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Wikipedia:Vital articles is one of the most important pages of the project, but lacks a great deal of easily discoverable information; assessment ratings. I've done the People section manually, but could a bot be programmed to find out the assessment of these articles and add the appropriate icon? For example, the bot should check Talk:Train, read the "class=B" assessment and add {{ B-icon}} with a space before the Train entry in the Transportation section. For bonus points, it would be great to have FAC and GAN failures also listed. Skomorokh 18:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Come on guys, this should not be too hard - there is already a user gadget that scrapes this sort of content; all that needs doing is to have the bot add a few icons here and there. Anyone? Skomorokh 15:58, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
DYK posts about 210-280 new/expanded articles to the Main Page every week (every seven days). To make decisions about DYK, DYK is in need of a bot to keep an ongoing count of the number of hooks listed at Template talk:Did you know. See this discussion. The counting for the bot should be straight forward since all the hooks listed at Template talk:Did you know have level 4 headers and begin with ====[[. Each day set of hooks includes a consistenly worded level 3 header. We're looking for a table output that includes the total number of hooks in the DYK pipeline and a breakdown per day. Manually, I did a cound that found a total of 90 DYK hooks, with the breakdown as follows: November 30 (1), December 1 (2), December 2 (1), December 3 (4), December 4 (9), December 5 (28), December 6 (22), December 7 (16), December 8 (7). Is such a DYK hook count bot doable? -- Suntag ☼ 19:53, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I have been working on List of skin-related conditions, and want to (1) alphabetize the diseases under each header, and (2) alphabetize the synonym names for diseases within each parenthetical, and wanted to know if there was a bot, or some other automated way, to do this? I would prefer not to do it manually. Thanks again for all your help! kilbad ( talk) 04:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
perl -pwe 'if(/^\*/){ s{\]\] \((.*)\)\s*$}{ "]] (".join(", ", sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } split(/, /, $1)).")\n" }e; }'to sort the parentheticals, and
perl -nwe 'BEGIN { @x=(); } if(/^\s*$/ || /^==/){ print join("", sort { lc ($a) cmp lc($b) } @x).$_; @x=(); } elsif(/^\*/){ push @x, $_; } else { $n=$.+11; die "XXX Bad line at line $n\n"; }'to sort the lists. Anomie ⚔ 17:04, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
The page Template talk:Did you know has a lot of traffic adding {{tl:DYKsuggestion}} and removing that same template. The level 4 headers have an edit button. It is common to press the edit button for one DYK nomination, but to have the edit page open to a different DYK hook. It's annoying. See Section editing shenanigans. Purging the page seems to help, but is tedeous and not everyone knows about it. Is a bot available to purge that page every so often, such 5 minutes or more? Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 01:40, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm requesting 2 bots to be pre-approved to revert vandalism on this site under my command. They will go under the names of Probot 1 and Probot 2. When they're created, they will benefit the site well. Commander Lightning ( talk) 01:38, 14 December 2008 (UTC) Commander Lightning ( The Galactic Empire will CRUSH the Rebel Alliance )
I need someone to make a bot for the Newbie page for reverting vandilism (for example, deleting all text) and, if possible, checking spelling errors.Call it NoobBot.Make the bot and notify me when you make it.I will take the bot and keep up better versions of it, but I will give you credit.The version you will make is version 0.1 Beta.Thank you! User:Shock64 User talk:Shock64
Over at Wikipedia:Improving referencing efforts we're trying to improve article referencing. It would be helpful if we had statistics on the proportion of articles with references, average references per article, etc. Does anyone have a bot that could help with this? Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 21:32, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
(redent)Wow! Super cool. Would it be possible for you to do the same thing for the current version? I'm very curious to see how (or if) that 72% has changed. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 00:14, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
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Request for a bot-replacement of the text from "http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/" to "http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/" when used as a URL fragment in references per http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/fha33.html and http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/fha33.html. This bot should not update non-article pages and it should not update the URL if it is used other than as a reference. A report should be generated so changes can be easily audited. There are over 1000 uses of this string in articles. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to sweep through WP and change all instances of Manchester City Centre (note the capitalisation), to Manchester city centre? The article was renamed not so long ago, but the earlier name (now a redirect) persists. Shouldn't be a difficult bot to make I imagine. :) Thanks, -- Jza84 | Talk 01:07, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm looking for someone here to take a list of redlinks articles I've compiled and and turn each one into a redirect. The list is located here. An example of what I need done is
Create:
Addison Township, Gallia County, OH with #REDIRECT [[Addison Township, Gallia County, Ohio]]
Every link would be treated the same redirecting the page to Township, County, Ohio. Is this possible? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Lego Kontribs TalkM 01:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC) Done Lego Kontribs TalkM 15:31, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
DYK gives credit to editors who write articles (creators) and for those that suggest DYK hooks (nominators). The creators and nominators are identified on the
DYK suggestion page by parameters such |creator=
, |nominator=
, |collaborator=
, etc. DYK hooks approved on the suggestion page are manually copied to the
Template:Did you know/Next update page. From there, they are manually copied into one of five queue pages
Template:Did you know/Queue. The nominator and creator credits listed in the Queue's are read by a bot and posted to the appropriate user talk page.
There is a significant difference between a creator and a nominator credit. Sometimes in manually moving the DYK hook information from the suggestion page to the next update page, the nominator is listed as a creator. For example,
This diff shows that I was listed as a nominator for Careysburg, Liberia.
This diff shows the move of the information to the Next update template put me as a creator/maker via {{DYKmake|Careysburg, Liberia|Suntag}}. It should have read {{DYKnom|Careysburg, Liberia|Suntag}}. Five of my last thirty DYK hooks were miss credited due to this error. It is a common, human error and DYK is hoping a bot can help us. Bot request Can you create a bot to read the credits in the history of the
DYK suggestion page, compare them to the credits listed in the
Queues, and output a report if there is a discrepancy between the two? --
Suntag
☼ 00:23, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
There's ton of requested articles on Wikipedia, but most items in this list are very minor, not notable, and don't have any links to them. It would be useful to have a list of the most requested nonexistant articles, found by the most common redlinks. This would be a huge benefit to WP: plenty of people want to create new articles, but the RA list is daunting and resources would be better directed towards articles that are already linked to.
There have been previous projects like this, but have all been discontinued - apparently due to changes in proxy regulations because of vandals. But perhaps a bot could do this job - search for redlinks and dump the results on a ranking page, perhaps? Flying Toaster 07:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
The 259 deprecated {{
coor d}} templates on
Cities of the Ancient Near East have a name
parameter, many of which include square brackets, for example: name=Eshnunna [Tell Asmar]
. These need to be changed to parentheses, like name=Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)
in order that the templates can be converted to {{
Coord}}. The presence of square brackets elsewhere in the raw code precludes a simple search-and-replace. Can someone do the necessary, please?
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 21:35, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please get a bot to sort each of the articles in Category:Blackpool F.C. seasons by season? For example, Blackpool F.C. season 1896–97 should have [[Category:Blackpool F.C. seasons|1896-97]] at the bottom, and Blackpool F.C. season 2007–08 should have [[Category:Blackpool F.C. seasons|2007-08]] at the bottom. If anyone could do this for me, that would be much appreciated. Thanks. – Pee Jay 20:03, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
I just discovered Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia and it is awesome. Any help in cleaning out some of these backlogs would be very much appreciated. Cheers. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 06:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
THat would be nice, cuz then ppl dont have to be on 24/7 to keep up w/ the constant stream of users. If u know how, contact me, and tell me what to do for it.
It's a request to change the deprecated "
as of" links (
as of 2000, etc) to the new system {{
as of}}. Explicitly, it should remove the as of links, listed
here, and replace them with {{
As of|year}}
or {{
As of|year|month}}
. The only little problem is that the template is case-sensitive: if it's a lowercase, it should add lc=on. The case where there is a day is more complicated. Though they are less common, so it can be revisited later or done (semi-)manually. This is completely supported by consensus: the as of links are deprecated and the new mosnum is even more strict on date links, while the as of template is widely used.
Cenarium
(Talk) 23:13, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Most articles in Category:Days in 2005 and Category:Days in 2003 need to be moved out of article space to Portal space.
Rather than having the article February 12, 2005, it should be in the portal namespace at Portal:Current events/2005 February 12, like the more recent Portal:Current events/2008 November 23. We should have articles for month year ( February 2005), but not month day, year. They, as they are not actual articles, should be in the portal namespace and transcluded to the month article, like how Portal:Current events/2008 September 6 is transcluded to September 2008.
This is already a set precedent, and this is how it has been done for more recent years. Earlier years, however, were not updated and moved to Portal:Current events. Thanks Reywas92 Talk 02:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
(reposted from here) Suntag, I noticed your conversation with Daniel Case, and I just had an idea that seems like it might be up your alley.... I don't know how we would go about actually implementing this or keeping track of these kinds of things, but maybe it would be cool to have a list of DYK articles that go on to make GA or FA. (since the DYK credit template is transcluded in the talk page, the easiest way might be to have a bot that goes through all pages where that is transcluded, and return all pages that also have GA or FA in their {{ ArticleHistory}}.) Of course, who knows, maybe such a list would just be embarrassing (what if we find that 95% of DYK articles stagnate and get ignored after their big day?) but if not, it may be fun to think about. — Politizer talk/ contribs 16:44, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
|GA=yes}}
for each talk page listed in
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that also is listed in
Category:Wikipedia good articles. In addition, please have the bot revise the }} portion of {{
dyktalk}} template to read |FA=yes}}
for each talk page listed in
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that also is listed in
Category:Wikipedia featured articles. The bot tagging will populate
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are good articles and
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are featured articles. Thanks. --
Suntag
☼ 17:08, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
FC=yes
rather than FA=yes
(simply because there might be some featured lists as well as featured articles)? —
Politizer
talk/
contribs 20:26, 23 December 2008 (UTC)|GA=yes
to the template calls, is that it will have a dummy parameter sitting around doing nothing...and then as soon as the template code itself is edited then those parameters would start working. (I assume that's what would happen?) —
Politizer
talk/
contribs 20:29, 23 December 2008 (UTC)|FC=yes
or |GA=yes
if the template already has that text. Apologies if you already knew about that; I figured I should just mention it in case. —
Politizer
talk/
contribs 20:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 17. Anomie ⚔ 23:24, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Note: I've withdrawn the BRFA as it seems this is no longer wanted. Hopefully Gimmetrow updates GimmeBot to convert the 76 or so uses of {{ dyktalk}} on GA/FA pages to {{ ArticleHistory}}. Anomie ⚔ 04:11, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm moving a bunch of articles to comply with WP:DASH, and things would be a lot easier if there was a bot that could handle the moving, double redirect checking etc...
The links are compiled here : User:Headbomb/Move
The bot would move them to the en dash version automatically, correct article text to use en dashes, then check and fix double redirect. Is this doable? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Many of the sub-pages of
List of United Kingdom locations use {{
coor d}}, which was deprecated some time ago. I thought these had already been changed to {{
Coord}}; but apparently not. Can someone do that, please? A simple change of the string {{coor d
to {{coord
should be all that's needed, but there are a lot of instances on a good many pages.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 22:16, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm leaving and so I need an admin who is willing to take over User:DYKBot and User:DYKadminBot. The source code is here (PHP) although it has some problems. Anyone willing to do this? ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) ( talk) 02:13, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
The web version of table2wiki.py choked on List of townlands in County Kilkenny, returning an empty page. It's a 400K+ source file that needs to be wikified. This should trim the source down considerably. Thanks. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 02:38, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
perl -nwe 'BEGIN { $first=0; } if(/^<tr>$/){ print "\n|- align=\"center\"\n"; $first=1; } elsif(m{^\s*$|^</tr>$}){ } elsif(m{^<td align="center">(.*)</td>$}){ print " |" unless $first; print "| $1"; $first=0; } else { die "WTF?"; }'Not the prettiest or most efficient code ever, but it worked. Anomie ⚔ 22:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Gotcha. Thanks, §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have no background in computer programming, but I have patrolled new pages more than a couple of times. It seems that some of the basic tasks there could be automated. 1st, I take it for granted that most pages that are speedy-deleted are created by relatively new users, and that the longer a user has been here, the less likely to create pages that are speedy-worthy. As I said, I have no knowledge of programming, but I have put together a flow-chart that approximates the bot's modus-operandi. It contains arrays for blatant advertising (the blacklist there is borrowed from User:Bishonen), and I'm sure that more experienced users will be able to think of more blacklist terms to put in the other arrays. Speedy deletion is always a sensitive matter, especially when dealing with users who are potentially valuable new users, so the arrays will have to be fairly complex. Contrary to how they are portrayed in the chart, I now imagine them to compose a single, large array with +/- points in in multiple axes, i.e. -5 vandalism, +5 advertising, -5 exempt, instead of the linear system used by cluebot.
What it would do
What it would not do
Any comments or suggestions would be welcome. Litho derm 03:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm requesting that a bot remove the outdated transclusions of Template:Afd-mergefrom. This would be accomplished by checking to see whether the page title supplied as the first parameter now is a redirect (and if so, whether it leads to the page corresponding to the talk page on which the template is transcluded). If both conditions are met, the template should be removed. If only the first condition is met, the talk page on which the template is transcluded should be added to a list for manual analysis. If neither condition is met, no action should be taken. — David Levy 03:13, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 20. Please let me know how often you'd like the thing to run, where it should report, and whether removing the {{ afd-mergefrom}} when the AFDed page has been deleted is a good idea. Anomie ⚔ 22:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could make a bot(s) (or copy the source code of) a bot that could do some/all of the following general use tasks:
In no specific order:
As well as:
I have very little programming experience, but am willing to learn to operate such a bot. I simply need someone to create one for me. Thank you very much. Ninja Wizard ( talk) 21:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Template:Main transclusion target link examiner bot
See also: Denied Bugzilla Request
Could somebody please create a bot for me that would do the following:
Additional requirements:
I would like to be able to run this as *MY* bot... so I am looking for a bot-creator who is willing to make this bot for me. I will then go through the process of getting it approved.
Thanks, Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 01:21, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Using the API is fine. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:29, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Currently, all articles in this cat are sorted under "A" for "ATC". Can a bot edit each article and add a cat sort parameter that is the third word in the article name. Thus in ATC code D03 replace [[Category:ATC codes]] with [[Category:ATC codes|D03]]? Thanks — G716 < T· C> 06:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
This is a request for a bot to purge the cache of Main Page every day at 00:00 (UTC), when three of the five dynamic sections are supposed to switch to the next date's templates. This also would enable us to add the current date (based on UTC) to the top of the page (something currently under consideration). — David Levy 23:17, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I could be wrong, but I believe at least certain ParserFunctions have an auto-purge function built into them. Things like {{CURRENTDAY}} specifically. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:42, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
User:Nixeagle runs DYKadminBot now, but he's only just taken over from User:Ameliorate! who has retired from wiki, so he's not familiar with it and currently on vacation. Any chance someone could get this bot running again? It was (mostly) working fine before being apparently moved to the toolserver a day or two ago. Thanks, Gatoclass ( talk) 06:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I was recently looking through Category:Wikipedia backlog and noticed that over a hundred thousand User-created public domain images should be moved to Commons. This task doesn't seem to require much human thought to move (I tried moving a couple; it was boring), so I thought a bot might be good to work through the backlog fairly quickly. I have absolutley no experience coding (other than with TI-BASIC), so I can't do the bot. ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 18:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
There are a lot of articles entitled "List of birds of xxxx" and "Wildlife of xxxx" that have links to nutcracker that really should go to nutcracker (bird). Could someone fix these with a bot? Colonies Chris ( talk) 19:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, {{ Infobox Court Case}} has been updated as follows:
It would be great if a bot could do the following in all articles containing the infobox:
Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 19:10, 31 December 2008 (UTC), updated 08:53, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 17:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Many articles about Christian hymns use the "Cyberhymnal" website as a resource. It's recently moved, however, from http://www.cyberhmnal.org to http://www.hymntime.com/tch. Could we have a bot change the links? I would do it, as I don't think that there are tons of links to the website, but I don't know how to find all the articles that link to the Cyberhymnal. Nyttend ( talk) 17:33, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Make a Cabal Online US bot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.213.242 ( talk) 04:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry if this is duplicated, but would it be possible to automatically check for, and remove instances of Category:Living people from those who are, by the rules of the category, presumed dead. Obvious signs that the category was now out-of-date or incorrectly added (it does happen) would include:
Obviously a few checks and balances would be needed (like obvious user mistakes such as putting (1954 - 2009) where 2009 is the current year to mean that they are still alive), but even a one-time purge of the 300000 articles in living people would be useful. Cheers, Jarry1250 ( talk) 14:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Can someone write a bot that can automatically update WikiProject contest pages such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest? The military history page is currently manually updated. It could read the list of members from the Members page and bump it against articles using the Project template and update the statistics. Such a bot will be really useful in managing the statistics. These contest will motivate people contribute more. The bot can be used across projects similar to how cleanup listings and article alerts are generated. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 07:22, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm seeking a bot that can build project watchlists for WikiProject Louisville and WikiProject Kentucky the same (or similar) way as WatchlistBot used to do, but stopped in August 2007. It would be good if this bot could run as much as once a week, but twice a month would be adequate. Here's an example of a watchlist page that was built for WikiProject Louisville by WatchlistBot. I'm sure this bot would be of interest to the many projects that used WatchlistBot previously but haven't found a new bot to take over the task as of yet. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:28, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
If someone can create a bot to put the stub template into articles that don't have much content on, then people could get on with actually adding stuff to those articles! 86.128.244.86 ( talk) 20:09, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Whats a footy stub? I mean this kind of stub: {{ stub}} Would it be possible to make a bot that can do that? 86.128.244.86 ( talk) 20:24, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't know! I don't know how to make bots! That's why I am requesting, not writing the code! But maybe a footy stub bot would be better. 86.128.244.86 ( talk) 20:39, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot cross reference all articles which are either tagged with {{
Future film}}
or rated as Future-Class in the {{
Film}}
project banner, then draw up a list of those articles which have one or the other but not both? This would be to help maintain such articles within the Future film department of
WP:FILM. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
PC78 (
talk) 20:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Can a bot help clear the contents of
Category:Film articles using old needs infobox parameter? This simply requires replacing the old |needs infobox=
parameter with the new |needs-infobox=
(i.e. with the dash).
At the same time, could all transclusions of the redirects {{ FilmsWikiProject}} and {{ WikiProject Film}} be replaced with {{ Film}}?
Many thanks! PC78 ( talk) 01:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
|importance=
parameter be removed from any templates?
PC78 (
talk) 13:28, 10 January 2009 (UTC)BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 22. Anomie ⚔ 15:04, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello there, I would like to have a bot that archvives old stuff that are on pages on the skatoony wiki And i have made the account already: Rswfanbot Which i am posting on, Would i need to Post on my normal account to Request this or is it ok just to Request bot status on the bot account?
Thanks
Rswfanbot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rwsfanbot ( talk • contribs) 10:59, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
The two following articles both have a "types" sections with many links in them, and I wanted to know if someone could run a bot to alphabetize them? Noncicatricial_alopecia and Cicatricial alopecia
kilbad ( talk) 19:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
The Placebox template series (used in just under 330 articles, judging from what links to {{ Placebox-begin}} ) need to be replaced with {{ Infobox settlement}}. Would anybody up for that - it might be quite complex. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to substitute the template Template:Dated prod every day in the current CAT:PROD per bot? I think it would be very helpful. Thanks. — Aitias // discussion 23:51, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I would like a bot to append the message at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe/Message to every talk page listed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe. This week's Signpost was just published, and the delivery is ready to go.
Also, Signpost delivery has normally been handled by User:Ralbot, but if a bot operator would be so kind to volunteer their services for future cases where Ral315 isn't publishing that week, that would make it easier to carry on normally. Sign up at: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom#Publishing.-- ragesoss ( talk) 20:44, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
There has been discussion at WT:VG about bringing back our Collaboration of the week. The problem is that there are about four (that I know of) inactive collaboration projects for VG already. The main problem is that in this democratic/Wiki society, everything, even a collaboration, needs to be voted on, which creates too much bureaucracy and people lose interest. My idea, which has gained some support, was to have a bot choose an article every week randomly from the intersections of certain VG assesment categories (Stub, Start, or C, and High or Top). While I do not have a request at this moment, I wanted to know if A} this method of selection and randoization is possible and B) is there a bot owner that would be interested in doing this? It would be one random call and probably two edits a week, so it wouldn't be very taxing. If I know that it is possible and there is a bot owner willing to help then I can start actively trying to get support for the idea. Cheers. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 18:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Done The bot has been approved, see {{ User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage}} for instructions. Suggestions for improvement may go at User talk:AnomieBOT or User talk:AnomieBOT/RandomPage. Anomie ⚔ 22:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot to run at a future date to change all instances of ƿ to w and all instances of ȝ to g for the Anglo-Saxon wiki. There may be need of one to switch accents to macrons (á to ā). How easy would this be? -- JJohnson1701 ( talk) 07:33, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Currently, everything at MfD has to be done by hand. There are a lot of discussions there that get closed early, it would be great if a bot would go through a 3-4 times a day and remove the closed discussions from the active portion of the page. The bot would also take care of archiving, although this is less of a pain to do by hand. Thanks,-- Aervanath talks like a mover, but not a shaker 07:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks in advance! -- Snek01 ( talk) 00:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I need all of the sub-pages of the following portals categorized:
I will need all sub-pages and their sub-sub pages (E.G. Portal:Food/Selected item/1).
Thank you, Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:53, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for doing that, -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 04:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
It would be nice if someone could create a bot that tags articles in Special:UncategorizedPages, so that people like User:T@nn could focus on actually categorizing them, instead of simply tagging and running. ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 04:09, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
The template redirect Bristol is under discussion at the moment. The banner has been moved to {{ Bristol WP}} so can all links that currently link to Bristol, be changed to Bristol WP? Only all the current links, not future ones. Simply south not SS, sorry 13:01, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
A number of articles in List of settlements in the Achaea prefecture have hard-coded tables instead of {{ Infobox Settlement}}, I fixed one, but there are plenty more. Can anyone fix them by bot? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:19, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
← This is now progressing; please see discussion on my talk page. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:02, 17 January 2009 (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)
A while back the talk page templates {{ Film needs cast section}}, {{ Filmimage}} and {{ Film needs synopsis}} were incorporated into the {{ Film}} project banner. Can a bot therefore replace all uses of these templates with the appropriate parameter in {{ Film}}, i.e.
|needs=cast=yes
|needs-image=yes
|needs-synopsis=yes
This will help remove a lot of template clutter from a lot of talk pages.
In addition to this, can all 5000 or so transclusions of the redirect {{ FilmsWikiProject}} be replaced with {{ Film}}?
Also, can the following deprecated parameters be removed from all transclusions of the banner:
|importance=
|attention=
|auto=
|portal1-name=
|portal2-name=
|portal3-name=
|portal4-name=
|portal5-name=
Thanks in advance for any help with the above. PC78 ( talk) 11:09, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Done replacing the three templates named (on 14037 pages!). Do you intend to have the templates deleted now? Anomie ⚔ 04:45, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I need fifty identical pages created at Portal:Beer/Selected picture to use with the {{ Random portal component}} template that is on the main page Portal:Beer. They need to be named Portal:Beer/Selected picture/1 to Portal:Beer/Selected picture/50 and all need to contain the template {{ Selected picture}}.
Thanks, Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the work, -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 04:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I am sorry, I meant that the entire text of the linked template should be on the pages, could some one please do that for me?
{{Selected picture | image = | size = | caption = | text = | credit = | link = }}
Also, could some one please change the templates on the pages at Portal:Wine/Selected picture/# from Portal:Wine/Selected picture/Layout to {{ Selected picture}}. The fields will all remain the same, just the template name.
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 08:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Greetings - I'm sure that this must have been dealt with somewhere or other, and if so, apologies, but would it be possible to get a bot to fix the umpteen examples of full stops and commas that get plonked after that final ...ref/> - as in ...ref/>. and ...ref/>, or would it lead to choas because it might interfere with legitimate formats? Cheers! -- Technopat ( talk) 00:24, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi there everyone. I wonder if someone might be able to create a bot for me that could perform two tasks on all of the articles in Category:Huddersfield Town F.C. seasons. The first task that needs doing is the replacement of all instances of {{ Huddersfield Town F.C.}} in the articles with {{ Huddersfield Town F.C. seasons}}; the second task is to replace the hyphens in the article titles with endashes (–). This shouldn't be too taxing. Thanks in advance. – Pee Jay 22:17, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to make a bot that will carry out the following changes in tagalog wikipedia?
Nickrds09 ( talk) 03:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Articles get nominated for AfD. Articles also get tagged with relevant Wikiprojects. Seems to me that it would be a good idea if a bot could automatically notify the talk pages of Wikiprojects that are associated with articles that have been nominated at AfD that the article has been nominated. Thus if an article is nominated for AfD, and it is tagged with WP:KENT, WP:AVIATION and WP:Disaster Management, those three Wikiprojects would be notified that the article had been nominated. It would be a good idea if the bot also notified the AfD discussion which Wikiprojects it had notified. Mjroots ( talk) 16:56, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
With bot listed above, you can set it to only update AFDs (or all deletion works) and transclude the subpage it creates onto the Talk: page of the project. §hep • Talk 17:47, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Could some one please change all of the articles that are classified under Category:Cocktails and change them so that they fall under Category:Mixed drinks? If they already have the mixed drink cat on them, just delete the cocktails cat. For now leave please the sub-categories alone.
There are about 65 articles under that cat.
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 09:25, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I am not deleting the category, There are still sub cats that need to be examined. I only need the articles that are cocktails recategorized for now. -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 05:31, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I am a new user at Wikipedia.
Before I realized how to use Wikipedia properly by using the sandbox, I uploaded a page which contained numerous errors.
I then edited using sandbox and when I tried to upload the corrected version I was issued a ClueBot number because it appeared as if I were vandalizing the site.
My Clue Bot number is 539482 and my user name is Hdrosenberg. How do I go about removing the erroneous page and replacing it with the correct one?
thank you,
hdrosenberg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hdrosenberg ( talk • contribs) 23:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi! The Dungeons & Dragons WikiProject uses this page to keep track of what our most popular articles are so that we can try to work on them in that order. It takes some time to update them by hand, though, and we can't really check all of the project's articles. Could a bot could be designed to output such a table, with article names, hits, and quality, on a monthly basis? It would be great if it could check all of the articles in Category:All Dungeons & Dragons articles, as well as checking redirects and adding them in. I know that it's probably not possible or would be to much coding to be worth it, but I thought I'd ask. Thanks! - Drilnoth ( talk) 03:31, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I need all of the sub-pages at Portal:Wine/Did you know to have the template swapped out to {{ Selected DYK}}. Leave all of the fields intact, but simply change the template name please.
Thanks again, -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 05:56, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Anyone with interwiki bot approval fancy updating all the en.wp AWB IW links please?
Checkpage would be a bit more difficult (fully protected), but can be done semi-manually if necessary
Thanks
— Ree dy 18:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I need a particular string of text replaced, I have been referencing a book across many articles, copy and pasting it each time, and it turns out I misspelt the authors name. I need "S.E. Doorman and R.G. Henderson" replaced by "S.E. Dornan and R.G. Henderson" - per http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2937646
Wongm ( talk) 02:15, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
This website allows free archiving of web pages, so that link rot doesn't make a reference unusable. They've actually thought of doing this themselves here, but I bet someone here could get it done a lot faster. They talk about doing it as the refs are added, but a really smart bot might even be able to do it for some preexisting refs. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 14:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
How is this different than the Wayback machine and {{ Wayback}}?
Services such as the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) or Google archive Internet documents in a shotgun-approach by a crawler, not focussing on academic references. The caching process cannot be initiated by authors, editors, or publishers wanting to archive a specific web reference as they saw it on a specific date when they quoted it. In contrast, WebCite® is a tool specifically designed to be used by authors, readers, editors and publishers of scholarly material, allowing them to permanently archive cited Internet references.
— WebCite FAQ
I have decided to take on this task. Since this bot would be altering a huge number of pages, I am going to seek community approval for this task. I am writing up a proposal now and will post a link to it here when I'm ready (likely sometime tomorrow). This task is actually more involved than one might think. Since I've already been thinking it through the past few days, I think I am probably the most qualified to take on the task. -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 04:09, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
...
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 05:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I have filled a BRFA for this bot. Please direct any further comments there. Thank you! -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 04:06, 24 January 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 22 | Archive 23 | Archive 24 | Archive 25 | Archive 26 | → | Archive 30 |
Wikipedia:Vital articles is one of the most important pages of the project, but lacks a great deal of easily discoverable information; assessment ratings. I've done the People section manually, but could a bot be programmed to find out the assessment of these articles and add the appropriate icon? For example, the bot should check Talk:Train, read the "class=B" assessment and add {{ B-icon}} with a space before the Train entry in the Transportation section. For bonus points, it would be great to have FAC and GAN failures also listed. Skomorokh 18:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Come on guys, this should not be too hard - there is already a user gadget that scrapes this sort of content; all that needs doing is to have the bot add a few icons here and there. Anyone? Skomorokh 15:58, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
DYK posts about 210-280 new/expanded articles to the Main Page every week (every seven days). To make decisions about DYK, DYK is in need of a bot to keep an ongoing count of the number of hooks listed at Template talk:Did you know. See this discussion. The counting for the bot should be straight forward since all the hooks listed at Template talk:Did you know have level 4 headers and begin with ====[[. Each day set of hooks includes a consistenly worded level 3 header. We're looking for a table output that includes the total number of hooks in the DYK pipeline and a breakdown per day. Manually, I did a cound that found a total of 90 DYK hooks, with the breakdown as follows: November 30 (1), December 1 (2), December 2 (1), December 3 (4), December 4 (9), December 5 (28), December 6 (22), December 7 (16), December 8 (7). Is such a DYK hook count bot doable? -- Suntag ☼ 19:53, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I have been working on List of skin-related conditions, and want to (1) alphabetize the diseases under each header, and (2) alphabetize the synonym names for diseases within each parenthetical, and wanted to know if there was a bot, or some other automated way, to do this? I would prefer not to do it manually. Thanks again for all your help! kilbad ( talk) 04:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
perl -pwe 'if(/^\*/){ s{\]\] \((.*)\)\s*$}{ "]] (".join(", ", sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } split(/, /, $1)).")\n" }e; }'to sort the parentheticals, and
perl -nwe 'BEGIN { @x=(); } if(/^\s*$/ || /^==/){ print join("", sort { lc ($a) cmp lc($b) } @x).$_; @x=(); } elsif(/^\*/){ push @x, $_; } else { $n=$.+11; die "XXX Bad line at line $n\n"; }'to sort the lists. Anomie ⚔ 17:04, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
The page Template talk:Did you know has a lot of traffic adding {{tl:DYKsuggestion}} and removing that same template. The level 4 headers have an edit button. It is common to press the edit button for one DYK nomination, but to have the edit page open to a different DYK hook. It's annoying. See Section editing shenanigans. Purging the page seems to help, but is tedeous and not everyone knows about it. Is a bot available to purge that page every so often, such 5 minutes or more? Thanks. -- Suntag ☼ 01:40, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm requesting 2 bots to be pre-approved to revert vandalism on this site under my command. They will go under the names of Probot 1 and Probot 2. When they're created, they will benefit the site well. Commander Lightning ( talk) 01:38, 14 December 2008 (UTC) Commander Lightning ( The Galactic Empire will CRUSH the Rebel Alliance )
I need someone to make a bot for the Newbie page for reverting vandilism (for example, deleting all text) and, if possible, checking spelling errors.Call it NoobBot.Make the bot and notify me when you make it.I will take the bot and keep up better versions of it, but I will give you credit.The version you will make is version 0.1 Beta.Thank you! User:Shock64 User talk:Shock64
Over at Wikipedia:Improving referencing efforts we're trying to improve article referencing. It would be helpful if we had statistics on the proportion of articles with references, average references per article, etc. Does anyone have a bot that could help with this? Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 21:32, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
(redent)Wow! Super cool. Would it be possible for you to do the same thing for the current version? I'm very curious to see how (or if) that 72% has changed. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 00:14, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
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Request for a bot-replacement of the text from "http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/" to "http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/" when used as a URL fragment in references per http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/fha33.html and http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/fha33.html. This bot should not update non-article pages and it should not update the URL if it is used other than as a reference. A report should be generated so changes can be easily audited. There are over 1000 uses of this string in articles. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to sweep through WP and change all instances of Manchester City Centre (note the capitalisation), to Manchester city centre? The article was renamed not so long ago, but the earlier name (now a redirect) persists. Shouldn't be a difficult bot to make I imagine. :) Thanks, -- Jza84 | Talk 01:07, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm looking for someone here to take a list of redlinks articles I've compiled and and turn each one into a redirect. The list is located here. An example of what I need done is
Create:
Addison Township, Gallia County, OH with #REDIRECT [[Addison Township, Gallia County, Ohio]]
Every link would be treated the same redirecting the page to Township, County, Ohio. Is this possible? Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Doing... Lego Kontribs TalkM 01:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC) Done Lego Kontribs TalkM 15:31, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
DYK gives credit to editors who write articles (creators) and for those that suggest DYK hooks (nominators). The creators and nominators are identified on the
DYK suggestion page by parameters such |creator=
, |nominator=
, |collaborator=
, etc. DYK hooks approved on the suggestion page are manually copied to the
Template:Did you know/Next update page. From there, they are manually copied into one of five queue pages
Template:Did you know/Queue. The nominator and creator credits listed in the Queue's are read by a bot and posted to the appropriate user talk page.
There is a significant difference between a creator and a nominator credit. Sometimes in manually moving the DYK hook information from the suggestion page to the next update page, the nominator is listed as a creator. For example,
This diff shows that I was listed as a nominator for Careysburg, Liberia.
This diff shows the move of the information to the Next update template put me as a creator/maker via {{DYKmake|Careysburg, Liberia|Suntag}}. It should have read {{DYKnom|Careysburg, Liberia|Suntag}}. Five of my last thirty DYK hooks were miss credited due to this error. It is a common, human error and DYK is hoping a bot can help us. Bot request Can you create a bot to read the credits in the history of the
DYK suggestion page, compare them to the credits listed in the
Queues, and output a report if there is a discrepancy between the two? --
Suntag
☼ 00:23, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
There's ton of requested articles on Wikipedia, but most items in this list are very minor, not notable, and don't have any links to them. It would be useful to have a list of the most requested nonexistant articles, found by the most common redlinks. This would be a huge benefit to WP: plenty of people want to create new articles, but the RA list is daunting and resources would be better directed towards articles that are already linked to.
There have been previous projects like this, but have all been discontinued - apparently due to changes in proxy regulations because of vandals. But perhaps a bot could do this job - search for redlinks and dump the results on a ranking page, perhaps? Flying Toaster 07:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
The 259 deprecated {{
coor d}} templates on
Cities of the Ancient Near East have a name
parameter, many of which include square brackets, for example: name=Eshnunna [Tell Asmar]
. These need to be changed to parentheses, like name=Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)
in order that the templates can be converted to {{
Coord}}. The presence of square brackets elsewhere in the raw code precludes a simple search-and-replace. Can someone do the necessary, please?
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 21:35, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Could someone please get a bot to sort each of the articles in Category:Blackpool F.C. seasons by season? For example, Blackpool F.C. season 1896–97 should have [[Category:Blackpool F.C. seasons|1896-97]] at the bottom, and Blackpool F.C. season 2007–08 should have [[Category:Blackpool F.C. seasons|2007-08]] at the bottom. If anyone could do this for me, that would be much appreciated. Thanks. – Pee Jay 20:03, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
I just discovered Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia and it is awesome. Any help in cleaning out some of these backlogs would be very much appreciated. Cheers. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 06:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
THat would be nice, cuz then ppl dont have to be on 24/7 to keep up w/ the constant stream of users. If u know how, contact me, and tell me what to do for it.
It's a request to change the deprecated "
as of" links (
as of 2000, etc) to the new system {{
as of}}. Explicitly, it should remove the as of links, listed
here, and replace them with {{
As of|year}}
or {{
As of|year|month}}
. The only little problem is that the template is case-sensitive: if it's a lowercase, it should add lc=on. The case where there is a day is more complicated. Though they are less common, so it can be revisited later or done (semi-)manually. This is completely supported by consensus: the as of links are deprecated and the new mosnum is even more strict on date links, while the as of template is widely used.
Cenarium
(Talk) 23:13, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Most articles in Category:Days in 2005 and Category:Days in 2003 need to be moved out of article space to Portal space.
Rather than having the article February 12, 2005, it should be in the portal namespace at Portal:Current events/2005 February 12, like the more recent Portal:Current events/2008 November 23. We should have articles for month year ( February 2005), but not month day, year. They, as they are not actual articles, should be in the portal namespace and transcluded to the month article, like how Portal:Current events/2008 September 6 is transcluded to September 2008.
This is already a set precedent, and this is how it has been done for more recent years. Earlier years, however, were not updated and moved to Portal:Current events. Thanks Reywas92 Talk 02:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
(reposted from here) Suntag, I noticed your conversation with Daniel Case, and I just had an idea that seems like it might be up your alley.... I don't know how we would go about actually implementing this or keeping track of these kinds of things, but maybe it would be cool to have a list of DYK articles that go on to make GA or FA. (since the DYK credit template is transcluded in the talk page, the easiest way might be to have a bot that goes through all pages where that is transcluded, and return all pages that also have GA or FA in their {{ ArticleHistory}}.) Of course, who knows, maybe such a list would just be embarrassing (what if we find that 95% of DYK articles stagnate and get ignored after their big day?) but if not, it may be fun to think about. — Politizer talk/ contribs 16:44, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
|GA=yes}}
for each talk page listed in
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that also is listed in
Category:Wikipedia good articles. In addition, please have the bot revise the }} portion of {{
dyktalk}} template to read |FA=yes}}
for each talk page listed in
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that also is listed in
Category:Wikipedia featured articles. The bot tagging will populate
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are good articles and
Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are featured articles. Thanks. --
Suntag
☼ 17:08, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
FC=yes
rather than FA=yes
(simply because there might be some featured lists as well as featured articles)? —
Politizer
talk/
contribs 20:26, 23 December 2008 (UTC)|GA=yes
to the template calls, is that it will have a dummy parameter sitting around doing nothing...and then as soon as the template code itself is edited then those parameters would start working. (I assume that's what would happen?) —
Politizer
talk/
contribs 20:29, 23 December 2008 (UTC)|FC=yes
or |GA=yes
if the template already has that text. Apologies if you already knew about that; I figured I should just mention it in case. —
Politizer
talk/
contribs 20:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 17. Anomie ⚔ 23:24, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Note: I've withdrawn the BRFA as it seems this is no longer wanted. Hopefully Gimmetrow updates GimmeBot to convert the 76 or so uses of {{ dyktalk}} on GA/FA pages to {{ ArticleHistory}}. Anomie ⚔ 04:11, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm moving a bunch of articles to comply with WP:DASH, and things would be a lot easier if there was a bot that could handle the moving, double redirect checking etc...
The links are compiled here : User:Headbomb/Move
The bot would move them to the en dash version automatically, correct article text to use en dashes, then check and fix double redirect. Is this doable? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Many of the sub-pages of
List of United Kingdom locations use {{
coor d}}, which was deprecated some time ago. I thought these had already been changed to {{
Coord}}; but apparently not. Can someone do that, please? A simple change of the string {{coor d
to {{coord
should be all that's needed, but there are a lot of instances on a good many pages.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 22:16, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm leaving and so I need an admin who is willing to take over User:DYKBot and User:DYKadminBot. The source code is here (PHP) although it has some problems. Anyone willing to do this? ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) ( talk) 02:13, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
The web version of table2wiki.py choked on List of townlands in County Kilkenny, returning an empty page. It's a 400K+ source file that needs to be wikified. This should trim the source down considerably. Thanks. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 02:38, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
perl -nwe 'BEGIN { $first=0; } if(/^<tr>$/){ print "\n|- align=\"center\"\n"; $first=1; } elsif(m{^\s*$|^</tr>$}){ } elsif(m{^<td align="center">(.*)</td>$}){ print " |" unless $first; print "| $1"; $first=0; } else { die "WTF?"; }'Not the prettiest or most efficient code ever, but it worked. Anomie ⚔ 22:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Gotcha. Thanks, §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:37, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have no background in computer programming, but I have patrolled new pages more than a couple of times. It seems that some of the basic tasks there could be automated. 1st, I take it for granted that most pages that are speedy-deleted are created by relatively new users, and that the longer a user has been here, the less likely to create pages that are speedy-worthy. As I said, I have no knowledge of programming, but I have put together a flow-chart that approximates the bot's modus-operandi. It contains arrays for blatant advertising (the blacklist there is borrowed from User:Bishonen), and I'm sure that more experienced users will be able to think of more blacklist terms to put in the other arrays. Speedy deletion is always a sensitive matter, especially when dealing with users who are potentially valuable new users, so the arrays will have to be fairly complex. Contrary to how they are portrayed in the chart, I now imagine them to compose a single, large array with +/- points in in multiple axes, i.e. -5 vandalism, +5 advertising, -5 exempt, instead of the linear system used by cluebot.
What it would do
What it would not do
Any comments or suggestions would be welcome. Litho derm 03:47, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm requesting that a bot remove the outdated transclusions of Template:Afd-mergefrom. This would be accomplished by checking to see whether the page title supplied as the first parameter now is a redirect (and if so, whether it leads to the page corresponding to the talk page on which the template is transcluded). If both conditions are met, the template should be removed. If only the first condition is met, the talk page on which the template is transcluded should be added to a list for manual analysis. If neither condition is met, no action should be taken. — David Levy 03:13, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 20. Please let me know how often you'd like the thing to run, where it should report, and whether removing the {{ afd-mergefrom}} when the AFDed page has been deleted is a good idea. Anomie ⚔ 22:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone could make a bot(s) (or copy the source code of) a bot that could do some/all of the following general use tasks:
In no specific order:
As well as:
I have very little programming experience, but am willing to learn to operate such a bot. I simply need someone to create one for me. Thank you very much. Ninja Wizard ( talk) 21:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Template:Main transclusion target link examiner bot
See also: Denied Bugzilla Request
Could somebody please create a bot for me that would do the following:
Additional requirements:
I would like to be able to run this as *MY* bot... so I am looking for a bot-creator who is willing to make this bot for me. I will then go through the process of getting it approved.
Thanks, Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 01:21, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Using the API is fine. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:29, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Currently, all articles in this cat are sorted under "A" for "ATC". Can a bot edit each article and add a cat sort parameter that is the third word in the article name. Thus in ATC code D03 replace [[Category:ATC codes]] with [[Category:ATC codes|D03]]? Thanks — G716 < T· C> 06:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
This is a request for a bot to purge the cache of Main Page every day at 00:00 (UTC), when three of the five dynamic sections are supposed to switch to the next date's templates. This also would enable us to add the current date (based on UTC) to the top of the page (something currently under consideration). — David Levy 23:17, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I could be wrong, but I believe at least certain ParserFunctions have an auto-purge function built into them. Things like {{CURRENTDAY}} specifically. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 00:42, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
User:Nixeagle runs DYKadminBot now, but he's only just taken over from User:Ameliorate! who has retired from wiki, so he's not familiar with it and currently on vacation. Any chance someone could get this bot running again? It was (mostly) working fine before being apparently moved to the toolserver a day or two ago. Thanks, Gatoclass ( talk) 06:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I was recently looking through Category:Wikipedia backlog and noticed that over a hundred thousand User-created public domain images should be moved to Commons. This task doesn't seem to require much human thought to move (I tried moving a couple; it was boring), so I thought a bot might be good to work through the backlog fairly quickly. I have absolutley no experience coding (other than with TI-BASIC), so I can't do the bot. ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 18:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
There are a lot of articles entitled "List of birds of xxxx" and "Wildlife of xxxx" that have links to nutcracker that really should go to nutcracker (bird). Could someone fix these with a bot? Colonies Chris ( talk) 19:03, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, {{ Infobox Court Case}} has been updated as follows:
It would be great if a bot could do the following in all articles containing the infobox:
Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 19:10, 31 December 2008 (UTC), updated 08:53, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 17:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Many articles about Christian hymns use the "Cyberhymnal" website as a resource. It's recently moved, however, from http://www.cyberhmnal.org to http://www.hymntime.com/tch. Could we have a bot change the links? I would do it, as I don't think that there are tons of links to the website, but I don't know how to find all the articles that link to the Cyberhymnal. Nyttend ( talk) 17:33, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
Make a Cabal Online US bot! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.213.242 ( talk) 04:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry if this is duplicated, but would it be possible to automatically check for, and remove instances of Category:Living people from those who are, by the rules of the category, presumed dead. Obvious signs that the category was now out-of-date or incorrectly added (it does happen) would include:
Obviously a few checks and balances would be needed (like obvious user mistakes such as putting (1954 - 2009) where 2009 is the current year to mean that they are still alive), but even a one-time purge of the 300000 articles in living people would be useful. Cheers, Jarry1250 ( talk) 14:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
Can someone write a bot that can automatically update WikiProject contest pages such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest? The military history page is currently manually updated. It could read the list of members from the Members page and bump it against articles using the Project template and update the statistics. Such a bot will be really useful in managing the statistics. These contest will motivate people contribute more. The bot can be used across projects similar to how cleanup listings and article alerts are generated. Thanks, Ganeshk ( talk) 07:22, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm seeking a bot that can build project watchlists for WikiProject Louisville and WikiProject Kentucky the same (or similar) way as WatchlistBot used to do, but stopped in August 2007. It would be good if this bot could run as much as once a week, but twice a month would be adequate. Here's an example of a watchlist page that was built for WikiProject Louisville by WatchlistBot. I'm sure this bot would be of interest to the many projects that used WatchlistBot previously but haven't found a new bot to take over the task as of yet. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:28, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
If someone can create a bot to put the stub template into articles that don't have much content on, then people could get on with actually adding stuff to those articles! 86.128.244.86 ( talk) 20:09, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Whats a footy stub? I mean this kind of stub: {{ stub}} Would it be possible to make a bot that can do that? 86.128.244.86 ( talk) 20:24, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't know! I don't know how to make bots! That's why I am requesting, not writing the code! But maybe a footy stub bot would be better. 86.128.244.86 ( talk) 20:39, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot cross reference all articles which are either tagged with {{
Future film}}
or rated as Future-Class in the {{
Film}}
project banner, then draw up a list of those articles which have one or the other but not both? This would be to help maintain such articles within the Future film department of
WP:FILM. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
PC78 (
talk) 20:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Can a bot help clear the contents of
Category:Film articles using old needs infobox parameter? This simply requires replacing the old |needs infobox=
parameter with the new |needs-infobox=
(i.e. with the dash).
At the same time, could all transclusions of the redirects {{ FilmsWikiProject}} and {{ WikiProject Film}} be replaced with {{ Film}}?
Many thanks! PC78 ( talk) 01:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
|importance=
parameter be removed from any templates?
PC78 (
talk) 13:28, 10 January 2009 (UTC)BRFA filed Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 22. Anomie ⚔ 15:04, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello there, I would like to have a bot that archvives old stuff that are on pages on the skatoony wiki And i have made the account already: Rswfanbot Which i am posting on, Would i need to Post on my normal account to Request this or is it ok just to Request bot status on the bot account?
Thanks
Rswfanbot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rwsfanbot ( talk • contribs) 10:59, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
The two following articles both have a "types" sections with many links in them, and I wanted to know if someone could run a bot to alphabetize them? Noncicatricial_alopecia and Cicatricial alopecia
kilbad ( talk) 19:26, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
The Placebox template series (used in just under 330 articles, judging from what links to {{ Placebox-begin}} ) need to be replaced with {{ Infobox settlement}}. Would anybody up for that - it might be quite complex. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 23:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to substitute the template Template:Dated prod every day in the current CAT:PROD per bot? I think it would be very helpful. Thanks. — Aitias // discussion 23:51, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
I would like a bot to append the message at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe/Message to every talk page listed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe. This week's Signpost was just published, and the delivery is ready to go.
Also, Signpost delivery has normally been handled by User:Ralbot, but if a bot operator would be so kind to volunteer their services for future cases where Ral315 isn't publishing that week, that would make it easier to carry on normally. Sign up at: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom#Publishing.-- ragesoss ( talk) 20:44, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
There has been discussion at WT:VG about bringing back our Collaboration of the week. The problem is that there are about four (that I know of) inactive collaboration projects for VG already. The main problem is that in this democratic/Wiki society, everything, even a collaboration, needs to be voted on, which creates too much bureaucracy and people lose interest. My idea, which has gained some support, was to have a bot choose an article every week randomly from the intersections of certain VG assesment categories (Stub, Start, or C, and High or Top). While I do not have a request at this moment, I wanted to know if A} this method of selection and randoization is possible and B) is there a bot owner that would be interested in doing this? It would be one random call and probably two edits a week, so it wouldn't be very taxing. If I know that it is possible and there is a bot owner willing to help then I can start actively trying to get support for the idea. Cheers. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 18:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Done The bot has been approved, see {{ User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage}} for instructions. Suggestions for improvement may go at User talk:AnomieBOT or User talk:AnomieBOT/RandomPage. Anomie ⚔ 22:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot to run at a future date to change all instances of ƿ to w and all instances of ȝ to g for the Anglo-Saxon wiki. There may be need of one to switch accents to macrons (á to ā). How easy would this be? -- JJohnson1701 ( talk) 07:33, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Currently, everything at MfD has to be done by hand. There are a lot of discussions there that get closed early, it would be great if a bot would go through a 3-4 times a day and remove the closed discussions from the active portion of the page. The bot would also take care of archiving, although this is less of a pain to do by hand. Thanks,-- Aervanath talks like a mover, but not a shaker 07:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks in advance! -- Snek01 ( talk) 00:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I need all of the sub-pages of the following portals categorized:
I will need all sub-pages and their sub-sub pages (E.G. Portal:Food/Selected item/1).
Thank you, Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:53, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for doing that, -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 04:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
It would be nice if someone could create a bot that tags articles in Special:UncategorizedPages, so that people like User:T@nn could focus on actually categorizing them, instead of simply tagging and running. ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 04:09, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
The template redirect Bristol is under discussion at the moment. The banner has been moved to {{ Bristol WP}} so can all links that currently link to Bristol, be changed to Bristol WP? Only all the current links, not future ones. Simply south not SS, sorry 13:01, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
A number of articles in List of settlements in the Achaea prefecture have hard-coded tables instead of {{ Infobox Settlement}}, I fixed one, but there are plenty more. Can anyone fix them by bot? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:19, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
← This is now progressing; please see discussion on my talk page. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:02, 17 January 2009 (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)
A while back the talk page templates {{ Film needs cast section}}, {{ Filmimage}} and {{ Film needs synopsis}} were incorporated into the {{ Film}} project banner. Can a bot therefore replace all uses of these templates with the appropriate parameter in {{ Film}}, i.e.
|needs=cast=yes
|needs-image=yes
|needs-synopsis=yes
This will help remove a lot of template clutter from a lot of talk pages.
In addition to this, can all 5000 or so transclusions of the redirect {{ FilmsWikiProject}} be replaced with {{ Film}}?
Also, can the following deprecated parameters be removed from all transclusions of the banner:
|importance=
|attention=
|auto=
|portal1-name=
|portal2-name=
|portal3-name=
|portal4-name=
|portal5-name=
Thanks in advance for any help with the above. PC78 ( talk) 11:09, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Done replacing the three templates named (on 14037 pages!). Do you intend to have the templates deleted now? Anomie ⚔ 04:45, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I need fifty identical pages created at Portal:Beer/Selected picture to use with the {{ Random portal component}} template that is on the main page Portal:Beer. They need to be named Portal:Beer/Selected picture/1 to Portal:Beer/Selected picture/50 and all need to contain the template {{ Selected picture}}.
Thanks, Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the work, -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 04:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I am sorry, I meant that the entire text of the linked template should be on the pages, could some one please do that for me?
{{Selected picture | image = | size = | caption = | text = | credit = | link = }}
Also, could some one please change the templates on the pages at Portal:Wine/Selected picture/# from Portal:Wine/Selected picture/Layout to {{ Selected picture}}. The fields will all remain the same, just the template name.
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 08:16, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Greetings - I'm sure that this must have been dealt with somewhere or other, and if so, apologies, but would it be possible to get a bot to fix the umpteen examples of full stops and commas that get plonked after that final ...ref/> - as in ...ref/>. and ...ref/>, or would it lead to choas because it might interfere with legitimate formats? Cheers! -- Technopat ( talk) 00:24, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi there everyone. I wonder if someone might be able to create a bot for me that could perform two tasks on all of the articles in Category:Huddersfield Town F.C. seasons. The first task that needs doing is the replacement of all instances of {{ Huddersfield Town F.C.}} in the articles with {{ Huddersfield Town F.C. seasons}}; the second task is to replace the hyphens in the article titles with endashes (–). This shouldn't be too taxing. Thanks in advance. – Pee Jay 22:17, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to make a bot that will carry out the following changes in tagalog wikipedia?
Nickrds09 ( talk) 03:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Articles get nominated for AfD. Articles also get tagged with relevant Wikiprojects. Seems to me that it would be a good idea if a bot could automatically notify the talk pages of Wikiprojects that are associated with articles that have been nominated at AfD that the article has been nominated. Thus if an article is nominated for AfD, and it is tagged with WP:KENT, WP:AVIATION and WP:Disaster Management, those three Wikiprojects would be notified that the article had been nominated. It would be a good idea if the bot also notified the AfD discussion which Wikiprojects it had notified. Mjroots ( talk) 16:56, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
With bot listed above, you can set it to only update AFDs (or all deletion works) and transclude the subpage it creates onto the Talk: page of the project. §hep • Talk 17:47, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Could some one please change all of the articles that are classified under Category:Cocktails and change them so that they fall under Category:Mixed drinks? If they already have the mixed drink cat on them, just delete the cocktails cat. For now leave please the sub-categories alone.
There are about 65 articles under that cat.
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 09:25, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I am not deleting the category, There are still sub cats that need to be examined. I only need the articles that are cocktails recategorized for now. -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 05:31, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I am a new user at Wikipedia.
Before I realized how to use Wikipedia properly by using the sandbox, I uploaded a page which contained numerous errors.
I then edited using sandbox and when I tried to upload the corrected version I was issued a ClueBot number because it appeared as if I were vandalizing the site.
My Clue Bot number is 539482 and my user name is Hdrosenberg. How do I go about removing the erroneous page and replacing it with the correct one?
thank you,
hdrosenberg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hdrosenberg ( talk • contribs) 23:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi! The Dungeons & Dragons WikiProject uses this page to keep track of what our most popular articles are so that we can try to work on them in that order. It takes some time to update them by hand, though, and we can't really check all of the project's articles. Could a bot could be designed to output such a table, with article names, hits, and quality, on a monthly basis? It would be great if it could check all of the articles in Category:All Dungeons & Dragons articles, as well as checking redirects and adding them in. I know that it's probably not possible or would be to much coding to be worth it, but I thought I'd ask. Thanks! - Drilnoth ( talk) 03:31, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I need all of the sub-pages at Portal:Wine/Did you know to have the template swapped out to {{ Selected DYK}}. Leave all of the fields intact, but simply change the template name please.
Thanks again, -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 05:56, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Anyone with interwiki bot approval fancy updating all the en.wp AWB IW links please?
Checkpage would be a bit more difficult (fully protected), but can be done semi-manually if necessary
Thanks
— Ree dy 18:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I need a particular string of text replaced, I have been referencing a book across many articles, copy and pasting it each time, and it turns out I misspelt the authors name. I need "S.E. Doorman and R.G. Henderson" replaced by "S.E. Dornan and R.G. Henderson" - per http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2937646
Wongm ( talk) 02:15, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
This website allows free archiving of web pages, so that link rot doesn't make a reference unusable. They've actually thought of doing this themselves here, but I bet someone here could get it done a lot faster. They talk about doing it as the refs are added, but a really smart bot might even be able to do it for some preexisting refs. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 14:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
How is this different than the Wayback machine and {{ Wayback}}?
Services such as the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) or Google archive Internet documents in a shotgun-approach by a crawler, not focussing on academic references. The caching process cannot be initiated by authors, editors, or publishers wanting to archive a specific web reference as they saw it on a specific date when they quoted it. In contrast, WebCite® is a tool specifically designed to be used by authors, readers, editors and publishers of scholarly material, allowing them to permanently archive cited Internet references.
— WebCite FAQ
I have decided to take on this task. Since this bot would be altering a huge number of pages, I am going to seek community approval for this task. I am writing up a proposal now and will post a link to it here when I'm ready (likely sometime tomorrow). This task is actually more involved than one might think. Since I've already been thinking it through the past few days, I think I am probably the most qualified to take on the task. -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 04:09, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
...
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 05:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
I have filled a BRFA for this bot. Please direct any further comments there. Thank you! -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 04:06, 24 January 2009 (UTC)