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True, we have ClueBot III and MiszaBot, but they're not user-friendly. We should have a more user-friendly archive bot that does not overwhelm users with syntax. RussianReversal ( talk) 02:34, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps make a PHP script that generates the code for them. The user the user simply select the options they want, and then copies the code to their talk page. -- Chris 11:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I often see adverbs ending in -ly as part of compound modifiers which are incorrectly hyphenated, e.g. "a highly-motivated Wikipedian" should be just "a highly motivated Wikipedian". It seems like a simple regex could search for this pattern and correct it in a semi-automated fashion. Are there bots available to do this already or should I make a new one? (I am proficient in C# .NET). Thanks. - Cwenger ( talk) 00:39, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
That one never quite got the job done, and its runner was talented, so we need someone who really knows there stuff. Probably also someone who is willing to license their bot code under a free license in case they don't want to run it. Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 06:21, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
(redent) Wow!! You're on it. WP thanks you for looking into all this. In the short term, if we can get a bot that works, that should take care of it. After that, I guess we talk to the foundation. I'll drop a pointer to this discussion on Jimbo's page. Maybe that will do something. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:12, 28 June 2010 (UTC) Still digesting what you said, but prioritizing FAs on down is a great idea. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:14, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Please write a bot (or add functionality to an existing bot) to track deprods per Wikipedia_talk:Edit_filter/Archive_4#Filter_200.2C_or_should_the_EF_be_engaged_to_track_non-abusive.2C_non-.22wrong.22_edits.3F. A typical behavior of simply reverting addition of a PROD should be trackable, and the articles that happens to should get more attention (say via a category or listing on a page), possibly resulting in an AfD nomination as a contested PROD. Thanks! — Jeff G. ツ 20:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I have created a new
WikiProject Football France task force and now a load of existing articles need tagging on the talk page. I am currently finding articles already tagged with the {{
Football}} or {{
WikiProject Football}} templates, and adding the parameter France=yes
. Using AWB, I have tagged around 500 of these but it's getting tedious so I wonder whether a bot could do the same job? I am currently performing a normal regex find & replace for ({{\s*)([Ff]ootball)(\s*(?:\s*|⌊⌊⌊⌊M?\d+⌋⌋⌋⌋\s*)?(\|((?>[^\{\}]+|\{(?<DEPTH>)|\}(?<-DEPTH>))*(?(DEPTH)(?!))))?)\}\}
or ({{\s*)([Ww]ikiProject Football)(\s*(?:\s*|⌊⌊⌊⌊M?\d+⌋⌋⌋⌋\s*)?(\|((?>[^\{\}]+|\{(?<DEPTH>)|\}(?<-DEPTH>))*(?(DEPTH)(?!))))?)\}\}
and replacing with $1$2$3|France=yes}}
. Any talk pages already tagged with the France=yes parameter need skipping. I would like the bot to do this on all articles in the categories
Category:French footballers,
Category:Footballers in France by club and
Category:French football managers. Cheers,
Big
Dom 07:28, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Doing... on DodoBot. There's a fairly large number of pages, so probably won't be done till this evening or even tomorrow. - EdoDodo talk 09:23, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Can a bot tag all duplicates from Commons that do not have {{ NowCommons}} with NowCommons? Also, any images that are OLDER on Commons should be tagged with {{ Db-f8}}, explaining in the text of the tag that the Commons version is older. There is no realistic circumstance where an image is older on Commons and should still be here. The bot should skip images with {{ NoCommons}}, {{ C-uploaded}}, and {{ M-cropped}}. CommonsClash - Tool listing duplicates on the English language Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Backlog on 9 May: about 34.000 media files. Less than half of these images are marked in any way as duplicates. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 13:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Note, for whoever does this, don't rely on the hash values of the images to check, there is no guarantee that they will be there for older images or that they will be the same (for example, if someone cropped off whitespace or the likes/colour corrects etc), You should also check the height/width attributes of the images before tagging, and the template that is placed should have a bot switch so the admin that does delete can clearly see that it is a bot check and can pay more attention to it. Peachey88 ( Talk Page · Contribs) 08:34, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Administrator User:Fuhghettaboutit referred me here after I posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) about the fact that Wikipedia:Dusty articles page hasn't been updated since 15 Feb 2010. He informed me that User:DustyBot went offline at that date, and its operator, User:Wronkiew, has not edited any pages since 4 July 2009.
I would like to know if it is possible to get another bot to update Wikipedia:Dusty articles, as it was a useful tool to help keep articles clean and updated. -- Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 07:53, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
It seems that Svick has opened a BRFA for a bot to do this task. - EdoDodo talk 16:12, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
I have been working on fast distributed algorithms for classification, clustering, and collaborative filtering and I want to build a proof of concept to demonstrate the value such deep analytics can provide. My first thought was to leverage the Wikipedia articles and create a mashup that allows social networks and customer behavior to collaboratively filter Wiki content. I just got started to see what tools exist to interact with the Wikipedia content and found the bots and different bot frameworks.
The mash-up I have in mind would only read Wiki content and social network user management and behavior logging would be handled in a side channel.
Is that an idea that has been suggested or done? If yes, would you be so kind to educate me [User:Tomtzigt] and point me to the principals. If not, what are the thoughts about such functionality? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomtzigt ( talk • contribs) 22:32, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Can somebody make a bot that adds the article milestones to a page whenever a peer review, good article review, featured article review, etc are done?-- Iankap99 ( talk) 07:08, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I've never written a bot before, so probably this should be considered a request for someone else to write a bot.
I think it would be useful to automatically add links from all the species information pages of the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) to the appropriate Wikipedia species pages (see links from http://www.hear.org/species/). The information necessary to do this (species name [& family] & URL of the species info page) is available via relational database (so could be provided as XML or whatever). Species that don't exist as pages already on Wikipedia should probably just be ignored (because the HEAR database includes many older/non-current names), but if there were a bot that could add links to existing pages it could be run periodically to update Wikipedia. (It would need to check to ensure that the link doesn't already exist on the Wikipedia page.) It could add the links to the "references" or "other links" site (or go through an appropriate list of headings & auto-add to the appropriate heading if it exists, else create a new heading if it doesn't).
Additionally, similar auto-gen'd links could be added specifically for IMAGES for other HEAR pages (e.g., see links from http://www.hear.org/starr/images/?o=plants).
Anyone interested in helping me work on this?
Aloha, Philip Thomas pt@philipt.com (aka webmaster@hear.org)
i need a bot that detects spam and bad words and reports them to the wikia founder, the page with it and the user who wrote it. It also does writing stuff on lots of pages quickly.
The Vitis International Variety Catalogue web site is used as a reference in many articles covered by WikiProject Wine. It is primarily used as a reference in grape articles for pedigrees and synonyms. The web site has had its name/URL changed. It is now vivc.de instead of vivc.bafz.de, as the bafz.de domaine has been deactivated.
Removing the "bafz" part seems to restore proper links; it seems that the index for database entries is unchanged. Due to the sheer number of links to change (see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:LinkSearch&target=*.vivc.bafz.de), this task is best suited to a bot such as DeadLinkBOT or Polbot. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 20:42, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
DustyBot formerly did the important job of keeping English Wikipedia Featured Pictures noted as such on Commons. I'd like to request a bot to do the following, in order to replace it:
Main tasks
1. [Once a week to once a month] Go through all images in Category:Featured pictures, and, if the images are on Commons as well, mark them with {{Assessments|enwiki=1}}, if no Assessments tag exists already; otherwise, add the enwiki=1 parameter to the existing Assessments tag.
2. [Once a week to once a month] Go through all files in Category:Featured sounds, same as above, only use enwiki=3 instead.
Optional extras [Only do these if not too much trouble]:
A. [Once a day] Attempt to keep up with new FPs, with a daily check of the archives for the current month and [if near the start of a month] the previous. These archives are always of the form Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/July-2010. They contain transcluded nominations; those that are promoted will almost always contain the exact text: {{FPCresult|Promoted|File:FILENAME.EXT}} - e.g. {{FPCresult|Promoted|File:Ardea modesta.jpg}} would tell you that File:Ardea modesta.jpg had been promoted. Featured sounds are a much slower process (as well as lacking a standardised closing), and so can likely be skipped for this.
B. [Once a month] Check featured pictures appear in articles, leave a note on WT:FPC if there are any that miss this requirement.
C. [Once a month] Collate Featured pictures thumbs, the Featured picture pages, and Category:Featured pictures; leave a note (on WT:FPC) if any appear in one or two of them, but not all three. This would indicate a mistake was made in closing or delisting, and should be dealt with manually.
This would be extremely helpful to our featured media projects. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 00:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible for someone to do a quick check through Category:Merge by month for two things:
Just create a subpage in my userspace and inform me if you can. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 18:51, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Please move Category:Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i players to Category:Ulsan Hyundai FC players. This Korean association football club's official name is changed from Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i to Ulsan Hyundai FC.
Category:Cryptozoology requires a bot to automatically update its list of relevant articles...--Gniniv ( talk) 10:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
The scientific names of species and genera are italicised by convention. There are vrious ways of doing this. See a discussion about it that started at WikiProject Arthropods. In short there are various templates and work arounds to acheive it. I started a process of adding "{{italictitle}}" to relevant pages using AWB, but it's takes a while. As suggested by other project participants, here's a bot request. (I couldn't find anything suitable at the Bot status page.
The bot would need to check whether any of the "genus", "species", or "binomial" parameters specified in the Taxobox template exactly match the title of the page. If it does, the bot should prepend the page with "{{italic title}}". There are two forms of the template: "{{italictitle}}" and "{{italic title}}". The bot should prepend with the latter. (I've just discovered this morning that "{{italic title}}" is the active form.
Of course, the bot should ignore any article containing "{{italictitle}}" or "{{italic title}}".
Lastly, some pages will achieve the italic title by using the "DISPLAYTITLE" magic word. If possible, it would be better to delete lines of text containing "DISPLAYTITLE" and replacing with "{{italic title}}". Otherwise, ignore pages containing "DISPLAYTITLE".
Although this started as a conversation in WikiProject Arthropods, the issue exists through all WikiProjects under the WikiProject Tree of Life. Thus, there is no need to limit the bot to particular categories or other article classifications.
I don't know how often the bot should run, but suggest that something like weekly would be enough (if it even works that way).
Happy to assist with any clarification, testing and refinement required. Heds ( talk) 00:35, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
|name=Chinchilla
and the taxobox and article titles will not be italicized.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk) 20:00, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
|binomial=
, |trinomial=
, or |genus=
equals {{
PAGENAME}}, unless a parameter is set (for example, |ital=no). There are other problems, though, with articles with parentheses in the page title (for example,
Ambondro (genus)). That leaves us with the question of what this will do to improve the current situation.
Ucucha 19:22, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
In my opinion, although it is very clever coding that makes the taxobox force an italic title, it is a barrier to understanding. The down-side to {{ Italic title}} is that people then copy the syntax to articles about poems, books etc. where we had (maybe still have) consensus not to use italics. Rich Farmbrough, 11:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC).
Hello. Could someone program a bot to replace " List of hydroelectric power stations" with " List of conventional hydroelectric power stations"? The page was recently moved and is now a disambiguation page. Thanks. Rehman( +) 12:16, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
WP:WikiProject Cryptozoology needs a bot to tag articles of interest to the project.--Gniniv ( talk) 11:17, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the help! We need tags on Category:Dragons and Category:Mythology.--Gniniv ( talk) 07:05, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Stagecraft now has a newsletter. Requesting a bot, or suggestions of a pre-existing one, which can deliver notifications of new issues to membership. DJSparky huh? 21:47, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
The interwiki links of other language sisters of the article Common periwinkle are in many cases rather incomplete. The probable reason is that many of them referred to the wrongly capitalised redirect side Common Periwinkle instead. I've corrected this link by hand in the various language versions, and hoped that some iw bot would catch this, and update the respective iw links lists. This has not happened; I do not know why.
Hence, I wonder if someone could put their iw bot on Common periwinkle, updating it, as if all its iw links were new.
If this is the wrong place to ask for this assistance, please give me a hint of where I should make it. (This is not a request for a new 'bot; nor for a modification of existing ones, unless the reason for no bot to react was some easily identifiable deficiency.)
Best, JoergenB ( talk) 16:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I wish to implement SineBot on other Wikipedias/Wikiprojects, most notably the simple:Simple English Wikipedia. See the discussion here. :| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 20:11, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
This template should either always be substed or not exist. At the moment, it's transcluded on 700+ pages which is clearly not necessary. Axem Titanium ( talk) 09:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
|official_name = {{PAGENAME}}
--
Bojan
Talk 07:48, 5 August 2010 (UTC)I would like a bot to check all articles that transclude {{ No footnotes}} and do the following:
The first part can be done with AWB and my bot, Yobot, has approval for auto-tagging and can do it but I am not sure about the second part so I would like help on that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:45, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>{{cite
), anythings else is prone to errors because of the things that
H3llkn0wz mentioned. -
EdoDodo
talk 13:03, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot called: BeamerBot. I was requesting for a bot because I was going to use it for warnings of not tolerated Wikipedia rules. Regards, Beamer103 18:03, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
<br> is the form currently to be used per WP:LINEBREAK and the explanation here. However, many, many articles on the English Wikipedia, including guidelines, essays, and other docs in the "Wikipedia:" and "Template:" subspaces, still use <br /> (probably also <br/>). It's a simple replacing task, so a bot makes the most sense to use here. Prime Blue ( talk) 11:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
The MediaWiki software automatically converts <br> or <br/> into <br /> so that it follows proper XHTML rules. I used to razz on users for this until I found that out. – MuZemike 13:17, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Found
this older discussion. More people were leaning towards using <br>
, but there was no definite result on what to use. My gripe was just with how the different versions across pages confuse editors.
Prime Blue (
talk) 17:30, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
From what I'm seeing in this discussion, it seems that there isn't very strong consensus either way, so perhaps it would be better to do nothing. It's a fairly trivial change anyway, since as mentioned the MediaWiki software will change it automatically. - EdoDodo talk 12:17, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Please can someone convert album and single lengths, inside {{ Infobox album}} and {{ Track listing}}, to use {{ Duration}}. Here's a sample edit.
If you like, at the same time convert {{
Singles}}' release date to use {{
Start date}}, as in the same edit, but only if {{Start date}}
is already in use (or converted at the same time) for the main album release date. df=y must be used where appropriate.
This will allow dates and durations to be emitted as metadata. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 00:32, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Metacritic has changed their site's design and URLs, in a way shown at this . In general, it looks like the URL change is just the entry page's product title with dashes between spaces. Dan56 ( talk) 11:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just done the page move mentioned in this section title, to turn the basic title into a dab page - the Canadian district is one of several Hamilton Wests, but not the one which garners the most ghits or wikipage hits. Unfortunately, it is the one with the most internal links. I've moved all the "Hamilton West" links that were not about Canada but were meant to point to the Hamilton West in New Zealand, or the one in Scotland, or the Nicaraguan footballer - but that leaves about 120 internal links to the Canadian electorate. Could I please get someone to run a bot to dab the links currently to Hamilton West, all of which should now point to the Canadian electoral district? Thanks in advance... Grutness... wha? 12:08, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, it looks like meanwhile this was taken care of semi-automatically by YUL89YYZ, so I've withdrawn the BRFA :(. - EdoDodo talk 11:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
This word "infamously" is POV and should be removed from all articles. I was doing this by hand, but discovered that there are now 1000s of articles that need attention in this manner.
It would be nice to remove the word "infamous" from articles by use of a bot, but that is more complicated because some articles are about something called Infamous. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:47, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll look into AWB. Kingturtle ( talk) 05:41, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Trying to make record charts comply with WP:ACCESS#Data tables means that I have to have the option to make the record chart name output by {{ singlechart}} be formatted as a row header, not a data cell. Unfortunately, people have been using the template inconsistently: this article uses | before each template call, which forces it to be a data cell, and I can't override it to turn it back into a header. As you can see in this version, it formats perfectly without the |. It seems to be somewhere around 30% of articles using the macro use the pipe.
What I need is a bot/script that will go through all of the articles in
Category:singlechart, look for pipes before the singlechart calls, and remove the pipe. Obviously the bot shouldn't be tricked by the pipe in {{
tl|singlechart}}
.—
Kww(
talk) 22:52, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
|{{singlechart
with {{singlechart
, or are there different cases that should be accounted for? Also, although needed for
WP:ACCESS#Data tables compliance, this seems like a fairly trivial change. Is there consensus that it would be useful for a bot to do it? -
EdoDodo
talk 23:08, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
!scope="row"
turned on by a parameter, make it a default that is turned off by a parameter, or make it mandatory behaviour depending on what people decide. As it stands, I'm paralyzed: any change I make is either ineffective in 70% of articles or breaks the other 30%. This change in itself does nothing to the generated HTML. The only special case I can thing of is when someone is discussing the template, and the pipe in {{
tl|singlechart}}
itself shouldn't get removed. As for it being a bot job, there are around 7000 uses of the template scattered over 713 articles. Certainly not one to do by hand.—
Kww(
talk) 23:30, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Done by DodoBot. - EdoDodo talk 12:56, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Apparently there used to be one or two bots that could tag an image when it's uploaded without a license. Could we create another bot for this? It's a task that screams for bot attention: the coding is fairly straightforward, it's very tedious to do as a human, and it's a massive task. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 21:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
As at July 6, there were over 13,000 articles containing redlinked files used: Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing red-linked files. A bot similar to CommonsDelinker ( talk · contribs) should delink these files by commenting out or removing the offending image. – xeno talk 17:58, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
It's been suggested that a change to MediaWiki could 'cause red linked images to not be so obvious (or maybe not be so obvious to logged out users). The world is bright with possibilities. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I totally disagree with red link removal without prejudgise. Red links are usually articles to be created. In some cases they are caused by wrong capitalisation, diacritics, etc. Check Red link recovery project for more. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:12, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
I run User:ImageRemovalBot to do this for deleted files. The bot is currently offline while I figure out how to handle two situations:
If I get around to fixing these, I'll reactivate the bot and start working through the backlog. -- Carnildo ( talk) 03:09, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
There's broken links here to this template. If these can be removed from all the articles, that would be great. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Muslims and controversies. -- Matt57 ( talk• contribs) 21:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I've spotted a good area where a bot could identify a particular kind of vandalism that's both common and difficult to spot otherwise, and would have a low error rate. I'd rather not give WP:BEANS.
The bot would need to be able to pull diffs corresponding to the RC feed as opposed to the revision text alone, but some bots already do that. The logic required is probably fairly simple.
Anyone with bot development experience willing to discuss this please email me. Thanks. FT2 ( Talk | email) 11:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
If anyone wants to help me orphan {{ Do not delete}}, please feel free. The majority of transclusions are due to a lag in "what links here" cache. Hence, they can be cleared by simply opening the page, making no changes, and saving, which will purge the cache. I currently have SporkBot working on it, but with over 25k and me being on the road it will take some time. If you don't feel comfortable making any edits, you can always just do the purging part, which will add nothing to your edit history, but will help weed out the real transclusions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:47, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, several Food and Drink related WikiProjects have been been folded back in to the main Food and Drink WikiProject due to lack of interest. What we need to do now is to have a bot preferably go through all the talk pages that have the old projects templates and replace them with the Food and Drink Template.
Here is what needs to be done:
{{
WPSD}}
, {{
Soda}}
and {{
WikiProject Soft Drinks}}
on them need to be replaced with {{
WikiProject Food and drink|soda=yes}}
.{{
WPSD|c&t=yes}}
, {{
Soda|c&t=yes}}
and {{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|c&t=yes}}
on them need to be replaced with {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
This is about a thousand or so pages total.
Thanks, -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 06:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
{{
WPSD|coffee=yes}}
and {{
WPSD|tea=yes}}
?{{
WPSD|c&t=yes}}
should be changed to {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
, not {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes|soda=yes}}
?Thanks allot, that would be very helpful.
{{
WPSD|coffee=yes}}
and {{
WPSD|tea=yes}}
can be set to {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
is correct as it is now a task force of WP food and Drink{{
WikiProject Food and drink}}
and leave the tags in place as they will be recognized by the Food and Drink template.
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|c&t=yes}}
}}{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|coffee=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|tea=yes}}
{{
Soda|c&t=yes}}
{{
Soda|coffee=yes}}
{{
Soda|tea=yes}}
{{
WPSD|c&t=yes}}
{{
WPSD|coffee=yes}}
{{
WPSD|tea=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|soda=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks}}
{{
Soda}}
{{
WPSD}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|mix=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Mixed Drinks}}
{{
WP Mixed Drinks}}
{{
WPMIX}}
{{
Wpmix}}
{{
Cocktails Project}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|ice cream=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Ice Cream}}
{{
WP Ice Cream}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|bar=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Bartending}}
{{
WikiProject Mixed Drinks|bar=yes}}
{{
WP Mixed Drinks|bar=yes}}
{{
WPMIX|bar=yes}}
{{
Wpmix|bar=yes}}
{{
WPBAR}}
This is allot of pages, this won't cause any issues? I don't want to rile anyone or cause any problems.
Thank you again, -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 20:03, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Bartending}}
or {{
WPBAR}}
(they had probably been merged into mixed drinks sometime in the past).
Anomie
⚔ 14:41, 26 August 2010 (UTC)Thank you very much for that. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 18:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I think that a bot could create redirects for articles like List of hospitals in Spain. The variations purposed are:
This can be applied to all title lists with "in/of". We can split the "List of" prefix and create redirects too. Regards. emijrp ( talk) 09:15, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm wondering if it's possible to get a bot to archive the oldest day on WP:In the news/Candidates at 0000 UTC every day and add the new day of nominations. I don't think it would be very complicated for someone who knows what they're doing. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:14, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it difficult for someone to replace the late Wolterbot with a bot that goes through the FAs and coutns how many cleanup categories are also listed at the bottom to update Wikipedia:Featured articles/Cleanup listing. I cannot imagine it to be a difficult task YellowMonkey ( new photo poll) 00:54, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
FA's with citation needed
|
. Perhaps a table of catscan2 templates would provide the same functionality? Smallman12q ( talk) 20:45, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll see if I can write something up this week. From a technical standpoint, its a fairly easy bot...just a matter of downloading the categories to an arrays and checking if an article is in both of them ( intersection), and posting the result. I'm a bit dismayed to see that a replacement hasn't been written by anyone else. Smallman12q ( talk) 22:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I've made a sample posting for WPEQ at User:CleanupListingBot/WPEQ Report and User:CleanupListingBot/WPEQ Report (Table). It's a work in progress...but let me know what you think. Smallman12q ( talk) 00:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I am just curious. Is there a bots for fixing typos. That could be of good use. Jhenderson 777 23:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed following some interwikis that some wikis have free images of the subjects that are not being used in the English version, It would be really cool if a bot could run through a specific catagory checking the interwikis and identifying 1) What en articles are lacking images, 2) which interwiki have an image that is hosted on commons and 3) which interwikis have images hosted on the other wiki (if possible sorted into license type). I could then go through the lists fairly quickly with AWB and add the appropriate ones to the en articles. Cheers Spartaz Humbug! 17:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
If possible, can someone have a bot replace all uses of {{ amg}} with {{ allmusic}} (the former is a redirect to the latter). {{ amg}} currently has 2466 transclusions, which is a bigger job than I can handle myself with AWB. My reasons for wanting to orphan this redirect are twofold:
Thanks in advance for any assistance! PC78 ( talk) 22:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
I have a page at User:Hammersoft/tick file, which is a reminder list for myself. It's useful, but not particularly so; I have to remember to look at it all the time. It would be much more useful if there were a bot that scanned the file once a day, and if it found an event in the past would:
Such a file would have to adhere to some standards of course, but those would not be hard. Thoughts? -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Is this personal use bot really a good idea? The only edits seem to be personal calendar reminders. This serves no bigger encyclopaedic purpose beyond editor's own convenience. I agree it's nifty and useful to some, but one should really use proper tools for the job, like Google calendar or any other of many organiser apps. I would want to see this with a general purpose proposal for a project page, such as, "WikiProject Future Events\Task List" rather than individual checklists. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 18:05, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I've had a bit of a look at this, and while I like the idea I'm having a little trouble figuring out some aspects of it. First, here is what I have determined:
The things I am having trouble with:
Anomie ⚔ 04:25, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
This is actually a request for two scripts (although it would also work for a bot to run these once, automatically, when articles show up at the SHIPS A-class review page).
I have written code for bypassing redirects on disambiguation pages (per MoS), this code is similar to sorting collation. It treats accented and unaccented characters the same, as well having substitutions for various symbols and romanizations (so Yūgiō and Yu-Gi-Oh! are considered the same).
I'm thinking about incorporating this into my common fixes library. However, I would like to know what objection, if any, people would have. Specially, cases where the author may use accent characters to differentiate. — Dispenser 20:48, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I go through citations and update them, adding Author, Date, Archiveurl, etc. and would like a helper bot to assist in that job. What I am looking for is something that would search an article for the type of citation used (cite web, cite news, etc.) and bring up an input form related to that template. It would show a link to the reference on the web and a link to the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://SomeWebSite) so I could check for archives. This would allow one to check the reference and add any missing information in to the form. The form would have an Update and a Skip to next button to either update that reference or skip to the next reference. See this sort-of-example for what I mean. Is this kind of thing possible for a bot? Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( talk) 19:55, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
We have a problem at newpage patrol in that some newbies submit new articles in their own language without realising that this is just the English language version of wikipedia. We have procedures and templates to tag these as {{ Not English}}, refer the article for translation and ideally tell the author about the Wikipedia in their language. Sometimes this doesn't work, not least because some newpage patrolers and also some admins don't have the software on their PC to identify articles in scripts such as Sinhalese, so නිරිපොල would appear to them as a row of boxes. Would it be possible for someone to write a bot that:
I'm not sure how often this would happen, we currently have a few such articles identified per day - but we don't know how many more are being deleted {{ G1}} because neither the tagger nor the admin can see that it is non-English material. Ϣere SpielChequers 12:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
We have these two redundant categories. As in the English-language Wikipedia the name of this province is Gipuzkoa and not Guipúzcoa, all the instances of the text Category:People from Guipúzcoa contained in this Wikipedia's articles should be replaced with Category:People from Gipuzkoa. Thank you in advance. -- Xabier Armendaritz (talk) 12:41, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
The USGS has a a photo library consisting of 30,000+ high resolution images. Perhaps it could be imported to wikipedia or the commons? Smallman12q ( talk) 20:49, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Prior discussion lead to Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_37#We_need_another_User:WebCiteBOT. Now the question has again risen at WP:Village pump (policy)/Archive 78#WebCiteBOT is down - Dead links at record high. Any word of progress on either front? LeadSongDog come howl! 18:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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@ThaddeusB, we missed you. Welcome back. Thanks for WebCiteBOT, it's one of the best bots on Wikipedia.
It's alright if the answer is no. I would just like to know one wat or the other. Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( talk | contribs) 10:17, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Just restarted mine. It's throttled heavily to not be too much of a strain on the toolserver, but I'll let it run for a long time. Tim 1357 talk 00:29, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
For the upcoming Article Feedback Tool pilot (see description from the Signpost, we need to add every article in WikiProject United States Public Policy to a hidden category, Category:Article Feedback Pilot. I was hoping a bot operator could help; it should be a pretty trivial bot task.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:29, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Bot needed, to go through Category:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over and Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices - and remove all users currently blocked. Thank you, -- Cirt ( talk) 16:22, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Done - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 15:52, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
Football player statistics end}} is meant as a replacement for the |}
that comes after using {{
Football player statistics 1}}. Using it resolves. This needs to be applied to 3197 articles at this moment, after I applied it to 30 or so manually to see that indeed, it is the first |}
to occur after {{
Football player statistics 1}} that needs to be replaced. Any takers, or should I continue doing it manually? Or maybe someone wants to suggest a location in which this needs to be discussed first? I proposed it at
Template talk:Football player statistics 1#Suggestion and implemented due to acquiescence.--
Muhandes (
talk) 15:50, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Currently Dycedarg's bot DyceBot archives the Graphic Lab subpages. I was looking to fiddle with the time frame the bot uses to archive sections and noticed that it looks like it's something that Dycedarg would need to change on their end. As they don't seem to be active anymore I was hoping someone here could recommend a bot, that would be able to do what DyceBot is currently doing, with an active owner. Any recommendations on who I should contact? Or if someone is interested in coding something up I can give more detail on the specifics. Thanks, §hep Talk 21:48, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Special:Export doesn't export the .jpg or other image files in the articles. Anyway to get the articles and their images within them? Also, some images are in categories such as Category:Xbox Live game covers. Any way to save all of them on my hard drive at once? Dream Focus 16:14, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to see a bot that flags articles that have inconsistent hyphen usage between word pairs. It would search for the first occurrence of a hyphen and store the bounding words. If the same word combinations exist elsewhere without the hyphen then have the article noted for human cleanup/intervention. I'm not sure how many false positives this approach would bring up but it should be easy to find out.-- Hooperbloob ( talk) 17:30, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
It is very common (to the point where there are redirect pages for most of them) for John*s* Hopkins University to be written as John Hopkins University. This is *especially* common in references which refer to John Hopkins University Press. While there might be a few places where John Hopkins University might be appropriate to keep in stories about people's confusion, botting a change of all of John Hopkins University Press to Johns Hopkins University Press might be useful (and wikilinking it if it isn't already). According to Google there are 4000 hits on "John Hopkins University Press" on wikipedia. Naraht ( talk) 02:40, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Done The 400ish articles reported by this google search are corrected. I will wait a couple of weeks and do another google search to make sure, but for now there is not much else I can do. If you have a better way to find such instances than that google search, let me know. -- Muhandes ( talk) 22:08, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
On 20 October, I posted the following request: "All players in Category:Philadelphia Quakers players need to be moved into Category:Philadelphia Phillies players, as they are the same team. The deprecated category for the Philadelphia Blue Jays players was also emptied, and this is a preparatory step for the expansion of the Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster. Thanks." See Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 38#Category change for the original. No response was ever made to the thread before it was archived, so I'm reposting it. — KV5 • Talk • 12:21, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Are there any bots that can improve this article?
WikiProject National Football League has designed a new template (
Template:NFLplayer) which simplifies the usual text that has to be inputted into roster templates. The previous formatting is * <span style="font-family: Courier New;">99</span> [[Player name]]
. After we have converted all current NFL roster templates to the new format, the NFL team season pages will have to have their roster templates converted as well. For the complete list of pages that would need to be changed, see
Category:National Football League seasons. Essentially, a bot is requested to change * <span style="font-family: Courier New;">99</span> [[Player name]]
into {{NFLplayer|99|Player name}}
as well as the other specific parameters listed at
Template:NFLplayer/doc. The new roster template is at
Template:NFL roster also.
Eagles
24/7
(C) 20:49, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
If some bot could be made to periodically go over CAT:AWBC and correct at least some of the pages it would be great. Most (but not all) of the pages in that category lack a title field when using {{ cite web}}, which I believe some bots are capable of doing. The rest would probably need to be done by hand, so I would suggest tagging them for manual editing (say, in a new category Category:Articles with broken citations requiring manual attention. -- Muhandes ( talk) 12:30, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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Archive 30 | ← | Archive 35 | Archive 36 | Archive 37 | Archive 38 | Archive 39 | Archive 40 |
True, we have ClueBot III and MiszaBot, but they're not user-friendly. We should have a more user-friendly archive bot that does not overwhelm users with syntax. RussianReversal ( talk) 02:34, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps make a PHP script that generates the code for them. The user the user simply select the options they want, and then copies the code to their talk page. -- Chris 11:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
I often see adverbs ending in -ly as part of compound modifiers which are incorrectly hyphenated, e.g. "a highly-motivated Wikipedian" should be just "a highly motivated Wikipedian". It seems like a simple regex could search for this pattern and correct it in a semi-automated fashion. Are there bots available to do this already or should I make a new one? (I am proficient in C# .NET). Thanks. - Cwenger ( talk) 00:39, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
That one never quite got the job done, and its runner was talented, so we need someone who really knows there stuff. Probably also someone who is willing to license their bot code under a free license in case they don't want to run it. Thanks. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 06:21, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
(redent) Wow!! You're on it. WP thanks you for looking into all this. In the short term, if we can get a bot that works, that should take care of it. After that, I guess we talk to the foundation. I'll drop a pointer to this discussion on Jimbo's page. Maybe that will do something. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:12, 28 June 2010 (UTC) Still digesting what you said, but prioritizing FAs on down is a great idea. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:14, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Please write a bot (or add functionality to an existing bot) to track deprods per Wikipedia_talk:Edit_filter/Archive_4#Filter_200.2C_or_should_the_EF_be_engaged_to_track_non-abusive.2C_non-.22wrong.22_edits.3F. A typical behavior of simply reverting addition of a PROD should be trackable, and the articles that happens to should get more attention (say via a category or listing on a page), possibly resulting in an AfD nomination as a contested PROD. Thanks! — Jeff G. ツ 20:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I have created a new
WikiProject Football France task force and now a load of existing articles need tagging on the talk page. I am currently finding articles already tagged with the {{
Football}} or {{
WikiProject Football}} templates, and adding the parameter France=yes
. Using AWB, I have tagged around 500 of these but it's getting tedious so I wonder whether a bot could do the same job? I am currently performing a normal regex find & replace for ({{\s*)([Ff]ootball)(\s*(?:\s*|⌊⌊⌊⌊M?\d+⌋⌋⌋⌋\s*)?(\|((?>[^\{\}]+|\{(?<DEPTH>)|\}(?<-DEPTH>))*(?(DEPTH)(?!))))?)\}\}
or ({{\s*)([Ww]ikiProject Football)(\s*(?:\s*|⌊⌊⌊⌊M?\d+⌋⌋⌋⌋\s*)?(\|((?>[^\{\}]+|\{(?<DEPTH>)|\}(?<-DEPTH>))*(?(DEPTH)(?!))))?)\}\}
and replacing with $1$2$3|France=yes}}
. Any talk pages already tagged with the France=yes parameter need skipping. I would like the bot to do this on all articles in the categories
Category:French footballers,
Category:Footballers in France by club and
Category:French football managers. Cheers,
Big
Dom 07:28, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Doing... on DodoBot. There's a fairly large number of pages, so probably won't be done till this evening or even tomorrow. - EdoDodo talk 09:23, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Can a bot tag all duplicates from Commons that do not have {{ NowCommons}} with NowCommons? Also, any images that are OLDER on Commons should be tagged with {{ Db-f8}}, explaining in the text of the tag that the Commons version is older. There is no realistic circumstance where an image is older on Commons and should still be here. The bot should skip images with {{ NoCommons}}, {{ C-uploaded}}, and {{ M-cropped}}. CommonsClash - Tool listing duplicates on the English language Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Backlog on 9 May: about 34.000 media files. Less than half of these images are marked in any way as duplicates. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 13:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Note, for whoever does this, don't rely on the hash values of the images to check, there is no guarantee that they will be there for older images or that they will be the same (for example, if someone cropped off whitespace or the likes/colour corrects etc), You should also check the height/width attributes of the images before tagging, and the template that is placed should have a bot switch so the admin that does delete can clearly see that it is a bot check and can pay more attention to it. Peachey88 ( Talk Page · Contribs) 08:34, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Administrator User:Fuhghettaboutit referred me here after I posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) about the fact that Wikipedia:Dusty articles page hasn't been updated since 15 Feb 2010. He informed me that User:DustyBot went offline at that date, and its operator, User:Wronkiew, has not edited any pages since 4 July 2009.
I would like to know if it is possible to get another bot to update Wikipedia:Dusty articles, as it was a useful tool to help keep articles clean and updated. -- Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 07:53, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
It seems that Svick has opened a BRFA for a bot to do this task. - EdoDodo talk 16:12, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
I have been working on fast distributed algorithms for classification, clustering, and collaborative filtering and I want to build a proof of concept to demonstrate the value such deep analytics can provide. My first thought was to leverage the Wikipedia articles and create a mashup that allows social networks and customer behavior to collaboratively filter Wiki content. I just got started to see what tools exist to interact with the Wikipedia content and found the bots and different bot frameworks.
The mash-up I have in mind would only read Wiki content and social network user management and behavior logging would be handled in a side channel.
Is that an idea that has been suggested or done? If yes, would you be so kind to educate me [User:Tomtzigt] and point me to the principals. If not, what are the thoughts about such functionality? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomtzigt ( talk • contribs) 22:32, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Can somebody make a bot that adds the article milestones to a page whenever a peer review, good article review, featured article review, etc are done?-- Iankap99 ( talk) 07:08, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I've never written a bot before, so probably this should be considered a request for someone else to write a bot.
I think it would be useful to automatically add links from all the species information pages of the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) to the appropriate Wikipedia species pages (see links from http://www.hear.org/species/). The information necessary to do this (species name [& family] & URL of the species info page) is available via relational database (so could be provided as XML or whatever). Species that don't exist as pages already on Wikipedia should probably just be ignored (because the HEAR database includes many older/non-current names), but if there were a bot that could add links to existing pages it could be run periodically to update Wikipedia. (It would need to check to ensure that the link doesn't already exist on the Wikipedia page.) It could add the links to the "references" or "other links" site (or go through an appropriate list of headings & auto-add to the appropriate heading if it exists, else create a new heading if it doesn't).
Additionally, similar auto-gen'd links could be added specifically for IMAGES for other HEAR pages (e.g., see links from http://www.hear.org/starr/images/?o=plants).
Anyone interested in helping me work on this?
Aloha, Philip Thomas pt@philipt.com (aka webmaster@hear.org)
i need a bot that detects spam and bad words and reports them to the wikia founder, the page with it and the user who wrote it. It also does writing stuff on lots of pages quickly.
The Vitis International Variety Catalogue web site is used as a reference in many articles covered by WikiProject Wine. It is primarily used as a reference in grape articles for pedigrees and synonyms. The web site has had its name/URL changed. It is now vivc.de instead of vivc.bafz.de, as the bafz.de domaine has been deactivated.
Removing the "bafz" part seems to restore proper links; it seems that the index for database entries is unchanged. Due to the sheer number of links to change (see http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:LinkSearch&target=*.vivc.bafz.de), this task is best suited to a bot such as DeadLinkBOT or Polbot. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 20:42, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
DustyBot formerly did the important job of keeping English Wikipedia Featured Pictures noted as such on Commons. I'd like to request a bot to do the following, in order to replace it:
Main tasks
1. [Once a week to once a month] Go through all images in Category:Featured pictures, and, if the images are on Commons as well, mark them with {{Assessments|enwiki=1}}, if no Assessments tag exists already; otherwise, add the enwiki=1 parameter to the existing Assessments tag.
2. [Once a week to once a month] Go through all files in Category:Featured sounds, same as above, only use enwiki=3 instead.
Optional extras [Only do these if not too much trouble]:
A. [Once a day] Attempt to keep up with new FPs, with a daily check of the archives for the current month and [if near the start of a month] the previous. These archives are always of the form Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/July-2010. They contain transcluded nominations; those that are promoted will almost always contain the exact text: {{FPCresult|Promoted|File:FILENAME.EXT}} - e.g. {{FPCresult|Promoted|File:Ardea modesta.jpg}} would tell you that File:Ardea modesta.jpg had been promoted. Featured sounds are a much slower process (as well as lacking a standardised closing), and so can likely be skipped for this.
B. [Once a month] Check featured pictures appear in articles, leave a note on WT:FPC if there are any that miss this requirement.
C. [Once a month] Collate Featured pictures thumbs, the Featured picture pages, and Category:Featured pictures; leave a note (on WT:FPC) if any appear in one or two of them, but not all three. This would indicate a mistake was made in closing or delisting, and should be dealt with manually.
This would be extremely helpful to our featured media projects. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 00:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible for someone to do a quick check through Category:Merge by month for two things:
Just create a subpage in my userspace and inform me if you can. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 18:51, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Please move Category:Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i players to Category:Ulsan Hyundai FC players. This Korean association football club's official name is changed from Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i to Ulsan Hyundai FC.
Category:Cryptozoology requires a bot to automatically update its list of relevant articles...--Gniniv ( talk) 10:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
The scientific names of species and genera are italicised by convention. There are vrious ways of doing this. See a discussion about it that started at WikiProject Arthropods. In short there are various templates and work arounds to acheive it. I started a process of adding "{{italictitle}}" to relevant pages using AWB, but it's takes a while. As suggested by other project participants, here's a bot request. (I couldn't find anything suitable at the Bot status page.
The bot would need to check whether any of the "genus", "species", or "binomial" parameters specified in the Taxobox template exactly match the title of the page. If it does, the bot should prepend the page with "{{italic title}}". There are two forms of the template: "{{italictitle}}" and "{{italic title}}". The bot should prepend with the latter. (I've just discovered this morning that "{{italic title}}" is the active form.
Of course, the bot should ignore any article containing "{{italictitle}}" or "{{italic title}}".
Lastly, some pages will achieve the italic title by using the "DISPLAYTITLE" magic word. If possible, it would be better to delete lines of text containing "DISPLAYTITLE" and replacing with "{{italic title}}". Otherwise, ignore pages containing "DISPLAYTITLE".
Although this started as a conversation in WikiProject Arthropods, the issue exists through all WikiProjects under the WikiProject Tree of Life. Thus, there is no need to limit the bot to particular categories or other article classifications.
I don't know how often the bot should run, but suggest that something like weekly would be enough (if it even works that way).
Happy to assist with any clarification, testing and refinement required. Heds ( talk) 00:35, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
|name=Chinchilla
and the taxobox and article titles will not be italicized.
Martin (
Smith609 –
Talk) 20:00, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
|binomial=
, |trinomial=
, or |genus=
equals {{
PAGENAME}}, unless a parameter is set (for example, |ital=no). There are other problems, though, with articles with parentheses in the page title (for example,
Ambondro (genus)). That leaves us with the question of what this will do to improve the current situation.
Ucucha 19:22, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
In my opinion, although it is very clever coding that makes the taxobox force an italic title, it is a barrier to understanding. The down-side to {{ Italic title}} is that people then copy the syntax to articles about poems, books etc. where we had (maybe still have) consensus not to use italics. Rich Farmbrough, 11:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC).
Hello. Could someone program a bot to replace " List of hydroelectric power stations" with " List of conventional hydroelectric power stations"? The page was recently moved and is now a disambiguation page. Thanks. Rehman( +) 12:16, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
WP:WikiProject Cryptozoology needs a bot to tag articles of interest to the project.--Gniniv ( talk) 11:17, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the help! We need tags on Category:Dragons and Category:Mythology.--Gniniv ( talk) 07:05, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Stagecraft now has a newsletter. Requesting a bot, or suggestions of a pre-existing one, which can deliver notifications of new issues to membership. DJSparky huh? 21:47, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
The interwiki links of other language sisters of the article Common periwinkle are in many cases rather incomplete. The probable reason is that many of them referred to the wrongly capitalised redirect side Common Periwinkle instead. I've corrected this link by hand in the various language versions, and hoped that some iw bot would catch this, and update the respective iw links lists. This has not happened; I do not know why.
Hence, I wonder if someone could put their iw bot on Common periwinkle, updating it, as if all its iw links were new.
If this is the wrong place to ask for this assistance, please give me a hint of where I should make it. (This is not a request for a new 'bot; nor for a modification of existing ones, unless the reason for no bot to react was some easily identifiable deficiency.)
Best, JoergenB ( talk) 16:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I wish to implement SineBot on other Wikipedias/Wikiprojects, most notably the simple:Simple English Wikipedia. See the discussion here. :| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 20:11, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
This template should either always be substed or not exist. At the moment, it's transcluded on 700+ pages which is clearly not necessary. Axem Titanium ( talk) 09:48, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
|official_name = {{PAGENAME}}
--
Bojan
Talk 07:48, 5 August 2010 (UTC)I would like a bot to check all articles that transclude {{ No footnotes}} and do the following:
The first part can be done with AWB and my bot, Yobot, has approval for auto-tagging and can do it but I am not sure about the second part so I would like help on that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:45, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>{{cite
), anythings else is prone to errors because of the things that
H3llkn0wz mentioned. -
EdoDodo
talk 13:03, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot called: BeamerBot. I was requesting for a bot because I was going to use it for warnings of not tolerated Wikipedia rules. Regards, Beamer103 18:03, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
<br> is the form currently to be used per WP:LINEBREAK and the explanation here. However, many, many articles on the English Wikipedia, including guidelines, essays, and other docs in the "Wikipedia:" and "Template:" subspaces, still use <br /> (probably also <br/>). It's a simple replacing task, so a bot makes the most sense to use here. Prime Blue ( talk) 11:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
The MediaWiki software automatically converts <br> or <br/> into <br /> so that it follows proper XHTML rules. I used to razz on users for this until I found that out. – MuZemike 13:17, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Found
this older discussion. More people were leaning towards using <br>
, but there was no definite result on what to use. My gripe was just with how the different versions across pages confuse editors.
Prime Blue (
talk) 17:30, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
From what I'm seeing in this discussion, it seems that there isn't very strong consensus either way, so perhaps it would be better to do nothing. It's a fairly trivial change anyway, since as mentioned the MediaWiki software will change it automatically. - EdoDodo talk 12:17, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Please can someone convert album and single lengths, inside {{ Infobox album}} and {{ Track listing}}, to use {{ Duration}}. Here's a sample edit.
If you like, at the same time convert {{
Singles}}' release date to use {{
Start date}}, as in the same edit, but only if {{Start date}}
is already in use (or converted at the same time) for the main album release date. df=y must be used where appropriate.
This will allow dates and durations to be emitted as metadata. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 00:32, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Metacritic has changed their site's design and URLs, in a way shown at this . In general, it looks like the URL change is just the entry page's product title with dashes between spaces. Dan56 ( talk) 11:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi all - I've just done the page move mentioned in this section title, to turn the basic title into a dab page - the Canadian district is one of several Hamilton Wests, but not the one which garners the most ghits or wikipage hits. Unfortunately, it is the one with the most internal links. I've moved all the "Hamilton West" links that were not about Canada but were meant to point to the Hamilton West in New Zealand, or the one in Scotland, or the Nicaraguan footballer - but that leaves about 120 internal links to the Canadian electorate. Could I please get someone to run a bot to dab the links currently to Hamilton West, all of which should now point to the Canadian electoral district? Thanks in advance... Grutness... wha? 12:08, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, it looks like meanwhile this was taken care of semi-automatically by YUL89YYZ, so I've withdrawn the BRFA :(. - EdoDodo talk 11:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
This word "infamously" is POV and should be removed from all articles. I was doing this by hand, but discovered that there are now 1000s of articles that need attention in this manner.
It would be nice to remove the word "infamous" from articles by use of a bot, but that is more complicated because some articles are about something called Infamous. Kingturtle ( talk) 19:47, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll look into AWB. Kingturtle ( talk) 05:41, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Trying to make record charts comply with WP:ACCESS#Data tables means that I have to have the option to make the record chart name output by {{ singlechart}} be formatted as a row header, not a data cell. Unfortunately, people have been using the template inconsistently: this article uses | before each template call, which forces it to be a data cell, and I can't override it to turn it back into a header. As you can see in this version, it formats perfectly without the |. It seems to be somewhere around 30% of articles using the macro use the pipe.
What I need is a bot/script that will go through all of the articles in
Category:singlechart, look for pipes before the singlechart calls, and remove the pipe. Obviously the bot shouldn't be tricked by the pipe in {{
tl|singlechart}}
.—
Kww(
talk) 22:52, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
|{{singlechart
with {{singlechart
, or are there different cases that should be accounted for? Also, although needed for
WP:ACCESS#Data tables compliance, this seems like a fairly trivial change. Is there consensus that it would be useful for a bot to do it? -
EdoDodo
talk 23:08, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
!scope="row"
turned on by a parameter, make it a default that is turned off by a parameter, or make it mandatory behaviour depending on what people decide. As it stands, I'm paralyzed: any change I make is either ineffective in 70% of articles or breaks the other 30%. This change in itself does nothing to the generated HTML. The only special case I can thing of is when someone is discussing the template, and the pipe in {{
tl|singlechart}}
itself shouldn't get removed. As for it being a bot job, there are around 7000 uses of the template scattered over 713 articles. Certainly not one to do by hand.—
Kww(
talk) 23:30, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Done by DodoBot. - EdoDodo talk 12:56, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Apparently there used to be one or two bots that could tag an image when it's uploaded without a license. Could we create another bot for this? It's a task that screams for bot attention: the coding is fairly straightforward, it's very tedious to do as a human, and it's a massive task. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 21:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
As at July 6, there were over 13,000 articles containing redlinked files used: Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing red-linked files. A bot similar to CommonsDelinker ( talk · contribs) should delink these files by commenting out or removing the offending image. – xeno talk 17:58, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
It's been suggested that a change to MediaWiki could 'cause red linked images to not be so obvious (or maybe not be so obvious to logged out users). The world is bright with possibilities. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I totally disagree with red link removal without prejudgise. Red links are usually articles to be created. In some cases they are caused by wrong capitalisation, diacritics, etc. Check Red link recovery project for more. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:12, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
I run User:ImageRemovalBot to do this for deleted files. The bot is currently offline while I figure out how to handle two situations:
If I get around to fixing these, I'll reactivate the bot and start working through the backlog. -- Carnildo ( talk) 03:09, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
There's broken links here to this template. If these can be removed from all the articles, that would be great. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Muslims and controversies. -- Matt57 ( talk• contribs) 21:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I've spotted a good area where a bot could identify a particular kind of vandalism that's both common and difficult to spot otherwise, and would have a low error rate. I'd rather not give WP:BEANS.
The bot would need to be able to pull diffs corresponding to the RC feed as opposed to the revision text alone, but some bots already do that. The logic required is probably fairly simple.
Anyone with bot development experience willing to discuss this please email me. Thanks. FT2 ( Talk | email) 11:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
If anyone wants to help me orphan {{ Do not delete}}, please feel free. The majority of transclusions are due to a lag in "what links here" cache. Hence, they can be cleared by simply opening the page, making no changes, and saving, which will purge the cache. I currently have SporkBot working on it, but with over 25k and me being on the road it will take some time. If you don't feel comfortable making any edits, you can always just do the purging part, which will add nothing to your edit history, but will help weed out the real transclusions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:47, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, several Food and Drink related WikiProjects have been been folded back in to the main Food and Drink WikiProject due to lack of interest. What we need to do now is to have a bot preferably go through all the talk pages that have the old projects templates and replace them with the Food and Drink Template.
Here is what needs to be done:
{{
WPSD}}
, {{
Soda}}
and {{
WikiProject Soft Drinks}}
on them need to be replaced with {{
WikiProject Food and drink|soda=yes}}
.{{
WPSD|c&t=yes}}
, {{
Soda|c&t=yes}}
and {{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|c&t=yes}}
on them need to be replaced with {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
This is about a thousand or so pages total.
Thanks, -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 06:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
{{
WPSD|coffee=yes}}
and {{
WPSD|tea=yes}}
?{{
WPSD|c&t=yes}}
should be changed to {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
, not {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes|soda=yes}}
?Thanks allot, that would be very helpful.
{{
WPSD|coffee=yes}}
and {{
WPSD|tea=yes}}
can be set to {{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|c&t=yes}}
is correct as it is now a task force of WP food and Drink{{
WikiProject Food and drink}}
and leave the tags in place as they will be recognized by the Food and Drink template.
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|c&t=yes}}
}}{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|coffee=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks|tea=yes}}
{{
Soda|c&t=yes}}
{{
Soda|coffee=yes}}
{{
Soda|tea=yes}}
{{
WPSD|c&t=yes}}
{{
WPSD|coffee=yes}}
{{
WPSD|tea=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|soda=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Soft Drinks}}
{{
Soda}}
{{
WPSD}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|mix=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Mixed Drinks}}
{{
WP Mixed Drinks}}
{{
WPMIX}}
{{
Wpmix}}
{{
Cocktails Project}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|ice cream=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Ice Cream}}
{{
WP Ice Cream}}
{{
WikiProject Food and drink|bar=yes}}
{{
WikiProject Bartending}}
{{
WikiProject Mixed Drinks|bar=yes}}
{{
WP Mixed Drinks|bar=yes}}
{{
WPMIX|bar=yes}}
{{
Wpmix|bar=yes}}
{{
WPBAR}}
This is allot of pages, this won't cause any issues? I don't want to rile anyone or cause any problems.
Thank you again, -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 20:03, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Bartending}}
or {{
WPBAR}}
(they had probably been merged into mixed drinks sometime in the past).
Anomie
⚔ 14:41, 26 August 2010 (UTC)Thank you very much for that. -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 18:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I think that a bot could create redirects for articles like List of hospitals in Spain. The variations purposed are:
This can be applied to all title lists with "in/of". We can split the "List of" prefix and create redirects too. Regards. emijrp ( talk) 09:15, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm wondering if it's possible to get a bot to archive the oldest day on WP:In the news/Candidates at 0000 UTC every day and add the new day of nominations. I don't think it would be very complicated for someone who knows what they're doing. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:14, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Is it difficult for someone to replace the late Wolterbot with a bot that goes through the FAs and coutns how many cleanup categories are also listed at the bottom to update Wikipedia:Featured articles/Cleanup listing. I cannot imagine it to be a difficult task YellowMonkey ( new photo poll) 00:54, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
FA's with citation needed
|
. Perhaps a table of catscan2 templates would provide the same functionality? Smallman12q ( talk) 20:45, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll see if I can write something up this week. From a technical standpoint, its a fairly easy bot...just a matter of downloading the categories to an arrays and checking if an article is in both of them ( intersection), and posting the result. I'm a bit dismayed to see that a replacement hasn't been written by anyone else. Smallman12q ( talk) 22:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I've made a sample posting for WPEQ at User:CleanupListingBot/WPEQ Report and User:CleanupListingBot/WPEQ Report (Table). It's a work in progress...but let me know what you think. Smallman12q ( talk) 00:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I am just curious. Is there a bots for fixing typos. That could be of good use. Jhenderson 777 23:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed following some interwikis that some wikis have free images of the subjects that are not being used in the English version, It would be really cool if a bot could run through a specific catagory checking the interwikis and identifying 1) What en articles are lacking images, 2) which interwiki have an image that is hosted on commons and 3) which interwikis have images hosted on the other wiki (if possible sorted into license type). I could then go through the lists fairly quickly with AWB and add the appropriate ones to the en articles. Cheers Spartaz Humbug! 17:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
If possible, can someone have a bot replace all uses of {{ amg}} with {{ allmusic}} (the former is a redirect to the latter). {{ amg}} currently has 2466 transclusions, which is a bigger job than I can handle myself with AWB. My reasons for wanting to orphan this redirect are twofold:
Thanks in advance for any assistance! PC78 ( talk) 22:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
I have a page at User:Hammersoft/tick file, which is a reminder list for myself. It's useful, but not particularly so; I have to remember to look at it all the time. It would be much more useful if there were a bot that scanned the file once a day, and if it found an event in the past would:
Such a file would have to adhere to some standards of course, but those would not be hard. Thoughts? -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Is this personal use bot really a good idea? The only edits seem to be personal calendar reminders. This serves no bigger encyclopaedic purpose beyond editor's own convenience. I agree it's nifty and useful to some, but one should really use proper tools for the job, like Google calendar or any other of many organiser apps. I would want to see this with a general purpose proposal for a project page, such as, "WikiProject Future Events\Task List" rather than individual checklists. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 18:05, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
I've had a bit of a look at this, and while I like the idea I'm having a little trouble figuring out some aspects of it. First, here is what I have determined:
The things I am having trouble with:
Anomie ⚔ 04:25, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
This is actually a request for two scripts (although it would also work for a bot to run these once, automatically, when articles show up at the SHIPS A-class review page).
I have written code for bypassing redirects on disambiguation pages (per MoS), this code is similar to sorting collation. It treats accented and unaccented characters the same, as well having substitutions for various symbols and romanizations (so Yūgiō and Yu-Gi-Oh! are considered the same).
I'm thinking about incorporating this into my common fixes library. However, I would like to know what objection, if any, people would have. Specially, cases where the author may use accent characters to differentiate. — Dispenser 20:48, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
I go through citations and update them, adding Author, Date, Archiveurl, etc. and would like a helper bot to assist in that job. What I am looking for is something that would search an article for the type of citation used (cite web, cite news, etc.) and bring up an input form related to that template. It would show a link to the reference on the web and a link to the Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://SomeWebSite) so I could check for archives. This would allow one to check the reference and add any missing information in to the form. The form would have an Update and a Skip to next button to either update that reference or skip to the next reference. See this sort-of-example for what I mean. Is this kind of thing possible for a bot? Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( talk) 19:55, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
We have a problem at newpage patrol in that some newbies submit new articles in their own language without realising that this is just the English language version of wikipedia. We have procedures and templates to tag these as {{ Not English}}, refer the article for translation and ideally tell the author about the Wikipedia in their language. Sometimes this doesn't work, not least because some newpage patrolers and also some admins don't have the software on their PC to identify articles in scripts such as Sinhalese, so නිරිපොල would appear to them as a row of boxes. Would it be possible for someone to write a bot that:
I'm not sure how often this would happen, we currently have a few such articles identified per day - but we don't know how many more are being deleted {{ G1}} because neither the tagger nor the admin can see that it is non-English material. Ϣere SpielChequers 12:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
We have these two redundant categories. As in the English-language Wikipedia the name of this province is Gipuzkoa and not Guipúzcoa, all the instances of the text Category:People from Guipúzcoa contained in this Wikipedia's articles should be replaced with Category:People from Gipuzkoa. Thank you in advance. -- Xabier Armendaritz (talk) 12:41, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
The USGS has a a photo library consisting of 30,000+ high resolution images. Perhaps it could be imported to wikipedia or the commons? Smallman12q ( talk) 20:49, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Prior discussion lead to Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_37#We_need_another_User:WebCiteBOT. Now the question has again risen at WP:Village pump (policy)/Archive 78#WebCiteBOT is down - Dead links at record high. Any word of progress on either front? LeadSongDog come howl! 18:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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@ThaddeusB, we missed you. Welcome back. Thanks for WebCiteBOT, it's one of the best bots on Wikipedia.
It's alright if the answer is no. I would just like to know one wat or the other. Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( talk | contribs) 10:17, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Just restarted mine. It's throttled heavily to not be too much of a strain on the toolserver, but I'll let it run for a long time. Tim 1357 talk 00:29, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
For the upcoming Article Feedback Tool pilot (see description from the Signpost, we need to add every article in WikiProject United States Public Policy to a hidden category, Category:Article Feedback Pilot. I was hoping a bot operator could help; it should be a pretty trivial bot task.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 18:29, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Bot needed, to go through Category:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over and Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices - and remove all users currently blocked. Thank you, -- Cirt ( talk) 16:22, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Done - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 15:52, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
Football player statistics end}} is meant as a replacement for the |}
that comes after using {{
Football player statistics 1}}. Using it resolves. This needs to be applied to 3197 articles at this moment, after I applied it to 30 or so manually to see that indeed, it is the first |}
to occur after {{
Football player statistics 1}} that needs to be replaced. Any takers, or should I continue doing it manually? Or maybe someone wants to suggest a location in which this needs to be discussed first? I proposed it at
Template talk:Football player statistics 1#Suggestion and implemented due to acquiescence.--
Muhandes (
talk) 15:50, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Currently Dycedarg's bot DyceBot archives the Graphic Lab subpages. I was looking to fiddle with the time frame the bot uses to archive sections and noticed that it looks like it's something that Dycedarg would need to change on their end. As they don't seem to be active anymore I was hoping someone here could recommend a bot, that would be able to do what DyceBot is currently doing, with an active owner. Any recommendations on who I should contact? Or if someone is interested in coding something up I can give more detail on the specifics. Thanks, §hep Talk 21:48, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Special:Export doesn't export the .jpg or other image files in the articles. Anyway to get the articles and their images within them? Also, some images are in categories such as Category:Xbox Live game covers. Any way to save all of them on my hard drive at once? Dream Focus 16:14, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to see a bot that flags articles that have inconsistent hyphen usage between word pairs. It would search for the first occurrence of a hyphen and store the bounding words. If the same word combinations exist elsewhere without the hyphen then have the article noted for human cleanup/intervention. I'm not sure how many false positives this approach would bring up but it should be easy to find out.-- Hooperbloob ( talk) 17:30, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
It is very common (to the point where there are redirect pages for most of them) for John*s* Hopkins University to be written as John Hopkins University. This is *especially* common in references which refer to John Hopkins University Press. While there might be a few places where John Hopkins University might be appropriate to keep in stories about people's confusion, botting a change of all of John Hopkins University Press to Johns Hopkins University Press might be useful (and wikilinking it if it isn't already). According to Google there are 4000 hits on "John Hopkins University Press" on wikipedia. Naraht ( talk) 02:40, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Done The 400ish articles reported by this google search are corrected. I will wait a couple of weeks and do another google search to make sure, but for now there is not much else I can do. If you have a better way to find such instances than that google search, let me know. -- Muhandes ( talk) 22:08, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
On 20 October, I posted the following request: "All players in Category:Philadelphia Quakers players need to be moved into Category:Philadelphia Phillies players, as they are the same team. The deprecated category for the Philadelphia Blue Jays players was also emptied, and this is a preparatory step for the expansion of the Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster. Thanks." See Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 38#Category change for the original. No response was ever made to the thread before it was archived, so I'm reposting it. — KV5 • Talk • 12:21, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Are there any bots that can improve this article?
WikiProject National Football League has designed a new template (
Template:NFLplayer) which simplifies the usual text that has to be inputted into roster templates. The previous formatting is * <span style="font-family: Courier New;">99</span> [[Player name]]
. After we have converted all current NFL roster templates to the new format, the NFL team season pages will have to have their roster templates converted as well. For the complete list of pages that would need to be changed, see
Category:National Football League seasons. Essentially, a bot is requested to change * <span style="font-family: Courier New;">99</span> [[Player name]]
into {{NFLplayer|99|Player name}}
as well as the other specific parameters listed at
Template:NFLplayer/doc. The new roster template is at
Template:NFL roster also.
Eagles
24/7
(C) 20:49, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
If some bot could be made to periodically go over CAT:AWBC and correct at least some of the pages it would be great. Most (but not all) of the pages in that category lack a title field when using {{ cite web}}, which I believe some bots are capable of doing. The rest would probably need to be done by hand, so I would suggest tagging them for manual editing (say, in a new category Category:Articles with broken citations requiring manual attention. -- Muhandes ( talk) 12:30, 2 September 2010 (UTC)