from other pages to subsections of that page get updated, and point to:
Original_Page/Archive_X#Subsection
216.80.119.92 (
talk) 19:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Please change instances of Sedan in over 1500 car related articles to Sedan (car), as this had been moved. See Special:WhatLinksHere/Sedan -- Matthead Discuß 09:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
At this moment Sedan is a redirect to Sedan (car), not Sedan (disambiguation). If this edit stays, then no change is needed. If Sedan becomes a stable redirect to Sedan (disambiguation), then this change could be useful, but the page is hardly stable, as you say. Work it out. Bots aren't used to settle content disputes. – Quadell ( talk) 14:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Well, it seems that RussBot had fixed the links in about 1000 car articles anyway, leaving some 200 miscellaneous ones and talk pages. So this request is obsolete now, can be archived, thanks. -- Matthead Discuß 16:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot whose responsability is to modify the page linking to a deprecated category ?
(Oups, I just figured out that this category is WM Commons only ... But at the same time, I am not able to find such a page on Commons ... any pointers welcome ...)
BenAllard ( talk) 20:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Bots/Request already has a discution about that bot. BenAllard ( talk) 16:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
There are many, many old semiprotected pages that have simply been forgotten about and have no expiry date (there are a few that were before expiries were implemented in April 2007 too). We've been discussing ideas about what to do, and I came up with this idea.
My idea is to have a bot notify the protecting admins that it's been over (say) 2 months since a page was protected without an expiry date. I manually tested the idea out yesterday, notifying about 30 admins about old protections (see an example here) with pretty good responses. In some cases, the admin did unprotect the page, some leaving a comment just saying they simply forgot about the page (which is understandable). I'm thinking someone should be able to get a bot to do this. Just start here and work forward (or a database dump would probably work too since many protections date back over a year), find the last admin to protect the page, and notify them (I used a boilerplate here).
So, is this doable? - Royalguard11( T) 21:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to get a bot to alphabetise categories like this: [5]? This idea is not on 'frequently denied bots' list and does not appear to be on active bot list. Thanks very much Tom ( talk) 10:44, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I am making an attempt to make {{ Flickr}} the same here on en as the one on the commons. I have created {{ Flickr-inline}} and redirected Flickr. I would like a bot to move all the current usages of the old template to the new one. Once that is done, I will copy the template from the commons to here.
Thanks. Philly jawn ( talk) 16:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Im not sure the guy who requested this is still around but it seems to be a sensible move so ive started it now. Will probably just mark {{ Flickr}} as depreciated when the template has been 'moved'. -- maelgwn - talk 13:18, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
When we redirect a category page to another category page we use a "soft redirect". That is we place the {{
category redirect}} message box on the old category. Up until now that box accepted its parameter in two ways: {{category redirect|Category:Newcat}}
or {{category redirect|Newcat}}
.
After some discussion at Template talk:Category redirect#Template should redirect to category, not article we decided to only accept the parameter without the "Category:" part, since accepting both caused some problems. However we now need to fix all the cases where "Category:" is fed. I made it so the template detects when it gets a faulty parameter and then lists that category page in Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( CAT:CATREDFIX). Most of the cases in that category are such "Category:Something" cases.
It would be nice if a bot worked through the
CAT:CATREDFIX and changed the cases of {{category redirect|Category:Something}}
to {{category redirect|Something}}
. It's about 420 cases and this is a one time run.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 05:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Easy one: I have just proposed to rename the subcategories of Category:Magazines by country from Fooian magazines to Magazines published in Foo. To complete the nomination, each of the subcategories should be tagged appropriately to point to the debate. One option is to use the CfR template, although it would perhaps make more sense to tweak the CfR template for this particular case. I'm thinking something like
{{cmbox |type=delete |image=none |text= '''This category and other categories of the form "''Fooian magazines''" is being considered for renaming to the form "''Magazines published in Foo''"<br/> This does '''''not''''' mean that any of the '''articles''' in the category will be deleted. They may, however, be recategorized.<br/> Please share your thoughts on the matter at '''[[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_August_8#Category:Fooian_magazines|at this entry]]''' on the [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|Categories for Discussion]] page. Please do not empty the category or remove this notice while the discussion is in progress.}}
Ok... The above is completely unreadable but if you cut and paste it from the source of my request, it gives you a nice little custom-made CfR box. Pichpich ( talk) 23:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I wrote a bot, Disambot (previously fuBot), to go through disambiguation pages and perform various cleanup tasks based on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Unfortunately the BRFA has been taking much longer than expected, and with college starting in just over a week, time constraints are becoming an impediment for me.
I'm looking for someone to operate the bot and potentially update the code if necessary. The programming is essentially complete and functional, but a need for changes may arise at some point. The code is written in Python and fairly well commented; see Source.
Aside from running the bot at appropriate times and responding to any concerns that arise, the job may or may not involve reviewing a detailed log of the bot's edits. I brought this up in the BRFA but we haven't reached a clear conclusion. It may be best to start a new BFRA, as the old one is a bit of a mess already.
Thanks! — xDanielx T/ C\ R 03:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
User:DumZiBoT recently caught a minor difference in idenitcally-named reference tags in the Bonobo article and made notice on the talk page. The difference that the bot caught was only a single space in the citation template that would not affect the output. In other words, the two references were effectively identical to any reader (and were also named identically). Is there a bot currently in operation that recognizes references like this—that only differ by one or more space(s) which don't affect the output—, and then corrects the reference?
If not, I propose such a bot is created. Here are some cases the bot should address:
References that have been given the same name, and whose content is effectively identical.
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template|param1="yes"|param2="12"}}</ref>
(crowded)<ref name="a"> {{ template | param1 = "yes" | param2 = "12" }} </ref>
(well-spaced)<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
Another thing this bot should address is references with different names, but identical content, or, as above, content that is effectively identical.
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="b">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
(perfectly identical, different name)<ref name="c"> {{template | param1 = "yes" | param2 = "12" }} </ref>
(effectively identical, different name)<ref name="b" />
(ref b is used later in the text)<ref name="c" />
(ref c is used later in the text)<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
This could also work for references that are not in citation templates. See Things to avoid for when this case should fail.
<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
<ref name="d"> Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008). </ref>
(extra leading & trailing space, same name)<ref name="e"> Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008). </ref>
(extra leading & trailing space, different name)<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
<ref name="d" />
<ref name="d" />
As suggested by User:Euryalus:
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param3= }}</ref>
(param4 absent)<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param4= }}</ref>
(param3 absent)<ref name="b">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" }}</ref>
<ref name="b">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param3= | param4= }}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param3= }}</ref>
(by default, the first instance remains unchanged)<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
The following two examples are not effectively identical, and so the bot should skip these references. User:DumZiBoT or a similar bot might later catch this discrepancy and post a notice on the talk page.
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes " | param2="12"}}</ref>
In the example of
Case 3, one case that would not qualify is when the spaces are not immediately within the <ref> </ref>
tag.
User:DumZiBoT or a similar bot might later catch this discrepancy and post a notice on the talk page.
<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
Another thing to avoid is cases where quotation marks appear in one template but not the other. In some cases, the output from these two might be identical, but this is not necessarily the case. It would be far too much for the bot to check the template usage and determine whether or not the output will be identical. For example, if the parameter has text input, these are identical, but if the parameter has Boolean input, these are different (and the first usage is incorrect).
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template | param1=yes | param2="12"}}</ref>
Since
User:DumZiBoT can compare two strings, I assume it is possible (albeit more complicated) to recognize an unimportant "space" character, and from there, pretty simply to replace <ref name="a"> … </ref>
with <ref name="a" />
.
Thank you for reading this rather long request! − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 07:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to use a bot to generate a list of articles with geographical co-ordinates within the Arctic Circle? That would be a good approximation to suitable articles, though there are other definitions of Arctic, and subarctic stuff is sometimes relevant as well. Still, all articles with latitude co-ordinates between 66° 33′ 39″ (or 66.56083°) and 90° North. Is that possible? User:Carcharoth/Arctic articles is one place to put the list (or link to it from there). Carcharoth ( talk) 13:05, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have a bot that could run through Category:Airports in Canada and copy the the entire {{ Infobox Airport}} into a text file? There's no edits required I just need the text file. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:49, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
(Lame name, I know) A bot that turns all redirects into direct links. Run about once a week. Note: I am not saying I could make it, I have no programming skill whatsoever. PXK T /C 01:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
This is easy to code, but consensus is against having a dedicated bot to do so. However it would make sense to add this to some of the edit helper programs such as AWB, as if the page is going to be edited anyways then it only helps. -- T- rex 19:37, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Can someone take a list from User:Admrboltz/disambg and tag the pages with {{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=UT| class=Disambiguation|needs-map=NA}}? Thanks. -- Admrb♉ltz ( t • c • log) 17:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I would have done it myself, but I am at work -- Admrb♉ltz ( t • c • log) 18:12, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm currently trying to do https performance testing and am planning on doing it on a wikimedia site that I set up for testing purposes. In order to test this well, I need large amounts of data that will fill up a large amount of space in the database. I'm looking for around a gig or two. I don't care where you get it from in wikipedia. 1 or two gigs of data that I pop into my database is fine. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Speedracerdude ( talk • contribs) 18:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.106.23.137 ( talk) 21:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
a bot that wikifies words in relatively new articles in introductory paragraphs for which there are articles on WP. it would try wikifying multiple word titles first, and than decrease number to single word titled articles. 216.80.119.92 ( talk) 01:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot generate a list of all non-redirect subpages in the Portal namespace which do not have a corresponding non-redirect parent page? The presence of such pages is almost always accompanied by one or more problems that require correction (e.g. copy-paste moves, duplicate pages, invalid/outdated transclusions, etc.), and it would be much easier to correct those problems using a bot-generated list of pages (the other option is to manually go through Special:Prefixindex, which is a time-consuming method that is prone to errors). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 20:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
While I'm at it, here's a second request. I already suggested this twice here but got no answer (perhaps it's trickier than I imagine or perhaps everybody thinks it's a stupid idea but hey, I'm stubborn so I'll suggest it again). In any case, here's the idea: we have a huge number of categories of the form Category:Foo songs and Category:Foo albums. For convenience of navigation, it would make sense to have these two categories linked as see also. This has been done manually in a few cases, e.g. Category:Beck songs and Category:Beck albums. This should be easy to automate, particularly if the bot decides to do it systematically without checking if that see also already exists. (yeah, it's a lazy way to do it but it's not like it would be a terrible problem to have two identical see also's).
In any case, can someone at least please tell me "this is too difficult" or "this is too stupid", just so I know? Cheers, Pichpich ( talk) 23:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks T-rex. By the way, similar connections between pairs of categories might make sense in other cases, for instance cats like Category:Progressive rock songs and Category:Progressive rock albums or the by country categories. Pichpich ( talk) 05:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that could make a list of the articles in these Arabic and French categories which don't have interlanguage links to the English Wikipedia? Thank you. Eklipse ( talk) 18:43, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
SELECT concat('* [[:w:fr:', ns_name, ':', page_title, ']]') FROM categorylinks
LEFT JOIN page
ON page_id = cl_from
LEFT JOIN toolserver.namespace
ON ns_id = page_namespace
WHERE cl_to = 'Liban'
AND NOT EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM langlinks
WHERE ll_from = page_id
AND ll_lang = 'en')
AND dbname = 'frwiki_p';
Since we've got such a huge backlog at WP:O, I was wondering if it would be difficult to write a bot to spider through CAT:ORPHAN and find other articles which should link to the orphaned article. The ideal bot would be human-assisted, with the bot throwing up options to the operator, who could then decide whether or not the link was appropriate. Failing that, it would be cool if the bot could just print link recommendations onto the article's talk page (for example), and then any de-orphaning editor could browse through at leisure and see about de-orphaning. If any assistance is required, just let us know on the WikiProject Orphanage talk page, or leave a note on my talk page. Thanks!-- Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 16:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I am in desperate need of a bot or script that can leave talk page messages on 85 or so specific WikiProject talk pages for the coordination of efforts between those projects and WikiProject Media franchises. I am on dial-up and use Firefox. Below is basically what I am hoping it will do.
Is this possible? LA ( T) @ 19:31, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I need a bot to revert vandalism.-- Master of Pies ( talk) 17:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible for a bot to either tag or list the talk pages of all articles within the Category:Gymnastics category tree that do not currently include a {{ WikiProject Gymnastics}} on their talk page? -- ratarsed ( talk) 18:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, could a kind bot operator please arrange for a bot to disambiguate all occurrences of " Li Jia Wei" (currently a disambiguation page) to " Li Jiawei"? Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 08:57, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Oh, right! Thanks anyway. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 16:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
id like a bot but i dont know how to make one i just want a bot that will help fix mispelled words Neon5162 ( talk) 16:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
well i wanted one that was manually-assisted anyway and it does say manually assited ones or acceptible as long as it has a international spellchecker or something to that extent Neon5162 ( talk) 17:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
As per the idea I proposed at the Village Pump, I would need a bot to do it, if the idea is not opposed. I tried to myself but I have no experience so I'd like to ask someone here to consider doing so, it should be quite easy if you have already created bots.
The bot should do the following:
I don't think that should be too hard, does anyone feel the call to set up something like this? Regards So Why 12:13, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
I have already noted my objection to this idea at the pump, you can read it there. I do consider it vandalism to just go and remove something from a userpage without warning (and I mean warning on talkpage, not a common page). - Royalguard11( T) 00:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
There are
54 articles in which I have misspelled the location= for a certain publisher. Instead of "location=Cosa Mesa", they ought to read "location=Costa Mesa" (i.e.
this place). Could a bot do this conversion please? Thanks. --
Fullstop (
talk) 19:16, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Currently, a search for "Cosa Mesa" returns 56 hits. That count is stale. I've already fixed two of them (ones which were not location=).
Would it be possible for a script to run that creates a list of every (sub)category that branches off Category:Articles? It's to assist with the development of this as the original implementation would have produced too many mistakes. Thanks, ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 09:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like the following message to be delivered to members of several WikiProjects and task forces:
"A community forum has been set up at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink/Article guidelines for the various Food and Drink projects to develop a set of Manual of Style guidelines for use in articles under the auspices of all the related Food and Drink WikiProjects and task forces. This would be similar to the MoS guidelines for
biographies or
legal articles.
Please feel free to visit and leave a comment.
This forum was developed based on a suggestion made by Clockwork Soul in a discussion on the WP Food and drink talk page, archived here.
You have received this message because your user name appears on the member list of a Food and Drink related project. If this bot mistakenly posted this message on your talk page, please accept our apologies for the error and feel free to remove this message."
The users I would like to see this delivered are members of the following projects:
Several users are members of some or all of these projects & task forces and I wish to insure that the bot doesn't hit the same user multiple times. Also I had manually delivered the message to a dozen or so users, so I have the same request not to duplicate the message.
Thanks for the help -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 10:38, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Please ignore those who are inactive, otherwise please deliver to the others.-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 03:53, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
It is a one time message notifying participants of a new inter-WikiProject message board and standards drive for Food and Drink related projects and task forces. -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Some of you might know about the CatScan tool that allows one to plug two categories and get a list of overlapping pages. Lately I've been using this for deletion sorting. I was wondering if it would be possible to have a bot automatically add entries to a delsort page based on the output of this tool. For some situations this would not be a wise idea, since the category and/or subcategories being scanned will contain articles that don't belong on a given delsort page. However, there are some situations that are always going to be correct (assuming the article was correctly tagged). The one situation I have in mind is Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people, since it uses Category:Living people.
The tool is capable of generating a CSV output [6]. Generic formatting (afd/PAGENAME) won't work all of the time, so the bot would have to find the link from the AfD template. -- Ned Scott 07:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey. In Template:Infobox Figure skater, the parameter "turned pro" was changed to "retired" in 2006 [7], but some articles still have the incorrect field name. Could a bot go through all the articles using the template [8] and change all instances of "turned pro" to "retired"? Thanks, Kolindigo ( talk) 03:22, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
turned pro = 25 December 2007
to retired = 25 December 2007
is not what you want? ~ AmeIiorate
U
T
C @ 04:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
List of male boxers, now deleted, has an exceptionally high number of incoming links, usually from "see also" sections. I'd greatly appreciate it if somebody armed with AWB or something more capable would go through and orphan this article. east718 // talk // email // 05:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I've discovered an inconsistency with usage of Template:Infobox_Magazine. In certain articles the image field has an incorrect name for the image field, would it be possible for a bot to check all articles that use Infobox_Magazine and create a list of articles that have the incorrect field name?. The correct field name is image_file so I would require a list of articles where image_file = is not present or is present only as image =. This is my first bot request so I'm not sure what the normal routine is as regards the results. A sub-page underneath my sandbox would be fine by me if that's what normally happens, failing that, leave a note here or on my discussion page. Thanks. - X201 ( talk) 20:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
image =
to image_file =
, instead of just listing them?
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 20:59, 27 August 2008 (UTC) image = [[Image:SO!vol50 2.PNG|thumb|center|200px|''Sing Out!'' Volume 50 #2 (Summer [[2006]]), cover, featuring [[Dar Williams]]]]
image
to image_file
image_file = SO!vol50 2.PNG
image_size
field to the articleimage_caption
field to the articleimage =
parameter was added to
Category:Articles using incorrect Infobox Magazine Formatting. However, because of the MediaWiki cache/touch system the articles wouldn't appear in the category straight away. They started showing up in eventual waves and I have been editing them as they show up. I've done it semi-automatically (just confirming each edit) as some of the formatting was really obscure. I don't know if I have done them all yet, there's still a chance that more will show up in the category but here's hoping. I won't mark this as done just yet though. ~ AmeIiorate
U
T
C @ 03:04, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Just one article left and that is NOM'd for deletion :-) Thanks. How many "wrong" articles were there in total? -
X201 (
talk) 07:57, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
When articles are userfied, they continue to show up in categories, for example, [9]. Sometimes users put categories on their userpages for reasons unknown. Could a bot go through and apply the colon trick to all such? Care would have to be taken to avoid categories like Category:Wikipedians from Texas. Is it possible? Phlegm Rooster ( talk) 08:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, guys. User:Bishzilla has been copy-editing Random Article, and she keeps finding distracting low-value links irrelevant to the context. She has been unlinking them with edit summaries something like "rm low-value links per WP:CONTEXT". If you take a look at her mainspace contribs, I think you'll agree her link removals have been appropriate. But the work is partly very mechanical—removing four square brackets round the link, removing any piping in it, and typing an appropriate edit summary. She got very bored. Well, I could stick a text macro for an edit summary on an F key, but even so. Of course a live entity must make the decision about which links are irrelevant, no bot can do that. But would it be possible to have a bot that could assist with the mechanical part? As in, once the human (or whatever) has decided a word/phrase is to be unlinked, the bot would remove those accursed square brackets and any piping, and do an appropriate edit summary? Useful? (I think so. Perhaps the mere existence of such a bot would even help spread the good word don't link everything.) Possible? (No idea.) Already exists? (Dunno.) Regards, Bishonen | talk 22:30, 19 August 2008 (UTC).
It seems that many of the articles in Category:Communes of Aisne have unduly precise coordinates, due to recurring decimals. For example
longitude=3.84333333333 latitude=49.6338888889
Please could someone's bot truncate them to 6 decimal places; rounding as appropriate? Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:36, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Probably going to show my ignorance here, but it doesn't appear to make a difference to the article or the geohack link, regardless of how many decimal places are used - is this necessary? ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 23:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
To add "founded", "founded date" or "foundation" dates to an infobox'
hCard
microformat, existing "DD Month YYYY" dates need to be converted to {{
Birth date}}. The conversion MUST NOT be done if only a year, or a month-year, date is available. [Update: to use {{
Start date}} (
bot owner notified;
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 21:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC))] This request applies to pages using:
and more to follow. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 12:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Request for a bot that moves all categories in Category:Video game templates that have 'series' in their names to Category:Video game templates by game series. The remainder can be cleaned up manually. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Request for a bot that moves all categories in Category:Video game templates that have 'characters' in their names to Category:Video game character templates. The remainder can be cleaned up manually. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I created a list of templates that need to be moved from Category:Video game templates to Category:Video game templates by game series. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
trying to streamline the templates being used to move images to the commons. please have a bot change {{ Movetocommons}} & {{ Commons ok}} to {{ Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}. Thanks. Philly jawn ( talk) 17:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like to ask if there is a bot that already exists, or one that could be created, to:
Should be pretty noncontroversial, but I don't think a bot does this yet. Thanks, Cirt ( talk) 22:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Any updates? Cirt ( talk) 20:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Okay well feel free to update me on my talkpage if this goes through, I think for the time being the tasks already performed by WolterBot ( talk · contribs) will prove to be quite helpful. Cirt ( talk) 18:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Um, all wikiproject ratings on a talk page are updated to FA when an article becomes FA. If any project templates for an FA don't say FA, it's either because the project template was added later without class=FA, or the talk page was vandalized. Gimmetrow 20:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I wanted to request a bot that could automatically create articles about U.S. Supreme Court cases that have not yet been created. Currently there are a bunch of Supreme Court cases that haven't been created (e.g., see the red links here List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 89 and the Supreme Court WikiProject has decided that all Supreme Court cases are notable enough for their own article. Thus, a bot could really help create these articles quickly. Obviously, the bot could not state the facts of the case or the holding, but it could create the infobox and some other wiki formatting so that other users could add to the article more easily. The following websites have a variety of information on Supreme Court cases that could be used by a bot to create the article: Findlaw.com, LII, Oyez.com, USSCPlus, SupCourt. Anyways, that was my thought. I would be interested to hear any comments on this request. Remember ( talk) 10:28, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Rather simple:
tf=
parameter is defined, if not, add |tf=MU*
; if it is, do the same for tf2=
and tf3=
.Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 16:24, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
class
and importance
should be copied in that case. If a WPVG template does already exist, I won't touch anything besides the tf
parameter.
Anomie
⚔ 17:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
tf=MU*
, since {{
WP MMO}} doesn't appear to have had such a parameter or such a task force for its task force
parameter.Done Anomie ⚔ 15:16, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I want to create a bot that can fix various spelling errors, do all sorts of various tasks on the English Wikipedia. If you can create it you are welcome to test it on any Wikipedia article. Thank you for your time!!! Mertozoro ( talk) 21:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Well then, umm, what about a bot that can work on specific Wikiprojects or a bot that can link pages, add info, or do other various things like that. Let me know soon!!! Thanks! Mertozoro ( talk) 02:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I want to create a bot that can fix various spelling errors, do all sorts of various tasks on the English Wikipedia. If you can create it you are welcome to test it on any Wikipedia article. Thank you for your time!!! Mertozoro ( talk) 21:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Well then, umm, what about a bot that can work on specific Wikiprojects or a bot that can link pages, add info, or do other various things like that. Let me know soon!!! Thanks! Mertozoro ( talk) 02:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for someone (or multiple folks, if you want to split it up) to do a bot run to deliver the following note:
And deliver it to all editors listed in the following categories:
Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
I came up with this will doing it manually. For each three character combination .html file at acronymfinder.com and The Acronym Attic, have a bot determine whether Wikipedia has an article on the listed under "Meaning" and "Possible Meanings". If so, have the bot determine whether the name of that article is listed on Wikipedia's three character combinations disambiguation pages. If not, have the bot add the article name to the three character combination disambiguation page. I was doing this manually. For example, I added Variable Information Printing to VIP (Disambiguation) after following the above procedure for VIP.html at acronymattic.com. I thought that a bot could do this easier. -- Suntag ( talk) 03:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that many editors who nominate an image for deletion will notify the uploader of the image, but do not put a notification on the talk pages of the articles in which the image appears. (I believe putting such a notification is currently a suggestion and not a requirement.) I think that the IfD discussions would get a better turnout, and the debate would be more representative of the community if such notification took place routinely.
Would it be possible for a bot to cruise the image banks and place a notification that an image has been nominated for deletion on the talk pages of every article that the image appears in? Perhaps if the image has had multiple editors, they might also be notified? Thanks. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ( talk / cont) 16:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
i dunno how do make bots pleese tell me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberdemon4 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that many editors who nominate an image for deletion will notify the uploader of the image, but do not put a notification on the talk pages of the articles in which the image appears. (I believe putting such a notification is currently a suggestion and not a requirement.) I think that the IfD discussions would get a better turnout, and the debate would be more representative of the community if such notification took place routinely.
Would it be possible for a bot to cruise the image banks and place a notification that an image has been nominated for deletion on the talk pages of every article that the image appears in? Perhaps if the image has had multiple editors, they might also be notified? Thanks. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ( talk / cont) 16:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
i dunno how do make bots pleese tell me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberdemon4 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Please see
Wikipedia talk:Sandbox#restoring header more frequently. Discussion now moved
here. Thanks. —
Alan
✉ 09:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
I was just coming here to request the same thing. User:OverlordQBot was successfully replacing missing headers and fullycleaning (both Sandbox and Wikipedia:Introduction) every 12 hours, until May 1 (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OverlordQBot 4 also from Feb 2008). A permanent solution to this would be wonderful. -- Quiddity ( talk) 19:21, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
We need a few bot changes over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization#Bot changes to deprecated templates. Initially it'll be the replacing unadorned templates, such as {{s-ecc}} -> {{s-rel}}, {{s-ecc | }} -> {{s-rel}}, {{s-awards}} -> {{s-ach | aw}}. Once the unadorned templates have been updated we may come back to convert uses which have parameters, if any exist. Hope somebody can help. Bazj ( talk) 09:40, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
{{s-ecc
with {{s-rel
(no closing "}}") this would mean {{s-ecc|foo=bar|this=that}}
would become {{s-rel|foo=bar|this=that}}
. Would that be okay? ~ AmeIiorate
U
T
C @ 01:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Pages using:
need to have release/ premièred/ first shown/ incident dates converted from plain wiki-link entries to use {{ start date}}, as seen in this example edit. This will encode the date in a format valid in the templates' hCalendar microformats.
Note that {{ start date}} allows for YYYY, YYYY-MM and YYYY-MM-DD formats.
Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Last updated by: Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:22, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
For each "BC" year (e.g. 45 BC, 48 BC) please create a corresponding redirect, without the space in the page name (e.g. 45BC, 48BC). Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 10:48, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Recently at WP:BASEBALL, the template {{ WikiProject Baseball}} was changed to incorporate Image-Class, Category-Class, and Template-Class.
This request is quite simple, could someone please go through the category Category:NA-Class Baseball articles, and replace the following for any Template, Category, or Images.
Replace --> With
The front is open because there may be other code after the class=NA which can stay. This will result in the pages leaving the assessment as {{WikiProject Baseball}} (or similar with task forces, etc) and the template will automatically assess these articles into the appropriate categories.
Thanks! — Borgarde talk 18:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
The following request is for a bot that can do a somewhat complicated task for the Guild of Copy Editors, in order to recognize those editors who have done the most to reduce the "copy edit needed" backlog (as per consensus). Basically, the purpose of the bot would be to maintain a list of users ordered by the number of times they have removed a template from an article. I have scanned through all the bots in Wikipedia:Bots/Status (that took a while) looking for a bot that could do this, and didn't see any, but please let me know if one already exists. In reading through those, it seems theoretically possible, though I don't know if anyone is willing to spend the time to make it. Anyway, this is how I've planned out how the bot could function, but feel free to go some other way if you prefer:
1. Detect when a {{
copyedit}} or {{
grammar}} template (and any possible variants, like with the "date" attribute) has been removed from an article (perhaps by using the same method that anti-vandalism bots use to detect vandalism).
2. If the editor who removed the template is on the blacklist ( here, feel free to mess with that page however you want), stop. Otherwise, continue on...
3. Look at the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Left_panel#Most_prolific_copy_editors (which doesn't yet exist, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors#Most_prolific_copy_editors for an example of how this could be laid out). If the editor is in the list, do 4a-4c, otherwise skip to #5:
4a. Increment the count beside the editor's name by one.
4b. Add a link to the diff from #1 to the end of that editor's line.
4c. Move the editor's entire line above all the other editors with the same count or less (in other words, the list is sorted descendingly first by count, then descendingly by the most recent). Done.
5. Add a new line for that editor above all the other editors with the same count or less, in the following format (or something similar):
* '''1''' [[User:Example|Example]] [diff]
That's it. Anybody up for the challenge? -
kotra (
talk) 07:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot that, on a periodic basis, does the following:
For instance:
The bot would publish the results in a table on the Web (preferably a Wikipedia-friendly site that can be linked to from an article if need be) in table format.
How feasable is such a request? I would like there to be a large number of such "tables", acting as a replacement (or supplement) for many of the video game lists on Wikipedia. How frequent a period is too frequent for updating such tables? Ideally, I would like it if I (and other members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games) were able to set the tables up via a point-and-click interface. Thanks for any comments/suggestions! SharkD ( talk) 15:13, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
I just created an account yesterday with a free web hosting service. The service supports ASP and has an ASP.NET beta program. Can I use the DotNetWikiBot framework on this system? I'm a complete newbie when it comes to server-side programming. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 15:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I like the random article link, but feel it is too broad. How about a bot that chooses a random article based on category. For instance. I choose categories Comic > Batman, then only random articles about batman are displayed...
I am probably in the wrong section.. I am pretty new to this...
thanks Joe —Preceding unsigned comment added by JosefBrandner ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I need a specific, quite original bot that is best described in a subpage I've made... as my request is too lengthy to post here. Please read my subpage at User:Rcej/bot needed, and you'll see my problem. Thank you in advance for your time. -- Rcej ( talk) 07:40, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
/us/
" becomes "{{subst:unsigned|<contents of clipboard>}}
". Makes life a lot easier for certain situations. --
MZMcBride (
talk) 07:52, 6 September 2008 (UTC)One of the more common forms of vandalism is blanking. Yet, as far as I can see, not current bot fights against that. As there is no reason why blanking articles could ever be useful, this seems like a good prospect to me. I would call it the Mechafangdestructobot. Or the anti-blanking bot. Your choice. (Note: This bot would apply only to articles, not talk pages, user pages ect). Tutthoth-Ankhre~ The Pharaoh of the Universe 20:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
OK, so I'm happily trawling along, random-articling away for one reason or another, and I get presented with something like this. An ugly-ass, poorly-named Commons-based map. I think "I'm gonna be diligent here" and put a template or two down; {{ BadJPEG}} and {{ ifr}}, to be precise. Just trying to do my part. But it just occurred to me, seconds ago, that what I just did is probably pointless when you consider that the page 'didn't exist' before I placed those templates down – it's really only on Commons. So my question is this: would there be any point at all in a bot tracking down instances like this and doing something sensible to them? Like deleting the templates here and putting them onto the image on Commons? Or would that be futile? Thoughts? Seegoon ( talk) 14:15, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Can a bot populate the coordinates column in Communes of the Nord department, A-K & Communes of the Nord department, L-Z, using {{ coord}}, by fetching the coordinates from each of the individual articles listed on those pages? If so, I'll add a similar column to the articles listing communes in other departments, also. then {{ kml}} can be added to the pages, so that all the places can be plotted on Google Maps, downloaded to GPS devices, etc. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello team,
Would it be possible for someone to run a bot through the following categories and tag them with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Merseyside talk page banner ( Template:WikiProject Merseyside)?
Thank you, hope you can help. :) -- Jza84 | Talk 21:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Consensus from WikiProject Films after discussion was to replace instances of Image:Film reel.svg on Wikipedia with Image:Video-x-generic.svg. Both images are svg and both are free-use from Wikimedia Commons. It could be done using AWB but 688 pages link to the former image. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 10:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Can you change all Portal:* pages that use Wiktionary-logo-en.png to Wiktionary-logo-en.svg? Also Wikipedia:*/right panel if you could.
Most of the other pages that use it should use the wiktionary template anyway, so no reason to change them. Ariel. ( talk) 13:02, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
(relisting of previous request, hoping to get discussion)
The following request is for a bot that can do a somewhat complicated task for the Guild of Copy Editors, in order to recognize those editors who have done the most to reduce the "copy edit needed" backlog (as per consensus). Basically, the purpose of the bot would be to maintain a list of users ordered by the number of times they have removed a template from an article. I have scanned through all the bots in Wikipedia:Bots/Status (that took a while) looking for a bot that could do this, and didn't see any, but please let me know if one already exists. In reading through those, it seems theoretically possible, though I don't know if anyone is willing to spend the time to make it. Anyway, this is how I've planned out how the bot could function, but feel free to go some other way if you prefer:
1. Detect when a {{ copyedit}} or {{ grammar}} template (and any possible variants, like with the "date" attribute) has been removed from an article (perhaps by using the same method that anti-vandalism bots use to detect vandalism).
2. If the editor who removed the template is on the blacklist ( here, feel free to mess with that page however you want), stop. Otherwise, continue on...
3. Look at the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Left_panel#Most_prolific_copy_editors (which doesn't yet exist, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors#Most_prolific_copy_editors for an example of how this could be laid out). If the editor is in the list, do 4a-4c, otherwise skip to #5:
4a. Increment the count beside the editor's name by one.
4b. Add a link to the diff from #1 to the end of that editor's line.
4c. Move the editor's entire line above all the other editors with the same count or less (in other words, the list is sorted descendingly first by count, then descendingly by the most recent). Done.
5. Add a new line for that editor above all the other editors with the same count or less, in the following format (or something similar):
* '''1''' [[User:Example|Example]] [diff]
That's it. Would anyone be willing/able to do this? Any comments are welcome. - kotra ( talk) 17:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like to replace on every pages {{portal|Companies|Factory 1b.svg}} by {{Companies portal}}. Can someone help me ? Jamcib ( talk) 16:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to go through certain articles, currently those on gulls, that have images on them that aren't at Commons. To do this manually can be tiresome, especially when you have to look through a lot of images to find one to transfer. Is it possible for a bot script to do this? You could give it a article, a list of articles, or maybe even a category (it would search all the pages within, perhaps also including all pages in subcategories).
Others that move images to the Commons might also find such a script useful. Richard001 ( talk) 05:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Would it be plausible for a bot to subst some sort of template onto user/talk pages of inactive users? Or would that be a waste of time? Seegoon ( talk) 09:01, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
I have a (10) longish lists of of articles that need to be put in ten related catagories.
Is there a Bot that can do this please? -- Carlaude ( talk) 19:16, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Please replace
I would like to repurpose {{ Hs}} to relieve {{ H}} of its double duty. -- Yecril ( talk) 08:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I have fixed {{ cards}} to support stand-alone suit symbols. {{ Hearts}} can me modified to invoke {{ cards|hearts}} and so on and both can be supported. I think the political question whether to use {{ Hearts}} or {{ cards|h}} does not need solving in order for the requested bot to do the right thing as originally specified. -- Yecril ( talk) 09:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I never use these templates anyway so it is hard to tell. I think the bot should edit in the same way an editor would. I think {{ Spades}} would be more intuitive because the editor already knows she is writing about cards; she could be annoyed about having to this information. {{ cards}} are more friendly to the reader in a mixed environment but the application of these templates outside card games context is minimal. I would go with the original request but I am not authoritative here. User:Happy-melon, anyone? -- Yecril ( talk) 15:20, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
{{
cards}}
is more technically elegant, reduces the number of templates that need to be maintained, and is generally cleaner. We shouldn't be preventing people from 'taking the easy option' by using {{
hearts}}
instead of {{
cards|h}}
, but we should be using the more 'high-tech' implementation. Really the {{
hearts}}
, {{
clubs}}
etc, templates should be soft redirects to {{
cards}}
. Oh, and someone really needs to convert {{
cards}}
to use a switch statement: the current subpage implementation is horrible!!
(also)
Happy‑
melon 21:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Use of the "Replace this image" images has now been deprecated. You can see a before and after example here. Can this be done by a bot? Dismas| (talk) 16:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Need an automated script/bot that can convert the data present in the cricketer infoboxes ( Category:Deprecated cricket templates) (for example, the one present on Allan Donald) to the newer Template:Infobox cricketer biography template. If this is possible, please drop in a line at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket. Thanks! =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Special:NewPages has a system where "unpatrolled pages" (see Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrolled pages) are marked in yellow. If an editor clicks a yellow link at NewPages, there is some small text in the bottom right that says "[Mark this page as patrolled]"; if this is clicked, that article will no longer show up in yellow at NewPages.
After 30 days, all pages at NewPages disappear, regardless of whether they have been "patrolled" or not. Even with only 30 days' worth of new pages, there is always a backlog at NewPages. You can check this for yourself ( Special:NewPages → "Hide patrolled edits" → "Earliest") and you will see that the earliest are almost exactly 30 days before the present (taking into account UTC). This means that articles are being created faster than they are being monitored at NewPages. In other words, many unpatrolled pages are slipping through because of the 30 day expiration at NewPages.
I would propose a bot that somehow identifies all of the unpatrolled pages that slipped through the NewPages system. I think the "new page patrollers" would appreciate such a facility. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 00:41, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
It would be very helpful if a bot could remove the PD tags from images that have incompatible tags, for example Image:'Wheel', Indian red granite sculpture by --Satoru Abe--, 1991, --Hawaii State Art Museum--.JPG. An image of a 3D piece of copyrighted art cannot also be PD. I've seen a few of these get moved to Commons, and I think its confusing people. These obviously non-free images are clogging up free images categories, so it takes more time to sort/move images. If any of these images are actually free (which I don't think would be very many), they can be re-tagged with a single free tag by an editor (non-free images get more attention than free ones). ~ JohnnyMrNinja 07:39, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Pretty much, there are two levels of copyright involved in a picture of a 3-dimensional work of art. The original copyright of the work of art, and the copyright of photograph itself, which though a derivative work, gets its own copyright because of the importance of light/shadow/framing involved with photographing 3D objects. To use a photo of 3D art, you need both to be okay. The photograph itself is being released to the public domain, that's what that tag means. The art works themselves (here by George Rickey and Isami Noguchi), are not in the public domain, but because the images significantly add to reader understanding of the articles and meet the rest of NFCC, we're using that copyright under fair use.
-- balloonguy ( talk) 19:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether this is the gith place for this request, as I want an analysis of the dump not a bot activity. If someone can redirect me to a more appropriate page, I'd appreciate it.
Could someone please list in a file every ns:0 article Foo that satisfies all the following criteria?
If possible, the following criterion should also be met:
Thanks much.— msh210℠ 21:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
(
. Thanks much for working on this.—
msh210℠ 03:56, 14 September 2008 (UTC)I'm not sure whether this is the gith place for this request, as I want an analysis of the dump not a bot activity. If someone can redirect me to a more appropriate page, I'd appreciate it.
Could someone please list in a file every ns:0 article Foo that satisfies all the following criteria?
If possible, the following criterion should also be met:
Thanks much.— msh210℠ 21:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
(
. Thanks much for working on this.—
msh210℠ 03:56, 14 September 2008 (UTC)Betacommand said he would try to work on this, but the community seems to prefer he not get within 100 feet of any not fully manual option (this is why I avoid AN/I), so I'm going to re-request this:
There are many, many old semiprotected pages that have simply been forgotten about and have no expiry date (there are a few that were before expiries were implemented in April 2007 too). We've been discussing ideas about what to do, and I came up with this idea.
My idea is to have a bot notify the protecting admins that it's been over (say) 2 months since a page was protected without an expiry date. I manually tested the idea out yesterday, notifying about 30 admins about old protections (see an example here) with pretty good responses. In some cases, the admin did unprotect the page, some leaving a comment just saying they simply forgot about the page (which is understandable). I'm thinking someone should be able to get a bot to do this. Just start here and work forward (or a database dump would probably work too since many protections date back over a year), find the last admin to protect the page, and notify them (I used a boilerplate here).
So, is this doable? - Royalguard11( T) 03:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
So I tried building an SQL query to do this and got a query to get pages which can tell what type of restriction a page currently has, but it does not provide any of the logging information which is a separate table. Some notes of curiosity: protected redirects and protected pages with only one editor should be examed more carefully.
SELECT page.page_namespace, page.page_title, page.page_is_redirect, page_restrictions.*
FROM page INNER JOIN page_restrictions ON page.page_id = page_restrictions.pr_page
WHERE page_restrictions.pr_type="edit" AND page_restrictions.pr_expiry="infinity"
LIMIT 50;
It should be possible to the newest entry from the logging table to find the oldest still protected pages.
SELECT *
FROM logging
WHERE log_type= "protect"
LIMIT 50;
You might want to open a ticket with tswiki:Query service and ask them to do this for you. — Dispenser 17:29, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
This has probably been asked before, and if so, my apologies. I occasionally will come across an article page which is a redirect but the associated talk page isn't. At some time in the past, the article has been moved but the talk page left unchanged. There must be many of these and I presume they'd be fairly easy to identify. I'd nearly have thought they'd be a list within Special:SpecialPages. But if not, could a Bot generate such a list? Moondyne 07:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Replace on every pages (category too) {{Portal|Companies|Factory.svg}} by {{Companies portal}} Jamcib ( talk) 20:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I would like some help at Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron (ARS). I'm new to the bot world so if this is the wrong place please feel free to direct me to the correct place. When any user adds the {{ rescue}} tag it adds the article to Category:Articles that have been proposed for deletion but that may concern encyclopedic topics. Someone, usually myself, then lists the article at Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Current articles as follows:
(we add a signature to give us a rough date of entry)
Ideally a bot would do this for us several times a day, the volume has been low so far 10-20 articles at any one time. If an article is listed already then no need. If it gets listed twice we can cope. The ARS deals almost exclusively with articles at AfD so when an article has the rescue template added we have anywhere from hours to less than 5 days to do any article rescue work. It would also be nice if the bot could add a note to the article's section when an AfD closes.
So that's my basic request for bot help - any ideas? Banjeboi 09:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Replace on every pages (category too) {{Portal|Companies|Factory.svg}} by {{Companies portal}} Jamcib ( talk) 20:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
A while ago, the article at constituency used to refer to multiple definitions of the word, both the "people represented" and the "area represented" definitions. The article at electoral district is now no longer a redirect to constituency, and is instead a focused article about the "area represented" definition. Constituency, meanwhile, now is focused on just the people represented - though the article does need expansion, I don't think it's likely to move any time soon since there isn't another word that means the same thing for that definition.
Regardless, there are now a few thousand links that refer to the "electoral district" definition but point to the constituency article. Eventually, every one of them will have to be checked by hand by someone, but I think that enough of them refer to "electoral district" that a bot is justified, and then the few "people represented" exceptions can be reverted by hand. Does someone have a simple bot they can adjust to do this? Scott Ritchie ( talk) 05:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible for a bot to remove {{ inuse}} and {{ underconstruction}} from articles after a certain amount of time? Like 12 hours for {{ inuse}} and 3(?) days for {{ underconstruction}}. Right now many articles have those templates for a too long period of time. Garion96 (talk) 23:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
We have many lists of alternate/foreign place names, especially those with no English variant, for example List of German exonyms for places in the Czech Republic. For many of these, no article exists yet, but whenever they are created it would be helpful for a bot detect them and create redirects from one name to another, to avoid a second or third duplicate article at a different name. This is particularly true for international rivers, border cities, or places in a country or region where several languages are spoken.
Other higher level lists (such as sovereign countries) are already complete with an article existing for every "English" title. For example, List of country names in various languages (A-C) (D-I) (J-P) (Q-Z) could have a more or less complete set of redirects created now.
Of course "*X is the name for Bar, in Foo language" could be added to a disambiguation page if one exists (for names which may have other meanings), or more easily, prompt the operator for human input.
Similarly it would be possible to grab and create redirects any alternate names used in interwiki links. — CharlotteWebb 16:21, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if this is doable by bot or AWB or neither but figured asking can't hurt.
A couple of us cleaned up Category:Historic house museums last weekend but as a result, Category:Historic house museums in the United States is bloated. Many of these articles have a state project tag or other state-specific cat. Is it possible for a bot to "read" these cats and sort the article into the appropriate sub-cat of HHMitUS? I've been doing it by hand but that's not time efficient. I use a Mac so I can't use AWB to figure this out for myself. If this is not possible or too complicated, just let me know. Thanks! TravellingCari 01:21, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Can someone please bulk replace Image:EH icon.png with Image:EH icon.svg wherever it appears? The former is a non-free logo but the latter is free. Stifle ( talk) 13:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
We need a bot to do the following:
Please let me know if I haven't made this clear enough. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:03, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
I created the template {{ INRConvert}} which is being used to convert and display Indian Rupee currency values in their equivalent US Dollar values on India-related articles. I have been manually updating the conversion rate used for calculating Dollar amounts periodically. However, in the event that I am busy or away from Wikipedia, currency rates in the template may not get maintained and may become outdated.
I source the exchange rate from data published by the Federal Reserve. I would like the process of updating the currency rates in the template to be automated. I would need the bot to a) grab the latest currency value from the link above, b) calculate its inverse (i.e., 1/currency rate), and c) update the calculated value across the board in the INRConvert template. Currency values should be updated periodically, either monthly or bi-monthly. Can anyone assist with this request? Thanks AreJay ( talk) 21:14, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Please can we have a bot to change the nine coor * coordinates templates, which are deprecated per discussion at WP:GEO, to {{ coord}}?
The changes are in three stages, acting on three templates each:
coor
, coor dm
or coor dms
), to coord
.|display=title
parameter.|display=inline,title
parameter.It may be possible to redirect the first three set of templates, to {{ coord}}, in the interim. If so. I'll let you know.
Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:52, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Remplace on every pages (category, templates and articles) {{Portal|Psychology|Psi.PNG}} and {{portalpar|Psychology|psi.svg}} by {{ Psychology portal}}. Thanks, Jamcib ( talk) 17:53, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Yo, can someone depopulate Media in category "William Gibson"? It functions as a fair use gallery. The category should contain only articles and subcategories. Gracias, the skomorokh 13:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Can someone program a bot to remove Category:Fictional drug users from Wikipedia pages? This is to help prevent another recreation, and I'm sure the bot will get the job done immediately. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 17:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Following discussion at Template talk:Birth date and age, there is consensus to add a new parameter and modify the default operation of the following related templates:
Specifically, the new mf=yes parameter would signify which dates are to be expressed in the American-based month-first date format (e.g. September 24, 2008).
Could a bot could make a one-time sweep through articles using these templates to add a new parameter for those articles involving American subjects. Ideally, these would articles with the templates having [[Category:American *]] categories. This "pre-tag" of the templates would allow the default behaviour to be switched to International/date-first format (e.g. 24 September 2008) without too much disruption to articles.
The bot should not modify articles where the templates use a df=yes parameter (this parameter signifies intentional use of date-first/International format). Can this be feasibly done by bot, or is there a better mechanism to selectively pre-tag the templates with the new parameter? Thx. Dl2000 ( talk) 03:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Per consensus (which I don't fully agree with), articles for the first decade of a century, such as 1900s, have been moved to a more specific name ( 1900–1909), and a quasi-disambiguation page has been created. We need a bot to propagate this change to the other wikis, so that bots running from those other wikis don't recreate the links on the disambiguation page.
This may not be restricted to dates; when we move an article, and create a disambiguation page in its place, we probably should attempt to propagate the move to the other Wikis, although I'd suggest that the bot requests to do this be restricted to admins. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:12, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|dodgers=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:36, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I have what I think is a difficult request, and I would like to know if it is possible to do. Here's my problem, I have a list of 676 American football players located at here. These players have played at least one game for the Green Bay Packers, thus meeting WP:ATHLETE. One of WP:PACKERS goals is to create a page for every player who has played for the Packers. As there are 676 articles needed, this is a daunting challenge, as WP:PACKERS wants to create well-sourced and properly written stubs. I have a basic template I use to make these pages, found here. I get the information about each player from the following 3 reliable sources, [20], [21], and [22]. Now here in lies the request. I was wondering if a bot could be coded to read the html(?) in these 3 sources for each player, create a page for the player using the template, and fill in as much information into the page as possible. Then the bot would create the page into my user space, such as User:Gonzo fan2007/"PLAYERS NAME". The bot could create like 20 pages a day for about a month, and each day I could review the articles created by the bot in my user space, fix any mistakes or add any needed info, and then move the article into the main space. So I was wondering if this is possible. If it is, it is of course not an urgent request, and I would of course be willing to help out in any non-technical way or even run the bot if needed. If this is possible, would anyone be willing to code such a bot? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Chiming in here. I do not think that a bot should be creating 676 articles that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability at the time of the bot posting. Merely playing in at least one game for the Green Bay Packers does not necessarily mean that there is sufficient reliable source material to maintain a stand-alone biography article in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:Notability specifically requires significant coverage (more than trivial but may be less than exclusive), a judgement call that should not and, as far as I am aware, cannot be made by a bot. Also, a biography article is not merely a listing of football statistics that also has a few sentences. A biography is a narrative text study unique to each person that focuses on the recording and relating of all the events another person's life. Further, per Wikipedia:NOT#STATS, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader. I do not see how a bot can do this. As issues to consider: (1) there should be evidence that the three web sites are reliable sources such as may be had at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before the bot gets going, and (2) Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources states "Self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, and blogs should never be used as a source for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article (see below)." -- Suntag ☼ 15:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Further to the above request, the templates:
have been deprecated for some time. Please can someone replace all remaining instances with {{ coord}}. Thank you.
Hi, as discussed at WP:BN I am restarting my RfA and need to notify all the participants that a new one is opening. So basically, could a bot please post {{subst:User:Foxy Loxy/RfA notice|~~~~~}} to the talk pages of all the users who commented/votes/etc at my RfA ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy)? Thanks. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 02:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
While categorizing AfD templates in Category:Articles for deletion templates, I came across Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, a user template being used to transclude information into three AfD. A problem with using a template for this purpose is that changing the template modifies an archived AfD debate without any change to the AfD debate history. There may be others and I am hoping that a bot can help find them. Also, I am looking for all AfD templates so that I can tag them with Category:Articles for deletion templates. I think a bot can do both of these thing. If you look at the bottom of Log, you will see that the transclusions are broken down into those that begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" and those that don't. Could you have a bot go through each subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log and post a list to User:Suntag/AfD transclusions of all transclusions into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log that do not begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion". I should be able to manually take it from there. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 15:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to provide a complete archive for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates that began in 2005 or before 2005. The names of the MfD debates varied some what. Please have a bot generated a list of pages created in or before 2005 having "Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages" and "Wikipedia:Miscell" in them and post the list to User:Suntag/Potential MfD archive pages. If you are aware of any other MfD names, feel free to add those to the list. I'll then manually go through the list. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking through Category:User-created public domain images (and a bit in Category:Public domain images) and was wondering how viable a request for a bot run through especially the user-created category, to check for which are unused, would be. I nominated a bunch of orphaned unused personal photos for deletion today, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I was thinking extra categories like Category:Unused User-created public domain images uploaded in May 2007 could be added to speed up cleaning and general queue reduction there, and to make finding the relative trash easier. How feasible could this be? Carnildo suggested I post here, as it would be better with a database query from Toolserver. rootology ( C)( T) 06:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
somone needs to create a genre remover bot that will go through musical group articles and either remove or place in between <!-- -->tags the genre, as the feild is no longer used. - - The Spooky One ( talk to me) 01:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(unindent) Admittedly, I only skimmed. But I see it mentioned several times here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Less stringent proposal by Rodhullandemu. Regardless, if there are any other major changes that need to be made (massive date-delinking or parameter renaming, etc.), it would be much, much better to do it in one pass rather than in several. And I'm still unclear on the scope, etc. (I should also note that simply because we've done this sort of thing previously doesn't necessarily mean we should do it again. Templates exist so that we don't have to update every page when changes are made.) Though, of course, all of this can be discussed at a WP:BRFA. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Deferred I've been watching Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?; a number of users have shown up to challenge the consensus to remove the parameter (and not in a nice way in some cases), and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down any time soon. If a new consensus is reached in that discussion that still wants this done, feel free to re-request it then. Anomie ⚔ 21:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
No matter what the outcome of the discussion over whether or not the parameter should be passed, I'm not seeing any valid reason to go round removing it from pages. That's just burning bridges. Happy‑ melon 22:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed recently, some cases where the users listed don't exist or there aren't any user listed anyway. Could it be possible that a bot could archive these or possibly notify the reporting user of the problem? It'd help a lot. Thanks. Caulde 16:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please make redirects from:
1953 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 1952-53#Final through to 2007 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 2006-07#Final
Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 08:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I understand that one of the uses of "Eubot" (there are probably others) is to create redirects for articles having diacritics in the title. I.e. the bot creates a new article having the title without diacritics and includes the appropriate redirect.
This function could be useful in other wiki, especially in the simple:wiki which uses english albeit in a simplified form. Is there any way the bot could be transfered to simple:wiki? Afil ( talk) 20:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm converting WikiProject Neurology into a task force; however, all of the articles under this project now need to have their talk page banners replaced with a different one that classifies it under a task force of WP:MED. Is it possible to edit the banners for all the pages under:
To have their talk page banners replaced from {{WikiProject Neurology|class=|importance=}} to {{WPMED|class=|importance=|neurology=yes|neurology-imp=}}, keeping the first classes and importance as the existing class already existing on the talk page? I will then go through manually and update the importance relating to neurology.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
— Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 13:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I have what I think is a difficult request, and I would like to know if it is possible to do. Here's my problem, I have a list of 676 American football players located at here. These players have played at least one game for the Green Bay Packers, thus meeting WP:ATHLETE. One of WP:PACKERS goals is to create a page for every player who has played for the Packers. As there are 676 articles needed, this is a daunting challenge, as WP:PACKERS wants to create well-sourced and properly written stubs. I have a basic template I use to make these pages, found here. I get the information about each player from the following 3 reliable sources, [23], [24], and [25]. Now here in lies the request. I was wondering if a bot could be coded to read the html(?) in these 3 sources for each player, create a page for the player using the template, and fill in as much information into the page as possible. Then the bot would create the page into my user space, such as User:Gonzo fan2007/"PLAYERS NAME". The bot could create like 20 pages a day for about a month, and each day I could review the articles created by the bot in my user space, fix any mistakes or add any needed info, and then move the article into the main space. So I was wondering if this is possible. If it is, it is of course not an urgent request, and I would of course be willing to help out in any non-technical way or even run the bot if needed. If this is possible, would anyone be willing to code such a bot? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Chiming in here. I do not think that a bot should be creating 676 articles that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability at the time of the bot posting. Merely playing in at least one game for the Green Bay Packers does not necessarily mean that there is sufficient reliable source material to maintain a stand-alone biography article in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:Notability specifically requires significant coverage (more than trivial but may be less than exclusive), a judgement call that should not and, as far as I am aware, cannot be made by a bot. Also, a biography article is not merely a listing of football statistics that also has a few sentences. A biography is a narrative text study unique to each person that focuses on the recording and relating of all the events another person's life. Further, per Wikipedia:NOT#STATS, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader. I do not see how a bot can do this. As issues to consider: (1) there should be evidence that the three web sites are reliable sources such as may be had at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before the bot gets going, and (2) Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources states "Self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, and blogs should never be used as a source for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article (see below)." -- Suntag ☼ 15:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Further to the above request, the templates:
have been deprecated for some time. Please can someone replace all remaining instances with {{ coord}}. Thank you.
Hi, as discussed at WP:BN I am restarting my RfA and need to notify all the participants that a new one is opening. So basically, could a bot please post {{subst:User:Foxy Loxy/RfA notice|~~~~~}} to the talk pages of all the users who commented/votes/etc at my RfA ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy)? Thanks. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 02:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
While categorizing AfD templates in Category:Articles for deletion templates, I came across Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, a user template being used to transclude information into three AfD. A problem with using a template for this purpose is that changing the template modifies an archived AfD debate without any change to the AfD debate history. There may be others and I am hoping that a bot can help find them. Also, I am looking for all AfD templates so that I can tag them with Category:Articles for deletion templates. I think a bot can do both of these thing. If you look at the bottom of Log, you will see that the transclusions are broken down into those that begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" and those that don't. Could you have a bot go through each subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log and post a list to User:Suntag/AfD transclusions of all transclusions into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log that do not begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion". I should be able to manually take it from there. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 15:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to provide a complete archive for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates that began in 2005 or before 2005. The names of the MfD debates varied some what. Please have a bot generated a list of pages created in or before 2005 having "Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages" and "Wikipedia:Miscell" in them and post the list to User:Suntag/Potential MfD archive pages. If you are aware of any other MfD names, feel free to add those to the list. I'll then manually go through the list. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking through Category:User-created public domain images (and a bit in Category:Public domain images) and was wondering how viable a request for a bot run through especially the user-created category, to check for which are unused, would be. I nominated a bunch of orphaned unused personal photos for deletion today, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I was thinking extra categories like Category:Unused User-created public domain images uploaded in May 2007 could be added to speed up cleaning and general queue reduction there, and to make finding the relative trash easier. How feasible could this be? Carnildo suggested I post here, as it would be better with a database query from Toolserver. rootology ( C)( T) 06:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
somone needs to create a genre remover bot that will go through musical group articles and either remove or place in between <!-- -->tags the genre, as the feild is no longer used. - - The Spooky One ( talk to me) 01:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(unindent) Admittedly, I only skimmed. But I see it mentioned several times here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Less stringent proposal by Rodhullandemu. Regardless, if there are any other major changes that need to be made (massive date-delinking or parameter renaming, etc.), it would be much, much better to do it in one pass rather than in several. And I'm still unclear on the scope, etc. (I should also note that simply because we've done this sort of thing previously doesn't necessarily mean we should do it again. Templates exist so that we don't have to update every page when changes are made.) Though, of course, all of this can be discussed at a WP:BRFA. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Deferred I've been watching Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?; a number of users have shown up to challenge the consensus to remove the parameter (and not in a nice way in some cases), and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down any time soon. If a new consensus is reached in that discussion that still wants this done, feel free to re-request it then. Anomie ⚔ 21:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
No matter what the outcome of the discussion over whether or not the parameter should be passed, I'm not seeing any valid reason to go round removing it from pages. That's just burning bridges. Happy‑ melon 22:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed recently, some cases where the users listed don't exist or there aren't any user listed anyway. Could it be possible that a bot could archive these or possibly notify the reporting user of the problem? It'd help a lot. Thanks. Caulde 16:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please make redirects from:
1953 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 1952-53#Final through to 2007 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 2006-07#Final
Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 08:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I understand that one of the uses of "Eubot" (there are probably others) is to create redirects for articles having diacritics in the title. I.e. the bot creates a new article having the title without diacritics and includes the appropriate redirect.
This function could be useful in other wiki, especially in the simple:wiki which uses english albeit in a simplified form. Is there any way the bot could be transfered to simple:wiki? Afil ( talk) 20:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm converting WikiProject Neurology into a task force; however, all of the articles under this project now need to have their talk page banners replaced with a different one that classifies it under a task force of WP:MED. Is it possible to edit the banners for all the pages under:
To have their talk page banners replaced from {{WikiProject Neurology|class=|importance=}} to {{WPMED|class=|importance=|neurology=yes|neurology-imp=}}, keeping the first classes and importance as the existing class already existing on the talk page? I will then go through manually and update the importance relating to neurology.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
— Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 13:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I have what I think is a difficult request, and I would like to know if it is possible to do. Here's my problem, I have a list of 676 American football players located at here. These players have played at least one game for the Green Bay Packers, thus meeting WP:ATHLETE. One of WP:PACKERS goals is to create a page for every player who has played for the Packers. As there are 676 articles needed, this is a daunting challenge, as WP:PACKERS wants to create well-sourced and properly written stubs. I have a basic template I use to make these pages, found here. I get the information about each player from the following 3 reliable sources, [26], [27], and [28]. Now here in lies the request. I was wondering if a bot could be coded to read the html(?) in these 3 sources for each player, create a page for the player using the template, and fill in as much information into the page as possible. Then the bot would create the page into my user space, such as User:Gonzo fan2007/"PLAYERS NAME". The bot could create like 20 pages a day for about a month, and each day I could review the articles created by the bot in my user space, fix any mistakes or add any needed info, and then move the article into the main space. So I was wondering if this is possible. If it is, it is of course not an urgent request, and I would of course be willing to help out in any non-technical way or even run the bot if needed. If this is possible, would anyone be willing to code such a bot? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Chiming in here. I do not think that a bot should be creating 676 articles that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability at the time of the bot posting. Merely playing in at least one game for the Green Bay Packers does not necessarily mean that there is sufficient reliable source material to maintain a stand-alone biography article in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:Notability specifically requires significant coverage (more than trivial but may be less than exclusive), a judgement call that should not and, as far as I am aware, cannot be made by a bot. Also, a biography article is not merely a listing of football statistics that also has a few sentences. A biography is a narrative text study unique to each person that focuses on the recording and relating of all the events another person's life. Further, per Wikipedia:NOT#STATS, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader. I do not see how a bot can do this. As issues to consider: (1) there should be evidence that the three web sites are reliable sources such as may be had at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before the bot gets going, and (2) Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources states "Self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, and blogs should never be used as a source for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article (see below)." -- Suntag ☼ 15:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Further to the above request, the templates:
have been deprecated for some time. Please can someone replace all remaining instances with {{ coord}}. Thank you.
Hi, as discussed at WP:BN I am restarting my RfA and need to notify all the participants that a new one is opening. So basically, could a bot please post {{subst:User:Foxy Loxy/RfA notice|~~~~~}} to the talk pages of all the users who commented/votes/etc at my RfA ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy)? Thanks. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 02:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
While categorizing AfD templates in Category:Articles for deletion templates, I came across Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, a user template being used to transclude information into three AfD. A problem with using a template for this purpose is that changing the template modifies an archived AfD debate without any change to the AfD debate history. There may be others and I am hoping that a bot can help find them. Also, I am looking for all AfD templates so that I can tag them with Category:Articles for deletion templates. I think a bot can do both of these thing. If you look at the bottom of Log, you will see that the transclusions are broken down into those that begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" and those that don't. Could you have a bot go through each subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log and post a list to User:Suntag/AfD transclusions of all transclusions into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log that do not begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion". I should be able to manually take it from there. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 15:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to provide a complete archive for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates that began in 2005 or before 2005. The names of the MfD debates varied some what. Please have a bot generated a list of pages created in or before 2005 having "Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages" and "Wikipedia:Miscell" in them and post the list to User:Suntag/Potential MfD archive pages. If you are aware of any other MfD names, feel free to add those to the list. I'll then manually go through the list. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking through Category:User-created public domain images (and a bit in Category:Public domain images) and was wondering how viable a request for a bot run through especially the user-created category, to check for which are unused, would be. I nominated a bunch of orphaned unused personal photos for deletion today, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I was thinking extra categories like Category:Unused User-created public domain images uploaded in May 2007 could be added to speed up cleaning and general queue reduction there, and to make finding the relative trash easier. How feasible could this be? Carnildo suggested I post here, as it would be better with a database query from Toolserver. rootology ( C)( T) 06:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
somone needs to create a genre remover bot that will go through musical group articles and either remove or place in between <!-- -->tags the genre, as the feild is no longer used. - - The Spooky One ( talk to me) 01:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(unindent) Admittedly, I only skimmed. But I see it mentioned several times here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Less stringent proposal by Rodhullandemu. Regardless, if there are any other major changes that need to be made (massive date-delinking or parameter renaming, etc.), it would be much, much better to do it in one pass rather than in several. And I'm still unclear on the scope, etc. (I should also note that simply because we've done this sort of thing previously doesn't necessarily mean we should do it again. Templates exist so that we don't have to update every page when changes are made.) Though, of course, all of this can be discussed at a WP:BRFA. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Deferred I've been watching Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?; a number of users have shown up to challenge the consensus to remove the parameter (and not in a nice way in some cases), and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down any time soon. If a new consensus is reached in that discussion that still wants this done, feel free to re-request it then. Anomie ⚔ 21:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
No matter what the outcome of the discussion over whether or not the parameter should be passed, I'm not seeing any valid reason to go round removing it from pages. That's just burning bridges. Happy‑ melon 22:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed recently, some cases where the users listed don't exist or there aren't any user listed anyway. Could it be possible that a bot could archive these or possibly notify the reporting user of the problem? It'd help a lot. Thanks. Caulde 16:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please make redirects from:
1953 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 1952-53#Final through to 2007 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 2006-07#Final
Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 08:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I understand that one of the uses of "Eubot" (there are probably others) is to create redirects for articles having diacritics in the title. I.e. the bot creates a new article having the title without diacritics and includes the appropriate redirect.
This function could be useful in other wiki, especially in the simple:wiki which uses english albeit in a simplified form. Is there any way the bot could be transfered to simple:wiki? Afil ( talk) 20:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm converting WikiProject Neurology into a task force; however, all of the articles under this project now need to have their talk page banners replaced with a different one that classifies it under a task force of WP:MED. Is it possible to edit the banners for all the pages under:
To have their talk page banners replaced from {{WikiProject Neurology|class=|importance=}} to {{WPMED|class=|importance=|neurology=yes|neurology-imp=}}, keeping the first classes and importance as the existing class already existing on the talk page? I will then go through manually and update the importance relating to neurology.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
— Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 13:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
I moved Masters of Rock (album) to Masters of Rock (Pink Floyd album) because Masters of Rock is a series of albums, and the Pink Floyd album is just one volume. There is also a Masters of Rock DAB page. Masters of Rock (album) is now a redirect to the renamed page. There are approx. 200 references to Masters of Rock (album) which should be changed to point to the Pink Floyd album page, and when that is done, Masters of Rock (album) should be changed to redirect to Masters of Rock (the disambiguation page, which shows other albums with the same title, among other things). -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 11:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
We've got tedious work to be done here. I suggest to specify one among currently existing bots to replace all 1021 occurences of {{User:Nichalp/sg}} with [[User:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">=Nichalp</font>]] [[User talk:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">«Talk»=</font>]]. Alexius08 ( talk) 14:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am mentioning this here because 'under construction' templates are an impediment to multi-article editing. I think bots are/were involved in purging articles of stale templates. If, like me, you would like to make 'under construction' templates more efficient, please comment on the proposal.
People put 'under construction' on a page to say that they are actively working on articles. But then the templates seem to hang around on the article for hours, days, and weeks. It is sometimes difficult to get them removed because people say 'I haven't finished yet, I just have to get round to it'. Sometimes people even revert removal of the template.
A reasonable proposal (I think) is to merge the templates into one. The one template would have a fixed expiry time visible in read mode. If it expires, the editor would be able to refresh it but would have to take positive action to refresh it. The current fire-and-forget design would be gone. The expiry time would be consistent with real tappity-tap editing where fingers are pounding the keyboard e.g. 15 minutes to an hour.
For more details, debate, and voting, see: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 October 13. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am just suggesting a value based on the exceptional human editing task of freezing out other edits on the basis of one person doing 'active editing'. Once that period has gone, the article is unfrozen and back to normal. Other editors can then continue as normal and/or remove the template by hand. How automated tools are programmed is another matter. As you suggest, 24 hours would be more suitable for a bot. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
We've got tedious work to be done here. I suggest to specify one among currently existing bots to replace all 1021 occurences of {{User:Nichalp/sg}} with [[User:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">=Nichalp</font>]] [[User talk:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">«Talk»=</font>]]. Alexius08 ( talk) 14:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am mentioning this here because 'under construction' templates are an impediment to multi-article editing. I think bots are/were involved in purging articles of stale templates. If, like me, you would like to make 'under construction' templates more efficient, please comment on the proposal.
People put 'under construction' on a page to say that they are actively working on articles. But then the templates seem to hang around on the article for hours, days, and weeks. It is sometimes difficult to get them removed because people say 'I haven't finished yet, I just have to get round to it'. Sometimes people even revert removal of the template.
A reasonable proposal (I think) is to merge the templates into one. The one template would have a fixed expiry time visible in read mode. If it expires, the editor would be able to refresh it but would have to take positive action to refresh it. The current fire-and-forget design would be gone. The expiry time would be consistent with real tappity-tap editing where fingers are pounding the keyboard e.g. 15 minutes to an hour.
For more details, debate, and voting, see: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 October 13. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am just suggesting a value based on the exceptional human editing task of freezing out other edits on the basis of one person doing 'active editing'. Once that period has gone, the article is unfrozen and back to normal. Other editors can then continue as normal and/or remove the template by hand. How automated tools are programmed is another matter. As you suggest, 24 hours would be more suitable for a bot. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Many redirects are created without a template to categorize them, and manually finding the untagged redirects can be tedious. I believe that a bot to place {{ R uncategorized}} on redirect pages with no template would be useful. -- UberScienceNerd Talk Contributions 20:58, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Could all instances of the longitude of periastron parameter be changed to the argument of periastron in the infoboxes for extrasolar planets? Strictly speaking, this is the correct parameter to use, and no objections to this have been raised at the discussion at WT:ASTRO. The relevant field is already present in {{ Planetbox orbit}}. For articles which transclude this template, the value in the long_peri field should be transferred to arg_peri, e.g. to take the example on the page 51 Pegasi b:
{{Planetbox orbit | semimajor = 0.0527 ± 0.0030 | eccentricity = 0.013 ± 0.012 | period = 4.230785 ± 0.000036 | ang_dist = 3.537 | long_peri = 58 | t_peri = 2,450,001.51 ± 0.61 | semi-amp = 55.94 ± 0.69 }}
should become
{{Planetbox orbit | semimajor = 0.0527 ± 0.0030 | eccentricity = 0.013 ± 0.012 | period = 4.230785 ± 0.000036 | ang_dist = 3.537 | arg_peri = 58 | t_peri = 2,450,001.51 ± 0.61 | semi-amp = 55.94 ± 0.69 }}
Thank you. Icalanise ( talk) 14:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there any bot that can create the last stable template for software which is listed in this comparison with data from the articles(if the infobox is filled)? 16:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, simple.wiktionary is quite sparse. A very useful tool would be to list the wikt tags on the wiki that do not have a corresponding definition on the wiktionary. Please make one and if you do please leave the info on my simple wiki talk page [29] on how to use it or where to find the list. This would also be useful as an updatable list, if possible, such as "short pages" etc. but even a one time listing would clear all the current ones at least. Thanks. 89.204.246.183 ( talk) 03:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Interested in having a bot move the disambiguators (rugby player) to become (rugby union), as per WP:RU. Don't really know how to formally request, or see if it is feasible. Londo 06 14:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
I would like a Bot that can leave messages and can make edits on pages. I need a Bot to use. And one to stop vandalism. Thank you! Dingo Kong ( talk) 06:11, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
I have created a subcategory for photos of New Zealanders, but I don't really want to go through one by one and move all the relevant pages there. Is there some way that this could be done by a bot, perhaps with human oversight? There must be a way of algorithmically recognizing such pages, e.g. their categories and WikiProject Banners? Anything with the {{ WPBIO}} banner for a start could be moved there. Richard001 ( talk) 06:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
|canton= Canton ''of'' Aix-en-Othe. Cheers ~one of many editorofthewikis ( talk/ contribs/ editor review)~ 15:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I have created a subcategory for photos of New Zealanders, but I don't really want to go through one by one and move all the relevant pages there. Is there some way that this could be done by a bot, perhaps with human oversight? There must be a way of algorithmically recognizing such pages, e.g. their categories and WikiProject Banners? Anything with the {{ WPBIO}} banner for a start could be moved there. Richard001 ( talk) 06:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
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I'm not sure what to request exactly, but articles with {{ WPBeatles}} on their talk page have redlink categories due to this project banner being converted to use {{ WPBannerMeta}}. For example, Category:Start-Class Beatles articles has been emptied and the redlink Category:Start-Class The Beatles articles has been filled. See the discussions:
I've never heard of it before, so I'm guessing a category can't be moved. So I guess the contents of each of these article classification categories (for example, {{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/ClassificationCategoryHeader}} and some parent categories) need to be copied to the new, currently redlink, categories. There are a lot of them, so this is probably a job for a bot. -- Geniac ( talk) 14:35, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I tried scripting a simple bot to fix typos, and failed. I could run and maintain a bot, but I do not understand programming languages enough to produce this bot. I was thinking of a simple bot that checked pages for common typos. A problem with the bot is that one could easily find it correcting typos where there are none. I'd program it to use a dictionary to fix "prblems" with typing. One of the worse things i've seen is going down an article and finding that little annoying typo.
Cindy About/ T/ P/ C/ 02:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Agony's orphantalk tool ( here) finds plenty of orphaned talk pages. I've nominated a few for CSD under category G8, but this is a tiresome process. Is there any way that a bot can add CSD takes for all these articles. I appreciate the current list is not actually on the en wiki, but if I create I user subpage with a list of the pages, would it then be possible? — CycloneNimrod Talk? 20:58, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, would it be possible/feasible to have a bot automatically revert anyone adding big chunks of data to templates, maybe anything over 100 kilobytes? This would help guard against the type of vandalism that can be seen in the edit histories of Template:G8 nations [1] and Template:Anglophone states [2], vandalism that can sometimes be tricky to detect and revert quickly. If this is a good idea, should this task have its own bot, or would it be better/easier to add this functionality onto an existing bot such as ClueBot? Thanks. -- Bongwarrior ( talk) 07:39, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
If this were to be done, I think using a percentage of the total size (say 50%) would be more appropriate -- T- rex 22:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I am willing to write a bot that does this, but so far my bot does no anti-vandalism things, so it will be some work, and quite awhile until I get around to doing so -- T- rex 20:39, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Following this discussion, I now propose that a bot be made that edits the titles of all pages with the {{ disambig}} template which do not end with "(Disambiguation)" are renamed so that they do. This should make searching for articles easier. It Is Me Here ( talk) 14:35, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure why an author is required but could someone check the 4700 Category:Images lacking an author for images having (1) {{ PD-USGov-Military-Air Force}} and fill in "US Air Force" for author (like Image:32d Air Refueling Squadron.jpg) and (2) {{ PD-USGov-Military-Army}} and fill in "US Army" (like Image:William C Bryan.jpg). If it's possible, could someone just cross-check against everything in Category:United States military image templates? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:24, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Can a robot be used to add articles to new categories to produce a new child wikiproject assessment table from a parent wiki project banner? Would assessments given by the Template:WikiProject Canada, be able to produce categories for the various classes for the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles? The Template:WikiProject Canada gives assessments for the provinces, in this case, Saskatchewan, and it also assesses the departments in this case Canadian communities. Can new assessment categories be created from this template which would give an assessment table exclusively for an active assessment department at WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods without creating another talk page banner. It is possible to compare for example Category:Stub-Class Canada-related articles and Category:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles using AWB to get an idea of stub class Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles and so on. Is there a better way to make a new assessment table from the parent talk page banner? SriMesh | talk 19:12, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
A bot that would add links or cite sources or basically anything to help you make a perfect edit. (Sound good?) Wikidude 57 23:52, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
A while back I proposed creating a "conversion bot" that could find all stand alone instances of measurements given either in stadard or metric form and convert them into dual measurements listing both standard and metric measurements. I think the idea died off, but I still think that the utility of such a bot would be a welcome addition to Wikipedia, and with the conversion templates now in use here I think the time is right to bring up the suggestion again. Would there be any interst in creating a bot of this nature here on wikipedia? TomStar81 ( Talk) 02:47, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Strong oppose: Bots do not possess the ability to discern if conversions are necessary and this would yield unnecessary articles cluttered with conversions every 2 lines. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 08:20, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
There used to be a bot who listed subpages of WP:PUI at WP:PUI#Holding cell once they were 14 days old or older, so that they could be cleared out by an admin. But there doesn't seem to be any more. Now someone (usually me) has to manually add each new day. Can someone please create a bot task which runs once per day (ideally soon after midnight UTC) to add
*[[Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/{{subst:#time:Y F j|-14 days}}]]
to the bottom of section 1 of WP:PUI? Stifle ( talk) 11:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Just need a bot that will search for typos I give it and correct them for me. Have some programming experience so I could do some simple maintenance on it. Please write on my page if you would be kind enough to build it for me. DxNate 18:33, 30 Apr 2024 User- Talk- Contribs
As per this; WesleyDodds needs someone to deliver a newsletter for WP:ALM monthly. He'll leave you a note when the newsletter is ready. Please leave a note on his talk page if you can do this (and tell him I sent you). — Giggy 03:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of support for this bot, so I will go ahead with the implementation. Since this is a quite complex project, to be implemented over an extended timeframe, I have set up a separate specification page at User:B. Wolterding/Article alerts. Comments are welcome there. I have copied this discussion to User talk:B. Wolterding/Article alerts and will be closing it here. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 10:02, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I got the idea a while ago when updating the Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity page. It would be very useful to have a bot going around Wikipedia every day and update these lists automatically.
What it would need to check (IMO)
A useful parameter would be something to specify that the first X number of articles in each sections are to be transcluded so very active Wikiprojects can have a "Current Activity" section that's of reasonable length on their main page.
It would also be nice if such a bot would produce short messages similar to those on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Current activity to tell people who nominated, to congratulate when their articles passed, link to the article talk page when it failed, etc... Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 13:13, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Well considering I "run" WikiProject physics, I guess we could say that there's at least that one that's interested. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 21:08, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I had posted at Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#Automate_Deletion_sorting_to_Candidates_for_Deletiona week ago about how it would be great it would be if our articles nominated for deletion list could be updated by a bot. I was waiting for more of a community response of support before coming here or approaching Maelgwnbot directly to have this automated. I think having the above workflows automated is even better. As shown over at Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians'_notice_board/AfD, this type of programming can be done. DigitalC ( talk) 12:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
We've just had an editor on WP:Anglicanism complain taht many of "his" Anglican articles are being afd'd and so on, so wider notificaiton to the project would probably be useful. I glance at AFD from time to time, but a more focused idea of articles of interest would be useful. David Underdown ( talk) 14:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I can definitely see this being using in WikiProject Video Games, among others. Would there be any breakdown by Task Force with this as well? -- MASEM 15:07, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Yes please! This would definitely be useful to WikiProject Aircraft, and probably our parent the Aviation WikiProject. -- Rlandmann ( talk) 19:42, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Agree. Would be very nice for wp:ships to know when someone has nominated something project related for deletion or review. Has happened to us several times in the past where we were never aware of the nominations. -- Brad ( talk) 03:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Can't speak for everyone at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants, but I like this idea. We tend to hear about such things in a manual way, but a bot would be less likely to miss things. Because the bot would only tell us about articles tagged with our wikiproject, I don't really see a problem with seeing irrelevant information, and the volume of information should also be manageable, I would think. I'll leave it to others to discuss what is feasible from a technical point of view. Kingdon ( talk) 04:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I need to add the parameter "ManUtd=yes" to the {{ Football}} template on the talk page of every article in Category:Manchester United F.C. and its sub-categories. However, there are hundreds of articles in those categories: too much for one man to do alone. Therefore, I would like a bot to add the parameter for me and, in the case that the {{ Football}} template is not present on an article's talk page, it should be added with the "ManUtd=yes" parameter. – Pee Jay 13:08, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Done -- maelgwn - talk 09:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but I have been moving tons of PD pictures from WP to the commons, but occasionally there are images that need renaming in the process (for example Image:Cathal Brugha commemorative plague.jpg -> Image:Cathal Brugha commemorative plaque.jpg). Is there a bot that updates links to these images in articles? Normally it is not a problem as most images are uploaded with the same name, but if there is a typo, or another already exists, or the name just isn't descriptive, it would be great if a bot would catch that and move the links, so the WP version can be seamlessly deleted. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 05:09, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
As per the discussion at WP:VPP#ALL disambiguation pages to end "(disambiguation)", a bot is being requested to create "Foo (disambiguation)" pages that redirect to "Foo" in cases where
Again, only redirects will be created. -- Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 14:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Articles in Category:National Cycle Routes beginning "NCR" - the following to be added to the top of their talk pages:
{{multimove|new name|Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Roads#National Cycle Routes move request}}
where the "new name" is s/NCR /National Cycle Route /. Thanks. 217.36.107.9 ( talk) 15:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Done wouldve been quicker to do it by hand than figure out how to code it, but where is the fun in that *-) -- maelgwn - talk 13:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I've just tagged the following categories with {{subst:cfd|Unqualified "Terrorism"}}:
But I believe there are an enormous number of (first level only) sub-categories that need to be tagged similarly before debate can continue. Is it possible that someone could do this with a bot, please? Thanks in advance. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 14:37, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
I started, but then the cfd template was linking incorrectly. Might be able to do it later. -- maelgwn - talk 05:25, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Done Post here if there are some missing but I think I got them. -- maelgwn - talk 13:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
What I'd like, is a bot which, whenever [[domain:xxx text]] is in [[Category:xxx ntext]], the sort key is set to Otext where:
To avoid possible accidential sort key errors due to something else starting with 2000 being in Category:2000 AD, we might restrict ntext to be null for years. It's less likely that something would be in a category such as Category:20th Century Fox with the "Century" not capitalized.
The bot should log its output in such a way that it can be reversed if it goes
WP:ROUGE, remembering that a sort key of " " is not the same as a sort key of "". Remember, if the bot works at all as I request, it won't change any categories, merely change the sort order of within categories.
Some of the categories are populated by templates, so the bot won't effect those. A couple months ago, I changed Template:DeathsInCenturyBC to properly tag the nth Century BC deaths articles.
— Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:41, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I can do this, but I'd like to get some more feedback as to whether this would be useful and non-problematic. Any other opinions from folks out there? – Quadell ( talk) 01:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm going on vacation soon, and wouldn't want to start it before I go. I'll be back on the 23rd. (If someone else wants to create this instead of me, I don't mind a bit.) In the mean time, you could ask at those projects, yes, and perhaps set up an official request for bot authorization. Or I'll write up a BRfA when I get back, if no one else has tackled the project by then. – Quadell ( talk) 22:23, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
A basic story. A newb comes along to an article like this and goes OMG!, there are no images, I'll put this tag on it!:{{ reqphoto}}. He inadvertently places the image on the article, not realizing that it should go on the talk page, and this ugly message shows up. I think someone should design a bot to move these templates to the top of its talk pages. However, make it only for article namespace, as for User: and Wikipedia: namespaces, there are a lot of uses for some reason like ths category says as of 29 July 2008: Category:Main pages with misplaced talk page templates. The bot would work from this category, ignoring Wikipedia: and User: namespaces. When the template is moved, the article is now (kinda-)perfect! TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 20:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Generally speaking, newer editors don't understand why a page gets protected, and suddenly finding that they can't edit it can be frustrating. Over at VP/Proposals, I brought up the idea that we should automatically include the RFPP entry on the talk page of any article which gets protected, and they suggested I take it here. Essentially, the bot might be triggered by the opening of (or changes in) a protection log, and would automatically take the RFPP proceeding for any page which gets protected on the talk page for that page. Here is the discussion at VP/P:
For a lot of users, it can be frustrating or confusing to find that an article has been protected. In some cases, anyone can figure it out, but in others, the reason is mysterious and can take some digging. Might it be a good idea to include the text of the RFPP entry on the article talk page automatically? And good policy to require this inclusion? I've never worked closely with protections, so any refinement of the idea is appreciated. Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 17:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Never requested a bot before, and I would like to help in any way possible. Mr. IP 《 Defender of Open Editing》 17:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
This could likely be done with automated editing, but I don't know how to do that. If anyone here could, I'd appreciate it.
The slang term "rastas", which sounds really, really bad in an encyclopedia, is all over Wikipedia. Could a bot scan all the cases of the words "rasta" and "rastas" and replace it with "rastafarian" and "rastafarians"? ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 07:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for a bot that can perform similar duties as did DyceBot did for WP:GL/IMPROVE. After Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image to improve was moved to Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop, DyceBot stopped performing it's actions. I tried contacting it's creator but no response. The bot performed the following actions:
Any help? -- pbroks13 talk? 05:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like to create a list of articles under the Aviation WikiProject's scope, sorted by popularity, in order to get an idea of which articles are most visible to the public and our project should work at improving to FA's quickly. The category with all the articles is Category:WikiProject Aviation articles, or alternately Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WPAVIATION. Can the program used on Wikipedia:Popular pages be modified for this? - Trevor MacInnis ( Contribs) 01:47, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to compile this for Utah Highways Wikiproject as well? The category is Category:Utah road transport articles by quality but only the sub-categories, not the three articles in the root directory. I like the format that you provided Trevor with the Rank (by views)/Views/Views Per Day/Class Thanks -- Admrb♉ltz ( t • c • log) 06:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, it'd be quite useful if a bot could take up the task of adding a new section header and Portal:Current events transclusion, like so, to Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates at midnight UTC, and remove the last section (older than 7 days) to the archive for that month. It's embarrassing when nobody remembers to add a day and we sit around wondering why we aren't getting any suggestions for Template:In the news. Also, it would be great if it could create new archive pages, so it's entirely hands free from the users perspective. Thanks! - Banyan Tree 02:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
After discussion of an odd coding problem at this Help Desk page, I'd like to have a bot to help with United States micropolitan area links. There's a difference in the Unicode between the following links:
As you can see in the Help Desk page, someone recommended having a bot work with these, going exclusively to the micron character. Could someone write a bot to convert all the "mu" links to "micron" links? I'm not entirely sure which of these characters is a mu and which is a micron, but I believe that the vast majority of links are the lower of the two Mankato links, and from what was said in the Help Desk comment, I'm guessing that these links are "mu". Ask me for clarification if this request isn't clear: as you can see in the Help Desk section, I've been quite confused with this problem, which has just appeared to me today anyway. Nyttend ( talk) 00:22, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
It looks like articles in Category:United_States_micropolitan_areas are typically titled '... micropolitan area' and you just want to make sure that their are redirects from '..., State µSA' and '..., State μSA' ? -- maelgwn - talk 04:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
You want just the 940 listed at Table of United States Micropolitan Statistical Areas? – Quadell ( talk) 21:55, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
My take on this is: If the micropolitan area article itself is at a "mu"-title, then it needs to be moved to be at a "micron" title. But this doesn't happen often, or at all, so far as I can tell. If the "mu"-title is a redirect to another article name, then the "micron"-title needs to be an identical redirect. There's no need to delete the "mu"-redirect. And there's no need to fix links to the "mu"-redirects to link to "micron"-redirects instead, in my opinion.
I am willing to create a bot which will create the "micron"-redirects where they are missing. – Quadell ( talk) 15:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Done Redirects created. – Quadell ( talk) 18:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
There are quite a few large templates used on various mammal species and I was wondering if I could enlist a bot for some help. For example, the template {{ Diprotodontia}} is on about 150 or so species articles. I go through periodically and check that the template: 1) is either on all of the species' articles or if it has legitimately been removed, then I remove the link from the template; and 2) that no page moves snuck by me (which quite a few do, since many of the animal articles on WP are still in their formative stages), and if there was a page move I fix the redirect (I currently use the "Related Changes" tool which has its drawbacks).
I've been doing these templates through WP:MAMMAL and the goal is to link all of the species (there's only 4-5 thousand or so, I say "only" because I'm nearing completion) via these templates. Is there any way a bot can compare the links on the template to the articles that contain the template and provide a report on demand? This would allow me to ensure there are no redirects on the templates and also that there is consistency on the WP articles about what is a living or extinct species, and what is a species or sub-species. Thoughts? -- Tombstone ( talk) 07:53, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Template displays | Linked article | article contains template? |
---|---|---|
Koala (P. cinereus) | Koala | yes |
Common Wombat (V. ursinus) | Common Wombat | No |
Doing...: As an update, I have run through the cetacea, putting the results here. The code notes redirects, checks to see if the template is present, checks for the taxobox template, notes in the status is extinct, and notes if it's listed as a subspecies. (None of the cetacea listed are extinct or subspecies though.) I also listed all such mammal templates at User:Polbot/templatelist.
If you're happy with the demo, I'll run it for each of the templates on User:Polbot/templatelist, but instead of depositing the results on my user subpage I thought I would put the table at, say, Template:Cetacea/stats, and leave a note on Template talk:Cetacea about its existence. Does this sound good to you? – Quadell ( talk) 13:24, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I've been working on it, but Wikipedia seems overloaded at the moment. (Rejecting edits right and left so the servers can catch up.) I'll try running it later. – Quadell ( talk) 01:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Done: It's at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Article templates/stats. There may still be a few errors where Wikipedia failed to return a page, so my bot thought it was a redlink when it wasn't. But it's done, and 99% right or so, and it should be obvious when it's wrong. Enjoy! – Quadell ( talk) 15:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
From my talk page but I dont have time to do it at the moment:
Wikipedia:Bots/Status lists Maelgwnbot as doing "occasional template replacement". Does include deprecated infobox replacement? -- Geniac ( talk) 17:47, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
-- maelgwn - talk 13:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
So, all you need is each instance of, say,
{{Cheese | Parmigiano Reggiano | [[Image:Parmigiano reggiano piece.jpg|260px]] | [[Italy]] | [[Parma]], [[Reggio Emilia]], [[Modena]], [[Bologna]], [[Mantua]] | [[Cow]]s | No | Hard | 24 months or more | [[protected designation of origin|PDO]] [[1992]] }}
...changed to...
{{Infobox Cheese | name = Parmigiano Reggiano | image = [[Image:Parmigiano reggiano piece.jpg|260px]] | othernames = | country = [[Italy]] | regiontown = [[Parma]], [[Reggio Emilia]], [[Modena]], [[Bologna]], [[Mantua]] | region = | town = | source = [[Cow]]s | pasteurised = No | texture = Hard | fat = | protein = | dimensions = | weight = | aging = 24 months or more | certification = [[protected designation of origin|PDO]] [[1992]] }}
Is that it? – Quadell ( talk) 02:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Plz, update ru-iwiki in categories from Category:1956 albums to Category:2008 albums. Replace:
[[ru:Музыкальные альбомы .... года]]
by
[[ru:Альбомы .... года]]
Alex Spade ( talk) 12:08, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Stepshep usually helps me out but I know he's out of commission. Not talking articles here, but rather categories. Also not entirely sure this can be done by bot because of the wildcard, but I thought I'd try. I'd like to have museum categories and their descendant categories, i.e. Category: Automobile museums, Category:Automobile museums in the United States, Category:History museums and Category:History museums in Canada tagged with the project template and class as Cat: {{ WikiProject Museums}}
Is this doable by bot? I'm happy to vet a list of categories and sub-cats. Just let me know, thanks! TravellingCari 16:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Doing... : Tagging categories in User:TinucherianBot/Autotagg/WPMUS/Cats after approval from the task requester -- Tinu Cherian - 04:48, 7 August 2008 (UTC) Done -- Tinu Cherian - 06:02, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Need a bot to work through Category:B-Class Ships articles and splice in a checklist to our project template for B-Class. Text to add would be:
<!-- B-Class-1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations. -->
|B-Class-1=yes
<!-- B-Class-2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. -->
|B-Class-2=yes
<!-- B-Class-3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. -->
|B-Class-3=yes
<!-- B-Class-4. It is free from major grammatical errors. -->
|B-Class-4=yes
<!-- B-Class-5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. -->
|B-Class-5=yes
We have not previously used a checklist but are having it activated soon and don't want to lose the B articles we already have. If the above text is spliced in prior to the activation it will prevent that loss. -- Brad ( talk) 16:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody generate a bot for Wikiproject Artemis Fowl? The Log of Active users ( here) needs one.-- Leolisa1997 ( talk) 09:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way for a bot to check all articles that include {{ ChicagoWikiProject}} and determine whether they are at WP:FAC, WP:FAR, WP:GAC, WP:GAR, WP:FLC, WP:PR, WP:AFD, WP:CFD, WP:IFD, WP:TFD, WP:FPC, WP:FPOC, WP:FTC, or WP:DRV so that our project can easily find discussions that we want to be involved in? It would be optimal if it ran daily.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 05:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Greetings. I need a know if a bot can identify and replace similar patterns of code in a template.
I'm looking at reforming {{ Maintained}}, whose function is to indicate that a given page is being "looked after" by a user or group of users. The way the template works at the moment is that it says something like "This page is being maintained by _____. They can help with questions.", where editors fill in the blank with whatever they like, but mostly either their bare username or templates like {{user|Username}}, {{user2|Username}}, {{user4|Username}} etc. This leads to discrepancy in the use of the template, with some pages having only a link to the userpage, others to talk and contribs, others to an editcounter or email link for the user and so on. I am intent on standardising it to use {{ User4}} by default. The question is, if I change {{ Maintained}} to include {{ User4}} by default, can a bot successfully isolate only the usernames from all the various talkpages with {{ maintained}} on them? So for example, the bot would need to replace: {{Maintained|{{User4|Username}}, Username2}} with {{Maintained|Username|Username2}} There are few enough maintained pages (less than 1000, I'd estimate) that if the bot could put the pages it couldn't deal with into Category:Maintained errors or something, I could fix those easily.
So, can this be done? Any help appreciated, Skomorokh 03:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Is this technically feasible even? Skomorokh 15:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can fix the common use of a hyphen in places where an en or em dash is required? Simply replacing all instances of [space][hyphen][space] with [space][en][space] or simply [em] would probably be right 95% of the time, and if the bot could identify dates or numbers on each side of the sequence, and replace the sequence with an unspaced en, that would likely bump it up to 99%. — Swpb τ • c 02:18, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Formatter handles this also, I believe, though it is out of line with MOS:DASH at this point. Skomorokh 15:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Since BetacommandBot is now blocked, I imagine there isn't a bot that is moving tagged images to the commons. Is this correct? Before, approved users could tag images with {{ commons ok}} and then they would automatically get moved. I'm going through a bunch of (mainly orphaned) images now, and this is sorely needed. Could someone take up the cause, now that Beta can't, due to other not-really-related issues? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 06:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to notify the uploader of an image that their image has been moved to the commons and it's new location (especially if it has a different name). Currently these images are deleted under CSD i8 and it is possible that original uploader will have no idea what happened to their image, particularly images that are not used on WP. If the image is just in their watchlist, they will come back and find it missing. For numerous examples of this confusion, see User talk:Mets501. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 08:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
This sounds like a great idea. I hope someone implements this. – Quadell ( talk) 14:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
i have a suggestion that when a page gets archived, links from other pages to subsections of that page get updated, and point to:
Original_Page/Archive_X#Subsection
216.80.119.92 (
talk) 19:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Please change instances of Sedan in over 1500 car related articles to Sedan (car), as this had been moved. See Special:WhatLinksHere/Sedan -- Matthead Discuß 09:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
At this moment Sedan is a redirect to Sedan (car), not Sedan (disambiguation). If this edit stays, then no change is needed. If Sedan becomes a stable redirect to Sedan (disambiguation), then this change could be useful, but the page is hardly stable, as you say. Work it out. Bots aren't used to settle content disputes. – Quadell ( talk) 14:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Well, it seems that RussBot had fixed the links in about 1000 car articles anyway, leaving some 200 miscellaneous ones and talk pages. So this request is obsolete now, can be archived, thanks. -- Matthead Discuß 16:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot whose responsability is to modify the page linking to a deprecated category ?
(Oups, I just figured out that this category is WM Commons only ... But at the same time, I am not able to find such a page on Commons ... any pointers welcome ...)
BenAllard ( talk) 20:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Bots/Request already has a discution about that bot. BenAllard ( talk) 16:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
There are many, many old semiprotected pages that have simply been forgotten about and have no expiry date (there are a few that were before expiries were implemented in April 2007 too). We've been discussing ideas about what to do, and I came up with this idea.
My idea is to have a bot notify the protecting admins that it's been over (say) 2 months since a page was protected without an expiry date. I manually tested the idea out yesterday, notifying about 30 admins about old protections (see an example here) with pretty good responses. In some cases, the admin did unprotect the page, some leaving a comment just saying they simply forgot about the page (which is understandable). I'm thinking someone should be able to get a bot to do this. Just start here and work forward (or a database dump would probably work too since many protections date back over a year), find the last admin to protect the page, and notify them (I used a boilerplate here).
So, is this doable? - Royalguard11( T) 21:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to get a bot to alphabetise categories like this: [5]? This idea is not on 'frequently denied bots' list and does not appear to be on active bot list. Thanks very much Tom ( talk) 10:44, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I am making an attempt to make {{ Flickr}} the same here on en as the one on the commons. I have created {{ Flickr-inline}} and redirected Flickr. I would like a bot to move all the current usages of the old template to the new one. Once that is done, I will copy the template from the commons to here.
Thanks. Philly jawn ( talk) 16:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Im not sure the guy who requested this is still around but it seems to be a sensible move so ive started it now. Will probably just mark {{ Flickr}} as depreciated when the template has been 'moved'. -- maelgwn - talk 13:18, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
When we redirect a category page to another category page we use a "soft redirect". That is we place the {{
category redirect}} message box on the old category. Up until now that box accepted its parameter in two ways: {{category redirect|Category:Newcat}}
or {{category redirect|Newcat}}
.
After some discussion at Template talk:Category redirect#Template should redirect to category, not article we decided to only accept the parameter without the "Category:" part, since accepting both caused some problems. However we now need to fix all the cases where "Category:" is fed. I made it so the template detects when it gets a faulty parameter and then lists that category page in Category:Wikipedia category-redirect box parameter needs fixing ( CAT:CATREDFIX). Most of the cases in that category are such "Category:Something" cases.
It would be nice if a bot worked through the
CAT:CATREDFIX and changed the cases of {{category redirect|Category:Something}}
to {{category redirect|Something}}
. It's about 420 cases and this is a one time run.
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 05:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Easy one: I have just proposed to rename the subcategories of Category:Magazines by country from Fooian magazines to Magazines published in Foo. To complete the nomination, each of the subcategories should be tagged appropriately to point to the debate. One option is to use the CfR template, although it would perhaps make more sense to tweak the CfR template for this particular case. I'm thinking something like
{{cmbox |type=delete |image=none |text= '''This category and other categories of the form "''Fooian magazines''" is being considered for renaming to the form "''Magazines published in Foo''"<br/> This does '''''not''''' mean that any of the '''articles''' in the category will be deleted. They may, however, be recategorized.<br/> Please share your thoughts on the matter at '''[[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_August_8#Category:Fooian_magazines|at this entry]]''' on the [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|Categories for Discussion]] page. Please do not empty the category or remove this notice while the discussion is in progress.}}
Ok... The above is completely unreadable but if you cut and paste it from the source of my request, it gives you a nice little custom-made CfR box. Pichpich ( talk) 23:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I wrote a bot, Disambot (previously fuBot), to go through disambiguation pages and perform various cleanup tasks based on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Unfortunately the BRFA has been taking much longer than expected, and with college starting in just over a week, time constraints are becoming an impediment for me.
I'm looking for someone to operate the bot and potentially update the code if necessary. The programming is essentially complete and functional, but a need for changes may arise at some point. The code is written in Python and fairly well commented; see Source.
Aside from running the bot at appropriate times and responding to any concerns that arise, the job may or may not involve reviewing a detailed log of the bot's edits. I brought this up in the BRFA but we haven't reached a clear conclusion. It may be best to start a new BFRA, as the old one is a bit of a mess already.
Thanks! — xDanielx T/ C\ R 03:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
User:DumZiBoT recently caught a minor difference in idenitcally-named reference tags in the Bonobo article and made notice on the talk page. The difference that the bot caught was only a single space in the citation template that would not affect the output. In other words, the two references were effectively identical to any reader (and were also named identically). Is there a bot currently in operation that recognizes references like this—that only differ by one or more space(s) which don't affect the output—, and then corrects the reference?
If not, I propose such a bot is created. Here are some cases the bot should address:
References that have been given the same name, and whose content is effectively identical.
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template|param1="yes"|param2="12"}}</ref>
(crowded)<ref name="a"> {{ template | param1 = "yes" | param2 = "12" }} </ref>
(well-spaced)<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
Another thing this bot should address is references with different names, but identical content, or, as above, content that is effectively identical.
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="b">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
(perfectly identical, different name)<ref name="c"> {{template | param1 = "yes" | param2 = "12" }} </ref>
(effectively identical, different name)<ref name="b" />
(ref b is used later in the text)<ref name="c" />
(ref c is used later in the text)<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
This could also work for references that are not in citation templates. See Things to avoid for when this case should fail.
<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
<ref name="d"> Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008). </ref>
(extra leading & trailing space, same name)<ref name="e"> Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008). </ref>
(extra leading & trailing space, different name)<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
<ref name="d" />
<ref name="d" />
As suggested by User:Euryalus:
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param3= }}</ref>
(param4 absent)<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param4= }}</ref>
(param3 absent)<ref name="b">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" }}</ref>
<ref name="b">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param3= | param4= }}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12" | param3= }}</ref>
(by default, the first instance remains unchanged)<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
<ref name="a" />
The following two examples are not effectively identical, and so the bot should skip these references. User:DumZiBoT or a similar bot might later catch this discrepancy and post a notice on the talk page.
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes " | param2="12"}}</ref>
In the example of
Case 3, one case that would not qualify is when the spaces are not immediately within the <ref> </ref>
tag.
User:DumZiBoT or a similar bot might later catch this discrepancy and post a notice on the talk page.
<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
<ref name="d">Berry, Gary. ''Wrath of the Redundant References''. (2008).</ref>
Another thing to avoid is cases where quotation marks appear in one template but not the other. In some cases, the output from these two might be identical, but this is not necessarily the case. It would be far too much for the bot to check the template usage and determine whether or not the output will be identical. For example, if the parameter has text input, these are identical, but if the parameter has Boolean input, these are different (and the first usage is incorrect).
<ref name="a">{{template | param1="yes" | param2="12"}}</ref>
<ref name="a">{{template | param1=yes | param2="12"}}</ref>
Since
User:DumZiBoT can compare two strings, I assume it is possible (albeit more complicated) to recognize an unimportant "space" character, and from there, pretty simply to replace <ref name="a"> … </ref>
with <ref name="a" />
.
Thank you for reading this rather long request! − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 07:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to use a bot to generate a list of articles with geographical co-ordinates within the Arctic Circle? That would be a good approximation to suitable articles, though there are other definitions of Arctic, and subarctic stuff is sometimes relevant as well. Still, all articles with latitude co-ordinates between 66° 33′ 39″ (or 66.56083°) and 90° North. Is that possible? User:Carcharoth/Arctic articles is one place to put the list (or link to it from there). Carcharoth ( talk) 13:05, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone have a bot that could run through Category:Airports in Canada and copy the the entire {{ Infobox Airport}} into a text file? There's no edits required I just need the text file. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:49, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
(Lame name, I know) A bot that turns all redirects into direct links. Run about once a week. Note: I am not saying I could make it, I have no programming skill whatsoever. PXK T /C 01:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
This is easy to code, but consensus is against having a dedicated bot to do so. However it would make sense to add this to some of the edit helper programs such as AWB, as if the page is going to be edited anyways then it only helps. -- T- rex 19:37, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Can someone take a list from User:Admrboltz/disambg and tag the pages with {{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=UT| class=Disambiguation|needs-map=NA}}? Thanks. -- Admrb♉ltz ( t • c • log) 17:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I would have done it myself, but I am at work -- Admrb♉ltz ( t • c • log) 18:12, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm currently trying to do https performance testing and am planning on doing it on a wikimedia site that I set up for testing purposes. In order to test this well, I need large amounts of data that will fill up a large amount of space in the database. I'm looking for around a gig or two. I don't care where you get it from in wikipedia. 1 or two gigs of data that I pop into my database is fine. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Speedracerdude ( talk • contribs) 18:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.106.23.137 ( talk) 21:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
a bot that wikifies words in relatively new articles in introductory paragraphs for which there are articles on WP. it would try wikifying multiple word titles first, and than decrease number to single word titled articles. 216.80.119.92 ( talk) 01:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Could a bot generate a list of all non-redirect subpages in the Portal namespace which do not have a corresponding non-redirect parent page? The presence of such pages is almost always accompanied by one or more problems that require correction (e.g. copy-paste moves, duplicate pages, invalid/outdated transclusions, etc.), and it would be much easier to correct those problems using a bot-generated list of pages (the other option is to manually go through Special:Prefixindex, which is a time-consuming method that is prone to errors). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 20:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
While I'm at it, here's a second request. I already suggested this twice here but got no answer (perhaps it's trickier than I imagine or perhaps everybody thinks it's a stupid idea but hey, I'm stubborn so I'll suggest it again). In any case, here's the idea: we have a huge number of categories of the form Category:Foo songs and Category:Foo albums. For convenience of navigation, it would make sense to have these two categories linked as see also. This has been done manually in a few cases, e.g. Category:Beck songs and Category:Beck albums. This should be easy to automate, particularly if the bot decides to do it systematically without checking if that see also already exists. (yeah, it's a lazy way to do it but it's not like it would be a terrible problem to have two identical see also's).
In any case, can someone at least please tell me "this is too difficult" or "this is too stupid", just so I know? Cheers, Pichpich ( talk) 23:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks T-rex. By the way, similar connections between pairs of categories might make sense in other cases, for instance cats like Category:Progressive rock songs and Category:Progressive rock albums or the by country categories. Pichpich ( talk) 05:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a bot that could make a list of the articles in these Arabic and French categories which don't have interlanguage links to the English Wikipedia? Thank you. Eklipse ( talk) 18:43, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
SELECT concat('* [[:w:fr:', ns_name, ':', page_title, ']]') FROM categorylinks
LEFT JOIN page
ON page_id = cl_from
LEFT JOIN toolserver.namespace
ON ns_id = page_namespace
WHERE cl_to = 'Liban'
AND NOT EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM langlinks
WHERE ll_from = page_id
AND ll_lang = 'en')
AND dbname = 'frwiki_p';
Since we've got such a huge backlog at WP:O, I was wondering if it would be difficult to write a bot to spider through CAT:ORPHAN and find other articles which should link to the orphaned article. The ideal bot would be human-assisted, with the bot throwing up options to the operator, who could then decide whether or not the link was appropriate. Failing that, it would be cool if the bot could just print link recommendations onto the article's talk page (for example), and then any de-orphaning editor could browse through at leisure and see about de-orphaning. If any assistance is required, just let us know on the WikiProject Orphanage talk page, or leave a note on my talk page. Thanks!-- Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 16:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I am in desperate need of a bot or script that can leave talk page messages on 85 or so specific WikiProject talk pages for the coordination of efforts between those projects and WikiProject Media franchises. I am on dial-up and use Firefox. Below is basically what I am hoping it will do.
Is this possible? LA ( T) @ 19:31, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I need a bot to revert vandalism.-- Master of Pies ( talk) 17:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible for a bot to either tag or list the talk pages of all articles within the Category:Gymnastics category tree that do not currently include a {{ WikiProject Gymnastics}} on their talk page? -- ratarsed ( talk) 18:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, could a kind bot operator please arrange for a bot to disambiguate all occurrences of " Li Jia Wei" (currently a disambiguation page) to " Li Jiawei"? Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 08:57, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Oh, right! Thanks anyway. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 16:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
id like a bot but i dont know how to make one i just want a bot that will help fix mispelled words Neon5162 ( talk) 16:04, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
well i wanted one that was manually-assisted anyway and it does say manually assited ones or acceptible as long as it has a international spellchecker or something to that extent Neon5162 ( talk) 17:21, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
As per the idea I proposed at the Village Pump, I would need a bot to do it, if the idea is not opposed. I tried to myself but I have no experience so I'd like to ask someone here to consider doing so, it should be quite easy if you have already created bots.
The bot should do the following:
I don't think that should be too hard, does anyone feel the call to set up something like this? Regards So Why 12:13, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
I have already noted my objection to this idea at the pump, you can read it there. I do consider it vandalism to just go and remove something from a userpage without warning (and I mean warning on talkpage, not a common page). - Royalguard11( T) 00:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
There are
54 articles in which I have misspelled the location= for a certain publisher. Instead of "location=Cosa Mesa", they ought to read "location=Costa Mesa" (i.e.
this place). Could a bot do this conversion please? Thanks. --
Fullstop (
talk) 19:16, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Currently, a search for "Cosa Mesa" returns 56 hits. That count is stale. I've already fixed two of them (ones which were not location=).
Would it be possible for a script to run that creates a list of every (sub)category that branches off Category:Articles? It's to assist with the development of this as the original implementation would have produced too many mistakes. Thanks, ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 09:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like the following message to be delivered to members of several WikiProjects and task forces:
"A community forum has been set up at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink/Article guidelines for the various Food and Drink projects to develop a set of Manual of Style guidelines for use in articles under the auspices of all the related Food and Drink WikiProjects and task forces. This would be similar to the MoS guidelines for
biographies or
legal articles.
Please feel free to visit and leave a comment.
This forum was developed based on a suggestion made by Clockwork Soul in a discussion on the WP Food and drink talk page, archived here.
You have received this message because your user name appears on the member list of a Food and Drink related project. If this bot mistakenly posted this message on your talk page, please accept our apologies for the error and feel free to remove this message."
The users I would like to see this delivered are members of the following projects:
Several users are members of some or all of these projects & task forces and I wish to insure that the bot doesn't hit the same user multiple times. Also I had manually delivered the message to a dozen or so users, so I have the same request not to duplicate the message.
Thanks for the help -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 10:38, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Please ignore those who are inactive, otherwise please deliver to the others.-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 03:53, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
It is a one time message notifying participants of a new inter-WikiProject message board and standards drive for Food and Drink related projects and task forces. -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Some of you might know about the CatScan tool that allows one to plug two categories and get a list of overlapping pages. Lately I've been using this for deletion sorting. I was wondering if it would be possible to have a bot automatically add entries to a delsort page based on the output of this tool. For some situations this would not be a wise idea, since the category and/or subcategories being scanned will contain articles that don't belong on a given delsort page. However, there are some situations that are always going to be correct (assuming the article was correctly tagged). The one situation I have in mind is Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people, since it uses Category:Living people.
The tool is capable of generating a CSV output [6]. Generic formatting (afd/PAGENAME) won't work all of the time, so the bot would have to find the link from the AfD template. -- Ned Scott 07:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey. In Template:Infobox Figure skater, the parameter "turned pro" was changed to "retired" in 2006 [7], but some articles still have the incorrect field name. Could a bot go through all the articles using the template [8] and change all instances of "turned pro" to "retired"? Thanks, Kolindigo ( talk) 03:22, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
turned pro = 25 December 2007
to retired = 25 December 2007
is not what you want? ~ AmeIiorate
U
T
C @ 04:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
List of male boxers, now deleted, has an exceptionally high number of incoming links, usually from "see also" sections. I'd greatly appreciate it if somebody armed with AWB or something more capable would go through and orphan this article. east718 // talk // email // 05:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I've discovered an inconsistency with usage of Template:Infobox_Magazine. In certain articles the image field has an incorrect name for the image field, would it be possible for a bot to check all articles that use Infobox_Magazine and create a list of articles that have the incorrect field name?. The correct field name is image_file so I would require a list of articles where image_file = is not present or is present only as image =. This is my first bot request so I'm not sure what the normal routine is as regards the results. A sub-page underneath my sandbox would be fine by me if that's what normally happens, failing that, leave a note here or on my discussion page. Thanks. - X201 ( talk) 20:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
image =
to image_file =
, instead of just listing them?
Andy Mabbett |
Talk to Andy Mabbett 20:59, 27 August 2008 (UTC) image = [[Image:SO!vol50 2.PNG|thumb|center|200px|''Sing Out!'' Volume 50 #2 (Summer [[2006]]), cover, featuring [[Dar Williams]]]]
image
to image_file
image_file = SO!vol50 2.PNG
image_size
field to the articleimage_caption
field to the articleimage =
parameter was added to
Category:Articles using incorrect Infobox Magazine Formatting. However, because of the MediaWiki cache/touch system the articles wouldn't appear in the category straight away. They started showing up in eventual waves and I have been editing them as they show up. I've done it semi-automatically (just confirming each edit) as some of the formatting was really obscure. I don't know if I have done them all yet, there's still a chance that more will show up in the category but here's hoping. I won't mark this as done just yet though. ~ AmeIiorate
U
T
C @ 03:04, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Just one article left and that is NOM'd for deletion :-) Thanks. How many "wrong" articles were there in total? -
X201 (
talk) 07:57, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
When articles are userfied, they continue to show up in categories, for example, [9]. Sometimes users put categories on their userpages for reasons unknown. Could a bot go through and apply the colon trick to all such? Care would have to be taken to avoid categories like Category:Wikipedians from Texas. Is it possible? Phlegm Rooster ( talk) 08:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, guys. User:Bishzilla has been copy-editing Random Article, and she keeps finding distracting low-value links irrelevant to the context. She has been unlinking them with edit summaries something like "rm low-value links per WP:CONTEXT". If you take a look at her mainspace contribs, I think you'll agree her link removals have been appropriate. But the work is partly very mechanical—removing four square brackets round the link, removing any piping in it, and typing an appropriate edit summary. She got very bored. Well, I could stick a text macro for an edit summary on an F key, but even so. Of course a live entity must make the decision about which links are irrelevant, no bot can do that. But would it be possible to have a bot that could assist with the mechanical part? As in, once the human (or whatever) has decided a word/phrase is to be unlinked, the bot would remove those accursed square brackets and any piping, and do an appropriate edit summary? Useful? (I think so. Perhaps the mere existence of such a bot would even help spread the good word don't link everything.) Possible? (No idea.) Already exists? (Dunno.) Regards, Bishonen | talk 22:30, 19 August 2008 (UTC).
It seems that many of the articles in Category:Communes of Aisne have unduly precise coordinates, due to recurring decimals. For example
longitude=3.84333333333 latitude=49.6338888889
Please could someone's bot truncate them to 6 decimal places; rounding as appropriate? Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:36, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Probably going to show my ignorance here, but it doesn't appear to make a difference to the article or the geohack link, regardless of how many decimal places are used - is this necessary? ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 23:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
To add "founded", "founded date" or "foundation" dates to an infobox'
hCard
microformat, existing "DD Month YYYY" dates need to be converted to {{
Birth date}}. The conversion MUST NOT be done if only a year, or a month-year, date is available. [Update: to use {{
Start date}} (
bot owner notified;
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 21:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC))] This request applies to pages using:
and more to follow. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 12:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Request for a bot that moves all categories in Category:Video game templates that have 'series' in their names to Category:Video game templates by game series. The remainder can be cleaned up manually. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Request for a bot that moves all categories in Category:Video game templates that have 'characters' in their names to Category:Video game character templates. The remainder can be cleaned up manually. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I created a list of templates that need to be moved from Category:Video game templates to Category:Video game templates by game series. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
trying to streamline the templates being used to move images to the commons. please have a bot change {{ Movetocommons}} & {{ Commons ok}} to {{ Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}. Thanks. Philly jawn ( talk) 17:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like to ask if there is a bot that already exists, or one that could be created, to:
Should be pretty noncontroversial, but I don't think a bot does this yet. Thanks, Cirt ( talk) 22:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Any updates? Cirt ( talk) 20:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Okay well feel free to update me on my talkpage if this goes through, I think for the time being the tasks already performed by WolterBot ( talk · contribs) will prove to be quite helpful. Cirt ( talk) 18:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Um, all wikiproject ratings on a talk page are updated to FA when an article becomes FA. If any project templates for an FA don't say FA, it's either because the project template was added later without class=FA, or the talk page was vandalized. Gimmetrow 20:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I wanted to request a bot that could automatically create articles about U.S. Supreme Court cases that have not yet been created. Currently there are a bunch of Supreme Court cases that haven't been created (e.g., see the red links here List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 89 and the Supreme Court WikiProject has decided that all Supreme Court cases are notable enough for their own article. Thus, a bot could really help create these articles quickly. Obviously, the bot could not state the facts of the case or the holding, but it could create the infobox and some other wiki formatting so that other users could add to the article more easily. The following websites have a variety of information on Supreme Court cases that could be used by a bot to create the article: Findlaw.com, LII, Oyez.com, USSCPlus, SupCourt. Anyways, that was my thought. I would be interested to hear any comments on this request. Remember ( talk) 10:28, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Rather simple:
tf=
parameter is defined, if not, add |tf=MU*
; if it is, do the same for tf2=
and tf3=
.Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 16:24, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
class
and importance
should be copied in that case. If a WPVG template does already exist, I won't touch anything besides the tf
parameter.
Anomie
⚔ 17:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
tf=MU*
, since {{
WP MMO}} doesn't appear to have had such a parameter or such a task force for its task force
parameter.Done Anomie ⚔ 15:16, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I want to create a bot that can fix various spelling errors, do all sorts of various tasks on the English Wikipedia. If you can create it you are welcome to test it on any Wikipedia article. Thank you for your time!!! Mertozoro ( talk) 21:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Well then, umm, what about a bot that can work on specific Wikiprojects or a bot that can link pages, add info, or do other various things like that. Let me know soon!!! Thanks! Mertozoro ( talk) 02:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I want to create a bot that can fix various spelling errors, do all sorts of various tasks on the English Wikipedia. If you can create it you are welcome to test it on any Wikipedia article. Thank you for your time!!! Mertozoro ( talk) 21:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Well then, umm, what about a bot that can work on specific Wikiprojects or a bot that can link pages, add info, or do other various things like that. Let me know soon!!! Thanks! Mertozoro ( talk) 02:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for someone (or multiple folks, if you want to split it up) to do a bot run to deliver the following note:
And deliver it to all editors listed in the following categories:
Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
I came up with this will doing it manually. For each three character combination .html file at acronymfinder.com and The Acronym Attic, have a bot determine whether Wikipedia has an article on the listed under "Meaning" and "Possible Meanings". If so, have the bot determine whether the name of that article is listed on Wikipedia's three character combinations disambiguation pages. If not, have the bot add the article name to the three character combination disambiguation page. I was doing this manually. For example, I added Variable Information Printing to VIP (Disambiguation) after following the above procedure for VIP.html at acronymattic.com. I thought that a bot could do this easier. -- Suntag ( talk) 03:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that many editors who nominate an image for deletion will notify the uploader of the image, but do not put a notification on the talk pages of the articles in which the image appears. (I believe putting such a notification is currently a suggestion and not a requirement.) I think that the IfD discussions would get a better turnout, and the debate would be more representative of the community if such notification took place routinely.
Would it be possible for a bot to cruise the image banks and place a notification that an image has been nominated for deletion on the talk pages of every article that the image appears in? Perhaps if the image has had multiple editors, they might also be notified? Thanks. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ( talk / cont) 16:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
i dunno how do make bots pleese tell me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberdemon4 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that many editors who nominate an image for deletion will notify the uploader of the image, but do not put a notification on the talk pages of the articles in which the image appears. (I believe putting such a notification is currently a suggestion and not a requirement.) I think that the IfD discussions would get a better turnout, and the debate would be more representative of the community if such notification took place routinely.
Would it be possible for a bot to cruise the image banks and place a notification that an image has been nominated for deletion on the talk pages of every article that the image appears in? Perhaps if the image has had multiple editors, they might also be notified? Thanks. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ( talk / cont) 16:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
i dunno how do make bots pleese tell me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberdemon4 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Please see
Wikipedia talk:Sandbox#restoring header more frequently. Discussion now moved
here. Thanks. —
Alan
✉ 09:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
I was just coming here to request the same thing. User:OverlordQBot was successfully replacing missing headers and fullycleaning (both Sandbox and Wikipedia:Introduction) every 12 hours, until May 1 (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OverlordQBot 4 also from Feb 2008). A permanent solution to this would be wonderful. -- Quiddity ( talk) 19:21, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
We need a few bot changes over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization#Bot changes to deprecated templates. Initially it'll be the replacing unadorned templates, such as {{s-ecc}} -> {{s-rel}}, {{s-ecc | }} -> {{s-rel}}, {{s-awards}} -> {{s-ach | aw}}. Once the unadorned templates have been updated we may come back to convert uses which have parameters, if any exist. Hope somebody can help. Bazj ( talk) 09:40, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
{{s-ecc
with {{s-rel
(no closing "}}") this would mean {{s-ecc|foo=bar|this=that}}
would become {{s-rel|foo=bar|this=that}}
. Would that be okay? ~ AmeIiorate
U
T
C @ 01:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Pages using:
need to have release/ premièred/ first shown/ incident dates converted from plain wiki-link entries to use {{ start date}}, as seen in this example edit. This will encode the date in a format valid in the templates' hCalendar microformats.
Note that {{ start date}} allows for YYYY, YYYY-MM and YYYY-MM-DD formats.
Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Last updated by: Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 17:22, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
For each "BC" year (e.g. 45 BC, 48 BC) please create a corresponding redirect, without the space in the page name (e.g. 45BC, 48BC). Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 10:48, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Recently at WP:BASEBALL, the template {{ WikiProject Baseball}} was changed to incorporate Image-Class, Category-Class, and Template-Class.
This request is quite simple, could someone please go through the category Category:NA-Class Baseball articles, and replace the following for any Template, Category, or Images.
Replace --> With
The front is open because there may be other code after the class=NA which can stay. This will result in the pages leaving the assessment as {{WikiProject Baseball}} (or similar with task forces, etc) and the template will automatically assess these articles into the appropriate categories.
Thanks! — Borgarde talk 18:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
The following request is for a bot that can do a somewhat complicated task for the Guild of Copy Editors, in order to recognize those editors who have done the most to reduce the "copy edit needed" backlog (as per consensus). Basically, the purpose of the bot would be to maintain a list of users ordered by the number of times they have removed a template from an article. I have scanned through all the bots in Wikipedia:Bots/Status (that took a while) looking for a bot that could do this, and didn't see any, but please let me know if one already exists. In reading through those, it seems theoretically possible, though I don't know if anyone is willing to spend the time to make it. Anyway, this is how I've planned out how the bot could function, but feel free to go some other way if you prefer:
1. Detect when a {{
copyedit}} or {{
grammar}} template (and any possible variants, like with the "date" attribute) has been removed from an article (perhaps by using the same method that anti-vandalism bots use to detect vandalism).
2. If the editor who removed the template is on the blacklist ( here, feel free to mess with that page however you want), stop. Otherwise, continue on...
3. Look at the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Left_panel#Most_prolific_copy_editors (which doesn't yet exist, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors#Most_prolific_copy_editors for an example of how this could be laid out). If the editor is in the list, do 4a-4c, otherwise skip to #5:
4a. Increment the count beside the editor's name by one.
4b. Add a link to the diff from #1 to the end of that editor's line.
4c. Move the editor's entire line above all the other editors with the same count or less (in other words, the list is sorted descendingly first by count, then descendingly by the most recent). Done.
5. Add a new line for that editor above all the other editors with the same count or less, in the following format (or something similar):
* '''1''' [[User:Example|Example]] [diff]
That's it. Anybody up for the challenge? -
kotra (
talk) 07:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot that, on a periodic basis, does the following:
For instance:
The bot would publish the results in a table on the Web (preferably a Wikipedia-friendly site that can be linked to from an article if need be) in table format.
How feasable is such a request? I would like there to be a large number of such "tables", acting as a replacement (or supplement) for many of the video game lists on Wikipedia. How frequent a period is too frequent for updating such tables? Ideally, I would like it if I (and other members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games) were able to set the tables up via a point-and-click interface. Thanks for any comments/suggestions! SharkD ( talk) 15:13, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
I just created an account yesterday with a free web hosting service. The service supports ASP and has an ASP.NET beta program. Can I use the DotNetWikiBot framework on this system? I'm a complete newbie when it comes to server-side programming. Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 15:50, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I like the random article link, but feel it is too broad. How about a bot that chooses a random article based on category. For instance. I choose categories Comic > Batman, then only random articles about batman are displayed...
I am probably in the wrong section.. I am pretty new to this...
thanks Joe —Preceding unsigned comment added by JosefBrandner ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I need a specific, quite original bot that is best described in a subpage I've made... as my request is too lengthy to post here. Please read my subpage at User:Rcej/bot needed, and you'll see my problem. Thank you in advance for your time. -- Rcej ( talk) 07:40, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
/us/
" becomes "{{subst:unsigned|<contents of clipboard>}}
". Makes life a lot easier for certain situations. --
MZMcBride (
talk) 07:52, 6 September 2008 (UTC)One of the more common forms of vandalism is blanking. Yet, as far as I can see, not current bot fights against that. As there is no reason why blanking articles could ever be useful, this seems like a good prospect to me. I would call it the Mechafangdestructobot. Or the anti-blanking bot. Your choice. (Note: This bot would apply only to articles, not talk pages, user pages ect). Tutthoth-Ankhre~ The Pharaoh of the Universe 20:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
OK, so I'm happily trawling along, random-articling away for one reason or another, and I get presented with something like this. An ugly-ass, poorly-named Commons-based map. I think "I'm gonna be diligent here" and put a template or two down; {{ BadJPEG}} and {{ ifr}}, to be precise. Just trying to do my part. But it just occurred to me, seconds ago, that what I just did is probably pointless when you consider that the page 'didn't exist' before I placed those templates down – it's really only on Commons. So my question is this: would there be any point at all in a bot tracking down instances like this and doing something sensible to them? Like deleting the templates here and putting them onto the image on Commons? Or would that be futile? Thoughts? Seegoon ( talk) 14:15, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Can a bot populate the coordinates column in Communes of the Nord department, A-K & Communes of the Nord department, L-Z, using {{ coord}}, by fetching the coordinates from each of the individual articles listed on those pages? If so, I'll add a similar column to the articles listing communes in other departments, also. then {{ kml}} can be added to the pages, so that all the places can be plotted on Google Maps, downloaded to GPS devices, etc. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello team,
Would it be possible for someone to run a bot through the following categories and tag them with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Merseyside talk page banner ( Template:WikiProject Merseyside)?
Thank you, hope you can help. :) -- Jza84 | Talk 21:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Consensus from WikiProject Films after discussion was to replace instances of Image:Film reel.svg on Wikipedia with Image:Video-x-generic.svg. Both images are svg and both are free-use from Wikimedia Commons. It could be done using AWB but 688 pages link to the former image. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 10:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Can you change all Portal:* pages that use Wiktionary-logo-en.png to Wiktionary-logo-en.svg? Also Wikipedia:*/right panel if you could.
Most of the other pages that use it should use the wiktionary template anyway, so no reason to change them. Ariel. ( talk) 13:02, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
(relisting of previous request, hoping to get discussion)
The following request is for a bot that can do a somewhat complicated task for the Guild of Copy Editors, in order to recognize those editors who have done the most to reduce the "copy edit needed" backlog (as per consensus). Basically, the purpose of the bot would be to maintain a list of users ordered by the number of times they have removed a template from an article. I have scanned through all the bots in Wikipedia:Bots/Status (that took a while) looking for a bot that could do this, and didn't see any, but please let me know if one already exists. In reading through those, it seems theoretically possible, though I don't know if anyone is willing to spend the time to make it. Anyway, this is how I've planned out how the bot could function, but feel free to go some other way if you prefer:
1. Detect when a {{ copyedit}} or {{ grammar}} template (and any possible variants, like with the "date" attribute) has been removed from an article (perhaps by using the same method that anti-vandalism bots use to detect vandalism).
2. If the editor who removed the template is on the blacklist ( here, feel free to mess with that page however you want), stop. Otherwise, continue on...
3. Look at the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Left_panel#Most_prolific_copy_editors (which doesn't yet exist, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors#Most_prolific_copy_editors for an example of how this could be laid out). If the editor is in the list, do 4a-4c, otherwise skip to #5:
4a. Increment the count beside the editor's name by one.
4b. Add a link to the diff from #1 to the end of that editor's line.
4c. Move the editor's entire line above all the other editors with the same count or less (in other words, the list is sorted descendingly first by count, then descendingly by the most recent). Done.
5. Add a new line for that editor above all the other editors with the same count or less, in the following format (or something similar):
* '''1''' [[User:Example|Example]] [diff]
That's it. Would anyone be willing/able to do this? Any comments are welcome. - kotra ( talk) 17:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like to replace on every pages {{portal|Companies|Factory 1b.svg}} by {{Companies portal}}. Can someone help me ? Jamcib ( talk) 16:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to go through certain articles, currently those on gulls, that have images on them that aren't at Commons. To do this manually can be tiresome, especially when you have to look through a lot of images to find one to transfer. Is it possible for a bot script to do this? You could give it a article, a list of articles, or maybe even a category (it would search all the pages within, perhaps also including all pages in subcategories).
Others that move images to the Commons might also find such a script useful. Richard001 ( talk) 05:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Would it be plausible for a bot to subst some sort of template onto user/talk pages of inactive users? Or would that be a waste of time? Seegoon ( talk) 09:01, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
I have a (10) longish lists of of articles that need to be put in ten related catagories.
Is there a Bot that can do this please? -- Carlaude ( talk) 19:16, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Please replace
I would like to repurpose {{ Hs}} to relieve {{ H}} of its double duty. -- Yecril ( talk) 08:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I have fixed {{ cards}} to support stand-alone suit symbols. {{ Hearts}} can me modified to invoke {{ cards|hearts}} and so on and both can be supported. I think the political question whether to use {{ Hearts}} or {{ cards|h}} does not need solving in order for the requested bot to do the right thing as originally specified. -- Yecril ( talk) 09:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I never use these templates anyway so it is hard to tell. I think the bot should edit in the same way an editor would. I think {{ Spades}} would be more intuitive because the editor already knows she is writing about cards; she could be annoyed about having to this information. {{ cards}} are more friendly to the reader in a mixed environment but the application of these templates outside card games context is minimal. I would go with the original request but I am not authoritative here. User:Happy-melon, anyone? -- Yecril ( talk) 15:20, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
{{
cards}}
is more technically elegant, reduces the number of templates that need to be maintained, and is generally cleaner. We shouldn't be preventing people from 'taking the easy option' by using {{
hearts}}
instead of {{
cards|h}}
, but we should be using the more 'high-tech' implementation. Really the {{
hearts}}
, {{
clubs}}
etc, templates should be soft redirects to {{
cards}}
. Oh, and someone really needs to convert {{
cards}}
to use a switch statement: the current subpage implementation is horrible!!
(also)
Happy‑
melon 21:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Use of the "Replace this image" images has now been deprecated. You can see a before and after example here. Can this be done by a bot? Dismas| (talk) 16:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Need an automated script/bot that can convert the data present in the cricketer infoboxes ( Category:Deprecated cricket templates) (for example, the one present on Allan Donald) to the newer Template:Infobox cricketer biography template. If this is possible, please drop in a line at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket. Thanks! =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Special:NewPages has a system where "unpatrolled pages" (see Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrolled pages) are marked in yellow. If an editor clicks a yellow link at NewPages, there is some small text in the bottom right that says "[Mark this page as patrolled]"; if this is clicked, that article will no longer show up in yellow at NewPages.
After 30 days, all pages at NewPages disappear, regardless of whether they have been "patrolled" or not. Even with only 30 days' worth of new pages, there is always a backlog at NewPages. You can check this for yourself ( Special:NewPages → "Hide patrolled edits" → "Earliest") and you will see that the earliest are almost exactly 30 days before the present (taking into account UTC). This means that articles are being created faster than they are being monitored at NewPages. In other words, many unpatrolled pages are slipping through because of the 30 day expiration at NewPages.
I would propose a bot that somehow identifies all of the unpatrolled pages that slipped through the NewPages system. I think the "new page patrollers" would appreciate such a facility. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 00:41, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
It would be very helpful if a bot could remove the PD tags from images that have incompatible tags, for example Image:'Wheel', Indian red granite sculpture by --Satoru Abe--, 1991, --Hawaii State Art Museum--.JPG. An image of a 3D piece of copyrighted art cannot also be PD. I've seen a few of these get moved to Commons, and I think its confusing people. These obviously non-free images are clogging up free images categories, so it takes more time to sort/move images. If any of these images are actually free (which I don't think would be very many), they can be re-tagged with a single free tag by an editor (non-free images get more attention than free ones). ~ JohnnyMrNinja 07:39, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Pretty much, there are two levels of copyright involved in a picture of a 3-dimensional work of art. The original copyright of the work of art, and the copyright of photograph itself, which though a derivative work, gets its own copyright because of the importance of light/shadow/framing involved with photographing 3D objects. To use a photo of 3D art, you need both to be okay. The photograph itself is being released to the public domain, that's what that tag means. The art works themselves (here by George Rickey and Isami Noguchi), are not in the public domain, but because the images significantly add to reader understanding of the articles and meet the rest of NFCC, we're using that copyright under fair use.
-- balloonguy ( talk) 19:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether this is the gith place for this request, as I want an analysis of the dump not a bot activity. If someone can redirect me to a more appropriate page, I'd appreciate it.
Could someone please list in a file every ns:0 article Foo that satisfies all the following criteria?
If possible, the following criterion should also be met:
Thanks much.— msh210℠ 21:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
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. Thanks much for working on this.—
msh210℠ 03:56, 14 September 2008 (UTC)I'm not sure whether this is the gith place for this request, as I want an analysis of the dump not a bot activity. If someone can redirect me to a more appropriate page, I'd appreciate it.
Could someone please list in a file every ns:0 article Foo that satisfies all the following criteria?
If possible, the following criterion should also be met:
Thanks much.— msh210℠ 21:52, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
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. Thanks much for working on this.—
msh210℠ 03:56, 14 September 2008 (UTC)Betacommand said he would try to work on this, but the community seems to prefer he not get within 100 feet of any not fully manual option (this is why I avoid AN/I), so I'm going to re-request this:
There are many, many old semiprotected pages that have simply been forgotten about and have no expiry date (there are a few that were before expiries were implemented in April 2007 too). We've been discussing ideas about what to do, and I came up with this idea.
My idea is to have a bot notify the protecting admins that it's been over (say) 2 months since a page was protected without an expiry date. I manually tested the idea out yesterday, notifying about 30 admins about old protections (see an example here) with pretty good responses. In some cases, the admin did unprotect the page, some leaving a comment just saying they simply forgot about the page (which is understandable). I'm thinking someone should be able to get a bot to do this. Just start here and work forward (or a database dump would probably work too since many protections date back over a year), find the last admin to protect the page, and notify them (I used a boilerplate here).
So, is this doable? - Royalguard11( T) 03:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
So I tried building an SQL query to do this and got a query to get pages which can tell what type of restriction a page currently has, but it does not provide any of the logging information which is a separate table. Some notes of curiosity: protected redirects and protected pages with only one editor should be examed more carefully.
SELECT page.page_namespace, page.page_title, page.page_is_redirect, page_restrictions.*
FROM page INNER JOIN page_restrictions ON page.page_id = page_restrictions.pr_page
WHERE page_restrictions.pr_type="edit" AND page_restrictions.pr_expiry="infinity"
LIMIT 50;
It should be possible to the newest entry from the logging table to find the oldest still protected pages.
SELECT *
FROM logging
WHERE log_type= "protect"
LIMIT 50;
You might want to open a ticket with tswiki:Query service and ask them to do this for you. — Dispenser 17:29, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
This has probably been asked before, and if so, my apologies. I occasionally will come across an article page which is a redirect but the associated talk page isn't. At some time in the past, the article has been moved but the talk page left unchanged. There must be many of these and I presume they'd be fairly easy to identify. I'd nearly have thought they'd be a list within Special:SpecialPages. But if not, could a Bot generate such a list? Moondyne 07:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Replace on every pages (category too) {{Portal|Companies|Factory.svg}} by {{Companies portal}} Jamcib ( talk) 20:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I would like some help at Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron (ARS). I'm new to the bot world so if this is the wrong place please feel free to direct me to the correct place. When any user adds the {{ rescue}} tag it adds the article to Category:Articles that have been proposed for deletion but that may concern encyclopedic topics. Someone, usually myself, then lists the article at Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Current articles as follows:
(we add a signature to give us a rough date of entry)
Ideally a bot would do this for us several times a day, the volume has been low so far 10-20 articles at any one time. If an article is listed already then no need. If it gets listed twice we can cope. The ARS deals almost exclusively with articles at AfD so when an article has the rescue template added we have anywhere from hours to less than 5 days to do any article rescue work. It would also be nice if the bot could add a note to the article's section when an AfD closes.
So that's my basic request for bot help - any ideas? Banjeboi 09:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Replace on every pages (category too) {{Portal|Companies|Factory.svg}} by {{Companies portal}} Jamcib ( talk) 20:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
A while ago, the article at constituency used to refer to multiple definitions of the word, both the "people represented" and the "area represented" definitions. The article at electoral district is now no longer a redirect to constituency, and is instead a focused article about the "area represented" definition. Constituency, meanwhile, now is focused on just the people represented - though the article does need expansion, I don't think it's likely to move any time soon since there isn't another word that means the same thing for that definition.
Regardless, there are now a few thousand links that refer to the "electoral district" definition but point to the constituency article. Eventually, every one of them will have to be checked by hand by someone, but I think that enough of them refer to "electoral district" that a bot is justified, and then the few "people represented" exceptions can be reverted by hand. Does someone have a simple bot they can adjust to do this? Scott Ritchie ( talk) 05:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible for a bot to remove {{ inuse}} and {{ underconstruction}} from articles after a certain amount of time? Like 12 hours for {{ inuse}} and 3(?) days for {{ underconstruction}}. Right now many articles have those templates for a too long period of time. Garion96 (talk) 23:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
We have many lists of alternate/foreign place names, especially those with no English variant, for example List of German exonyms for places in the Czech Republic. For many of these, no article exists yet, but whenever they are created it would be helpful for a bot detect them and create redirects from one name to another, to avoid a second or third duplicate article at a different name. This is particularly true for international rivers, border cities, or places in a country or region where several languages are spoken.
Other higher level lists (such as sovereign countries) are already complete with an article existing for every "English" title. For example, List of country names in various languages (A-C) (D-I) (J-P) (Q-Z) could have a more or less complete set of redirects created now.
Of course "*X is the name for Bar, in Foo language" could be added to a disambiguation page if one exists (for names which may have other meanings), or more easily, prompt the operator for human input.
Similarly it would be possible to grab and create redirects any alternate names used in interwiki links. — CharlotteWebb 16:21, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if this is doable by bot or AWB or neither but figured asking can't hurt.
A couple of us cleaned up Category:Historic house museums last weekend but as a result, Category:Historic house museums in the United States is bloated. Many of these articles have a state project tag or other state-specific cat. Is it possible for a bot to "read" these cats and sort the article into the appropriate sub-cat of HHMitUS? I've been doing it by hand but that's not time efficient. I use a Mac so I can't use AWB to figure this out for myself. If this is not possible or too complicated, just let me know. Thanks! TravellingCari 01:21, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Can someone please bulk replace Image:EH icon.png with Image:EH icon.svg wherever it appears? The former is a non-free logo but the latter is free. Stifle ( talk) 13:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
We need a bot to do the following:
Please let me know if I haven't made this clear enough. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:03, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
I created the template {{ INRConvert}} which is being used to convert and display Indian Rupee currency values in their equivalent US Dollar values on India-related articles. I have been manually updating the conversion rate used for calculating Dollar amounts periodically. However, in the event that I am busy or away from Wikipedia, currency rates in the template may not get maintained and may become outdated.
I source the exchange rate from data published by the Federal Reserve. I would like the process of updating the currency rates in the template to be automated. I would need the bot to a) grab the latest currency value from the link above, b) calculate its inverse (i.e., 1/currency rate), and c) update the calculated value across the board in the INRConvert template. Currency values should be updated periodically, either monthly or bi-monthly. Can anyone assist with this request? Thanks AreJay ( talk) 21:14, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Please can we have a bot to change the nine coor * coordinates templates, which are deprecated per discussion at WP:GEO, to {{ coord}}?
The changes are in three stages, acting on three templates each:
coor
, coor dm
or coor dms
), to coord
.|display=title
parameter.|display=inline,title
parameter.It may be possible to redirect the first three set of templates, to {{ coord}}, in the interim. If so. I'll let you know.
Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:52, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Remplace on every pages (category, templates and articles) {{Portal|Psychology|Psi.PNG}} and {{portalpar|Psychology|psi.svg}} by {{ Psychology portal}}. Thanks, Jamcib ( talk) 17:53, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Yo, can someone depopulate Media in category "William Gibson"? It functions as a fair use gallery. The category should contain only articles and subcategories. Gracias, the skomorokh 13:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Can someone program a bot to remove Category:Fictional drug users from Wikipedia pages? This is to help prevent another recreation, and I'm sure the bot will get the job done immediately. Lord Sesshomaru ( talk • edits) 17:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Following discussion at Template talk:Birth date and age, there is consensus to add a new parameter and modify the default operation of the following related templates:
Specifically, the new mf=yes parameter would signify which dates are to be expressed in the American-based month-first date format (e.g. September 24, 2008).
Could a bot could make a one-time sweep through articles using these templates to add a new parameter for those articles involving American subjects. Ideally, these would articles with the templates having [[Category:American *]] categories. This "pre-tag" of the templates would allow the default behaviour to be switched to International/date-first format (e.g. 24 September 2008) without too much disruption to articles.
The bot should not modify articles where the templates use a df=yes parameter (this parameter signifies intentional use of date-first/International format). Can this be feasibly done by bot, or is there a better mechanism to selectively pre-tag the templates with the new parameter? Thx. Dl2000 ( talk) 03:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Per consensus (which I don't fully agree with), articles for the first decade of a century, such as 1900s, have been moved to a more specific name ( 1900–1909), and a quasi-disambiguation page has been created. We need a bot to propagate this change to the other wikis, so that bots running from those other wikis don't recreate the links on the disambiguation page.
This may not be restricted to dates; when we move an article, and create a disambiguation page in its place, we probably should attempt to propagate the move to the other Wikis, although I'd suggest that the bot requests to do this be restricted to admins. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:12, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|dodgers=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:36, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I have what I think is a difficult request, and I would like to know if it is possible to do. Here's my problem, I have a list of 676 American football players located at here. These players have played at least one game for the Green Bay Packers, thus meeting WP:ATHLETE. One of WP:PACKERS goals is to create a page for every player who has played for the Packers. As there are 676 articles needed, this is a daunting challenge, as WP:PACKERS wants to create well-sourced and properly written stubs. I have a basic template I use to make these pages, found here. I get the information about each player from the following 3 reliable sources, [20], [21], and [22]. Now here in lies the request. I was wondering if a bot could be coded to read the html(?) in these 3 sources for each player, create a page for the player using the template, and fill in as much information into the page as possible. Then the bot would create the page into my user space, such as User:Gonzo fan2007/"PLAYERS NAME". The bot could create like 20 pages a day for about a month, and each day I could review the articles created by the bot in my user space, fix any mistakes or add any needed info, and then move the article into the main space. So I was wondering if this is possible. If it is, it is of course not an urgent request, and I would of course be willing to help out in any non-technical way or even run the bot if needed. If this is possible, would anyone be willing to code such a bot? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Chiming in here. I do not think that a bot should be creating 676 articles that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability at the time of the bot posting. Merely playing in at least one game for the Green Bay Packers does not necessarily mean that there is sufficient reliable source material to maintain a stand-alone biography article in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:Notability specifically requires significant coverage (more than trivial but may be less than exclusive), a judgement call that should not and, as far as I am aware, cannot be made by a bot. Also, a biography article is not merely a listing of football statistics that also has a few sentences. A biography is a narrative text study unique to each person that focuses on the recording and relating of all the events another person's life. Further, per Wikipedia:NOT#STATS, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader. I do not see how a bot can do this. As issues to consider: (1) there should be evidence that the three web sites are reliable sources such as may be had at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before the bot gets going, and (2) Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources states "Self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, and blogs should never be used as a source for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article (see below)." -- Suntag ☼ 15:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Further to the above request, the templates:
have been deprecated for some time. Please can someone replace all remaining instances with {{ coord}}. Thank you.
Hi, as discussed at WP:BN I am restarting my RfA and need to notify all the participants that a new one is opening. So basically, could a bot please post {{subst:User:Foxy Loxy/RfA notice|~~~~~}} to the talk pages of all the users who commented/votes/etc at my RfA ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy)? Thanks. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 02:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
While categorizing AfD templates in Category:Articles for deletion templates, I came across Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, a user template being used to transclude information into three AfD. A problem with using a template for this purpose is that changing the template modifies an archived AfD debate without any change to the AfD debate history. There may be others and I am hoping that a bot can help find them. Also, I am looking for all AfD templates so that I can tag them with Category:Articles for deletion templates. I think a bot can do both of these thing. If you look at the bottom of Log, you will see that the transclusions are broken down into those that begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" and those that don't. Could you have a bot go through each subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log and post a list to User:Suntag/AfD transclusions of all transclusions into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log that do not begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion". I should be able to manually take it from there. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 15:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to provide a complete archive for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates that began in 2005 or before 2005. The names of the MfD debates varied some what. Please have a bot generated a list of pages created in or before 2005 having "Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages" and "Wikipedia:Miscell" in them and post the list to User:Suntag/Potential MfD archive pages. If you are aware of any other MfD names, feel free to add those to the list. I'll then manually go through the list. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking through Category:User-created public domain images (and a bit in Category:Public domain images) and was wondering how viable a request for a bot run through especially the user-created category, to check for which are unused, would be. I nominated a bunch of orphaned unused personal photos for deletion today, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I was thinking extra categories like Category:Unused User-created public domain images uploaded in May 2007 could be added to speed up cleaning and general queue reduction there, and to make finding the relative trash easier. How feasible could this be? Carnildo suggested I post here, as it would be better with a database query from Toolserver. rootology ( C)( T) 06:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
somone needs to create a genre remover bot that will go through musical group articles and either remove or place in between <!-- -->tags the genre, as the feild is no longer used. - - The Spooky One ( talk to me) 01:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(unindent) Admittedly, I only skimmed. But I see it mentioned several times here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Less stringent proposal by Rodhullandemu. Regardless, if there are any other major changes that need to be made (massive date-delinking or parameter renaming, etc.), it would be much, much better to do it in one pass rather than in several. And I'm still unclear on the scope, etc. (I should also note that simply because we've done this sort of thing previously doesn't necessarily mean we should do it again. Templates exist so that we don't have to update every page when changes are made.) Though, of course, all of this can be discussed at a WP:BRFA. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Deferred I've been watching Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?; a number of users have shown up to challenge the consensus to remove the parameter (and not in a nice way in some cases), and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down any time soon. If a new consensus is reached in that discussion that still wants this done, feel free to re-request it then. Anomie ⚔ 21:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
No matter what the outcome of the discussion over whether or not the parameter should be passed, I'm not seeing any valid reason to go round removing it from pages. That's just burning bridges. Happy‑ melon 22:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed recently, some cases where the users listed don't exist or there aren't any user listed anyway. Could it be possible that a bot could archive these or possibly notify the reporting user of the problem? It'd help a lot. Thanks. Caulde 16:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please make redirects from:
1953 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 1952-53#Final through to 2007 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 2006-07#Final
Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 08:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I understand that one of the uses of "Eubot" (there are probably others) is to create redirects for articles having diacritics in the title. I.e. the bot creates a new article having the title without diacritics and includes the appropriate redirect.
This function could be useful in other wiki, especially in the simple:wiki which uses english albeit in a simplified form. Is there any way the bot could be transfered to simple:wiki? Afil ( talk) 20:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm converting WikiProject Neurology into a task force; however, all of the articles under this project now need to have their talk page banners replaced with a different one that classifies it under a task force of WP:MED. Is it possible to edit the banners for all the pages under:
To have their talk page banners replaced from {{WikiProject Neurology|class=|importance=}} to {{WPMED|class=|importance=|neurology=yes|neurology-imp=}}, keeping the first classes and importance as the existing class already existing on the talk page? I will then go through manually and update the importance relating to neurology.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
— Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 13:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I have what I think is a difficult request, and I would like to know if it is possible to do. Here's my problem, I have a list of 676 American football players located at here. These players have played at least one game for the Green Bay Packers, thus meeting WP:ATHLETE. One of WP:PACKERS goals is to create a page for every player who has played for the Packers. As there are 676 articles needed, this is a daunting challenge, as WP:PACKERS wants to create well-sourced and properly written stubs. I have a basic template I use to make these pages, found here. I get the information about each player from the following 3 reliable sources, [23], [24], and [25]. Now here in lies the request. I was wondering if a bot could be coded to read the html(?) in these 3 sources for each player, create a page for the player using the template, and fill in as much information into the page as possible. Then the bot would create the page into my user space, such as User:Gonzo fan2007/"PLAYERS NAME". The bot could create like 20 pages a day for about a month, and each day I could review the articles created by the bot in my user space, fix any mistakes or add any needed info, and then move the article into the main space. So I was wondering if this is possible. If it is, it is of course not an urgent request, and I would of course be willing to help out in any non-technical way or even run the bot if needed. If this is possible, would anyone be willing to code such a bot? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Chiming in here. I do not think that a bot should be creating 676 articles that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability at the time of the bot posting. Merely playing in at least one game for the Green Bay Packers does not necessarily mean that there is sufficient reliable source material to maintain a stand-alone biography article in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:Notability specifically requires significant coverage (more than trivial but may be less than exclusive), a judgement call that should not and, as far as I am aware, cannot be made by a bot. Also, a biography article is not merely a listing of football statistics that also has a few sentences. A biography is a narrative text study unique to each person that focuses on the recording and relating of all the events another person's life. Further, per Wikipedia:NOT#STATS, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader. I do not see how a bot can do this. As issues to consider: (1) there should be evidence that the three web sites are reliable sources such as may be had at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before the bot gets going, and (2) Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources states "Self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, and blogs should never be used as a source for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article (see below)." -- Suntag ☼ 15:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Further to the above request, the templates:
have been deprecated for some time. Please can someone replace all remaining instances with {{ coord}}. Thank you.
Hi, as discussed at WP:BN I am restarting my RfA and need to notify all the participants that a new one is opening. So basically, could a bot please post {{subst:User:Foxy Loxy/RfA notice|~~~~~}} to the talk pages of all the users who commented/votes/etc at my RfA ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy)? Thanks. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 02:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
While categorizing AfD templates in Category:Articles for deletion templates, I came across Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, a user template being used to transclude information into three AfD. A problem with using a template for this purpose is that changing the template modifies an archived AfD debate without any change to the AfD debate history. There may be others and I am hoping that a bot can help find them. Also, I am looking for all AfD templates so that I can tag them with Category:Articles for deletion templates. I think a bot can do both of these thing. If you look at the bottom of Log, you will see that the transclusions are broken down into those that begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" and those that don't. Could you have a bot go through each subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log and post a list to User:Suntag/AfD transclusions of all transclusions into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log that do not begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion". I should be able to manually take it from there. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 15:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to provide a complete archive for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates that began in 2005 or before 2005. The names of the MfD debates varied some what. Please have a bot generated a list of pages created in or before 2005 having "Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages" and "Wikipedia:Miscell" in them and post the list to User:Suntag/Potential MfD archive pages. If you are aware of any other MfD names, feel free to add those to the list. I'll then manually go through the list. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking through Category:User-created public domain images (and a bit in Category:Public domain images) and was wondering how viable a request for a bot run through especially the user-created category, to check for which are unused, would be. I nominated a bunch of orphaned unused personal photos for deletion today, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I was thinking extra categories like Category:Unused User-created public domain images uploaded in May 2007 could be added to speed up cleaning and general queue reduction there, and to make finding the relative trash easier. How feasible could this be? Carnildo suggested I post here, as it would be better with a database query from Toolserver. rootology ( C)( T) 06:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
somone needs to create a genre remover bot that will go through musical group articles and either remove or place in between <!-- -->tags the genre, as the feild is no longer used. - - The Spooky One ( talk to me) 01:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(unindent) Admittedly, I only skimmed. But I see it mentioned several times here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Less stringent proposal by Rodhullandemu. Regardless, if there are any other major changes that need to be made (massive date-delinking or parameter renaming, etc.), it would be much, much better to do it in one pass rather than in several. And I'm still unclear on the scope, etc. (I should also note that simply because we've done this sort of thing previously doesn't necessarily mean we should do it again. Templates exist so that we don't have to update every page when changes are made.) Though, of course, all of this can be discussed at a WP:BRFA. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Deferred I've been watching Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?; a number of users have shown up to challenge the consensus to remove the parameter (and not in a nice way in some cases), and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down any time soon. If a new consensus is reached in that discussion that still wants this done, feel free to re-request it then. Anomie ⚔ 21:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
No matter what the outcome of the discussion over whether or not the parameter should be passed, I'm not seeing any valid reason to go round removing it from pages. That's just burning bridges. Happy‑ melon 22:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed recently, some cases where the users listed don't exist or there aren't any user listed anyway. Could it be possible that a bot could archive these or possibly notify the reporting user of the problem? It'd help a lot. Thanks. Caulde 16:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please make redirects from:
1953 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 1952-53#Final through to 2007 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 2006-07#Final
Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 08:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I understand that one of the uses of "Eubot" (there are probably others) is to create redirects for articles having diacritics in the title. I.e. the bot creates a new article having the title without diacritics and includes the appropriate redirect.
This function could be useful in other wiki, especially in the simple:wiki which uses english albeit in a simplified form. Is there any way the bot could be transfered to simple:wiki? Afil ( talk) 20:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm converting WikiProject Neurology into a task force; however, all of the articles under this project now need to have their talk page banners replaced with a different one that classifies it under a task force of WP:MED. Is it possible to edit the banners for all the pages under:
To have their talk page banners replaced from {{WikiProject Neurology|class=|importance=}} to {{WPMED|class=|importance=|neurology=yes|neurology-imp=}}, keeping the first classes and importance as the existing class already existing on the talk page? I will then go through manually and update the importance relating to neurology.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
— Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 13:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I have what I think is a difficult request, and I would like to know if it is possible to do. Here's my problem, I have a list of 676 American football players located at here. These players have played at least one game for the Green Bay Packers, thus meeting WP:ATHLETE. One of WP:PACKERS goals is to create a page for every player who has played for the Packers. As there are 676 articles needed, this is a daunting challenge, as WP:PACKERS wants to create well-sourced and properly written stubs. I have a basic template I use to make these pages, found here. I get the information about each player from the following 3 reliable sources, [26], [27], and [28]. Now here in lies the request. I was wondering if a bot could be coded to read the html(?) in these 3 sources for each player, create a page for the player using the template, and fill in as much information into the page as possible. Then the bot would create the page into my user space, such as User:Gonzo fan2007/"PLAYERS NAME". The bot could create like 20 pages a day for about a month, and each day I could review the articles created by the bot in my user space, fix any mistakes or add any needed info, and then move the article into the main space. So I was wondering if this is possible. If it is, it is of course not an urgent request, and I would of course be willing to help out in any non-technical way or even run the bot if needed. If this is possible, would anyone be willing to code such a bot? Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 00:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Chiming in here. I do not think that a bot should be creating 676 articles that do not meet Wikipedia:Notability at the time of the bot posting. Merely playing in at least one game for the Green Bay Packers does not necessarily mean that there is sufficient reliable source material to maintain a stand-alone biography article in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:Notability specifically requires significant coverage (more than trivial but may be less than exclusive), a judgement call that should not and, as far as I am aware, cannot be made by a bot. Also, a biography article is not merely a listing of football statistics that also has a few sentences. A biography is a narrative text study unique to each person that focuses on the recording and relating of all the events another person's life. Further, per Wikipedia:NOT#STATS, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader. I do not see how a bot can do this. As issues to consider: (1) there should be evidence that the three web sites are reliable sources such as may be had at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard before the bot gets going, and (2) Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Sources states "Self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, and blogs should never be used as a source for material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject of the article (see below)." -- Suntag ☼ 15:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I request that all articles in these categories have their talk pages tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject Baseball|cubs=yes}}, retaining existing assessments if any.
Please note, some pages might contain the banner {{ Baseball-WikiProject}} which is a redirect to {{ WikiProject Baseball}}.
Thanks. — Borgarde talk 08:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Further to the above request, the templates:
have been deprecated for some time. Please can someone replace all remaining instances with {{ coord}}. Thank you.
Hi, as discussed at WP:BN I am restarting my RfA and need to notify all the participants that a new one is opening. So basically, could a bot please post {{subst:User:Foxy Loxy/RfA notice|~~~~~}} to the talk pages of all the users who commented/votes/etc at my RfA ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Foxy Loxy)? Thanks. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 02:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
While categorizing AfD templates in Category:Articles for deletion templates, I came across Template:Rebecca (or User:Undream) AfDs, a user template being used to transclude information into three AfD. A problem with using a template for this purpose is that changing the template modifies an archived AfD debate without any change to the AfD debate history. There may be others and I am hoping that a bot can help find them. Also, I am looking for all AfD templates so that I can tag them with Category:Articles for deletion templates. I think a bot can do both of these thing. If you look at the bottom of Log, you will see that the transclusions are broken down into those that begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion" and those that don't. Could you have a bot go through each subpage of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log and post a list to User:Suntag/AfD transclusions of all transclusions into Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log that do not begin with "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion". I should be able to manually take it from there. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 15:34, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking to provide a complete archive for Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Archived debates that began in 2005 or before 2005. The names of the MfD debates varied some what. Please have a bot generated a list of pages created in or before 2005 having "Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages" and "Wikipedia:Miscell" in them and post the list to User:Suntag/Potential MfD archive pages. If you are aware of any other MfD names, feel free to add those to the list. I'll then manually go through the list. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking through Category:User-created public domain images (and a bit in Category:Public domain images) and was wondering how viable a request for a bot run through especially the user-created category, to check for which are unused, would be. I nominated a bunch of orphaned unused personal photos for deletion today, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I was thinking extra categories like Category:Unused User-created public domain images uploaded in May 2007 could be added to speed up cleaning and general queue reduction there, and to make finding the relative trash easier. How feasible could this be? Carnildo suggested I post here, as it would be better with a database query from Toolserver. rootology ( C)( T) 06:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
somone needs to create a genre remover bot that will go through musical group articles and either remove or place in between <!-- -->tags the genre, as the feild is no longer used. - - The Spooky One ( talk to me) 01:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
(unindent) Admittedly, I only skimmed. But I see it mentioned several times here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Less stringent proposal by Rodhullandemu. Regardless, if there are any other major changes that need to be made (massive date-delinking or parameter renaming, etc.), it would be much, much better to do it in one pass rather than in several. And I'm still unclear on the scope, etc. (I should also note that simply because we've done this sort of thing previously doesn't necessarily mean we should do it again. Templates exist so that we don't have to update every page when changes are made.) Though, of course, all of this can be discussed at a WP:BRFA. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 05:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Deferred I've been watching Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?; a number of users have shown up to challenge the consensus to remove the parameter (and not in a nice way in some cases), and it doesn't look like it's going to settle down any time soon. If a new consensus is reached in that discussion that still wants this done, feel free to re-request it then. Anomie ⚔ 21:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
No matter what the outcome of the discussion over whether or not the parameter should be passed, I'm not seeing any valid reason to go round removing it from pages. That's just burning bridges. Happy‑ melon 22:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed recently, some cases where the users listed don't exist or there aren't any user listed anyway. Could it be possible that a bot could archive these or possibly notify the reporting user of the problem? It'd help a lot. Thanks. Caulde 16:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please make redirects from:
1953 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 1952-53#Final through to 2007 DFB Cup Final → DFB Cup 2006-07#Final
Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 08:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I understand that one of the uses of "Eubot" (there are probably others) is to create redirects for articles having diacritics in the title. I.e. the bot creates a new article having the title without diacritics and includes the appropriate redirect.
This function could be useful in other wiki, especially in the simple:wiki which uses english albeit in a simplified form. Is there any way the bot could be transfered to simple:wiki? Afil ( talk) 20:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm converting WikiProject Neurology into a task force; however, all of the articles under this project now need to have their talk page banners replaced with a different one that classifies it under a task force of WP:MED. Is it possible to edit the banners for all the pages under:
To have their talk page banners replaced from {{WikiProject Neurology|class=|importance=}} to {{WPMED|class=|importance=|neurology=yes|neurology-imp=}}, keeping the first classes and importance as the existing class already existing on the talk page? I will then go through manually and update the importance relating to neurology.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
— Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 13:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
I moved Masters of Rock (album) to Masters of Rock (Pink Floyd album) because Masters of Rock is a series of albums, and the Pink Floyd album is just one volume. There is also a Masters of Rock DAB page. Masters of Rock (album) is now a redirect to the renamed page. There are approx. 200 references to Masters of Rock (album) which should be changed to point to the Pink Floyd album page, and when that is done, Masters of Rock (album) should be changed to redirect to Masters of Rock (the disambiguation page, which shows other albums with the same title, among other things). -- A Knight Who Says Ni ( talk) 11:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
We've got tedious work to be done here. I suggest to specify one among currently existing bots to replace all 1021 occurences of {{User:Nichalp/sg}} with [[User:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">=Nichalp</font>]] [[User talk:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">«Talk»=</font>]]. Alexius08 ( talk) 14:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am mentioning this here because 'under construction' templates are an impediment to multi-article editing. I think bots are/were involved in purging articles of stale templates. If, like me, you would like to make 'under construction' templates more efficient, please comment on the proposal.
People put 'under construction' on a page to say that they are actively working on articles. But then the templates seem to hang around on the article for hours, days, and weeks. It is sometimes difficult to get them removed because people say 'I haven't finished yet, I just have to get round to it'. Sometimes people even revert removal of the template.
A reasonable proposal (I think) is to merge the templates into one. The one template would have a fixed expiry time visible in read mode. If it expires, the editor would be able to refresh it but would have to take positive action to refresh it. The current fire-and-forget design would be gone. The expiry time would be consistent with real tappity-tap editing where fingers are pounding the keyboard e.g. 15 minutes to an hour.
For more details, debate, and voting, see: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 October 13. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am just suggesting a value based on the exceptional human editing task of freezing out other edits on the basis of one person doing 'active editing'. Once that period has gone, the article is unfrozen and back to normal. Other editors can then continue as normal and/or remove the template by hand. How automated tools are programmed is another matter. As you suggest, 24 hours would be more suitable for a bot. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
We've got tedious work to be done here. I suggest to specify one among currently existing bots to replace all 1021 occurences of {{User:Nichalp/sg}} with [[User:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">=Nichalp</font>]] [[User talk:Nichalp|<font color="#0082B8">«Talk»=</font>]]. Alexius08 ( talk) 14:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am mentioning this here because 'under construction' templates are an impediment to multi-article editing. I think bots are/were involved in purging articles of stale templates. If, like me, you would like to make 'under construction' templates more efficient, please comment on the proposal.
People put 'under construction' on a page to say that they are actively working on articles. But then the templates seem to hang around on the article for hours, days, and weeks. It is sometimes difficult to get them removed because people say 'I haven't finished yet, I just have to get round to it'. Sometimes people even revert removal of the template.
A reasonable proposal (I think) is to merge the templates into one. The one template would have a fixed expiry time visible in read mode. If it expires, the editor would be able to refresh it but would have to take positive action to refresh it. The current fire-and-forget design would be gone. The expiry time would be consistent with real tappity-tap editing where fingers are pounding the keyboard e.g. 15 minutes to an hour.
For more details, debate, and voting, see: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 October 13. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I am just suggesting a value based on the exceptional human editing task of freezing out other edits on the basis of one person doing 'active editing'. Once that period has gone, the article is unfrozen and back to normal. Other editors can then continue as normal and/or remove the template by hand. How automated tools are programmed is another matter. As you suggest, 24 hours would be more suitable for a bot. Lightmouse ( talk) 16:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. Anyone with enough AWB-fu to tag Category:People by race or ethnicity and all its descendents according to the suggestion at the deletion discussion? — Coren (talk) 20:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Having talked with Coren, I can't get a complete list of categories to tag with AWB. The server has kicked me off over a dozen times now; and I'm out of ideas. I've tried everything in my power, there's just so many of them. If someone can compile a list I can tag them all right quick. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Could we move the subpages of List of asteroids and Meanings of asteroid names, which are listed at Category:Lists of asteroids by number and "Category:Meanings of asteroid names", to List of minor planets and Meanings of minor-planet names? This would also involve redirecting the cross-linking at the bottom of each list.
The reason for the move is that these are not asteroids, but all bodies assigned a minor-planet number, a mixture of asteroids and tens of thousands of other minor planets—Pluto, for example. "Minor planet" is the technical term used by the International Astronomical Union. There is no accepted definition of "asteroid". kwami ( talk) 07:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
If we have a bot do this, could it also break up the Meanings of... pages along the model of the List of asteroidsminor planets? You can see the difference I'm talking about by comparing
Meanings of asteroid names (2501-3000) and
Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500). Manually breaking up the rather large monolithic Meanings of... pages is a pain.
Urhixidur (
talk) 16:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and Meanings of minor-planet names should be Meanings of minor planet names, as the hyphenated form is highly unusual. Urhixidur ( talk) 16:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! WikiProject Films has recently had a discussion about the use of external links parameters in the film infobox, and consensus is to deprecate them. Now, turning the parameters off is no big deal, but would it be possible to have a bot take the parameter info from the individual pages and create the appropriate external links (via Template:Imdb title and Template:Amg movie)? Furthermore, is it possible to do so without redundant links, should the links already exist in the EL section? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Many redirects are created without a template to categorize them, and manually finding the untagged redirects can be tedious. I believe that a bot to place {{ R uncategorized}} on redirect pages with no template would be useful. -- UberScienceNerd Talk Contributions 20:58, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Could all instances of the longitude of periastron parameter be changed to the argument of periastron in the infoboxes for extrasolar planets? Strictly speaking, this is the correct parameter to use, and no objections to this have been raised at the discussion at WT:ASTRO. The relevant field is already present in {{ Planetbox orbit}}. For articles which transclude this template, the value in the long_peri field should be transferred to arg_peri, e.g. to take the example on the page 51 Pegasi b:
{{Planetbox orbit | semimajor = 0.0527 ± 0.0030 | eccentricity = 0.013 ± 0.012 | period = 4.230785 ± 0.000036 | ang_dist = 3.537 | long_peri = 58 | t_peri = 2,450,001.51 ± 0.61 | semi-amp = 55.94 ± 0.69 }}
should become
{{Planetbox orbit | semimajor = 0.0527 ± 0.0030 | eccentricity = 0.013 ± 0.012 | period = 4.230785 ± 0.000036 | ang_dist = 3.537 | arg_peri = 58 | t_peri = 2,450,001.51 ± 0.61 | semi-amp = 55.94 ± 0.69 }}
Thank you. Icalanise ( talk) 14:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there any bot that can create the last stable template for software which is listed in this comparison with data from the articles(if the infobox is filled)? 16:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, simple.wiktionary is quite sparse. A very useful tool would be to list the wikt tags on the wiki that do not have a corresponding definition on the wiktionary. Please make one and if you do please leave the info on my simple wiki talk page [29] on how to use it or where to find the list. This would also be useful as an updatable list, if possible, such as "short pages" etc. but even a one time listing would clear all the current ones at least. Thanks. 89.204.246.183 ( talk) 03:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Interested in having a bot move the disambiguators (rugby player) to become (rugby union), as per WP:RU. Don't really know how to formally request, or see if it is feasible. Londo 06 14:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
I would like a Bot that can leave messages and can make edits on pages. I need a Bot to use. And one to stop vandalism. Thank you! Dingo Kong ( talk) 06:11, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
I have created a subcategory for photos of New Zealanders, but I don't really want to go through one by one and move all the relevant pages there. Is there some way that this could be done by a bot, perhaps with human oversight? There must be a way of algorithmically recognizing such pages, e.g. their categories and WikiProject Banners? Anything with the {{ WPBIO}} banner for a start could be moved there. Richard001 ( talk) 06:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
|canton= Canton ''of'' Aix-en-Othe. Cheers ~one of many editorofthewikis ( talk/ contribs/ editor review)~ 15:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I have created a subcategory for photos of New Zealanders, but I don't really want to go through one by one and move all the relevant pages there. Is there some way that this could be done by a bot, perhaps with human oversight? There must be a way of algorithmically recognizing such pages, e.g. their categories and WikiProject Banners? Anything with the {{ WPBIO}} banner for a start could be moved there. Richard001 ( talk) 06:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
We have a huge back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Compare this to this. There are five changes:
Thats actually sound more complicated than it needs to be but thats basically it. Even if you copied directly from French wiki without adjustments it would be a progess,
Could do a trial and error run see if it can be modified to be programmed this way. Any thoughts? Blofeld of SPECTRE ( talk) 11:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Many articles omit diacritics from place names and personal names, but they can't generally be fixed by a bot because it's not possible to distinguish automatically when diacritics should be added and when not. However, there are a lot of redirects to ensure that links go from the no-diacritic version to the correctly titled article (e.g. Dusseldorf, Amelie Mauresmo). The presence of such a link could be used by a bot to make the necessary determination about what to fix. What I propose is:
It would need to bypass disambiguation pages, which are likely to legitimately contain several variations ( Valparaiso (disambiguation), for example), and it would need to exclude pages in the purview of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey, as they've evolved their own naming conventions for player names, but otherwise it should be able to operate everywhere. Colonies Chris ( talk) 10:41, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I had a similar idea a while back, but changing casing. So Playstation would become PlayStation, with the possible exception of playstation. — Dispenser 02:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)