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Geocities is pulling all Web sites down on 26 October 2009 (except those who move to a Yahoo! Hosting plan).
I was wondering if someone could do a bot that searches for <ref> tags that use references to the Geocities.com domain as I fear we will soon have a ton of dead references that need rectification.*
If it dumps the results somewhere, if anywhere, put them somewhere on my user talk page.
Thank you. -- Guroadrunner ( talk) 10:10, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
* * - yes, I realize that Geocities fails WP:RELIABLESOURCES. I want to see what the damage will be.
Is it possible to get a bot to replace all instances of JEF with Jorfer. I used the original for my signature before simplifying my signature to be just my user name. Having my signature be my user name helps eliminate confusion, but users may not realize that the new and old signatures are both from me.-- Jorfer ( talk) 01:39, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm looking for someone that wants to tackle a fairly major bot project: one that will help with vandalism across the music area. The record charts are extremely prone to vandalism: some people trying to make their favorite artist look better, and others just randomly changing figures. There's a certain amount of cluelessness going on as well: an artist may reach number thirty on the official chart for Spain, but number five on an individual Spanish station, so an editor will edit the Spanish position to "5", not realizing that the individual station chart isn't the official national chart.
I'm planning on implementing a series of templates to build record charts from. {{ singlechart}} is the first. It takes several arguments:
It formats the data, and generates a URL for an online source that the figure can be verified against, formatting the URL as a reference. I've modified a couple articles as a test case: Sneakernight and My Life Would Suck Without You.
I'm in the course of building similar templates for single certifications, album charts, and album certifications.
What I would like to find someone with bot experience to help build is a bot that will monitor changes to these templates and verify the contents. Basically:
If anyone is interested in helping with this, please let me know.— Kww( talk) 17:34, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like a bot to please tag (and keep tagged) all articles in any of: Category:Constructed languages, Category:Artificial scripts, Category:Artistic languages, Category:Constructed language multilingual support templates, Category:Constructed language organizations, Category:Constructed languages resources, Category:Engineered languages, Category:Esperanto dictionaries, Category:Fictional languages, Category:Gibberish language, Category:International auxiliary languages, Category:Language creators, Category:Reconstructed languages, Category:Voynich manuscript, Category:Constructed language stubs ... with:
It would also be helpful if the bot can do the same, and categorize appropriately, for the keywords: "conlang", "artlang", "auxlang", "engelang", "artificial language", "artistic language", "engineered language", "constructed language", "artificial language", "auxiliary language", "Constructed script", "fictional language", "Universal language, "conlanger", "Blissymbol", "Blissymbolics", "Enochian", "Esperanto", "Glosa", "Ido", "Interlingua", "Ithkuil", "Kēlen", "Kelen", "Klingon", "Láadan", "Laadan", "Lingua Franca Nova", "Lingua Ignota", "Loglan", "Lojban", "Mänti", "Nadsat ", "Novial", "Occidental", "Quenya", "Sindarin", "Solresol", "Teonaht", "Toki Pona", "Volapük", "Volapuk" ... if they are not already categorized per above.
Thanks! Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 22:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
I've been trying to use the CatScan tool to find articles in Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are tagged with {{ WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria}}, but try as I might I can't get it to work. Is there another way of of doing this, either by bot or otherwise? Small-town hero ( talk) 14:04, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Since X! seems to be on indef break, can someone write a replacement for Soxbot to do the work at the CHU pages? — Rlevse • Talk • 01:05, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
I'll work on incorporating this into Chris G Bot 3 which currently archives CHU -- Chris 00:57, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Could someone please de-link the dates in the Burger King family of articles?
Thank you very much, -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 07:59, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Its because I am trying to clean these articles up and the citations are not uniform. In most cases some citations have linked dates while others do not. With the smaller articles it isn't an issue, but with the main ones there are more than 100 references spread over articles that are often 35k+ in size and finding each of them is really time consuming. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 17:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Not done
Nevermind, I used Lightmouse's js to delink them. Cool tool... -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 17:13, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Very simple project: I need a bot to move the articles in Category:Days in 2005 and Category:Days in 2003 to the portal space. For example, February 12, 2005 needs to be moved to Portal:Current events/2005 February 12 like the more recent Portal:Current events/2008 November 23. Thanks! Reywas92 Talk 23:21, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps some of you could help with this: Wikipedia_talk:Article_alerts/Feature_requests#Add_well-formatted_archive_of_previous_events
It'd be useful across all WikiProjects, and should tie in well with the existing functionality of the article alert bot.
Thanks! Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 03:46, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
There are many categories of the type "Lists of...," such as Category:Lists of universities and colleges with members such as "List of colleges in Thailand". Usually, editors pipe the inclusion, e.g., [[Category:Lists of universities and colleges|Thailand]], but about 10% of the time they do not and the L section of the category ends up with misplaced entries.
The request is for a bot to
To determine the correct sort...
I would suggest that the bot run about monthly; I don't think WP:wikignomes are going to be any faster than that at cleaning up the ones needing manual attention. Ma t c hups 12:53, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I want to request the change of templates in the
Category:Paraguay articles, which currently is {{WikiProject South America|class=Stub|importance=Mid|Paraguay=yes|Paraguay-importance=Low}}
, to this one: {{WikiProject Paraguay|class=|importance=}}
. Reason is that I'm trying for Paraguay to have a bit more of prominence as a country of its own and not just a sub category. Any articles which are considered stubs could hae this template instead: {{WikiProject Paraguay|class=Stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
. Thanks a lot!
Veritiel (
talk) 11:52, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
User pages turn up in categories that are reserved for article namespace articles. This is not allowed according to Wikipedia:Categorization. Can a bot remove them when they are added? -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 23:39, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Many of the Playboy Playmate's articles have references to the University of Chicago, see Reagan Wilson for just one example. There is an employee there who keeps a database online. Anyway, they've moved their archives to their own server and a separate domain, wekinglypigs.com. For an example with the new domain, see Jaime Faith Edmondson All the bot would need to do is trawl through the Playmate articles and
I think that all the articles will be in the child categories of Category:Playboy Playmates.
Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 09:12, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Could a bot please tag all articles in Category:Professional wrestling (and its subcategories) with Template:Pro-wrestling? It would be much faster with a bot since that is several hundred articles and would take a human awhile to do it (even with something like AWB). TJ Spyke 21:07, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to place a message on the project talk page of every WikiProject that maintains a category listed on User:WOSlinker/comments. In most cases, it would simply be a question of replacing
I haven't penned the message yet, but it will basically be explaining that /Comments subpages of article talk pages are being phased out and asking whether they want to continue using comments in some way. The related discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Talk page Comments subpage. Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:42, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
A new parameter has been added to {{
Userspace draft}} and {{
New unreviewed article}}. The parameter should be added to all pages in article and user namespace that transclude these templates. Since {{
Userspace draft}} transcludes {{
New unreviewed article}}, the easiest way to do this is probably to go through all transclusions of {{
New unreviewed article}}. Alternatively they can be found in
Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard and
Category:Userspace drafts created via the Article Wizard and their monthly subcategories. The parameter is |source=ArticleWizard
. Is there a bot ready to do this?
Debresser (
talk) 16:16, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Ok I'll take care of this one. Rich Farmbrough, 22:41, 8 November 2009 (UTC).
The motorsport-related content of Ligier has recently been split off into a separate article: Equipe Ligier. But (almost) all the motorsport-related links still point to Ligier. I would like a bot to change the 500-or-so links in article- and template-space which currently point to Ligier to point to Equipe Ligier instead (with appropriate piping - see below) and then I'll go through and manually change back the handful that actually should point to Ligier. Specifically, I would like the bot to change all instances in article- and template-space of:
Existing links to Equipe Ligier should remain unchanged. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 01:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to have a bot compile red links in articles tagged with {{ WPBiography}} and {{ WikiProject Norway}}? Feel free to compile it in my user space. Geschichte ( talk) 14:53, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I am going to try, eventually, to make requests for each country and overseas territory in Africa. Be warned, guys. Many or most of them haven't had any real assessments done yet. Anyway, we are starting with the Angola categories which can be found at User:John Carter/Africa categories. I would request that the following template:
{{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Angola=yes|Angola-importance=}}
be added to the talk page of each article. If the banner is already in place, please only add
Angola=yes|Angola-importance=
to it if it isn't already there. And, if the bot can do any sort of assessments, like stub, FA, GA, or whatever, that would be more than welcome. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 03:01, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Can someone please have a bot sweep through Category:Automatically assessed song articles and Category:Automatically assessed Virginia articles and perform the following tasks on those pages:
|auto=yes
in {{
Songs}} and {{
WikiProject Virginia}}No objections have been raised at either WT:SONGS or WT:VIRGINIA since I made the proposal over two weeks ago. Thanks in advance. PC78 ( talk) 18:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The article The Numbers (website) has been deleted following an AfD, but still appears as a red link in a large number of articles. – Dream out loud ( talk) 22:44, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
{{
WBOOKS|class=}}
The relevant category is
Category:Wikipedia:Books. Only tag those that are in the Wikipedia space. Run once a week please. That's it!
Headbomb {
ταλκ
κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 18:09, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 12:08, 10 November 2009 (UTC).
The IUCN just changed the links to Red List pages, which are very widely linked in organism articles. They need to change as follows:
where XXXXX is a five-digit code. Example edit here. I will notify WT:TOL of this. Ucucha 12:41, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
There have been two major changes at IUCN site ("136584" is parameter for id):
Some of the old urls are redirected, others not. I've changed the missing Templates (e.g. Template:IUCN) to the current URL. The IUCN links for searching I've not yet explored in detail. The only URL I know that currently works is http://www.redlist.org/apps/redlist/search/quick/?text=homo. I suggest to use a template for that (see de:Vorlage:IUCNSearch).
I would advise not to mix up the change of url an the change of the id of the birds an handle this changes separately. The change of the url can be handled by a bot easily for weblinks not using a template (for template usages there's no need). The change of the id of the birds can be handled by bot only for cases using templates, I guess, and this is not that easy. Hope that helps. -- Cactus26 ( talk) 08:04, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that could take data from a spreadsheet and plug it into an article template to create articles? I have proposed using data mined from the Census of Governments to create stubs for about 1,700 municipal authorities--which are special-purpose governments (like water authorities and sewer authorities). Is this possible? -- Blargh29 ( talk) 06:10, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I have officially made this proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Municipal authorities/special district governments, which is probably a better place to hash out the notability question.-- Blargh29 ( talk) 23:07, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Could it be possible to monitor the Category:Wikipedia:Books and produce a sort of daily "new books ticker" (uploaded at Wikipedia:Books/New books)? Something like:
Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Any takers? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:08, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
The category Category:Non-free Wikipedia files with red backlink gets full of pages that ought not to be there. The suggestion listed on the page is for someone to go through all the incorrect entries, and do a null edit (a very boring job). A bot (or an AWB job) could take up this cause. The category has been well above its backlog trigger of 25 items, hovering between 150 and 180 over the past few days. — This, that, and the other [talk] 09:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to see a bot similar to User:WebCiteBOT that only runs on-demand. Or, to open it up more, archives references on an article that currently exist. I just went through a GA review where one of my articles from several years ago had a lot of dead links that I had to clean up, which is what sparked this request (not to mention WebCiteBOT hasn't ran since 11/1). I see this bot working a couple ways:
Granted, it would be nice if the bot ran through all articles but I don't want to step on WebCiteBOT's toes. Thoughts?— NMajdan• talk 17:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
According to WP:EUPHEMISM, we should "Avoid clichés about death, such as "he died doing what he loved" or "his death was the end of an era", and euphemisms such as "gave his life", "passed away", "passed over", "left his body", or "returned to God". The word died is religiously neutral, and neither crude nor vulgar." Yet in a discussion, I was informed that just one of these euphemisms, "passed away", appears in 35,000 Wikipedia articles. Would it be possible to build a bot that would clean out any or all of these bits of squeamishness? -- Orange Mike | Talk 18:06, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
I dont know how to request to a bot for adding a Template on users pages. So somebody please help me to make such a request. This is the template which is to be added on Hindi Wikipedia users page PAGENAME. And this is users list http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/विशेष:Log/newusers. The users list shows only limited number of users but I want the template to be added to all users' pages till the first user if the user page is not present. Please insert the template I have specified in all those users' page which are red colored i.e theri user pages are not available. If there is any proper way of rwquesting then please let me know. Thanks a lot for help. हिन्दी ( talk) 17:42, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Links to the Maryland Historical Trust have recently changed from www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net to mht.maryland.gov. We have at least 1400 articles on National Register of Historic Places that link to the old address, and while this could be done with AWB, it seems like a job for a bot, as it's a simple find/replace operation. Examples done by a diligent IP can be found here [2] and here [3]. Acroterion (talk) 02:44, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
If there is a (disambiguation) page for a primary topic, the primary article should have a hatnote leading to the disambig page i.e. {{ otheruses}}. For example, Bond Street's hatnote now links to Bond Street (disambiguation). However, there have been cases where the otheruses hatnote is missing from the primary topic, hiding the corresponding (disambiguation).
Could a bot insert missing otheruses hatnotes to primary topics as applicable? Cases to avoid would be 1) where (disambiguation) page is not a valid disambig, most likely when it is a redirect back to primary topic; and 2) where the primary topic page is already a disambig (normally marked with {{ disambig}} or {{ hndis}} tags). Dl2000 ( talk) 03:35, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
I would really appreciate it if someone could make a bot, over at Wikiquote, that would go and remove the "Unsourced" subsections from pages at that project. (See [4], and also per q:Wikiquote:Sourced and Unsourced sections). These sections should simply be removed. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 02:18, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Basically what I need is a bot that goes through the images in Category:Other images that should be in SVG format and checks if they contain any fair use tag (incl. non-free tags such as {{ Non-free symbol}}). If an image is found to containing such a tag the {{ svg}} (or one of the other alternative names for the same template) tag should be changed to {{svg|fairuse}} thereby putting it in the correct subcategory of Category:Images that should be in SVG format. / Lokal _ Profil 01:30, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I recently discovered that there are over 10,000 {{ Coord}} instances that have "city" as one of their parameters. According to the template documentation, these should be changed to "type:city". Anyboty want to take on this project? I'm thinking we should start by doing article space only--no talk pages, user pages, or other namespaces. And don't bother trying to parse {{ Coord}} parameters such as {{Coord|1|2|region:AU_city}}, just look for the exact string as one parameter. -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 21:08, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
CITY is located at {{coord|LAT|LON|PARAMETER INFORMATION}} (LAT, LON).{{GR|1}}
) these should be removed and the infobox updated with the high precision coordinates if no infobox added {{
coord}} to the end of the article. There are probably some other things that should be done. At present there are 20984 listed from my
error log. —
Dispenser 17:41, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
The voting stage of the December 2009 Arbitration Committee Elections is underway, and could use some automated help. There is a list of votes cast, but an alphabetical, annotate-able on-wiki version is desired at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2009/Voter log. If a bot could scrape the content of the former and dump it alphabetically to the latter without overwriting notes or strikes, that would be wonderful. Skomorokh 02:54, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Secondly, this year voting will be done by secret ballot using SecurePoll: Special:SecurePoll/vote/80. This is a change from previous years, where editors cast a public vote in the form of a comment at the /Vote subpage of the election main page. These /Vote pages have been moved to /Comments, but are still open for those who want to make their votes public to do so. There is a concern that some editors might not know that they need to vote using the SecurePoll, and so it's been suggested that a bot notify everyone who has left a comment about a candidate but is not in the voter log, reminding them to use the secret ballot.
I don't expect that these are difficult-to-implement, but time is of the essence, so any help appreciated. Skomorokh 02:54, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
Recently I removed a large quantity of, what I belive to be spam, from some articles from an aggregation service. There was mixed reaction, however there was relatively good consensus for the linked content to be re-found from the upstream providers and linked to directly.
Specifically the problem is this: Special:Contributions/EconoPhysicist and Special:Contributions/124Nick have created a large amount of links to video lectures on topics throught wikipedia. The content itself is good, however I assert that the aggregator was (1) simply spamming and is (2) using the videos in violation of their CC-Non-commerical licences (discussion is on my talk page). I removed these links, which took me several days, and recieved mixed response for work. A good suggestion for all was to remap the links directly to the upstream content, if the information from the contributions of EconoPhysicist and 124Nick could be harnessed to locate the upstream content.
I am unsure how this relinking could be done, but as the aggregator was essentially leeching content from MIT OpenCourseWare and UC Berkeley content, it could potentially be that one can find the upstream videos from OCW and UCB and re-insert the links to the upstream content.
Now I have no suggestions, but have not undertaken a full analysis, of how one might go about this. However if a unique identification method can be found, or a semi-assisted method (video title + search?) to find this mapping, then perhaps this could be achieved. If anyone has any good ideas, or is interested in implementing this, please let me know! User A1 ( talk) 09:55, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Each Ohio township article (see Category:Townships in Ohio) has a "Name and history" or "Name" section that includes a statement about the frequency of the township's name: depending on how many other Ohio townships have the same name, it either links to a list of other Ohio townships with the same name, links directly to one or two other townships with the same name, or notes that the township's name is unique. When I added these sections to the township articles in 2007, I used this US Census Bureau website as my source, but I didn't cite any sources in the "Name and history" section. Could a bot go around and add a citation to all of these sections? Please know that some of these sections already have references for other information; for example, Range Township, Madison County, Ohio includes a referenced statement about the township's population in 1854. The citation could be something along the lines of:
<ref>[http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/general_ref/cousub_outline/cen2k_pgsz/oh_cosub.pdf Detailed map of Ohio], [[United States Census Bureau]], 2000. Accessed 2007-02-16.</ref>
I've selected 16 February 2007 as the access date because I always worked from a copy that I downloaded from the Census Bureau website on 16 February 2007. Nyttend ( talk) 05:12, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible for bots to harvest urls from http://web.archive.org and update articles accordingly? I have noticed that a large chunk of the domain sclegacy.com is no longer active and a ton of StarCraft-related articles use those links all the time. All the links are broken, but all that I have checked so far have archived versions on webarchive. I know how to do the simple text replacements in the articles (using pywikipediabot) to add archive urls, but I don't know how the bot actually finds those urls...I assume it might be possible, given that there are bots that do similar tasks (like auto-generated titles for bare urls). If anyone is interested in making such a bot, or could show me where there's information on how to harvest urls like that, I would greatly appreciate it.
While my intention right now is just to fix the links in a particular set of articles, I assume such a bot could later be generalized to work on many article that need massive link updating. (I checked Wikipedia:Bots/Status and did not see any such bot already active.) rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 18:19, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Just spent some time coding the bot. Im going to file a BRFA to see if this kind of thing would make it. I added code so that the bot gets the accessdate from wikiblame when no accessdate parameter can be found that is associated to the dead link. Tim1357 ( talk) 23:29, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
The emergency shut-off feature of many bots is very nice, but it would be a lot more useful if established users could push the button.
A bot which monitored such pushes by non-admins and checked them against a whitelist and blacklist and, if the user was allowed, shut off the bot would help. The whitelist could be something as simple as autoconfirmed or a specific whitelist of people who have asked to be put on it. The blacklist would probably be blocked users + those who had misused the tool in the past.
The only reason not to do this is if it's not worth the effort, i.e. if there are enough admins to do the job that more eyes won't help much. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 05:48, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
On November 12th, I made a post on Wikipedia talk:Files for deletion asking for peoples opinion. It is still unanswered. Seeking more input, I went to Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) and asked for more input. It got archived with no reply. I figured per WP:SILENCE (an essay) I had consensus, so I went to User talk:Schutz and asked him a question. Still no response. So now I am here. Would someone be willing to create a bot put a date navigation box on the bottom of each daily page similar to the one currently used on the top? Or maybe add it to a bot that does something similar?-- Rockfang ( talk) 10:25, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Would anyone be willing to start this?-- Rockfang ( talk) 01:17, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
There is currently talk at the Albums WikiProject about a possible widespread change across all album articles, and we need some expert advice on what is possible to accomplish with bots. Please see #Implementation of consensus on album reviews for our discussion. Thanks — Akrabbim talk 20:54, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot to tag all articles, categories, and templates, within Category:Pennsylvania and its sub-categories with the {{ WikiProject Pennsylvania}} project tag. I have checked that category, and all of the sub-categories seem appropriate. Thank you! -- Blargh29 ( talk) 07:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I know there is DYKadminBot ( talk · contribs) already to automatically update the DYK template and hand out credits. But the bot tends to go MIA from time to time (for example it's gone for 2 days now) and its operator nixeagle ( talk · contribs) is too inactive these days unfortunately. So I thought I might ask here whether someone got the time and is willing to write a replacement bot or fix the code (apparently Ameliorate! hoped for this to happen) and run it themselves. Regards So Why 13:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for butting in and posting naive comments:
Would it be possible for a bot to change all the links for Next United Kingdom general election and Next UK general election to United Kingdom general election, 2010. The page was recently moved and after next year the current redirect Next United Kingdom general election will be needed for the election after next. I hope this makes sense. Thank you. -- Philip Stevens ( talk) 06:31, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
I'm sure this kind of bot already exists, so I apologise in advance for not taking this request directly to the right place. I'm looking not only for the technical tool but also the pointer to the place to get concensus on mass external linking. I would like to request a bot generate external links to as many of the items in this list that Wikipedia already has a direct equivalent for. The list is all the articles in the recently launched "Dictionary of Sydney" - the official online encyclopedia of Sydney. They are original research essays with footnotes and multimedia, many with direct correlation to our articles, and a large proportion are cc-by-sa licensed. (full disclosure, I was until recently employed at that organisation). Also available are "reference pages" (not the article, but a summary of all relevant data e.g. mapping) and for suburb articles there are also historical demographics information.
I think perhaps it needs to be a semi-automated bot because although many of the articles would have the same article name but they do not have the same scope (for example, the Dictionary of Sydney has an article "Chinese" but this only refers to the Sydney-Chinese history, not the global one).
I have placed an example external link at the WP article about they Sydney Suburb Surry Hills to demonstrate. It says:
Is this appropriate and/or technically feasible for a (semi-autonomous) bot? Does such a bot already exist and are there any policy/voting/approvals that need to be undertaken to get the consensus for a mass-external linking?
Witty Lama 15:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Currently many refs are spread over 10 - 15 lines of text. Is there a bot that could put the ref all on one line to make editing easier? For example this:
{{Cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | issn = | doi = | id = | accessdate = }}
to this
{{cite journal| author = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | year = | pmid = | doi = | month =| issn =}}
On highly referenced pages it is hard to find the text between the citations in the first example and much easier in the second. Thanks. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 15:12, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
(Unindent) The vertical format makes it easier to tell where the citation ends, so I would not support the requested bot. -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 16:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
May I suggest that a tool that does this in a semi-automated way may be better received by the community when used by someone who is careful? I agree that multi-line references are a bother, and unless someone is objecting to it they should be put into a single line. Chillum 00:14, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Agree with PS will move the discussion. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 00:35, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Such a bot is obviously not going to happen, and this is not the place to discuss changes to WikiEd (take that discussion to WP:WikiEd or WP:VPT). Anomie ⚔ 12:26, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks already have as I mentioned above. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 12:32, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Can I please get some bot help with tagging articles in Category:Music video games with {{ WikiProject Music Video Games}}? The project is new, and it'll take a while for me to do the tagging by hand. Regards -- Sk8er5000 ( talk) 22:58, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
It seems that User:RockfangBot was was approved to add the {{ oldprodfull}} template to the talk pages of articles, but encountered some difficulty and ceased to perform this task. A more recent and complicated request to go through article histories to find old prod templates was rejected/withdrawn as too difficult. My request is limited to detecting proposed deletions going forward.
I'd like to make the request again.
Some background; the proposed deletion process does not allow an article to be deleted by a second {{ prod}} or {{ prod-nn}} tag once a proposed deletion tag has been removed from an article. The oldprodfull template has fields for the dates of its application and removal, plus a field for any addition of the {{ Prod-2}} tag. There are fields for the reason text given by the editor who proposes the deletion, and the editor who seconds the proposed deletion, but the removal of the tag would require grabbing text from the edit summary. There are also date fields for the events.
Now, my interest is not in a perfect filling in of all these optional fields. All I really want is a indication on the talk page that the article was deprodded, and the oldprodfull tag, the {{ oldprod}} template or even just a note would be enough. There are some subtleties I would like, but don't require. It would be nice if the bot ignored articles that are or were already in an AFD discussion. It would be nice if the bot did not create talk pages, since articles that lack a talk page are generally young, and, given that they were prodded while lacking a talk page, likely to be deleted by some other method. Having the bot create a talk page will just annoy the admin who has to delete the article. It would be nice if the bot had a built-in delay of a few hours, perhaps even 24 hours, to allow comment, creation of a talk page, or further deletion action such as an AFD nomination. It would be nice if the bot could detect an old prod on an article that has just been recreated by an editor or restored by an admin.
Can this be done? Abductive ( reasoning) 14:57, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
I am keen to locate a Wikipedian who might be prepared to develop a bot or script as an editing/gnoming aid that would highlight undesirable word repetitions in an article, thus flagging to editors where recasting may be required. Although the exact repetition of a word can add to the cohesion of a text, in many cases it is poor style (I catch myself doing it, especially when tired).
For example, I've just pointed this one out at WP:FAC:
"Activated for service in World War I, the division saw brief service in the conflict, but never fought as an entire division."
But the phenomenon occurs not just within a sentence; some words are prominent enough to be avoided even when they are paragraphs apart. It would need to avoid a white-list of a few hundred common grammatical words, of course (e.g., the, to, been, am). A more sophisticated version would do better, by matching the frequency of occurrence of each word in English (there's a publicly available list) with the distance between specific occurrences in a text; a simple algorithm would be required to balance commonness against distance, which would need to be tested). This would clearly be preferable, but might be a challenge to develop and might require too much grunt.
Does anyone know of someone who might be interested and capable? I'm a total bot dummy (Mac user) and have no experience in writing scripts. Tony (talk) 15:24, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
During a #wikimedia-strategy brainstorming session, regarding http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week (which is currently "What changes to Wikimedia's technology would enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment?") it was suggested that the main issues could be addressed thusly:
[20:20] <jimmyps> we could address the first two (tallest) bars on http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:091207_QOTW.png simply by publicizing statistics from http://stats.grok.se [20:21] <eekim> jimmyps: the key question is, how would you publicize it, and how would you measure if you were being effective? [20:22] <jimmyps> eekim: easy, for each article find the top 10 articles also in its categories and list them in order on the sidebar after the interwikis with "x,xxx views/month" right-justified on every other line after each of the 10 [20:23] <jimmyps> that would indicate to people the most popular subjects that they are also interested in [20:23] <jimmyps> this could be done in batch mode [20:25] <jimmyps> does anyone disagree that listing the most popular "related articles" with their viewership counts on the sidebar after the interwikis would address the largest leftmost two bars on http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:091207_QOTW.png ?
(no disagreements were forthcoming)
Would someone who understands what is and is not possible with bots and MediaWiki please comment on the feasibility of this proposal? Thank you. 99.62.186.125 ( talk) 04:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Templates with a subpage /doc have Interwiki links not in the template itself, but included from the subpage. If you add an Interwiki the subpage a job is automatically added which purges the template. That means the rendered version is recreated and now conaints the interwikis.
But the database is not changed. If you make an sql query the results may be wrong. To change this you have to touch = null edit (=make an edit without changes) the template. Most of these templates are also edit protected.
So can an admin bot touch all pages which have a subpage in Category:Template documentation? This could be also done with a simple admin account, because it doesn't produce any visible edit. It would be very useful if this could be done e.g. one a month.
If you don't want to touch all pages: The API has the info when a page was touched last time ( /page/@touched), so a touch is only need if the value is older than the revision of the subpage ref/@timestamp.
This is needed only for toolserver sql queries. API resturns correct results. Merl issimo 11:44, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
It's not the replication but the MediWiki software by the look of it. The interwikis are served correctly but the table isn't updated - the updates sit downstream of the table. So the bug does not express through the API or the web interface, but it does through the SQL. The argument that a lock has been saved is not strong because the lock will be needed when the "touch" is done - of course this may be one lock for a whole bunch of editing. The best solution is to fix the table updating. Rich Farmbrough, 21:18, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
Per the apparent concensus here and here, I made a bot that will notifies users of articles that are unrefrenced. The bot works like this: Find largest non-bot, non-annon, user with the most non-minor edits to an article, and add that article to the user's list. When the bot is done parsing all the unrefrenced BLPs, it adds a message to the users talk page:
Un-Referenced BLPs
Hello Bot requests! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created , are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biogrophies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 942 page backlog. Here is a list:
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
-Thanks! DashBot
alternativley, as to not flood the user's talk page- if they have more then ten articles, it adds the first ten to the user page, and provides a link to a list of the rest: Example
Un-Referenced BLPs
Hello Bot requests! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that , are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biogrophies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 942 page backlog. Here is a list:
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
-Thanks! Dashbot
Tell me if I can change anything before I request approval. Tim1357 ( talk) 17:48, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
In response to NW's earlier request, I made a settings page for the bot, where individual functions can be shutdown, without turning off the whole bot. Tim1357 ( talk) 23:36, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
If the process is too blunt, it might backfire badly. The original question I posted in October was Should article creators and/or major contributors help reduce the backlog? of 56,000 unreferenced BLPs. In my small sample (random subset of unreferenced BLP articles flagged in August 2009), 50% of the article creators were still active on Wikipedia, e.g.
I'm worried that the discussion has moved on to the murky depths of defining "major contributors" so soon, and I think we should test the new bot in the uncontroversial shallows of "article creators" first. If creators are inactive now, the message can do no harm. But when they are still actively editing (and maybe still creating unreferenced BLPs) they are the first people who should see the message. Once the article creator message process is complete, the message to subsequent contributors can be more diplomatic, along the lines of "we notified the article creator a month ago, but the article is still unreferenced ... you were once a major contributor ... can you help?"
Why not start with a model like this? - Pointillist ( talk) 23:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
New Message
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Un-Referenced BLPsHello Bot requests! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created and 11 of the articles that you played a major role in creating, are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 942 page backlog. Here is a list:
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I made a new message for the bot. Im quite pleased with it as a solution to redundant messages-- Tim1357 ( talk) 12:11, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I'm requesting if anyone could run User:Sambot/Code/Ships? Sam Korn ( talk · contribs) hasn't been editing lately so I thought I should ask here instead. The object of the script is to add a ships by year category to articles that contain an infobox with a certain parameter within the infobox that contains a year. -- Brad ( talk) 16:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
I stuck this in AWB and there are 16,000 articles, I am removing those with a cat, looks like it will be about 1600 left. I did 2, one based on the launch date using regexes, one with no launch date but a laid down and commissioning date in the same year. I will know by the morning how many there it may be quickest to do this manually with AWB since it's not huge, and there will be a fair amount of tweaking. Rich Farmbrough, 03:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
The {{ saved book}} template has been updated to handle categorization automatically. Simply remove the category from the pages that have it "hardcoded" in them. Thanks. 05:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
so that's a little odd. Rich Farmbrough, 09:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
It's an old categorization system (the clean up not yet complete). This has been supplanted by Category:Wikipedia books (community books) and Category:Wikipedia books (user books). Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:19, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Back in October {{
WPBiography}} was given an overhaul, and one of the changes made was the replacement of |priority=
with specific parameters for each work group (because the main project itself does not assess articles for priority). A discussion on updating individual banners took place
here, although not without a little drama. In short, there was some opposition to having a bot clear the 100,000 articles in
Category:Biography articles needing priority parameter replacement, but I think it was generally agreed that the much smaller number of articles in
Category:Biography articles with more than one work group needing priority parameter replacement should be dealt with.
The |priority=
parameter in these banners should be removed and replaced with one specific to each work group used per [[T:WPBIO]], e.g.
{{WPBiography|priority=Low|filmbio-work-group=yes|politician-work-group=yes}}
should be changed to
{{WPBiography|filmbio-work-group=yes|filmbio-priority=Low|politician-work-group=yes|politician-priority=Low}}
Thanks in advance. PC78 ( talk) 12:24, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
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Geocities is pulling all Web sites down on 26 October 2009 (except those who move to a Yahoo! Hosting plan).
I was wondering if someone could do a bot that searches for <ref> tags that use references to the Geocities.com domain as I fear we will soon have a ton of dead references that need rectification.*
If it dumps the results somewhere, if anywhere, put them somewhere on my user talk page.
Thank you. -- Guroadrunner ( talk) 10:10, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
* * - yes, I realize that Geocities fails WP:RELIABLESOURCES. I want to see what the damage will be.
Is it possible to get a bot to replace all instances of JEF with Jorfer. I used the original for my signature before simplifying my signature to be just my user name. Having my signature be my user name helps eliminate confusion, but users may not realize that the new and old signatures are both from me.-- Jorfer ( talk) 01:39, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm looking for someone that wants to tackle a fairly major bot project: one that will help with vandalism across the music area. The record charts are extremely prone to vandalism: some people trying to make their favorite artist look better, and others just randomly changing figures. There's a certain amount of cluelessness going on as well: an artist may reach number thirty on the official chart for Spain, but number five on an individual Spanish station, so an editor will edit the Spanish position to "5", not realizing that the individual station chart isn't the official national chart.
I'm planning on implementing a series of templates to build record charts from. {{ singlechart}} is the first. It takes several arguments:
It formats the data, and generates a URL for an online source that the figure can be verified against, formatting the URL as a reference. I've modified a couple articles as a test case: Sneakernight and My Life Would Suck Without You.
I'm in the course of building similar templates for single certifications, album charts, and album certifications.
What I would like to find someone with bot experience to help build is a bot that will monitor changes to these templates and verify the contents. Basically:
If anyone is interested in helping with this, please let me know.— Kww( talk) 17:34, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like a bot to please tag (and keep tagged) all articles in any of: Category:Constructed languages, Category:Artificial scripts, Category:Artistic languages, Category:Constructed language multilingual support templates, Category:Constructed language organizations, Category:Constructed languages resources, Category:Engineered languages, Category:Esperanto dictionaries, Category:Fictional languages, Category:Gibberish language, Category:International auxiliary languages, Category:Language creators, Category:Reconstructed languages, Category:Voynich manuscript, Category:Constructed language stubs ... with:
It would also be helpful if the bot can do the same, and categorize appropriately, for the keywords: "conlang", "artlang", "auxlang", "engelang", "artificial language", "artistic language", "engineered language", "constructed language", "artificial language", "auxiliary language", "Constructed script", "fictional language", "Universal language, "conlanger", "Blissymbol", "Blissymbolics", "Enochian", "Esperanto", "Glosa", "Ido", "Interlingua", "Ithkuil", "Kēlen", "Kelen", "Klingon", "Láadan", "Laadan", "Lingua Franca Nova", "Lingua Ignota", "Loglan", "Lojban", "Mänti", "Nadsat ", "Novial", "Occidental", "Quenya", "Sindarin", "Solresol", "Teonaht", "Toki Pona", "Volapük", "Volapuk" ... if they are not already categorized per above.
Thanks! Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 22:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
I've been trying to use the CatScan tool to find articles in Category:Wikipedia Did you know articles that are tagged with {{ WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria}}, but try as I might I can't get it to work. Is there another way of of doing this, either by bot or otherwise? Small-town hero ( talk) 14:04, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Since X! seems to be on indef break, can someone write a replacement for Soxbot to do the work at the CHU pages? — Rlevse • Talk • 01:05, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
I'll work on incorporating this into Chris G Bot 3 which currently archives CHU -- Chris 00:57, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Could someone please de-link the dates in the Burger King family of articles?
Thank you very much, -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 07:59, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Its because I am trying to clean these articles up and the citations are not uniform. In most cases some citations have linked dates while others do not. With the smaller articles it isn't an issue, but with the main ones there are more than 100 references spread over articles that are often 35k+ in size and finding each of them is really time consuming. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 17:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Not done
Nevermind, I used Lightmouse's js to delink them. Cool tool... -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 17:13, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Very simple project: I need a bot to move the articles in Category:Days in 2005 and Category:Days in 2003 to the portal space. For example, February 12, 2005 needs to be moved to Portal:Current events/2005 February 12 like the more recent Portal:Current events/2008 November 23. Thanks! Reywas92 Talk 23:21, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps some of you could help with this: Wikipedia_talk:Article_alerts/Feature_requests#Add_well-formatted_archive_of_previous_events
It'd be useful across all WikiProjects, and should tie in well with the existing functionality of the article alert bot.
Thanks! Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 03:46, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
There are many categories of the type "Lists of...," such as Category:Lists of universities and colleges with members such as "List of colleges in Thailand". Usually, editors pipe the inclusion, e.g., [[Category:Lists of universities and colleges|Thailand]], but about 10% of the time they do not and the L section of the category ends up with misplaced entries.
The request is for a bot to
To determine the correct sort...
I would suggest that the bot run about monthly; I don't think WP:wikignomes are going to be any faster than that at cleaning up the ones needing manual attention. Ma t c hups 12:53, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I want to request the change of templates in the
Category:Paraguay articles, which currently is {{WikiProject South America|class=Stub|importance=Mid|Paraguay=yes|Paraguay-importance=Low}}
, to this one: {{WikiProject Paraguay|class=|importance=}}
. Reason is that I'm trying for Paraguay to have a bit more of prominence as a country of its own and not just a sub category. Any articles which are considered stubs could hae this template instead: {{WikiProject Paraguay|class=Stub|importance=|auto=yes}}
. Thanks a lot!
Veritiel (
talk) 11:52, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
User pages turn up in categories that are reserved for article namespace articles. This is not allowed according to Wikipedia:Categorization. Can a bot remove them when they are added? -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 23:39, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Many of the Playboy Playmate's articles have references to the University of Chicago, see Reagan Wilson for just one example. There is an employee there who keeps a database online. Anyway, they've moved their archives to their own server and a separate domain, wekinglypigs.com. For an example with the new domain, see Jaime Faith Edmondson All the bot would need to do is trawl through the Playmate articles and
I think that all the articles will be in the child categories of Category:Playboy Playmates.
Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 09:12, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Could a bot please tag all articles in Category:Professional wrestling (and its subcategories) with Template:Pro-wrestling? It would be much faster with a bot since that is several hundred articles and would take a human awhile to do it (even with something like AWB). TJ Spyke 21:07, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to place a message on the project talk page of every WikiProject that maintains a category listed on User:WOSlinker/comments. In most cases, it would simply be a question of replacing
I haven't penned the message yet, but it will basically be explaining that /Comments subpages of article talk pages are being phased out and asking whether they want to continue using comments in some way. The related discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Talk page Comments subpage. Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:42, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
A new parameter has been added to {{
Userspace draft}} and {{
New unreviewed article}}. The parameter should be added to all pages in article and user namespace that transclude these templates. Since {{
Userspace draft}} transcludes {{
New unreviewed article}}, the easiest way to do this is probably to go through all transclusions of {{
New unreviewed article}}. Alternatively they can be found in
Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard and
Category:Userspace drafts created via the Article Wizard and their monthly subcategories. The parameter is |source=ArticleWizard
. Is there a bot ready to do this?
Debresser (
talk) 16:16, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Ok I'll take care of this one. Rich Farmbrough, 22:41, 8 November 2009 (UTC).
The motorsport-related content of Ligier has recently been split off into a separate article: Equipe Ligier. But (almost) all the motorsport-related links still point to Ligier. I would like a bot to change the 500-or-so links in article- and template-space which currently point to Ligier to point to Equipe Ligier instead (with appropriate piping - see below) and then I'll go through and manually change back the handful that actually should point to Ligier. Specifically, I would like the bot to change all instances in article- and template-space of:
Existing links to Equipe Ligier should remain unchanged. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 01:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to have a bot compile red links in articles tagged with {{ WPBiography}} and {{ WikiProject Norway}}? Feel free to compile it in my user space. Geschichte ( talk) 14:53, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I am going to try, eventually, to make requests for each country and overseas territory in Africa. Be warned, guys. Many or most of them haven't had any real assessments done yet. Anyway, we are starting with the Angola categories which can be found at User:John Carter/Africa categories. I would request that the following template:
{{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Angola=yes|Angola-importance=}}
be added to the talk page of each article. If the banner is already in place, please only add
Angola=yes|Angola-importance=
to it if it isn't already there. And, if the bot can do any sort of assessments, like stub, FA, GA, or whatever, that would be more than welcome. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 03:01, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Can someone please have a bot sweep through Category:Automatically assessed song articles and Category:Automatically assessed Virginia articles and perform the following tasks on those pages:
|auto=yes
in {{
Songs}} and {{
WikiProject Virginia}}No objections have been raised at either WT:SONGS or WT:VIRGINIA since I made the proposal over two weeks ago. Thanks in advance. PC78 ( talk) 18:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
The article The Numbers (website) has been deleted following an AfD, but still appears as a red link in a large number of articles. – Dream out loud ( talk) 22:44, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
{{
WBOOKS|class=}}
The relevant category is
Category:Wikipedia:Books. Only tag those that are in the Wikipedia space. Run once a week please. That's it!
Headbomb {
ταλκ
κοντριβς –
WP Physics} 18:09, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Rich Farmbrough, 12:08, 10 November 2009 (UTC).
The IUCN just changed the links to Red List pages, which are very widely linked in organism articles. They need to change as follows:
where XXXXX is a five-digit code. Example edit here. I will notify WT:TOL of this. Ucucha 12:41, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
There have been two major changes at IUCN site ("136584" is parameter for id):
Some of the old urls are redirected, others not. I've changed the missing Templates (e.g. Template:IUCN) to the current URL. The IUCN links for searching I've not yet explored in detail. The only URL I know that currently works is http://www.redlist.org/apps/redlist/search/quick/?text=homo. I suggest to use a template for that (see de:Vorlage:IUCNSearch).
I would advise not to mix up the change of url an the change of the id of the birds an handle this changes separately. The change of the url can be handled by a bot easily for weblinks not using a template (for template usages there's no need). The change of the id of the birds can be handled by bot only for cases using templates, I guess, and this is not that easy. Hope that helps. -- Cactus26 ( talk) 08:04, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Is there a bot that could take data from a spreadsheet and plug it into an article template to create articles? I have proposed using data mined from the Census of Governments to create stubs for about 1,700 municipal authorities--which are special-purpose governments (like water authorities and sewer authorities). Is this possible? -- Blargh29 ( talk) 06:10, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I have officially made this proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Municipal authorities/special district governments, which is probably a better place to hash out the notability question.-- Blargh29 ( talk) 23:07, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Could it be possible to monitor the Category:Wikipedia:Books and produce a sort of daily "new books ticker" (uploaded at Wikipedia:Books/New books)? Something like:
Thanks. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 16:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Any takers? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:08, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
The category Category:Non-free Wikipedia files with red backlink gets full of pages that ought not to be there. The suggestion listed on the page is for someone to go through all the incorrect entries, and do a null edit (a very boring job). A bot (or an AWB job) could take up this cause. The category has been well above its backlog trigger of 25 items, hovering between 150 and 180 over the past few days. — This, that, and the other [talk] 09:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to see a bot similar to User:WebCiteBOT that only runs on-demand. Or, to open it up more, archives references on an article that currently exist. I just went through a GA review where one of my articles from several years ago had a lot of dead links that I had to clean up, which is what sparked this request (not to mention WebCiteBOT hasn't ran since 11/1). I see this bot working a couple ways:
Granted, it would be nice if the bot ran through all articles but I don't want to step on WebCiteBOT's toes. Thoughts?— NMajdan• talk 17:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
According to WP:EUPHEMISM, we should "Avoid clichés about death, such as "he died doing what he loved" or "his death was the end of an era", and euphemisms such as "gave his life", "passed away", "passed over", "left his body", or "returned to God". The word died is religiously neutral, and neither crude nor vulgar." Yet in a discussion, I was informed that just one of these euphemisms, "passed away", appears in 35,000 Wikipedia articles. Would it be possible to build a bot that would clean out any or all of these bits of squeamishness? -- Orange Mike | Talk 18:06, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
I dont know how to request to a bot for adding a Template on users pages. So somebody please help me to make such a request. This is the template which is to be added on Hindi Wikipedia users page PAGENAME. And this is users list http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/विशेष:Log/newusers. The users list shows only limited number of users but I want the template to be added to all users' pages till the first user if the user page is not present. Please insert the template I have specified in all those users' page which are red colored i.e theri user pages are not available. If there is any proper way of rwquesting then please let me know. Thanks a lot for help. हिन्दी ( talk) 17:42, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Links to the Maryland Historical Trust have recently changed from www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net to mht.maryland.gov. We have at least 1400 articles on National Register of Historic Places that link to the old address, and while this could be done with AWB, it seems like a job for a bot, as it's a simple find/replace operation. Examples done by a diligent IP can be found here [2] and here [3]. Acroterion (talk) 02:44, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
If there is a (disambiguation) page for a primary topic, the primary article should have a hatnote leading to the disambig page i.e. {{ otheruses}}. For example, Bond Street's hatnote now links to Bond Street (disambiguation). However, there have been cases where the otheruses hatnote is missing from the primary topic, hiding the corresponding (disambiguation).
Could a bot insert missing otheruses hatnotes to primary topics as applicable? Cases to avoid would be 1) where (disambiguation) page is not a valid disambig, most likely when it is a redirect back to primary topic; and 2) where the primary topic page is already a disambig (normally marked with {{ disambig}} or {{ hndis}} tags). Dl2000 ( talk) 03:35, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
I would really appreciate it if someone could make a bot, over at Wikiquote, that would go and remove the "Unsourced" subsections from pages at that project. (See [4], and also per q:Wikiquote:Sourced and Unsourced sections). These sections should simply be removed. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 02:18, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Basically what I need is a bot that goes through the images in Category:Other images that should be in SVG format and checks if they contain any fair use tag (incl. non-free tags such as {{ Non-free symbol}}). If an image is found to containing such a tag the {{ svg}} (or one of the other alternative names for the same template) tag should be changed to {{svg|fairuse}} thereby putting it in the correct subcategory of Category:Images that should be in SVG format. / Lokal _ Profil 01:30, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I recently discovered that there are over 10,000 {{ Coord}} instances that have "city" as one of their parameters. According to the template documentation, these should be changed to "type:city". Anyboty want to take on this project? I'm thinking we should start by doing article space only--no talk pages, user pages, or other namespaces. And don't bother trying to parse {{ Coord}} parameters such as {{Coord|1|2|region:AU_city}}, just look for the exact string as one parameter. -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 21:08, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
CITY is located at {{coord|LAT|LON|PARAMETER INFORMATION}} (LAT, LON).{{GR|1}}
) these should be removed and the infobox updated with the high precision coordinates if no infobox added {{
coord}} to the end of the article. There are probably some other things that should be done. At present there are 20984 listed from my
error log. —
Dispenser 17:41, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
The voting stage of the December 2009 Arbitration Committee Elections is underway, and could use some automated help. There is a list of votes cast, but an alphabetical, annotate-able on-wiki version is desired at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2009/Voter log. If a bot could scrape the content of the former and dump it alphabetically to the latter without overwriting notes or strikes, that would be wonderful. Skomorokh 02:54, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Secondly, this year voting will be done by secret ballot using SecurePoll: Special:SecurePoll/vote/80. This is a change from previous years, where editors cast a public vote in the form of a comment at the /Vote subpage of the election main page. These /Vote pages have been moved to /Comments, but are still open for those who want to make their votes public to do so. There is a concern that some editors might not know that they need to vote using the SecurePoll, and so it's been suggested that a bot notify everyone who has left a comment about a candidate but is not in the voter log, reminding them to use the secret ballot.
I don't expect that these are difficult-to-implement, but time is of the essence, so any help appreciated. Skomorokh 02:54, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
Recently I removed a large quantity of, what I belive to be spam, from some articles from an aggregation service. There was mixed reaction, however there was relatively good consensus for the linked content to be re-found from the upstream providers and linked to directly.
Specifically the problem is this: Special:Contributions/EconoPhysicist and Special:Contributions/124Nick have created a large amount of links to video lectures on topics throught wikipedia. The content itself is good, however I assert that the aggregator was (1) simply spamming and is (2) using the videos in violation of their CC-Non-commerical licences (discussion is on my talk page). I removed these links, which took me several days, and recieved mixed response for work. A good suggestion for all was to remap the links directly to the upstream content, if the information from the contributions of EconoPhysicist and 124Nick could be harnessed to locate the upstream content.
I am unsure how this relinking could be done, but as the aggregator was essentially leeching content from MIT OpenCourseWare and UC Berkeley content, it could potentially be that one can find the upstream videos from OCW and UCB and re-insert the links to the upstream content.
Now I have no suggestions, but have not undertaken a full analysis, of how one might go about this. However if a unique identification method can be found, or a semi-assisted method (video title + search?) to find this mapping, then perhaps this could be achieved. If anyone has any good ideas, or is interested in implementing this, please let me know! User A1 ( talk) 09:55, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Each Ohio township article (see Category:Townships in Ohio) has a "Name and history" or "Name" section that includes a statement about the frequency of the township's name: depending on how many other Ohio townships have the same name, it either links to a list of other Ohio townships with the same name, links directly to one or two other townships with the same name, or notes that the township's name is unique. When I added these sections to the township articles in 2007, I used this US Census Bureau website as my source, but I didn't cite any sources in the "Name and history" section. Could a bot go around and add a citation to all of these sections? Please know that some of these sections already have references for other information; for example, Range Township, Madison County, Ohio includes a referenced statement about the township's population in 1854. The citation could be something along the lines of:
<ref>[http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/general_ref/cousub_outline/cen2k_pgsz/oh_cosub.pdf Detailed map of Ohio], [[United States Census Bureau]], 2000. Accessed 2007-02-16.</ref>
I've selected 16 February 2007 as the access date because I always worked from a copy that I downloaded from the Census Bureau website on 16 February 2007. Nyttend ( talk) 05:12, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible for bots to harvest urls from http://web.archive.org and update articles accordingly? I have noticed that a large chunk of the domain sclegacy.com is no longer active and a ton of StarCraft-related articles use those links all the time. All the links are broken, but all that I have checked so far have archived versions on webarchive. I know how to do the simple text replacements in the articles (using pywikipediabot) to add archive urls, but I don't know how the bot actually finds those urls...I assume it might be possible, given that there are bots that do similar tasks (like auto-generated titles for bare urls). If anyone is interested in making such a bot, or could show me where there's information on how to harvest urls like that, I would greatly appreciate it.
While my intention right now is just to fix the links in a particular set of articles, I assume such a bot could later be generalized to work on many article that need massive link updating. (I checked Wikipedia:Bots/Status and did not see any such bot already active.) rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 18:19, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Just spent some time coding the bot. Im going to file a BRFA to see if this kind of thing would make it. I added code so that the bot gets the accessdate from wikiblame when no accessdate parameter can be found that is associated to the dead link. Tim1357 ( talk) 23:29, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
The emergency shut-off feature of many bots is very nice, but it would be a lot more useful if established users could push the button.
A bot which monitored such pushes by non-admins and checked them against a whitelist and blacklist and, if the user was allowed, shut off the bot would help. The whitelist could be something as simple as autoconfirmed or a specific whitelist of people who have asked to be put on it. The blacklist would probably be blocked users + those who had misused the tool in the past.
The only reason not to do this is if it's not worth the effort, i.e. if there are enough admins to do the job that more eyes won't help much. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 05:48, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
On November 12th, I made a post on Wikipedia talk:Files for deletion asking for peoples opinion. It is still unanswered. Seeking more input, I went to Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) and asked for more input. It got archived with no reply. I figured per WP:SILENCE (an essay) I had consensus, so I went to User talk:Schutz and asked him a question. Still no response. So now I am here. Would someone be willing to create a bot put a date navigation box on the bottom of each daily page similar to the one currently used on the top? Or maybe add it to a bot that does something similar?-- Rockfang ( talk) 10:25, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Would anyone be willing to start this?-- Rockfang ( talk) 01:17, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
There is currently talk at the Albums WikiProject about a possible widespread change across all album articles, and we need some expert advice on what is possible to accomplish with bots. Please see #Implementation of consensus on album reviews for our discussion. Thanks — Akrabbim talk 20:54, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot to tag all articles, categories, and templates, within Category:Pennsylvania and its sub-categories with the {{ WikiProject Pennsylvania}} project tag. I have checked that category, and all of the sub-categories seem appropriate. Thank you! -- Blargh29 ( talk) 07:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I know there is DYKadminBot ( talk · contribs) already to automatically update the DYK template and hand out credits. But the bot tends to go MIA from time to time (for example it's gone for 2 days now) and its operator nixeagle ( talk · contribs) is too inactive these days unfortunately. So I thought I might ask here whether someone got the time and is willing to write a replacement bot or fix the code (apparently Ameliorate! hoped for this to happen) and run it themselves. Regards So Why 13:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for butting in and posting naive comments:
Would it be possible for a bot to change all the links for Next United Kingdom general election and Next UK general election to United Kingdom general election, 2010. The page was recently moved and after next year the current redirect Next United Kingdom general election will be needed for the election after next. I hope this makes sense. Thank you. -- Philip Stevens ( talk) 06:31, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
I'm sure this kind of bot already exists, so I apologise in advance for not taking this request directly to the right place. I'm looking not only for the technical tool but also the pointer to the place to get concensus on mass external linking. I would like to request a bot generate external links to as many of the items in this list that Wikipedia already has a direct equivalent for. The list is all the articles in the recently launched "Dictionary of Sydney" - the official online encyclopedia of Sydney. They are original research essays with footnotes and multimedia, many with direct correlation to our articles, and a large proportion are cc-by-sa licensed. (full disclosure, I was until recently employed at that organisation). Also available are "reference pages" (not the article, but a summary of all relevant data e.g. mapping) and for suburb articles there are also historical demographics information.
I think perhaps it needs to be a semi-automated bot because although many of the articles would have the same article name but they do not have the same scope (for example, the Dictionary of Sydney has an article "Chinese" but this only refers to the Sydney-Chinese history, not the global one).
I have placed an example external link at the WP article about they Sydney Suburb Surry Hills to demonstrate. It says:
Is this appropriate and/or technically feasible for a (semi-autonomous) bot? Does such a bot already exist and are there any policy/voting/approvals that need to be undertaken to get the consensus for a mass-external linking?
Witty Lama 15:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Currently many refs are spread over 10 - 15 lines of text. Is there a bot that could put the ref all on one line to make editing easier? For example this:
{{Cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | issn = | doi = | id = | accessdate = }}
to this
{{cite journal| author = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | year = | pmid = | doi = | month =| issn =}}
On highly referenced pages it is hard to find the text between the citations in the first example and much easier in the second. Thanks. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 15:12, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
(Unindent) The vertical format makes it easier to tell where the citation ends, so I would not support the requested bot. -- Jc3s5h ( talk) 16:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
May I suggest that a tool that does this in a semi-automated way may be better received by the community when used by someone who is careful? I agree that multi-line references are a bother, and unless someone is objecting to it they should be put into a single line. Chillum 00:14, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Agree with PS will move the discussion. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 00:35, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Such a bot is obviously not going to happen, and this is not the place to discuss changes to WikiEd (take that discussion to WP:WikiEd or WP:VPT). Anomie ⚔ 12:26, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks already have as I mentioned above. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 12:32, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Can I please get some bot help with tagging articles in Category:Music video games with {{ WikiProject Music Video Games}}? The project is new, and it'll take a while for me to do the tagging by hand. Regards -- Sk8er5000 ( talk) 22:58, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
It seems that User:RockfangBot was was approved to add the {{ oldprodfull}} template to the talk pages of articles, but encountered some difficulty and ceased to perform this task. A more recent and complicated request to go through article histories to find old prod templates was rejected/withdrawn as too difficult. My request is limited to detecting proposed deletions going forward.
I'd like to make the request again.
Some background; the proposed deletion process does not allow an article to be deleted by a second {{ prod}} or {{ prod-nn}} tag once a proposed deletion tag has been removed from an article. The oldprodfull template has fields for the dates of its application and removal, plus a field for any addition of the {{ Prod-2}} tag. There are fields for the reason text given by the editor who proposes the deletion, and the editor who seconds the proposed deletion, but the removal of the tag would require grabbing text from the edit summary. There are also date fields for the events.
Now, my interest is not in a perfect filling in of all these optional fields. All I really want is a indication on the talk page that the article was deprodded, and the oldprodfull tag, the {{ oldprod}} template or even just a note would be enough. There are some subtleties I would like, but don't require. It would be nice if the bot ignored articles that are or were already in an AFD discussion. It would be nice if the bot did not create talk pages, since articles that lack a talk page are generally young, and, given that they were prodded while lacking a talk page, likely to be deleted by some other method. Having the bot create a talk page will just annoy the admin who has to delete the article. It would be nice if the bot had a built-in delay of a few hours, perhaps even 24 hours, to allow comment, creation of a talk page, or further deletion action such as an AFD nomination. It would be nice if the bot could detect an old prod on an article that has just been recreated by an editor or restored by an admin.
Can this be done? Abductive ( reasoning) 14:57, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
I am keen to locate a Wikipedian who might be prepared to develop a bot or script as an editing/gnoming aid that would highlight undesirable word repetitions in an article, thus flagging to editors where recasting may be required. Although the exact repetition of a word can add to the cohesion of a text, in many cases it is poor style (I catch myself doing it, especially when tired).
For example, I've just pointed this one out at WP:FAC:
"Activated for service in World War I, the division saw brief service in the conflict, but never fought as an entire division."
But the phenomenon occurs not just within a sentence; some words are prominent enough to be avoided even when they are paragraphs apart. It would need to avoid a white-list of a few hundred common grammatical words, of course (e.g., the, to, been, am). A more sophisticated version would do better, by matching the frequency of occurrence of each word in English (there's a publicly available list) with the distance between specific occurrences in a text; a simple algorithm would be required to balance commonness against distance, which would need to be tested). This would clearly be preferable, but might be a challenge to develop and might require too much grunt.
Does anyone know of someone who might be interested and capable? I'm a total bot dummy (Mac user) and have no experience in writing scripts. Tony (talk) 15:24, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
During a #wikimedia-strategy brainstorming session, regarding http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week (which is currently "What changes to Wikimedia's technology would enable a friendlier and more welcoming environment?") it was suggested that the main issues could be addressed thusly:
[20:20] <jimmyps> we could address the first two (tallest) bars on http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:091207_QOTW.png simply by publicizing statistics from http://stats.grok.se [20:21] <eekim> jimmyps: the key question is, how would you publicize it, and how would you measure if you were being effective? [20:22] <jimmyps> eekim: easy, for each article find the top 10 articles also in its categories and list them in order on the sidebar after the interwikis with "x,xxx views/month" right-justified on every other line after each of the 10 [20:23] <jimmyps> that would indicate to people the most popular subjects that they are also interested in [20:23] <jimmyps> this could be done in batch mode [20:25] <jimmyps> does anyone disagree that listing the most popular "related articles" with their viewership counts on the sidebar after the interwikis would address the largest leftmost two bars on http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:091207_QOTW.png ?
(no disagreements were forthcoming)
Would someone who understands what is and is not possible with bots and MediaWiki please comment on the feasibility of this proposal? Thank you. 99.62.186.125 ( talk) 04:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Templates with a subpage /doc have Interwiki links not in the template itself, but included from the subpage. If you add an Interwiki the subpage a job is automatically added which purges the template. That means the rendered version is recreated and now conaints the interwikis.
But the database is not changed. If you make an sql query the results may be wrong. To change this you have to touch = null edit (=make an edit without changes) the template. Most of these templates are also edit protected.
So can an admin bot touch all pages which have a subpage in Category:Template documentation? This could be also done with a simple admin account, because it doesn't produce any visible edit. It would be very useful if this could be done e.g. one a month.
If you don't want to touch all pages: The API has the info when a page was touched last time ( /page/@touched), so a touch is only need if the value is older than the revision of the subpage ref/@timestamp.
This is needed only for toolserver sql queries. API resturns correct results. Merl issimo 11:44, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
It's not the replication but the MediWiki software by the look of it. The interwikis are served correctly but the table isn't updated - the updates sit downstream of the table. So the bug does not express through the API or the web interface, but it does through the SQL. The argument that a lock has been saved is not strong because the lock will be needed when the "touch" is done - of course this may be one lock for a whole bunch of editing. The best solution is to fix the table updating. Rich Farmbrough, 21:18, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
Per the apparent concensus here and here, I made a bot that will notifies users of articles that are unrefrenced. The bot works like this: Find largest non-bot, non-annon, user with the most non-minor edits to an article, and add that article to the user's list. When the bot is done parsing all the unrefrenced BLPs, it adds a message to the users talk page:
Un-Referenced BLPs
Hello Bot requests! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created , are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biogrophies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 942 page backlog. Here is a list:
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
-Thanks! DashBot
alternativley, as to not flood the user's talk page- if they have more then ten articles, it adds the first ten to the user page, and provides a link to a list of the rest: Example
Un-Referenced BLPs
Hello Bot requests! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that , are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biogrophies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 942 page backlog. Here is a list:
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Foo Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
- Bar Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
-Thanks! Dashbot
Tell me if I can change anything before I request approval. Tim1357 ( talk) 17:48, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
In response to NW's earlier request, I made a settings page for the bot, where individual functions can be shutdown, without turning off the whole bot. Tim1357 ( talk) 23:36, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
If the process is too blunt, it might backfire badly. The original question I posted in October was Should article creators and/or major contributors help reduce the backlog? of 56,000 unreferenced BLPs. In my small sample (random subset of unreferenced BLP articles flagged in August 2009), 50% of the article creators were still active on Wikipedia, e.g.
I'm worried that the discussion has moved on to the murky depths of defining "major contributors" so soon, and I think we should test the new bot in the uncontroversial shallows of "article creators" first. If creators are inactive now, the message can do no harm. But when they are still actively editing (and maybe still creating unreferenced BLPs) they are the first people who should see the message. Once the article creator message process is complete, the message to subsequent contributors can be more diplomatic, along the lines of "we notified the article creator a month ago, but the article is still unreferenced ... you were once a major contributor ... can you help?"
Why not start with a model like this? - Pointillist ( talk) 23:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
New Message
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Un-Referenced BLPsHello Bot requests! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created and 11 of the articles that you played a major role in creating, are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 942 page backlog. Here is a list:
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I made a new message for the bot. Im quite pleased with it as a solution to redundant messages-- Tim1357 ( talk) 12:11, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I'm requesting if anyone could run User:Sambot/Code/Ships? Sam Korn ( talk · contribs) hasn't been editing lately so I thought I should ask here instead. The object of the script is to add a ships by year category to articles that contain an infobox with a certain parameter within the infobox that contains a year. -- Brad ( talk) 16:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
I stuck this in AWB and there are 16,000 articles, I am removing those with a cat, looks like it will be about 1600 left. I did 2, one based on the launch date using regexes, one with no launch date but a laid down and commissioning date in the same year. I will know by the morning how many there it may be quickest to do this manually with AWB since it's not huge, and there will be a fair amount of tweaking. Rich Farmbrough, 03:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
The {{ saved book}} template has been updated to handle categorization automatically. Simply remove the category from the pages that have it "hardcoded" in them. Thanks. 05:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
so that's a little odd. Rich Farmbrough, 09:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
It's an old categorization system (the clean up not yet complete). This has been supplanted by Category:Wikipedia books (community books) and Category:Wikipedia books (user books). Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:19, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Back in October {{
WPBiography}} was given an overhaul, and one of the changes made was the replacement of |priority=
with specific parameters for each work group (because the main project itself does not assess articles for priority). A discussion on updating individual banners took place
here, although not without a little drama. In short, there was some opposition to having a bot clear the 100,000 articles in
Category:Biography articles needing priority parameter replacement, but I think it was generally agreed that the much smaller number of articles in
Category:Biography articles with more than one work group needing priority parameter replacement should be dealt with.
The |priority=
parameter in these banners should be removed and replaced with one specific to each work group used per [[T:WPBIO]], e.g.
{{WPBiography|priority=Low|filmbio-work-group=yes|politician-work-group=yes}}
should be changed to
{{WPBiography|filmbio-work-group=yes|filmbio-priority=Low|politician-work-group=yes|politician-priority=Low}}
Thanks in advance. PC78 ( talk) 12:24, 9 December 2009 (UTC)