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Please replace the Template:WP Kuwait on article talk pages with the following code: {{WikiProject Western Asia|class=|importance=|Kuwait=yes|Kuwait-importance=}}, keeping any existing quality and importance assessments, even though the banner to replace isn't actually equipped for assessments. John Carter ( talk) 17:45, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if this has been suggested before, but would it be possible to create a bot to move pages because there are lots that have hyphenated titles and should have spaced ndash titles. I have moved many manually in the past (e.g. this fun-filled morning) but it is very tedious. I was thinking this would be a simple task for a bot, and had hoped AWB might do it but I don't think it can. Is there anyone who could make or help a complete bot noob make one as there are hundreds more similar titles that need fixing. Thanks in advance, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 22:41, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Well it's not urgent so it could run off database dumps. Rich Farmbrough, 19:54, 6 September 2009 (UTC).
This is not a very difficult task in terms of actually getting the list, the difficulty is in choosing whether or not to move the article. Either way, Coding... ( X! · talk) · @988 · 22:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I really appreciate you guys taking this on in ways I don't know. Just to confirm (possibly going over some of what Rich says) I only request the " - "s be dealt with because these should never exist as articles (only as redirects). That solves 1 & 5 (both ignored). Movie & TV titles (2) should be dealt with the same, and redirects (3) should be skipped. I don't know much about coding but I guess this need to come first. Target pages shouldn't exist for non-redirects, because they are nearly all moved from hyphen to ndash, and most (all?) directly creating articles at the spaced ndash know to create a convenience redirect. So 4 shouldn't be a problem, but I guess skip if it happens because if it is a non-redirect hyphened page and ndahsed one there will most likely be a parallel history problem there too (can these "(4) skipped cases" be categorised if they happen?). Thanks all, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 16:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Out of interest, as a programming novice, did anyone find a way of doing this I could use. It would be greatly appreciated. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 17:52, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello botmasters, On 16 Jan 2009 an article was requested on Wikipedia:Requested articles/Culture and fine arts:
*Jury (competition) - Over 9000 articles have the term "juried" in them, but a spot check of dozens of them show no explanation of what this means (and the Jury article is not helpful in this regard)
So I wrote the article Juried (competition). Is there is an existing bot that can find all 9000+ articles and update them with internal links to the new article by finding instances of the word (plus surrounding spaces) " juried " and replace that text with juried (bracket bracket juried (competition)|juried close-bracket close-bracket)? Thanks -- Sctechlaw ( talk) 02:23, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Could a bot replace all uses of prettytable (using wikitable), since the class is in shared.css? This is to remove the definition of prettytable in common.css. Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 16:05, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
class="prettytable"
→ class="wikitable"
Locos
epraix ~
Beastepraix 23:23, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
All, as part of the Gene Wiki effort, we apparently created a bunch of {{ GNF Ortholog box}}es with two missing parameters. It worked fine at the time, but due to updated data those missing parameters now create incorrect links. Unfortunately the student who did it is gone, and I'm hoping someone here can help with a few thousand simple changes. The pages are all listed here (subpages of {{ PBB}}), and I've made one example change here. Anyone willing to help out with this? Cheers, AndrewGNF ( talk) 18:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Can someone with a Bot please edit List of craters on Mars & List of mountains on Mars replacing the two latitude & longitude columns with a single coordinates column, using {{ Coord}}. For example, the first row on craters would contain {{Coord|16.1|N|249.0|W|globe:Mars_type:landmark}}; the first on mountains would be {{Coord|19.0|209.6|globe:Mars_type:mountain}}, but the second there would be {{Coord|-30.1|273.4|globe:Mars_type:mountain}}. I've done the smaller List of catenae on Mars manually, by way of illustrating the desired outcome. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
{{coord}}
's name parameter is broken, as I've reported previously.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 10:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Similar to the above; to go through the categories for features on the Moon, and change coordinates as in this edit. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:18, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. As Erik9bot ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) has now been blocked as a sockpuppet, along with it's operator. We have Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot) no longer being maintained. If anyone is keen to step forward to maintain a similar category, that would be appreciated. Best, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 20:54, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that replaces file links that are actually links to redirects? With file renaming for admins re-enabled, a lot of redirects will be generated for files but not replaced in the articles. Does such a bot already operate or, if not, can we create one? Preferably, it should also have admin flags to delete those redirects afterwards, but that's not needed. Regards So Why 07:59, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I would take special note of bugzilla:15842#c15. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 08:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Sounds like WP:R#NOTBROKEN to me, unless T20017 isn't going to be fixed any time soon. Note that the File:DSC 0024.JPG example is a red herring, it could easily enough be taken care of under WP:CSD#R3. Anomie ⚔ 17:34, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Noting the Help:Footnotes#List-defined references change, I wonder if there's utility in a bot wandering through articles munging ref data out of the article body and into the reference space at the foot of the article? Seems to me that would clean up the scary reference text in articles which surely intimidates newbies and some oldsters. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 11:46, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
If all links to RTÉ News and Current Affairs could be corrected, that would be brilliant. The links I am requesting to be corrected are: RTE News, RTÉ News and RTÉ News And Current Affairs, all to go to RTÉ News and Current Affairs. I could not possibly do the work on my own. Thanks, Cargoking talk 13:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
I posted the request below three weeks ago and got no response so I'll ask again. I understand that it's more complex than most requests posted here but I'm hoping that someone will eventually take a stab at it.
Ok, this is probably a bit of a pain to program but it would be a big help.
Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people is a subproject of
WP:MISSING that tries to identify missing articles about notable dead people. There's been quite a lot of work on these lists to classify the individuals and in many cases articles exist in wikis in other languages. When this is the case, a link has been created to such articles. For instance, at the top of the list
Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people/A you find links to the es.wiki articles about Anny Ahlers and Anselmo Aieta. What I would like is to have a bot create translation requests for such entries. I estimate that there are a few hundred of these. I'll check the translation requests manually but I'd be grateful if a bot can generate them. Let me know if you need any xtra info for the task. Thanks,
Pichpich (
talk) 16:39, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Deal or No Deal (US) models is a large list of people. Each name on the list is a wikilink. Almost all of these links lead to redirects, which then lead back to the article.
I'm not sure of what the right thing to do here is, but the existing situation is ridiculous, and fixing it would be hard to do manually. Rees11 ( talk) 17:26, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Ensure all occurrences of {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} on Dab article talk pages include the paramenter "|class=Dab". This will ensure that the my preferences option on the Gadget tab to display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header for each article interprets dab pages correctly.
For bonus marks:
-Arb. ( talk) 16:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
|class=
parameter to the banner.
PC78 (
talk) 01:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Requesting a bot to tag all articles in the categories on
this list (not the following list on that page which is for categories to be checked manually) with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=|importance=}}
. If possible, please also tag any articles marked as stubs with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=Stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
. Discussed at the project
here. Thanks in advance!
Small-town hero (
talk) 11:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Nevermind, I've used the list provided. Should be Doing... shortly KingpinBot ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 09:34, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot that will allow me to upload a list of about 1200 items and 'spit out' the Wiki definition of those items. Wouldn't it be great to be able to make a customized 'wiki glossary'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DMChubb ( talk • contribs)
(I think this is a job for someone with AWB.) Please change all
articles using {{Infobox G8}}
to use the new |date=
parameter, with {{
Start date}}, and the template's new name, {{
Infobox summit}},
as in this edit.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 11:25, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
There's a common sort of error that I find myself fixing repeatedly. Some sentences have the refs supporting the sentence at the end right before the period, some right after (and I'll grant that I'm not sure which is right)... but a surprisingly large number have had editing and end up with periods before and after a reference or string of reference, something like this. [1]. That ain't nohow right, and should be easy to address in most cases with a simple bot (a period before a ref tag, and a period after the next end-of-ref tag), and with a little more programming, able to handle such things as single-tag refs and strings of refs. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 02:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
I believe but am not sure that AWB addresses this in gen fixes. Worth checking out. Rich Farmbrough, 19:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
I think a bot would be helpful in listing all stub categories (defined as categories ending with the word "stubs") and stub templates (defined as ending with the string "-stub"), and listing them on a page for review of users who are part of the stub sorting WikiProject. This can be done using Special:NewPages, and once a day is probably enough. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like there to be a bot which has a bot page asking two fields: a mistaken word and its correct spelling. For example I could write "posibly" --> "possibly" and then click "go". It would be much of a search and replace task across all pages. The requests could be stored and done asynchronously. It's very annoying to do this manually :-P Anna Lincoln 10:47, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
You no longer need to use I.E. I think, since AWB uses the api now. A good thing to try and do is fix any "spelling mistakes" that are actually valid. Where appropriate they can be wrapped in {{ Sic}}, {{ Typo}} or {{ Lang}} - the obvious advantage is that they don't get picked up again, less obvious is that the "front end" of article-space tends to get cleared of the real typos, and everyone is just hitting exceptions for 50 articles and they give up. Rich Farmbrough, 19:55, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
1a. It would be useful for a bot to set the English variant for various national articles (discussion pages) that can be accurately determined by a bot. Indian-English for articles about India, for example. This would serve as a useful reminder to editors not to try to automatically revert "misspellings" they are seeing in their interface. (This would have to be done manually for articles which are not obviously one or the other - for example, articles about Turkey).
1b. It would be useful to insert a variant in the actual article itself. This would not display! It would be passed to the user's Mozilla (or whatever) in order to soft-set the dictionary so that "organization" would show up as misspelled in an UK article, "organisation" in an American article. This would have to be done in conjunction with the high-level Wikipedia Editor folks (not us: the software which handles editing). Student7 ( talk) 21:15, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
1a. This could be done fairly easily in some ways but in others it's complicated. 1b. Would need to be part of the WikiMedia software to render the HTML - I think there is something in doctype that could be set driven off one of the standard flags. Then either a browser mod or a plugin would be required to switch dictionaries. Rich Farmbrough, 20:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
The Book tool has been updated to automatically generate tables of content. User-made tables of content are now obsolete and actually detrimental to books. If someone could write a bot that would remove these non-dynamics/user-made TOCs, it would be of great help.
For an example, see
Wikipedia:Books/Linguistics. Simply remove it the TOC link (in its entirety), and place a {{
db-g6|TOCs are now automatically generated by the book tool}}
on the /Table of content subpage (or /TOC, or /Table of Content as appropriate) . The relevant category is
Category:Wikipedia:Books. (This probably could be done with AWB.) Thanks.
Headbomb {
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κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 21:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Seems its operator User:Wronkiew has gone missing, and a few of its tasks, including archiving editor reviews, are piling up. Is it possible for someone to takeover operating this bot or does it need to be replaced with a new one? -- œ ™ 05:14, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
As mentioned some time ago, Birmingham.gov.uk URLs in the form
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks.bcc (of which there are many on Wikipedia) have dropped the four-character .bcc
suffix, thus:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks. Please can someone update all these?
BCCWebTeam (
talk) 15:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if this is necessarily the best place to ask, but is there any way of finding pages where a template is transcluded more than once? Specifically I would like to find any talk pages where {{ WPBiography}} has multiple transclusions. PC78 ( talk) 22:49, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
\{\{WPBiography.*?\{\{WPBiography
). —
Dispenser 04:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) AWB can scan the dump file for that RegEx expression--if you can somehow produce a list of the WPBIO talk pages you want checked, or at least tell me the specific categories (you are probably aware of the rediculous amount of pages the project contains; this makes generating a list of every single article in the project's parent category impossibly time-consuming), then I can make a dump file out of those and use the RegEx to scan that dump file for the double templates with AWB and generate a list of those pages. Then, a bot (my AWB bot or another bot) could go through that list deleting the extra template.
I realize this is a lot of work to undergo for a simple case of an extra template, but the size of WPBIO is a handicap for any brute processing. If you wish to take this path with AWB, however, I would be willing to help, and I'm sure there are other willing users that can share the workload with me. Awaiting your reply, Robert Skyhawk So sue me! ( You'll lose) 01:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I will do this now. Rich Farmbrough, 19:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
enwiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 2009-Oct-03 08:15:19 9.9G application/octet-stream
? I might be able to do better than 36 hours and I kindof need to do some scans in this anyway. – xeno talk 19:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 00:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC).
(?s)\{\{WPBiography.*?\{\{WPBiography
How can I send messages to users belongs to a specific category?-- Saqib talk 14:03, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
I found a file that was licensed under GNUGPL, but its derivative was licensed in public domain.
This file ( File:Torchlight help red.png),which is licensed as public domain, is a derivative of File:Torchlight help.png, which is licensed with GNUGPL.
I'd like to request that a bot check the description/source of image files for other images...and then check their licenses. If a conflicting license such as a derivative under public domain against a parent of GNUGPL, then the bot would post these to a list. If the bot is accurate enough, then it could be automated. I hope this is clear enough...
Any thoughts? Smallman12q ( talk) 13:42, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
All the bots that have done this are inactive: I want a bot that tags {{ dead link}} in the main-space when it finds them. Thanks Tim1357 ( talk) 21:30, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to bundle a set of Medicine collaboration and portal templates into an update banner. The replacement parameters are listed at Template talk:WPMED/sandbox, and the discussion is at Template talk:WPMED#COTW and Portal links from this template. I had one bot in mind but the op is busy in real life, so I'm hoping any wikiproject bot can handle this. - Optigan13 ( talk) 22:04, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if we could have the category "Rapists by nationality" moved to "People convicted of rape by nationality". There was discussion on it before about moving the category to a name-neutral category, and it was agreed upon. I've done some of the work, but I don't feel like moving all 32 categories, deleting them, and creating the new ones (not in that order of course). Thanks Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 19:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Though this works well at Commons, historically welcome bots have probably been the most frequently rejected idea at this page. However, things are changing; for the better in that this proposal tries to deal with the previous reasons for not doing this; for worse in that we are being less and less open to newbies and very few are being welcomed manually. So I suggest:
If a new editor has not been welcomed manually within 7 days of their first edit that has not been rolled back as vandalism, or their first article that has been marked as patrolled at newpage patrol; Welcome them by bot.
To make this a little more clever the bot could run a little routine to test out different welcome messages in terms of the proportion of newbies welcomed by that message who go on to edit more, and preferentially use the more successful welcome messages.
If we want to really make this really fly we should:
Previous proposals to do this have foundered because:
Note, I sometimes stray onto other language wikis and I invariably (often) get an apparently form human email as well as a welcome on my talk page. Clearly they have less traffic but also less editors.. perhaps a bot that helps a welcoming committee welcome? Rich Farmbrough, 01:23, 10 October 2009 (UTC).
It's hard to imagine anything more offensive than being "welcomed" by a bot. Maybe the ATMs and gas pumps that thank you? Yes, I got welcomed by a bot on commons, I think. No human editors welcomed me or even noticed the omission of a welcome, because my user talk page had been spam-attacked with a huge list of useless, pointless, irrelevant information packed like garbage overflowing a dumpster. I deleted it. What was gained? Nothing.
Alerting a welcoming committee, or alerting projects might be worthwhile. You're likely to be welcomed by someone if you annoy them with an edit you make or if you edit articles in the same project they edit. This gives the new editor a basis of conversation with a specific other editor, maybe leading to establishing a working connection for the newbie.
Spam the newbie with a bot message? Meat editors might pass on welcoming them because they've already been welcomed. Then, you get a trashed out new user talk page, and a newbie whose community interaction is with a bot. How does this benefit the newbie? Wikipedia? If the bot didn't spam their talk page, the new user might seek out meat editors with questions. There's one more way to make a human connection that the bot interferes with.
Rd232, you have some good ideas about working with newbies by demonstrating different levels of doing one thing or another. Meat editors do tend to come up with original ideas.
I just can't see any benefit to welcoming someone with a bot. At least you don't make the newbie delete the spam off their user talk page, which is now blue-linked, so users watching for red-linked talk pages won't notice the newbie requires welcomings.
Welcoming is a human thing. It can't be done by a bot. It's not a welcome if it is done by a bot. It's spam. -- 69.225.5.4 ( talk) 02:35, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Just came across a few unblocks on hold that had been languishing for upwards of one month! A bot should monitor the unblock-on-hold category and notify the holding admin (and possible also the blocking admin) if it has been on hold for 48 hours or more. – xeno talk 14:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Within Category:Non-free use rationale templates there is a family of related templates. These templates take several parameters, which are all capitalised. Only one parameter, "other_information", is not capitalised. I guess it was added at a later time. This is confusing for editors, and therefore a source of mistakes. Parameters after all are capitalisation sensitive.
Therefore, I want to propose changing the "other_information" parameters to a capitalised parameter "Other_information" as well.
The templates in question are:
Other templates (namely commented out as not important) call these templates.
Please contact me with questions and inquiries on my talkpage. Debresser ( talk) 00:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
So, allow me to sum up what you're requesting for ease of access:
Does this summarize what you're trying to do? Robert Skyhawk So sue me! ( You'll lose) 00:40, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
{{{Other_information|{{{other_information|}}}}}}
), the second removing the non-capitalised parameter.
Debresser (
talk) 01:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC){outdent}Adding the code above to Template:Non-free use rationale should fix the problem for all templates using it as well. Debresser ( talk) 05:11, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Requesting a bot to tag all articles in the categories on
this list (not the following list on that page which is for categories to be checked manually) with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=|importance=}}
. If possible, please also tag any articles marked as stubs with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=Stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
. Discussed at the project
here. Thanks in advance!
Small-town hero (
talk) 10:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
|importance=
parameter this time. Best, -
Kingpin
13 (
talk) 10:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there a way to list the number of users with the most numkber of edits, but who have not been using tools such as Huggle, AWB, Friendly etc? Please also see Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits#Tools reopened. Simply south ( talk) 20:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
This is probably something that can be accomplished with AWB. I was hoping somebody could replace all hyphens with en dashes in the template {{ Cbb link}}. An example of an article/template where this needs to be done is Template:2007-08 Big 12 men's basketball standings. Many people use the red links in these yearly standings templates as the starting point for their article and a lot of them are being created incorrectly. Thanks in advance.— NMajdan• talk 13:32, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{str left|{{{year|}}}|5}}|{{str left|{{{year|}}}|4}}-|[[Category:Uses of Cbb link with a hyphenated year]]}}
to populate a tracking category. Then it would be a simple matter for a bot to periodically clean out the category (and, for that matter,
Category:Excessive uses of cbb link, and the corresponding {{
cfb link}} categories, and the categories for any other similar templates). Or if you really want just a one-off run, that's easy enough to do too.
Anomie
⚔ 17:30, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#replace:}}
doesn't work on enwiki, does it?—
NMajdan•
talk 18:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{#expr:{{{year}}}}}|{{{year}}}| is single year | not single year }}
should detect it.
Anomie
⚔ 21:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}
use {{#ifeq:{{#expr:{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}|{{dash year|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}
. Then once the bot is done, you'd replace it with just {{dash year|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}
. No change in the number of ifexist calls.
Anomie
⚔ 17:25, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
gender
to sex
. Also, my new template just takes the first four digits of the year field and ignores everything after, so I think I can do without a bot run to fix the dashes. I think I can accomplish what I need now with a simple AWB run. But thanks for your help with the template.—
NMajdan•
talk 12:13, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Most articles in Category:Days in 2005 and Category:Days in 2003 need to be moved out of article space to Portal space.
Rather than having the article February 12, 2005, it should be in the portal namespace at Portal:Current events/2005 February 12, like the more recent Portal:Current events/2008 November 23. We should have articles for month year ( February 2005), but not month day, year. They, as they are not actual articles, should be in the portal namespace and transcluded to the month article, like how Portal:Current events/2008 September 6 is transcluded to September 2008.
This is already a set precedent, and this is how it has been done for more recent years. Earlier years, however, were not updated and moved to Portal:Current events. All I need is a simple bot that can move date articles such as July 31, 2005, which is simply transcluded into July 2005, to "Portal:Current events/", like Portal:Current events/2005 July 31. Thanks, Reywas92 Talk 18:57, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Not done No longer required; article has moved back Chzz ► 13:06, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
The Italian Socialist Party article was moved to Italian Socialist Party (historical). As there are several links to Italian Socialist Party which will become a disambiguation to both Italian Socialist Party (historical) to Italian Socialist Party (current) (the new destination of Socialist Party (Italy)).
We need a bot in order to change all the current links to Italian Socialist Party into [[Italian Socialist Party (historical)|Italian Socialist Party]] in every single article that includes such links. Is there any bot able to do such a job? Thank you. -- Checco ( talk) 21:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea if this is the right place to bring up the issue, but is there a possibility to have the bots sort the interwiki-links ("Other languages") alphabetically by name of language rather than name of prefix?
Right now, they sort (for example) "Avañe'ẽ" under G (gn), "Diné bizaad" under N (nv), and "Deitsch" under P (pds) ... Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 14:35, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
The link tags should be sorted alphabetically based on the local names of the languages, as described at m:Interwiki sorting order. The vast majority of articles are currently sorted this way. Sorting alphabetically according to the two-letter language abbreviations is also acceptable. There are numerous other sorting methods to sort interlanguage links, but consistency between articles is encouraged.
Chzz ► 12:52, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
via manual edits Chzz ► 17:00, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Due to the closure of the UEFA EURO 2008 website, all the links to the match reports of several editions of the European Football Championships (previously added into en.wiki pages) are broken at this moment. We need a bot in order to substitute the partial URL string http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/ with the string http://en.uefa.com/competitions/euro2012/, so that the links can be restored correctly into the following articles:
Instead, for the UEFA Euro 2008 articles ( UEFA Euro 2008, UEFA Euro 2008 Group A, UEFA Euro 2008 Group B, UEFA Euro 2008 Group C, UEFA Euro 2008 Group D and UEFA Euro 2008 knockout stage), the old partial URL string http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/ must be changed with the following ones:
Best regards, -- Mess ( talk) 21:06, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Response
With regards to the first part of the above request, only 6 of those pages contained the URL you gave; I changed those - they seem OK, please check them; [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Most of the links on those pages are actually to www.uefa.com and give a 404, such as http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1972/round=184/match=3836/index.html - but I've no idea what they should be fixed to.
UEFA_Euro_2008 In the QF Spain-Italy, there is a link to
http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/match=301702/report=rp.html (which does not work), but
changing it to
2/report=rp.html (per the above) also fails.
After searching the site, I found that it should be
http://en.uefa.com/competitions/euro2012/history/season=2008/round=15094/match=301702/index.html
(ie the actual final part of the URL is different)
I fixed that specific one with [ http://en.wikipedia.org/?
title=UEFA_Euro_2008&diff=prev&oldid=320780876 this edit].
Similarly, the report for the semi between Russia and Spain needed to be changed to
http://en.uefa.com/competitions/euro2012/history/season=2008/round=15095/match=301698/index.html (fixed
with this edit)
There are four other links to en.euro2008 in that article; I'm not sure what they should be corrected to;
In UEFA Euro 2008 Group A there were three match-report links to en.euro2008, which again I fixed manually with this edit. Similarly, the URLs needed changing, not just replacing.
I have not corrected the other groups or the knockout stage.
Unfortunately, I do not think that a bot can help much with these edits; if you do think that some kind of largescale search/replace could help, please let me know.
Two things that you might find helpful are;
I hope that this has helped; as I say, if you can think of any direct search/replace operation that would help, please let me know, but it would appear not to be quite as simple as described in the request. Chzz ► 12:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
My request is for a bot to move files from Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons to the Commons. There is currently a backlog of 18,000 files in that category, and I can guess that we all know the benefits of having the files there rather than here. The bot would most likely need to be manual due to some files needing to be renamed when they are moved. I have seen at least one other bot performing this task, but the owner is multi-lingual, and I believe that he primarily focuses on the Dutch Wikipedia. — CobraWiki ( jabber | stuff ) 20:17, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
Information}}
) so it would be hard for a bot to detect which ones, and as far as i'm aware commons deletes all files that are transferred there that are missing information.
Peachey88 (
Talk Page ·
Contribs) 00:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
There are 12 citation templates that use {{
Citation/core}}. All of these define a parameter |PS=
. That is the postscript parameter, defining the closing character of the citation. In all cases this is a dot/full period. The only exception is {{
Citation}} that didn't have the dot as the default value of this parameter. Today this was added, together with a few other things that standarised all these templates. The problem is that in the case of {{
Citation}} some editors have been manually adding dots to citations the articles. So now we sometimes have double dots (so to speak). See
Template_talk:Citation#Full_stop_at_the_end_of_the_template_2.
My request is, could some bot slowly check all pages transcluding {{
Citation}} (must be some 50,000+) and remove the superfluous dots that were added before (be it purpusefully or by accident)? We would be looking for something like {{Citation ... }}.
, and remove that dot at the end.
Debresser (
talk) 19:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
If that were significantly easier we could remove the dot only from cases of form {{Citation ... }}.</ref>
I am sure that would take care of most of them as well.
Debresser (
talk) 20:46, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
If there weren't that many pages, I'd already have started with AWB. I am certain that on many pages we will not find superfluous dots at all, because the usual form of all citation templates apart from {{ Citation}} is with a hardcoded dot. Debresser ( talk) 20:51, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
The discussion at WT:BLP#Should article creators and/or major contributors help reduce the backlog? seems to conclude that a bot notifying editors that an article they contributed to is listed as an unreferenced BLP would be a good idea. The bot should contact the creator, substantial editors (if it can be reasonably defined), and possibly recent editors - ideally filtering out editors who haven't been active for a very long time, and ideally filtering out editors who used automated tools to make minor corrections or add tags. It needs doing carefully however - in particular you don't want to send people dozens of messages - but a single message with a list of articles needing attention which they've created or been involved with would be good. Erwin85Bot, for instance, detects previous messages and adds a short message for additional information of the same type. Probably some form of throttle would be needed to ensure profilic editors don't get swamped (possibly a user subpage could be created for them?). Also the bot would obviously be working backwards from the relevant dated maintenance categories.
User:ThaddeusB expressed an interest in this but implied it might take quite a while for him to get round to it. Can someone else take it on? The unreferenced BLP backlog grows daily. Rd232 talk 14:32, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
LaraBot ( talk · contribs) does this for newly created articles. Rettetast ( talk) 19:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I could do it - I have the time to add this functionality to a bot if the process has consensus - won't object if MZMcBride wants to add to LaraBot though. Fritzpoll ( talk) 19:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Template:cbb link and Template:cfb link exist to allow an editor to link to a team's article and force the link to use the most appropriate article available, whether it be the University's main article ( University of Oklahoma, the article about the athletic program ( Oklahoma Sooners), the article of that sport at that university ( Oklahoma Sooners football), or to the article about that specific year's team ( 2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team). If all that exists at the time the article is written is the article about that particular sport at that university, then the use can use one of these templates and it will automatically change to the yearly article when it is created. However, given the number of ifexist calls in these templates, we have to be cautious about how many times it is used in an article. For that reason, when the template is fully expanded to the yearly team article, it will add the article to one of two categories: Category:Excessive uses of cbb link or Category:Excessive uses of cfb link. This indicates that the template is being used in a way that could now be accomplished with simple wikilinks.
I am requesting a bot that could read these categories and replace the template with the yearly article. So, if {{cbb link|2009|team=Oklahoma Sooners|sex=men|school=University of Oklahoma|title=Oklahoma}}
is encountered, since the
2009–10 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team article exists, the template should be replaced with [[2009–10 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team|Oklahoma]]
. This bot would really only need to be ran probably once a month or quarter. Hopefully this won't be a difficult task.—
NMajdan•
talk 18:45, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
[[Category:Excessive uses of cbb link]]
immediately after the link. This should make finding those which are unnecessary easier to find.
–Nav
talk to me or
sign my guestbook 01:09, 20 October 2009 (UTC)It was recently agreed amongst the editors at WP:FOOTY that all football season articles should be in the format "[Season] [Competition] [Modifier]" (e.g. 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage). The process to move all existing articles to the new titles is extremely laborious and a bot was previously used to move all of the articles in Category:Seasons in English football competitions. Therefore, I believe it would not be unreasonable to request a bot to move all of the articles in Category:Seasons in Spanish football competitions. One article ( 2009–10 Copa del Rey) is already in the correct format, but all of the rest will need moving. A WikiCookie is on offer to whichever one of you wonderful bot makers can fulfil this request. – Pee Jay 10:44, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Segunda División 1929–30 -> 1929–30 Segunda División Segunda División B 1977–78 -> 1977–78 Segunda División B Tercera División 1929–30 -> 1929–30 Tercera División Copa del Rey 1902 -> 1902 Copa del Rey
python movepages.py -pairs:moves.txt -summary:"Standardize per [[WP:FOOTY]]"
–
xeno
talk 20:07, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
If someone could comment at this SPI discussion ( Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations#Single sockpuppet template) in response to Avi, it would be much appreciated. NW ( Talk) 05:00, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Until last March, WP:GAC relied upon StatisticianBot to produce the daily Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Report and perform a daily update of Wikipedia:Good article nominations/backlog/items. Is it possible that a new bot could be created to perform these functions again.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:59, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
hello there bot operators,
per the consensus here, I'm requesting that a bot apply this regex:
Find (\n==+[^\n=]+==+ *\n)((?:[^=\n][^\n]*\n)*)([^=\n][^\n]{{[ _]*([Dd]ead[ _]+link[ _]| [ _]Dl[ _]|[ _]Deadlink[ _]|[ _]Cleanup-link[ _]|[ _]Dl-s[ _]|[ _]404[ _]|[ _]Broken[ _]+link[ _]|[ _]Brokenlink[ _]|[ _]Linkbroken[ _]|[ _]Link[ _]+broken[ _] )*[\|}\n]) replace with $1{{dead link header}}\n$2$3
to all the articles that translude the tmplates {{ dead link}} and all of its re-directs:
{{ Dl}} {{ Deadlink}} {{ Cleanup-link}} {{ Dl-s}} {{ 404}} {{ Broken link}} {{ Brokenlink}} {{ Linkbroken}} {{ Link broken}}
I'd do it myself but I have dial-up. Tim1357--( what?... ohhh) 16:33, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
{{notmoved}}
Per my closing of
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 October 10#Template:Moved, the templates {{moved}}
and {{notmoved}}
should be substituted in preparation for deletion. It would be great if someone could run a bot (or AWB) to replace all {{notmoved}}
with {{subst:notmoved}}. The request has also been posted at
WP:TFD/H. Thanks.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 23:31, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
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Please replace the Template:WP Kuwait on article talk pages with the following code: {{WikiProject Western Asia|class=|importance=|Kuwait=yes|Kuwait-importance=}}, keeping any existing quality and importance assessments, even though the banner to replace isn't actually equipped for assessments. John Carter ( talk) 17:45, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if this has been suggested before, but would it be possible to create a bot to move pages because there are lots that have hyphenated titles and should have spaced ndash titles. I have moved many manually in the past (e.g. this fun-filled morning) but it is very tedious. I was thinking this would be a simple task for a bot, and had hoped AWB might do it but I don't think it can. Is there anyone who could make or help a complete bot noob make one as there are hundreds more similar titles that need fixing. Thanks in advance, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 22:41, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Well it's not urgent so it could run off database dumps. Rich Farmbrough, 19:54, 6 September 2009 (UTC).
This is not a very difficult task in terms of actually getting the list, the difficulty is in choosing whether or not to move the article. Either way, Coding... ( X! · talk) · @988 · 22:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I really appreciate you guys taking this on in ways I don't know. Just to confirm (possibly going over some of what Rich says) I only request the " - "s be dealt with because these should never exist as articles (only as redirects). That solves 1 & 5 (both ignored). Movie & TV titles (2) should be dealt with the same, and redirects (3) should be skipped. I don't know much about coding but I guess this need to come first. Target pages shouldn't exist for non-redirects, because they are nearly all moved from hyphen to ndash, and most (all?) directly creating articles at the spaced ndash know to create a convenience redirect. So 4 shouldn't be a problem, but I guess skip if it happens because if it is a non-redirect hyphened page and ndahsed one there will most likely be a parallel history problem there too (can these "(4) skipped cases" be categorised if they happen?). Thanks all, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 16:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Out of interest, as a programming novice, did anyone find a way of doing this I could use. It would be greatly appreciated. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 17:52, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello botmasters, On 16 Jan 2009 an article was requested on Wikipedia:Requested articles/Culture and fine arts:
*Jury (competition) - Over 9000 articles have the term "juried" in them, but a spot check of dozens of them show no explanation of what this means (and the Jury article is not helpful in this regard)
So I wrote the article Juried (competition). Is there is an existing bot that can find all 9000+ articles and update them with internal links to the new article by finding instances of the word (plus surrounding spaces) " juried " and replace that text with juried (bracket bracket juried (competition)|juried close-bracket close-bracket)? Thanks -- Sctechlaw ( talk) 02:23, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Could a bot replace all uses of prettytable (using wikitable), since the class is in shared.css? This is to remove the definition of prettytable in common.css. Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 16:05, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
class="prettytable"
→ class="wikitable"
Locos
epraix ~
Beastepraix 23:23, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
All, as part of the Gene Wiki effort, we apparently created a bunch of {{ GNF Ortholog box}}es with two missing parameters. It worked fine at the time, but due to updated data those missing parameters now create incorrect links. Unfortunately the student who did it is gone, and I'm hoping someone here can help with a few thousand simple changes. The pages are all listed here (subpages of {{ PBB}}), and I've made one example change here. Anyone willing to help out with this? Cheers, AndrewGNF ( talk) 18:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Can someone with a Bot please edit List of craters on Mars & List of mountains on Mars replacing the two latitude & longitude columns with a single coordinates column, using {{ Coord}}. For example, the first row on craters would contain {{Coord|16.1|N|249.0|W|globe:Mars_type:landmark}}; the first on mountains would be {{Coord|19.0|209.6|globe:Mars_type:mountain}}, but the second there would be {{Coord|-30.1|273.4|globe:Mars_type:mountain}}. I've done the smaller List of catenae on Mars manually, by way of illustrating the desired outcome. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
{{coord}}
's name parameter is broken, as I've reported previously.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 10:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Similar to the above; to go through the categories for features on the Moon, and change coordinates as in this edit. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:18, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. As Erik9bot ( BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights) has now been blocked as a sockpuppet, along with it's operator. We have Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot) no longer being maintained. If anyone is keen to step forward to maintain a similar category, that would be appreciated. Best, - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 20:54, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that replaces file links that are actually links to redirects? With file renaming for admins re-enabled, a lot of redirects will be generated for files but not replaced in the articles. Does such a bot already operate or, if not, can we create one? Preferably, it should also have admin flags to delete those redirects afterwards, but that's not needed. Regards So Why 07:59, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I would take special note of bugzilla:15842#c15. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 08:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Sounds like WP:R#NOTBROKEN to me, unless T20017 isn't going to be fixed any time soon. Note that the File:DSC 0024.JPG example is a red herring, it could easily enough be taken care of under WP:CSD#R3. Anomie ⚔ 17:34, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Noting the Help:Footnotes#List-defined references change, I wonder if there's utility in a bot wandering through articles munging ref data out of the article body and into the reference space at the foot of the article? Seems to me that would clean up the scary reference text in articles which surely intimidates newbies and some oldsters. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 11:46, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
If all links to RTÉ News and Current Affairs could be corrected, that would be brilliant. The links I am requesting to be corrected are: RTE News, RTÉ News and RTÉ News And Current Affairs, all to go to RTÉ News and Current Affairs. I could not possibly do the work on my own. Thanks, Cargoking talk 13:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
I posted the request below three weeks ago and got no response so I'll ask again. I understand that it's more complex than most requests posted here but I'm hoping that someone will eventually take a stab at it.
Ok, this is probably a bit of a pain to program but it would be a big help.
Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people is a subproject of
WP:MISSING that tries to identify missing articles about notable dead people. There's been quite a lot of work on these lists to classify the individuals and in many cases articles exist in wikis in other languages. When this is the case, a link has been created to such articles. For instance, at the top of the list
Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people/A you find links to the es.wiki articles about Anny Ahlers and Anselmo Aieta. What I would like is to have a bot create translation requests for such entries. I estimate that there are a few hundred of these. I'll check the translation requests manually but I'd be grateful if a bot can generate them. Let me know if you need any xtra info for the task. Thanks,
Pichpich (
talk) 16:39, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Deal or No Deal (US) models is a large list of people. Each name on the list is a wikilink. Almost all of these links lead to redirects, which then lead back to the article.
I'm not sure of what the right thing to do here is, but the existing situation is ridiculous, and fixing it would be hard to do manually. Rees11 ( talk) 17:26, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Ensure all occurrences of {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} on Dab article talk pages include the paramenter "|class=Dab". This will ensure that the my preferences option on the Gadget tab to display an assessment of an article's quality as part of the page header for each article interprets dab pages correctly.
For bonus marks:
-Arb. ( talk) 16:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
|class=
parameter to the banner.
PC78 (
talk) 01:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Requesting a bot to tag all articles in the categories on
this list (not the following list on that page which is for categories to be checked manually) with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=|importance=}}
. If possible, please also tag any articles marked as stubs with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=Stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
. Discussed at the project
here. Thanks in advance!
Small-town hero (
talk) 11:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Nevermind, I've used the list provided. Should be Doing... shortly KingpinBot ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 09:34, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
I need a bot that will allow me to upload a list of about 1200 items and 'spit out' the Wiki definition of those items. Wouldn't it be great to be able to make a customized 'wiki glossary'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DMChubb ( talk • contribs)
(I think this is a job for someone with AWB.) Please change all
articles using {{Infobox G8}}
to use the new |date=
parameter, with {{
Start date}}, and the template's new name, {{
Infobox summit}},
as in this edit.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 11:25, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
There's a common sort of error that I find myself fixing repeatedly. Some sentences have the refs supporting the sentence at the end right before the period, some right after (and I'll grant that I'm not sure which is right)... but a surprisingly large number have had editing and end up with periods before and after a reference or string of reference, something like this. [1]. That ain't nohow right, and should be easy to address in most cases with a simple bot (a period before a ref tag, and a period after the next end-of-ref tag), and with a little more programming, able to handle such things as single-tag refs and strings of refs. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 02:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
I believe but am not sure that AWB addresses this in gen fixes. Worth checking out. Rich Farmbrough, 19:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
I think a bot would be helpful in listing all stub categories (defined as categories ending with the word "stubs") and stub templates (defined as ending with the string "-stub"), and listing them on a page for review of users who are part of the stub sorting WikiProject. This can be done using Special:NewPages, and once a day is probably enough. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like there to be a bot which has a bot page asking two fields: a mistaken word and its correct spelling. For example I could write "posibly" --> "possibly" and then click "go". It would be much of a search and replace task across all pages. The requests could be stored and done asynchronously. It's very annoying to do this manually :-P Anna Lincoln 10:47, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
You no longer need to use I.E. I think, since AWB uses the api now. A good thing to try and do is fix any "spelling mistakes" that are actually valid. Where appropriate they can be wrapped in {{ Sic}}, {{ Typo}} or {{ Lang}} - the obvious advantage is that they don't get picked up again, less obvious is that the "front end" of article-space tends to get cleared of the real typos, and everyone is just hitting exceptions for 50 articles and they give up. Rich Farmbrough, 19:55, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
1a. It would be useful for a bot to set the English variant for various national articles (discussion pages) that can be accurately determined by a bot. Indian-English for articles about India, for example. This would serve as a useful reminder to editors not to try to automatically revert "misspellings" they are seeing in their interface. (This would have to be done manually for articles which are not obviously one or the other - for example, articles about Turkey).
1b. It would be useful to insert a variant in the actual article itself. This would not display! It would be passed to the user's Mozilla (or whatever) in order to soft-set the dictionary so that "organization" would show up as misspelled in an UK article, "organisation" in an American article. This would have to be done in conjunction with the high-level Wikipedia Editor folks (not us: the software which handles editing). Student7 ( talk) 21:15, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
1a. This could be done fairly easily in some ways but in others it's complicated. 1b. Would need to be part of the WikiMedia software to render the HTML - I think there is something in doctype that could be set driven off one of the standard flags. Then either a browser mod or a plugin would be required to switch dictionaries. Rich Farmbrough, 20:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
The Book tool has been updated to automatically generate tables of content. User-made tables of content are now obsolete and actually detrimental to books. If someone could write a bot that would remove these non-dynamics/user-made TOCs, it would be of great help.
For an example, see
Wikipedia:Books/Linguistics. Simply remove it the TOC link (in its entirety), and place a {{
db-g6|TOCs are now automatically generated by the book tool}}
on the /Table of content subpage (or /TOC, or /Table of Content as appropriate) . The relevant category is
Category:Wikipedia:Books. (This probably could be done with AWB.) Thanks.
Headbomb {
ταλκ
κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 21:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Seems its operator User:Wronkiew has gone missing, and a few of its tasks, including archiving editor reviews, are piling up. Is it possible for someone to takeover operating this bot or does it need to be replaced with a new one? -- œ ™ 05:14, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
As mentioned some time ago, Birmingham.gov.uk URLs in the form
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks.bcc (of which there are many on Wikipedia) have dropped the four-character .bcc
suffix, thus:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks. Please can someone update all these?
BCCWebTeam (
talk) 15:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if this is necessarily the best place to ask, but is there any way of finding pages where a template is transcluded more than once? Specifically I would like to find any talk pages where {{ WPBiography}} has multiple transclusions. PC78 ( talk) 22:49, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
\{\{WPBiography.*?\{\{WPBiography
). —
Dispenser 04:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) AWB can scan the dump file for that RegEx expression--if you can somehow produce a list of the WPBIO talk pages you want checked, or at least tell me the specific categories (you are probably aware of the rediculous amount of pages the project contains; this makes generating a list of every single article in the project's parent category impossibly time-consuming), then I can make a dump file out of those and use the RegEx to scan that dump file for the double templates with AWB and generate a list of those pages. Then, a bot (my AWB bot or another bot) could go through that list deleting the extra template.
I realize this is a lot of work to undergo for a simple case of an extra template, but the size of WPBIO is a handicap for any brute processing. If you wish to take this path with AWB, however, I would be willing to help, and I'm sure there are other willing users that can share the workload with me. Awaiting your reply, Robert Skyhawk So sue me! ( You'll lose) 01:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I will do this now. Rich Farmbrough, 19:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC).
enwiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 2009-Oct-03 08:15:19 9.9G application/octet-stream
? I might be able to do better than 36 hours and I kindof need to do some scans in this anyway. – xeno talk 19:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 00:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC).
(?s)\{\{WPBiography.*?\{\{WPBiography
How can I send messages to users belongs to a specific category?-- Saqib talk 14:03, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
I found a file that was licensed under GNUGPL, but its derivative was licensed in public domain.
This file ( File:Torchlight help red.png),which is licensed as public domain, is a derivative of File:Torchlight help.png, which is licensed with GNUGPL.
I'd like to request that a bot check the description/source of image files for other images...and then check their licenses. If a conflicting license such as a derivative under public domain against a parent of GNUGPL, then the bot would post these to a list. If the bot is accurate enough, then it could be automated. I hope this is clear enough...
Any thoughts? Smallman12q ( talk) 13:42, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
All the bots that have done this are inactive: I want a bot that tags {{ dead link}} in the main-space when it finds them. Thanks Tim1357 ( talk) 21:30, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to bundle a set of Medicine collaboration and portal templates into an update banner. The replacement parameters are listed at Template talk:WPMED/sandbox, and the discussion is at Template talk:WPMED#COTW and Portal links from this template. I had one bot in mind but the op is busy in real life, so I'm hoping any wikiproject bot can handle this. - Optigan13 ( talk) 22:04, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if we could have the category "Rapists by nationality" moved to "People convicted of rape by nationality". There was discussion on it before about moving the category to a name-neutral category, and it was agreed upon. I've done some of the work, but I don't feel like moving all 32 categories, deleting them, and creating the new ones (not in that order of course). Thanks Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 19:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Though this works well at Commons, historically welcome bots have probably been the most frequently rejected idea at this page. However, things are changing; for the better in that this proposal tries to deal with the previous reasons for not doing this; for worse in that we are being less and less open to newbies and very few are being welcomed manually. So I suggest:
If a new editor has not been welcomed manually within 7 days of their first edit that has not been rolled back as vandalism, or their first article that has been marked as patrolled at newpage patrol; Welcome them by bot.
To make this a little more clever the bot could run a little routine to test out different welcome messages in terms of the proportion of newbies welcomed by that message who go on to edit more, and preferentially use the more successful welcome messages.
If we want to really make this really fly we should:
Previous proposals to do this have foundered because:
Note, I sometimes stray onto other language wikis and I invariably (often) get an apparently form human email as well as a welcome on my talk page. Clearly they have less traffic but also less editors.. perhaps a bot that helps a welcoming committee welcome? Rich Farmbrough, 01:23, 10 October 2009 (UTC).
It's hard to imagine anything more offensive than being "welcomed" by a bot. Maybe the ATMs and gas pumps that thank you? Yes, I got welcomed by a bot on commons, I think. No human editors welcomed me or even noticed the omission of a welcome, because my user talk page had been spam-attacked with a huge list of useless, pointless, irrelevant information packed like garbage overflowing a dumpster. I deleted it. What was gained? Nothing.
Alerting a welcoming committee, or alerting projects might be worthwhile. You're likely to be welcomed by someone if you annoy them with an edit you make or if you edit articles in the same project they edit. This gives the new editor a basis of conversation with a specific other editor, maybe leading to establishing a working connection for the newbie.
Spam the newbie with a bot message? Meat editors might pass on welcoming them because they've already been welcomed. Then, you get a trashed out new user talk page, and a newbie whose community interaction is with a bot. How does this benefit the newbie? Wikipedia? If the bot didn't spam their talk page, the new user might seek out meat editors with questions. There's one more way to make a human connection that the bot interferes with.
Rd232, you have some good ideas about working with newbies by demonstrating different levels of doing one thing or another. Meat editors do tend to come up with original ideas.
I just can't see any benefit to welcoming someone with a bot. At least you don't make the newbie delete the spam off their user talk page, which is now blue-linked, so users watching for red-linked talk pages won't notice the newbie requires welcomings.
Welcoming is a human thing. It can't be done by a bot. It's not a welcome if it is done by a bot. It's spam. -- 69.225.5.4 ( talk) 02:35, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Just came across a few unblocks on hold that had been languishing for upwards of one month! A bot should monitor the unblock-on-hold category and notify the holding admin (and possible also the blocking admin) if it has been on hold for 48 hours or more. – xeno talk 14:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Within Category:Non-free use rationale templates there is a family of related templates. These templates take several parameters, which are all capitalised. Only one parameter, "other_information", is not capitalised. I guess it was added at a later time. This is confusing for editors, and therefore a source of mistakes. Parameters after all are capitalisation sensitive.
Therefore, I want to propose changing the "other_information" parameters to a capitalised parameter "Other_information" as well.
The templates in question are:
Other templates (namely commented out as not important) call these templates.
Please contact me with questions and inquiries on my talkpage. Debresser ( talk) 00:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
So, allow me to sum up what you're requesting for ease of access:
Does this summarize what you're trying to do? Robert Skyhawk So sue me! ( You'll lose) 00:40, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
{{{Other_information|{{{other_information|}}}}}}
), the second removing the non-capitalised parameter.
Debresser (
talk) 01:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC){outdent}Adding the code above to Template:Non-free use rationale should fix the problem for all templates using it as well. Debresser ( talk) 05:11, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Requesting a bot to tag all articles in the categories on
this list (not the following list on that page which is for categories to be checked manually) with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=|importance=}}
. If possible, please also tag any articles marked as stubs with {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=Stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
. Discussed at the project
here. Thanks in advance!
Small-town hero (
talk) 10:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
|importance=
parameter this time. Best, -
Kingpin
13 (
talk) 10:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there a way to list the number of users with the most numkber of edits, but who have not been using tools such as Huggle, AWB, Friendly etc? Please also see Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits#Tools reopened. Simply south ( talk) 20:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
This is probably something that can be accomplished with AWB. I was hoping somebody could replace all hyphens with en dashes in the template {{ Cbb link}}. An example of an article/template where this needs to be done is Template:2007-08 Big 12 men's basketball standings. Many people use the red links in these yearly standings templates as the starting point for their article and a lot of them are being created incorrectly. Thanks in advance.— NMajdan• talk 13:32, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{str left|{{{year|}}}|5}}|{{str left|{{{year|}}}|4}}-|[[Category:Uses of Cbb link with a hyphenated year]]}}
to populate a tracking category. Then it would be a simple matter for a bot to periodically clean out the category (and, for that matter,
Category:Excessive uses of cbb link, and the corresponding {{
cfb link}} categories, and the categories for any other similar templates). Or if you really want just a one-off run, that's easy enough to do too.
Anomie
⚔ 17:30, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#replace:}}
doesn't work on enwiki, does it?—
NMajdan•
talk 18:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#ifeq:{{#expr:{{{year}}}}}|{{{year}}}| is single year | not single year }}
should detect it.
Anomie
⚔ 21:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}
use {{#ifeq:{{#expr:{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}|{{dash year|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}
. Then once the bot is done, you'd replace it with just {{dash year|{{{season|{{{year}}}}}}}}
. No change in the number of ifexist calls.
Anomie
⚔ 17:25, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
gender
to sex
. Also, my new template just takes the first four digits of the year field and ignores everything after, so I think I can do without a bot run to fix the dashes. I think I can accomplish what I need now with a simple AWB run. But thanks for your help with the template.—
NMajdan•
talk 12:13, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Most articles in Category:Days in 2005 and Category:Days in 2003 need to be moved out of article space to Portal space.
Rather than having the article February 12, 2005, it should be in the portal namespace at Portal:Current events/2005 February 12, like the more recent Portal:Current events/2008 November 23. We should have articles for month year ( February 2005), but not month day, year. They, as they are not actual articles, should be in the portal namespace and transcluded to the month article, like how Portal:Current events/2008 September 6 is transcluded to September 2008.
This is already a set precedent, and this is how it has been done for more recent years. Earlier years, however, were not updated and moved to Portal:Current events. All I need is a simple bot that can move date articles such as July 31, 2005, which is simply transcluded into July 2005, to "Portal:Current events/", like Portal:Current events/2005 July 31. Thanks, Reywas92 Talk 18:57, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Not done No longer required; article has moved back Chzz ► 13:06, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
The Italian Socialist Party article was moved to Italian Socialist Party (historical). As there are several links to Italian Socialist Party which will become a disambiguation to both Italian Socialist Party (historical) to Italian Socialist Party (current) (the new destination of Socialist Party (Italy)).
We need a bot in order to change all the current links to Italian Socialist Party into [[Italian Socialist Party (historical)|Italian Socialist Party]] in every single article that includes such links. Is there any bot able to do such a job? Thank you. -- Checco ( talk) 21:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea if this is the right place to bring up the issue, but is there a possibility to have the bots sort the interwiki-links ("Other languages") alphabetically by name of language rather than name of prefix?
Right now, they sort (for example) "Avañe'ẽ" under G (gn), "Diné bizaad" under N (nv), and "Deitsch" under P (pds) ... Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 14:35, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
The link tags should be sorted alphabetically based on the local names of the languages, as described at m:Interwiki sorting order. The vast majority of articles are currently sorted this way. Sorting alphabetically according to the two-letter language abbreviations is also acceptable. There are numerous other sorting methods to sort interlanguage links, but consistency between articles is encouraged.
Chzz ► 12:52, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
via manual edits Chzz ► 17:00, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Due to the closure of the UEFA EURO 2008 website, all the links to the match reports of several editions of the European Football Championships (previously added into en.wiki pages) are broken at this moment. We need a bot in order to substitute the partial URL string http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/ with the string http://en.uefa.com/competitions/euro2012/, so that the links can be restored correctly into the following articles:
Instead, for the UEFA Euro 2008 articles ( UEFA Euro 2008, UEFA Euro 2008 Group A, UEFA Euro 2008 Group B, UEFA Euro 2008 Group C, UEFA Euro 2008 Group D and UEFA Euro 2008 knockout stage), the old partial URL string http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/ must be changed with the following ones:
Best regards, -- Mess ( talk) 21:06, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Response
With regards to the first part of the above request, only 6 of those pages contained the URL you gave; I changed those - they seem OK, please check them; [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Most of the links on those pages are actually to www.uefa.com and give a 404, such as http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/history/season=1972/round=184/match=3836/index.html - but I've no idea what they should be fixed to.
UEFA_Euro_2008 In the QF Spain-Italy, there is a link to
http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/match=301702/report=rp.html (which does not work), but
changing it to
2/report=rp.html (per the above) also fails.
After searching the site, I found that it should be
http://en.uefa.com/competitions/euro2012/history/season=2008/round=15094/match=301702/index.html
(ie the actual final part of the URL is different)
I fixed that specific one with [ http://en.wikipedia.org/?
title=UEFA_Euro_2008&diff=prev&oldid=320780876 this edit].
Similarly, the report for the semi between Russia and Spain needed to be changed to
http://en.uefa.com/competitions/euro2012/history/season=2008/round=15095/match=301698/index.html (fixed
with this edit)
There are four other links to en.euro2008 in that article; I'm not sure what they should be corrected to;
In UEFA Euro 2008 Group A there were three match-report links to en.euro2008, which again I fixed manually with this edit. Similarly, the URLs needed changing, not just replacing.
I have not corrected the other groups or the knockout stage.
Unfortunately, I do not think that a bot can help much with these edits; if you do think that some kind of largescale search/replace could help, please let me know.
Two things that you might find helpful are;
I hope that this has helped; as I say, if you can think of any direct search/replace operation that would help, please let me know, but it would appear not to be quite as simple as described in the request. Chzz ► 12:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
My request is for a bot to move files from Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons to the Commons. There is currently a backlog of 18,000 files in that category, and I can guess that we all know the benefits of having the files there rather than here. The bot would most likely need to be manual due to some files needing to be renamed when they are moved. I have seen at least one other bot performing this task, but the owner is multi-lingual, and I believe that he primarily focuses on the Dutch Wikipedia. — CobraWiki ( jabber | stuff ) 20:17, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
Information}}
) so it would be hard for a bot to detect which ones, and as far as i'm aware commons deletes all files that are transferred there that are missing information.
Peachey88 (
Talk Page ·
Contribs) 00:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
There are 12 citation templates that use {{
Citation/core}}. All of these define a parameter |PS=
. That is the postscript parameter, defining the closing character of the citation. In all cases this is a dot/full period. The only exception is {{
Citation}} that didn't have the dot as the default value of this parameter. Today this was added, together with a few other things that standarised all these templates. The problem is that in the case of {{
Citation}} some editors have been manually adding dots to citations the articles. So now we sometimes have double dots (so to speak). See
Template_talk:Citation#Full_stop_at_the_end_of_the_template_2.
My request is, could some bot slowly check all pages transcluding {{
Citation}} (must be some 50,000+) and remove the superfluous dots that were added before (be it purpusefully or by accident)? We would be looking for something like {{Citation ... }}.
, and remove that dot at the end.
Debresser (
talk) 19:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
If that were significantly easier we could remove the dot only from cases of form {{Citation ... }}.</ref>
I am sure that would take care of most of them as well.
Debresser (
talk) 20:46, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
If there weren't that many pages, I'd already have started with AWB. I am certain that on many pages we will not find superfluous dots at all, because the usual form of all citation templates apart from {{ Citation}} is with a hardcoded dot. Debresser ( talk) 20:51, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
The discussion at WT:BLP#Should article creators and/or major contributors help reduce the backlog? seems to conclude that a bot notifying editors that an article they contributed to is listed as an unreferenced BLP would be a good idea. The bot should contact the creator, substantial editors (if it can be reasonably defined), and possibly recent editors - ideally filtering out editors who haven't been active for a very long time, and ideally filtering out editors who used automated tools to make minor corrections or add tags. It needs doing carefully however - in particular you don't want to send people dozens of messages - but a single message with a list of articles needing attention which they've created or been involved with would be good. Erwin85Bot, for instance, detects previous messages and adds a short message for additional information of the same type. Probably some form of throttle would be needed to ensure profilic editors don't get swamped (possibly a user subpage could be created for them?). Also the bot would obviously be working backwards from the relevant dated maintenance categories.
User:ThaddeusB expressed an interest in this but implied it might take quite a while for him to get round to it. Can someone else take it on? The unreferenced BLP backlog grows daily. Rd232 talk 14:32, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
LaraBot ( talk · contribs) does this for newly created articles. Rettetast ( talk) 19:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I could do it - I have the time to add this functionality to a bot if the process has consensus - won't object if MZMcBride wants to add to LaraBot though. Fritzpoll ( talk) 19:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Template:cbb link and Template:cfb link exist to allow an editor to link to a team's article and force the link to use the most appropriate article available, whether it be the University's main article ( University of Oklahoma, the article about the athletic program ( Oklahoma Sooners), the article of that sport at that university ( Oklahoma Sooners football), or to the article about that specific year's team ( 2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team). If all that exists at the time the article is written is the article about that particular sport at that university, then the use can use one of these templates and it will automatically change to the yearly article when it is created. However, given the number of ifexist calls in these templates, we have to be cautious about how many times it is used in an article. For that reason, when the template is fully expanded to the yearly team article, it will add the article to one of two categories: Category:Excessive uses of cbb link or Category:Excessive uses of cfb link. This indicates that the template is being used in a way that could now be accomplished with simple wikilinks.
I am requesting a bot that could read these categories and replace the template with the yearly article. So, if {{cbb link|2009|team=Oklahoma Sooners|sex=men|school=University of Oklahoma|title=Oklahoma}}
is encountered, since the
2009–10 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team article exists, the template should be replaced with [[2009–10 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team|Oklahoma]]
. This bot would really only need to be ran probably once a month or quarter. Hopefully this won't be a difficult task.—
NMajdan•
talk 18:45, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
[[Category:Excessive uses of cbb link]]
immediately after the link. This should make finding those which are unnecessary easier to find.
–Nav
talk to me or
sign my guestbook 01:09, 20 October 2009 (UTC)It was recently agreed amongst the editors at WP:FOOTY that all football season articles should be in the format "[Season] [Competition] [Modifier]" (e.g. 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage). The process to move all existing articles to the new titles is extremely laborious and a bot was previously used to move all of the articles in Category:Seasons in English football competitions. Therefore, I believe it would not be unreasonable to request a bot to move all of the articles in Category:Seasons in Spanish football competitions. One article ( 2009–10 Copa del Rey) is already in the correct format, but all of the rest will need moving. A WikiCookie is on offer to whichever one of you wonderful bot makers can fulfil this request. – Pee Jay 10:44, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Segunda División 1929–30 -> 1929–30 Segunda División Segunda División B 1977–78 -> 1977–78 Segunda División B Tercera División 1929–30 -> 1929–30 Tercera División Copa del Rey 1902 -> 1902 Copa del Rey
python movepages.py -pairs:moves.txt -summary:"Standardize per [[WP:FOOTY]]"
–
xeno
talk 20:07, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
If someone could comment at this SPI discussion ( Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations#Single sockpuppet template) in response to Avi, it would be much appreciated. NW ( Talk) 05:00, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Until last March, WP:GAC relied upon StatisticianBot to produce the daily Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Report and perform a daily update of Wikipedia:Good article nominations/backlog/items. Is it possible that a new bot could be created to perform these functions again.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 22:59, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
hello there bot operators,
per the consensus here, I'm requesting that a bot apply this regex:
Find (\n==+[^\n=]+==+ *\n)((?:[^=\n][^\n]*\n)*)([^=\n][^\n]{{[ _]*([Dd]ead[ _]+link[ _]| [ _]Dl[ _]|[ _]Deadlink[ _]|[ _]Cleanup-link[ _]|[ _]Dl-s[ _]|[ _]404[ _]|[ _]Broken[ _]+link[ _]|[ _]Brokenlink[ _]|[ _]Linkbroken[ _]|[ _]Link[ _]+broken[ _] )*[\|}\n]) replace with $1{{dead link header}}\n$2$3
to all the articles that translude the tmplates {{ dead link}} and all of its re-directs:
{{ Dl}} {{ Deadlink}} {{ Cleanup-link}} {{ Dl-s}} {{ 404}} {{ Broken link}} {{ Brokenlink}} {{ Linkbroken}} {{ Link broken}}
I'd do it myself but I have dial-up. Tim1357--( what?... ohhh) 16:33, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
{{notmoved}}
Per my closing of
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 October 10#Template:Moved, the templates {{moved}}
and {{notmoved}}
should be substituted in preparation for deletion. It would be great if someone could run a bot (or AWB) to replace all {{notmoved}}
with {{subst:notmoved}}. The request has also been posted at
WP:TFD/H. Thanks.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 23:31, 22 October 2009 (UTC)