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A daily Database report showing any articles found in the category of Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_April_2010, Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_May_2010 or Category:Unreferenced BLPs that where created after the 18th March 2010. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 12:50, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
As per a combined consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 33#Formal petition to change the naming conventions and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Season article task force#Discussion reinitiated, I request to have the league season articles in the category Category:Primera División Argentina (the specific articles being any with the "Primera División Argentina XXXX" format) be moved/renamed to this format: "XXXX Argentine Primera División". Feel free to contact me if there is any need for clarification. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 08:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Bot help is needed to tag circa 850 categories for renaming; see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 May 5#More settlements. Ideally, the bot would add (with an informative edit summary) the following code to each category:
{{subst:Cfr|''ProposedName''|More settlements}}
where ProposedName is the proposed new name of the category. A less-complex (and perhaps AWB-able) option is:
{{subst:Cfr||More settlements}}
Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 08:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like a bot to go through the following pages:
Then update the following template: Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Unreferenced BLP progress
Here are the rough rules for where to place the numbers:
The bot would tally up how many for each row for each month, then update the Totals row and Totals column. The sum of the totals row and the totals column should be identical. If a bot could update the table weekly, that would be very helpful. This is to serve as a more complete listing (this listing is about 3x larger) than the one generated by DASHbot as not all of the articles in this more complete list have had their talk pages marked as being part of WikiProject Japan. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:23, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Would someone please be willing to code a bot which would help to maintain CFD/W, including the following tasks:
User:MathBot performs a similar function at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, and the bot's code is available here. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 04:44, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
This request remains outstanding. (There's a more up-to-date list of templates to act on) SmackBot started the work, but has made no such edits for some months; repeated requests for it to restart have been to no avail. The original request was made in August 2008! I'd be grateful for some help, please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 09:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I request someone to be able to design a bot that would be able to arrange a list from this data source:
[1]. I did page one
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Global_Names_Index/A although when trying to update page 2 I am getting error messages and I figure doing it by hand would take too long anyway. I need someone who can make the lists in the same format as the first page I showed as an example on all the remaining pages (A2, A3, A4 ETC. then B, B2, B3, B4 ETC. ETC.). Any help with this would be much appreciated. Note that page A2 through to A10 and the first page of letters B to Z were done by hand but will need to be updated because the lists are from an old source (unfiltered name list). Cheers!
Calaka (
talk) 09:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
:{{
BOTREQ}}
CrimsonBlue (
talk) 21:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Can't figure it out, the list is too big, someone else can pick this up CrimsonBlue ( talk) 01:18, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Coren has closed the TFD on this template and has placed it in the holding cell. See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell. Is there a bot owner who could do this? Garion96 (talk) 17:50, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like a bot to run through all transclusions of {{
Infobox settlement}} in mainspace which do not have the coordinates_display=
parameter set. If the article lacks title coordinates, the parameter should be set to inline,title
. Pages lacking title coordinates can be identified by the fact that they transclude neither {{
Coord/display/inline,title}} nor {{
Coord/display/title}}. There was discussion about this at
Template_talk:Infobox_settlement#coordinates_display.3D, and I think all the concerns were addressed. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 03:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Right now we generally have coordinates in place articles about twice, sometimes, three times. An effort on the part of the coord-aficionados, I guess. I don't suppose the bot can check for redundancies. It would be nicer to remove redundant coordinates or maybe all coordinates since I don't see the general use of them anyway. Maps are more useful IMO. Thanks. Student7 ( talk) 20:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that thousands of asteroid stubs were created with some incorrect capitalization, using the phrase, "Main-belt Asteroid" [5], or sometimes, "Main-belt asteroid". I am in the process now of correcting the capitalisation of these.
I am also fixing the links within, to reflect what is probably a move in an article title. These were originally wikilinked as [[Main-belt Asteroid]], and I am changing them to [[Asteroid belt|main belt]] [[asteroid]], as there is no article Main-belt Asteroid (it now redirects to Asteroid belt). My use of two links (one to Asteroid belt and one to asteroid) was just a personal choice, but one which I think benefits the reader.
Anyway, I've done several hundred of what are over 11,000 of these articles. Is there any way that a bot could be programmed to do what I have been doing? (Example: [6]) Thanks! 98.82.34.167 ( talk) 19:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I have just added a date requirement to {{ adoptoffer}} and there is no obvious way to persuade users to adapt to the changes quickly. Could someone use/adapt/create a bot to add it automatically? Every time the template is added to a page - which will add that page to Category:Undated adoption offers - it simply needs the text |month={{subt:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} inserted before the final }}. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 18:49, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
In a request similar to this one, I request to have the league season articles in the category Category:Primera División Uruguaya seasons (the specific articles being any with the "Primera División Uruguaya XXXX" format) be moved/renamed to this format: "XXXX Uruguayan Primera División". Feel free to contact me if there is any need for clarification. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 21:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Every instance of "is comprised of" can be replaced by "comprises". This improves clarity, parsimony, and grammatical correctness. Likewise "was comprised of" -> "comprised".
Hello!
I wanted to ask about this
archived discussion. I need now similar bot, but regarding this:
Template | Category |
---|---|
{{ WikiProject Serbia}} | Category:Serbia geography stubs |
{{ WikiProject Belgrade}} |
Category:Belgrade Including Subcategories |
In Geography stubs there are literary hundreds of untagged articles, and in Belgrade case, This WikiProject was relatively slow in past few years, so those tags are now needed to mark project scope. Also, second category can also include first template as well, as Belgrade is capital city of Serbia.
Thanks in advance! :) -- Tadija speaks 18:25, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
User:ArticleAlertbot has been inoperable for a month. Can we get a replacement?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 04:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Well could you still update the code? Toolserver access doesn't seem to be required for this, since B. Wolterding didn't have it. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:25, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
I just created {{ Caldwell catalogue}} and it needs to be placed on roughly 109 articles (a bit less, since some haven't yet been created). It would really help if a bot could go through all the Caldwell objects (which can be found in the navbox, or on Book:Caldwell catalogue) and add the navbox at the bottom of the page, as well as categorize them with [[Category:Caldwell objects|###]], where ### is the three digit number (Caldwell 1 = 001). BTW, sometimes the category may be present, so just overide it. The current scheme uses an innappropriate ## sorting rather than ### sorting, which leads to problem with C100 to C109. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there any chance of User:ArticleAlertbot being fixed or replaced? It was rather useful. The bot operator, User:B. Wolterding, has been absent a long time, only briefly appearing in March to run the cleanup bot; and doesn't have Email This User enabled. Don't suppose anyone has his contact details... Rd232 talk 10:55, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone write a GIMP bot that would perform certain automated tasks on an image based on a template such as "Gimpbot|autowhitebalance=yes"? Smallman12q ( talk) 20:32, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
please send me a bot ,But also tell me how to get the bot running send me the finished request At: http://debateyourcause.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Jesse9705
Hi, I wanted to write Wikipedia books on the nobel laureates, and having a bot write "first drafts" would be very helpful. It should be rather straightforward to implement. For example, on List of Nobel laureates in Physics, there is a table with the year, name/link, and reason for the prize. From this the bot could generate
{{saved book |title=Nobel Laureates in Physics |subtitle= |cover-image= |cover-color= }} = = Nobel Laureates in Physics = = ;Overview :[[Nobel Prize]] :[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] ;1901 :[[Wilhelm Röntgen|Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen]] ;1902 :[[Hendrik Lorentz]] :[[Pieter Zeeman]] ;1903 :[[Antoine Henri Becquerel]] :[[Pierre Curie]] :[[Marie Curie]] ...
The name of the laureate should appear as on the list, but it should be piped to the non-redirect. The result should be uploaded at Book:Nobel Prize in Physics (I've taken care of this one, but not the other disciplines). Likewise for List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry, List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, List of Nobel laureates in Literature, List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. This would be much appreciated and save me a lot of time. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I would like a bot to repair pages using the template redirects Template:Infobox Automobile generation and Template:Infobox automobile generation to instead use Template:Infobox automobile. OSX ( talk • contributions) 02:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
If you bring this to BRFA, I guarantee that you will need to cite a few discussions to prove that there is consensus for the task. Otherwise it will likely be denied because of the WP:NOTBROEKN thing. Tim 1357 talk 00:36, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Within the Infobox television template, there is a parameter named ‘status’ which contains many different comments (in production, canceled, hiatus, etc.). I would like to request a bot to scan articles using the Infobox television template with the purpose of creating a list of existing comments within the parameter, including frequency of use of each comment. A brief discussion of this issue can be found on the Template:Infobox television talk page here. Thanks. -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 17:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Resolved, through a data dump Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:31, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like a bot to go through the following pages:
Then update the following template: Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Unreferenced BLP progress
Here are the rough rules for where to place the numbers:
The bot would tally up how many for each row for each month, then update the Totals row and Totals column. The sum of the totals row and the totals column should be identical. If a bot could update the table weekly, that would be very helpful. This is to serve as a more complete listing (this listing is about 3x larger) than the one generated by DASHbot as not all of the articles in this more complete list have had their talk pages marked as being part of WikiProject Japan. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:22, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone have a bot run over all transclusions of {{ Infobox German location}} and add a {{reflist}} if there isn't one? A new field, Gemeindeschlüssel, was recently added to the template which automatically adds a referenced population figure, but now some are showing reflist errors due to the missing reflist. Basically, if Gemeindeschlüssel is there (or if there are other refs), then a reflist is needed. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I just dropped a few in Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Holding_cell#To_Substitute. Basically, all the FA icon templates are to be replaced with {{icon|FA}}, the GA icons with {{icon|GA}}, and the FAC with {{icon|FAC}}. I replaced them all with stubs so that they can be safely substituted. I was going to do them myself, but I would rather not light up talk page notifications if it isn't necessary. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:59, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
It's a spanish word and there are plenty on English Wikipedia :
Thanks. LairepoNite ( talk) 12:25, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
German wikipedia uses databases for recent (December 2008) population numbers for municipalities in Germany. I already copied one of those database templates: {{ Metadata Population DE-SN}}. By using a municipality code from the German statistics office (the Gemeindeschlüssel) this template can provide the population for templates like {{ Infobox German location}}. I would like a bot to copy the "Gemeindeschlüssel" field from the Infobox Gemeinde in Deutschland templates in German wikipedia for all municipalities. For instance for the municipality Wachau, Saxony that would mean replacing "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 2 92 560" with "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14625600" from de:Wachau (Sachsen) (the code in English wikipedia is incorrect) and for Wiesensteig adding "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08117058" from de:Wiesensteig (no code given yet). This has to be done for all articles in the categories Category:Cities in Germany, Category:Towns in Germany, Category:Municipalities of Germany and their first degree subcategories. That's about 11,500 articles. Could a bot do this? Markussep Talk 17:49, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
As noted at Commons:Robert Lavinsky, recently over 35,000 images of minerals have been donated to the Commons with more to come. I thought it might be a useful idea to have a bot search Wikipedia for articles corresponding to the mineral name appearing in the images and add one image to the article if there are currently no images included (or even add a gallery as many minerals have multiple images). The caption wouldn't be very difficult as they all come from the same place and the image description pages contain standardized information. I have no bot skills whatever so this would be for someone else to do if they were so inclined. I have no idea of feasibility, or if this would be hard to program. Just a thought.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:10, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
When a talk page is moved, its archives and archive index should be moved too. Also, its archive bot settings, such as miszabot config, need to be updated with the new page title in at least one field, sometimes more. What sparked this idea was the recent mass-retitling of MoS pages, which constitutes a lot of pages to move and settings to update. It would seem a continuously-running bot might also be beneficial in general for this though, for any time talk pages get moved, as the archives and archive bot settings often go overlooked for some time after. Equazcion (talk) 15:56, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
This may sound a bit stupid but I think a bot which automatically detects changes to averages on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes could be useful so that the critical reception areas of these articles is fully up to date. While it may seem like a stupid idea, actions speak louder than words... Trey lander 17:40, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I just had an idea. All signposts issues are in this (or similar) format: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-01-10
These could easily be shoved into books, which could then be read as a PDFs, or be printed out for offline reading. See for example Book:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-01-10.
The general structure of these books would be
{{saved book |title=Wikipedia Signpost |subtitle=DD Month YYYY |cover-image=WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg |cover-color=White }} = =The Wikipedia Signpost= = = = =DD Month YYYY= = = :[[Wikipedia:Wikipidia Signpost/YYYY-MM-DD/FOOBAR1|Foobar 1]] :[[Wikipedia:Wikipidia Signpost/YYYY-MM-DD/FOOBAR2|Foobar 2]] ... [[Category:Wikipedia books on the Wikipedia Signpost|YYYY-MM-DD]]
Where the various FOOBARs and foobars are the links and the pipes found on their respective Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/YYYY-MM-DD page. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:07, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
{{
WBOOKS|class=book}}
.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 19:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)I'd like to point out that thousands of asteroid stubs were created with some incorrect capitalization, using the phrase, "Main-belt Asteroid" [7], or sometimes, "Main-belt asteroid". I am in the process now of correcting the capitalisation of these.
I am also fixing the links within, to reflect what is probably a move in an article title. These were originally wikilinked as [[Main-belt Asteroid]], and I am changing them to [[Asteroid belt|main belt]] [[asteroid]], as there is no article Main-belt Asteroid (it now redirects to Asteroid belt). My use of two links (one to Asteroid belt and one to asteroid) was just a personal choice, but one which I think benefits the reader.
Anyway, I've done several hundred of what are over 11,000 of these articles. Is there any way that a bot could be programmed to do what I have been doing? (Example: [8]) Thanks! 98.82.34.167 ( talk) 19:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
We'd like a bot which creates in advance the daily subpage of Template:TFA title with the TFA title, which can be retrieved from the daily TFA template, Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 30, 2024. See Template talk:TFA-editnotice#Proposed alternative display for the discussion. Thanks, Cenarium ( talk) 16:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Anyone? It's a very simple, non-critical job:
Amalthea 11:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Template:Infobox ice hockey player was just modified so that the player's name appears at the top of the infobox. When the infobox contains no "name" field, the default is the PAGENAME. (Most infoboxes currently lack this name field.) One of the annoyances is that articles where the title is disambiguated, e.g. Doug Harvey (ice hockey), will display the disambiguator at the top of the infobox. (see this version of the Doug Harvey article. So we're requesting a bot to go through the articles in which the template is transcluded, find those with some sort of "(ice hockey)" or "(ice hockey b. xxxx)" disambiguation and a the proper "name" field in the infobox. I'm willing to double check the results manually. Pichpich ( talk) 14:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
ThePPN ( http://wiki.theppn.org/) was a Wiki about Japanese pop culture that went offline a few years ago, but some articles here still link to it or use it as a source. There aren't many articles, but at 143, I'm too lazy to remove them myself. I would appreceate it if someone could run a bot to remove all of these. Note that some use an interwiki link such as "[[ThePPN: Sexy 8 Beat]]". Thanks! Sorafune +1 23:58, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
{{subst:Cfr|''ProposedName''|Many more settlements}}
{{subst:Cfr||Many more settlements}}
Currently at WP:DERM we have a small section providing links to various data, but I wanted to know if someone would help us expand that section to provide more types of interesting data that people can use? Any help creating regularly and automatically generated types of project data would be great. Overall, I would love to provide readers with data that be be used to track the project growth/development. I am not sure if automatically generated and updated graphs are possible on wikipedia, but, if so, trending data with charts would be very cool. Perhaps someone could help create a "Dermatology task force bot" to perform tasks like this? Regardless, thank you all for your work on Wikipedia. --- kilbad ( talk) 17:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
I seem to remember that there was a bot that checked images that had been copied to Commons with a new name (like File:010 Training Camp.jpg -> File:Lovie Smith Training Camp.jpg), and would then adjust the text of the articles to point at the new image. I don't think this is still happening. The process of moving images to Commons is very time-consuming, and letting a bot handle this step is very helpful. It is also important that this bot runs at least once a day, because sometimes the admins don't check image links when deleting these images (there is a huge deletion backlog for these images), and then the article editors will never know what happened to the image. I was going to suggest User:Erwin85Bot for this, as this bot processes the exact same images to notify the original uploader of the new location, but this bot seems to be blocked right now. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 09:13, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Several old signpost articles are not as technically refined as today's Signposts. This creates a lot of problem in the book versions of the Signpost and in the PDFs of these articles. I found a couple of things that could be fixed with simple find/replace logic.
1) Replace
<noinclude>[[Image:WikipediaSignpostVertical.svg|right|The Wikipedia Signpost]]</noinclude>
with
<noinclude>{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Long-image}}</noinclude>
2) Replace
<noinclude> <center><small> Also this week: ... </small></center> </noinclude>
with
<noinclude> <center><small>{{hide in print|1= Also this week: ... }}</small></center> </noinclude>
See
this for an example of text that needs to be cleaned up. I may have more find/replace logic in the future, but for the moment these are the only issues I am aware of that requires such a fix.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 17:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes, the "Also this week" may come as
<center><small>{{subst:Signpost1-15}}</small></center>
or similar. In this case, it should be replaced with
<noinclude><center><small>{{subst:Signpost1-15}}</small></center></noinclude>
And
<noinclude>[[Category:Exclude in print]]</noinclude>
should be added to {{ Signpost1-15}} (and equivalents). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:26, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
As part of ongoing reorganization of the Wikipedia-Books category tree, Category:Wikipedia books is being converted into a container category and should contain only subcategories, a few directly related pages, and books which have yet to be categorized into a topic-specific category.
Categorization of user books by topic was deprecated per a recently-closed CFD discussion and, by extension, Category:Wikipedia books should be emptied of all user books (this will not leave them uncategorized as they are all also in Category:Wikipedia books (user books)). Does anyone have a bot which could remove all 974 user books in the category while leaving pages in the Book: and Category: namespaces for manual sorting? -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:24, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I propose an adminbot to perform simple history merges from candidates found in this list. A few years ago I may have attempted this bot myself, but I now do not have the time to program and run it.
The bot would perform the following operations:
I propose the following steps to do the history merge:
The effects of these steps are as follows:
-- CapitalR ( talk) 22:43, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
This request is about invocations of Template:Start date and age Please, do the following:
Thanks. SkyBon Talk/ Contributions 13:10, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
There are 6,264 images in Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons. The majority of these images have moved by an automatic script, and so keep all of the licensing, description, attribution, etc on the Commons version. Since only admins can delete these images, the backlog will always be a problem. Could a bot not go to the Commons version of the image, check for commons:Template:BotMoveToCommons, or otherwise manually check to see if the licensing and information matches the enwiki version, and then delete the it? Nautica Shad es 00:02, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed -- Chris 10:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Since John Bot II was blocked indefinitely, the images will remain forever in this category. Is someone else willing to move them to Commons using a bot? -- Leyo 21:38, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
A bot has been requested here to update the TFA tallies at the top of Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. It would be similar to User:X!/RfX Report. ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐) 02:16, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
The previous bot request petered out due to issues with the bot operator. I'd like a bot to go through the following pages:
Then update the following template: Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Unreferenced BLP progress
Here are the rough rules for where to place the numbers:
The bot would tally up how many for each row for each month, then update the Totals row and Totals column. The sum of the totals row and the totals column should be identical. If a bot could update the table weekly, that would be very helpful. This is to serve as a more complete listing (this listing is about 3x larger) than the one generated by DASHbot as not all of the articles in this more complete list have had their talk pages marked as being part of WikiProject Japan. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 17:33, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
There are articles for every line of latitude and longitude, and almost none of them have assessment tags. Could someone please go through Category:Lines of longitude and Category:Lines of latitude and add:{{WPcoord}} {{WikiProject Geography|class= |importance=low}}. It would be useful if you also auto add stub and start class based on article length. I would do it myself, but my Windows emulator is being screwy, so I can't run AWB. Thank you. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 21:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
There's one question that came up in the bot request, would you like articles to be automatically assessed as stub if they are very short? The bot can't assess as start because, as I mentioned before, this requires sourcing which the bot cannot check, but it can assess as stub. Perhaps you could ask WikiProject Geography if they assess stubs based on length. Anyway I'll wait for your reply at the request for approval before proceeding. - EdoDodo talk 17:15, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Doing... - EdoDodo talk 14:20, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
There are still zillions of HKT-related articles not yet tagged with {{ WikiProject Hong Kong Transport}} banner. will a bot please tag all the talk pages with both the WPHK template and the bus/aviation/rail etc WikiProjects templates with that template. Class can be found with reference with the other banners. Importance can be judged by category; for example, minor MTR stops (like Locwood or Pui To) can be classified as 'low'. Thanks in advance Kayau Voting IS evil 06:42, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
On Wikipedia we have hundreds of thousands of BLPs, thousands of the people who are the subjects of these articles die every year. It is very likely that we have thousands of longdead people still tagged as living on EN Wiki.
I would like a bot that:
I'm assuming that this bot would require a table on Meta with the relevant categories on the various language wikis, and could then become a multi wiki project with all wikis who have a bio on an individual getting such a database report listing people now marked as dead on other wikis. But it would be nice to start on EN Wiki first. Ϣere SpielChequers 14:18, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
There is a wiki dedicated to List articles only. [10] There are a lot of list articles on Wikipedia. Using the Wikipedia search [11] I find 691,380 articles with "List of" at the start of their name. Going through Google [12] searching just the Wikipedia site for "list of" it gives me "about 4,610,000 results". Sometimes that number is less though, and it may be including all the times someone links to a "list of" article and whatnot. Unless someone makes a bot for this, that's a whole lot of work to get done. List articles are constantly being sent to AFD, and many are being deleted, lost forever for those who find such things interesting and useful for research. Please, help save these poor unfortunate articles find a new home, where they'll be safe. Dream Focus 17:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
If there are no licensing issues then I think this could be done using Special:Export to export a list of pages here, and then Special:Import to import the pages there. No special rights necessary here, you'll probably have to be administrator+ to import over there. - EdoDodo talk 09:52, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Due to the large number of articles involved, I'd like to request a bot that would take all articles that are on the uncategorized articles toolserver and in Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs (stub categories don't count as "categorized"), and add Category:Main Belt asteroids to those articles. I don't know if a bot that could do this job already exists, or if a new one would need to be programmed. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 04:32, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Done ~3,500 were categorised. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Trial#Bots for the requested bot tasks, if they are possible. It's reporting certain type of edits and holding statistics. Cenarium ( talk) 18:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Template:Commons category (see redirects) is one of the most-transcluded templates on en.wikipedia, with 185,000+ transclusions. My impression, gained from browsing category pages, is that a not-insignificant number of these transclusions point to pages which do not exist on Commons.
Could a bot check transclusions of the template and:
Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 00:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
The newly created WikiProject Disability requests that a bot be tasked to place the Project template {{WikiProject Disability}} on all articles in the [[Category:Disability]] and all subcategories. I don't see any subcategories that I think should be excluded but if anyone disagrees, please say so. Roger ( talk) 08:50, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Once you've decided on the list of categories to run the bot through I'll be quite happy to do this using DodoBot, I have just a few more questions. Would you like the class (B, C, Start, etc.) to be automatically inherited from other WikiProjects? Also, would you like articles to automatically be assessed as stubs if they contain {{ Stub}} (or another stub template)? And lastly, would you like articles to be automatically assessed as stubs if they are below a certain length (I would suggest 2500 bytes, but its up to you and the rest of the project)? Once you've got all the details sorted out drop a message here and I'll do it for you as soon as possible. - EdoDodo talk 14:16, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
We've been working on some overhauls to {{ infobox road}}, and part of this process has deprecated some parameter names. Articles with these parameters are populating Category:Infobox road transclusions with deprecated parameters. These parameter names come from the merger of several, older templates together into the current infobox. Going forward, we're streamlining support to a single set of parameter names. The # in a few of the parameters could be a number from 1 to 4 since the template can support up to 4 sections for roads that exit in multiple segments.
Params to be deprecated | Alternate names for... |
---|---|
highway_name | name |
year_established | established formed |
starting_terminus from starting_terminus# from# |
terminus_a terminus_a# |
ending_terminus to ending_terminus# to# |
terminus_b terminus_b# |
parent | spur_of |
parent_type | spur_type |
There are other deprecated parameters that have placed articles in the category, but they'll need manual conversion. Any assistance with this project is appreciated. Imzadi 1979 → 06:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
We'd need a bot which updates the number of articles under pending changes and a bot which reports certain kind of edits if possible, please see Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Trial#Bots. The trial will begin in a few hours. Cenarium ( talk) 17:46, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to request that all links to "Duck family" get reresolved into Duck family (Disney) to clear the way for reusing it as a dab page, since people are equally likely to be looking up information about real duck family groupings, or the taxonomic family for ducks. On a Google search, most hits come up about real duck family groupings for the term.
70.29.212.131 ( talk) 04:16, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Consensus has been reached at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles#Should all GAs have the GA symbol on the article page? to place the GA symbol ({{ Good article}}) on GAs. Could a bot add the symbol to all GAs (listed at WP:GA) and ideally also periodically check afterward whether all articles listed there have the symbol? Thanks, Ucucha 12:38, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, if the bot checks the English GAs, why not have it do a check on foreign GAs along with that, adding {{ Link GA}} with the appropriate language parameter? I know that the German and Persian wikis have bots do that and I saw it discussed in MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive 14 where someone wrote down a code. Hekerui ( talk) 16:21, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Of course WikiProject Good Article would have consensus to implement this. That doesn't mean there is community consensus, however. I don't think this should be implemented without more input from the broader community. Kaldari ( talk) 21:13, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Excellent, I was going to request this actually. It might actually also encourage more people to develop GAs. Is this a good idea though if the good article marker can be removed from the article? It ought to be fixed I think. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:28, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
(outdent)I'm sorry; I didn't mean to imply that we need to actively seek more consensus...seems like that would be akin to flogging a dead horse, if you'll forgive the expression. I just want to be sure that we have it before I start making a request for approval. As I was writing this, though, I discovered that the template is currently at TfD, so I won't be getting the ok from the BAG anytime soon. Once that is settled (and hopefully the template is kept), I'll be able to request approval for a bot. Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 23:25, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Where is this template supposed to be placed? I tried to update the manual to be more specific by adding " ... before defaultsort, categories and interwikis." here and here. The reason was that User:Koavf added more than 400 templates at the very bottom. I contacted them in their talk page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:55, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Is there still a need for a bot to do anything, now that the GAs have (nearly) all been tagged semi-automatically? Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 03:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone considered writing a bot that automatically adds portals to articles?
There are often groups of articles that need portals to be added, i.e. many Mexico-related articles are missing Mexico portal tags. I would like a bot that would allow these tags to be massively placed in many articles at once. Also it would be nice to write the bot to allow two or more portal tags to be added to one or many articles (i.e. "Mexico" and "Aviation")
WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed Still have some doubts about the placement of {{ Portal}} in certain situations, see the BRFA. - EdoDodo talk 06:20, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Might it be possible for someone to replace the 241 uses of {{
WikiProject International law}} with {{
WikiProject International relations|law=yes}}
, or when the later template already exists, to add |law=yes? Thanks you, bot people!—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Arctic.gnome (
talk •
contribs) 08:46, 18 June 2010
Doing... -
EdoDodo
talk 16:21, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Not done I decided to check if this change had the consensus of the relevant WikiProjects, and it seems that you made all the changes to the templates yourself, and without discussion. If there is a relevant discussion that shows consensus of the WikiProjects then please point me to it, because I'm not going to proceed to make bot edits to a bunch of pages until I can see clear consensus. If there is no discussion then please start one so I can see that this change has been agreed. Thank you. - EdoDodo talk 16:28, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
ArticleAlertBot has been non-functioning for several months. Can it either be revived or replaced? The most useful function is to alert Projects of articles within their scope which have been PRODded or sent to AfD. The big drive to clear out the backlog of UBLPs would be helped enormously if the Projects could have this function restored asap. Any chance someone could help?-- Plad2 ( talk) 18:05, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Bot Operators; I think I may have a task for one of you. The talk page banner {{
TrainsWikiProject}}
has a parameter |stations=yes
, which if present, marks the article as falling within
WP:STA. Unfortunately, in a significant number of cases, this parameter has been mis-entered as |Stations=yes
, which isn't recognised in the intended fashion.
The task: for all talk pages (associated with any namespace) bearing {{
TrainsWikiProject}}
, or any of its redirects, check within that banner template, and apply changes according to these rules:
|Stations=
is not present, do nothing and move on to the next page.|Stations=
is present, but |stations=
is not present, alter |Stations=
to |stations=
, retaining its existing value.|Stations=
and |stations=
are present, check their values according to the rules of {{
yesno|no=no}}
:
|Stations=
is "no", remove it whatever the value of |stations=
|stations=
is "yes", remove |Stations=
whatever its value|Stations=
is "yes", but |stations=
is "no", alter value of |stations=
to "yes" and remove |Stations=
Is that OK as a spec? (I have previously asked Adambro if AdambroBot could do it, but he's busy and pointed me here). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:38, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
|Stations=yes
|stations=yes
, this will now be passed on as |tf 1=yesyes
, which will be interpreted by {{
WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces}}
as "no". Further, the |stations=
parameter is also passed through to {{
WPBannerMeta/hooks/tfnested}}
, which you seem to have overlooked. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:52, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
We at ro.wp are currently in the process of changing the widely used, but incorrect Romanian diacritics (Ş,Ţ) with the correct, but somewhat less used versions (Ṣ,Ṭ). You can find more informations here and here. This creates serious problems for around 8% of the users, so we implemented some JS solutions for them. Unfortunately, it's not feasible to implement those at en.wp, so the incorrect diacritics should remain for a while.
However, it would be useful to have redirections made from S/T-comma titles to S/T-cedilla titles, so people with Win Vista/7 can write the titles directly and to keep the links from ro.wp in good order.
I have a pywikipedia robot that does the replacement for all the pages. Its code is available here. I was wondering if there was somebody with bot rights that was willing to run it? Thanks.-- Strainu ( talk) 10:33, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
How about we do this semi-manually? Based on your list, we could create the following lists:
I'll try to write some code and generate the lists today EET.-- Strainu ( talk) 08:45, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Here's a critical question: what about the body of articles? Unless we can determine the bot to perform changes within and throughout the articles, I for one advise against the change, at least for the time being. As for how to determine the articles, I find that WP:RO tags are a good guide (as re the WikiProject Moldova ones, btw!), and I could also suggest making the bot operate the changes in articles where both ş and ţ are present together (except perhaps the articles on these letters, where, say, Turkish and Romanian words are likely to be mixed together). I'm also positive that a bot operating changes for ş and ţ in articles which use ş, ţ, â, î and ă together will result in almost no errors.
Whatever the outcome and decision, I urge careful planning of the move, because the risk of ending up with a huge inconsistency is serious, and the task of fixing would be immense and annoying. As we speak, Romanian wikipedia itself is quite inconsistent. Dahn ( talk) 15:38, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I was able to identify 4968 articles that need redirects and 886 that don't need redirects. Unfortunately, logging of the leftovers failed, so I need to filter Anomie's list and then try to identify pages with {{ WikiProject Romania}}, {{ WPRO}}, {{ WikiProject Moldova}} or {{ WPMoldova}}.-- Strainu ( talk) 22:31, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
The 6814 remaining articles are at User:Strainu/leftover. I will continue filtering tonight.-- Strainu ( talk) 09:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I have applied all the filters described above, then took the pages by hand. The final result is here - around 9000 articles. If you see any obvious mistake, please go ahead and correct it.-- Strainu ( talk) 20:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | ← | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | Archive 36 | Archive 37 | Archive 38 | → | Archive 40 |
A daily Database report showing any articles found in the category of Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_April_2010, Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_May_2010 or Category:Unreferenced BLPs that where created after the 18th March 2010. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 12:50, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
As per a combined consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 33#Formal petition to change the naming conventions and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Season article task force#Discussion reinitiated, I request to have the league season articles in the category Category:Primera División Argentina (the specific articles being any with the "Primera División Argentina XXXX" format) be moved/renamed to this format: "XXXX Argentine Primera División". Feel free to contact me if there is any need for clarification. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 08:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Bot help is needed to tag circa 850 categories for renaming; see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 May 5#More settlements. Ideally, the bot would add (with an informative edit summary) the following code to each category:
{{subst:Cfr|''ProposedName''|More settlements}}
where ProposedName is the proposed new name of the category. A less-complex (and perhaps AWB-able) option is:
{{subst:Cfr||More settlements}}
Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 08:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like a bot to go through the following pages:
Then update the following template: Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Unreferenced BLP progress
Here are the rough rules for where to place the numbers:
The bot would tally up how many for each row for each month, then update the Totals row and Totals column. The sum of the totals row and the totals column should be identical. If a bot could update the table weekly, that would be very helpful. This is to serve as a more complete listing (this listing is about 3x larger) than the one generated by DASHbot as not all of the articles in this more complete list have had their talk pages marked as being part of WikiProject Japan. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:23, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Would someone please be willing to code a bot which would help to maintain CFD/W, including the following tasks:
User:MathBot performs a similar function at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, and the bot's code is available here. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 04:44, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
This request remains outstanding. (There's a more up-to-date list of templates to act on) SmackBot started the work, but has made no such edits for some months; repeated requests for it to restart have been to no avail. The original request was made in August 2008! I'd be grateful for some help, please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 09:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I request someone to be able to design a bot that would be able to arrange a list from this data source:
[1]. I did page one
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Global_Names_Index/A although when trying to update page 2 I am getting error messages and I figure doing it by hand would take too long anyway. I need someone who can make the lists in the same format as the first page I showed as an example on all the remaining pages (A2, A3, A4 ETC. then B, B2, B3, B4 ETC. ETC.). Any help with this would be much appreciated. Note that page A2 through to A10 and the first page of letters B to Z were done by hand but will need to be updated because the lists are from an old source (unfiltered name list). Cheers!
Calaka (
talk) 09:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
:{{
BOTREQ}}
CrimsonBlue (
talk) 21:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Can't figure it out, the list is too big, someone else can pick this up CrimsonBlue ( talk) 01:18, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Coren has closed the TFD on this template and has placed it in the holding cell. See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell. Is there a bot owner who could do this? Garion96 (talk) 17:50, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like a bot to run through all transclusions of {{
Infobox settlement}} in mainspace which do not have the coordinates_display=
parameter set. If the article lacks title coordinates, the parameter should be set to inline,title
. Pages lacking title coordinates can be identified by the fact that they transclude neither {{
Coord/display/inline,title}} nor {{
Coord/display/title}}. There was discussion about this at
Template_talk:Infobox_settlement#coordinates_display.3D, and I think all the concerns were addressed. --
Stepheng3 (
talk) 03:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Right now we generally have coordinates in place articles about twice, sometimes, three times. An effort on the part of the coord-aficionados, I guess. I don't suppose the bot can check for redundancies. It would be nicer to remove redundant coordinates or maybe all coordinates since I don't see the general use of them anyway. Maps are more useful IMO. Thanks. Student7 ( talk) 20:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that thousands of asteroid stubs were created with some incorrect capitalization, using the phrase, "Main-belt Asteroid" [5], or sometimes, "Main-belt asteroid". I am in the process now of correcting the capitalisation of these.
I am also fixing the links within, to reflect what is probably a move in an article title. These were originally wikilinked as [[Main-belt Asteroid]], and I am changing them to [[Asteroid belt|main belt]] [[asteroid]], as there is no article Main-belt Asteroid (it now redirects to Asteroid belt). My use of two links (one to Asteroid belt and one to asteroid) was just a personal choice, but one which I think benefits the reader.
Anyway, I've done several hundred of what are over 11,000 of these articles. Is there any way that a bot could be programmed to do what I have been doing? (Example: [6]) Thanks! 98.82.34.167 ( talk) 19:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I have just added a date requirement to {{ adoptoffer}} and there is no obvious way to persuade users to adapt to the changes quickly. Could someone use/adapt/create a bot to add it automatically? Every time the template is added to a page - which will add that page to Category:Undated adoption offers - it simply needs the text |month={{subt:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} inserted before the final }}. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 18:49, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
In a request similar to this one, I request to have the league season articles in the category Category:Primera División Uruguaya seasons (the specific articles being any with the "Primera División Uruguaya XXXX" format) be moved/renamed to this format: "XXXX Uruguayan Primera División". Feel free to contact me if there is any need for clarification. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 21:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Every instance of "is comprised of" can be replaced by "comprises". This improves clarity, parsimony, and grammatical correctness. Likewise "was comprised of" -> "comprised".
Hello!
I wanted to ask about this
archived discussion. I need now similar bot, but regarding this:
Template | Category |
---|---|
{{ WikiProject Serbia}} | Category:Serbia geography stubs |
{{ WikiProject Belgrade}} |
Category:Belgrade Including Subcategories |
In Geography stubs there are literary hundreds of untagged articles, and in Belgrade case, This WikiProject was relatively slow in past few years, so those tags are now needed to mark project scope. Also, second category can also include first template as well, as Belgrade is capital city of Serbia.
Thanks in advance! :) -- Tadija speaks 18:25, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
User:ArticleAlertbot has been inoperable for a month. Can we get a replacement?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 04:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Well could you still update the code? Toolserver access doesn't seem to be required for this, since B. Wolterding didn't have it. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:25, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
I just created {{ Caldwell catalogue}} and it needs to be placed on roughly 109 articles (a bit less, since some haven't yet been created). It would really help if a bot could go through all the Caldwell objects (which can be found in the navbox, or on Book:Caldwell catalogue) and add the navbox at the bottom of the page, as well as categorize them with [[Category:Caldwell objects|###]], where ### is the three digit number (Caldwell 1 = 001). BTW, sometimes the category may be present, so just overide it. The current scheme uses an innappropriate ## sorting rather than ### sorting, which leads to problem with C100 to C109. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Is there any chance of User:ArticleAlertbot being fixed or replaced? It was rather useful. The bot operator, User:B. Wolterding, has been absent a long time, only briefly appearing in March to run the cleanup bot; and doesn't have Email This User enabled. Don't suppose anyone has his contact details... Rd232 talk 10:55, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone write a GIMP bot that would perform certain automated tasks on an image based on a template such as "Gimpbot|autowhitebalance=yes"? Smallman12q ( talk) 20:32, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
please send me a bot ,But also tell me how to get the bot running send me the finished request At: http://debateyourcause.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Jesse9705
Hi, I wanted to write Wikipedia books on the nobel laureates, and having a bot write "first drafts" would be very helpful. It should be rather straightforward to implement. For example, on List of Nobel laureates in Physics, there is a table with the year, name/link, and reason for the prize. From this the bot could generate
{{saved book |title=Nobel Laureates in Physics |subtitle= |cover-image= |cover-color= }} = = Nobel Laureates in Physics = = ;Overview :[[Nobel Prize]] :[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] ;1901 :[[Wilhelm Röntgen|Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen]] ;1902 :[[Hendrik Lorentz]] :[[Pieter Zeeman]] ;1903 :[[Antoine Henri Becquerel]] :[[Pierre Curie]] :[[Marie Curie]] ...
The name of the laureate should appear as on the list, but it should be piped to the non-redirect. The result should be uploaded at Book:Nobel Prize in Physics (I've taken care of this one, but not the other disciplines). Likewise for List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry, List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, List of Nobel laureates in Literature, List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. This would be much appreciated and save me a lot of time. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I would like a bot to repair pages using the template redirects Template:Infobox Automobile generation and Template:Infobox automobile generation to instead use Template:Infobox automobile. OSX ( talk • contributions) 02:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
If you bring this to BRFA, I guarantee that you will need to cite a few discussions to prove that there is consensus for the task. Otherwise it will likely be denied because of the WP:NOTBROEKN thing. Tim 1357 talk 00:36, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Within the Infobox television template, there is a parameter named ‘status’ which contains many different comments (in production, canceled, hiatus, etc.). I would like to request a bot to scan articles using the Infobox television template with the purpose of creating a list of existing comments within the parameter, including frequency of use of each comment. A brief discussion of this issue can be found on the Template:Infobox television talk page here. Thanks. -- Logical Fuzz ( talk) 17:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Resolved, through a data dump Thank you. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:31, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd like a bot to go through the following pages:
Then update the following template: Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Unreferenced BLP progress
Here are the rough rules for where to place the numbers:
The bot would tally up how many for each row for each month, then update the Totals row and Totals column. The sum of the totals row and the totals column should be identical. If a bot could update the table weekly, that would be very helpful. This is to serve as a more complete listing (this listing is about 3x larger) than the one generated by DASHbot as not all of the articles in this more complete list have had their talk pages marked as being part of WikiProject Japan. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:22, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Could someone have a bot run over all transclusions of {{ Infobox German location}} and add a {{reflist}} if there isn't one? A new field, Gemeindeschlüssel, was recently added to the template which automatically adds a referenced population figure, but now some are showing reflist errors due to the missing reflist. Basically, if Gemeindeschlüssel is there (or if there are other refs), then a reflist is needed. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:19, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I just dropped a few in Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Holding_cell#To_Substitute. Basically, all the FA icon templates are to be replaced with {{icon|FA}}, the GA icons with {{icon|GA}}, and the FAC with {{icon|FAC}}. I replaced them all with stubs so that they can be safely substituted. I was going to do them myself, but I would rather not light up talk page notifications if it isn't necessary. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:59, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
It's a spanish word and there are plenty on English Wikipedia :
Thanks. LairepoNite ( talk) 12:25, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
German wikipedia uses databases for recent (December 2008) population numbers for municipalities in Germany. I already copied one of those database templates: {{ Metadata Population DE-SN}}. By using a municipality code from the German statistics office (the Gemeindeschlüssel) this template can provide the population for templates like {{ Infobox German location}}. I would like a bot to copy the "Gemeindeschlüssel" field from the Infobox Gemeinde in Deutschland templates in German wikipedia for all municipalities. For instance for the municipality Wachau, Saxony that would mean replacing "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 2 92 560" with "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14625600" from de:Wachau (Sachsen) (the code in English wikipedia is incorrect) and for Wiesensteig adding "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08117058" from de:Wiesensteig (no code given yet). This has to be done for all articles in the categories Category:Cities in Germany, Category:Towns in Germany, Category:Municipalities of Germany and their first degree subcategories. That's about 11,500 articles. Could a bot do this? Markussep Talk 17:49, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
As noted at Commons:Robert Lavinsky, recently over 35,000 images of minerals have been donated to the Commons with more to come. I thought it might be a useful idea to have a bot search Wikipedia for articles corresponding to the mineral name appearing in the images and add one image to the article if there are currently no images included (or even add a gallery as many minerals have multiple images). The caption wouldn't be very difficult as they all come from the same place and the image description pages contain standardized information. I have no bot skills whatever so this would be for someone else to do if they were so inclined. I have no idea of feasibility, or if this would be hard to program. Just a thought.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:10, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
When a talk page is moved, its archives and archive index should be moved too. Also, its archive bot settings, such as miszabot config, need to be updated with the new page title in at least one field, sometimes more. What sparked this idea was the recent mass-retitling of MoS pages, which constitutes a lot of pages to move and settings to update. It would seem a continuously-running bot might also be beneficial in general for this though, for any time talk pages get moved, as the archives and archive bot settings often go overlooked for some time after. Equazcion (talk) 15:56, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
This may sound a bit stupid but I think a bot which automatically detects changes to averages on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes could be useful so that the critical reception areas of these articles is fully up to date. While it may seem like a stupid idea, actions speak louder than words... Trey lander 17:40, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I just had an idea. All signposts issues are in this (or similar) format: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-01-10
These could easily be shoved into books, which could then be read as a PDFs, or be printed out for offline reading. See for example Book:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-01-10.
The general structure of these books would be
{{saved book |title=Wikipedia Signpost |subtitle=DD Month YYYY |cover-image=WikipediaSignpostIcon.svg |cover-color=White }} = =The Wikipedia Signpost= = = = =DD Month YYYY= = = :[[Wikipedia:Wikipidia Signpost/YYYY-MM-DD/FOOBAR1|Foobar 1]] :[[Wikipedia:Wikipidia Signpost/YYYY-MM-DD/FOOBAR2|Foobar 2]] ... [[Category:Wikipedia books on the Wikipedia Signpost|YYYY-MM-DD]]
Where the various FOOBARs and foobars are the links and the pipes found on their respective Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/YYYY-MM-DD page. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:07, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
{{
WBOOKS|class=book}}
.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 19:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)I'd like to point out that thousands of asteroid stubs were created with some incorrect capitalization, using the phrase, "Main-belt Asteroid" [7], or sometimes, "Main-belt asteroid". I am in the process now of correcting the capitalisation of these.
I am also fixing the links within, to reflect what is probably a move in an article title. These were originally wikilinked as [[Main-belt Asteroid]], and I am changing them to [[Asteroid belt|main belt]] [[asteroid]], as there is no article Main-belt Asteroid (it now redirects to Asteroid belt). My use of two links (one to Asteroid belt and one to asteroid) was just a personal choice, but one which I think benefits the reader.
Anyway, I've done several hundred of what are over 11,000 of these articles. Is there any way that a bot could be programmed to do what I have been doing? (Example: [8]) Thanks! 98.82.34.167 ( talk) 19:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
We'd like a bot which creates in advance the daily subpage of Template:TFA title with the TFA title, which can be retrieved from the daily TFA template, Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 30, 2024. See Template talk:TFA-editnotice#Proposed alternative display for the discussion. Thanks, Cenarium ( talk) 16:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Anyone? It's a very simple, non-critical job:
Amalthea 11:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Template:Infobox ice hockey player was just modified so that the player's name appears at the top of the infobox. When the infobox contains no "name" field, the default is the PAGENAME. (Most infoboxes currently lack this name field.) One of the annoyances is that articles where the title is disambiguated, e.g. Doug Harvey (ice hockey), will display the disambiguator at the top of the infobox. (see this version of the Doug Harvey article. So we're requesting a bot to go through the articles in which the template is transcluded, find those with some sort of "(ice hockey)" or "(ice hockey b. xxxx)" disambiguation and a the proper "name" field in the infobox. I'm willing to double check the results manually. Pichpich ( talk) 14:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
ThePPN ( http://wiki.theppn.org/) was a Wiki about Japanese pop culture that went offline a few years ago, but some articles here still link to it or use it as a source. There aren't many articles, but at 143, I'm too lazy to remove them myself. I would appreceate it if someone could run a bot to remove all of these. Note that some use an interwiki link such as "[[ThePPN: Sexy 8 Beat]]". Thanks! Sorafune +1 23:58, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
{{subst:Cfr|''ProposedName''|Many more settlements}}
{{subst:Cfr||Many more settlements}}
Currently at WP:DERM we have a small section providing links to various data, but I wanted to know if someone would help us expand that section to provide more types of interesting data that people can use? Any help creating regularly and automatically generated types of project data would be great. Overall, I would love to provide readers with data that be be used to track the project growth/development. I am not sure if automatically generated and updated graphs are possible on wikipedia, but, if so, trending data with charts would be very cool. Perhaps someone could help create a "Dermatology task force bot" to perform tasks like this? Regardless, thank you all for your work on Wikipedia. --- kilbad ( talk) 17:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
I seem to remember that there was a bot that checked images that had been copied to Commons with a new name (like File:010 Training Camp.jpg -> File:Lovie Smith Training Camp.jpg), and would then adjust the text of the articles to point at the new image. I don't think this is still happening. The process of moving images to Commons is very time-consuming, and letting a bot handle this step is very helpful. It is also important that this bot runs at least once a day, because sometimes the admins don't check image links when deleting these images (there is a huge deletion backlog for these images), and then the article editors will never know what happened to the image. I was going to suggest User:Erwin85Bot for this, as this bot processes the exact same images to notify the original uploader of the new location, but this bot seems to be blocked right now. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 09:13, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Several old signpost articles are not as technically refined as today's Signposts. This creates a lot of problem in the book versions of the Signpost and in the PDFs of these articles. I found a couple of things that could be fixed with simple find/replace logic.
1) Replace
<noinclude>[[Image:WikipediaSignpostVertical.svg|right|The Wikipedia Signpost]]</noinclude>
with
<noinclude>{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Long-image}}</noinclude>
2) Replace
<noinclude> <center><small> Also this week: ... </small></center> </noinclude>
with
<noinclude> <center><small>{{hide in print|1= Also this week: ... }}</small></center> </noinclude>
See
this for an example of text that needs to be cleaned up. I may have more find/replace logic in the future, but for the moment these are the only issues I am aware of that requires such a fix.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 17:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes, the "Also this week" may come as
<center><small>{{subst:Signpost1-15}}</small></center>
or similar. In this case, it should be replaced with
<noinclude><center><small>{{subst:Signpost1-15}}</small></center></noinclude>
And
<noinclude>[[Category:Exclude in print]]</noinclude>
should be added to {{ Signpost1-15}} (and equivalents). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:26, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
As part of ongoing reorganization of the Wikipedia-Books category tree, Category:Wikipedia books is being converted into a container category and should contain only subcategories, a few directly related pages, and books which have yet to be categorized into a topic-specific category.
Categorization of user books by topic was deprecated per a recently-closed CFD discussion and, by extension, Category:Wikipedia books should be emptied of all user books (this will not leave them uncategorized as they are all also in Category:Wikipedia books (user books)). Does anyone have a bot which could remove all 974 user books in the category while leaving pages in the Book: and Category: namespaces for manual sorting? -- Black Falcon ( talk) 19:24, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I propose an adminbot to perform simple history merges from candidates found in this list. A few years ago I may have attempted this bot myself, but I now do not have the time to program and run it.
The bot would perform the following operations:
I propose the following steps to do the history merge:
The effects of these steps are as follows:
-- CapitalR ( talk) 22:43, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
This request is about invocations of Template:Start date and age Please, do the following:
Thanks. SkyBon Talk/ Contributions 13:10, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
There are 6,264 images in Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons. The majority of these images have moved by an automatic script, and so keep all of the licensing, description, attribution, etc on the Commons version. Since only admins can delete these images, the backlog will always be a problem. Could a bot not go to the Commons version of the image, check for commons:Template:BotMoveToCommons, or otherwise manually check to see if the licensing and information matches the enwiki version, and then delete the it? Nautica Shad es 00:02, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed -- Chris 10:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Since John Bot II was blocked indefinitely, the images will remain forever in this category. Is someone else willing to move them to Commons using a bot? -- Leyo 21:38, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
A bot has been requested here to update the TFA tallies at the top of Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. It would be similar to User:X!/RfX Report. ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐) 02:16, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
The previous bot request petered out due to issues with the bot operator. I'd like a bot to go through the following pages:
Then update the following template: Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Unreferenced BLP progress
Here are the rough rules for where to place the numbers:
The bot would tally up how many for each row for each month, then update the Totals row and Totals column. The sum of the totals row and the totals column should be identical. If a bot could update the table weekly, that would be very helpful. This is to serve as a more complete listing (this listing is about 3x larger) than the one generated by DASHbot as not all of the articles in this more complete list have had their talk pages marked as being part of WikiProject Japan. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 17:33, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
There are articles for every line of latitude and longitude, and almost none of them have assessment tags. Could someone please go through Category:Lines of longitude and Category:Lines of latitude and add:{{WPcoord}} {{WikiProject Geography|class= |importance=low}}. It would be useful if you also auto add stub and start class based on article length. I would do it myself, but my Windows emulator is being screwy, so I can't run AWB. Thank you. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 21:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
There's one question that came up in the bot request, would you like articles to be automatically assessed as stub if they are very short? The bot can't assess as start because, as I mentioned before, this requires sourcing which the bot cannot check, but it can assess as stub. Perhaps you could ask WikiProject Geography if they assess stubs based on length. Anyway I'll wait for your reply at the request for approval before proceeding. - EdoDodo talk 17:15, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Doing... - EdoDodo talk 14:20, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
There are still zillions of HKT-related articles not yet tagged with {{ WikiProject Hong Kong Transport}} banner. will a bot please tag all the talk pages with both the WPHK template and the bus/aviation/rail etc WikiProjects templates with that template. Class can be found with reference with the other banners. Importance can be judged by category; for example, minor MTR stops (like Locwood or Pui To) can be classified as 'low'. Thanks in advance Kayau Voting IS evil 06:42, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
On Wikipedia we have hundreds of thousands of BLPs, thousands of the people who are the subjects of these articles die every year. It is very likely that we have thousands of longdead people still tagged as living on EN Wiki.
I would like a bot that:
I'm assuming that this bot would require a table on Meta with the relevant categories on the various language wikis, and could then become a multi wiki project with all wikis who have a bio on an individual getting such a database report listing people now marked as dead on other wikis. But it would be nice to start on EN Wiki first. Ϣere SpielChequers 14:18, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
There is a wiki dedicated to List articles only. [10] There are a lot of list articles on Wikipedia. Using the Wikipedia search [11] I find 691,380 articles with "List of" at the start of their name. Going through Google [12] searching just the Wikipedia site for "list of" it gives me "about 4,610,000 results". Sometimes that number is less though, and it may be including all the times someone links to a "list of" article and whatnot. Unless someone makes a bot for this, that's a whole lot of work to get done. List articles are constantly being sent to AFD, and many are being deleted, lost forever for those who find such things interesting and useful for research. Please, help save these poor unfortunate articles find a new home, where they'll be safe. Dream Focus 17:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
If there are no licensing issues then I think this could be done using Special:Export to export a list of pages here, and then Special:Import to import the pages there. No special rights necessary here, you'll probably have to be administrator+ to import over there. - EdoDodo talk 09:52, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Due to the large number of articles involved, I'd like to request a bot that would take all articles that are on the uncategorized articles toolserver and in Category:Main Belt asteroid stubs (stub categories don't count as "categorized"), and add Category:Main Belt asteroids to those articles. I don't know if a bot that could do this job already exists, or if a new one would need to be programmed. Thanks. Bearcat ( talk) 04:32, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Done ~3,500 were categorised. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Trial#Bots for the requested bot tasks, if they are possible. It's reporting certain type of edits and holding statistics. Cenarium ( talk) 18:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Template:Commons category (see redirects) is one of the most-transcluded templates on en.wikipedia, with 185,000+ transclusions. My impression, gained from browsing category pages, is that a not-insignificant number of these transclusions point to pages which do not exist on Commons.
Could a bot check transclusions of the template and:
Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 00:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
The newly created WikiProject Disability requests that a bot be tasked to place the Project template {{WikiProject Disability}} on all articles in the [[Category:Disability]] and all subcategories. I don't see any subcategories that I think should be excluded but if anyone disagrees, please say so. Roger ( talk) 08:50, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Once you've decided on the list of categories to run the bot through I'll be quite happy to do this using DodoBot, I have just a few more questions. Would you like the class (B, C, Start, etc.) to be automatically inherited from other WikiProjects? Also, would you like articles to automatically be assessed as stubs if they contain {{ Stub}} (or another stub template)? And lastly, would you like articles to be automatically assessed as stubs if they are below a certain length (I would suggest 2500 bytes, but its up to you and the rest of the project)? Once you've got all the details sorted out drop a message here and I'll do it for you as soon as possible. - EdoDodo talk 14:16, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
We've been working on some overhauls to {{ infobox road}}, and part of this process has deprecated some parameter names. Articles with these parameters are populating Category:Infobox road transclusions with deprecated parameters. These parameter names come from the merger of several, older templates together into the current infobox. Going forward, we're streamlining support to a single set of parameter names. The # in a few of the parameters could be a number from 1 to 4 since the template can support up to 4 sections for roads that exit in multiple segments.
Params to be deprecated | Alternate names for... |
---|---|
highway_name | name |
year_established | established formed |
starting_terminus from starting_terminus# from# |
terminus_a terminus_a# |
ending_terminus to ending_terminus# to# |
terminus_b terminus_b# |
parent | spur_of |
parent_type | spur_type |
There are other deprecated parameters that have placed articles in the category, but they'll need manual conversion. Any assistance with this project is appreciated. Imzadi 1979 → 06:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
We'd need a bot which updates the number of articles under pending changes and a bot which reports certain kind of edits if possible, please see Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Trial#Bots. The trial will begin in a few hours. Cenarium ( talk) 17:46, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to request that all links to "Duck family" get reresolved into Duck family (Disney) to clear the way for reusing it as a dab page, since people are equally likely to be looking up information about real duck family groupings, or the taxonomic family for ducks. On a Google search, most hits come up about real duck family groupings for the term.
70.29.212.131 ( talk) 04:16, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Consensus has been reached at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles#Should all GAs have the GA symbol on the article page? to place the GA symbol ({{ Good article}}) on GAs. Could a bot add the symbol to all GAs (listed at WP:GA) and ideally also periodically check afterward whether all articles listed there have the symbol? Thanks, Ucucha 12:38, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, if the bot checks the English GAs, why not have it do a check on foreign GAs along with that, adding {{ Link GA}} with the appropriate language parameter? I know that the German and Persian wikis have bots do that and I saw it discussed in MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive 14 where someone wrote down a code. Hekerui ( talk) 16:21, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Of course WikiProject Good Article would have consensus to implement this. That doesn't mean there is community consensus, however. I don't think this should be implemented without more input from the broader community. Kaldari ( talk) 21:13, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Excellent, I was going to request this actually. It might actually also encourage more people to develop GAs. Is this a good idea though if the good article marker can be removed from the article? It ought to be fixed I think. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:28, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
(outdent)I'm sorry; I didn't mean to imply that we need to actively seek more consensus...seems like that would be akin to flogging a dead horse, if you'll forgive the expression. I just want to be sure that we have it before I start making a request for approval. As I was writing this, though, I discovered that the template is currently at TfD, so I won't be getting the ok from the BAG anytime soon. Once that is settled (and hopefully the template is kept), I'll be able to request approval for a bot. Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 23:25, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Where is this template supposed to be placed? I tried to update the manual to be more specific by adding " ... before defaultsort, categories and interwikis." here and here. The reason was that User:Koavf added more than 400 templates at the very bottom. I contacted them in their talk page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:55, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Is there still a need for a bot to do anything, now that the GAs have (nearly) all been tagged semi-automatically? Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 03:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone considered writing a bot that automatically adds portals to articles?
There are often groups of articles that need portals to be added, i.e. many Mexico-related articles are missing Mexico portal tags. I would like a bot that would allow these tags to be massively placed in many articles at once. Also it would be nice to write the bot to allow two or more portal tags to be added to one or many articles (i.e. "Mexico" and "Aviation")
WhisperToMe ( talk) 03:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
BRFA filed Still have some doubts about the placement of {{ Portal}} in certain situations, see the BRFA. - EdoDodo talk 06:20, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Might it be possible for someone to replace the 241 uses of {{
WikiProject International law}} with {{
WikiProject International relations|law=yes}}
, or when the later template already exists, to add |law=yes? Thanks you, bot people!—Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Arctic.gnome (
talk •
contribs) 08:46, 18 June 2010
Doing... -
EdoDodo
talk 16:21, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Not done I decided to check if this change had the consensus of the relevant WikiProjects, and it seems that you made all the changes to the templates yourself, and without discussion. If there is a relevant discussion that shows consensus of the WikiProjects then please point me to it, because I'm not going to proceed to make bot edits to a bunch of pages until I can see clear consensus. If there is no discussion then please start one so I can see that this change has been agreed. Thank you. - EdoDodo talk 16:28, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
ArticleAlertBot has been non-functioning for several months. Can it either be revived or replaced? The most useful function is to alert Projects of articles within their scope which have been PRODded or sent to AfD. The big drive to clear out the backlog of UBLPs would be helped enormously if the Projects could have this function restored asap. Any chance someone could help?-- Plad2 ( talk) 18:05, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Bot Operators; I think I may have a task for one of you. The talk page banner {{
TrainsWikiProject}}
has a parameter |stations=yes
, which if present, marks the article as falling within
WP:STA. Unfortunately, in a significant number of cases, this parameter has been mis-entered as |Stations=yes
, which isn't recognised in the intended fashion.
The task: for all talk pages (associated with any namespace) bearing {{
TrainsWikiProject}}
, or any of its redirects, check within that banner template, and apply changes according to these rules:
|Stations=
is not present, do nothing and move on to the next page.|Stations=
is present, but |stations=
is not present, alter |Stations=
to |stations=
, retaining its existing value.|Stations=
and |stations=
are present, check their values according to the rules of {{
yesno|no=no}}
:
|Stations=
is "no", remove it whatever the value of |stations=
|stations=
is "yes", remove |Stations=
whatever its value|Stations=
is "yes", but |stations=
is "no", alter value of |stations=
to "yes" and remove |Stations=
Is that OK as a spec? (I have previously asked Adambro if AdambroBot could do it, but he's busy and pointed me here). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:38, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
|Stations=yes
|stations=yes
, this will now be passed on as |tf 1=yesyes
, which will be interpreted by {{
WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces}}
as "no". Further, the |stations=
parameter is also passed through to {{
WPBannerMeta/hooks/tfnested}}
, which you seem to have overlooked. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:52, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
We at ro.wp are currently in the process of changing the widely used, but incorrect Romanian diacritics (Ş,Ţ) with the correct, but somewhat less used versions (Ṣ,Ṭ). You can find more informations here and here. This creates serious problems for around 8% of the users, so we implemented some JS solutions for them. Unfortunately, it's not feasible to implement those at en.wp, so the incorrect diacritics should remain for a while.
However, it would be useful to have redirections made from S/T-comma titles to S/T-cedilla titles, so people with Win Vista/7 can write the titles directly and to keep the links from ro.wp in good order.
I have a pywikipedia robot that does the replacement for all the pages. Its code is available here. I was wondering if there was somebody with bot rights that was willing to run it? Thanks.-- Strainu ( talk) 10:33, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
How about we do this semi-manually? Based on your list, we could create the following lists:
I'll try to write some code and generate the lists today EET.-- Strainu ( talk) 08:45, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Here's a critical question: what about the body of articles? Unless we can determine the bot to perform changes within and throughout the articles, I for one advise against the change, at least for the time being. As for how to determine the articles, I find that WP:RO tags are a good guide (as re the WikiProject Moldova ones, btw!), and I could also suggest making the bot operate the changes in articles where both ş and ţ are present together (except perhaps the articles on these letters, where, say, Turkish and Romanian words are likely to be mixed together). I'm also positive that a bot operating changes for ş and ţ in articles which use ş, ţ, â, î and ă together will result in almost no errors.
Whatever the outcome and decision, I urge careful planning of the move, because the risk of ending up with a huge inconsistency is serious, and the task of fixing would be immense and annoying. As we speak, Romanian wikipedia itself is quite inconsistent. Dahn ( talk) 15:38, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I was able to identify 4968 articles that need redirects and 886 that don't need redirects. Unfortunately, logging of the leftovers failed, so I need to filter Anomie's list and then try to identify pages with {{ WikiProject Romania}}, {{ WPRO}}, {{ WikiProject Moldova}} or {{ WPMoldova}}.-- Strainu ( talk) 22:31, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
The 6814 remaining articles are at User:Strainu/leftover. I will continue filtering tonight.-- Strainu ( talk) 09:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I have applied all the filters described above, then took the pages by hand. The final result is here - around 9000 articles. If you see any obvious mistake, please go ahead and correct it.-- Strainu ( talk) 20:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)