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I want to operate a bot that archives old discussions every month or so. Any discussions that hasn't had any response in the last 60 days will be automatically archived. Jupiter.solarsyst. comm.arm.milk .universe 19:52, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
hi,how can I operate a bot that can archives articles about australia fortnightly? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.131.201.213 ( talk • contribs)
List all categories of Prince Edward Island here. Don't list categories of Category:Aboriginal peoples in Atlantic Canada. Thanks! -- Sniff ( talk) 00:20, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Birmingham.gov.uk URLs (of which there are many on Wikipedia) are changing. In particular:
.bcc
suffix, thus:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks.
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?
(e.g.
[1]) will disappear completely.The former could be replaced by a bot. If someone can list all the latter, preferably as a CSV file, and ideally with the title from the target page, will provide equivalent permalinks in the former (suffix-free) format. We will upload revised file to our website, to demonstrate its provenance.
Thank you. BCCWebTeam ( talk) 16:37, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Will the .bcc suffix URLs actually break or will they just redirect to suffix-less URL? (Currently the non-suffix ones redirect to have a .bcc suffix). If they will actually break, I can have DeadLinkBOT work through them.
There are also a large number of URLs in the follow formats, which may or may not need modified.
-- ThaddeusB ( talk) 17:28, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
.bcc
suffix will cease working; please apply the bot as you suggest. It would be good to have the other four variants you list, which will also cease working, added to the CSV (or in a separate file) please.
BCCWebTeam (
talk) 13:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)Seems like a lot of work for the .bcc files when they could just code in a simple call redirect on their end. Just saying.. - ALLST✰R▼ echo wuz here 14:24, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Discussion pages are regularly archived, so most links to the main discussion pages will become dead links after a while. This bot will find dead links linking to discussion pages and then fix them by linking to the correct archive pages. This will only work if the link point to a specific section. So for example if a link point to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Message_Bot it will be fixed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_7#Message_Bot. For more accuracy the bot will check the time the link was made and compare with the time the archived page was created. Dy yol ( talk) 18:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone make me a gaia jigsaw bot or just teach me how to make one
Could a bot sort articles in Category:Unincorporated communities in Delaware into Category:Unincorporated communities in New Castle County, Delaware and Category:Unincorporated communities in Sussex County, Delaware, replacing both the the parent category and the county category on the articles? There are three counties in Delaware, but as far as I know, there's only one article about an unincorporated community in Kent County, so don't worry about it. Nyttend ( talk) 14:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
I was halfway through manual adding and I then I remembered this page!! Could someone write a bot to add the WikiProject Journalism banner to all the subcategories and the pages in
Category:Newspapers published in India and if its a stub, asses it as stub. The code for the banner is: {{
WikiProject Journalism}}
. Thanks! --
Siddhant (
talk) 11:54, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Thousands of species articles link to the IUCN Red List as a source. Unfortunately, the IUCN recently changed its organization scheme, using new URLs for everything, and they didn't leave redirects behind. (I hate it when sites do that.) So an article like Golden-browed Chat-tyrant links to the Red List page http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/49963 which used to be correct, but now gives a "page not found error". The correct page is now http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/145230/0 but the only way to find it, so far as I can tell, is to search for the common name or binomial name in their built-in search.
I was hoping someone could write a bot to do the following:
Would someone be willing to do this? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) 12:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
There were a number of pages created with incorrect values for the "census yr" parameter. This caused red links that someone turned blue:
United States Census, 2005 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2006 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2007 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2008 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2009 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2004 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2002 (redirect page) (links)
These pages never needed to exist, because there was not a census. (I cleaned up a few of these on my own.) A bot should clean this up.
Thanks. Timneu22 ( talk) 12:42, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Similarly, would it be possible to modify all links that point to United States Census, 2007 and make them point to United States Census Bureau instead? I'd like to delete the 2007 redirect page. Timneu22 ( talk) 17:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Article on Australian football team, Australia national association football team, was moved recently to the current title per request. Would it be possible to get a bot to go through the huge number of sports related articles, templates etc to change old links to the new title? Too many to do by hand, and looks messy just using the redirect. YeshuaDavid • Talk • 23:44, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at
Category talk:Underpopulated categories#The Underpopulated categories cat is Overpopulated! regarding how to de-populate that category. My idea is to have a bot systematically clean up that category by removing {{
popcat}}
from all those categories that either:
a.) already are populated with a certain numbered amount of articles, and/or
b.) have been tagged with {{
popcat}}
for a certain amount of time, or that fall within a certain date period (in which case a date= parameter may be needed?)
Is it possible to have a bot be able to automatically determine these things? -- œ ™ 19:17, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot edit the accessdate
parameter in templates such as {{
Cite book}} from something like 2006-02-07
to something like 7 February 2006
? Numbers and dashes look messy, in my opinion, and the dates used to be linked before the delinking thing, so they were never intended to look like they do now.
It Is Me Here
t /
c 18:04, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
accessdate
. However, auto-formatting is actually support with {{#formatdate:}}, no idea what it isn't implemented to the citation template. —
Dispenser 19:20, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, every now and then I patrol various parts of the pedia for particular words that are either commonly misused or an indicator of vandalism/attacks. But for those with a high proportion of false positives its a complete pain to search again a few months and have to trawl the whole lot to find a few new errors. What I would like to be able search for are for example articles containing the word "poop " but not containing the words "poop deck" or "poop cabin" and that didn't contain that word on "dd/mm/yyyy". However if that isn't too practical could I have a bit of code that lets me specify a word or phrase, whether I'm looking though article space user space or user talk and a sandbox to write it to. Provided the query refreshed the sandbox with a list of the resulting article names in square brackets and in alpha order I think I can do the rest simply by looking at what has changed since last time the query was run, though it would be even better if the list contained article links and the date they were added to the sandbox, and were in date order.
I've tried searching for "posses " and written the search to User:WereSpielChequers/posses, but they don't come up as clickable. However it does give an idea as to what I'm searching for. Ϣere SpielChequers 19:25, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
This is a long request, hope that it is composed properly! I would most appreciate a bot to be run to add WikiProject NRHP banner to many articles that have been created in the last year without banners, perhaps 1,000-4,000 in number, adding to the 20,000 articles in the wikiproject. This request reflects feedback on format of bot request from Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 28#Advance questions for a WikiProject NRHP banner placement bot.
I am hoping it would show results before July 4, so as to inform some press-release type announcements on that day or a day or two before, but will be glad to get any help. Thanks in advance! doncram ( talk) 01:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Part 1. Request that all articles in wikipedia whose titles begin with "National Register of Historic Places listings in" be tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places|class=list}}, retaining existing assessments if any. Unless the article is a redirect, then do not add any banner.
Part 2. Request that all articles in the following NRHP categories be tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places}}, retaining existing assessments if any. Unless the article is a redirect, then do not add any banner.
Is there any interest in a bot that would handle non-controversial db-author and db-self chores?
What I had in mind:
The primary issue is that this would be an admin bot. It would only be useful if the benefits of the bot outweighed the risk of a snafu and that this wasn't seen as "admin bot creep," which is always something to watch out for. Good code review should make snafus almost unheard of. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Most chemicals in Wikipedia have a CAS No. listed, but most do not have the corresponding EC No.
the template:chembox, the field to fill in is "EINECS".
By using a CAS No. in the following url, e.g. http://ecb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esis/index.php?GENRE=CASNO&ENTREE=124-38-9 where the CAS No. is 124-38-9, you can identify the corresponding EC No. and then insert it into the Wikipedia article.
Any takers?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.233.138 ( talk • contribs)
If anybody is interested, please complete this bot request. Add the below parameters to each element infobox, which are all in
Category:Periodic table infobox templates. |namecap= |number3=
At the same time, create some values. Values for
namecap
will be capitalized versions of what is already in the name
field. For
template:Infobox copper the name
value is copper
so the corresponding namecap
value should be Copper
Values for
number3
should be the 3 digit version of what is already in the number
field. For copper, the number
value is already 29
and the number3
value should therefore be 029
. Of course, any element that already has a three digit value in the number
field should just have that value copied over to number3
. Like so: |namecap=Copper |number3=029
Also, please replace spaces between words in the values given for
crystal structure
with plain old ascii hyphens (-). Example, cubic face centered
becomes cubic-face-centered
. You will find oddball values - that's fine, we know that there will be manual clean-up and will do that ourselves.
Addendum: Put
.jpg
at the end of each value given in the image name
field. Note that not all fields have values. Once the bot run is over, replace the text at
Template:Elementbox with the text at
User:Mav/Sandbox/Elementbox. Project members will manually fix any oddities.
All of the above per discussion on WikiProject Elements' talk page. Thanks for any help you can provide! :) -- mav ( talk) 01:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
While you are at it, please also add
|image ext=.jpg
to each infobox. Thanks. --
mav (
talk) 01:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
For what it's worth, most elements don't use Template:Elementbox. It's a tedious conversion process and it's been on my to-do list for ... awhile. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 04:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
{{{image name}}}{{#ifexist:{{{image name|}}}.jpg|.jpg}}
. —
Dispenser 07:43, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Hm. Seems like the remaining conversion issues could just as easily be done with a tabbed browser due to the fact that only 30 elements use the elementbox template. Please cancel the bot request and accept my gratitude for all the great advice and pointers to improve the template. :) -- mav ( talk) 00:15, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
As part of a larger project to address the list of requests for photographs I would like assistance creating a bot script to sort out photo requests of people. I have no experience of Python or similar script languages. I started the task using AWB but it became clear it would take me a couple of years to complete it with that method. See User:Traveler100/bio-photo-bot for details. Traveler100 ( talk) 09:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
The previous request was archived without a response. Would it be possible to modify all links that point to United States Census, 2007 and make them point to United States Census Bureau instead? I'd like to delete the 2007 redirect page. Timneu22 ( talk) 17:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
[[United States Census, 2007
" with "[[United States Census Bureau
". Very easy :), I'd do it myself except I'm currently cutting down on my automated edits, I dislike AWB and I'm programming my own bot at the mo (nothing more enjoyable than that) :) -
Kingpin
13 (
talk) 10:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
As outlined at WT:RfA#WT:RfA.
This bot would take a user and look through the things which are considered in an RfA (so for example: What areas they take part in, block log, how much interaction they have with other users, how many AN/I threads there have been about them ;), what (if any) warnings they have received, etc. etc.) and then give the user a "score" of how good an admin they would make, it could also find the average score of failed/successful noms over the past month(s) and compare the user to that.
The way to do this which seems best (as we don't want the results to be public), is to have a page where users can request to be reviewed (optionally) and the bot will then email their results to the user via Special:EmailUser.
There is also talk about having a bot "fail" users before they go for RfA. It seems to be a bad idea to add this immediately, but it would be nice to have the bot save data about whether it would have failed them, if it was allowed to. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 08:37, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Ϣere SpielChequers 18:26, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
It should be noticed that this proposal is just to determine how accurate a bot is compared to a bureaucrat in "closing" and RfA. The data would be compiled over the course of 6-12 months, and then reviewed. Whatever the outcome, the data would be useful and would also either shoot down the idea of a bot doing it or support it. ···
日本穣
? ·
Talk to Nihonjoe 23:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Comment This sounds like people want a statistical analysis done of past RFA decisions, as in a logit regression analysis, or a neural net prediction model. Creating such a prediction model would be an easy analysis for anyone knowledgeable who has a statistical software package, if the candidate variables were collected in a table for a bunch of past RFA decisions, but it is not the same a running a bot! doncram ( talk) 01:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, i am from the runescape wiki and i was wondering if you could make a bot for me. I would like to to have the name Redlinkbot and i want it to automatically find redlinks and remove them when needed, if not needed; just remove the [[,]] tags so it becomes a normal word instead of a link.
I would really appreciate if you could do it,
82.45.113.89 ( talk) 15:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
In the template {{
Infobox UK property}}, I have renamed the parameter |imgage_name=
as |image_name=
. I'd like to request that a bot correct the name of the parameter in all articles where the template has been transcluded. Thanks. — Cheers,
JackLee –
talk– 15:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Over the years, a lot of links have been added to baseball-related articles that link to the Baseball Reference site. That site recently changed the directory structure for all its player articles, adding a new directory level. What was previously " http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/smithjo01.shtml" is now " http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithjo01.shtml". The old links still currently work as redirects, but there's no guarantee that will always be the case. Therefore, I'd like to request that someone create a bot to fix these links across Wikipedia. - Dewelar ( talk) 14:38, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) I'm not sure why I'm missing the spirit of the law, as I said I didn't have an issue with not changing the links at this time. I have the same view as ThaddeusB on waiting to see if there is a known plan for the external redirects before engaging in an automated effort to change the links. Isaac Lin ( talk) 19:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Probably a task for an existing bot but here goes: I requested Special:AbuseFilter/200 to be created which tags edits where a prod template is removed (and not replaced by an AFD or speedy template). I think it might be a good idea to have a bot that notifies the user who placed the prod template (as opt-in or opt-out, I'm not sure here) so they can decide whether they want to pursue deletion through AFD. What do you think? Regards So Why 21:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to be created that would replace all instances of the "home" and "away" parameters in this template with "team1" and "team2"? The "homescore" and "awayscore" parameters would also need to be changed to "team1score" and "team2score". The reason for this change is that, when a match is played at a neutral venue, there is no "home team" or "away team", and this would make the template fall in line with {{ footballbox}} and the cricket match summary templates. – Pee Jay 11:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Would a bot owner post the following message to the user talk pages of all editors who are in one of these two categories?
Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Section heading for announcement:
Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16
Body of section (announcement):
The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)
The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)
The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.
If you're interested, please send John Broughton an email. If you might be interested, but would like further information, please post a note on his user talk page, so that he can respond there, and others can see what was asked.
(You have received this posting because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland or DC.)
Could in principle be done by going through Category:Films based on books, checking which links on the pages are categorized as books, and then adding the category to the linked page. Could also deal with the many subcategories of Category:Films based on books by making analogous reverse categories (e.g. Category:Novels made into films). -- Cybercobra ( talk) 06:40, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
WP:DABS was created to monitor the size of dinosaur articles on Wikipedia. The purpose is to identify new articles, identify very short stubs, highlight potential hoax articles, monitor when an article may be becoming too long, identify articles which may be nearing comparable FA or GA length, identify articles which have already reached GA or FA, and identify articles which have been categorized incorrectly.
DABS was updated manually from December 4, 2005 to May 28, 2007. It was automated by DinoSizedBot, then later Betacommand's bot, then finally 718 Bot. It hasn't worked properly since January, but we'd like to get it up and running again, as we continue to get hoaxes and other stuff that could potentially be identified if a bot was updating the list. It's also just much easier to see which articles need the most attention using the list.
We've contacted East718, the owner of the last bot to update the list, but he's busy in real life. Is this a task someone else could take up? Firsfron of Ronchester 23:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
This category aparently has over 1000 direct uses, many of which have a stub template for some sub-category. I think a bot should go through all pages in the category, remove all direct use of the category, and if any page doesn't have a template stub for this category or one of its subcats - add a {{ fungus-stub}} tag. Thewre are 6 legitimate tags for ths category+its subcats - {{ fungus-stub}}, {{ Mycologist-stub}}, {{ Ascomycota-stub}}, {{ Dothideomycetes-stub}}, {{ Basidiomycota-stub}} and {{ yeast-stub}}. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 23:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia is rife with markup such as the following [[topic]]s
which generates markup where the link text is followed with meaningless part-words such as "s", "ed", "ing". I assume that such markup presents an accessibility hazard because speech synthesizer users hear a segment of garbage output read aloud when the synthesizer encounters the word fragment after the link text. (Feedback from speech synthesizer users, anyone?) At the very least it seems fair to suggest that this is a potential accessibility problem.
I'd like to ask for comments about the feasibility of implementing a bot that carries out a set of substitutions of the form [[topic]]suffix
to [[topic|topicsuffix]]
, for example [[topic]]s
to [[topic|topics]]
, and the same for ed ing and any others that can be found and which can be guaranteed to be same.
Is there an existing bot that simply carries out general regular-expression-type substitutions? CecilWard ( talk) 10:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
[[topic]]s
is that MediaWiki automagically treats it as if it were [[topic|topics]]
when rendering the page, like this: "
topics".[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). Since there are hundreds of templates in need of this overdue change, and this currently emitting broken microformats, the need may be considered pressing]
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 23:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I've been trying to make a regex for
User:Chrisbot but just can't manage; could someone help me? The regex needs to change "CONTl" to "CHRISBOT" but not any
other of the CONT icons (ie. not(t|ex|ext|u|ut|ue|utex)CONTl
to (t|ex|ext|u|ut|ue|utex)CHRISBOT
). I accidentally came upon this problem when changing tCONTl to CHRISBOT and unexpectantly changed utCONTl to uCHRISBOT as well (
diff). I'll soon be on holiday but I'll look here asap.
Chris
DHDR 20:30, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
We're looking at making lists of winners of cycling races sortable so readers can view lists by year, nationality, name or team. We only need to make small edits to enable much of this. However, names won't currently sort on last name. So we'd like to changed all the standard wikilinked names into {{ sortname}}.
The lists are created using templates. They're currently transcluded into 252 articles so would be a lot of work of editing - so maybe a bot could help? The names are in the name and name2 fields of {{ cycling past winner rider}} and {{ cycling past winner rider2}}
For just First Last names, we'd need the following changes:
{{
sortname|First|Last}}
{{
sortname|First|Last|First Last (cyclist)}}
{{
sortname|First|Lást| |Last, First}}
If there is First smth Last, I'm not sure how this could be done, but maybe the bot could look at the {{ DEFAULTSORT}} key on the target pages?
At the same time, can all instance of the deprecated fields of teamnat= and teamnatvar= be removed.
Thanks in advance for your help! Severo T C 19:26, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Articles using {{
Infobox Military Structure}}, which have coordinates in that infobox as latitude
, longitude
parameters, and a {{
coord}} template, need to have thw latter removed, as it causes an overlay of coordinates,
as seen here. Thank you.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 10:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
This category aparently has over 1000 direct uses, many of which have a stub template for some sub-category. I think a bot should go through all pages in the category, remove all direct use of the category, and if any page doesn't have a template stub for this category or one of its subcats - add a {{ fungus-stub}} tag. Thewre are 6 legitimate tags for ths category+its subcats - {{ fungus-stub}}, {{ Mycologist-stub}}, {{ Ascomycota-stub}}, {{ Dothideomycetes-stub}}, {{ Basidiomycota-stub}} and {{ yeast-stub}}. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:51, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Distrubute the following messages to all members of WikiProject Software and all its departments:
For better and faster discussion between WikiProject Software Members a IRC channel has been created: irc://irc.freenode.net/WikiProject-Software. For instant access click here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=WikiProject-Software. Please your Wikipedia nickname. You are receiving this message because you are a member of WikiProject Software -- Tyw7 ( Talk • Contributions) 17:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Doing... - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 22:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
The National Register of Historic Places Wikiproject has begun a process to categorise all articles in Category:Historic districts in the United States into state-level categories. This is impeded by the fact that all articles with {{ infobox nrhp}} that are marked as historic districts [HDs] in the infobox are automatically placed into the nationwide category, so we want to remove that function; however, if we do that, most HDs won't be in any HD category. Could we have a bot add the category (i.e. just placing the text "[[Category:Historic districts in the United States]]") to most HD articles, so that we can remove the function without these articles losing the HD category? In short, adding this category will enable us to distinguish which articles need to be recategorised. I'm specifically requesting that this category be added to pages that fit the following criteria:
I do not ask for the bot to sort any articles into categories itself: this request is only intended to make human sorting easier. Nyttend ( talk) 02:46, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Could a bot run through this category and remove any |class= or |importance= designations on any Category, Template, or File talk pages that are tagged with {{
WikiProject Video games}}
. Thanks,
MrKIA11 (
talk) 19:03, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
, so no, I don't think so. Plus, it's only ~700 pages.
MrKIA11 (
talk) 21:13, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
A user was nice enough to take
hours out of their time to manually update the pages that a bot could have done in minutes. I didn't realize that this was so outrageously complicated to program that I could not even get a response. Thanks
MrKIA11 (
talk) 12:42, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I'd like a bot that would move images from Category:Cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0 images to Commons with a maintenance category of the bot's work. To ensure that the images are not copyvios it would be best to check the EXIF data on each image. If the image doesn't have one then it would need review, for the rest though, they should be transferred over there. Thank you, -- Diaa abdelmoneim ( talk) 09:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
As per the consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Formal petition to change the naming conventions, could someone create a bot to move any article with a year in Category:Recopa Sudamericana and Category:Copa Libertadores de América so that the year appears in the front instead of the end, example: move Recopa Sudamericana 1990 to 1990 Recopa Sudamericana and Copa Libertadores 1960 to 1960 Copa Libertadores. Thanks. Digirami ( talk) 22:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I updated {{ Cite music release notes}} and changed all the parameters to include lowercase letters only, as per infobox MOS. There are over 40 articles transcluding the template that need to be fixed so a bot would be very helpful here. Thanks. – Dream out loud ( talk) 02:58, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Per the consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Formal petition to change the naming conventions, could someone please create a bot to move the articles in Category:FA Cup seasons, Category:Football Conference seasons, Category:Football League Cup seasons and Category:The Football League seasons so that the years are at the beginning. For example, FA Cup 1871–72 should be moved to 1871–72 FA Cup, Football Conference 1994–95 to 1994–95 Football Conference, Football League Cup 2007–08 to 2007–08 Football League Cup and The Football League 1974–75 to 1974–75 Football League. – Pee Jay 22:11, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot that creates a list of articles lacking pictures for topics where there are articles on other language wikis with pictures from commons? I'm thinking of something like the redlink lists, lists of:
With section breaks every forty rows or so to make the file usable. Then anyone could delete the row if they've copied the photo over, strike through and give a reason if the photo is somehow not right for EN Wiki or alternatively leave a comment along the lines of probably needs a German speaker to fathom out why they find that picture relevant to the subject. We'd probably also need a way to attribute the choice of photo, I'm wondering if that would be OK with an edit summary of add photo from same article on DE:Wiki. Ϣere SpielChequers 11:22, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
There are more than
4000 pages with direct links to
PubMed abstracts. These should be converted to citations using citation templates with the |pmid=
parameter. From
Template:Cite_journal/doc, "If a DOI or PMID is available, the URL should only be specified if it would point to a different page to that which a DOI or PMID would redirect to." There are existing tools like
diberri's template filler that output a properly formatted citation using {{
cite journal}} for a given
PMID. For existing citations that include a direct url to a PubMed abstract, the URL should be removed and the PMID added in the |pmid=
parameter if it's not there already. —
Chris Capoccia
T⁄
C 08:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
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Requesting a bot to tag the talk pages of all films in the category Category:American films with the task-force tag parameter of |American-task-force=yes within the {{Film}} tag. There could be a handful of American films that either a} don't have a talk page or b} don't have the film tag, so can these be tagged with {{Film|American-task-force=yes}}? The American cinema task-force was setup a few months back, but most films don't have the talkpage tagged. Let me know if you need any more info/explanation. Thanks! Lugnuts ( talk) 18:28, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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We would like a bot to add a listas= parameter to the template {{ EastEnders project class}} on our article talk pages, which can be found in Category:EastEnders and its subcategories. The majority of articles already use defaultsort so it shouldn't be much of a problem for a bot to pick this up and add it to the talk page. AnemoneProjectors ( talk) 19:05, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
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Currently, Ruhrfisch is running the peer review script in a semi-automatic way every night. There is obviously no good reason that this could not be a fully automated process, and Ruhrfisch would appreciate being able to do something else with his time. This would also be a good opportunity to tweak the PR script and fix some of its known bugs. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:16, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 25 | ← | Archive 27 | Archive 28 | Archive 29 | Archive 30 | Archive 31 | → | Archive 35 |
I want to operate a bot that archives old discussions every month or so. Any discussions that hasn't had any response in the last 60 days will be automatically archived. Jupiter.solarsyst. comm.arm.milk .universe 19:52, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
hi,how can I operate a bot that can archives articles about australia fortnightly? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.131.201.213 ( talk • contribs)
List all categories of Prince Edward Island here. Don't list categories of Category:Aboriginal peoples in Atlantic Canada. Thanks! -- Sniff ( talk) 00:20, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Birmingham.gov.uk URLs (of which there are many on Wikipedia) are changing. In particular:
.bcc
suffix, thus:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks.
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?
(e.g.
[1]) will disappear completely.The former could be replaced by a bot. If someone can list all the latter, preferably as a CSV file, and ideally with the title from the target page, will provide equivalent permalinks in the former (suffix-free) format. We will upload revised file to our website, to demonstrate its provenance.
Thank you. BCCWebTeam ( talk) 16:37, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Will the .bcc suffix URLs actually break or will they just redirect to suffix-less URL? (Currently the non-suffix ones redirect to have a .bcc suffix). If they will actually break, I can have DeadLinkBOT work through them.
There are also a large number of URLs in the follow formats, which may or may not need modified.
-- ThaddeusB ( talk) 17:28, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
.bcc
suffix will cease working; please apply the bot as you suggest. It would be good to have the other four variants you list, which will also cease working, added to the CSV (or in a separate file) please.
BCCWebTeam (
talk) 13:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)Seems like a lot of work for the .bcc files when they could just code in a simple call redirect on their end. Just saying.. - ALLST✰R▼ echo wuz here 14:24, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Discussion pages are regularly archived, so most links to the main discussion pages will become dead links after a while. This bot will find dead links linking to discussion pages and then fix them by linking to the correct archive pages. This will only work if the link point to a specific section. So for example if a link point to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Message_Bot it will be fixed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_7#Message_Bot. For more accuracy the bot will check the time the link was made and compare with the time the archived page was created. Dy yol ( talk) 18:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Can anyone make me a gaia jigsaw bot or just teach me how to make one
Could a bot sort articles in Category:Unincorporated communities in Delaware into Category:Unincorporated communities in New Castle County, Delaware and Category:Unincorporated communities in Sussex County, Delaware, replacing both the the parent category and the county category on the articles? There are three counties in Delaware, but as far as I know, there's only one article about an unincorporated community in Kent County, so don't worry about it. Nyttend ( talk) 14:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
I was halfway through manual adding and I then I remembered this page!! Could someone write a bot to add the WikiProject Journalism banner to all the subcategories and the pages in
Category:Newspapers published in India and if its a stub, asses it as stub. The code for the banner is: {{
WikiProject Journalism}}
. Thanks! --
Siddhant (
talk) 11:54, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Thousands of species articles link to the IUCN Red List as a source. Unfortunately, the IUCN recently changed its organization scheme, using new URLs for everything, and they didn't leave redirects behind. (I hate it when sites do that.) So an article like Golden-browed Chat-tyrant links to the Red List page http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/49963 which used to be correct, but now gives a "page not found error". The correct page is now http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/145230/0 but the only way to find it, so far as I can tell, is to search for the common name or binomial name in their built-in search.
I was hoping someone could write a bot to do the following:
Would someone be willing to do this? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) 12:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
There were a number of pages created with incorrect values for the "census yr" parameter. This caused red links that someone turned blue:
United States Census, 2005 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2006 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2007 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2008 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2009 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2004 (redirect page) (links) United States Census, 2002 (redirect page) (links)
These pages never needed to exist, because there was not a census. (I cleaned up a few of these on my own.) A bot should clean this up.
Thanks. Timneu22 ( talk) 12:42, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Similarly, would it be possible to modify all links that point to United States Census, 2007 and make them point to United States Census Bureau instead? I'd like to delete the 2007 redirect page. Timneu22 ( talk) 17:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Article on Australian football team, Australia national association football team, was moved recently to the current title per request. Would it be possible to get a bot to go through the huge number of sports related articles, templates etc to change old links to the new title? Too many to do by hand, and looks messy just using the redirect. YeshuaDavid • Talk • 23:44, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at
Category talk:Underpopulated categories#The Underpopulated categories cat is Overpopulated! regarding how to de-populate that category. My idea is to have a bot systematically clean up that category by removing {{
popcat}}
from all those categories that either:
a.) already are populated with a certain numbered amount of articles, and/or
b.) have been tagged with {{
popcat}}
for a certain amount of time, or that fall within a certain date period (in which case a date= parameter may be needed?)
Is it possible to have a bot be able to automatically determine these things? -- œ ™ 19:17, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot edit the accessdate
parameter in templates such as {{
Cite book}} from something like 2006-02-07
to something like 7 February 2006
? Numbers and dashes look messy, in my opinion, and the dates used to be linked before the delinking thing, so they were never intended to look like they do now.
It Is Me Here
t /
c 18:04, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
accessdate
. However, auto-formatting is actually support with {{#formatdate:}}, no idea what it isn't implemented to the citation template. —
Dispenser 19:20, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, every now and then I patrol various parts of the pedia for particular words that are either commonly misused or an indicator of vandalism/attacks. But for those with a high proportion of false positives its a complete pain to search again a few months and have to trawl the whole lot to find a few new errors. What I would like to be able search for are for example articles containing the word "poop " but not containing the words "poop deck" or "poop cabin" and that didn't contain that word on "dd/mm/yyyy". However if that isn't too practical could I have a bit of code that lets me specify a word or phrase, whether I'm looking though article space user space or user talk and a sandbox to write it to. Provided the query refreshed the sandbox with a list of the resulting article names in square brackets and in alpha order I think I can do the rest simply by looking at what has changed since last time the query was run, though it would be even better if the list contained article links and the date they were added to the sandbox, and were in date order.
I've tried searching for "posses " and written the search to User:WereSpielChequers/posses, but they don't come up as clickable. However it does give an idea as to what I'm searching for. Ϣere SpielChequers 19:25, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
This is a long request, hope that it is composed properly! I would most appreciate a bot to be run to add WikiProject NRHP banner to many articles that have been created in the last year without banners, perhaps 1,000-4,000 in number, adding to the 20,000 articles in the wikiproject. This request reflects feedback on format of bot request from Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 28#Advance questions for a WikiProject NRHP banner placement bot.
I am hoping it would show results before July 4, so as to inform some press-release type announcements on that day or a day or two before, but will be glad to get any help. Thanks in advance! doncram ( talk) 01:19, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Part 1. Request that all articles in wikipedia whose titles begin with "National Register of Historic Places listings in" be tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places|class=list}}, retaining existing assessments if any. Unless the article is a redirect, then do not add any banner.
Part 2. Request that all articles in the following NRHP categories be tagged with this banner, {{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places}}, retaining existing assessments if any. Unless the article is a redirect, then do not add any banner.
Is there any interest in a bot that would handle non-controversial db-author and db-self chores?
What I had in mind:
The primary issue is that this would be an admin bot. It would only be useful if the benefits of the bot outweighed the risk of a snafu and that this wasn't seen as "admin bot creep," which is always something to watch out for. Good code review should make snafus almost unheard of. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 00:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
Most chemicals in Wikipedia have a CAS No. listed, but most do not have the corresponding EC No.
the template:chembox, the field to fill in is "EINECS".
By using a CAS No. in the following url, e.g. http://ecb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esis/index.php?GENRE=CASNO&ENTREE=124-38-9 where the CAS No. is 124-38-9, you can identify the corresponding EC No. and then insert it into the Wikipedia article.
Any takers?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.233.138 ( talk • contribs)
If anybody is interested, please complete this bot request. Add the below parameters to each element infobox, which are all in
Category:Periodic table infobox templates. |namecap= |number3=
At the same time, create some values. Values for
namecap
will be capitalized versions of what is already in the name
field. For
template:Infobox copper the name
value is copper
so the corresponding namecap
value should be Copper
Values for
number3
should be the 3 digit version of what is already in the number
field. For copper, the number
value is already 29
and the number3
value should therefore be 029
. Of course, any element that already has a three digit value in the number
field should just have that value copied over to number3
. Like so: |namecap=Copper |number3=029
Also, please replace spaces between words in the values given for
crystal structure
with plain old ascii hyphens (-). Example, cubic face centered
becomes cubic-face-centered
. You will find oddball values - that's fine, we know that there will be manual clean-up and will do that ourselves.
Addendum: Put
.jpg
at the end of each value given in the image name
field. Note that not all fields have values. Once the bot run is over, replace the text at
Template:Elementbox with the text at
User:Mav/Sandbox/Elementbox. Project members will manually fix any oddities.
All of the above per discussion on WikiProject Elements' talk page. Thanks for any help you can provide! :) -- mav ( talk) 01:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
While you are at it, please also add
|image ext=.jpg
to each infobox. Thanks. --
mav (
talk) 01:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
For what it's worth, most elements don't use Template:Elementbox. It's a tedious conversion process and it's been on my to-do list for ... awhile. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 04:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
{{{image name}}}{{#ifexist:{{{image name|}}}.jpg|.jpg}}
. —
Dispenser 07:43, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Hm. Seems like the remaining conversion issues could just as easily be done with a tabbed browser due to the fact that only 30 elements use the elementbox template. Please cancel the bot request and accept my gratitude for all the great advice and pointers to improve the template. :) -- mav ( talk) 00:15, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
As part of a larger project to address the list of requests for photographs I would like assistance creating a bot script to sort out photo requests of people. I have no experience of Python or similar script languages. I started the task using AWB but it became clear it would take me a couple of years to complete it with that method. See User:Traveler100/bio-photo-bot for details. Traveler100 ( talk) 09:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
The previous request was archived without a response. Would it be possible to modify all links that point to United States Census, 2007 and make them point to United States Census Bureau instead? I'd like to delete the 2007 redirect page. Timneu22 ( talk) 17:45, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
[[United States Census, 2007
" with "[[United States Census Bureau
". Very easy :), I'd do it myself except I'm currently cutting down on my automated edits, I dislike AWB and I'm programming my own bot at the mo (nothing more enjoyable than that) :) -
Kingpin
13 (
talk) 10:59, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
As outlined at WT:RfA#WT:RfA.
This bot would take a user and look through the things which are considered in an RfA (so for example: What areas they take part in, block log, how much interaction they have with other users, how many AN/I threads there have been about them ;), what (if any) warnings they have received, etc. etc.) and then give the user a "score" of how good an admin they would make, it could also find the average score of failed/successful noms over the past month(s) and compare the user to that.
The way to do this which seems best (as we don't want the results to be public), is to have a page where users can request to be reviewed (optionally) and the bot will then email their results to the user via Special:EmailUser.
There is also talk about having a bot "fail" users before they go for RfA. It seems to be a bad idea to add this immediately, but it would be nice to have the bot save data about whether it would have failed them, if it was allowed to. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 08:37, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Ϣere SpielChequers 18:26, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
It should be noticed that this proposal is just to determine how accurate a bot is compared to a bureaucrat in "closing" and RfA. The data would be compiled over the course of 6-12 months, and then reviewed. Whatever the outcome, the data would be useful and would also either shoot down the idea of a bot doing it or support it. ···
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Talk to Nihonjoe 23:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Comment This sounds like people want a statistical analysis done of past RFA decisions, as in a logit regression analysis, or a neural net prediction model. Creating such a prediction model would be an easy analysis for anyone knowledgeable who has a statistical software package, if the candidate variables were collected in a table for a bunch of past RFA decisions, but it is not the same a running a bot! doncram ( talk) 01:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, i am from the runescape wiki and i was wondering if you could make a bot for me. I would like to to have the name Redlinkbot and i want it to automatically find redlinks and remove them when needed, if not needed; just remove the [[,]] tags so it becomes a normal word instead of a link.
I would really appreciate if you could do it,
82.45.113.89 ( talk) 15:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
In the template {{
Infobox UK property}}, I have renamed the parameter |imgage_name=
as |image_name=
. I'd like to request that a bot correct the name of the parameter in all articles where the template has been transcluded. Thanks. — Cheers,
JackLee –
talk– 15:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Over the years, a lot of links have been added to baseball-related articles that link to the Baseball Reference site. That site recently changed the directory structure for all its player articles, adding a new directory level. What was previously " http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/smithjo01.shtml" is now " http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithjo01.shtml". The old links still currently work as redirects, but there's no guarantee that will always be the case. Therefore, I'd like to request that someone create a bot to fix these links across Wikipedia. - Dewelar ( talk) 14:38, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) I'm not sure why I'm missing the spirit of the law, as I said I didn't have an issue with not changing the links at this time. I have the same view as ThaddeusB on waiting to see if there is a known plan for the external redirects before engaging in an automated effort to change the links. Isaac Lin ( talk) 19:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. Probably a task for an existing bot but here goes: I requested Special:AbuseFilter/200 to be created which tags edits where a prod template is removed (and not replaced by an AFD or speedy template). I think it might be a good idea to have a bot that notifies the user who placed the prod template (as opt-in or opt-out, I'm not sure here) so they can decide whether they want to pursue deletion through AFD. What do you think? Regards So Why 21:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to be created that would replace all instances of the "home" and "away" parameters in this template with "team1" and "team2"? The "homescore" and "awayscore" parameters would also need to be changed to "team1score" and "team2score". The reason for this change is that, when a match is played at a neutral venue, there is no "home team" or "away team", and this would make the template fall in line with {{ footballbox}} and the cricket match summary templates. – Pee Jay 11:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Would a bot owner post the following message to the user talk pages of all editors who are in one of these two categories?
Thanks! -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Section heading for announcement:
Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16
Body of section (announcement):
The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)
The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)
The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.
If you're interested, please send John Broughton an email. If you might be interested, but would like further information, please post a note on his user talk page, so that he can respond there, and others can see what was asked.
(You have received this posting because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland or DC.)
Could in principle be done by going through Category:Films based on books, checking which links on the pages are categorized as books, and then adding the category to the linked page. Could also deal with the many subcategories of Category:Films based on books by making analogous reverse categories (e.g. Category:Novels made into films). -- Cybercobra ( talk) 06:40, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
WP:DABS was created to monitor the size of dinosaur articles on Wikipedia. The purpose is to identify new articles, identify very short stubs, highlight potential hoax articles, monitor when an article may be becoming too long, identify articles which may be nearing comparable FA or GA length, identify articles which have already reached GA or FA, and identify articles which have been categorized incorrectly.
DABS was updated manually from December 4, 2005 to May 28, 2007. It was automated by DinoSizedBot, then later Betacommand's bot, then finally 718 Bot. It hasn't worked properly since January, but we'd like to get it up and running again, as we continue to get hoaxes and other stuff that could potentially be identified if a bot was updating the list. It's also just much easier to see which articles need the most attention using the list.
We've contacted East718, the owner of the last bot to update the list, but he's busy in real life. Is this a task someone else could take up? Firsfron of Ronchester 23:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
This category aparently has over 1000 direct uses, many of which have a stub template for some sub-category. I think a bot should go through all pages in the category, remove all direct use of the category, and if any page doesn't have a template stub for this category or one of its subcats - add a {{ fungus-stub}} tag. Thewre are 6 legitimate tags for ths category+its subcats - {{ fungus-stub}}, {{ Mycologist-stub}}, {{ Ascomycota-stub}}, {{ Dothideomycetes-stub}}, {{ Basidiomycota-stub}} and {{ yeast-stub}}. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 23:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia is rife with markup such as the following [[topic]]s
which generates markup where the link text is followed with meaningless part-words such as "s", "ed", "ing". I assume that such markup presents an accessibility hazard because speech synthesizer users hear a segment of garbage output read aloud when the synthesizer encounters the word fragment after the link text. (Feedback from speech synthesizer users, anyone?) At the very least it seems fair to suggest that this is a potential accessibility problem.
I'd like to ask for comments about the feasibility of implementing a bot that carries out a set of substitutions of the form [[topic]]suffix
to [[topic|topicsuffix]]
, for example [[topic]]s
to [[topic|topics]]
, and the same for ed ing and any others that can be found and which can be guaranteed to be same.
Is there an existing bot that simply carries out general regular-expression-type substitutions? CecilWard ( talk) 10:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
[[topic]]s
is that MediaWiki automagically treats it as if it were [[topic|topics]]
when rendering the page, like this: "
topics".[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). Since there are hundreds of templates in need of this overdue change, and this currently emitting broken microformats, the need may be considered pressing]
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 23:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I've been trying to make a regex for
User:Chrisbot but just can't manage; could someone help me? The regex needs to change "CONTl" to "CHRISBOT" but not any
other of the CONT icons (ie. not(t|ex|ext|u|ut|ue|utex)CONTl
to (t|ex|ext|u|ut|ue|utex)CHRISBOT
). I accidentally came upon this problem when changing tCONTl to CHRISBOT and unexpectantly changed utCONTl to uCHRISBOT as well (
diff). I'll soon be on holiday but I'll look here asap.
Chris
DHDR 20:30, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
We're looking at making lists of winners of cycling races sortable so readers can view lists by year, nationality, name or team. We only need to make small edits to enable much of this. However, names won't currently sort on last name. So we'd like to changed all the standard wikilinked names into {{ sortname}}.
The lists are created using templates. They're currently transcluded into 252 articles so would be a lot of work of editing - so maybe a bot could help? The names are in the name and name2 fields of {{ cycling past winner rider}} and {{ cycling past winner rider2}}
For just First Last names, we'd need the following changes:
{{
sortname|First|Last}}
{{
sortname|First|Last|First Last (cyclist)}}
{{
sortname|First|Lást| |Last, First}}
If there is First smth Last, I'm not sure how this could be done, but maybe the bot could look at the {{ DEFAULTSORT}} key on the target pages?
At the same time, can all instance of the deprecated fields of teamnat= and teamnatvar= be removed.
Thanks in advance for your help! Severo T C 19:26, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Articles using {{
Infobox Military Structure}}, which have coordinates in that infobox as latitude
, longitude
parameters, and a {{
coord}} template, need to have thw latter removed, as it causes an overlay of coordinates,
as seen here. Thank you.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 10:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
This category aparently has over 1000 direct uses, many of which have a stub template for some sub-category. I think a bot should go through all pages in the category, remove all direct use of the category, and if any page doesn't have a template stub for this category or one of its subcats - add a {{ fungus-stub}} tag. Thewre are 6 legitimate tags for ths category+its subcats - {{ fungus-stub}}, {{ Mycologist-stub}}, {{ Ascomycota-stub}}, {{ Dothideomycetes-stub}}, {{ Basidiomycota-stub}} and {{ yeast-stub}}. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:51, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Distrubute the following messages to all members of WikiProject Software and all its departments:
For better and faster discussion between WikiProject Software Members a IRC channel has been created: irc://irc.freenode.net/WikiProject-Software. For instant access click here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=WikiProject-Software. Please your Wikipedia nickname. You are receiving this message because you are a member of WikiProject Software -- Tyw7 ( Talk • Contributions) 17:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Doing... - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 22:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
The National Register of Historic Places Wikiproject has begun a process to categorise all articles in Category:Historic districts in the United States into state-level categories. This is impeded by the fact that all articles with {{ infobox nrhp}} that are marked as historic districts [HDs] in the infobox are automatically placed into the nationwide category, so we want to remove that function; however, if we do that, most HDs won't be in any HD category. Could we have a bot add the category (i.e. just placing the text "[[Category:Historic districts in the United States]]") to most HD articles, so that we can remove the function without these articles losing the HD category? In short, adding this category will enable us to distinguish which articles need to be recategorised. I'm specifically requesting that this category be added to pages that fit the following criteria:
I do not ask for the bot to sort any articles into categories itself: this request is only intended to make human sorting easier. Nyttend ( talk) 02:46, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Could a bot run through this category and remove any |class= or |importance= designations on any Category, Template, or File talk pages that are tagged with {{
WikiProject Video games}}
. Thanks,
MrKIA11 (
talk) 19:03, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
, so no, I don't think so. Plus, it's only ~700 pages.
MrKIA11 (
talk) 21:13, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
A user was nice enough to take
hours out of their time to manually update the pages that a bot could have done in minutes. I didn't realize that this was so outrageously complicated to program that I could not even get a response. Thanks
MrKIA11 (
talk) 12:42, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I'd like a bot that would move images from Category:Cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0 images to Commons with a maintenance category of the bot's work. To ensure that the images are not copyvios it would be best to check the EXIF data on each image. If the image doesn't have one then it would need review, for the rest though, they should be transferred over there. Thank you, -- Diaa abdelmoneim ( talk) 09:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
As per the consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Formal petition to change the naming conventions, could someone create a bot to move any article with a year in Category:Recopa Sudamericana and Category:Copa Libertadores de América so that the year appears in the front instead of the end, example: move Recopa Sudamericana 1990 to 1990 Recopa Sudamericana and Copa Libertadores 1960 to 1960 Copa Libertadores. Thanks. Digirami ( talk) 22:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I updated {{ Cite music release notes}} and changed all the parameters to include lowercase letters only, as per infobox MOS. There are over 40 articles transcluding the template that need to be fixed so a bot would be very helpful here. Thanks. – Dream out loud ( talk) 02:58, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Per the consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Formal petition to change the naming conventions, could someone please create a bot to move the articles in Category:FA Cup seasons, Category:Football Conference seasons, Category:Football League Cup seasons and Category:The Football League seasons so that the years are at the beginning. For example, FA Cup 1871–72 should be moved to 1871–72 FA Cup, Football Conference 1994–95 to 1994–95 Football Conference, Football League Cup 2007–08 to 2007–08 Football League Cup and The Football League 1974–75 to 1974–75 Football League. – Pee Jay 22:11, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Could we have a bot that creates a list of articles lacking pictures for topics where there are articles on other language wikis with pictures from commons? I'm thinking of something like the redlink lists, lists of:
With section breaks every forty rows or so to make the file usable. Then anyone could delete the row if they've copied the photo over, strike through and give a reason if the photo is somehow not right for EN Wiki or alternatively leave a comment along the lines of probably needs a German speaker to fathom out why they find that picture relevant to the subject. We'd probably also need a way to attribute the choice of photo, I'm wondering if that would be OK with an edit summary of add photo from same article on DE:Wiki. Ϣere SpielChequers 11:22, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
There are more than
4000 pages with direct links to
PubMed abstracts. These should be converted to citations using citation templates with the |pmid=
parameter. From
Template:Cite_journal/doc, "If a DOI or PMID is available, the URL should only be specified if it would point to a different page to that which a DOI or PMID would redirect to." There are existing tools like
diberri's template filler that output a properly formatted citation using {{
cite journal}} for a given
PMID. For existing citations that include a direct url to a PubMed abstract, the URL should be removed and the PMID added in the |pmid=
parameter if it's not there already. —
Chris Capoccia
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BRFA filed: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MadmanBot 8 — madman bum and angel 05:12, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
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Requesting a bot to tag the talk pages of all films in the category Category:American films with the task-force tag parameter of |American-task-force=yes within the {{Film}} tag. There could be a handful of American films that either a} don't have a talk page or b} don't have the film tag, so can these be tagged with {{Film|American-task-force=yes}}? The American cinema task-force was setup a few months back, but most films don't have the talkpage tagged. Let me know if you need any more info/explanation. Thanks! Lugnuts ( talk) 18:28, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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We would like a bot to add a listas= parameter to the template {{ EastEnders project class}} on our article talk pages, which can be found in Category:EastEnders and its subcategories. The majority of articles already use defaultsort so it shouldn't be much of a problem for a bot to pick this up and add it to the talk page. AnemoneProjectors ( talk) 19:05, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
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Currently, Ruhrfisch is running the peer review script in a semi-automatic way every night. There is obviously no good reason that this could not be a fully automated process, and Ruhrfisch would appreciate being able to do something else with his time. This would also be a good opportunity to tweak the PR script and fix some of its known bugs. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:16, 25 July 2009 (UTC)