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Hello, I would like to change the format of {{ Infobox Taiwan Station}}. The current template codes on each page are like this:
{{Infobox_Taiwan_Station| Title=| SubTitle=| EngTitle=| EngSubTitle=| ImageName=| ImageSize=| ImageCaption=| Style=| Place=| Coordinates=| Code=| Operator=| Line=| StartDate=| RouteType=| TraLevel=| TraElecCode=| TraStartLocal=| TraMile=| }}
It is very disorganized. Based on other station infoboxes, I propose to change to this: (Note: The name of the infobox is changed too.)
{{Infobox Taiwan station | title = | en-title = | image = example.jpg | image_size = 250px | image_caption = | type = | address = | coordinates = {{coord||}} | code = | operator = | line = | opened = | tra_level = | tra_code = | tra_start = | tra_mileage = }}
Notice subtitles and route type are deleted because they are mostly unnecessary. Several names are replaced in order. Thanks, waiting for approval... impact F = check this 05:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello. See Template talk:Year in baseball#suggestion. We need a bot that can replace the sidebar {{ Year in baseball}} with: 1) {{ Year in baseball top}}; and 2) at the bottom of the page the new footer {{ Year in baseball}}. This would be done on all of the "[YEAR] in baseball" articles, about 140 or so pages. Right before this is done, the code from the talk page needs to be copied onto the template so the current sidebar template becomes a navbox. Any takers? If so, please follow up at the talk page Template talk:Year in baseball#suggestion. Rgrds. -- Tombstone ( talk) 15:16, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
in the template {{ Infobox Television film}}, i would like make it so that that filename only is required when adding images. this is easily accomplished by swapping:
this: CURRENT {{#if: {{{image|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}} | {{!}} style="text-align: center;" colspan="2" {{!}} {{{image}}} {{#if: {{{caption|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}} | <br/><span style="font-size: 95%; line-height:1.5em;">{{{caption}}}</span> }} with this: NEW {{#if:{{{image|}}}| {{!}} style="font-size: 95%; line-height:1.5em; text-align: center;" colspan="2" {{!}} [[File:{{{image}}}|{{#if:{{{image_size|}}}|<!--then:-->{{px|{{{image_size}}} }} |<!--else:-->220px}}|]] {{#if:{{{caption|}}}|<br />{{{caption}}}}}
however, each article (>500) using this template will need to be gleaned of the wiki markup coding in that field.
from this: | image = [[file:example.jpg|220px]] to this: | image = example.jpg | imagesize = 220px
.....submitted for your approval. -- emerson7 23:00, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can place move requests on every article in a template? All 60+ articles in Template:Pride Events need to be moved (through 1 discussion page of coarse), so is there a bot that can place the same move template on them all or will I have to manually do it? TJ Spyke 07:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Can about change all the links from Kveta Peschke to Květa Peschke please, as this is her correct spelling. There might be 100s more similar to this requests, for Czech names, so maybe I will have to make a bot myself. -- Voletyvole ( talk) 11:28, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot to update this table on a monthly basis. It's not too hard to do by hand, but then it's even easier for a bot. :) The required information for the quality/importance columns can just be copied directly from here. The AfD columns require that the bot parse the archive of this page for the previous month and count the number of bullets in the lists (the "*" character), as well as the number of instances of the words "Delete", "Redirected", "Keep" and "Merged". Thanks! SharkD ( talk) 05:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Please update {{Swiss Presidents}} to {{Presidents of the Swiss Confederation}} as according to Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Swiss_Presidents about 80 articles of former presidents still use the old name template, which causes problems, like these articles still showing up at the disambiguation Special:WhatLinksHere/Eduard_Müller for some reason, instead at the proper article Special:WhatLinksHere/Eduard_Müller_(Swiss_politician). The admin that had made the move a year ago had not bothered to fix this. -- Matthead Discuß 22:25, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot to update the tables in this page. The information can be gotton using the article traffic statistics tool. There's also a backlog of about 8 months that would need to be filled on the bot's first run. If the bot could also update the graphs it would be doubleplusgood. Ideally I would like the graphs to be SVG images instead of PNG, but I'm not real sure how this would be accomplished. Thanks! SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone put {{ Taiwan-film-stub}} and replace {{ Taiwan-stub}} and {{ Film-stub}} on Taiwanese film stubs? The list is here. Thanks! :)
Can anyone do the request I had above??? impact F = check this 00:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Could we get the WikiProject Triathlon banner ( Template:WP Triathlon) on all articles in Category:Triathlon and Category:Duathlon and all subcategories of both (I have checked for exceptions, but there are none). A number of articles have already been tagged. Thanks. Yboy83 ( talk) 09:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
The backlog at Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized is running low. The category is usually populated by Alaibot directly from database dumps but it seems that Alai is AWOL. I don't know if anyone has code available to perform a similar task, nor do I know if Alai ever published his code. In any case, I'd appreciate if someone can at least tag articles of Special:UncategorizedPages which are indeed uncategorized. Note that in fact most of the articles appearing on the special page are categorized because of cache issues which is why Alaibot was so useful. Pichpich ( talk) 21:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if there's any bot that already fulfills this function, but I monitor articles proposed for deletion from time to time and find it quite tiresome to add {{ oldprodfull}} to talkpages. What about having a bot search old revisions of articles for prod notices and updating talkpages with the appropriate details accordingly? Skomorokh 02:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
PLEASE reinstate betacommandbot! he was sooooooooooo cool! please reinstate him soon! why did you get rid of him??????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.160.167.169 ( talk) 21:19, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Would someone have the time and inclination to create a one-step WP:DELSORT process? User:Hrafn suggested that a bot periodically pick up on delsort tags placed directly in an AfD and automagically transclude the AfD in question on to the target page if not already present. It would cut the work of deletion sorting roughly in half. Jclemens ( talk) 18:48, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot check through all articles using the |imdb_id=
parameter in {{
Infobox Film}} to see which of these do not otherwise contain a link to IMDb, i.e. through the use of {{
imdb title}} (or any of its redirects), and present this data in the form of a numbered list? Such information would be useful in an ongoing debate over the use of such parameters in the infobox. Thanks in advance for any help! :)
PC78 (
talk) 15:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Can a bot remove all user pages from article space categories and monitor and new additions? I am often removing user page categories since uses will:
It seems a feasible task for a bot. Hmm. Had a think about it. How do you define a non-article category? Everything under
Category:Wikipedia administration? All cats (with some exceptions) that have Wikipedia or template in the category name? --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 02:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Could someone please write a bot to patrol this page to tag orphaned articles as such? This would help WikiProject Orphanage in our work at de-orphaning articles. Thanks, ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 21:47, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Excellent idea. Saves us the trouble of clicking "What link here" on a bunch of stubs. Over time these will be de-orphaned, and thus get more attention, thus improve. Tag away!
Could someone (or something) replace all the outdated accessmonthday fields in Ayumi Hamasaki with whatever the correct field(s) is/are? I r t3h n00b when it comes to this kind of thing, so sorry if this is in the wrong section or whatever. Thanks! Ink Runner ( talk) 18:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Since we often discuss highly contentious issues in our project ( WP:SLR), we agreed to wait some time after marking topics as "resolved", before archiving them, so people get a chance to say: "No, this isn't resolved yet!" I asked Cobi, whose well documented bots I would have loved to use, but they can't do that. Earlier, we had a purely time triggered bot, but the problem with that was that it also archived sections that were just at a momentary standstill. — Sebastian 09:35, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Could someone tag all the following categories with their proper banners?
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks}}
? How about
Category talk:Snooker and
Category talk:Cocktails with WPBeer? The other two look alright, but the paragraph at the top of the page was added for a reason: tagging by category is hit-and-miss at the best of times, and just tagging the actual categories doesn't decrease the risk that much.
Happy‑
melon 21:04, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Can some one have a bot find {{flagicon|Ireland|rugby}} and replace with [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]] as per
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rugby_union#Wider_opinion_needed
Gnevin (
talk)
I found these two redirect pages redirecting to two DIFFERENT articles:
That should not happen and I fixed it. I've seen this situation maybe a couple of dozen times. In another case, I found these three redirecting to three DIFFERENT articles:
A bot cannot decide what pages things like this ought to redirect to, if any, but I would think a bot could be constructed to
Could someone tag all the following projects with their proper banners and proper categories?
Thanks, Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:04, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
yes. -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:31, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Can someone add an automatic bot that patrols the pages in the Heroes template? Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 04:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Can someone add an automatic bot that patrols featured articles? Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 04:04, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Greetings all! This is my first bot request, so be kind. Over at WP:SFD we need something that will update stub categories on hundreds of articles, as the templates have been either renamed, deleted, or redirected. Alaibot used to do this, but sadly Alai has vanished off the radar since Dec 13, and work is backing up. There are currently, for example, articles linked to the non-existent Category:European organization stubs which should fall into the new Category:European organisation stubs, since the template's category was renamed. I hope I'm explaining myself all right. Can we recruit a bot to go through the stub cats on a regular basis and fix this? I assume it's due to server lag, but no one wants to null-edit a gazillion stub articles (I'm sure that's what caused Grutness' arthritis...;). Cheers, Pegship ( talk) 05:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Please take a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#IM_and_VOIP. Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 06:42, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering if it would be possible to make a bot that would check, when someone removes a speedy delete tag, that it wasn't the page creator, and if it was, revert the edit? It would also be nice if the bot could move {{ hangon}} templates to the proper location. This would make monitoring new pages much easier, since ATM every time I csd an article I have to watch it until it gets deleted, because there is a 25-30% chance that the creator will remove the tag. -Zeus- u c 01:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
If the original article falls into a class like "nocontent" or "nocontext", and the author fixes the article and then removes the speedy tag, reverting these edits would essentially be vandalism by the bot and might cause us to lose a good article (if the CSD-patrolling admin doesn't properly check the history). Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, let's not turn it into one by making a strong but ignorable rule on CSD tags into bot-enforced policy. Kusma ( talk) 12:59, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
The recent addition of the {{PROTECTIONLEVEL}} magic word has allowed the protection templates to output a category instead of visible material when they are placed inappropriately, that is, when the protection level of the page does not match the protection template. This category is visible at Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. I initially thought that the speed at which this category would fill would be low enough that it would be manageable; I was wrong.
Therefore, I request that someone create a bot to handle most cases, using basic logic along the lines of:
This bot could be run once daily to eliminate virtually all the backlog for the aforementioned category. The logic could be improved to make more intelligent decisions and provide other benefits, but this minimal workflow would be sufficient. Thank you for considering this request. {{ Nihiltres| talk| log}} 03:46, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot change all the links to Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling, Buddah Records? Thanks Chubbles ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot change all the links to Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling, Buddah Records? Thanks Chubbles ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
It was formerly the case that filling in the |isbn= field with a raw number in infoboxes such as {{ Infobox book}} did not activate the ISBN magic coding linking to Special:Booksources. This meant that "ISBN" had to be entered into the field as well: that is "|isbn=ISBN 1412806461" rather than simply |isbn=1412806461. The code seems to have been fixed now, meaning that there are a lot of entries with redundant "ISBN" coding. It's obviously an issue of minor style/presentation importance, but should be a relatively easy task to code for. All a bot would have to do is check whether "ISBN" followed "|isbn=" and if so, remove the former (with appropriate spacing). Anyone willing to take this on? Skomorokh 16:33, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot change all the links to Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling, Buddah Records? Thanks Chubbles ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
I raise it here in case there's an easy way to set up a project or bot to tag all these dead links and move all these outdated/mistitled pages. (Some of the v. Bush cases are closed, and thus correctly titled; some of the whitehouse.gov pages work, so not all the links are dead, so perhaps not.) THF ( talk) 06:25, 13 February 2009 (UTC), updated 14:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
So save the list of articles and urls now, and work on developing a bot in the meantime. That way you'll be able to get a list of pages where you'd need to manually review the edit history after the bot finishes (ones where the bot cannot find a link to modify). — CharlotteWebb 20:52, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Coding... for the first part; the plan is to check the target link for a 404 response, and then check the replacement for a 200 before replacing. I'll probably throw in a log of links without a 200 on the replacement for human processing. If someone can tell me how to determine which cases need to be moved and which don't, I could look into the second part too.
Anomie
⚔ 00:12, 15 February 2009 (UTC) (X! already started coding
Anomie
⚔ 00:33, 15 February 2009 (UTC))
Is it possible to have a bot run through all subcategories of
Category:Films by year (excluding
Category:The Wizard of Oz (1939 film),
Category:Dragnet,
Category:Dragnet episodes,
Category:Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
Category:Sholay,
Category:Donnie Darko,
Category:Chak De India,
Category:Enchanted (film) and
Category:Songs from Enchanted) and ensure that all articles have the {{
Film}}
project banner on their talk page, keeping all existing assessments and other parameters where they currently exist?
In addition, can the bot add the appropriate task force parameters to the banner in the following categories:
{{Film|American-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of American films by year{{Film|Argentine-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Argentine films by year{{Film|British-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of British films by year{{Film|French-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of French films by year{{Film|Chinese-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Hong Kong films by year{{Film|Italian-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Italian films by year{{Film|Japanese-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Japanese films by year{{Film|Korean-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of South Korean films by year{{Film|Spanish-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Spanish films by yearI made this proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films#Bot tagging articles for WP:FILM last week, where it met with approval. Let me know if you need anything else, this is my first such request here. :) PC78 ( talk) 23:07, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, I see Legobot did a run on this earlier today. I see that only articles starting with A and B were tagged; will the bot therefore be doing this in stages, rather than a single sweep? PC78 ( talk) 19:41, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Done Lego Kontribs TalkM 02:16, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
One more request: can the bot add the appropriate task force parameters to the banner in the following categories:
{{Film|American-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:American films{{Film|British-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:British filmsThese are two recent task forces of ours for which doing a manual tagging run would be extremely difficult, especially given the two countries' prodigious output and the English Wikipedia's natural systemic bias towards more comprehensive coverage of these national cinemas. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 18:58, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Reviving Any progress with this? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 13:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
As mentioned above, blindly recursing (even with a blacklist) is not acceptable. You need to specify exactly which categories needs tagged. Q T C 21:21, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
After posting a more detailed description of my idea here, I would like to drop it by here to see what kind of reaction I will get. I would like to create a process where a bot goes to pages on the many other language wikis, runs a translate script on the article title, and looks for an article on the en wiki with both titles. When there's no article, it outputs to a list, with links to the other language articles, as well as multiple free language specific translate tools. Volunteers would then follow up on the list, and create article/remove them from the list when appropriate.
This bot would be run periodically to refresh the en wiki's shortcomings, and a blacklist can also be setup for pages that are determined to not be wanted. There's some other bits, but that's the jist of it. Anyways, although the bot would do several specific tasks, the most important is the first one: is it possible to retrieve interwiki data from the sidebar? -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 04:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
This snippet is from archive number 24 I believe. While his request sounds innocent enough, what he didnt furnish was the fact that his request is based upon a bias of a very heated warfare about orthography.
Ultimately after all the blood and sweat, the users decided to make use of duplicate page versions, in a similar manner of the Gothic Wikipedia. When I say "the users," I mean regular contributors, as James/JJohnson1701 is never an active contributor, only surfaces once every several months, and has not written a single page which is any more than half a page in length.
That in itself is meaningless, but the point is, in making this move, he is attempting to defy our consensus to make use of both practices, as that is the only decision which gave us peace, and the ability to continue the project.
Discovering this, after all of that was over, is appalling quite frankly. Do not grant this bot request. — ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ ( talk) 14:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I've just developed a suite of templates that make requesting expansion from other language wikipedias much easier. See {{ Expand Spanish}} for example. One feature, though, of the templates may be problematic. When you tag an article, there is an optional parameter for the name of the article in the other language. If no title is specified, it defaults to assuming that the article in the other language has the same name as the English article. This is generally fine bc most translation requests are geographic places and biographies that have the same name in both languages. If the article names are different, this causes a problem. Can someone make a bot that goes through all the articles that are tagged with a template that is generated by {{ Expand language}}, then sees if the corresponding interwiki article exists, then if it doesn't either notifies the tagger, or puts a notice on the article talk page, or adds it to a list so translation project people can fix them manually? Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Templates of the style {{
FebruaryCalendar2008Source}} are correctly tagged
T3 speedy deletion candidates because they are redundant to templates of the style {{
FebruaryCalendar|year=2008}}
. I'd like to request a bot (should be easy to do) that replaces all instances of all templates of the first kind with those of the second kind, i.e. {{
MayCalendar2007Source}} with {{
MayCalendar|year=2007}}
etc.
It should also be able to replace constructs like {{{{CURRENTMONTH}}Calender{{CURRENTYEAR}}Source}} with {{{{CURRENTMONTH}}Calender|year={{CURRENTYEAR}}}}.
And finally, it should tag all those former templates that are duplicates (i.e. of the style {{MonthCalenderYearSource}}
) with {{
db-t3}} (don't forget the <noinclude>-tags for that) and list them on a subpage in my userspace so I can delete them after the waiting period is over. So who wants to code me that little thing?
Regards
So
Why 11:37, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
endnote
and note
as aliases for EndNote
, for example, that seems to be lacking in the new.1a
" is really a horrible name) and AnomieBOT can translate those at the same time too.
Anomie
⚔ 02:15, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Ok, User:SoWhy asked me to provide some background: Before parserfunctions such as #time: and #if: were created in 2006 or 2007 (I can't remember), we had to create separate templates for each year. Thus the existence of {{ MayCalendar2004Source}}, {{ MayCalendar2005Source}}, {{ MayCalendar2006Source}}, etc. So with the existence of the parserfunctions, we could make general calendar templates there are more self-maintaining. So there have been discussions such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year/Archive 7#The calendar on the date pages and Template talk:JanuaryCalendar to have those kind of templates.
Well, finally we had the time to merge all the parameters into a few templates such {{ MayCalendar}}. I know it might look like spaghetti code, but it will have to do for now so it would be backward compatible for all the templates whose functionality were merged.
I believe I have already done most of the replacements already. The problem now is that since these templates were on so many pages, transcluded and cascading on multiple pages at a time, that I am currently waiting for the job queue to fully update all the backlinks so the "What Links Here" lists are fully accurate. I mean if you look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:MayCalendar2008Source, it lists a bunch of subpages of Portal:Music/DateOfBirth, but the template was actually only directly on the transcluded page Portal:Music/DateOfBirth/May.
Thus, any bot here is premature for the next month or two (last time I heard, the job queue takes about 40 days to fully complete a round of all the pages on Wikipedia). Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
This page may have some use, but only if it's updated (it's currently a year out-of-date). Would some who'd got a minute look at it? - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 14:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
[I'm relisting this August 2008 request (including subsequent revisions), as the editor who said he would make the edits has not done so, nor replied to many enquiries as to progress (due at least in part to understandable family matters).]
I've compiled a list of relevant infoboxes at User:Pigsonthewing/to-do#Date conversions.
Thank you.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
It is a controversial proposal. Perhaps it would be prudent to await consensus on this matter after the Time wikiproject has time to properly consider the desirability of needlessly encoding dates in an arcane format. - J JMesserly ( talk) 21:39, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
I support the proposal of J JMesserly and favor the {{ start-date}}: Before all, Wikitext must remain human readable. (BTW: There's in fact currently no chance - even for programmers - to enter a date like "7 December 1941 8AM HST" using {{ Start date}}: I vainly tried
{{Start date|1941|12|7|18|||Z}}, {{Start date|1941|12|7|18||Z}}, {{Start date|1941|12|7|18|Z}}
). -- Geonick ( talk) 00:05, 5 February 2009 (UTC) (UTC) source
I propose consideration of this proposal be suspended until
For those interested in the nature of the controversy, please see Manual of style- dates discussion on the unnecessary obscurity and error prone nature of the {{ start date}} template compared to alternatives that achieve the same goal. - J JMesserly ( talk) 15:47, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
It has been demonstrated by the thread above and at the Manual of style- dates page that bot runs employing {{ start date}} are controversial as evidenced by the responses from multiple other contributors. - J JMesserly ( talk) 19:07, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if it would be possible to get a bot to italicize all instances of the word kata. I tried doing it in AWB but couldn't figure out how to get the program to ignore it if it was already italicized. Thus, a command like "change all instances of kata to kata" would look only at the word inside the double single quotes, find it, add more double single quotes, and end up changing every instance of kata to 'kata', which is no good.
There is a potential for false positives, but I think that as long as the bot is confined to Category:Martial arts and its subcategories, it shouldn't be a problem.
Can anyone help out with this? Thanks. LordAmeth ( talk) 20:13, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
s/([^'][^'])(kata)([^'][^'])/${1}''${2}''${3}/i
. No idea how to translate it into an AWB regex. Two important points about this: it won't italicize already-bolded instances, and it will make a hash of wikilinks. --
Carnildo (
talk) 10:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
s/\b(?:'')?kata(?:'')?\b/''kata''/i;
would probably be better. --
JLaTondre (
talk) 13:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Following up on my previous request, I would like to be able to find which articles could benefit from translation. A bot could compare en.wiki articles (probably only stubs at this stage) with articles they are linked to via interwikis. Where the linked article is significantly long (a rudimentary measure of article quality), the bot could slap an {{ Expand Spanish}} (or another language) tag on the en.wiki. Or the bot could just output a list of these articles so they could be reviewed manually. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 18:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
What you are not seeing Garion is that these tags are markedly ***different*** to other tags on wikipedia. It precisely because of editors like yourself who dismiss these articles as OK that very little has been done about it. By dismissing these tags as "all tags are evil" is just typical of the kind of narrow minded attitude that many have on here in regards to our potential and ways in which we can improve. They are not administered to cleanup etc they are administered to produce a net result in expansion in direct translation which eventually will undoubtedly start to produce massive results in the content of english wikipedia. They serve as a direct gateway between english and the other and keep track and also makes other aware that the article is in the process of being improved in correspondence. Fact is listing articles for translation behind the workspace and in the talk page at peoples request failed miserably for years. It never brought it to somebody's urgent attention that the articles can easily be expanded in minutes with the link provided so the articles would just be lying about in some barely ever used log in the workspace gathering dust and people visit the article and move on with no results. I don't think you quite understand the purpose of this proposal. Yes tags are ugly which is partly why they are so useful, it prompts people to try to quickly sort out whatever perceived problem the article is experiencing and can therefore remove it asap. As for size I don't see a huge template at all, looks no bigger than most of the templates we have. It is essential in my view that we dramatically increase the coordination of translation on wikipedia and root out the articles which have far superior articles on other wikipedias and begin to draw peoples atttention to doing something about it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:43, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Not always, but then the tag isn't always intended to say to use google (which is far superior thatn most computer generated packages online). It is there as a background as is language groups and learning about translation. mOre often than not the editor is likely intelligent enough to either spot mistranslations by it or be able to proof read the foreign article themsevles and translate manually. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:33, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
A perfect example of its purpose is Westerstetten for instance. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:45, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
If you have a look at Category:Wikipedia pages with broken references you'll see hundreds and sometimes even thousands of asteroid stubs. I personally hold thay should be deleted non slower than they are created. But at least they should include {{reflist}} too keep them from cluttering up this category. The category was down to almost 2000 and improving, and I was about to do some serious work on it. But these thousands of asteroids came along. Perhaps a bot, or a small remark to the right person could help us out.
Please keep me posted (I mean, please tell me how you propose to delete all of them in one day, joking). Debresser ( talk) 22:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
You're a hero. What do you do with them? Add reflist, or delete? Debresser ( talk) 09:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
If you just add reflist there is a request I'd like to ask from you. Could you teach me how to write a bot that adds "prod" to all of them? Debresser ( talk) 11:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
{{
reflist}}
to all of them. I'm not sure if it is a good idea to add prod tags to over 500 articles.
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 02:04, 21 February 2009 (UTC)That's just great. Perhaps you would know how to go about recommending all of them for deletion? Debresser ( talk) 17:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
You're right. We have a discussion now at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects#main_belt_asteroids. I am arguing that there is consensus for turning all those stubs into redirects to a big list. You'd like to comment? Debresser ( talk) 22:27, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Some articles' talk pages have huge archives. Adding auto search box to each one of them is an excellent duty for a bot or can be an additional task of an existing bot. It would just add {{Archive box|auto=yes|search=yes} to the proper line of talk pages. Logos5557 ( talk) 22:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to request the creation of a bot to update these two project pages: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Traffic statistics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article statistics. It's not necessary for the bot to update the charts; but if it can then it's an added bonus. Thanks! SharkD ( talk) 02:22, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
sir, i want a bot for theninja-rpg.com it is a text based online game i want it to create ryo (in-game currency) and to train my character please help me sir —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajansh mamoria ( talk • contribs) 15:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that fixes links to files that were uploaded to Commons under a different name (regular links too, not just image links)? I could have sworn that there was, but I have not seen anything at File:FlagTrujillo.JPG for three days. If not, could there be? The same for Template:Superseded-Image. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 09:01, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
To reduce clutter on talkpages and to make sure the pages are categorized properly since most of the of Needs X Infobox just place them in the Requested Templates category when most WikiProjects have specialized categories to make it easier. I suggest the following templates are replaced on the article talk pages with the wikiproject pages with the appropriate needs-infobox switch, or if the WikiProject banner already exists, remove the template and update the WP banner with the switch.
Template | WikiProject(/s) | Replace With |
---|---|---|
{{
Needs television infobox}}
|
WikiProject Television | {{WikiProject Television|needs-infobox=yes}} |
{{
Needs football biography infobox}}
|
Wikiproject Football and WikiProject Biography |
{{WPBiography|sports-work-group=yes|needs-infobox=yes}} {{Football|needs-infobox=yes}} |
It might also be nice if the bot could check to see {{Infobox....}} exists in the article and then lists separately those so that they can be manually checked, but that isn't really needed. Peachey88 ( Talk Page | Contribs) 10:53, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
{{
Needs television infobox}}
is now orphaned.
[[Sam Korn]]
(smoddy) 17:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)I need a bot to accomplish one fairly simple task:
This is across all namespaces, if possible. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:51, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't know whether it will be possible for a Bot to take this on but it affects thousands of articles & would take months/years by hand. The web site Images of England (IoE) lists all of the listed buildings in England and is frequently used as a reference including in many FA & GA class articles. They have recently changed the format of the URLs returned by their database, meaning that each unique building number is the same, but any "string" in the URL which includes "search/details" will only work if the reader is already logged in to IoE for anyone else it presents a blank screen. If this section of the URL is replaced with "Details/Default" it works for everyone with no need to log in. As an example try comparing this with this one which both target information about St Andrews Church in Chew Stoke with the item number 32965 but the first one fails & the second one works. If a Bot was able to do this replacement that would be great. If I've not explained it properly or you need further information please don't hesitate to contact me.— Rod talk 18:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot to modify talk pages that have {{WikiProject Europe|BiH=yes}} in them to change to {{WikiProject Bosnia and Herzegovina}} PRODUCER ( talk) 19:34, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Make a bot to compile a list of images on Flickr that are licenced under the Creative Commons attribution licence that can replace image:replace this image male.svg and image:replace this image female.svg. These will then be sighted to see if they are not blatant copy vios then uploaded to commons.
Make a bot that transfers all images on Flickr that are licenced under the Creative Commons attribution licence (but crucially not people) to commons.
See related discussion here
-- DFS454 ( talk) 14:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
r'\[(?P<url>https?://[^\|\] ]+?(\.pdf|\.html|\.htm|\.php|\.asp|\.aspx|\.jsp)) *\| *(?P<label>[^\|\]]+?)\]
This is an AfD from earlier this year that resulted in the deletion of a few disambig pages from an old scheme of organizing that list. There are still quite a few links to it, but nobody followed up on the author's suggestion to have a bot change them. It'd probably take 10 minutes at most in AWB, but I no longer have Windows, so I'm asking here. From a quick count it's only about 200 links in total. Changing the links to List of Latin phrases or List of Latin phrases (full) would probably be fine, though if you're feeling really ambitious you could actually look at each link and send it to whichever of the 6 pages the list is now broken down into is appropriate. Thanks, -- Rory096 16:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot check through all articles using the |imdb_id=
parameter in {{
Infobox Film}} to see which of these do not otherwise contain a link to IMDb, i.e. through the use of {{
imdb title}} (or any of its redirects), and present this data in the form of a numbered list? Such information would be useful in an ongoing debate over the use of such parameters in the infobox. Thanks in advance for any help! :)
PC78 (
talk) 15:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
How feasible would it be for a bot to remove the link from the infobox and add it to the relevant "External links" section of the article? PC78 ( talk) 17:04, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
website
and amg_id
) fields at the same time, to get all three in one edit. I'd also have the bot generate a list of pages that need manual fixing or extra attention.
Anomie
⚔ 16:43, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
You are doing one of the most controversial things I've ever seen a bot do. Please bot revert and wait for a real discussion on the matter. Very poor form. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 07:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Sometimes it would be incredibly useful to be contact all WikiProjects and taskforces at once. I've look for bots that can do this, and I haven't found any which is currently able to contact all projects and taskforces in one fell swoop. Anyone willing to code this? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles tagged by their banner enter a workflow such as Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, and Peer review ( full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found at here.
If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use thedisplay=none
parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts".
Any updates? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I have looked around wikipedia and noticed that most images are uncompressed (including the actual logo file:wiki.png) I believe that a bot that compresses images would help save bandwidth and reduce page download time. While some people may argue that the savings would be nominal, they would indeed help. Reduced bandwidth would save the wikimedia foundation money(remember, your donations pay for that bandwidth) and the reduced page load time would make people with slower connections happier.
On average, I have been able to compress some images by ~25%. Some more(5kb for the wikipedia text logo on www.wikipedia.org), some less(23bytes for the file:wiki.png). Compression can be accomplished in several ways. First, the color scale can be changed(such as from rgb to greyscale) can save kilobytes. Second, is the type of file such as jpeg, png, and gif. In some cases jpeg is better while png in others. Lastly, there is the actual compression through tools such as pngcrush, pngguantlet, and pngoutwin. The only downside is that like all compression, it is extremely computationally expensive. Together, they can compress an image a quarter or more.
I suggest that the bot begin with the standard mediawiki images followed by the top 1000 most viewed images. After that, it would simply work in order of "most bandwidth used" images. While I don't have the actual image download statistics(if someone could put them up, it would be nice), there can be savings. As I haven't programmed in years, I don't think I can write an adequate bot, but I can help. Please post if you support this idea or would like to comment, please do so. Smallman12q ( talk) 18:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Edit 1: I would like to say that that what I have in mind is lossless compression. There is also a disccusion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Smaller Wikipedia Logo files Smallman12q ( talk) 22:22, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Here is a site that offers online optimization: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/ 72.90.135.45 ( talk) 18:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
This won't do much good, if any. I think the minimal benefit of compressing the originals would be lost in the thumbnailing process. Plus you seem to ignore the possibility that anyone would want to download the uncompressed originals. The images that we upload are usually not the images that are displayed in articles. For example the Image:Felix Pedro.jpg I uploaded was 483×620px, 79,054 bytes:
You might argue that this is poorly compressed, with a 3.788 pixel–byte ratio, but most readers won't see this. The thumbnail you see on this page is rendered at 100×128px and uses 3,575 bytes:
Here the compression ratio is actually lower at 3.580. So even if we compressed the hell out of the full-size image (punishing anyone who wanted to print the original photo), the server would likely still generate thumbnails at the same file size as before (probably because it's intended to be fast, rather than efficient—your thumbnails have to be ready instantly when you hit the preview button to ask yourself "how does it look at this size") but probably be of measurably poorer quality. What would be the point of that?
If image loading times are a concern it would be better to use more aggressive compression (different software, or different settings within the same software) for the thumbnailing process rather than adulterating the originals, which shouldn't need to be compressed anyway. — CharlotteWebb 20:16, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Not a good task for a bot. There is nothing wrong with recompressing a PNG, and nothing in particular wrong with changing to palletized or greyscale if it results in no change to the image (note that some programs don't "like" palletized images with an alpha channel), although as noted above it would not do a whole lot to reduce the bandwidth used in articles. But converting to greyscale when the image uses non-grey colors would be a bad idea, as would reducing the number of colors used while palletizing. Recompressing jpegs (or converting png to or from jpeg) would be a bad idea to do automatically (and not a very good idea to do in general unless you know what you're doing), as jpeg normally uses lossy compression. Anomie ⚔ 21:57, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
I believe I forgot to mention that the compression would be lossless. A bot wouldn't need to recognize if the colors "were close enough", instead only the number of colors present. For example, for about a year, the file:wiki.png file was uploaded as an rgb rather than a greyscale. And the actual "compession" would only be for png's so it would be lossless. Please assume that the compression is lossless. Also, file conversion such as png to gif could save additional bytes without any quality lost. Please let me know what you think of lossless compression. Smallman12q ( talk) 22:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
←Not sure what Smallman is trying to say but maybe he meant maybe he meant that the SVG→PNG thumbnails created by ImageMagick (or rsvg or whatever) have a larger file size than a visually similar PNG that was created manually. I can believe that, but that doesn't mean we should scrap the image-conversion software and leave a small man inside the server in charge of creating thumbnails. It… wouldn't scale.
Seriously something that actually would save bandwidth would be to tell the server to embed SVGs directly when the file size is smaller than that of the thumbnail that would otherwise be shown for the selected dimensions. But I suspect the outcry against this would be horrific. — CharlotteWebb 02:52, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
As noted on the VP, even your lossless changes weren't lossless. §hep Talk 04:21, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Above is a simple example of lossless PNG compression that can be recreated with a simple 10 trial run on PNGOUTWin or PNGGuantlet. Smallman12q ( talk) 12:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Here is an excellent example in which compression could save some notable bandwidth... This image appeared on March 3, 2009 on the front page at [ [2]]
The front page gets an average of 5 million views a day. Every 175 thousand times the image is viewed, 1GB would be saved. If the image is viewed 1 million times, then 5.5GB bandwidth would be saved. Smallman12q ( talk) 00:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Since Article alerts has launched, its scope now included workflows such as WP:RfD. However, redirects are very rarely tagged, so it makes this feature less useful than in could be. So how about having a bot browse articles, check the "what links here", then tags the redirect with the same banners as the target article.
For example, quark has one redirect, quarks. The redirect tagger would copy the banners from talk:quark, and assess talk:quarks as redirect-class / NA-importance. It could run on a per-project basis, or continuously, whichever makes more sense to the BAG. I know WP:PHYS would be interested, and I'm sure other projects will show interest as well. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
(←)Not sure, I'm sure some do though. I'd do it for you, but AWB has been on the fritz for me recently. If you have AWB it's a simple manner of 3 steps or so to get a complete list of all redirects for a project. §hep Talk 02:20, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
And of course, there is the small matter of updating every redirect talk page whenever a banner is added to or removed from the target page. The whole point of redirects and templates is to avoid duplication, not perpetuate it. The MediaWiki architecture is specifically designed to be as quick and efficient as possible in outputting data, with corresponding sacrifices on inputting it. Almost never will an argument that "editing page X once is better than reading data Y times" prove genuinely valid. Happy‑ melon 15:22, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I need a bot to make a change to a template location on about 250 or so portal pages. The templates that these portals use were created in the wrong name space, "Portal:". As part of some house cleaning, I moved the templates to the proper name space and need a bot to update the links on all of the pages so that they avoid the redirect.
The templates are:
Thank you, -- Jeremy ( blah blah 08:34, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually I was more concerned with the problem covered in the next section: Aliases for templates can cause confusion and make migrations of template calls more complicated. For example, assume calls to T1 are to be changed ("migrated") to some new template TN1. To catch all calls, articles must be searched for {{T1}} and all aliases of T1 (T2 in this case). -- Jeremy ( blah blah 09:11, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
A lot of the templates for the To-Do in the taskforces of the WP:MILHIST have, in the requested articles section, blue links, meaning that they are no longer requested. Could a bot go through and remove these as they are created? Or be run every 24 hours to remove them as they are created? Just a question, I have a little bot programming experience, but not enough for it to help. TARTARUS talk 01:23, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Template:Infobox movie certificates was recently deleted at WP:TFD, but the template link is still present in many articles - too many to be easily removed individually. [4] I tried to remove them myself using AutoWikiBrowser, but because of the parameter within the template, it could not be done using the program, and therefore a bot would do much good here. – Dream out loud ( talk) 18:39, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello! I was about to do something that is going to take me a week probably, and I thought.. Maybe a bot can help! I would like to have a bot look at the talk page of every article in Category:Indiana and all subcategories and make sure there is a {{WikiProject Indiana}} tag on the talk page. If there is not, I want it to add one without any parameters. This will put them all into the unassessed Indiana articles category. Then the projects members.. Probably all me, will be able to go through and assess them more quickly, without having to hunt for them first! I have a hunch that there are a couple hundred in there that are not tagged.. maybe more. Is this something that can be done by a bot? Charles Edward ( Talk) 03:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
IIRC the recommended style for spaces and punctuations around footnotes is:
word<ref>
not word <ref>
(no space before the <ref>) and word,<ref>
and word.<ref>
not word<ref>,
and word<ref>.
(punctuation before the <ref> not after). Many articles have the spacing wrong; would a bot be the right way to fix this?
Shreevatsa (
talk) 22:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)It's unlikely that a bot could make that determination, and errors would result in excessive controversy. Personally, I like the "refs after punctuation" style, but... Anomie ⚔ 03:25, 3 March 2009 (UTC)Some editors prefer the in-house style of journals such as Nature, which place references before punctuation. If an article has evolved using predominantly one style of ref tag placement, the whole article should conform to that style unless there is a consensus to change it.
A recent redesign of http://espn.go.com has broken many of the links. The only information I have seen from ESPN itself is an unhelpful message at broken links, for example http://espn.go.com/nba/news/1999/1012/110905.html. See Wikipedia:Help desk#Missing footnote links for a discussion. Special:Linksearch currently displays 1795 links to http://espn.go.com in this search. Manual experimentation on a limited number of cases shows that many links to http://espn.go.com still work but if they are broken then it works to insert "static." or "assets." before espn.go.com, for example http://static.espn.go.com/nba/news/1999/1012/110905.html or http://assets.espn.go.com/nba/news/1999/1012/110905.html. Could a bot go through the links to test them and if they are broken then test whether a replacement works? Both "static." and "assets." worked in the cases I tried but I don't know whether it will always work. PrimeHunter ( talk) 01:35, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
It has been proposed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#"Year" that the word "Year", apparently added to all year articles at the outset, be eliminated, as specified in Wikipedia:WikiProject Years#Intro Section. As far as I can tell, "Year" was never in a proposed template in that project. Project approval is expected, but has not yet reached consensus.
The detailed proposal, would be: for each Year article, replace, at most once, at the beginning of a line, replace
or
by
As this will hit approximately 3700 articles (I manually changed 1921–1923 and 1963–2059, using WP:AWB and other test edits.), I wanted to give the bot programmer a chance to code it efficiently. This is a run-once, so it may not be necessary to code it efficiently. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Just as an experiment, I'm wondering if anyone would be kind enough to devote some time to putting together a bot to do the following, to create a useful page indicating for which parts of the county are photos required. Something like:
By way of explanation, I /think/ that Northumberland articles are fairly well geo-coded, and so looking for coord gives us all places & things capable of being photographed. That said, a variant of the same thing which simply looks for northumberland articles without images might be just as interesting.
As is the way of these things, a) were such a thing on the toolserver or b) capable of being run as a bot for any project, it might be a useful thing. Right now I'm interested to see if it yields useful results for me in my neck of the woods. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 03:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
My school needs a new field really bad and Kellogg's is having a contest thing where you need the most supporter. Every time you click and put in a code that is shown it counts as a supporter. I really need a bot that clicks on the button then puts in the code. I don't know but maybe it might require a password searcher? Thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.18.79 ( talk) 19:36, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, I would like to change the format of {{ Infobox Taiwan Station}}. The current template codes on each page are like this:
{{Infobox_Taiwan_Station| Title=| SubTitle=| EngTitle=| EngSubTitle=| ImageName=| ImageSize=| ImageCaption=| Style=| Place=| Coordinates=| Code=| Operator=| Line=| StartDate=| RouteType=| TraLevel=| TraElecCode=| TraStartLocal=| TraMile=| }}
It is very disorganized. Based on other station infoboxes, I propose to change to this: (Note: The name of the infobox is changed too.)
{{Infobox Taiwan station | title = | en-title = | image = example.jpg | image_size = 250px | image_caption = | type = | address = | coordinates = {{coord||}} | code = | operator = | line = | opened = | tra_level = | tra_code = | tra_start = | tra_mileage = }}
Notice subtitles and route type are deleted because they are mostly unnecessary. Several names are replaced in order. Thanks, waiting for approval... impact F = check this 05:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello. See Template talk:Year in baseball#suggestion. We need a bot that can replace the sidebar {{ Year in baseball}} with: 1) {{ Year in baseball top}}; and 2) at the bottom of the page the new footer {{ Year in baseball}}. This would be done on all of the "[YEAR] in baseball" articles, about 140 or so pages. Right before this is done, the code from the talk page needs to be copied onto the template so the current sidebar template becomes a navbox. Any takers? If so, please follow up at the talk page Template talk:Year in baseball#suggestion. Rgrds. -- Tombstone ( talk) 15:16, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
in the template {{ Infobox Television film}}, i would like make it so that that filename only is required when adding images. this is easily accomplished by swapping:
this: CURRENT {{#if: {{{image|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}} | {{!}} style="text-align: center;" colspan="2" {{!}} {{{image}}} {{#if: {{{caption|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}} | <br/><span style="font-size: 95%; line-height:1.5em;">{{{caption}}}</span> }} with this: NEW {{#if:{{{image|}}}| {{!}} style="font-size: 95%; line-height:1.5em; text-align: center;" colspan="2" {{!}} [[File:{{{image}}}|{{#if:{{{image_size|}}}|<!--then:-->{{px|{{{image_size}}} }} |<!--else:-->220px}}|]] {{#if:{{{caption|}}}|<br />{{{caption}}}}}
however, each article (>500) using this template will need to be gleaned of the wiki markup coding in that field.
from this: | image = [[file:example.jpg|220px]] to this: | image = example.jpg | imagesize = 220px
.....submitted for your approval. -- emerson7 23:00, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can place move requests on every article in a template? All 60+ articles in Template:Pride Events need to be moved (through 1 discussion page of coarse), so is there a bot that can place the same move template on them all or will I have to manually do it? TJ Spyke 07:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Can about change all the links from Kveta Peschke to Květa Peschke please, as this is her correct spelling. There might be 100s more similar to this requests, for Czech names, so maybe I will have to make a bot myself. -- Voletyvole ( talk) 11:28, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot to update this table on a monthly basis. It's not too hard to do by hand, but then it's even easier for a bot. :) The required information for the quality/importance columns can just be copied directly from here. The AfD columns require that the bot parse the archive of this page for the previous month and count the number of bullets in the lists (the "*" character), as well as the number of instances of the words "Delete", "Redirected", "Keep" and "Merged". Thanks! SharkD ( talk) 05:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Please update {{Swiss Presidents}} to {{Presidents of the Swiss Confederation}} as according to Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Swiss_Presidents about 80 articles of former presidents still use the old name template, which causes problems, like these articles still showing up at the disambiguation Special:WhatLinksHere/Eduard_Müller for some reason, instead at the proper article Special:WhatLinksHere/Eduard_Müller_(Swiss_politician). The admin that had made the move a year ago had not bothered to fix this. -- Matthead Discuß 22:25, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot to update the tables in this page. The information can be gotton using the article traffic statistics tool. There's also a backlog of about 8 months that would need to be filled on the bot's first run. If the bot could also update the graphs it would be doubleplusgood. Ideally I would like the graphs to be SVG images instead of PNG, but I'm not real sure how this would be accomplished. Thanks! SharkD ( talk) 20:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone put {{ Taiwan-film-stub}} and replace {{ Taiwan-stub}} and {{ Film-stub}} on Taiwanese film stubs? The list is here. Thanks! :)
Can anyone do the request I had above??? impact F = check this 00:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Could we get the WikiProject Triathlon banner ( Template:WP Triathlon) on all articles in Category:Triathlon and Category:Duathlon and all subcategories of both (I have checked for exceptions, but there are none). A number of articles have already been tagged. Thanks. Yboy83 ( talk) 09:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
The backlog at Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized is running low. The category is usually populated by Alaibot directly from database dumps but it seems that Alai is AWOL. I don't know if anyone has code available to perform a similar task, nor do I know if Alai ever published his code. In any case, I'd appreciate if someone can at least tag articles of Special:UncategorizedPages which are indeed uncategorized. Note that in fact most of the articles appearing on the special page are categorized because of cache issues which is why Alaibot was so useful. Pichpich ( talk) 21:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if there's any bot that already fulfills this function, but I monitor articles proposed for deletion from time to time and find it quite tiresome to add {{ oldprodfull}} to talkpages. What about having a bot search old revisions of articles for prod notices and updating talkpages with the appropriate details accordingly? Skomorokh 02:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
PLEASE reinstate betacommandbot! he was sooooooooooo cool! please reinstate him soon! why did you get rid of him??????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.160.167.169 ( talk) 21:19, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Would someone have the time and inclination to create a one-step WP:DELSORT process? User:Hrafn suggested that a bot periodically pick up on delsort tags placed directly in an AfD and automagically transclude the AfD in question on to the target page if not already present. It would cut the work of deletion sorting roughly in half. Jclemens ( talk) 18:48, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot check through all articles using the |imdb_id=
parameter in {{
Infobox Film}} to see which of these do not otherwise contain a link to IMDb, i.e. through the use of {{
imdb title}} (or any of its redirects), and present this data in the form of a numbered list? Such information would be useful in an ongoing debate over the use of such parameters in the infobox. Thanks in advance for any help! :)
PC78 (
talk) 15:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Can a bot remove all user pages from article space categories and monitor and new additions? I am often removing user page categories since uses will:
It seems a feasible task for a bot. Hmm. Had a think about it. How do you define a non-article category? Everything under
Category:Wikipedia administration? All cats (with some exceptions) that have Wikipedia or template in the category name? --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 02:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Could someone please write a bot to patrol this page to tag orphaned articles as such? This would help WikiProject Orphanage in our work at de-orphaning articles. Thanks, ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 21:47, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Excellent idea. Saves us the trouble of clicking "What link here" on a bunch of stubs. Over time these will be de-orphaned, and thus get more attention, thus improve. Tag away!
Could someone (or something) replace all the outdated accessmonthday fields in Ayumi Hamasaki with whatever the correct field(s) is/are? I r t3h n00b when it comes to this kind of thing, so sorry if this is in the wrong section or whatever. Thanks! Ink Runner ( talk) 18:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Since we often discuss highly contentious issues in our project ( WP:SLR), we agreed to wait some time after marking topics as "resolved", before archiving them, so people get a chance to say: "No, this isn't resolved yet!" I asked Cobi, whose well documented bots I would have loved to use, but they can't do that. Earlier, we had a purely time triggered bot, but the problem with that was that it also archived sections that were just at a momentary standstill. — Sebastian 09:35, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Could someone tag all the following categories with their proper banners?
-- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks}}
? How about
Category talk:Snooker and
Category talk:Cocktails with WPBeer? The other two look alright, but the paragraph at the top of the page was added for a reason: tagging by category is hit-and-miss at the best of times, and just tagging the actual categories doesn't decrease the risk that much.
Happy‑
melon 21:04, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Can some one have a bot find {{flagicon|Ireland|rugby}} and replace with [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]] as per
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rugby_union#Wider_opinion_needed
Gnevin (
talk)
I found these two redirect pages redirecting to two DIFFERENT articles:
That should not happen and I fixed it. I've seen this situation maybe a couple of dozen times. In another case, I found these three redirecting to three DIFFERENT articles:
A bot cannot decide what pages things like this ought to redirect to, if any, but I would think a bot could be constructed to
Could someone tag all the following projects with their proper banners and proper categories?
Thanks, Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:04, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
yes. -- Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:31, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Can someone add an automatic bot that patrols the pages in the Heroes template? Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 04:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Can someone add an automatic bot that patrols featured articles? Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 04:04, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Greetings all! This is my first bot request, so be kind. Over at WP:SFD we need something that will update stub categories on hundreds of articles, as the templates have been either renamed, deleted, or redirected. Alaibot used to do this, but sadly Alai has vanished off the radar since Dec 13, and work is backing up. There are currently, for example, articles linked to the non-existent Category:European organization stubs which should fall into the new Category:European organisation stubs, since the template's category was renamed. I hope I'm explaining myself all right. Can we recruit a bot to go through the stub cats on a regular basis and fix this? I assume it's due to server lag, but no one wants to null-edit a gazillion stub articles (I'm sure that's what caused Grutness' arthritis...;). Cheers, Pegship ( talk) 05:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Please take a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#IM_and_VOIP. Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 06:42, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I was just wondering if it would be possible to make a bot that would check, when someone removes a speedy delete tag, that it wasn't the page creator, and if it was, revert the edit? It would also be nice if the bot could move {{ hangon}} templates to the proper location. This would make monitoring new pages much easier, since ATM every time I csd an article I have to watch it until it gets deleted, because there is a 25-30% chance that the creator will remove the tag. -Zeus- u c 01:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
If the original article falls into a class like "nocontent" or "nocontext", and the author fixes the article and then removes the speedy tag, reverting these edits would essentially be vandalism by the bot and might cause us to lose a good article (if the CSD-patrolling admin doesn't properly check the history). Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, let's not turn it into one by making a strong but ignorable rule on CSD tags into bot-enforced policy. Kusma ( talk) 12:59, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
The recent addition of the {{PROTECTIONLEVEL}} magic word has allowed the protection templates to output a category instead of visible material when they are placed inappropriately, that is, when the protection level of the page does not match the protection template. This category is visible at Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. I initially thought that the speed at which this category would fill would be low enough that it would be manageable; I was wrong.
Therefore, I request that someone create a bot to handle most cases, using basic logic along the lines of:
This bot could be run once daily to eliminate virtually all the backlog for the aforementioned category. The logic could be improved to make more intelligent decisions and provide other benefits, but this minimal workflow would be sufficient. Thank you for considering this request. {{ Nihiltres| talk| log}} 03:46, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot change all the links to Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling, Buddah Records? Thanks Chubbles ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot change all the links to Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling, Buddah Records? Thanks Chubbles ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
It was formerly the case that filling in the |isbn= field with a raw number in infoboxes such as {{ Infobox book}} did not activate the ISBN magic coding linking to Special:Booksources. This meant that "ISBN" had to be entered into the field as well: that is "|isbn=ISBN 1412806461" rather than simply |isbn=1412806461. The code seems to have been fixed now, meaning that there are a lot of entries with redundant "ISBN" coding. It's obviously an issue of minor style/presentation importance, but should be a relatively easy task to code for. All a bot would have to do is check whether "ISBN" followed "|isbn=" and if so, remove the former (with appropriate spacing). Anyone willing to take this on? Skomorokh 16:33, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot change all the links to Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling, Buddah Records? Thanks Chubbles ( talk) 16:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
I raise it here in case there's an easy way to set up a project or bot to tag all these dead links and move all these outdated/mistitled pages. (Some of the v. Bush cases are closed, and thus correctly titled; some of the whitehouse.gov pages work, so not all the links are dead, so perhaps not.) THF ( talk) 06:25, 13 February 2009 (UTC), updated 14:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
So save the list of articles and urls now, and work on developing a bot in the meantime. That way you'll be able to get a list of pages where you'd need to manually review the edit history after the bot finishes (ones where the bot cannot find a link to modify). — CharlotteWebb 20:52, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Coding... for the first part; the plan is to check the target link for a 404 response, and then check the replacement for a 200 before replacing. I'll probably throw in a log of links without a 200 on the replacement for human processing. If someone can tell me how to determine which cases need to be moved and which don't, I could look into the second part too.
Anomie
⚔ 00:12, 15 February 2009 (UTC) (X! already started coding
Anomie
⚔ 00:33, 15 February 2009 (UTC))
Is it possible to have a bot run through all subcategories of
Category:Films by year (excluding
Category:The Wizard of Oz (1939 film),
Category:Dragnet,
Category:Dragnet episodes,
Category:Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
Category:Sholay,
Category:Donnie Darko,
Category:Chak De India,
Category:Enchanted (film) and
Category:Songs from Enchanted) and ensure that all articles have the {{
Film}}
project banner on their talk page, keeping all existing assessments and other parameters where they currently exist?
In addition, can the bot add the appropriate task force parameters to the banner in the following categories:
{{Film|American-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of American films by year{{Film|Argentine-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Argentine films by year{{Film|British-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of British films by year{{Film|French-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of French films by year{{Film|Chinese-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Hong Kong films by year{{Film|Italian-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Italian films by year{{Film|Japanese-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Japanese films by year{{Film|Korean-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of South Korean films by year{{Film|Spanish-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:Lists of Spanish films by yearI made this proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films#Bot tagging articles for WP:FILM last week, where it met with approval. Let me know if you need anything else, this is my first such request here. :) PC78 ( talk) 23:07, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, I see Legobot did a run on this earlier today. I see that only articles starting with A and B were tagged; will the bot therefore be doing this in stages, rather than a single sweep? PC78 ( talk) 19:41, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Done Lego Kontribs TalkM 02:16, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
One more request: can the bot add the appropriate task force parameters to the banner in the following categories:
{{Film|American-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:American films{{Film|British-task-force=yes}}
in
Category:British filmsThese are two recent task forces of ours for which doing a manual tagging run would be extremely difficult, especially given the two countries' prodigious output and the English Wikipedia's natural systemic bias towards more comprehensive coverage of these national cinemas. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 18:58, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Reviving Any progress with this? Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 13:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
As mentioned above, blindly recursing (even with a blacklist) is not acceptable. You need to specify exactly which categories needs tagged. Q T C 21:21, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
After posting a more detailed description of my idea here, I would like to drop it by here to see what kind of reaction I will get. I would like to create a process where a bot goes to pages on the many other language wikis, runs a translate script on the article title, and looks for an article on the en wiki with both titles. When there's no article, it outputs to a list, with links to the other language articles, as well as multiple free language specific translate tools. Volunteers would then follow up on the list, and create article/remove them from the list when appropriate.
This bot would be run periodically to refresh the en wiki's shortcomings, and a blacklist can also be setup for pages that are determined to not be wanted. There's some other bits, but that's the jist of it. Anyways, although the bot would do several specific tasks, the most important is the first one: is it possible to retrieve interwiki data from the sidebar? -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 04:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
This snippet is from archive number 24 I believe. While his request sounds innocent enough, what he didnt furnish was the fact that his request is based upon a bias of a very heated warfare about orthography.
Ultimately after all the blood and sweat, the users decided to make use of duplicate page versions, in a similar manner of the Gothic Wikipedia. When I say "the users," I mean regular contributors, as James/JJohnson1701 is never an active contributor, only surfaces once every several months, and has not written a single page which is any more than half a page in length.
That in itself is meaningless, but the point is, in making this move, he is attempting to defy our consensus to make use of both practices, as that is the only decision which gave us peace, and the ability to continue the project.
Discovering this, after all of that was over, is appalling quite frankly. Do not grant this bot request. — ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ ( talk) 14:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
I've just developed a suite of templates that make requesting expansion from other language wikipedias much easier. See {{ Expand Spanish}} for example. One feature, though, of the templates may be problematic. When you tag an article, there is an optional parameter for the name of the article in the other language. If no title is specified, it defaults to assuming that the article in the other language has the same name as the English article. This is generally fine bc most translation requests are geographic places and biographies that have the same name in both languages. If the article names are different, this causes a problem. Can someone make a bot that goes through all the articles that are tagged with a template that is generated by {{ Expand language}}, then sees if the corresponding interwiki article exists, then if it doesn't either notifies the tagger, or puts a notice on the article talk page, or adds it to a list so translation project people can fix them manually? Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Templates of the style {{
FebruaryCalendar2008Source}} are correctly tagged
T3 speedy deletion candidates because they are redundant to templates of the style {{
FebruaryCalendar|year=2008}}
. I'd like to request a bot (should be easy to do) that replaces all instances of all templates of the first kind with those of the second kind, i.e. {{
MayCalendar2007Source}} with {{
MayCalendar|year=2007}}
etc.
It should also be able to replace constructs like {{{{CURRENTMONTH}}Calender{{CURRENTYEAR}}Source}} with {{{{CURRENTMONTH}}Calender|year={{CURRENTYEAR}}}}.
And finally, it should tag all those former templates that are duplicates (i.e. of the style {{MonthCalenderYearSource}}
) with {{
db-t3}} (don't forget the <noinclude>-tags for that) and list them on a subpage in my userspace so I can delete them after the waiting period is over. So who wants to code me that little thing?
Regards
So
Why 11:37, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
endnote
and note
as aliases for EndNote
, for example, that seems to be lacking in the new.1a
" is really a horrible name) and AnomieBOT can translate those at the same time too.
Anomie
⚔ 02:15, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Ok, User:SoWhy asked me to provide some background: Before parserfunctions such as #time: and #if: were created in 2006 or 2007 (I can't remember), we had to create separate templates for each year. Thus the existence of {{ MayCalendar2004Source}}, {{ MayCalendar2005Source}}, {{ MayCalendar2006Source}}, etc. So with the existence of the parserfunctions, we could make general calendar templates there are more self-maintaining. So there have been discussions such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Days of the year/Archive 7#The calendar on the date pages and Template talk:JanuaryCalendar to have those kind of templates.
Well, finally we had the time to merge all the parameters into a few templates such {{ MayCalendar}}. I know it might look like spaghetti code, but it will have to do for now so it would be backward compatible for all the templates whose functionality were merged.
I believe I have already done most of the replacements already. The problem now is that since these templates were on so many pages, transcluded and cascading on multiple pages at a time, that I am currently waiting for the job queue to fully update all the backlinks so the "What Links Here" lists are fully accurate. I mean if you look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:MayCalendar2008Source, it lists a bunch of subpages of Portal:Music/DateOfBirth, but the template was actually only directly on the transcluded page Portal:Music/DateOfBirth/May.
Thus, any bot here is premature for the next month or two (last time I heard, the job queue takes about 40 days to fully complete a round of all the pages on Wikipedia). Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 16:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
This page may have some use, but only if it's updated (it's currently a year out-of-date). Would some who'd got a minute look at it? - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 14:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
[I'm relisting this August 2008 request (including subsequent revisions), as the editor who said he would make the edits has not done so, nor replied to many enquiries as to progress (due at least in part to understandable family matters).]
I've compiled a list of relevant infoboxes at User:Pigsonthewing/to-do#Date conversions.
Thank you.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
It is a controversial proposal. Perhaps it would be prudent to await consensus on this matter after the Time wikiproject has time to properly consider the desirability of needlessly encoding dates in an arcane format. - J JMesserly ( talk) 21:39, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
I support the proposal of J JMesserly and favor the {{ start-date}}: Before all, Wikitext must remain human readable. (BTW: There's in fact currently no chance - even for programmers - to enter a date like "7 December 1941 8AM HST" using {{ Start date}}: I vainly tried
{{Start date|1941|12|7|18|||Z}}, {{Start date|1941|12|7|18||Z}}, {{Start date|1941|12|7|18|Z}}
). -- Geonick ( talk) 00:05, 5 February 2009 (UTC) (UTC) source
I propose consideration of this proposal be suspended until
For those interested in the nature of the controversy, please see Manual of style- dates discussion on the unnecessary obscurity and error prone nature of the {{ start date}} template compared to alternatives that achieve the same goal. - J JMesserly ( talk) 15:47, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
It has been demonstrated by the thread above and at the Manual of style- dates page that bot runs employing {{ start date}} are controversial as evidenced by the responses from multiple other contributors. - J JMesserly ( talk) 19:07, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I wonder if it would be possible to get a bot to italicize all instances of the word kata. I tried doing it in AWB but couldn't figure out how to get the program to ignore it if it was already italicized. Thus, a command like "change all instances of kata to kata" would look only at the word inside the double single quotes, find it, add more double single quotes, and end up changing every instance of kata to 'kata', which is no good.
There is a potential for false positives, but I think that as long as the bot is confined to Category:Martial arts and its subcategories, it shouldn't be a problem.
Can anyone help out with this? Thanks. LordAmeth ( talk) 20:13, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
s/([^'][^'])(kata)([^'][^'])/${1}''${2}''${3}/i
. No idea how to translate it into an AWB regex. Two important points about this: it won't italicize already-bolded instances, and it will make a hash of wikilinks. --
Carnildo (
talk) 10:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
s/\b(?:'')?kata(?:'')?\b/''kata''/i;
would probably be better. --
JLaTondre (
talk) 13:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Following up on my previous request, I would like to be able to find which articles could benefit from translation. A bot could compare en.wiki articles (probably only stubs at this stage) with articles they are linked to via interwikis. Where the linked article is significantly long (a rudimentary measure of article quality), the bot could slap an {{ Expand Spanish}} (or another language) tag on the en.wiki. Or the bot could just output a list of these articles so they could be reviewed manually. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 18:02, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
What you are not seeing Garion is that these tags are markedly ***different*** to other tags on wikipedia. It precisely because of editors like yourself who dismiss these articles as OK that very little has been done about it. By dismissing these tags as "all tags are evil" is just typical of the kind of narrow minded attitude that many have on here in regards to our potential and ways in which we can improve. They are not administered to cleanup etc they are administered to produce a net result in expansion in direct translation which eventually will undoubtedly start to produce massive results in the content of english wikipedia. They serve as a direct gateway between english and the other and keep track and also makes other aware that the article is in the process of being improved in correspondence. Fact is listing articles for translation behind the workspace and in the talk page at peoples request failed miserably for years. It never brought it to somebody's urgent attention that the articles can easily be expanded in minutes with the link provided so the articles would just be lying about in some barely ever used log in the workspace gathering dust and people visit the article and move on with no results. I don't think you quite understand the purpose of this proposal. Yes tags are ugly which is partly why they are so useful, it prompts people to try to quickly sort out whatever perceived problem the article is experiencing and can therefore remove it asap. As for size I don't see a huge template at all, looks no bigger than most of the templates we have. It is essential in my view that we dramatically increase the coordination of translation on wikipedia and root out the articles which have far superior articles on other wikipedias and begin to draw peoples atttention to doing something about it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:43, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Not always, but then the tag isn't always intended to say to use google (which is far superior thatn most computer generated packages online). It is there as a background as is language groups and learning about translation. mOre often than not the editor is likely intelligent enough to either spot mistranslations by it or be able to proof read the foreign article themsevles and translate manually. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:33, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
A perfect example of its purpose is Westerstetten for instance. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:45, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
If you have a look at Category:Wikipedia pages with broken references you'll see hundreds and sometimes even thousands of asteroid stubs. I personally hold thay should be deleted non slower than they are created. But at least they should include {{reflist}} too keep them from cluttering up this category. The category was down to almost 2000 and improving, and I was about to do some serious work on it. But these thousands of asteroids came along. Perhaps a bot, or a small remark to the right person could help us out.
Please keep me posted (I mean, please tell me how you propose to delete all of them in one day, joking). Debresser ( talk) 22:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
You're a hero. What do you do with them? Add reflist, or delete? Debresser ( talk) 09:09, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
If you just add reflist there is a request I'd like to ask from you. Could you teach me how to write a bot that adds "prod" to all of them? Debresser ( talk) 11:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
{{
reflist}}
to all of them. I'm not sure if it is a good idea to add prod tags to over 500 articles.
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 02:04, 21 February 2009 (UTC)That's just great. Perhaps you would know how to go about recommending all of them for deletion? Debresser ( talk) 17:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
You're right. We have a discussion now at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects#main_belt_asteroids. I am arguing that there is consensus for turning all those stubs into redirects to a big list. You'd like to comment? Debresser ( talk) 22:27, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Some articles' talk pages have huge archives. Adding auto search box to each one of them is an excellent duty for a bot or can be an additional task of an existing bot. It would just add {{Archive box|auto=yes|search=yes} to the proper line of talk pages. Logos5557 ( talk) 22:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to request the creation of a bot to update these two project pages: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Traffic statistics, Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article statistics. It's not necessary for the bot to update the charts; but if it can then it's an added bonus. Thanks! SharkD ( talk) 02:22, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
sir, i want a bot for theninja-rpg.com it is a text based online game i want it to create ryo (in-game currency) and to train my character please help me sir —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajansh mamoria ( talk • contribs) 15:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that fixes links to files that were uploaded to Commons under a different name (regular links too, not just image links)? I could have sworn that there was, but I have not seen anything at File:FlagTrujillo.JPG for three days. If not, could there be? The same for Template:Superseded-Image. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 09:01, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
To reduce clutter on talkpages and to make sure the pages are categorized properly since most of the of Needs X Infobox just place them in the Requested Templates category when most WikiProjects have specialized categories to make it easier. I suggest the following templates are replaced on the article talk pages with the wikiproject pages with the appropriate needs-infobox switch, or if the WikiProject banner already exists, remove the template and update the WP banner with the switch.
Template | WikiProject(/s) | Replace With |
---|---|---|
{{
Needs television infobox}}
|
WikiProject Television | {{WikiProject Television|needs-infobox=yes}} |
{{
Needs football biography infobox}}
|
Wikiproject Football and WikiProject Biography |
{{WPBiography|sports-work-group=yes|needs-infobox=yes}} {{Football|needs-infobox=yes}} |
It might also be nice if the bot could check to see {{Infobox....}} exists in the article and then lists separately those so that they can be manually checked, but that isn't really needed. Peachey88 ( Talk Page | Contribs) 10:53, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
{{
Needs television infobox}}
is now orphaned.
[[Sam Korn]]
(smoddy) 17:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)I need a bot to accomplish one fairly simple task:
This is across all namespaces, if possible. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:51, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't know whether it will be possible for a Bot to take this on but it affects thousands of articles & would take months/years by hand. The web site Images of England (IoE) lists all of the listed buildings in England and is frequently used as a reference including in many FA & GA class articles. They have recently changed the format of the URLs returned by their database, meaning that each unique building number is the same, but any "string" in the URL which includes "search/details" will only work if the reader is already logged in to IoE for anyone else it presents a blank screen. If this section of the URL is replaced with "Details/Default" it works for everyone with no need to log in. As an example try comparing this with this one which both target information about St Andrews Church in Chew Stoke with the item number 32965 but the first one fails & the second one works. If a Bot was able to do this replacement that would be great. If I've not explained it properly or you need further information please don't hesitate to contact me.— Rod talk 18:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot to modify talk pages that have {{WikiProject Europe|BiH=yes}} in them to change to {{WikiProject Bosnia and Herzegovina}} PRODUCER ( talk) 19:34, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Make a bot to compile a list of images on Flickr that are licenced under the Creative Commons attribution licence that can replace image:replace this image male.svg and image:replace this image female.svg. These will then be sighted to see if they are not blatant copy vios then uploaded to commons.
Make a bot that transfers all images on Flickr that are licenced under the Creative Commons attribution licence (but crucially not people) to commons.
See related discussion here
-- DFS454 ( talk) 14:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
r'\[(?P<url>https?://[^\|\] ]+?(\.pdf|\.html|\.htm|\.php|\.asp|\.aspx|\.jsp)) *\| *(?P<label>[^\|\]]+?)\]
This is an AfD from earlier this year that resulted in the deletion of a few disambig pages from an old scheme of organizing that list. There are still quite a few links to it, but nobody followed up on the author's suggestion to have a bot change them. It'd probably take 10 minutes at most in AWB, but I no longer have Windows, so I'm asking here. From a quick count it's only about 200 links in total. Changing the links to List of Latin phrases or List of Latin phrases (full) would probably be fine, though if you're feeling really ambitious you could actually look at each link and send it to whichever of the 6 pages the list is now broken down into is appropriate. Thanks, -- Rory096 16:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot check through all articles using the |imdb_id=
parameter in {{
Infobox Film}} to see which of these do not otherwise contain a link to IMDb, i.e. through the use of {{
imdb title}} (or any of its redirects), and present this data in the form of a numbered list? Such information would be useful in an ongoing debate over the use of such parameters in the infobox. Thanks in advance for any help! :)
PC78 (
talk) 15:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
How feasible would it be for a bot to remove the link from the infobox and add it to the relevant "External links" section of the article? PC78 ( talk) 17:04, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
website
and amg_id
) fields at the same time, to get all three in one edit. I'd also have the bot generate a list of pages that need manual fixing or extra attention.
Anomie
⚔ 16:43, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
You are doing one of the most controversial things I've ever seen a bot do. Please bot revert and wait for a real discussion on the matter. Very poor form. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) ( contribs) 07:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Sometimes it would be incredibly useful to be contact all WikiProjects and taskforces at once. I've look for bots that can do this, and I haven't found any which is currently able to contact all projects and taskforces in one fell swoop. Anyone willing to code this? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:35, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles tagged by their banner enter a workflow such as Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, and Peer review ( full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found at here.
If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use thedisplay=none
parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts".
Any updates? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I have looked around wikipedia and noticed that most images are uncompressed (including the actual logo file:wiki.png) I believe that a bot that compresses images would help save bandwidth and reduce page download time. While some people may argue that the savings would be nominal, they would indeed help. Reduced bandwidth would save the wikimedia foundation money(remember, your donations pay for that bandwidth) and the reduced page load time would make people with slower connections happier.
On average, I have been able to compress some images by ~25%. Some more(5kb for the wikipedia text logo on www.wikipedia.org), some less(23bytes for the file:wiki.png). Compression can be accomplished in several ways. First, the color scale can be changed(such as from rgb to greyscale) can save kilobytes. Second, is the type of file such as jpeg, png, and gif. In some cases jpeg is better while png in others. Lastly, there is the actual compression through tools such as pngcrush, pngguantlet, and pngoutwin. The only downside is that like all compression, it is extremely computationally expensive. Together, they can compress an image a quarter or more.
I suggest that the bot begin with the standard mediawiki images followed by the top 1000 most viewed images. After that, it would simply work in order of "most bandwidth used" images. While I don't have the actual image download statistics(if someone could put them up, it would be nice), there can be savings. As I haven't programmed in years, I don't think I can write an adequate bot, but I can help. Please post if you support this idea or would like to comment, please do so. Smallman12q ( talk) 18:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Edit 1: I would like to say that that what I have in mind is lossless compression. There is also a disccusion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Smaller Wikipedia Logo files Smallman12q ( talk) 22:22, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Here is a site that offers online optimization: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/ 72.90.135.45 ( talk) 18:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
This won't do much good, if any. I think the minimal benefit of compressing the originals would be lost in the thumbnailing process. Plus you seem to ignore the possibility that anyone would want to download the uncompressed originals. The images that we upload are usually not the images that are displayed in articles. For example the Image:Felix Pedro.jpg I uploaded was 483×620px, 79,054 bytes:
You might argue that this is poorly compressed, with a 3.788 pixel–byte ratio, but most readers won't see this. The thumbnail you see on this page is rendered at 100×128px and uses 3,575 bytes:
Here the compression ratio is actually lower at 3.580. So even if we compressed the hell out of the full-size image (punishing anyone who wanted to print the original photo), the server would likely still generate thumbnails at the same file size as before (probably because it's intended to be fast, rather than efficient—your thumbnails have to be ready instantly when you hit the preview button to ask yourself "how does it look at this size") but probably be of measurably poorer quality. What would be the point of that?
If image loading times are a concern it would be better to use more aggressive compression (different software, or different settings within the same software) for the thumbnailing process rather than adulterating the originals, which shouldn't need to be compressed anyway. — CharlotteWebb 20:16, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Not a good task for a bot. There is nothing wrong with recompressing a PNG, and nothing in particular wrong with changing to palletized or greyscale if it results in no change to the image (note that some programs don't "like" palletized images with an alpha channel), although as noted above it would not do a whole lot to reduce the bandwidth used in articles. But converting to greyscale when the image uses non-grey colors would be a bad idea, as would reducing the number of colors used while palletizing. Recompressing jpegs (or converting png to or from jpeg) would be a bad idea to do automatically (and not a very good idea to do in general unless you know what you're doing), as jpeg normally uses lossy compression. Anomie ⚔ 21:57, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
I believe I forgot to mention that the compression would be lossless. A bot wouldn't need to recognize if the colors "were close enough", instead only the number of colors present. For example, for about a year, the file:wiki.png file was uploaded as an rgb rather than a greyscale. And the actual "compession" would only be for png's so it would be lossless. Please assume that the compression is lossless. Also, file conversion such as png to gif could save additional bytes without any quality lost. Please let me know what you think of lossless compression. Smallman12q ( talk) 22:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
←Not sure what Smallman is trying to say but maybe he meant maybe he meant that the SVG→PNG thumbnails created by ImageMagick (or rsvg or whatever) have a larger file size than a visually similar PNG that was created manually. I can believe that, but that doesn't mean we should scrap the image-conversion software and leave a small man inside the server in charge of creating thumbnails. It… wouldn't scale.
Seriously something that actually would save bandwidth would be to tell the server to embed SVGs directly when the file size is smaller than that of the thumbnail that would otherwise be shown for the selected dimensions. But I suspect the outcry against this would be horrific. — CharlotteWebb 02:52, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
As noted on the VP, even your lossless changes weren't lossless. §hep Talk 04:21, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Above is a simple example of lossless PNG compression that can be recreated with a simple 10 trial run on PNGOUTWin or PNGGuantlet. Smallman12q ( talk) 12:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Here is an excellent example in which compression could save some notable bandwidth... This image appeared on March 3, 2009 on the front page at [ [2]]
The front page gets an average of 5 million views a day. Every 175 thousand times the image is viewed, 1GB would be saved. If the image is viewed 1 million times, then 5.5GB bandwidth would be saved. Smallman12q ( talk) 00:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Since Article alerts has launched, its scope now included workflows such as WP:RfD. However, redirects are very rarely tagged, so it makes this feature less useful than in could be. So how about having a bot browse articles, check the "what links here", then tags the redirect with the same banners as the target article.
For example, quark has one redirect, quarks. The redirect tagger would copy the banners from talk:quark, and assess talk:quarks as redirect-class / NA-importance. It could run on a per-project basis, or continuously, whichever makes more sense to the BAG. I know WP:PHYS would be interested, and I'm sure other projects will show interest as well. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
(←)Not sure, I'm sure some do though. I'd do it for you, but AWB has been on the fritz for me recently. If you have AWB it's a simple manner of 3 steps or so to get a complete list of all redirects for a project. §hep Talk 02:20, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
And of course, there is the small matter of updating every redirect talk page whenever a banner is added to or removed from the target page. The whole point of redirects and templates is to avoid duplication, not perpetuate it. The MediaWiki architecture is specifically designed to be as quick and efficient as possible in outputting data, with corresponding sacrifices on inputting it. Almost never will an argument that "editing page X once is better than reading data Y times" prove genuinely valid. Happy‑ melon 15:22, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I need a bot to make a change to a template location on about 250 or so portal pages. The templates that these portals use were created in the wrong name space, "Portal:". As part of some house cleaning, I moved the templates to the proper name space and need a bot to update the links on all of the pages so that they avoid the redirect.
The templates are:
Thank you, -- Jeremy ( blah blah 08:34, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually I was more concerned with the problem covered in the next section: Aliases for templates can cause confusion and make migrations of template calls more complicated. For example, assume calls to T1 are to be changed ("migrated") to some new template TN1. To catch all calls, articles must be searched for {{T1}} and all aliases of T1 (T2 in this case). -- Jeremy ( blah blah 09:11, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
A lot of the templates for the To-Do in the taskforces of the WP:MILHIST have, in the requested articles section, blue links, meaning that they are no longer requested. Could a bot go through and remove these as they are created? Or be run every 24 hours to remove them as they are created? Just a question, I have a little bot programming experience, but not enough for it to help. TARTARUS talk 01:23, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Template:Infobox movie certificates was recently deleted at WP:TFD, but the template link is still present in many articles - too many to be easily removed individually. [4] I tried to remove them myself using AutoWikiBrowser, but because of the parameter within the template, it could not be done using the program, and therefore a bot would do much good here. – Dream out loud ( talk) 18:39, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello! I was about to do something that is going to take me a week probably, and I thought.. Maybe a bot can help! I would like to have a bot look at the talk page of every article in Category:Indiana and all subcategories and make sure there is a {{WikiProject Indiana}} tag on the talk page. If there is not, I want it to add one without any parameters. This will put them all into the unassessed Indiana articles category. Then the projects members.. Probably all me, will be able to go through and assess them more quickly, without having to hunt for them first! I have a hunch that there are a couple hundred in there that are not tagged.. maybe more. Is this something that can be done by a bot? Charles Edward ( Talk) 03:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
IIRC the recommended style for spaces and punctuations around footnotes is:
word<ref>
not word <ref>
(no space before the <ref>) and word,<ref>
and word.<ref>
not word<ref>,
and word<ref>.
(punctuation before the <ref> not after). Many articles have the spacing wrong; would a bot be the right way to fix this?
Shreevatsa (
talk) 22:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)It's unlikely that a bot could make that determination, and errors would result in excessive controversy. Personally, I like the "refs after punctuation" style, but... Anomie ⚔ 03:25, 3 March 2009 (UTC)Some editors prefer the in-house style of journals such as Nature, which place references before punctuation. If an article has evolved using predominantly one style of ref tag placement, the whole article should conform to that style unless there is a consensus to change it.
A recent redesign of http://espn.go.com has broken many of the links. The only information I have seen from ESPN itself is an unhelpful message at broken links, for example http://espn.go.com/nba/news/1999/1012/110905.html. See Wikipedia:Help desk#Missing footnote links for a discussion. Special:Linksearch currently displays 1795 links to http://espn.go.com in this search. Manual experimentation on a limited number of cases shows that many links to http://espn.go.com still work but if they are broken then it works to insert "static." or "assets." before espn.go.com, for example http://static.espn.go.com/nba/news/1999/1012/110905.html or http://assets.espn.go.com/nba/news/1999/1012/110905.html. Could a bot go through the links to test them and if they are broken then test whether a replacement works? Both "static." and "assets." worked in the cases I tried but I don't know whether it will always work. PrimeHunter ( talk) 01:35, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
It has been proposed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#"Year" that the word "Year", apparently added to all year articles at the outset, be eliminated, as specified in Wikipedia:WikiProject Years#Intro Section. As far as I can tell, "Year" was never in a proposed template in that project. Project approval is expected, but has not yet reached consensus.
The detailed proposal, would be: for each Year article, replace, at most once, at the beginning of a line, replace
or
by
As this will hit approximately 3700 articles (I manually changed 1921–1923 and 1963–2059, using WP:AWB and other test edits.), I wanted to give the bot programmer a chance to code it efficiently. This is a run-once, so it may not be necessary to code it efficiently. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 03:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Just as an experiment, I'm wondering if anyone would be kind enough to devote some time to putting together a bot to do the following, to create a useful page indicating for which parts of the county are photos required. Something like:
By way of explanation, I /think/ that Northumberland articles are fairly well geo-coded, and so looking for coord gives us all places & things capable of being photographed. That said, a variant of the same thing which simply looks for northumberland articles without images might be just as interesting.
As is the way of these things, a) were such a thing on the toolserver or b) capable of being run as a bot for any project, it might be a useful thing. Right now I'm interested to see if it yields useful results for me in my neck of the woods. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 03:42, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
My school needs a new field really bad and Kellogg's is having a contest thing where you need the most supporter. Every time you click and put in a code that is shown it counts as a supporter. I really need a bot that clicks on the button then puts in the code. I don't know but maybe it might require a password searcher? Thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.18.79 ( talk) 19:36, 5 March 2009 (UTC)