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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)
List of skin diseases contains a huge list of.. well.. skin diseases. However, they aren't linked to articles and they are bare text. Is there a bot available which can go through this list and wiki-link everything? Don't worry about red links, we can go through and correct typo's and create missing articles manually. Thanks! — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there any bot that converts from HTML markup to Wikimarkup? =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
There are over 300 links to Birmingham, England, which is a redirect to Birmingham. Could someone please change them to
[[Birmingham]], [[England]]
unless they are followed by the sting "England" in, say, the next 20 characters, in which case change to
[[Birmingham]]
Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
[[Birmingham]], [[England]]
" → "[[Birmingham]], [[England]]
"[[Birmingham]]
" → "[[Birmingham]]
"[[Birmingham, England|
" → "[[Birmingham|
"Doing... With only 300-ish pages I will just run and watch the script. It will take about 35 minutes to run(6 secs\edit). Matthew Yeager 00:56, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Description: Assess articles based on already present assessments
Tasks: Browse article talk pages and look for the |class=XXX in the project templates. If another project's template is present on the same page, then it would add |class=XXX to that template (or the lowest class rating given if there are more than one). It would never override an already present assessment, only fill the unfilled ones. It would be based on subscriptions, so Wikiprojects who do not wish to have a bot fill the |class= argument of their projects wouldn't be affected by the bot. Edit summary would be reflective of what change it made, and prompt editors to verify that the assessment makes sense, especially if there were different class ratings given on the talk page.
Example:
Before:
{{physics|class=A|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=B|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|
After:
{{physics|class=A|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=B|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|class=B}}
Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 23:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Example:
Before:
{{physics|class=Stub|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=Start|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|
After:
{{physics|class=Stub|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=Start|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|class=Start}}
Actually this sounds more logical and already done by many projects. The highest rating is more likely to more recent ( trusting the work of human assessers ) . Running on Unassessed categories of your project ensures that previous assessments are not overridden. If that is OK, my bot can certianly help you -- Tinu Cherian - 13:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Headbomb, btw we can't blindly autoassess for all projects on the talk pages. Like the comments in my bot BRFA , we can do it per request by the project members or consensus from the specific WikiProjects. Anyways this process saves hours of work (some projects have 9000+ unassessed articles!) for human editors, leaving them free to actually improve the articles in question.Over 10K articles were autoassessed for WP:COMPUTING :) alone . Think of human editors having to do it manually ! Most importantly it relies on actual assessment done by human editors and it is being reused by other projects. We may get a few false positives (less than 5% max I would imagine) but it's a small price to pay for the huge benefit of automation. Also, a false positive is likely to result in the article being identified and properly assessed, which might not otherwise happen.If you would like to this for any Wikiproject, feel free to make a bot request. -- Tinu Cherian - 09:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Could your bot tag article with "redirect-class" when they are redirects? If yes, could you run your bot on all articles tagged by {{ physics}}? Quickest way to run through all of them would be to go through Category:Top-importance physics articles, Category:High-importance physics articles, Category:Mid-importance physics articles, Category:Low-importance physics articles, Category:NA-importance physics articles, and Category:Unknown-importance physics articles. Also could it be possible to tag all redirects with |importance=NA?
A couple of other things:
Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 01:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I am sure that this type of vandalism is common elsewhere, where the subject's name is changed by a single character. In the Dido (singer) article, it is common for vandals to change all instances of "Dido" to "Dildo". It would be good if this vandalism was automatically reverted and the vandalism reported.Thank you, Labalius ( talk) 01:45, 18 October 2008 (UTC).
Could u change all the episodes in Category:Prison Break episodes from "Show episode " to just "show". Example: Allen (Prison Break episode) to Allen (Prison Break). Cause this is the standard used in most tv episodes like lost Tabula_Rasa_(Lost).-- Diaa abdelmoneim ( talk) 09:20, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Can we have (or do we already have? I understand we may have had in the past, at least) a bot that automatically moves pages out of redirected categories into the target categories? (I mean scans for such cases automatically, not just responds to one-off requests.)-- Kotniski ( talk) 09:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Right now I'm running through all the articles manually with AWB and it's a real PITA. This seems like could easily be done by a bot, hence the request.
What I do is load "what transcludes here" for both {{ physics}} and {{ astronomy}}. Then I convert everything from talk pages to articles, and I remove everything non-mainspace. If #REDIRECT is present, then go on the talk page and replace the {{ physics}}, with {{physics |class=redirect |importance=NA]} and replace {{ Astronomy}}, {{ WPAstronomy}}, {{ WikiProject Astronomy}} with {{Astronomy|class=redirect |importance=NA}}. Then I do the same, but this time looking for {{ disambig}} on the mainpage, and setting class=disambig and |importance=NA on the talk pages.
Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 21:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Superduperfic. Many thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 05:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there,
I was wondering if someone here would mind running some stats for us at WikiProject Ohio. Our member list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Participants is outdated to say the least. What I would like is a bot to check every User: name's contribs. Then to sort the names by "have not edited in the last 6 months", "have not edited within the past year", and "active" (Which would be within the ast 6 months (ie by deadline May 1 if the bot was ran today)). I was also wondering if we could have "have not edited ever" and "less than 25 edits". Anyone up for it? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 04:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Username | Description | Last Edit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Matthew_Yeager | funnn yayayaya | edited within last 6 months | Less than 25 edits to Wikipedia. |
Example | yayaya funnn | Has no edits to Wikipedia. |
{{ BOTREQ|done}} Sorry Yeager about stealing this one, but I had wanted to improve my SQL knowledge. It's a one off tool just put the title of members list page. — Dispenser 03:29, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
IT DID IT AGAIN! YAY! I give up. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 23:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Done Let's see what this does. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 02:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
BOTREQ|LOL}}
ClueBot III has several issues, among them that it will hang indefinitely (until it gets a server error from the API call) when the archive page gets over maxarchsize
bytes, that it will keep spawning processes each hour even though the previous hour's process is hung there, and won't even try to detect edit conflicts.
Anomie
⚔ 02:32, 2 November 2008 (UTC)Now that all FA Cup season articles have been completed, I would like to request a bot that can move all of the articles so that their titles use endashes in the date range rather than simple hyphens. This is already the case with a few of the articles in the category, but there are still over 100 articles that need moving. Thanks in advance. – Pee Jay 15:41, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there any bot or maybe an option to add every month/year the new row automatical/by bot? mabdul 0=* 20:22, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
one thing that's always bugged me when browsing through articles is that most images are on the right side of the screen, most by default. I've spent alot of time (don't ask why...) moving every other image on pages to the left to better balance out the page. Anyone interested in creating a bot that would to this? - - ' The Spook ( TALK) ( Share the Love with Barnstars) 01:10, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I have looked around and I don't think there are any other bots that do this, but I might have missed one. So here goes:
I would like for myself or someone else to operate a bot that keeps a daily record of some of the statistics found at Special:Statistics. This record could be kept on a subpage of the bot's user account. Click here for an example of what this page should look like. It would be very easy for me to manually update this page with just a few clicks in AWB. However, for me to make the most use of the statistics, they need to be recorded at roughly the same time each day (17:00 UTC) and I will not always be available to do that. So here is what the bot would need to do at 17:00 each day:
1. Find the following:
|}
2. Replace it with:
|- | {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFARTICLES}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFPAGES}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFEDITS}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFUSERS}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFADMINS}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFFILES}} |}
3. Leave an edit summary along the lines of "Automatically updating statistics."
That's it. It would have to run from the toolserver so it will always be available at 17:00. I know this is probably very simple to code in PHP, but I do not know how to program it to run automatically. I can maintain the bot if someone codes it for me, or you can maintain it yourself. I would, however, like to have the stats posted to a page in my userspace so I can do with them as I please. I would like to be able to make slight modifications to the bot so I can play around with the formatting, but if you prefer to keep the source to yourself then that's fine.
If this has already been discussed before, I am sorry for bringing it up again. I am not aware of any previous discussions.
-- Andrew Kelly ( talk) 11:59, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
There is a set of US town articles inserted by user:rambot some eons ago. Each is characterised by having its coordinates in three places:
A (partial) list of affected articles is at Category:Coord template needing repair. However this list does have other articles in it.
As the articles were created by a bot, there are patterns to look for:
You can check out the pattern yourself at, for instance, Halls, Tennessee.
An article having all three of these should have the second & third deleted, leaving only the infobox, according to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Coordinates in US cities articles: where to display. This declutters the article and avoids the risk of conflicting information being given in the article.
If anyone is up for taking on this task, I'd be obliged. There may also be more of the towns than are in the category I've pointed to, above, but I can't think right now of an easy way to find them. Finally, part of the purpose of the ask is to declutter the above category so that we can see other articles with problems which are better candidates for human intervention. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 21:54, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
The date articles (January 1 ... December 31) all have css formatting at the top of the page to align the calendar and date in recent years boxes. I've updated those template to allow the formatting as parameters to the templates. I am requesting the following changes to the date articles.
Replace this:
{| style="float:right;" |- |{{JanuaryCalendar}} |- |{{ThisDateInRecentYears|Month=January|Day=1}} |}
With this:
{{JanuaryCalendar|float=right}} {{ThisDateInRecentYears|Month=January|Day=1}}
This request applies to the date articles January 1 ... December 31 excluding February 29 because it uses a different template and I'll do it manually. The example above is using January 1. This change will have no visible effect on the articles. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:57, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Up until July of last year, we had Anchor Link Bot, run by Android Mouse. Android Mouse has since left Wikipedia, and his bot no longer runs. I think the bot's function was a very good one. The source code was said to be public, with the bot's userpage providing this link, which now gives (me, at least) a pageload error. The idea was approved, so as far as I can see the only problem would be coding it again. Would this be possible? Would anybody be willing to give it a go? seresin ( ¡? ) 03:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I need the template:Infobox Settlement to be added to all the Israeli moshavim, preferably with the Coordinates and basic data inside if possible. some moshavim articles use the kibbutzim template instead - needs to be changed to use the infobox settlement template instead (such as this one). 24.12.234.123 ( talk) 20:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Im looking for a bot that will parse the archives of Wikipedia:Recent additions. The bot will have to identify which article is boldened, then edit the {{ dyktalk}} of the boldened article's talkpage.
|entry=X
Example|dyklink=
Wikipedia:Recent additions 1Is this feasible? There's over 230 archives. Thanks. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 21:01, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
For each page listed at Wikipedia:Recent additions, please add Category:Wikipedia Did you know archives. If the page has either Category:Main Page help and/or Category:Wikipedia Did you know, remove them. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Many newspaper url links in Wikipedia link to ProQuest Archiver. The url strings begin with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com. The ProQuest Archiver string include a parameter |pqatl=
. The url strings work with and without |pqatl=
. However, |pqatl=
within Wikipedia often is set equal to google (as in pqatl=google) since the newspaper stories usually are found through google news. Thus, when anyone clicks on a Wikipedia footnote linking to ProQuest Archiver, Google gets the credit from ProQuest Archiver for the hit and likely is
compensated by ProQuest Archiver in someway. (ProQuest Archiver probably gets money from the newspapers, probably a certain amount for each archived news story sold). For each url string in Wikipedia beginning with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com, a bot should go around and change pqatl=google or pqatl=whatever to pqatl=wikipedia. That way, ProQuest Archiver will receive a clearer understanding of how many click throughs are coming to ProQuest Archiver from Wikipedia. This may result in ProQuest Archiver donating money to Wikipedia. As it is now, ProQuest Archiver likely has little interest in Wikipedia because it thinks that Wikipedia click throughs are from Google. The bot also should add pqatl=wikipedia to the end of any url string begins with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com that does not have |pqatl=
. Before the bot runs, someone should confirm that such changes will be valid for all urls in Wikipedia beginning with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Maybe running this through bot approval would be the way to go. --
Suntag
☼ 23:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a bot that would keep track of statistics for the various projects on wikipedia and generate a list of the top ten or so most active projects on a month by month basis? It seems that this would be best left to a bot, and in light of the fact that I can find no statitistics on whoch wikiproject is most active I dare say such a bot may well be overdue for an appearence on Wikipedia. For example, it would be nice to know which projects:
...and so forth in that manner. Would anyone out htere be interested in creating such a bot to moniter these statisitics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.108.230.99 ( talk) 00:49, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
We have a list of charts that have been deemed unreliable in WP:BADCHARTS. Unfortunately, we are having to take care of enforcement manually, and it is a neverending job: new editors are constantly adding these charts to articles.
What I would like is a bot that can take care of the two major cases: the one chart per row format (see Womanizer_(song)#Charts), where the bot should delete all rows that correspond to bad charts, and the one chart per column format (see Pussycat Dolls discography#Singles. It should detect the more complicated cases, where formatting has created double rows or columns and flag them somewhere without attempting the edit directly.— Kww( talk) 15:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Would someone comment on this? Excessively difficult? Poorly defined? Overly controversial?— Kww( talk) 16:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
A few months ago, AllMusicGuide changed its name to Allmusic. Apparently, at the same time they dropped all their sub-servers and are now using only the "www.allmusic.com" address. This leaves all sorts of orphan links all over Wikipedia to http://wm06.allmusic.com, wm07.allmusic.com, wm08, and wc03 -- these are the ones I've noticed so far, all of which have over 200 links apiece. Can someone make a bot to go around and fix any wXXX.allmusic.com link to www.allmusic.com, where XXX is a wildcard to cover any of these various server links? Because, while I edit a lot of music articles, I really don't want to spend my time making this little change if it can be automated. It would be a one-time only change. (well, unless Allmusic changes itself again.) Thanks for help please!! Salamurai ( talk) 03:50, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Coding... Anomie ⚔ 16:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 9 Anomie ⚔ 18:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Anomie ⚔ 12:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Done 5037 pages were edited. Anomie ⚔ 01:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I actually wanted to check to see if this already exists, but I didn't see a listing. I understand that spell checking bots are problematic. As I was editing an article that said "the first and only" to "the only," I thought this is really something that could be automatically applied to all of Wikipedia. Barring a direct quote, it should be an improvement wherever it is applied. To mitigate the quotation problem, would it be possible to check for the opening quote and skip all of the string until it finds another quote? It would also have to skip the citations, since titles of books and articles can be something we would not want to change. If the quotation is improperly punctuated, there is an existing problem that is not made worse, IMO. This is something that has to be entered manually, the list has to be very carefully selected, but I would think that there are many similar instances. 75.3.225.43 ( talk) 08:27, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot to please tag the talk pages of articles in any of the following categories with {{Football|Iran=yes}} retaining original assessments if any.
Categories:
Category:Football in Iran, Category:Iran football club seasons, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Iranian football chairmen and investors, Category:Iranian football clubs, Category:Defunct Iranian football clubs, Category:Esteghlal FC, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C., Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Persepolis F.C. non-playing staff, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C., Category:Sepahan players, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates, Category:Iran football club stubs, Category:Iranian football competitions, Category:Defunct Iranian football competitions, Category:Expatriate footballers in Iran, Category:Serbian expatriate footballers in Iran, Category:Iranian footballers, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iranian expatriate footballers, Category:Olympic footballers of Iran, Category:Iranian football biography stubs, Category:Footballers in Iran by club, Category:Aboomoslem players, Category:Bargh Shiraz players, Category:Damash Gilan players, Category:Esteghlal Ahvaz players, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Fajr Sepasi players, Category:Foolad FC players, Category:Malavan players, Category:Mes Kerman players, Category:Pas players, Category:Paykan players, Category:Pegah Gilan players, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Rah Ahan players, Category:Saba Battery players, Category:Saipa players, Category:Sepahan players, Category:Shirin Faraz Kermanshah players, Category:Zob Ahan players, Category:IPL Club Templates, Category:Iranian football managers, Category:Football managers in Iran, Category:Football managers in Iran by club, Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Non-Iranian football managers in Iran, Category:Iran national football team, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iran national football team managers, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Iranian football referees, Category:Iranian football squad templates, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Football venues in Iran, Category:Women's football in Iran, Category:Iran football (soccer) templates, Category:Iran football (soccer) club templates, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates
Thanks — Borgarde talk 02:59, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I need a bot to send a talk message to everyone at WP:BARD. Wrad ( talk) 03:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
The block of 129.97.*.* IP addresses belongs to the University of Waterloo. ( http://samspade.org/whois/129.97.0.0) Looking in the Special:PrefixIndex page for those IP addresses ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=129.97&namespace=3), many don't display the {{SharedIPEDU|University of Waterloo}} notice. Some of these IPs are static and tied to public computers in labs, or individual network ports in residences, etc., so there's a high probability that many of these IPs will be used be different people over time.
Are there any bots able to tag them with {{SharedIPEDU|University of Waterloo}}, so that moderators can immediately recognize that the edits are coming from a shared computer on the University of Waterloo's network?
TheFeds 03:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Can someone populate 1th - 5th century Saint Categories from my lists at User:Carlaude/Sandbox2 and remove pages from the Parent Category:Ancient Roman saints as the occur?
User:STBot was made at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/STBot_13 do this sort of stuff but the bot owner is MIA to my reqests. It maybe a bot someone else can use? -- Carlaude ( talk) 01:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but it seems like a bot could be useful in replacing unicode exponents like this ², with superscript exponents like this 2, per WP:MOS. This would save a large amount of time and effort on many articles such as the larger magnitudes in Template:Area, where there are long lists of areas that use solely the unicode exponent. Wrelwser43 ( talk) 02:51, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Someone recently filled all coords based on nl wiki (example Châtelet (Paris Métro), Raspail (Paris Métro)), I don't know why, but the fact is that they're even more incorrect than googlemaps, and not complete. Paris metro network is very dense, so precise coords are important. fr:Projet:Transports en Île-de-France is working to enhance quality of french articles on this matter, hoping it will be a quality source for other languages.
We are using «region:FR_type:landmark_scale:2000|format=dms|display=title» parameters (closer view, dms) in fr:Modèle:Station du métro parisien, all stations are localised.
Could you change the coords taking french wikipedia as source, and marking it as such?
Thanks...
Gonioul ( talk) 22:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Some pages, especially WP:IFD and WP:RFD, have huge backlogs at times. Now you cannot write a bot to assess consensus and act upon it. But especially on IFD, many images are deleted but their relevant IFD sections are not closed by the deleting admin. See this page for November 1 for example. Most links are red, indicating the image is gone but yet the sections are not closed using the appropriate instructions. It is a tedious task to close them all by hand. So I want to request a bot that does these simply yet tedious tasks:
{{
admin|<adminname>}}
"
I think that should be easy to do and it would save a lot of manual work there. Soooooo...any takers? :-)
Regards
So
Why 13:34, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I am interested in "what links here" feature of wiki. But it seems that we can only check the latest information of the backlinks to one article. Can we get the historical information of it like the revision history of main articles and talk pages? Yuzhong 21:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I guess the content listed in "what lins here" is chronological. How can I retrieve the exact date about when those wikilink were created? I am doing a study about wikilinks now. I have to check backlins for 200+ articles. And better to get the yearly backlink data for each individual article. It would be to tedious to do it manually. So I hope there could be a bot to help me. Thanks a lot. Yuzhong 15:00, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot add |importance=low
to {{
anime}} or {{
WikiProject Anime and manga}} of all of the pages in the above mentioned category. Converting {{
anime}} to {{
WikiProject Anime and manga}} would be a bonus, but is not essential. This parameter should be added after the |class=
parameter, or after |B6=
parameter (where applicable). The recommended edit summary is Automatically assessing importance as low per
WP:ANIME/ASSESS.
I have am using AWB to do this for me during the tag & assess, but find that I can do the T&A much quicker if I do not have to add the importance parameter to almost all of the articles.
I will correct all instances where importance ≠ low during the tag & assess. (Please do not add parameters or comments that the assessment is automatic, as these would have to be removed, leaving me with the same problem as currently).
Regards,
G.A.S talk 05:50, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I wish we had a bot that would go through and add {{ sockpuppet category}} to any sockpuppet categories (and suspected sockpuppet categories) that don't already have it. - Stepheng3 ( talk) 08:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Under construction is a set of country outlines or profiles - one for each country of the world (247 pages). This will greatly expand the coverage at Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics, which is part of Wikipedia's table of contents system, intended to make it easier to browse subjects and see how they are structured. So far, twenty-nine of these outlines have been completed enough to move to article space and are listed on the Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics page.
For your convenience, the country outlines are all listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list.
There is a huge amount of work to be done on this set of drafts, and I believe much of it can be automated. That is why I'm turning to you for help.
What I need help with right now are two items in the "Geography of x" section (where "x" is the name of the respective country) that need to be filled in.
Can you use one of your bots, or create one, to pull pieces of data from one set of pages and place them on another set of pages? (into the "Geography of x" section mentioned above)
The two items are:
"Population: "
And
"Size: "
A few of them are already filled in. (I hope that doesn't present any problems).
The data is located in the infobox on the corresponding country articles.
Is this something you could do?
If so, it would sure save a lot of man hours. I don't currently have access to a machine upon which I could use macros or learn and apply Python, and I'd really like to avoid having to do these chores manually.
I requested bot approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Worldbot and was told that these tasks don't need bot approval - we can just go ahead and create and use bots on 'em.
The desired format for the data is presented at Topic outline of Algeria#Geography of Algeria, Topic outline of France#Geography of France and Topic outline of Germany#Geography of Germany.
I look forward to your reply.
The Transhumanist 00:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok, after User:Thatsineed's large number of uploads like this, could someone have a bot produce a list of images located in Category:Replaceable fair use images disputed but not located in one of the actual fair use image categories? Sort them by number of file links so that I can get through the orphaned ones quickly. Perhaps then a second list of just disputed without actual disputes. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Well, long story short: Since Betacommand ( talk · contribs) won't be doing this with his restriction to not run bots anymore, someone else should take on this task. We need a bot to go through Category:Media requiring renaming and process the requests generated by {{ rename media}}. Any takers? Regards So Why 11:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
rename to Commons|newname}}
.
multichill (
talk) 15:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)DYK would benefit from a bot that could detect potential copyvio for posts at Template_talk:Did_you_know and post positive hits under the DYK suggestion. See Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Copyright again. Any suggestions? I'm not sure if User:CorenSearchBot or User:Cobo are fine tooned enough. The DYK Copyvio bot doesn't have to be too accurate, just enought to flag the DYK nomination so that the DYK review will know to give a more detailed review of the article. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 08:30, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
It has recently come to my attention that there is a category known as [[Category:Image-Class Bulgaria articles]]. It seemed a good idea to have some sort of list for images that are bulgaria-related, however it is extremely tedious to go through every page that has them, create a talk page for each and add the template {{WikiProject Bulgaria|Image}} to each, (as well as having to add a edit summary).
I would really like to make a bot to save people the effort of having to categorizing all the images, however i have very little previous experience of programming. The good thing about having such a bot is that a modified version could be used to categorize other things for wikiprojects. If anyone is willing to help, or create the bot,(for which I would be really grateful), please contact me on my talk page.-- P.Marlow ( talk) 00:41, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Relativity, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fluid dynamics, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Acoustics were turned into Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics taskforces. If someone could replace {{ Fluid}}, and {{ Relativity banner}} by {{ physics}} with the parameters fluid-dynamics=yes and relativity=yes, that would be appreciated. Tagging all the articles in Category:Acoustics with the physics banner with the parameter acoustics=yes should do it for the acoustics project. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
physics|acoustics=yes}}
", or "For all articles in
Category:Acoustics that already have {{
physics}}
, add acoustics=yes
"? Also, which (if any) subcategories would you want included in that?
Anomie
⚔ 17:29, 24 November 2008 (UTC){{
physics|acoustics=yes}}
(plus class ratings). The only subcategory that should be tagged is
Category:Sound measurements and
Category:Ultrasound (but not subcategories of them), all the others are outside the scope of the acoustics taskforce.
Headbomb {
ταλκ
κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 17:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)I just manually removed the physics project tags from Music theory and Psychoacoustics since they don't seem to fall within the scope here. Not a member of the task force, so it's really none of my beeswax where you apply your efforts; bring them back into the fold if you like. __ Just plain Bill ( talk) 16:12, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates has identified about 100k articles needing coordinates, and placed {{ coord missing}} on each. By some magic which I guess you'd be able to reverse engineer, articles needing coordinates are categorised by country. We could do with articles for a couple of the countries - the US & UK - being pushed down into subcategories based on, for instance, Counties or States, and optionally major cities, so that we can provide regionally based wikiprojects with lists of articles of interest to them, so that we can work on groups of articles by place ... and, mainly, because wading through categories of 10,000 or 20,000 length is inhumane.
The two top level categories are:
Subcategories created should be members of these top level categories. The majority of articles will have been categorised to indicate state, county and perhaps city, town, affiliations. However I can't give you much better guidance on how to scrape together the additional information you'll need in order to subcategorise the articles: something like a catscan. If you've grokked what we're after, I'm sure I don't need to say much more. Pretty much any subdivision schema is better than what we've got. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 22:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I've started with all Maine articles, as that category already existed. I compared the US Geodata category against Category:WikiProject Maine articles and came up with 93. If someone on here thinks there's a better way to do it, please let me know. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 18:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
I moved Portal:Textile Arts to Portal:Textile arts - but the toolserver only allowed me to automatically move 100 subpages of the portal in one move. This seems to have temporarily broken the portal, as many underlying templates rely on each other. Can a bot please move the remaining subpages from Portal:Textile Arts to Portal:Textile arts? Thank you so much. Cirt ( talk) 04:40, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Category:All articles lacking sources is massive and still growing. It is subdivided in categories by month like Category:Articles lacking sources from August 2006 or the more recent Category:Articles lacking sources from November 2008. This is unfortunate, because it doesn't help getting the right eyes on the articles to actually have them improve at a useful rate and stop the growth of these categories.
I'd like to propose a bot that (on request) makes an intersection of articles in one or more relevant categories (depending on either user or project interests) and an unreferenced category to automatically post on userpages or project pages to help better coordinate reference cleanup efforts. (To avoid spamming, I'd say the bot should include a maximum of entries to post) If it's technically feasible, I'd be happy to take charge and run it myself on request (if it makes any difference).
Hopefully this idea could help spark referencing taskforces in multiple wikiprojects so the WikiProject Fact and Reference Check and WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup don't have to fight the battle on their own. - Mgm| (talk) 21:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to suggest this or not but here goes:
It would be really great if when a blocked user requests an unblock the blocking admin automatically got a notification at their user talk. What would be even better would be if this worked even for rangeblocks. And it would be even betterer if it worked for autoblocks too.
How practical would it be to have an automated account that performed such tasks and are there any undesirable aspects I haven't thought of?
More importantly, would anybody be interested in making such a thing?
CIreland ( talk) 16:28, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I have just closed this TfD discussion as delete. Unfortunately, the template to be deleted is transcluded over 1400 times. I do not currently have access to AWB, a bot would be more than helpful here. RyanGerbil10 (Unretiring slowly...!) 21:41, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Please will someone's bot do the following:
|display=inline,title
as in
this edit. The former will make the date appear in the template's
hCalendar
microformat; the latter will make the articles appear in Google Earth/ Maps mashups.Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Another ~300 transclusions at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_November_14#Template:Internet_memes, with the bonus that it might get overturned at WP:DRV! RyanGerbil10 (Four more years!) 20:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing my best to eliminate the bad record chart listings, but I'm bailing a boat with serious leaks. Too many editors just go to the various chart sites and add any chart that's there, without any regard to whether the chart is appropriate. That means that I may, in a full day, eliminate 200 references to the United World Chart, but people will add 50 back in. I really need to have a bot to look at new additions and keep it from happening. There's probably an existing bot that could be modded to do this (XlinkBot comes to mind): what I need the bot to do is:
1) Monitor all additions to article space 2) Revert any additions that match a limited set of regular expressions 3) Implement usual safeguards (whitelisted editors, don't get into reversion wars, log all changes that it fails to revert because of safeguards)
The regular expressions would be based on WP:BADCHARTS:
—
Kww(
talk) 19:57, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Per this message, something I did mistakenly added categories to 60 talk page. Please have a bot remove
[[Category:Wikipedia GA templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
from each page listed here. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 05:08, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi all. A few months ago, WikiProject Aircraft started splitting the parameters of our old {{ Infobox Aircraft}} between two templates of a modular system: {{ Infobox Aircraft Begin}} and {{ Infobox Aircraft Type}}. The new system has now been implemented on over 500 articles, and no opposition was raised to a suggestion that we recruit a bot to convert the rest (archived here).
In practical terms, it means we need a bot that will go through all articles that include {{ Infobox Aircraft}} (around 4,000 articles) and split that template's parameters appropriately. There are no new parameters to add and none to rename – should hopefully be straightforward. Any volunteers? -- Rlandmann ( talk) 01:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Sure - take a look
at this. The only cases where this wouldn't be as straightforward as this example would be instances where the order of the parameters in the article differs from the norm (which of course doesn't affect the output, but means that a bot has to be able to sort the parameters, not just insert }}{{Infobox Aircraft Type
in front of every instance of |name=
). --
Rlandmann (
talk) 02:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
I actually object to the fact the way it's coded it required a table to be placed in the page. This is not good practice. — Dispenser 16:24, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 12 Anomie ⚔ 01:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
(unarchive) Hopefully I can start running this soon. Anomie ⚔ 13:30, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Anomie ⚔ 12:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Done Anomie ⚔ 23:02, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
There has been a move of three major Ireland-related articles:
Was | Now | |
---|---|---|
1. | Ireland | Ireland (island) |
2. | Republic of Ireland | Ireland (state) |
3. | Ireland (disambiguation) | Ireland |
Would it be possible for a bot to fix the links to these pages across all articles? (There are a lot e.g. about 30,000 articles have links to Ireland, all of these should be changed to Ireland (island).)
It is especially important for links that currently point to
Ireland to be changed to
Ireland (island) in order save the boys over at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation from cracking up. Changing links from
Republic of Ireland to
Ireland (state) and from
Ireland (disambiguation) to
Ireland, is less important as redirects are in place - but would tidy things up. --
89.101.221.42 (
talk) 12:17, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
'Do not do this request. The page move that necessitated it has been reverted. -- 78.152.242.239 ( talk) 19:06, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I looked but could not find a bot on the list that does this but it seems like a simple, ordinary job. I'd like a list of articles, wikilinked, to be generated and occasionally updated from the category Category:Canadian football and its subcats to Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football/Articles as a list of articles within that topic. It appears that somebody started to try to do that manually a long time ago and quit. The intention is to use related changes to use it as a sort of watchlist. Thanks, DoubleBlue ( talk) 03:07, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 8 Lego Kontribs TalkM 06:04, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Obersachsebot recently added a slew of interwiki links to templates, adding some of them outside of noincludes. I've been going through its contribs by hand fixing the ones I find, but this is tedious enough that it seems a bot might be better. In fact, as far as I can tell any template that has "bare" interwiki links in it is probably broken. Anyone interested? -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:06, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
NotTheWikipediaWeekly has moved to meta as WikiVoices, but we need a bot to take the episodes from the meta page and update the list on en.wikipedia. Extra points if it can leave messages on a set list of talk pages.
The code at User:Wikinews Importer Bot#Source might help, and we can set up any categories/pages required. Dendodge Talk Contribs 23:47, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot to please tag the talk pages of articles in any of the following categories with {{Football|Iran=yes}} retaining original assessments if any. This was originally requested with no responses and automatically archived.
Categories:
Category:Football in Iran, Category:Iran football club seasons, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Iranian football chairmen and investors, Category:Iranian football clubs, Category:Defunct Iranian football clubs, Category:Esteghlal FC, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C., Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Persepolis F.C. non-playing staff, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C., Category:Sepahan players, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates, Category:Iran football club stubs, Category:Iranian football competitions, Category:Defunct Iranian football competitions, Category:Expatriate footballers in Iran, Category:Iranian footballers, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iranian expatriate footballers, Category:Olympic footballers of Iran, Category:Iranian football biography stubs, Category:Footballers in Iran by club, Category:Aboomoslem players, Category:Bargh Shiraz players, Category:Damash Gilan players, Category:Esteghlal Ahvaz players, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Fajr Sepasi players, Category:Foolad FC players, Category:Malavan players, Category:Mes Kerman players, Category:Pas players, Category:Paykan players, Category:Pegah Gilan players, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Rah Ahan players, Category:Saba Battery players, Category:Saipa players, Category:Sepahan players, Category:Shirin Faraz Kermanshah players, Category:Zob Ahan players, Category:IPL Club Templates, Category:Iranian football managers, Category:Football managers in Iran, Category:Football managers in Iran by club, Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Non-Iranian football managers in Iran, Category:Iran national football team, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iran national football team managers, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Iranian football referees, Category:Iranian football squad templates, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Football venues in Iran, Category:Women's football in Iran, Category:Iran football (soccer) templates, Category:Iran football (soccer) club templates, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates
Thanks — Borgarde talk 10:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Looking at Special:UncategorizedFiles, I see close to 1,000 images all without any category. Most of them are just blanks that users have figured out how to bypass our system. For the blank ones, could a bot just go through and list them as no source/no license? For others, we'll have to look by hand. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 09:16, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
The parameter syntax for Template:Infobox Football biography is being changed so the resultant HTML is more accessible, see Template talk:Infobox Football biography#Accessibility issue. There are nearly 40,000 references to this template, many of which will need to be changed. The basic idea is to convert an invocation like this
{{Football player infobox | playername = George Burley | image = | fullname = George Elder Burley | nickname = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}} | weight = | dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1955|12|17|df=y}} | cityofbirth = [[Cumnock]], [[East Ayrshire]] | countryofbirth = [[Scotland]] | currentclub = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] ([[Coach (sport)|Manager]]) | position = [[Defender (football)|Right-back]] | youthyears = | youthclubs = | years = 1973–1985<br>1985–1988<br>1988–1989<br>1989–1991<br>1991–1993<br>1993<br>1993–1994<br>1994 | clubs = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]<br/>[[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]<br/>[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]<br/>[[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] <br/>[[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]]<br/>[[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]]<br>[[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]]<br>[[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]]<br>'''Total''' | caps(goals) = 394 {{0}}(6)<br>{{0}}54 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}46 {{0}}(2)<br>{{0}}54 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}67 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}1 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}7 {{0}}(0)<br>'''{{0}}628 {{0}}(8)''' | manageryears = 1991–1993<br/>1994<br/>1994–2002<br/>2003–2005<br/>2005<br/>2005–2008<br/>2008– | managerclubs = [[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]]<br/>[[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]]<br/>[[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]<br/>[[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]]<br/>[[Heart of Midlothian F.C.|Heart of Midlothian]]<br/>[[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]]<br/>[[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalyears = <br><br>1979–1982 | nationalteam = [[Scotland national under-21 football team|Scotland U21]]<br>Scotland U23<br>[[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalcaps(goals) = {{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}2 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}11 {{0}}(0) }}
to this
{{Template:Infobox Football biography 2 | playername = George Burley | image = | fullname = George Elder Burley | nickname = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}} | weight = | dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1955|12|17|df=y}} | cityofbirth = [[Cumnock]], [[East Ayrshire]] | countryofbirth = [[Scotland]] | currentclub = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] ([[Coach (sport)|Manager]]) | position = [[Defender (football)|Right-back]] | youthyears = | youthclubs = | years1 = 1973–1985 | years2 = 1985–1988 | years3 = 1988–1989 | years4 = 1989–1991 | years5 = 1991–1993 | years6 = 1993 | years7 = 1993–1994 | years8 = 1994 | clubs1 = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] | clubs2 = [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] | clubs3 = [[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]] | clubs4 = [[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] | clubs5 = [[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]] | clubs6 = [[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]] | clubs7 = [[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] | clubs8 - [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] | caps(goals)1 = 394 {{0}}(6) | caps(goals)2 = {{0}}54 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)3 = {{0}}46 {{0}}(2) | caps(goals)4 = {{0}}54 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)5 = {{0}}67 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)6 = {{0}}{{0}}1 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)7 = {{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)8 {{0}}{{0}}7 {{0}}(0) | totalcaps(goals) = {{0}}628 {{0}}(8) | manageryears1 = 1991–1993 | manageryears2 = 1994 | manageryears3 = 1994–2002 | manageryears4 = 2003–2005 | manageryears5 = 2005 | manageryears6 = 2005–2008 | manageryears7 = 2008– | managerclubs1 = [[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]] | managerclubs2 = [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] | managerclubs3 = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] | managerclubs4 = [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] | managerclubs5 = [[Heart of Midlothian F.C.|Heart of Midlothian]] | managerclubs6 = [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] | managerclubs7 = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalyears1 = - | nationalyears2 = - | nationalyears3 = 1979–1982 | nationalteam1 = [[Scotland national under-21 football team|Scotland U21]] | nationalteam2 = Scotland U23 | nationalteam3 = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalcaps(goals)1 = {{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0) | nationalcaps(goals)2 = {{0}}{{0}}2 {{0}}(0) | nationalcaps(goals)3 = {{0}}11 {{0}}(0) }}
Work on the new version of the template is not quite complete yet. This is mostly a heads up to see if there's anyone interested in taking this on. --
Rick Block (
talk) 01:33, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I thought I asked this before, but I can't find it. Based on my VP proposal: Since a lack of any sort of references in articles is such a large problem, I fully believe it should be addressed in a way that doesn't allow the issue to grow faster than it can be addressed as is currently the case. But even proposals to delete recently created fully unreferenced articles after a 30-day grace period don't gather consensus.
One major issue is, that keeping them around for extended periods of time makes finding references impossible because it's no longer possible to know if what you find online is a reference or some botched copy of the Wikipedia article you're trying to reference.
I'd therefore like to suggest a bot that nips this in the butt and warns users if they create a page (in article space) without any form of referencing (inline, ISBN), or alternatively, spews out a list of articles for human review who can then use an semi-automated script to post reminders/warnings to user talk pages.
Is there a bot that can do this? Or is someone willing to code this? - Mgm| (talk) 13:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a consensus on Template talk:RS500 that Template:RS500 should be substituted for its actual text wherever it is used in the article namespace. There should be about 500 articles that use this template, so I was wondering if it would be possible for a bot to perform template substitution on all of them. Thanks, and my respects to the people who write these bots! — Pie4all88 T C 05:58, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Per my message at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#.22Crat_tasks_status_info_boxes.22, I'd like WP:BN to have some additional infoboxes, giving the current status of and links to open Crat tasks, so we can track where our backlogs are.
We already have a useful bot-generated tool that shows and links to open RfAs and highlights ones that are overdue, but our various rename pages and the BAG flagging tasks are not currently highlighted.
We'd request that if a helpful coder is interested in working on this for us, that they'd post in that thread at BN, so we can discuss specific parameters for the task and you can tell us what is and is not achievable.
Many thanks, -- Dweller ( talk) 13:26, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
There are two templates for the same topic. Template:IRC clients and Template:IRC footer I added to the first template the information that there mising of the second template. can somebody write a bot, that the irc clients - template will be renamed in irc and added to every page which is in the template? (and the second template should be removed) mabdul 0=* 15:23, 18 January 2009 (UTC) oh and there is a third template, called Template:IRC networks mabdul 0=* 15:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Category:NA-Class college football articles has several hundred pages in it that are in the Template Talk namespace, and have the {{ WikiProject College football}} banner, with "class=NA" set as a parameter to the banner. I'd like to have a bot run through this category, and for each article in the Template Talk namespace (e.g. Template Talk: ACC Championship Game), replace "class=NA" with "class=Template" in the College football banner to tag them as Template-Class and put them in Category:Template-Class college football articles. Talk pages in non-template namespaces are fine where they are. I'm not aware of any sub-categories DeFaultRyan ( talk) 18:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
|class=X
can be removed. It has automatic namspace detection for categories and templates.
§hep
Talk 18:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 20 | Archive 21 | Archive 22 | Archive 23 | Archive 24 | Archive 25 | → | Archive 30 |
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)
List of skin diseases contains a huge list of.. well.. skin diseases. However, they aren't linked to articles and they are bare text. Is there a bot available which can go through this list and wiki-link everything? Don't worry about red links, we can go through and correct typo's and create missing articles manually. Thanks! — Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs · email) 16:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there any bot that converts from HTML markup to Wikimarkup? =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
There are over 300 links to Birmingham, England, which is a redirect to Birmingham. Could someone please change them to
[[Birmingham]], [[England]]
unless they are followed by the sting "England" in, say, the next 20 characters, in which case change to
[[Birmingham]]
Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
[[Birmingham]], [[England]]
" → "[[Birmingham]], [[England]]
"[[Birmingham]]
" → "[[Birmingham]]
"[[Birmingham, England|
" → "[[Birmingham|
"Doing... With only 300-ish pages I will just run and watch the script. It will take about 35 minutes to run(6 secs\edit). Matthew Yeager 00:56, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Description: Assess articles based on already present assessments
Tasks: Browse article talk pages and look for the |class=XXX in the project templates. If another project's template is present on the same page, then it would add |class=XXX to that template (or the lowest class rating given if there are more than one). It would never override an already present assessment, only fill the unfilled ones. It would be based on subscriptions, so Wikiprojects who do not wish to have a bot fill the |class= argument of their projects wouldn't be affected by the bot. Edit summary would be reflective of what change it made, and prompt editors to verify that the assessment makes sense, especially if there were different class ratings given on the talk page.
Example:
Before:
{{physics|class=A|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=B|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|
After:
{{physics|class=A|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=B|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|class=B}}
Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 23:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Example:
Before:
{{physics|class=Stub|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=Start|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|
After:
{{physics|class=Stub|importance=High}} {{chemistry|class=Start|importance=Mid}} {{WPAstronomy|class=Start}}
Actually this sounds more logical and already done by many projects. The highest rating is more likely to more recent ( trusting the work of human assessers ) . Running on Unassessed categories of your project ensures that previous assessments are not overridden. If that is OK, my bot can certianly help you -- Tinu Cherian - 13:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Headbomb, btw we can't blindly autoassess for all projects on the talk pages. Like the comments in my bot BRFA , we can do it per request by the project members or consensus from the specific WikiProjects. Anyways this process saves hours of work (some projects have 9000+ unassessed articles!) for human editors, leaving them free to actually improve the articles in question.Over 10K articles were autoassessed for WP:COMPUTING :) alone . Think of human editors having to do it manually ! Most importantly it relies on actual assessment done by human editors and it is being reused by other projects. We may get a few false positives (less than 5% max I would imagine) but it's a small price to pay for the huge benefit of automation. Also, a false positive is likely to result in the article being identified and properly assessed, which might not otherwise happen.If you would like to this for any Wikiproject, feel free to make a bot request. -- Tinu Cherian - 09:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Could your bot tag article with "redirect-class" when they are redirects? If yes, could you run your bot on all articles tagged by {{ physics}}? Quickest way to run through all of them would be to go through Category:Top-importance physics articles, Category:High-importance physics articles, Category:Mid-importance physics articles, Category:Low-importance physics articles, Category:NA-importance physics articles, and Category:Unknown-importance physics articles. Also could it be possible to tag all redirects with |importance=NA?
A couple of other things:
Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 01:33, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I am sure that this type of vandalism is common elsewhere, where the subject's name is changed by a single character. In the Dido (singer) article, it is common for vandals to change all instances of "Dido" to "Dildo". It would be good if this vandalism was automatically reverted and the vandalism reported.Thank you, Labalius ( talk) 01:45, 18 October 2008 (UTC).
Could u change all the episodes in Category:Prison Break episodes from "Show episode " to just "show". Example: Allen (Prison Break episode) to Allen (Prison Break). Cause this is the standard used in most tv episodes like lost Tabula_Rasa_(Lost).-- Diaa abdelmoneim ( talk) 09:20, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Can we have (or do we already have? I understand we may have had in the past, at least) a bot that automatically moves pages out of redirected categories into the target categories? (I mean scans for such cases automatically, not just responds to one-off requests.)-- Kotniski ( talk) 09:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Right now I'm running through all the articles manually with AWB and it's a real PITA. This seems like could easily be done by a bot, hence the request.
What I do is load "what transcludes here" for both {{ physics}} and {{ astronomy}}. Then I convert everything from talk pages to articles, and I remove everything non-mainspace. If #REDIRECT is present, then go on the talk page and replace the {{ physics}}, with {{physics |class=redirect |importance=NA]} and replace {{ Astronomy}}, {{ WPAstronomy}}, {{ WikiProject Astronomy}} with {{Astronomy|class=redirect |importance=NA}}. Then I do the same, but this time looking for {{ disambig}} on the mainpage, and setting class=disambig and |importance=NA on the talk pages.
Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 21:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Superduperfic. Many thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 05:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there,
I was wondering if someone here would mind running some stats for us at WikiProject Ohio. Our member list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio/Participants is outdated to say the least. What I would like is a bot to check every User: name's contribs. Then to sort the names by "have not edited in the last 6 months", "have not edited within the past year", and "active" (Which would be within the ast 6 months (ie by deadline May 1 if the bot was ran today)). I was also wondering if we could have "have not edited ever" and "less than 25 edits". Anyone up for it? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 04:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Username | Description | Last Edit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Matthew_Yeager | funnn yayayaya | edited within last 6 months | Less than 25 edits to Wikipedia. |
Example | yayaya funnn | Has no edits to Wikipedia. |
{{ BOTREQ|done}} Sorry Yeager about stealing this one, but I had wanted to improve my SQL knowledge. It's a one off tool just put the title of members list page. — Dispenser 03:29, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
IT DID IT AGAIN! YAY! I give up. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 23:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Done Let's see what this does. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 02:12, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
BOTREQ|LOL}}
ClueBot III has several issues, among them that it will hang indefinitely (until it gets a server error from the API call) when the archive page gets over maxarchsize
bytes, that it will keep spawning processes each hour even though the previous hour's process is hung there, and won't even try to detect edit conflicts.
Anomie
⚔ 02:32, 2 November 2008 (UTC)Now that all FA Cup season articles have been completed, I would like to request a bot that can move all of the articles so that their titles use endashes in the date range rather than simple hyphens. This is already the case with a few of the articles in the category, but there are still over 100 articles that need moving. Thanks in advance. – Pee Jay 15:41, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there any bot or maybe an option to add every month/year the new row automatical/by bot? mabdul 0=* 20:22, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
one thing that's always bugged me when browsing through articles is that most images are on the right side of the screen, most by default. I've spent alot of time (don't ask why...) moving every other image on pages to the left to better balance out the page. Anyone interested in creating a bot that would to this? - - ' The Spook ( TALK) ( Share the Love with Barnstars) 01:10, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I have looked around and I don't think there are any other bots that do this, but I might have missed one. So here goes:
I would like for myself or someone else to operate a bot that keeps a daily record of some of the statistics found at Special:Statistics. This record could be kept on a subpage of the bot's user account. Click here for an example of what this page should look like. It would be very easy for me to manually update this page with just a few clicks in AWB. However, for me to make the most use of the statistics, they need to be recorded at roughly the same time each day (17:00 UTC) and I will not always be available to do that. So here is what the bot would need to do at 17:00 each day:
1. Find the following:
|}
2. Replace it with:
|- | {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFARTICLES}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFPAGES}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFEDITS}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFUSERS}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFADMINS}} | {{subst:NUMBEROFFILES}} |}
3. Leave an edit summary along the lines of "Automatically updating statistics."
That's it. It would have to run from the toolserver so it will always be available at 17:00. I know this is probably very simple to code in PHP, but I do not know how to program it to run automatically. I can maintain the bot if someone codes it for me, or you can maintain it yourself. I would, however, like to have the stats posted to a page in my userspace so I can do with them as I please. I would like to be able to make slight modifications to the bot so I can play around with the formatting, but if you prefer to keep the source to yourself then that's fine.
If this has already been discussed before, I am sorry for bringing it up again. I am not aware of any previous discussions.
-- Andrew Kelly ( talk) 11:59, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
There is a set of US town articles inserted by user:rambot some eons ago. Each is characterised by having its coordinates in three places:
A (partial) list of affected articles is at Category:Coord template needing repair. However this list does have other articles in it.
As the articles were created by a bot, there are patterns to look for:
You can check out the pattern yourself at, for instance, Halls, Tennessee.
An article having all three of these should have the second & third deleted, leaving only the infobox, according to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Coordinates in US cities articles: where to display. This declutters the article and avoids the risk of conflicting information being given in the article.
If anyone is up for taking on this task, I'd be obliged. There may also be more of the towns than are in the category I've pointed to, above, but I can't think right now of an easy way to find them. Finally, part of the purpose of the ask is to declutter the above category so that we can see other articles with problems which are better candidates for human intervention. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 21:54, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
The date articles (January 1 ... December 31) all have css formatting at the top of the page to align the calendar and date in recent years boxes. I've updated those template to allow the formatting as parameters to the templates. I am requesting the following changes to the date articles.
Replace this:
{| style="float:right;" |- |{{JanuaryCalendar}} |- |{{ThisDateInRecentYears|Month=January|Day=1}} |}
With this:
{{JanuaryCalendar|float=right}} {{ThisDateInRecentYears|Month=January|Day=1}}
This request applies to the date articles January 1 ... December 31 excluding February 29 because it uses a different template and I'll do it manually. The example above is using January 1. This change will have no visible effect on the articles. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:57, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Up until July of last year, we had Anchor Link Bot, run by Android Mouse. Android Mouse has since left Wikipedia, and his bot no longer runs. I think the bot's function was a very good one. The source code was said to be public, with the bot's userpage providing this link, which now gives (me, at least) a pageload error. The idea was approved, so as far as I can see the only problem would be coding it again. Would this be possible? Would anybody be willing to give it a go? seresin ( ¡? ) 03:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I need the template:Infobox Settlement to be added to all the Israeli moshavim, preferably with the Coordinates and basic data inside if possible. some moshavim articles use the kibbutzim template instead - needs to be changed to use the infobox settlement template instead (such as this one). 24.12.234.123 ( talk) 20:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Im looking for a bot that will parse the archives of Wikipedia:Recent additions. The bot will have to identify which article is boldened, then edit the {{ dyktalk}} of the boldened article's talkpage.
|entry=X
Example|dyklink=
Wikipedia:Recent additions 1Is this feasible? There's over 230 archives. Thanks. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 21:01, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
For each page listed at Wikipedia:Recent additions, please add Category:Wikipedia Did you know archives. If the page has either Category:Main Page help and/or Category:Wikipedia Did you know, remove them. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 17:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Many newspaper url links in Wikipedia link to ProQuest Archiver. The url strings begin with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com. The ProQuest Archiver string include a parameter |pqatl=
. The url strings work with and without |pqatl=
. However, |pqatl=
within Wikipedia often is set equal to google (as in pqatl=google) since the newspaper stories usually are found through google news. Thus, when anyone clicks on a Wikipedia footnote linking to ProQuest Archiver, Google gets the credit from ProQuest Archiver for the hit and likely is
compensated by ProQuest Archiver in someway. (ProQuest Archiver probably gets money from the newspapers, probably a certain amount for each archived news story sold). For each url string in Wikipedia beginning with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com, a bot should go around and change pqatl=google or pqatl=whatever to pqatl=wikipedia. That way, ProQuest Archiver will receive a clearer understanding of how many click throughs are coming to ProQuest Archiver from Wikipedia. This may result in ProQuest Archiver donating money to Wikipedia. As it is now, ProQuest Archiver likely has little interest in Wikipedia because it thinks that Wikipedia click throughs are from Google. The bot also should add pqatl=wikipedia to the end of any url string begins with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com that does not have |pqatl=
. Before the bot runs, someone should confirm that such changes will be valid for all urls in Wikipedia beginning with
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Maybe running this through bot approval would be the way to go. --
Suntag
☼ 23:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a bot that would keep track of statistics for the various projects on wikipedia and generate a list of the top ten or so most active projects on a month by month basis? It seems that this would be best left to a bot, and in light of the fact that I can find no statitistics on whoch wikiproject is most active I dare say such a bot may well be overdue for an appearence on Wikipedia. For example, it would be nice to know which projects:
...and so forth in that manner. Would anyone out htere be interested in creating such a bot to moniter these statisitics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.108.230.99 ( talk) 00:49, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
We have a list of charts that have been deemed unreliable in WP:BADCHARTS. Unfortunately, we are having to take care of enforcement manually, and it is a neverending job: new editors are constantly adding these charts to articles.
What I would like is a bot that can take care of the two major cases: the one chart per row format (see Womanizer_(song)#Charts), where the bot should delete all rows that correspond to bad charts, and the one chart per column format (see Pussycat Dolls discography#Singles. It should detect the more complicated cases, where formatting has created double rows or columns and flag them somewhere without attempting the edit directly.— Kww( talk) 15:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Would someone comment on this? Excessively difficult? Poorly defined? Overly controversial?— Kww( talk) 16:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
A few months ago, AllMusicGuide changed its name to Allmusic. Apparently, at the same time they dropped all their sub-servers and are now using only the "www.allmusic.com" address. This leaves all sorts of orphan links all over Wikipedia to http://wm06.allmusic.com, wm07.allmusic.com, wm08, and wc03 -- these are the ones I've noticed so far, all of which have over 200 links apiece. Can someone make a bot to go around and fix any wXXX.allmusic.com link to www.allmusic.com, where XXX is a wildcard to cover any of these various server links? Because, while I edit a lot of music articles, I really don't want to spend my time making this little change if it can be automated. It would be a one-time only change. (well, unless Allmusic changes itself again.) Thanks for help please!! Salamurai ( talk) 03:50, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Coding... Anomie ⚔ 16:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 9 Anomie ⚔ 18:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Anomie ⚔ 12:08, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Done 5037 pages were edited. Anomie ⚔ 01:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I actually wanted to check to see if this already exists, but I didn't see a listing. I understand that spell checking bots are problematic. As I was editing an article that said "the first and only" to "the only," I thought this is really something that could be automatically applied to all of Wikipedia. Barring a direct quote, it should be an improvement wherever it is applied. To mitigate the quotation problem, would it be possible to check for the opening quote and skip all of the string until it finds another quote? It would also have to skip the citations, since titles of books and articles can be something we would not want to change. If the quotation is improperly punctuated, there is an existing problem that is not made worse, IMO. This is something that has to be entered manually, the list has to be very carefully selected, but I would think that there are many similar instances. 75.3.225.43 ( talk) 08:27, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot to please tag the talk pages of articles in any of the following categories with {{Football|Iran=yes}} retaining original assessments if any.
Categories:
Category:Football in Iran, Category:Iran football club seasons, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Iranian football chairmen and investors, Category:Iranian football clubs, Category:Defunct Iranian football clubs, Category:Esteghlal FC, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C., Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Persepolis F.C. non-playing staff, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C., Category:Sepahan players, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates, Category:Iran football club stubs, Category:Iranian football competitions, Category:Defunct Iranian football competitions, Category:Expatriate footballers in Iran, Category:Serbian expatriate footballers in Iran, Category:Iranian footballers, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iranian expatriate footballers, Category:Olympic footballers of Iran, Category:Iranian football biography stubs, Category:Footballers in Iran by club, Category:Aboomoslem players, Category:Bargh Shiraz players, Category:Damash Gilan players, Category:Esteghlal Ahvaz players, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Fajr Sepasi players, Category:Foolad FC players, Category:Malavan players, Category:Mes Kerman players, Category:Pas players, Category:Paykan players, Category:Pegah Gilan players, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Rah Ahan players, Category:Saba Battery players, Category:Saipa players, Category:Sepahan players, Category:Shirin Faraz Kermanshah players, Category:Zob Ahan players, Category:IPL Club Templates, Category:Iranian football managers, Category:Football managers in Iran, Category:Football managers in Iran by club, Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Non-Iranian football managers in Iran, Category:Iran national football team, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iran national football team managers, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Iranian football referees, Category:Iranian football squad templates, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Football venues in Iran, Category:Women's football in Iran, Category:Iran football (soccer) templates, Category:Iran football (soccer) club templates, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates
Thanks — Borgarde talk 02:59, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I need a bot to send a talk message to everyone at WP:BARD. Wrad ( talk) 03:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
The block of 129.97.*.* IP addresses belongs to the University of Waterloo. ( http://samspade.org/whois/129.97.0.0) Looking in the Special:PrefixIndex page for those IP addresses ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=129.97&namespace=3), many don't display the {{SharedIPEDU|University of Waterloo}} notice. Some of these IPs are static and tied to public computers in labs, or individual network ports in residences, etc., so there's a high probability that many of these IPs will be used be different people over time.
Are there any bots able to tag them with {{SharedIPEDU|University of Waterloo}}, so that moderators can immediately recognize that the edits are coming from a shared computer on the University of Waterloo's network?
TheFeds 03:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Can someone populate 1th - 5th century Saint Categories from my lists at User:Carlaude/Sandbox2 and remove pages from the Parent Category:Ancient Roman saints as the occur?
User:STBot was made at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/STBot_13 do this sort of stuff but the bot owner is MIA to my reqests. It maybe a bot someone else can use? -- Carlaude ( talk) 01:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but it seems like a bot could be useful in replacing unicode exponents like this ², with superscript exponents like this 2, per WP:MOS. This would save a large amount of time and effort on many articles such as the larger magnitudes in Template:Area, where there are long lists of areas that use solely the unicode exponent. Wrelwser43 ( talk) 02:51, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Someone recently filled all coords based on nl wiki (example Châtelet (Paris Métro), Raspail (Paris Métro)), I don't know why, but the fact is that they're even more incorrect than googlemaps, and not complete. Paris metro network is very dense, so precise coords are important. fr:Projet:Transports en Île-de-France is working to enhance quality of french articles on this matter, hoping it will be a quality source for other languages.
We are using «region:FR_type:landmark_scale:2000|format=dms|display=title» parameters (closer view, dms) in fr:Modèle:Station du métro parisien, all stations are localised.
Could you change the coords taking french wikipedia as source, and marking it as such?
Thanks...
Gonioul ( talk) 22:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Some pages, especially WP:IFD and WP:RFD, have huge backlogs at times. Now you cannot write a bot to assess consensus and act upon it. But especially on IFD, many images are deleted but their relevant IFD sections are not closed by the deleting admin. See this page for November 1 for example. Most links are red, indicating the image is gone but yet the sections are not closed using the appropriate instructions. It is a tedious task to close them all by hand. So I want to request a bot that does these simply yet tedious tasks:
{{
admin|<adminname>}}
"
I think that should be easy to do and it would save a lot of manual work there. Soooooo...any takers? :-)
Regards
So
Why 13:34, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I am interested in "what links here" feature of wiki. But it seems that we can only check the latest information of the backlinks to one article. Can we get the historical information of it like the revision history of main articles and talk pages? Yuzhong 21:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I guess the content listed in "what lins here" is chronological. How can I retrieve the exact date about when those wikilink were created? I am doing a study about wikilinks now. I have to check backlins for 200+ articles. And better to get the yearly backlink data for each individual article. It would be to tedious to do it manually. So I hope there could be a bot to help me. Thanks a lot. Yuzhong 15:00, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot add |importance=low
to {{
anime}} or {{
WikiProject Anime and manga}} of all of the pages in the above mentioned category. Converting {{
anime}} to {{
WikiProject Anime and manga}} would be a bonus, but is not essential. This parameter should be added after the |class=
parameter, or after |B6=
parameter (where applicable). The recommended edit summary is Automatically assessing importance as low per
WP:ANIME/ASSESS.
I have am using AWB to do this for me during the tag & assess, but find that I can do the T&A much quicker if I do not have to add the importance parameter to almost all of the articles.
I will correct all instances where importance ≠ low during the tag & assess. (Please do not add parameters or comments that the assessment is automatic, as these would have to be removed, leaving me with the same problem as currently).
Regards,
G.A.S talk 05:50, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I wish we had a bot that would go through and add {{ sockpuppet category}} to any sockpuppet categories (and suspected sockpuppet categories) that don't already have it. - Stepheng3 ( talk) 08:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Under construction is a set of country outlines or profiles - one for each country of the world (247 pages). This will greatly expand the coverage at Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics, which is part of Wikipedia's table of contents system, intended to make it easier to browse subjects and see how they are structured. So far, twenty-nine of these outlines have been completed enough to move to article space and are listed on the Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics page.
For your convenience, the country outlines are all listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list.
There is a huge amount of work to be done on this set of drafts, and I believe much of it can be automated. That is why I'm turning to you for help.
What I need help with right now are two items in the "Geography of x" section (where "x" is the name of the respective country) that need to be filled in.
Can you use one of your bots, or create one, to pull pieces of data from one set of pages and place them on another set of pages? (into the "Geography of x" section mentioned above)
The two items are:
"Population: "
And
"Size: "
A few of them are already filled in. (I hope that doesn't present any problems).
The data is located in the infobox on the corresponding country articles.
Is this something you could do?
If so, it would sure save a lot of man hours. I don't currently have access to a machine upon which I could use macros or learn and apply Python, and I'd really like to avoid having to do these chores manually.
I requested bot approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Worldbot and was told that these tasks don't need bot approval - we can just go ahead and create and use bots on 'em.
The desired format for the data is presented at Topic outline of Algeria#Geography of Algeria, Topic outline of France#Geography of France and Topic outline of Germany#Geography of Germany.
I look forward to your reply.
The Transhumanist 00:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok, after User:Thatsineed's large number of uploads like this, could someone have a bot produce a list of images located in Category:Replaceable fair use images disputed but not located in one of the actual fair use image categories? Sort them by number of file links so that I can get through the orphaned ones quickly. Perhaps then a second list of just disputed without actual disputes. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Well, long story short: Since Betacommand ( talk · contribs) won't be doing this with his restriction to not run bots anymore, someone else should take on this task. We need a bot to go through Category:Media requiring renaming and process the requests generated by {{ rename media}}. Any takers? Regards So Why 11:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
rename to Commons|newname}}
.
multichill (
talk) 15:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)DYK would benefit from a bot that could detect potential copyvio for posts at Template_talk:Did_you_know and post positive hits under the DYK suggestion. See Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Copyright again. Any suggestions? I'm not sure if User:CorenSearchBot or User:Cobo are fine tooned enough. The DYK Copyvio bot doesn't have to be too accurate, just enought to flag the DYK nomination so that the DYK review will know to give a more detailed review of the article. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 08:30, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
It has recently come to my attention that there is a category known as [[Category:Image-Class Bulgaria articles]]. It seemed a good idea to have some sort of list for images that are bulgaria-related, however it is extremely tedious to go through every page that has them, create a talk page for each and add the template {{WikiProject Bulgaria|Image}} to each, (as well as having to add a edit summary).
I would really like to make a bot to save people the effort of having to categorizing all the images, however i have very little previous experience of programming. The good thing about having such a bot is that a modified version could be used to categorize other things for wikiprojects. If anyone is willing to help, or create the bot,(for which I would be really grateful), please contact me on my talk page.-- P.Marlow ( talk) 00:41, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Relativity, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fluid dynamics, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Acoustics were turned into Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics taskforces. If someone could replace {{ Fluid}}, and {{ Relativity banner}} by {{ physics}} with the parameters fluid-dynamics=yes and relativity=yes, that would be appreciated. Tagging all the articles in Category:Acoustics with the physics banner with the parameter acoustics=yes should do it for the acoustics project. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
physics|acoustics=yes}}
", or "For all articles in
Category:Acoustics that already have {{
physics}}
, add acoustics=yes
"? Also, which (if any) subcategories would you want included in that?
Anomie
⚔ 17:29, 24 November 2008 (UTC){{
physics|acoustics=yes}}
(plus class ratings). The only subcategory that should be tagged is
Category:Sound measurements and
Category:Ultrasound (but not subcategories of them), all the others are outside the scope of the acoustics taskforce.
Headbomb {
ταλκ
κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 17:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)I just manually removed the physics project tags from Music theory and Psychoacoustics since they don't seem to fall within the scope here. Not a member of the task force, so it's really none of my beeswax where you apply your efforts; bring them back into the fold if you like. __ Just plain Bill ( talk) 16:12, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates has identified about 100k articles needing coordinates, and placed {{ coord missing}} on each. By some magic which I guess you'd be able to reverse engineer, articles needing coordinates are categorised by country. We could do with articles for a couple of the countries - the US & UK - being pushed down into subcategories based on, for instance, Counties or States, and optionally major cities, so that we can provide regionally based wikiprojects with lists of articles of interest to them, so that we can work on groups of articles by place ... and, mainly, because wading through categories of 10,000 or 20,000 length is inhumane.
The two top level categories are:
Subcategories created should be members of these top level categories. The majority of articles will have been categorised to indicate state, county and perhaps city, town, affiliations. However I can't give you much better guidance on how to scrape together the additional information you'll need in order to subcategorise the articles: something like a catscan. If you've grokked what we're after, I'm sure I don't need to say much more. Pretty much any subdivision schema is better than what we've got. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 22:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I've started with all Maine articles, as that category already existed. I compared the US Geodata category against Category:WikiProject Maine articles and came up with 93. If someone on here thinks there's a better way to do it, please let me know. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 18:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
I moved Portal:Textile Arts to Portal:Textile arts - but the toolserver only allowed me to automatically move 100 subpages of the portal in one move. This seems to have temporarily broken the portal, as many underlying templates rely on each other. Can a bot please move the remaining subpages from Portal:Textile Arts to Portal:Textile arts? Thank you so much. Cirt ( talk) 04:40, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Category:All articles lacking sources is massive and still growing. It is subdivided in categories by month like Category:Articles lacking sources from August 2006 or the more recent Category:Articles lacking sources from November 2008. This is unfortunate, because it doesn't help getting the right eyes on the articles to actually have them improve at a useful rate and stop the growth of these categories.
I'd like to propose a bot that (on request) makes an intersection of articles in one or more relevant categories (depending on either user or project interests) and an unreferenced category to automatically post on userpages or project pages to help better coordinate reference cleanup efforts. (To avoid spamming, I'd say the bot should include a maximum of entries to post) If it's technically feasible, I'd be happy to take charge and run it myself on request (if it makes any difference).
Hopefully this idea could help spark referencing taskforces in multiple wikiprojects so the WikiProject Fact and Reference Check and WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup don't have to fight the battle on their own. - Mgm| (talk) 21:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to suggest this or not but here goes:
It would be really great if when a blocked user requests an unblock the blocking admin automatically got a notification at their user talk. What would be even better would be if this worked even for rangeblocks. And it would be even betterer if it worked for autoblocks too.
How practical would it be to have an automated account that performed such tasks and are there any undesirable aspects I haven't thought of?
More importantly, would anybody be interested in making such a thing?
CIreland ( talk) 16:28, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I have just closed this TfD discussion as delete. Unfortunately, the template to be deleted is transcluded over 1400 times. I do not currently have access to AWB, a bot would be more than helpful here. RyanGerbil10 (Unretiring slowly...!) 21:41, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Please will someone's bot do the following:
|display=inline,title
as in
this edit. The former will make the date appear in the template's
hCalendar
microformat; the latter will make the articles appear in Google Earth/ Maps mashups.Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Another ~300 transclusions at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_November_14#Template:Internet_memes, with the bonus that it might get overturned at WP:DRV! RyanGerbil10 (Four more years!) 20:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm doing my best to eliminate the bad record chart listings, but I'm bailing a boat with serious leaks. Too many editors just go to the various chart sites and add any chart that's there, without any regard to whether the chart is appropriate. That means that I may, in a full day, eliminate 200 references to the United World Chart, but people will add 50 back in. I really need to have a bot to look at new additions and keep it from happening. There's probably an existing bot that could be modded to do this (XlinkBot comes to mind): what I need the bot to do is:
1) Monitor all additions to article space 2) Revert any additions that match a limited set of regular expressions 3) Implement usual safeguards (whitelisted editors, don't get into reversion wars, log all changes that it fails to revert because of safeguards)
The regular expressions would be based on WP:BADCHARTS:
—
Kww(
talk) 19:57, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Per this message, something I did mistakenly added categories to 60 talk page. Please have a bot remove
[[Category:Wikipedia GA templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
from each page listed here. Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 05:08, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi all. A few months ago, WikiProject Aircraft started splitting the parameters of our old {{ Infobox Aircraft}} between two templates of a modular system: {{ Infobox Aircraft Begin}} and {{ Infobox Aircraft Type}}. The new system has now been implemented on over 500 articles, and no opposition was raised to a suggestion that we recruit a bot to convert the rest (archived here).
In practical terms, it means we need a bot that will go through all articles that include {{ Infobox Aircraft}} (around 4,000 articles) and split that template's parameters appropriately. There are no new parameters to add and none to rename – should hopefully be straightforward. Any volunteers? -- Rlandmann ( talk) 01:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Sure - take a look
at this. The only cases where this wouldn't be as straightforward as this example would be instances where the order of the parameters in the article differs from the norm (which of course doesn't affect the output, but means that a bot has to be able to sort the parameters, not just insert }}{{Infobox Aircraft Type
in front of every instance of |name=
). --
Rlandmann (
talk) 02:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
I actually object to the fact the way it's coded it required a table to be placed in the page. This is not good practice. — Dispenser 16:24, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 12 Anomie ⚔ 01:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
(unarchive) Hopefully I can start running this soon. Anomie ⚔ 13:30, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Anomie ⚔ 12:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Done Anomie ⚔ 23:02, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
There has been a move of three major Ireland-related articles:
Was | Now | |
---|---|---|
1. | Ireland | Ireland (island) |
2. | Republic of Ireland | Ireland (state) |
3. | Ireland (disambiguation) | Ireland |
Would it be possible for a bot to fix the links to these pages across all articles? (There are a lot e.g. about 30,000 articles have links to Ireland, all of these should be changed to Ireland (island).)
It is especially important for links that currently point to
Ireland to be changed to
Ireland (island) in order save the boys over at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation from cracking up. Changing links from
Republic of Ireland to
Ireland (state) and from
Ireland (disambiguation) to
Ireland, is less important as redirects are in place - but would tidy things up. --
89.101.221.42 (
talk) 12:17, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
'Do not do this request. The page move that necessitated it has been reverted. -- 78.152.242.239 ( talk) 19:06, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I looked but could not find a bot on the list that does this but it seems like a simple, ordinary job. I'd like a list of articles, wikilinked, to be generated and occasionally updated from the category Category:Canadian football and its subcats to Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football/Articles as a list of articles within that topic. It appears that somebody started to try to do that manually a long time ago and quit. The intention is to use related changes to use it as a sort of watchlist. Thanks, DoubleBlue ( talk) 03:07, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 8 Lego Kontribs TalkM 06:04, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Obersachsebot recently added a slew of interwiki links to templates, adding some of them outside of noincludes. I've been going through its contribs by hand fixing the ones I find, but this is tedious enough that it seems a bot might be better. In fact, as far as I can tell any template that has "bare" interwiki links in it is probably broken. Anyone interested? -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:06, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
NotTheWikipediaWeekly has moved to meta as WikiVoices, but we need a bot to take the episodes from the meta page and update the list on en.wikipedia. Extra points if it can leave messages on a set list of talk pages.
The code at User:Wikinews Importer Bot#Source might help, and we can set up any categories/pages required. Dendodge Talk Contribs 23:47, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I would like a bot to please tag the talk pages of articles in any of the following categories with {{Football|Iran=yes}} retaining original assessments if any. This was originally requested with no responses and automatically archived.
Categories:
Category:Football in Iran, Category:Iran football club seasons, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Iranian football chairmen and investors, Category:Iranian football clubs, Category:Defunct Iranian football clubs, Category:Esteghlal FC, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Esteghlal F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C., Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Persepolis F.C. non-playing staff, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Persepolis F.C. seasons, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C., Category:Sepahan players, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. seasons, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates, Category:Iran football club stubs, Category:Iranian football competitions, Category:Defunct Iranian football competitions, Category:Expatriate footballers in Iran, Category:Iranian footballers, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iranian expatriate footballers, Category:Olympic footballers of Iran, Category:Iranian football biography stubs, Category:Footballers in Iran by club, Category:Aboomoslem players, Category:Bargh Shiraz players, Category:Damash Gilan players, Category:Esteghlal Ahvaz players, Category:Esteghlal FC players, Category:Fajr Sepasi players, Category:Foolad FC players, Category:Malavan players, Category:Mes Kerman players, Category:Pas players, Category:Paykan players, Category:Pegah Gilan players, Category:Persepolis F.C. players, Category:Rah Ahan players, Category:Saba Battery players, Category:Saipa players, Category:Sepahan players, Category:Shirin Faraz Kermanshah players, Category:Zob Ahan players, Category:IPL Club Templates, Category:Iranian football managers, Category:Football managers in Iran, Category:Football managers in Iran by club, Category:Persepolis F.C. managers, Category:Sepahan F.C. managers, Category:Non-Iranian football managers in Iran, Category:Iran national football team, Category:Iran international footballers, Category:Iran national football team managers, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Iranian football referees, Category:Iranian football squad templates, Category:Iran national football team templates, Category:Football venues in Iran, Category:Women's football in Iran, Category:Iran football (soccer) templates, Category:Iran football (soccer) club templates, Category:Persepolis F.C. templates, Category:Sepahan F.C. templates
Thanks — Borgarde talk 10:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Looking at Special:UncategorizedFiles, I see close to 1,000 images all without any category. Most of them are just blanks that users have figured out how to bypass our system. For the blank ones, could a bot just go through and list them as no source/no license? For others, we'll have to look by hand. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 09:16, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
The parameter syntax for Template:Infobox Football biography is being changed so the resultant HTML is more accessible, see Template talk:Infobox Football biography#Accessibility issue. There are nearly 40,000 references to this template, many of which will need to be changed. The basic idea is to convert an invocation like this
{{Football player infobox | playername = George Burley | image = | fullname = George Elder Burley | nickname = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}} | weight = | dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1955|12|17|df=y}} | cityofbirth = [[Cumnock]], [[East Ayrshire]] | countryofbirth = [[Scotland]] | currentclub = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] ([[Coach (sport)|Manager]]) | position = [[Defender (football)|Right-back]] | youthyears = | youthclubs = | years = 1973–1985<br>1985–1988<br>1988–1989<br>1989–1991<br>1991–1993<br>1993<br>1993–1994<br>1994 | clubs = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]<br/>[[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]<br/>[[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]]<br/>[[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] <br/>[[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]]<br/>[[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]]<br>[[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]]<br>[[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]]<br>'''Total''' | caps(goals) = 394 {{0}}(6)<br>{{0}}54 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}46 {{0}}(2)<br>{{0}}54 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}67 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}1 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}7 {{0}}(0)<br>'''{{0}}628 {{0}}(8)''' | manageryears = 1991–1993<br/>1994<br/>1994–2002<br/>2003–2005<br/>2005<br/>2005–2008<br/>2008– | managerclubs = [[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]]<br/>[[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]]<br/>[[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]<br/>[[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]]<br/>[[Heart of Midlothian F.C.|Heart of Midlothian]]<br/>[[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]]<br/>[[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalyears = <br><br>1979–1982 | nationalteam = [[Scotland national under-21 football team|Scotland U21]]<br>Scotland U23<br>[[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalcaps(goals) = {{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}{{0}}2 {{0}}(0)<br>{{0}}11 {{0}}(0) }}
to this
{{Template:Infobox Football biography 2 | playername = George Burley | image = | fullname = George Elder Burley | nickname = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=9}} | weight = | dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1955|12|17|df=y}} | cityofbirth = [[Cumnock]], [[East Ayrshire]] | countryofbirth = [[Scotland]] | currentclub = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] ([[Coach (sport)|Manager]]) | position = [[Defender (football)|Right-back]] | youthyears = | youthclubs = | years1 = 1973–1985 | years2 = 1985–1988 | years3 = 1988–1989 | years4 = 1989–1991 | years5 = 1991–1993 | years6 = 1993 | years7 = 1993–1994 | years8 = 1994 | clubs1 = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] | clubs2 = [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] | clubs3 = [[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]] | clubs4 = [[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] | clubs5 = [[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]] | clubs6 = [[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]] | clubs7 = [[Motherwell F.C.|Motherwell]] | clubs8 - [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] | caps(goals)1 = 394 {{0}}(6) | caps(goals)2 = {{0}}54 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)3 = {{0}}46 {{0}}(2) | caps(goals)4 = {{0}}54 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)5 = {{0}}67 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)6 = {{0}}{{0}}1 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)7 = {{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0) | caps(goals)8 {{0}}{{0}}7 {{0}}(0) | totalcaps(goals) = {{0}}628 {{0}}(8) | manageryears1 = 1991–1993 | manageryears2 = 1994 | manageryears3 = 1994–2002 | manageryears4 = 2003–2005 | manageryears5 = 2005 | manageryears6 = 2005–2008 | manageryears7 = 2008– | managerclubs1 = [[Ayr United F.C.|Ayr United]] | managerclubs2 = [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] | managerclubs3 = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] | managerclubs4 = [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] | managerclubs5 = [[Heart of Midlothian F.C.|Heart of Midlothian]] | managerclubs6 = [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] | managerclubs7 = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalyears1 = - | nationalyears2 = - | nationalyears3 = 1979–1982 | nationalteam1 = [[Scotland national under-21 football team|Scotland U21]] | nationalteam2 = Scotland U23 | nationalteam3 = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] | nationalcaps(goals)1 = {{0}}{{0}}5 {{0}}(0) | nationalcaps(goals)2 = {{0}}{{0}}2 {{0}}(0) | nationalcaps(goals)3 = {{0}}11 {{0}}(0) }}
Work on the new version of the template is not quite complete yet. This is mostly a heads up to see if there's anyone interested in taking this on. --
Rick Block (
talk) 01:33, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
I thought I asked this before, but I can't find it. Based on my VP proposal: Since a lack of any sort of references in articles is such a large problem, I fully believe it should be addressed in a way that doesn't allow the issue to grow faster than it can be addressed as is currently the case. But even proposals to delete recently created fully unreferenced articles after a 30-day grace period don't gather consensus.
One major issue is, that keeping them around for extended periods of time makes finding references impossible because it's no longer possible to know if what you find online is a reference or some botched copy of the Wikipedia article you're trying to reference.
I'd therefore like to suggest a bot that nips this in the butt and warns users if they create a page (in article space) without any form of referencing (inline, ISBN), or alternatively, spews out a list of articles for human review who can then use an semi-automated script to post reminders/warnings to user talk pages.
Is there a bot that can do this? Or is someone willing to code this? - Mgm| (talk) 13:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a consensus on Template talk:RS500 that Template:RS500 should be substituted for its actual text wherever it is used in the article namespace. There should be about 500 articles that use this template, so I was wondering if it would be possible for a bot to perform template substitution on all of them. Thanks, and my respects to the people who write these bots! — Pie4all88 T C 05:58, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Per my message at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#.22Crat_tasks_status_info_boxes.22, I'd like WP:BN to have some additional infoboxes, giving the current status of and links to open Crat tasks, so we can track where our backlogs are.
We already have a useful bot-generated tool that shows and links to open RfAs and highlights ones that are overdue, but our various rename pages and the BAG flagging tasks are not currently highlighted.
We'd request that if a helpful coder is interested in working on this for us, that they'd post in that thread at BN, so we can discuss specific parameters for the task and you can tell us what is and is not achievable.
Many thanks, -- Dweller ( talk) 13:26, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
There are two templates for the same topic. Template:IRC clients and Template:IRC footer I added to the first template the information that there mising of the second template. can somebody write a bot, that the irc clients - template will be renamed in irc and added to every page which is in the template? (and the second template should be removed) mabdul 0=* 15:23, 18 January 2009 (UTC) oh and there is a third template, called Template:IRC networks mabdul 0=* 15:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Category:NA-Class college football articles has several hundred pages in it that are in the Template Talk namespace, and have the {{ WikiProject College football}} banner, with "class=NA" set as a parameter to the banner. I'd like to have a bot run through this category, and for each article in the Template Talk namespace (e.g. Template Talk: ACC Championship Game), replace "class=NA" with "class=Template" in the College football banner to tag them as Template-Class and put them in Category:Template-Class college football articles. Talk pages in non-template namespaces are fine where they are. I'm not aware of any sub-categories DeFaultRyan ( talk) 18:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
|class=X
can be removed. It has automatic namspace detection for categories and templates.
§hep
Talk 18:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)