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Requesting a bot that does an "alphabetical" listing sort order of all subpages within Wikipedia:Requested articles (WP:RA). Current articles sort per 3 days or weekly, due to the vast amount of submission of newcomers with lack of introduction to wikipedia. -- 120.127.93.243 ( talk) 06:59, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
The debate was passed for: "MERGE TEMPLATE:CLEANUP-JARGON INTO TEMPLATE:TECHNICAL"
I am requesting a bot to orphan template:cleanup-jargon and replace all instances into template:technical.
The relevant entries in Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Style_of_writing will need to be amended. Curb Chain ( talk) 23:24, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Well, it's a template that redirects... Pick the one you think fits more. -- Σ ☭★ 00:35, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
When one template is merged into another, the standard procedure is to simply redirect the former to the latter. That's implied in a TfD decision to "merge." (Otherwise, the decision would be to "delete.")
The {{
cleanup-jargon}} transclusions were perfectly functional and didn't require replacement (nor can they be removed from historical page revisions, which is one of the reasons why deletion is undesirable). Orphaning this redirect was a waste of time and resources (albeit a relatively minor one). —
David Levy 04:30, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I still run into articles where the "External links" section is not the last section, per the MoS. It would seem that a bot could automate checking to make sure that a second level "External links" section always follows any second level "References", "Notes", "Footnotes", "Further reading" or "See also" sections. Regards, RJH ( talk) 22:09, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
How many pages are there? I find the task useful for people printing our articles. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:43, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
(I've searched in WP:NS4 pages and talk archives etc. but not found anything relating to this yet. Maybe I've missed something.) It can be the case where it's desirable for a frequently used term (in a series of related articles) to use the above to prevent word wraps. Some examples in the computing field could be Windows 7, Mac OS X, RISC OS and there must be many others within various subject areas. This would be to ensure consistency within individual articles and across a range of related articles. Editors can of course include such features manually as they edit but either may not know about them, or simply forget. Does anyone know if there's a suitable bot around which could accomplish this (as either a current or proposed task)? I think (but please correct me if I'm wrong) it would be handy if such a bot considered the following:
So, my questions are:
All thoughts welcome. Thanks very much for reading. -- Trevj ( talk) 03:31, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Super-low priority task but I also suppose it's a pretty trivial thing to do for a bot. I'm trying to remove userspace pages that appear in Category:Living people (see Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories). I'm searching for these pages by hand which is pretty inefficient since the density is maybe 1/800 so I'd be grateful if someone can automatically create a list. Pichpich ( talk) 16:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi guys, a long term aim of WP:FOOTBALL will be to empty Category:Football biography using deprecated parameters by converting a multitude of old infoboxes into the correct code found at {{ Infobox football biography}}. However, with nearly 50,000 infoboxes to be converted, this will take a helluva long time - would it be possible for a bot to do this instead? Regards, Giant Snowman 18:28, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
I have need of a bot to make changes to about 1,000 pages.
There is currently a template called {{
Wikisource1911Enc Citation}} it needs converting to {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=
for those entries with a parameter and {{Cite EB1911|wstitle={{subst:PAGENAME}}}}
for those instances of the template without a parameter. --
PBS (
talk) 14:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
How long will it take to get approval and is anyone seeking such approval? -- PBS ( talk) 12:24, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing links to the user space remains populated, and judging from a spot-check of the formerly-listed articles, there is no bot removing these links. It may be that this is a task better suited to another mechanism (semi-automation), or that there are problems I have not foreseen, but I thought I'd raise the issue here as the existence of these links is an ongoing embarrassment and threat to the encyclopedia's integrity. Thoughts? Skomorokh 06:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have every article in this category that does not have the years in the front to have the years in the front as per the naming conventions for competitions. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 20:31, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi all, I want a bot which can check the others bots or users' contributions . and give me list of the pages that
would you please help me for developing this bot.(if you can only develop the history checker part. I will do other parts).
Why? —SW— prattle 15:15, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Given the backlog at Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files, I'm asking for someone to: A) re-start the work that was being done by BetacommandBot (I think) for this -or- B) if someone would help me set up and get this started, I'd be happy to "adopt" this task. Skier Dude ( talk) 04:02, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
What happened to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 17#Removal of data for a named reference? The suggestion was basically "We should have a bot that check for the removal of named refs and if that removal leaves any <ref name="aname" /> tags that subsequently break with "Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named facts_and_figures".". Mikael Häggström ( talk) 15:19, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
There is a report here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Empty_categories which lists empty categories.
I feel this would be a perfect task for bot automated tagging.
Any thoughts?
On a related issue, a bot to automatically generate
WP:TFD requests for unused templates (older than a month) could
perhaps also be considered?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:21, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. If someone has a minute, can you run a bot to "fix" (normalize) these redirects? They're redirects in the form of #REDIRECT [[Foo|Bar]], which while valid, are rather silly and confusing. It should be a completely trivial bot task. The only thing you'd have to make sure of is that you don't clobber any section anchors. AWB might be sanest here, dunno. Anyway, if someone can fix these, that'd be awesome. Otherwise, I'll do it at some point. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:16, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to go through all pages that transclude {{ RailGauge}} and redirects {{ Railgauge}} and {{ gauge}} (about 8000 pages) and generate a list of how the template is used in each case? I'm looking for a report in a format like
etc.
Or is there already a tool or similar that can do this? — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 20:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Per this discussion at VPP, we'd like a bot to submit candidates to WP:RFP/A for the autopatrol right to help reduce the workload at WP:NPP. See also, this dicussion at VPP and this discussion at WT:DBR.
Svick has much of the work completed with his python script autopatrol_eligibles.py, which creates a list of potential users at Editors eligible for Autopatrol privilege on the 24th of each month. What is needed now is a bot to A) trim down the list using criteria below and B) submit the remaining users to WP:RFP/A.
Only users that would easily qualify should be submitted to WP:RFP/A, so users would be checked against these criteria and removed from the list. This may require several bots due to complexity.
{{fullurl:User_talk:
{{{username}}}|limit=500&action=history}}
{{fullurl:User_talk:
{{{username}}}|limit=500&action=history}}
This bot or bots will run once a month on the 25th after the new month's report is generated.
Once the list at
Editors eligible for Autopatrol privilege has been trimmed down, a bot would submit the remaning users to
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled with a note mentioning the number of article created and that it is a bot submission. Something like this {{subst:rfp|
{{{username}}}|user has created # artciles. This is a bot submission}}
. If the list is long, the bot may need to submitt a few users per day rather than all at once.
Is anybody willing to work on this? - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 02:26, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
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@Noom, a normal bot is fine. The adminbot part is optional, so I struck it.
@Courcelles, I've struck the adminbot part.
@Kingpin, thanks for archiving all those old permission requests. I struck the adminbot part, but if you want to work on it later, don't let me stop you.
I think having individual bots for each task would make this whole thing a lot easier. I'd say the most important part is removing users from the list if they have copyvio notices and/or removing users that have been recently denied. I can do the other stuff manually, including submitting the users to WP:RFP/A. Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 12:50, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Since these suggestions are just based on numbers, it's not 100% accurate. Administrators and other users are still free to give/nominate another user for autopatrol, these are just guesses at who may be a good candidate for autopatrolled. I could check for manual warnings on a users talk page along with the bot warning check, if wanted. Noom talk stalk 22:55, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Strong oppose: There are several points that give me pause. As part of my on-going concern with the situation at New Page Patrol I have an occasional stab at according autopatrolled rights. This bot is going to create flood of extra work for admins who will still need to do manual checks. Already, for example, one editor, makes large numbers of requests (in GF) for users, but without apparently making sufficient research, and a significant number have to be declined. This is not good for the morale of the editors who quite wrongly regard 'autopatrolled' as a promotion or an award for good service to Wikipedia.
Although the selection criteria for this botinclude all the checks that I personally make, I do not see any safeguards against users who mass create short stubs. Admins who check the applications daily for 'autopatrolled' will assume that the bot has done good work, and because of the sheer volume that will be produced by the bot, they may not carry out the manual checks that they should be doing. I am not entirely convinced that 'autopatrolled' actually makes much impact towards reducing the load on NPP. How many of the hundreds of daily new pages are created by accounts with autopatrolled rights, and how many of the ones that are patrolled are created by authors who are reasonable candidates for autoptrolled rights?
Rather than mass according autopatrolled rights, 'New Page Patroller' should be made a right, and accorded to editors who are sufficiently educated into getting it right.
However, if there is anything in these bot proposals that I have missed, I am quite open to criticisms of my concerns. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:42, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
It appears that Wikipedia has thousands upon thousands of articles that have the grammatically-incorrect phrase "an historic" instead of "a historic". It would take forever to change them all by hand and we need a bot for this task. "An historic" is simply incorrect because the "h" in "historic" is not silent, or if it is, it's only in minority dialects. Even A_and_an#Discrimination_between_a_and_an claims this is incorrect. Please make a bot to fix this! It should only be fixed in unquoted, non-title text, and only in article-space. Note that "an Historic" should still usually be changed because the indefinite article "an" is not part of a title. -- Wykypydya ( talk) 01:20, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
"An historic" is an ENGVAR issue; many educated speakers use it. For them, "historic" is simply an exception to the rule to use 'a' before an aspirated 'h' (assuming they have an aspirated 'h' in the word). The usage of 'an historic' is still around 25% for the 'an' version (on google); it's not at all rare. We don't need to have bots going around second-guessing ENGVAR issues. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:02, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Also, this particular disagreement dates back to at least 1884 [3]. No chance we are going to settle it here. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I do not think that this is not a job for a bot (or AWB). That there are "thousands upon thousands of articles" suggests that "An historic" is used by many editors, and so is a matter for consensus on the talk pages of the article involved. --
PBS (
talk) 02:12, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Australian English uses an historic, so the bot will need to leave alone all articles written so, or it will create a real nuisance Crusoe8181 ( talk) 04:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I fully support this task and this bot proposal. My only caveat is that it should have a blacklist of articles that will not be edited, specifically those that might deliberately use the incorrect form (articles about grammar, A and an, etc.) - Richard Cavell ( talk) 04:31, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
At the request of Richard Cavell (see above 04:31, 1 May), I've done some Googling. Like elsewhere usage in Australia is split. A Google search of Australian Government websites returns " About 196,000 results for "an historic" and About 235,000 results for "a historic". "an historic" usage [sic] in about 45% of pages. Here are two Australian examples from the web (on the first page of a Google search of the au domain) where the phrase "An historic" is used in the title:
If anything "a historic" is over represented as a ratio on Wikiepdia About 7,960 results for "an historic" and About 34,800 results for "a historic" (an internal search of articles returns 5,070 for "An historic" and 22,424 for "A historic") so "an historic" is used in about 18% of article pages.-- PBS ( talk) 09:04, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all the opinions everyone! Thanks to Cymru.lass for mentioning AutoWikiBrowser; I have gone to that page and added a request to be able to use it for this purpose. (See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage.) -- Wykypydya ( talk) 20:05, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
In the frame of infobox person standardisation, WOSlinker added tracking categories to several infoboxes. Yobot started running to update/fix infobox parameters. This procedure enabled us to simplify the source code for several infoboxes and successfully merge some of them. Standardisation has the big benefit that everyone can add basic parameters to an infobox without having to consult the manual. This standardisation procedure has been discussed in Template_talk:Infobox_person/birth_death_params. Unfortunately, Yobot has been blocked since the task was considered by unapproved because Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 15 mentions only requests in this page. Would be OK to resume the task since I posted it here? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:12, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I did a partial dry run on Category:Infobox person using deprecated parameters. Out of the 1,600 first pages, 1,200 need some kind of general fix (I had skip if only whitespace, only casing changed turned on). This is a good proportion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:43, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
User:Petan-Bot started some days ago to clean-up footballer infoboxes. This clean=up doesn't include the parameters we are discussing here. We could ask the owner to expand their work. The only problem I sense is that some people working on footballers had some disagrement on the "playername" to "name" change. We should first ask which parameters could be fixed in this case. Merging "cityofbirth" and "countryofbirth" to "birth_place" (same for "death_place") seems a good task for the particular infoboxes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
This request is a more limited follow-up to this one several months ago. The usage instructions for Template:Talk header indicate:
In accordance with Wikipedia:Talk page layout, this template should not be added to otherwise empty talk pages.
In spite of this, there are about 3,000 pages (according to Catscan) which contain no content other than {{ Talk header}} or one of its redirects. So, could a bot delete all talk-namespace pages (except user talk pages) which contain no content other than {{ Talk header}} and have only one revision in the page history (the second criterion ensures that potentially useful page history is not deleted)? Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 23:55, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Comment: I tell you what, doing some examples from the list, it strikes me that you could vastly reduce the count by deleting talk pages (with just talk-header on) of redirects. (I don't think there's any particular reason to keep such pages in terms of maintaining page history or something - is there?) The rest would then be a much more manageable proposition to tackle manually. Rd232 talk 02:00, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps (where appropriate), a bot could get music symbols to use {{ music}} all the time? This would really help with the great list of articles with "Eb" and other stuff. (The list is longer than you might think...!) Lanthanum-138 ( talk) 11:39, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Regarding Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/navigation, which is transcluded on WP:FEED,
Could someone possibly make a bot which automatically adds links each month, as I did manually here?
If you need more info, give me a shout. Cheers! Chzz ► 14:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Reposted, because this was archived with no response. Chzz ► 19:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
BUMP Chzz ► 06:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC) Rescued from the archive again Chzz ► 06:37, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Great, it happened [5].
One small problem though - May has 31 days, not 30. Chzz ► 02:56, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm removing ibid and other deprecated methods of citing sources atm. Is there a possibility (a bot or maybe a database scan?) to get the links/data when these ibids have been added? It takes rather a long period to find and replace these ibids. The most tiome consuming factor is to find in which edit these ibids were added. Replacing them correctly is not a big task, but there should any possibility to find them. Can create a bot or whatever such a database scan and give me the revisions in a list? mabdul 11:57, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Simple (I think) request: change links like
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1002/1002.0442v1.pdf
to
http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0442/
where the replacements are something like
s|(?:www\.)arxiv.org/PS[-_]cache/arxiv/pdf/\d{4}/(\d{4}\.\d{4})(?:v\d+)?\.pdf|arxiv.org/abs/$1/|gi
s|(?:www\.)arxiv.org/([-a-z]+)/pdf/\d{4}/(\d{7})\.pdf|arxiv.org/abs/$1/$2/|gi
This way people can read the archive rather than download a file, and if they want to download the whole paper they can choose the format they prefer rather than that preferred by the person leaving the link.
It seems that there are somewhat over 2000 of these links, so I think a robot would be (1) faster and (2) less error-prone than a human.
CRGreathouse ( t | c) 00:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
|arxiv=
. However, only about 25 of those seem to be the cached links you describe. I've not got data on bare links.
Rjwilmsi 17:18, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I have another new request and / or a question: Is there any automatic possibility to tag images for file move if they have only numbers in (this would cause some falsepositives) maybe with an prefix? mabdul 21:40, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
May we please have a bot that detects the insertion of the phrase "Jamesbreadth" into an article, and then reports the editor who inserted the phrase to WP:AIV. Various socks of banned Swamilive ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) are in the habit of inserting this phrase into articles. Mjroots ( talk) 15:27, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Please update an interwiki warnfile for is.wiki, or build a new one if it does not exist. Snaevar ( talk) 00:43, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
There is a proposal and the start of discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Verifying G4 for a simple list of statistics (size, number of links, number of categories, number of images) about articles deleted at AfD (and possibly other XfDs) to be posted on the talk page of the relevant discussion by a bot. In order to progress this discussion it would be helpful for someone with knowledge of the capabilities and practicalities of bots to share their knowledge there. Thryduulf ( talk) 06:37, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
To implement a new parameter for
Template:Infobox election, I would like a bot to search pages using the infobox for the text "# seats _ needed for a majority". Then remove the line break, and the sentence, and add the parameter majority_seats
with the number, (
example). Thanks,
117Avenue (
talk) 05:17, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Someone who is professional at bots, does that work? -- 43?9enter ★ ☭ 01:31, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
The article about the company/products Louis Vuitton has been moved to Louis Vuitton (brand). The vast majority of mainspace articles linking to the original namespace (except Louis Vuitton itself) now need to be changed to the new namespace (piped), because mentions refer to the company/product and not the man. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Deferred Given that it's a major and debatable change to one of our most-read articles, I would have reverted the edit and set up a discussion on the talk page about splitting and potential names for the daughter articles. Particularly since the edit you refer to is that editor's one and only edit. However, we are where we are. I'd suggest this is no longer a matter for a bot request, it needs to be taken to Talk:Louis Vuitton and sorted out there. I've already started a discussion there and invited comment from WP:FASHION, I'm no expert on the subject but my gut feel is that the biography should be reunited with the brand. Le Deluge ( talk) 16:18, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Walibi World changed their name to Walibi Holland and I see that there are many pages which show the old name. If someone with AWB access could change this, it'll be great (I can do this too, but I do not have AWB access). Thanks in advance, TBloemink ( talk) 11:46, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Can we get someone to take over User:FlBot's tasks updating the Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask page? It seems the owner has retired. -- œ ™ 16:47, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
{{ ThisDateInRecentYears}} has been revamped. It no longer needs parameters on date articles. I have removed them by hand for 1, 2 & 3 January. Would someone please get a bot to go the rest of the way to 31 December? JIMp talk· cont 00:32, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
In the past we formed a consensus to move links to IMDB away from infobox for Infobox TV series, Infobox episode, Infobox film, etc. There is still one infobox that has external links to its code. This is Template:Infobox adult biography.
I posted a message in March in
Template_talk:Infobox_adult_biography#Links_to_external_links and there are no disagreements for moving on and moving |iafd=
, |egafd=
, |bgafd=
, |imdb=
, |afdb=
away from the infobox to the external links section.
A bot has done that in the past for the other infoboxes. Can someone please do it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:11, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
|eurobabeindex=
and |homepage=
? Also, I see {{
iafd name}} and {{
afdb name}} and {{
IMDb name}}; are there templates for any of these other sites?
Anomie
⚔ 23:51, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
|eurobabeindex=
and |homepage=
must be moved too. I don't think the others have any template but if we have many of them we could create one. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
|homepage=
should probably stay alothogh may want to rename to |website=
to match other infoboxes. --
WOSlinker (
talk) 20:28, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
|website=
was removed. But
Template:Infobox television did keep it. I don't care much either way.
Anomie
⚔ 22:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
|gender=
. All other infoboxes don't use it as obvious or not important to be in the infobox. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 01:43, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Per discussion in the template's talk page we have consensus to remove "measurements" and "measureispenis". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:55, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
I opened a similar discussion in Template_talk:Infobox_college_football_player#Links to external links. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:41, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Could someone deliver this message ( User:Headbomb/Sandbox4) on all WikiProjects and Taskforces' talk pages, on behalf of WikiProject Wikipedia-Books? I've asked Noomos (who coded the bot) and Sven Manguard from WikiProject Wikipedia-Books to check/review the message and they are both fine with it. If would really help us get the word out about book reports. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Anyone else? This would really help us at WP:WBOOKS. If the "non-active" Wikiproject is the holdup, just don't message them (although I'd rather have them messaged as well). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/navigation, which is transcluded on WP:FEED,
Could someone possibly make a bot which automatically adds links each month, as I did manually here?
If you need more info, give me a shout. Cheers! Chzz ► 14:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Reposted, because this was archived with no response. Chzz ► 19:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
We've 132 links to www.kentrail.co.uk which need to be replaced with www.kentrail.org.uk - apart from the domain name change, the path names seem to be the same. Le Deluge ( talk) 11:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Comments;
---
Actually, don't worry too much about the above. Having checked quite a few more (and changed them), I think the 'CLASP' one is the exception. A few are marked as "dead links", so those need a bit of checking. As for the 'reliable source' issue...well, that is really Somebody Else's Problem - some are marked as 'verify credibility' and so on, but that's fine.
I think I'll just make these changes using AWB; it's not a massive amount. I hope that is OK. Doing... Chzz ► 17:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Done
Hi. I was wondering if you could help me organize a bot to draw up lists of listed buildings in the UK from http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/. We are missing a massive amount of content and I think we should have at least lists like the lists of National Registry US places for the British equivalent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps for some of the places which have just a few Grade II listed buildings without much info on them it would be better for articles like Grade II listed buildings in Bournemouth or something.I think that alist of all listed buildings would be very useful as a reference point, even if many of the Grade II listed buildings ar enot notable noeugh for separate articles. I think tabled lists which intiially have location and geo coordinates would prove pretty valuable. What I'd suggest is that such tabled lists would eventually be developed to have a summary of the buildings, much like Hassocks has done with Brighton landmarks and that if there is enough info then create separate articles. So what I'm proposing is that we have a full lists of Graded buildings of all types just like Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove, Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove and Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: A–B. I'd say quite a lot of Grade II listed buildings might deserve a brief summary even if not notable for a full article and would be very encyclopedic and comprehensive if it was to list them like this. So initially the bot would create the lists with name and coordinates and like the rest of wikipedia count on them being developed with information summaries over time. The problem though as said above is that some Grade II listed buildings are nothing more than small residential cottages... I suppose one could argue that being officially listed would make it notable enough for a brief mention in a list, even if many grade II listed buildings will never have enough info for a separate article.I think Hassocks work on Brighton buildings is the ideal of what we want for everywhere in the UK... I'd say for a starting point though we get a bot to list all Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings in the UK.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm playing with code for this. Is the idea is to create a table-style list like this? Should it be at the county level or split like it is now, where some are at the county and some are at the locality? How much information to fetch? If someone could use this as an example to create the article(s), it'd give me an idea of what the bot should be doing. tedder ( talk) 05:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello again; here are my thoughts/comments, based on work I have already done with listed buildings of all grades:
Cheers, Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!) 13:44, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Seeing if I can get a bot to move XXXX (computer game) to XXXX (video game) and YYYY (computer gaming) to YYYY (video gaming) to comply with Naming conventions (video games). I would do this myself with AWB, but i'm not an admin and even then it can be time consuming using AWB considering the number and lack of automated moving naming schemes (for said admins). 陣 内 Jinnai 03:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I would like for a bot to automatically assess pages in the WikiProject Intelligence Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 13:04, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
There was a discussion on the Adopt-a-user talk page some months back and there was sufficient support from active project participants for a bot to be created :
"A bot, similar to the one used at SPI to keep track of cases, the one used at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits, and the one used at WP:MEDCAB could be useful for this project too. The bot would check the list of editor's edits and update a centralized adoption tracking page so we will know how each pair is moving and how long they've been in the program. For example, it could be set to run every other night on the list of adopters and those in any of the program's categories and create a unified list with information on their last edit date and whether or not the user is blocked. An immediate benefit would be cleaning up Category:Wikipedians adopted in Adopt-a-user so we can actually know how many users are active. I propose we apply for such a bot." (taken from Netalarm's proposal)
Discussion for the proposal here: Wikipedia talk:Adopt-a-user#Bot to track progress and pairs
— Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:46am • 22:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could the following message be placed on the talk page of all articles that are tagged as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways (they have the {{ TrainsWikiProject}} template with the "UK" parameter set to "yes") and which include the exact phrase "British Rail Class" or "British Rail Classes" (if any such exist) in the article title. An example article is Talk:British Rail Class 37.
Message:
Please could you also note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Notification when this has been done.
Thanks, Thryduulf ( talk) 15:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
We've 132 links to www.kentrail.co.uk which need to be replaced with www.kentrail.org.uk - apart from the domain name change, the path names seem to be the same. Le Deluge ( talk) 11:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Comments;
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Actually, don't worry too much about the above. Having checked quite a few more (and changed them), I think the 'CLASP' one is the exception. A few are marked as "dead links", so those need a bit of checking. As for the 'reliable source' issue...well, that is really Somebody Else's Problem - some are marked as 'verify credibility' and so on, but that's fine.
I think I'll just make these changes using AWB; it's not a massive amount. I hope that is OK. Doing... Chzz ► 17:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Done
I would like for a bot to automatically assess pages in the WikiProject Intelligence Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 13:04, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Seeing if I can get a bot to move XXXX (computer game) to XXXX (video game) and YYYY (computer gaming) to YYYY (video gaming) to comply with Naming conventions (video games). I would do this myself with AWB, but i'm not an admin and even then it can be time consuming using AWB considering the number and lack of automated moving naming schemes (for said admins). 陣 内 Jinnai 03:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could the following message be placed on the talk page of all articles that are tagged as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways (they have the {{ TrainsWikiProject}} template with the "UK" parameter set to "yes") and which include the exact phrase "British Rail Class" or "British Rail Classes" (if any such exist) in the article title. An example article is Talk:British Rail Class 37.
Message:
Please could you also note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Notification when this has been done.
Thanks, Thryduulf ( talk) 15:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I'm here to request some bot-related work to be done. We have an article at Wikipedia List of countries by proven oil reserves, which is outdated. It needs to be updated according to CIA Factbook. It's not so hard to do it manually but there are some difficulties in calculating total reserves and then calculating each country's percentage in total reserves. I think it'd rather be done by bot. If the table was simply updated I'd put back all 'more information' links.-- RoadTrain ( talk) 14:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if you could help me organize a bot to draw up lists of listed buildings in the UK from http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/. We are missing a massive amount of content and I think we should have at least lists like the lists of National Registry US places for the British equivalent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps for some of the places which have just a few Grade II listed buildings without much info on them it would be better for articles like Grade II listed buildings in Bournemouth or something.I think that alist of all listed buildings would be very useful as a reference point, even if many of the Grade II listed buildings ar enot notable noeugh for separate articles. I think tabled lists which intiially have location and geo coordinates would prove pretty valuable. What I'd suggest is that such tabled lists would eventually be developed to have a summary of the buildings, much like Hassocks has done with Brighton landmarks and that if there is enough info then create separate articles. So what I'm proposing is that we have a full lists of Graded buildings of all types just like Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove, Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove and Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: A–B. I'd say quite a lot of Grade II listed buildings might deserve a brief summary even if not notable for a full article and would be very encyclopedic and comprehensive if it was to list them like this. So initially the bot would create the lists with name and coordinates and like the rest of wikipedia count on them being developed with information summaries over time. The problem though as said above is that some Grade II listed buildings are nothing more than small residential cottages... I suppose one could argue that being officially listed would make it notable enough for a brief mention in a list, even if many grade II listed buildings will never have enough info for a separate article.I think Hassocks work on Brighton buildings is the ideal of what we want for everywhere in the UK... I'd say for a starting point though we get a bot to list all Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings in the UK.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm playing with code for this. Is the idea is to create a table-style list like this? Should it be at the county level or split like it is now, where some are at the county and some are at the locality? How much information to fetch? If someone could use this as an example to create the article(s), it'd give me an idea of what the bot should be doing. tedder ( talk) 05:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello again; here are my thoughts/comments, based on work I have already done with listed buildings of all grades:
Cheers, Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!) 13:44, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Comment/questions from across the pond I whole-heartedly support the idea of using a bot or some other programming approach plus editors making manual edits, to create usable lists of Listed buildings. Doing similarly in the U.S. for National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed places has worked out well, in creating tables during 2009-2010 that are included in county- and city-organized NRHP lists indexed from List of RHPs. These list-articles have developed nicely, further, since. With a copy of the National Register's NRIS database, editor User:Elkman programmed a "table-generator" and made output available at an off-wiki website; I and other editors cut-and-pasted it over into the relevant Wikipedia pages. Would the process here work similarly? Is the English Heritage database downloadable, or could it be obtained and given to a programmer?
Also, the U.S. initiative also covered development of corresponding disambiguation pages. Editor Elkman generated a generator to draft text for disambiguation pages, where there were more than one NRHP-listed building having exactly the same name. I programmed a different version of such a generator, too. All of these results have been used to start or expand disambiguation pages covering NRHP listed places. Probably same should be done for Listed buildings, too. There are multiple buildings having exactly the same name, within the English Heritage database, correct? -- do ncr am 20:13, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
While patrolling the user creation log, I frequently come across usernames that are obvious conflicts of interest accounts, in violation of Wikipedia:Username_policy#Company.2Fgroup_names. Some of these are not readily discernible, but many are easy to determine. For example; User:Risingtidecapital (www.risingtidecapital.org), and User:Carpetdyesticks (www.carpetdyesticks.com). Sometimes, I run into usernames with spaces in the name, but which resolve to a URL ultimately. For example; User:BVB Productions (www.bvbproductions.com).
I'm thinking that a bot could do this work. In particular, the bot would:
This would place the accounts in Category:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over, allowing later administrator attention as needed. Thoughts? -- Hammersoft ( talk) 16:37, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
A great many infoboxes already emit microformats, and have for months, or even years. However, in some articles, these are incomplete, because the dates which form part of them do not use an appropriate sub-template, in order to emit the date in the correct metadata format. A bot (or bots - this task could be subdivided) is required, to complete the task of converting opening-, release-, first shown-, incident- and such dates from plain text to use {{ Start date}}, as seen in this example edit for a year, and this one for a full date and as described in the various infoboxes' documentation. Note that {{ start date}} allows for YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD and in a few cases YYY-M-DD:HH:MM formats. Note that Smackbot was approved to do this, and started, but failed to complete the task. A list of affected templates is available. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
At MOTD, when we are normally running low on mottos I send a message to members encouraging participation. We are in that situation at the moment. There are lots of members at MOTD. This time I have been too busy to do the message so could one be sent on behalf of my main account Simply south and Motto of the Day? The members can be found at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Participants and Category:Wikipedians who contribute to Motto of the day. Difficultly north ( talk) 00:52, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
There was a discussion on the Adopt-a-user talk page some months back and there was sufficient support from active project participants for a bot to be created :
"A bot, similar to the one used at SPI to keep track of cases, the one used at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits, and the one used at WP:MEDCAB could be useful for this project too. The bot would check the list of editor's edits and update a centralized adoption tracking page so we will know how each pair is moving and how long they've been in the program. For example, it could be set to run every other night on the list of adopters and those in any of the program's categories and create a unified list with information on their last edit date and whether or not the user is blocked. An immediate benefit would be cleaning up Category:Wikipedians adopted in Adopt-a-user so we can actually know how many users are active. I propose we apply for such a bot." (taken from Netalarm's proposal)
Discussion for the proposal here: Wikipedia talk:Adopt-a-user#Bot to track progress and pairs
— Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:46am • 22:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I request your help to remove those templates: {{Nicole}}
and {{Nicole (Chilean singer)}}
, to date is suppressed. Thanks, --
DO IT THE CHILEAN WAY!!! (
talk) 05:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
PD: Those templates will be replaced by another:
{{Nicole}}
was deleted. 1 problem less. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 03:43, 19 March 2011 (UTC)Drugbank has been updated to v 3.0, but the links on wikipedia still use the old nomenclature eg. Procaine as the link for APRD00650, which should be changed to DB00721.
It would be great if someone could please update those links. Drugbank is also downloadable in XML format if that makes it any easier to get lists of names.
Thank you!
Could someone deliver this message ( User:Headbomb/Sandbox4) on all WikiProjects and Taskforces' talk pages, on behalf of WikiProject Wikipedia-Books? I've asked Noomos (who coded the bot) and Sven Manguard from WikiProject Wikipedia-Books to check/review the message and they are both fine with it. If would really help us get the word out about book reports. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Anyone else? This would really help us at WP:WBOOKS. If the "non-active" Wikiproject is the holdup, just don't message them (although I'd rather have them messaged as well). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Unarchived, this still needs to be done. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:29, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
I know that wildbot was shut down. Can a bot remove the unnecessary notices from that pages. The toolserver says that there are 8568 pages that using the template. Going through all would be really time-consuming. I will / would check the rest and correct the links. (I'm doing some already!) mabdul 17:38, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Could someone add "{{ WikiProject Estonia}}" to all talk pages that start with "Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/" and "Portal:Estonia/"? Thanks! Pelmeen10 ( talk) 18:01, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject pages usually have subpage request/proposal pages. Those subpage proposal pages typically require the request to be transcluded or otherwise linked to a parent page (so that the WikiProject members can be made aware of the page and the request). I'm working WP:NPP Wikipedia: namespace pages and just found Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Battle of the Wilderness and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Engineering Education. Neither proposal was completed, which I discovered by looking at "What links here". Please create a bot that checks the "What links here" for all the subpages of the pages listed User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject. If a page (i) lacks any links to it and (ii) has had only one contributor, post a link to the page at User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject/nolink. Once the bot is finished posting to User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject/nolink, please post a note on my talk page to let me know that was done. I'll then patrol the pages at User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject/nolink individually to see what, if anything, needs to be done to make others aware of the orphaned page. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 15:58, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Searching on google for typos in wikipedia, I find it very time-consuming to have to search for a commonly misspelled word, replacing it with the correct word, and then saving the page. However, a bot could very easily do this, in that it could automatically explain and save the change, and requiring far less work than an actual human. --M. Schneider [Schneider anc] ( talk • contribs) 08:38, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I need a copyright tool, not a bot. I've asked a few independent tool developers, but they have either lacked know-how or time. I'm hoping somebody here can help out, because it would be HUGELY beneficial in copyright work. Like on par with inventing the cotton gin; no foolin'!
We have bots and tools that can compare the text in an article to the results of search engine tests. Earwig's copyvio detector is far and away the most useful tool in my work. I really, really could also use a tool that allows me to compare two specific pages. Often, somebody will tag Article Fu as a copy of [http://Random website], but give no guidance on where on the target page the text is drawn. I spend a lot of time scanning through documents trying to find these alleged text matches so that I can close out listings at WP:CP. If anybody could make a tool that would allow me to have two pages compared with results listed ala Earwig, I would then be able to find the exact text matches on the suspected source so that I can see how extensive the problem is, or if it even exists.
In my dream world, this tool could also evaluate PDFs, because the absolute worst cases I've encountered were documents hundreds of pages long. It would also be great if the tool could, as the once-planned "URL Intersection Tool" would have done, compare versions of Wikipedia articles via permanent diffs. (This lets us see if copyvios entered by WP:CCI subjects have been completely overwritten.) I don't know if this dream world tool is possible, but I'd be ecstatic just to get a tool that could compare a Wikipedia article with a website.
Can anybody help me? Wikipedia:Proposed tools doesn't really seem to have flown. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:32, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
I posted a Bot school request here. The school would be in need of someone to develop code for very simple bots that can be used as a template on how to write a bot to take a very simple action. Any takers? -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 03:19, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that will change all dates in an article from British to American style or vice-versa?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Feedback. I installed the script and used it on a section of Enrico Caruso. As far as I could tell, it worked perfectly. The use of the script is here. Thanks for the help.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:51, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
A little history first: This was proposed awhile back with very little warning to affected parties, and it was also ironically begun rather quickly as well but not halted once a user voiced concern with the task. The controversial situation found its way to the administrator's noticeboard quickly in response to the two suspicious events.
It turns out the reason the edits were opposed was due to the speedy bot request with no RfC first. Since then, an RfC has been carried out for it to gain consensus. I will ask that in the event of any controversy the task be halted immediately. No need to have the same dispute all over again.
Bot request:
Approximately 21.6 K articles are listed at
Category:Taxoboxes employing both unranked familia and superfamilia. Due to a miscoding in the {{
taxobox}} template, editors have been forced to use the |unranked_familia=
and |superfamilia=
parameters incorrectly. A recent complaint about this has prompted us to fix this problem. Before we can modify the template, however, all affected articles must be corrected in such a manner that they will not be rendered incorrect by the modification.
The articles listed in the aforementioned category need to have the following operations performed:
|unranked_familia=
and |unranked_familia_authority=
with the parameters |unranked_superfamilia=
and |unranked_superfamilia_authority=
, respectively.No exceptions are anticipated, since the |unranked_superfamilia=
and |unranked_superfamilia_authority=
parameters were just added to the template. The category should be deleted once it is emptied.
Thanks in advance! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:38, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
|unranked_familia=
and |unranked_familia_authority=
be replaced with |unranked_superfamilia=
and |unranked_superfamilia_authority=
even if the parameters aren't empty?
Noom
talk
contribs 14:35, 4 April 2011 (UTC)Hi, everyone. I have coded a bot framework and currently I'm looking for a suitable task with which to put the bot to work. I have plenty of complicated ideas for my bot, but for now I want to start off with something simple owing to the fact that the bot framework is new. I'm happy to write custom code. If you have a task that you need a bot for, let me know on my talk page. - Richard Cavell ( talk) 08:51, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Category:ship classes and its sub-categories (to one level) include 1500 articles which should have hyphens in their names. At ship class, they get around some of the problem w link coding, e.g. with [[County class cruiser|County-class cruiser]]. The correction should be made for all phrases "X class Y", where X is the class and Y the type of ship. Or an en dash if the X is two words, such as Hikawa Maru class ocean liner (< 200 articles). ( Trafalgar class submarine is incorrect in lacking a hyphen in the title but also in having a hyphen in the bold phrase of the lede, where the name is not attributive—that is, where there is no "Y".) This doesn't just follow our MOS, but also the sources and external links of these articles, such as here. — kwami ( talk) 06:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
There has been consensus for hyphens in all ship class articles at WP:NC-SHIPS, but no one ever implemented it. I've never seen anything about en dashes, and I see no reason to use them. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Style isn't an OR issue. Of course, the Ships project could decide to opt out of the MOS on en dashes, but normally we do go by our style guide, just as the EB or a newspaper would follow their style guides. But as SW noted, that's independent of the hyphenation issue.
There are two conventions. The other is to place the class in quotation marks. (That would avoid the whole en-dash thing.) For example, the Illustrated Directory of Warships of the World has County-class cruiser, but the The encyclopedia of weapons of World War II has ‘County’ class cruiser. The former is in keeping with the ship-name site ref'd by our article, and has been in our guideline on ship naming for eight years, but either would be correct.
Oh, here's another: The life that Jack lived: experiences of a Norfolk soldier and policeman uses capitalization: County Class Cruiser. But given our 8 yrs of consensus, I doubt we'd want to change things around like that. It wouldn't be supported by the articles. If people have problems w the dashes, I propose that we go ahead and move all titles to hyphens, and we can decide whether to move the 150 or so to dashes later.
Also, odd titles such as ‘S’ and ‘T’ class could be left for now, pending discussion on their individual pages. (I've seen a pair of quotes and a single hyphen from the T, but that one's a bit iffy.) — kwami ( talk) 21:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Some statistics:
I'll create a table shortly listing the results. —SW— chat 22:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
to include the hyphen.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 22:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)Perhaps this conversion could/should continue at WT:SHIPNAME or WT:SHIPS? Even if a consensus is reached here, it will be missing parties that follow the ship pages. tedder ( talk) 23:21, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
This is not a good idea. If it is adopted, we will then get into fine distinctions between hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes in article titles. These distinctions do not exist in normal English; though the may exist in the world of type setters. It leads to utterly lame edit wars and disputes (see for example Talk:Mexican-American War#Revisit requested move). It has no advantages.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 12:54, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Agreed with Toddy. I would like hyphens in page titles, and there is consensus for it, but using endashes in certain situations is not a good idea. By proposing it, you've muddled the issue and made everything more confusing here. Can we get back to the original intent of hyphenating these class articles and forget about dashes? Thanks. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:40, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
There was consensus in October here. Just to be clear, I've asked again here. — kwami ( talk) 21:08, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Just fyi for everyone: getting the italics right would require a person (or people) to review every single one of the ship class articles to see if the lead ship's name is the same as the class name. Most classes are named after the lead ship, hence the italics. However, some were named after a theme, like the River class destroyer or County class cruiser, so they don't get italicized. I got down to "Alexandrit class minesweeper" in about 15 minutes and came up with Admiral class battlecruiser, Admiral class battleship, and Admiralen class destroyer, and Akula class submarine that should not be italicized. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:37, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to ask to ask this here and I would have done it myself but my access to AWB was revoked by User:CBM and he refuses to do restore it and I'm not about to tag all these pages manually. I suggested he do the work but he brushed it off and told me to come here making more work for you (sorry for my tone but I have little time or patience for people who don't want to do the work themselves or enable others to do so, but then push that work to others). Since I don't feel it's appropriate for someone else to override his decision (however poor I believe it to be) I am forced to come here and ask for someone else to do this simply and non contreversial task.
The attached link contains a list of 517 articles under Portal:United States needing to be tagged as WikiProject United States. All other pages have been marked as such with these pages being added in an effort to get that portal to featured status. Since I was very active and will probably continue to be in the future this is the first of what will be multiple requests for bot action.
The banner should look like {{WikiProject United States|class=portal|importance=NA}}.
Please let me know if you have any questions and thanks again for the help. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:23, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
A new field has been added to {{ Infobox company}} for stock ticker symbols, per template talk:Infobox company. Often these are inserted in the "type" field. Could someone make a bot to take any of the stock ticker symbol templates found elsewhere in the template, and place it under the "traded as" field? Preferably, the bot would also remove any parenthesis around the templates (if any), and search the article intro for ticker symbols if none are contained in the template itself. Thanks! ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 22:43, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
See here for further reference. In summation, The Baseball Cube, a reputable site for baseball statistics, moved around their pages the other day, from http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/NAME.shtml to http://www.thebaseballcube.com/profile.asp?P=NAME, but the player name went from "First.initial.of.last.name/First.name-Last.name" to "First.name-Last.name". The Cube set up no redirects.
To temporarily solve this problem, an admin string functions, whereas {{str right|R/babe-ruth|2}} now becomes babe-ruth. We now need a bot that can convert all usages of the old format to the new format where Template:Baseballstats is employed and the input "cube" is used. – Muboshgu ( talk) 13:56, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to request a mass relinking. All incoming links to Alan Ball (footballer) should be replaced with Alan Ball, Jr., as there are multiple footballers by this name. After it is relinked, Alan Ball (footballer) should retarget to Alan Ball disambiguation page. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 06:02, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just discovered that a lot of ship-related categories have been renamed on Commons, without leaving redirects behind. This has probably resulted in a lot of broken commonscat links. An example: commons:Category:The Matthew has been moved to commons:Category:Matthew (ship, 1996), but commonscat in Matthew (ship) still points to the (now-deleted) original category. It's easy to fix this in this single instance, but it's much more difficult to do that for all of the affected ships, and there should probably be a bot that checks the commonscat links every so often, and updates them as needed (or adds in commonscat where possible, or if that can't be done automatically then it could flag the article as needing a commonscat link).
Would anyone be interested in putting together such a bot? I'm sure it would be (fairly easily) possible to do... Mike Peel ( talk) 12:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
I recently added a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy#Request for input in discussion forum inviting input at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/2011 meeting. I would be very appreciative if the message could be copied and delivered by bot to all the talk pages of WikiProjects listed in the philosophy and religion section of the WP:PROJDIR. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 15:43, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Use Template:Death date and age and Template:Birth date to fill in the each namespace dates content in the Template:Months. (explanation: each date's article has a Birth and Death section, as seen in the Table of Contents).
Take note of the parameters spacing
*[[1875]] – [[Joe Corbett]], American baseball player (d. 1945)
* 1875 – [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Austrian poet (d. 1926)
footnote: January, Feb...etc months are not require to be complete.
As an additional feature, i think it would nice if bot can include Template:Infobox requested to any biographical article that doesn't contain infoboxeses. I recommend using Category:Categories by nationality to start crawling might be a good place to begin with. Don't forget to crawl Stubs too. Thanks a lot for your help.
If possible statistics of number of assessed and unassessed article entries should be reported in a table statistics on Bot's talk page. (Optional)
Irrelevant Content (Behavior Issue guidance) |
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Reply Smallman12q: First Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a compendium holding a summary of information for the general audience. I think making it like an essay and being technical is not user friendly. I've seen infobox on biography of musician, politicians and famous philosophers have done a good job to guide people to simplify technical terms. Don't try to giving your personal opinion WP:OPINION as commented in Archive 1, Wikipedia doesn't ask for perfectionist ( WP:PERFECTION, FYI). Further, being perfection in this situation has violated WP:OWNERSHIP. I don't think giving an excuse like I can't find a better picture in Archive 2 should be a legitimate reason to not include infobox, they are the graphic department and other museums coordination that are happy to provide donations in Wikimedia Commons. Please don't discuss the infobox thing on this article, that belongs to the relevant sections of WP:FA or Template talk:infobox and WikiProject. Their unconstructive and inconsiderate is carelessness is their personal evaluation responsibility of themselves, not wikipedia to mentor them. We are not a hospital. -- 111.241.72.178 ( talk) 09:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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Per Template:WikiProjectBannerShell#Optional parameters:
blp=yes
should be specified if the subject of the article is a living personactivepol=yes
should be specified if the subject of the article is an active politicianCould a bot perform the following tasks:
blp=yes
is not specified, then add blp=yes
before the |1=
parameter.activepol=yes
is not specified, then add activepol=yes
before the |1=
parameter.-- Black Falcon ( talk) 18:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Citation templates now support |bibcode=
. While there are current efforts by
Rjwilmsi to convert URLs into
bibcodes (which gives a partial coverage of citations), and by
Smith609 to add bibcodes via citation bot (which is very slow), the systematic way bibcodes are made should allow for a quick and easy update of several {{
citation}} and {{
cite journal}} referring to the most cited astronomy journals.
Bibcode format is in YYYYJJJJJVVVVMPPPPA
YYYY
is the 4-digit code for the yearJJJJJ
is the 5-letter code for the journal. The complete list of code/journal is given at
User:Headbomb/Bibcode bot (based on
[15]), but should not be necessary for this task.VVVV
is the 4-digit code for volumes. Volume 45 is ..45
Volume 1 is ...1
PPPP
is the 4-digit code for the starting page. Page 34 is ..34
Page 1 is ...1
For pages greater than 9999, the M
column (see below) is used.M
is the section-letter. Certain sections have their dedicated journal code (JJJJJ=PhRvL
for
Physical Review Letters, with M=.
), others do not (
Astrophysical Journal Letters has JJJJJ=ApJ..
, with M=L
)A
is the first letter of the first author's last name. For a paper written by John Smith, this is S. For a paper written by John Adams and William Shatner, this is A.This basically means that from an existing citation, you can determine the bibcode without too much fancy pants logic.
A bot can check for a citation such a
And determine the bibcode from the details. In this case,
YYYYJJJJJVVVVMPPPPA 1974AJ.....79..819H
If
Bibcode:
1974AJ.....79..819H works, which can be tested via
this link, then the bot can add |bibcode=1974AJ.....79..819H
to the citation.
|journal=
and JJJJJ
codes for the top astronomy journalsBibcodes | possible |journal= (case insensitive)
|
possible M value |
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ApJ.. |
The Astrophysical Journal Astrophysical Journal Astrophys. J. Astrophys J Astro. J. Astro J Ap J. Ap J ApJ The Astrophysical Journal Letters Astrophysical Journal Letters Astrophys. J. Lett. Astrophys J Lett Astro. J. Lett. Astro J Lett Ap JL ApJL |
Note Some existing citations have something like |journal=Astrophysical Journal |page=L51 . The L in the pages tells you this is a reference to Astrophysical Journal Letters rather than Astrophysical Journal
L = Astrophysical Journal Letters |
ApJS. |
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series The Astrophysical Journal Supplements The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Astrophysical Journal Supplements Astrophysical Journal Supplement Astrophys. J. Suppl. Astrophys J Suppl Astro. J. Suppl. Astro J Suppl ApJS |
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AJ... |
The Astronomical Journal Astronomical Journal Astron. J. Astron J AJ |
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A&A.. |
Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomy and Astrophysics Astron. Astrophys. Astron Astrophys A. & A. A & A A.&A. A&A Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters Astron. Astrophys. Lett. Astron Astrophys Lett A. & A. L. A & A L A.&A.L. A&AL |
Note Some existing citations have something like |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |page=L51 . The L in the pages tells you this is a reference to Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters rather than Astronomy & Astrophysics
L = Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters |
A&AS. |
Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplements Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Astron Astrophys Suppl A. & A. S. A & A S A.&A.S. A&AS |
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MNRAS |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Monthly Notices of the R. A. S. Monthly Notices of the R.A.S. Monthly Notices of the RAS Mon. Not. R. Ast. Soc. Mon.Not.R.Ast.Soc. MonNotRAstSoc MNRAS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters Monthly Notices of the R. A. S. Letters Monthly Notices of the R.A.S. Letters Monthly Notices of the RAS Letters Mon. Not. R. Ast. Soc. Lett. Mon.Not.R.Ast.Soc.Let. MonNotRAstSocLet MNRASL |
Note Some existing citations have something like |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |page=L51 . The L in the pages tells you this is a reference to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters rather than Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
L = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters |
PASP. |
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. Publ Astron Soc Pac P. A. S. P. P A S P P.A.S.P. PASP |
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PASA. |
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Australia Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust. Publ Astron Soc Aust P. A. S. A. P A S A P.A.S.A. PASA |
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PASJ. |
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Japan Proc. Astron. Soc. Jpn. Proc Astron Soc Jpn P. A. S. J. P A S J P.A.S.J PASJ |
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PhRv. |
Physical Review Phys. Rev. Phys Rev |
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PhRvA |
Physical Review A Phys. Rev. A Phys Rev A PRA |
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PhRvB |
Physical Review B Phys. Rev. B Phys Rev B PRB |
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PhRvC |
Physical Review C Phys. Rev. C Phys Rev C PRC |
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PhRvD |
Physical Review D Phys. Rev. D Phys Rev D PRD |
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PhRvE |
Physical Review E Phys. Rev. E Phys Rev E PRE |
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PhRvL |
Physical Review Letters Phys. Rev. Lett. Phys Rev Lett PRL.. |
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PhL.. |
Physics Letters Phys. Lett. Phys Lett |
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PhLA. |
Physics Letters A Phys. Lett. A Phys Lett A |
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PhLB. |
Physics Letters B Phys. Lett. B Phys Lett B |
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PhLC. |
Physics Letters C Phys. Lett. C Phys Lett C |
So if a bot could go through the database, and build/test bibcodes on citations with these |journal=
parameters, that would be really, really awesome. There might be a problem with parsing |
to find the last name of the first author, so maybe restrict the bot to citations with |last=
/|last1=
. Or maybe try 1974AJ.....79..819A, 1974AJ.....79..819B, 1974AJ.....79..819C... until there is a match in the ADSABS database.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 03:57, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Maybe this has been addressed (maybe many times!) but it would seem sensible to make a bot that finds all the articles with "and" in their name-- like Set and setting-- & then creates redirects on all the (blank) pages for the same title, only with the ampersand (like Set & setting). mordicai. ( talk) 11:23, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I would like a (simplistic) bot to replace manual ViralZone entries to the SIB-template ({{SIB|xx|Virusname}}, which points to the academic non-for-profit databank of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. ViralZone is part of this institute, but the many entries on Wikipedia should be more professionally 'templated'. For example, replace:
with:
(See also info on the
SIB template page)
Thanks! Dr. F.C. Turner - [
USERPAGE|
USERTALK] - 13:02, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there an active bot that can replace dead links with their equivalents on archive.org? The domain northvegr.org once belonged to the Northvegr Foundation, a private educational foundation focused on publishing texts from northern European pre-Christian history. The foundation is defunct, the domain is now owned by an unrelated entity, and their web site is completely different.
Wikipedia has over 700 links to the original site — links that are now dead, but preserved on archive.org. Is there a bot that can help out replacing them? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any active bots with this capability in the bot list. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 00:56, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Could someone change "|quality=" to "|class=" on WikiProject templates. It doesn't work with "quality". Talked about it here. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 18:09, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Doing... using the list xeno created. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:41, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
In some WikiProjects, there is "|priority=" instead of "|importance=". Could someone check? Pelmeen10 ( talk) 16:28, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Oh, and many WikiProjects have "|attention=", "|comments=", "|needs-infobox=", "|needs-photo=" etc in talk pages, but it's not icluded in the main WP template. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 16:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Browsing the various tools available on the toolserver, I've found that I've contributed more edits to Spain than any other mainspace page. However, I can't remember what these were (they were probably therefore several years ago). Would it be possible for a bot owner to satisfy my idle curiosity and put links to all my edits on the Spain article at User:Thryduulf/Spain, or point to a tool that I can use to get this list myself (I've had a look for one without success, but I've a poor track record when it comes to finding what is available on the toolserver). What I'm after would ideally look like a standard history page, but filtered to show only my edits.
This is a very low priority request.
Cheers, Thryduulf ( talk) 14:55, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I have set up a wiki and its very empty. I need a few pages so it serves a purpose lol.
Example Page title/Content:
-C++ programming:
tutorials
source code
examples
^all in link format with a few details about the site the link points to kind of like how google displays search results.
I can supply the links and edit the output, but I would have to do this for many pages each having a different subject and a bot would be very useful.
Could someone here create a bot that, upon editing a config file for each page and logging in, would format and post the page content for me?
Or possibly I could enter a topic into the config file or script and it would make a page with neatly formatted revelant info about the topic so I have consistant page content and it takes a little bit off my workload?
Thank you, Nick - The forum — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stickynicky1411 ( talk • contribs)
Hi All, I made 2500 articles in Fa.Wiki (one of them is this fa:کاوانیشی، هیوگو) and I added en.Wiki interwiki inside the articles but after 5 days none of our Interwiki bots couldn't detect interwiki and adding another wiki's links and had confect's error so they didn't add the other wiki's links. what should i do? If I prepare the list of our articles that they have one side interwiki, Would you please add farsi interwiki links to related english articles? also we have this problem for other articles.yours Reza1615 ( talk) 20:24, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
I am on the Wikipedia Welcoming Committe who's goal it is to welcome all new users. However, there are currently less than 20 of us and there is no way we can welcome all new users. I was wondering if ther was a bot that could welcome new users for us? Oddbodz ( talk) 12:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed that many of the articles that the Holocaust nav box links to do not have the nav box listed on it. In fact, I've noticed this with lots of nav boxes on Wikipedia. Is there a way to have a robot automatically do all of the linking of nav boxes on the articles that it links to? If not, can't Wikipedia create a robot to do stuff like that? This seems like the exact type of task that could be programmed into a bot. It would save a ton of tedious work and time for people. Hoops gza ( talk) 06:39, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
I've found that my time available for operating my WikiProject tagging and auto-assessment bot has greatly reduced.
I am looking for a replacement operator who can deal with the requests at User:Xenobot/R and any subsequent requests that may be left there. There are at least five pending requests.
Any replacement needs to be able to mirror Xenobot's autoassessment process, outlined at User:Xenobot/A. I have some AWB settings that achieve this, and also a Python script written by User:EdoDodo (still developmental and with some known issues), both of which I can provide on request.
(Note: some projects also request custom work such as the open request for SEATTLE.)
Thanks in advance, – xeno talk 14:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
We need to get a new bot to take up the work prepping each day's pages for Files for Deletion and Possibly Unfree Files. This involved making edits like this and like this, just setting up the pages for FFD and PUF discussions ahead of people who will actually be using them.
This task was previously done by Zorglbot, until said bot was blocked for malfunctioning on March 26, and has not since been unblocked. Thus we need a bot to pick up this task of Zorglbot's. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 01:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
Google video will be closing at the end of april, should a bot redirect the links to an archive service? Smallman12q ( talk) 13:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi all, I need a bot that will replace all the occurrence of " File:Stub_femminismo.png" with " File:Womanpower logo.svg. I am doing this in all the other projects. Thanks. -- Lucas ( talk) 15:36, 25 April 2011 (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 35 | ← | Archive 39 | Archive 40 | Archive 41 | Archive 42 | Archive 43 | → | Archive 45 |
Requesting a bot that does an "alphabetical" listing sort order of all subpages within Wikipedia:Requested articles (WP:RA). Current articles sort per 3 days or weekly, due to the vast amount of submission of newcomers with lack of introduction to wikipedia. -- 120.127.93.243 ( talk) 06:59, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
The debate was passed for: "MERGE TEMPLATE:CLEANUP-JARGON INTO TEMPLATE:TECHNICAL"
I am requesting a bot to orphan template:cleanup-jargon and replace all instances into template:technical.
The relevant entries in Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Style_of_writing will need to be amended. Curb Chain ( talk) 23:24, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Well, it's a template that redirects... Pick the one you think fits more. -- Σ ☭★ 00:35, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
When one template is merged into another, the standard procedure is to simply redirect the former to the latter. That's implied in a TfD decision to "merge." (Otherwise, the decision would be to "delete.")
The {{
cleanup-jargon}} transclusions were perfectly functional and didn't require replacement (nor can they be removed from historical page revisions, which is one of the reasons why deletion is undesirable). Orphaning this redirect was a waste of time and resources (albeit a relatively minor one). —
David Levy 04:30, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I still run into articles where the "External links" section is not the last section, per the MoS. It would seem that a bot could automate checking to make sure that a second level "External links" section always follows any second level "References", "Notes", "Footnotes", "Further reading" or "See also" sections. Regards, RJH ( talk) 22:09, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
How many pages are there? I find the task useful for people printing our articles. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:43, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
(I've searched in WP:NS4 pages and talk archives etc. but not found anything relating to this yet. Maybe I've missed something.) It can be the case where it's desirable for a frequently used term (in a series of related articles) to use the above to prevent word wraps. Some examples in the computing field could be Windows 7, Mac OS X, RISC OS and there must be many others within various subject areas. This would be to ensure consistency within individual articles and across a range of related articles. Editors can of course include such features manually as they edit but either may not know about them, or simply forget. Does anyone know if there's a suitable bot around which could accomplish this (as either a current or proposed task)? I think (but please correct me if I'm wrong) it would be handy if such a bot considered the following:
So, my questions are:
All thoughts welcome. Thanks very much for reading. -- Trevj ( talk) 03:31, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Super-low priority task but I also suppose it's a pretty trivial thing to do for a bot. I'm trying to remove userspace pages that appear in Category:Living people (see Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories). I'm searching for these pages by hand which is pretty inefficient since the density is maybe 1/800 so I'd be grateful if someone can automatically create a list. Pichpich ( talk) 16:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi guys, a long term aim of WP:FOOTBALL will be to empty Category:Football biography using deprecated parameters by converting a multitude of old infoboxes into the correct code found at {{ Infobox football biography}}. However, with nearly 50,000 infoboxes to be converted, this will take a helluva long time - would it be possible for a bot to do this instead? Regards, Giant Snowman 18:28, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
I have need of a bot to make changes to about 1,000 pages.
There is currently a template called {{
Wikisource1911Enc Citation}} it needs converting to {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=
for those entries with a parameter and {{Cite EB1911|wstitle={{subst:PAGENAME}}}}
for those instances of the template without a parameter. --
PBS (
talk) 14:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
How long will it take to get approval and is anyone seeking such approval? -- PBS ( talk) 12:24, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing links to the user space remains populated, and judging from a spot-check of the formerly-listed articles, there is no bot removing these links. It may be that this is a task better suited to another mechanism (semi-automation), or that there are problems I have not foreseen, but I thought I'd raise the issue here as the existence of these links is an ongoing embarrassment and threat to the encyclopedia's integrity. Thoughts? Skomorokh 06:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have every article in this category that does not have the years in the front to have the years in the front as per the naming conventions for competitions. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 20:31, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi all, I want a bot which can check the others bots or users' contributions . and give me list of the pages that
would you please help me for developing this bot.(if you can only develop the history checker part. I will do other parts).
Why? —SW— prattle 15:15, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Given the backlog at Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files, I'm asking for someone to: A) re-start the work that was being done by BetacommandBot (I think) for this -or- B) if someone would help me set up and get this started, I'd be happy to "adopt" this task. Skier Dude ( talk) 04:02, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
What happened to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 17#Removal of data for a named reference? The suggestion was basically "We should have a bot that check for the removal of named refs and if that removal leaves any <ref name="aname" /> tags that subsequently break with "Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named facts_and_figures".". Mikael Häggström ( talk) 15:19, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
There is a report here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Empty_categories which lists empty categories.
I feel this would be a perfect task for bot automated tagging.
Any thoughts?
On a related issue, a bot to automatically generate
WP:TFD requests for unused templates (older than a month) could
perhaps also be considered?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:21, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. If someone has a minute, can you run a bot to "fix" (normalize) these redirects? They're redirects in the form of #REDIRECT [[Foo|Bar]], which while valid, are rather silly and confusing. It should be a completely trivial bot task. The only thing you'd have to make sure of is that you don't clobber any section anchors. AWB might be sanest here, dunno. Anyway, if someone can fix these, that'd be awesome. Otherwise, I'll do it at some point. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:16, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to go through all pages that transclude {{ RailGauge}} and redirects {{ Railgauge}} and {{ gauge}} (about 8000 pages) and generate a list of how the template is used in each case? I'm looking for a report in a format like
etc.
Or is there already a tool or similar that can do this? — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 20:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Per this discussion at VPP, we'd like a bot to submit candidates to WP:RFP/A for the autopatrol right to help reduce the workload at WP:NPP. See also, this dicussion at VPP and this discussion at WT:DBR.
Svick has much of the work completed with his python script autopatrol_eligibles.py, which creates a list of potential users at Editors eligible for Autopatrol privilege on the 24th of each month. What is needed now is a bot to A) trim down the list using criteria below and B) submit the remaining users to WP:RFP/A.
Only users that would easily qualify should be submitted to WP:RFP/A, so users would be checked against these criteria and removed from the list. This may require several bots due to complexity.
{{fullurl:User_talk:
{{{username}}}|limit=500&action=history}}
{{fullurl:User_talk:
{{{username}}}|limit=500&action=history}}
This bot or bots will run once a month on the 25th after the new month's report is generated.
Once the list at
Editors eligible for Autopatrol privilege has been trimmed down, a bot would submit the remaning users to
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled with a note mentioning the number of article created and that it is a bot submission. Something like this {{subst:rfp|
{{{username}}}|user has created # artciles. This is a bot submission}}
. If the list is long, the bot may need to submitt a few users per day rather than all at once.
Is anybody willing to work on this? - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 02:26, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
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@Noom, a normal bot is fine. The adminbot part is optional, so I struck it.
@Courcelles, I've struck the adminbot part.
@Kingpin, thanks for archiving all those old permission requests. I struck the adminbot part, but if you want to work on it later, don't let me stop you.
I think having individual bots for each task would make this whole thing a lot easier. I'd say the most important part is removing users from the list if they have copyvio notices and/or removing users that have been recently denied. I can do the other stuff manually, including submitting the users to WP:RFP/A. Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 12:50, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Since these suggestions are just based on numbers, it's not 100% accurate. Administrators and other users are still free to give/nominate another user for autopatrol, these are just guesses at who may be a good candidate for autopatrolled. I could check for manual warnings on a users talk page along with the bot warning check, if wanted. Noom talk stalk 22:55, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Strong oppose: There are several points that give me pause. As part of my on-going concern with the situation at New Page Patrol I have an occasional stab at according autopatrolled rights. This bot is going to create flood of extra work for admins who will still need to do manual checks. Already, for example, one editor, makes large numbers of requests (in GF) for users, but without apparently making sufficient research, and a significant number have to be declined. This is not good for the morale of the editors who quite wrongly regard 'autopatrolled' as a promotion or an award for good service to Wikipedia.
Although the selection criteria for this botinclude all the checks that I personally make, I do not see any safeguards against users who mass create short stubs. Admins who check the applications daily for 'autopatrolled' will assume that the bot has done good work, and because of the sheer volume that will be produced by the bot, they may not carry out the manual checks that they should be doing. I am not entirely convinced that 'autopatrolled' actually makes much impact towards reducing the load on NPP. How many of the hundreds of daily new pages are created by accounts with autopatrolled rights, and how many of the ones that are patrolled are created by authors who are reasonable candidates for autoptrolled rights?
Rather than mass according autopatrolled rights, 'New Page Patroller' should be made a right, and accorded to editors who are sufficiently educated into getting it right.
However, if there is anything in these bot proposals that I have missed, I am quite open to criticisms of my concerns. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:42, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
It appears that Wikipedia has thousands upon thousands of articles that have the grammatically-incorrect phrase "an historic" instead of "a historic". It would take forever to change them all by hand and we need a bot for this task. "An historic" is simply incorrect because the "h" in "historic" is not silent, or if it is, it's only in minority dialects. Even A_and_an#Discrimination_between_a_and_an claims this is incorrect. Please make a bot to fix this! It should only be fixed in unquoted, non-title text, and only in article-space. Note that "an Historic" should still usually be changed because the indefinite article "an" is not part of a title. -- Wykypydya ( talk) 01:20, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
"An historic" is an ENGVAR issue; many educated speakers use it. For them, "historic" is simply an exception to the rule to use 'a' before an aspirated 'h' (assuming they have an aspirated 'h' in the word). The usage of 'an historic' is still around 25% for the 'an' version (on google); it's not at all rare. We don't need to have bots going around second-guessing ENGVAR issues. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:02, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Also, this particular disagreement dates back to at least 1884 [3]. No chance we are going to settle it here. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I do not think that this is not a job for a bot (or AWB). That there are "thousands upon thousands of articles" suggests that "An historic" is used by many editors, and so is a matter for consensus on the talk pages of the article involved. --
PBS (
talk) 02:12, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
Australian English uses an historic, so the bot will need to leave alone all articles written so, or it will create a real nuisance Crusoe8181 ( talk) 04:27, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I fully support this task and this bot proposal. My only caveat is that it should have a blacklist of articles that will not be edited, specifically those that might deliberately use the incorrect form (articles about grammar, A and an, etc.) - Richard Cavell ( talk) 04:31, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
At the request of Richard Cavell (see above 04:31, 1 May), I've done some Googling. Like elsewhere usage in Australia is split. A Google search of Australian Government websites returns " About 196,000 results for "an historic" and About 235,000 results for "a historic". "an historic" usage [sic] in about 45% of pages. Here are two Australian examples from the web (on the first page of a Google search of the au domain) where the phrase "An historic" is used in the title:
If anything "a historic" is over represented as a ratio on Wikiepdia About 7,960 results for "an historic" and About 34,800 results for "a historic" (an internal search of articles returns 5,070 for "An historic" and 22,424 for "A historic") so "an historic" is used in about 18% of article pages.-- PBS ( talk) 09:04, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all the opinions everyone! Thanks to Cymru.lass for mentioning AutoWikiBrowser; I have gone to that page and added a request to be able to use it for this purpose. (See Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage.) -- Wykypydya ( talk) 20:05, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
In the frame of infobox person standardisation, WOSlinker added tracking categories to several infoboxes. Yobot started running to update/fix infobox parameters. This procedure enabled us to simplify the source code for several infoboxes and successfully merge some of them. Standardisation has the big benefit that everyone can add basic parameters to an infobox without having to consult the manual. This standardisation procedure has been discussed in Template_talk:Infobox_person/birth_death_params. Unfortunately, Yobot has been blocked since the task was considered by unapproved because Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 15 mentions only requests in this page. Would be OK to resume the task since I posted it here? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:12, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I did a partial dry run on Category:Infobox person using deprecated parameters. Out of the 1,600 first pages, 1,200 need some kind of general fix (I had skip if only whitespace, only casing changed turned on). This is a good proportion. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:43, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
User:Petan-Bot started some days ago to clean-up footballer infoboxes. This clean=up doesn't include the parameters we are discussing here. We could ask the owner to expand their work. The only problem I sense is that some people working on footballers had some disagrement on the "playername" to "name" change. We should first ask which parameters could be fixed in this case. Merging "cityofbirth" and "countryofbirth" to "birth_place" (same for "death_place") seems a good task for the particular infoboxes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
This request is a more limited follow-up to this one several months ago. The usage instructions for Template:Talk header indicate:
In accordance with Wikipedia:Talk page layout, this template should not be added to otherwise empty talk pages.
In spite of this, there are about 3,000 pages (according to Catscan) which contain no content other than {{ Talk header}} or one of its redirects. So, could a bot delete all talk-namespace pages (except user talk pages) which contain no content other than {{ Talk header}} and have only one revision in the page history (the second criterion ensures that potentially useful page history is not deleted)? Thank you, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 23:55, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Comment: I tell you what, doing some examples from the list, it strikes me that you could vastly reduce the count by deleting talk pages (with just talk-header on) of redirects. (I don't think there's any particular reason to keep such pages in terms of maintaining page history or something - is there?) The rest would then be a much more manageable proposition to tackle manually. Rd232 talk 02:00, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps (where appropriate), a bot could get music symbols to use {{ music}} all the time? This would really help with the great list of articles with "Eb" and other stuff. (The list is longer than you might think...!) Lanthanum-138 ( talk) 11:39, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Regarding Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/navigation, which is transcluded on WP:FEED,
Could someone possibly make a bot which automatically adds links each month, as I did manually here?
If you need more info, give me a shout. Cheers! Chzz ► 14:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Reposted, because this was archived with no response. Chzz ► 19:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
BUMP Chzz ► 06:22, 14 March 2011 (UTC) Rescued from the archive again Chzz ► 06:37, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Great, it happened [5].
One small problem though - May has 31 days, not 30. Chzz ► 02:56, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm removing ibid and other deprecated methods of citing sources atm. Is there a possibility (a bot or maybe a database scan?) to get the links/data when these ibids have been added? It takes rather a long period to find and replace these ibids. The most tiome consuming factor is to find in which edit these ibids were added. Replacing them correctly is not a big task, but there should any possibility to find them. Can create a bot or whatever such a database scan and give me the revisions in a list? mabdul 11:57, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Simple (I think) request: change links like
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1002/1002.0442v1.pdf
to
http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0442/
where the replacements are something like
s|(?:www\.)arxiv.org/PS[-_]cache/arxiv/pdf/\d{4}/(\d{4}\.\d{4})(?:v\d+)?\.pdf|arxiv.org/abs/$1/|gi
s|(?:www\.)arxiv.org/([-a-z]+)/pdf/\d{4}/(\d{7})\.pdf|arxiv.org/abs/$1/$2/|gi
This way people can read the archive rather than download a file, and if they want to download the whole paper they can choose the format they prefer rather than that preferred by the person leaving the link.
It seems that there are somewhat over 2000 of these links, so I think a robot would be (1) faster and (2) less error-prone than a human.
CRGreathouse ( t | c) 00:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
|arxiv=
. However, only about 25 of those seem to be the cached links you describe. I've not got data on bare links.
Rjwilmsi 17:18, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I have another new request and / or a question: Is there any automatic possibility to tag images for file move if they have only numbers in (this would cause some falsepositives) maybe with an prefix? mabdul 21:40, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
May we please have a bot that detects the insertion of the phrase "Jamesbreadth" into an article, and then reports the editor who inserted the phrase to WP:AIV. Various socks of banned Swamilive ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) are in the habit of inserting this phrase into articles. Mjroots ( talk) 15:27, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Please update an interwiki warnfile for is.wiki, or build a new one if it does not exist. Snaevar ( talk) 00:43, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
There is a proposal and the start of discussion at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Verifying G4 for a simple list of statistics (size, number of links, number of categories, number of images) about articles deleted at AfD (and possibly other XfDs) to be posted on the talk page of the relevant discussion by a bot. In order to progress this discussion it would be helpful for someone with knowledge of the capabilities and practicalities of bots to share their knowledge there. Thryduulf ( talk) 06:37, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
To implement a new parameter for
Template:Infobox election, I would like a bot to search pages using the infobox for the text "# seats _ needed for a majority". Then remove the line break, and the sentence, and add the parameter majority_seats
with the number, (
example). Thanks,
117Avenue (
talk) 05:17, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Someone who is professional at bots, does that work? -- 43?9enter ★ ☭ 01:31, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
The article about the company/products Louis Vuitton has been moved to Louis Vuitton (brand). The vast majority of mainspace articles linking to the original namespace (except Louis Vuitton itself) now need to be changed to the new namespace (piped), because mentions refer to the company/product and not the man. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Deferred Given that it's a major and debatable change to one of our most-read articles, I would have reverted the edit and set up a discussion on the talk page about splitting and potential names for the daughter articles. Particularly since the edit you refer to is that editor's one and only edit. However, we are where we are. I'd suggest this is no longer a matter for a bot request, it needs to be taken to Talk:Louis Vuitton and sorted out there. I've already started a discussion there and invited comment from WP:FASHION, I'm no expert on the subject but my gut feel is that the biography should be reunited with the brand. Le Deluge ( talk) 16:18, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Walibi World changed their name to Walibi Holland and I see that there are many pages which show the old name. If someone with AWB access could change this, it'll be great (I can do this too, but I do not have AWB access). Thanks in advance, TBloemink ( talk) 11:46, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Can we get someone to take over User:FlBot's tasks updating the Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask page? It seems the owner has retired. -- œ ™ 16:47, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
{{ ThisDateInRecentYears}} has been revamped. It no longer needs parameters on date articles. I have removed them by hand for 1, 2 & 3 January. Would someone please get a bot to go the rest of the way to 31 December? JIMp talk· cont 00:32, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
In the past we formed a consensus to move links to IMDB away from infobox for Infobox TV series, Infobox episode, Infobox film, etc. There is still one infobox that has external links to its code. This is Template:Infobox adult biography.
I posted a message in March in
Template_talk:Infobox_adult_biography#Links_to_external_links and there are no disagreements for moving on and moving |iafd=
, |egafd=
, |bgafd=
, |imdb=
, |afdb=
away from the infobox to the external links section.
A bot has done that in the past for the other infoboxes. Can someone please do it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:11, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
|eurobabeindex=
and |homepage=
? Also, I see {{
iafd name}} and {{
afdb name}} and {{
IMDb name}}; are there templates for any of these other sites?
Anomie
⚔ 23:51, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
|eurobabeindex=
and |homepage=
must be moved too. I don't think the others have any template but if we have many of them we could create one. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
|homepage=
should probably stay alothogh may want to rename to |website=
to match other infoboxes. --
WOSlinker (
talk) 20:28, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
|website=
was removed. But
Template:Infobox television did keep it. I don't care much either way.
Anomie
⚔ 22:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
|gender=
. All other infoboxes don't use it as obvious or not important to be in the infobox. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 01:43, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Per discussion in the template's talk page we have consensus to remove "measurements" and "measureispenis". -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:55, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
I opened a similar discussion in Template_talk:Infobox_college_football_player#Links to external links. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:41, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Could someone deliver this message ( User:Headbomb/Sandbox4) on all WikiProjects and Taskforces' talk pages, on behalf of WikiProject Wikipedia-Books? I've asked Noomos (who coded the bot) and Sven Manguard from WikiProject Wikipedia-Books to check/review the message and they are both fine with it. If would really help us get the word out about book reports. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Anyone else? This would really help us at WP:WBOOKS. If the "non-active" Wikiproject is the holdup, just don't message them (although I'd rather have them messaged as well). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Regarding Wikipedia:Requests for feedback/navigation, which is transcluded on WP:FEED,
Could someone possibly make a bot which automatically adds links each month, as I did manually here?
If you need more info, give me a shout. Cheers! Chzz ► 14:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Reposted, because this was archived with no response. Chzz ► 19:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
We've 132 links to www.kentrail.co.uk which need to be replaced with www.kentrail.org.uk - apart from the domain name change, the path names seem to be the same. Le Deluge ( talk) 11:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Comments;
---
Actually, don't worry too much about the above. Having checked quite a few more (and changed them), I think the 'CLASP' one is the exception. A few are marked as "dead links", so those need a bit of checking. As for the 'reliable source' issue...well, that is really Somebody Else's Problem - some are marked as 'verify credibility' and so on, but that's fine.
I think I'll just make these changes using AWB; it's not a massive amount. I hope that is OK. Doing... Chzz ► 17:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Done
Hi. I was wondering if you could help me organize a bot to draw up lists of listed buildings in the UK from http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/. We are missing a massive amount of content and I think we should have at least lists like the lists of National Registry US places for the British equivalent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps for some of the places which have just a few Grade II listed buildings without much info on them it would be better for articles like Grade II listed buildings in Bournemouth or something.I think that alist of all listed buildings would be very useful as a reference point, even if many of the Grade II listed buildings ar enot notable noeugh for separate articles. I think tabled lists which intiially have location and geo coordinates would prove pretty valuable. What I'd suggest is that such tabled lists would eventually be developed to have a summary of the buildings, much like Hassocks has done with Brighton landmarks and that if there is enough info then create separate articles. So what I'm proposing is that we have a full lists of Graded buildings of all types just like Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove, Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove and Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: A–B. I'd say quite a lot of Grade II listed buildings might deserve a brief summary even if not notable for a full article and would be very encyclopedic and comprehensive if it was to list them like this. So initially the bot would create the lists with name and coordinates and like the rest of wikipedia count on them being developed with information summaries over time. The problem though as said above is that some Grade II listed buildings are nothing more than small residential cottages... I suppose one could argue that being officially listed would make it notable enough for a brief mention in a list, even if many grade II listed buildings will never have enough info for a separate article.I think Hassocks work on Brighton buildings is the ideal of what we want for everywhere in the UK... I'd say for a starting point though we get a bot to list all Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings in the UK.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm playing with code for this. Is the idea is to create a table-style list like this? Should it be at the county level or split like it is now, where some are at the county and some are at the locality? How much information to fetch? If someone could use this as an example to create the article(s), it'd give me an idea of what the bot should be doing. tedder ( talk) 05:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello again; here are my thoughts/comments, based on work I have already done with listed buildings of all grades:
Cheers, Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!) 13:44, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Seeing if I can get a bot to move XXXX (computer game) to XXXX (video game) and YYYY (computer gaming) to YYYY (video gaming) to comply with Naming conventions (video games). I would do this myself with AWB, but i'm not an admin and even then it can be time consuming using AWB considering the number and lack of automated moving naming schemes (for said admins). 陣 内 Jinnai 03:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I would like for a bot to automatically assess pages in the WikiProject Intelligence Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 13:04, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
There was a discussion on the Adopt-a-user talk page some months back and there was sufficient support from active project participants for a bot to be created :
"A bot, similar to the one used at SPI to keep track of cases, the one used at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits, and the one used at WP:MEDCAB could be useful for this project too. The bot would check the list of editor's edits and update a centralized adoption tracking page so we will know how each pair is moving and how long they've been in the program. For example, it could be set to run every other night on the list of adopters and those in any of the program's categories and create a unified list with information on their last edit date and whether or not the user is blocked. An immediate benefit would be cleaning up Category:Wikipedians adopted in Adopt-a-user so we can actually know how many users are active. I propose we apply for such a bot." (taken from Netalarm's proposal)
Discussion for the proposal here: Wikipedia talk:Adopt-a-user#Bot to track progress and pairs
— Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:46am • 22:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could the following message be placed on the talk page of all articles that are tagged as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways (they have the {{ TrainsWikiProject}} template with the "UK" parameter set to "yes") and which include the exact phrase "British Rail Class" or "British Rail Classes" (if any such exist) in the article title. An example article is Talk:British Rail Class 37.
Message:
Please could you also note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Notification when this has been done.
Thanks, Thryduulf ( talk) 15:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
We've 132 links to www.kentrail.co.uk which need to be replaced with www.kentrail.org.uk - apart from the domain name change, the path names seem to be the same. Le Deluge ( talk) 11:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Comments;
---
Actually, don't worry too much about the above. Having checked quite a few more (and changed them), I think the 'CLASP' one is the exception. A few are marked as "dead links", so those need a bit of checking. As for the 'reliable source' issue...well, that is really Somebody Else's Problem - some are marked as 'verify credibility' and so on, but that's fine.
I think I'll just make these changes using AWB; it's not a massive amount. I hope that is OK. Doing... Chzz ► 17:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Done
I would like for a bot to automatically assess pages in the WikiProject Intelligence Gabesta449 edits ♦ chat 13:04, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Seeing if I can get a bot to move XXXX (computer game) to XXXX (video game) and YYYY (computer gaming) to YYYY (video gaming) to comply with Naming conventions (video games). I would do this myself with AWB, but i'm not an admin and even then it can be time consuming using AWB considering the number and lack of automated moving naming schemes (for said admins). 陣 内 Jinnai 03:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Please could the following message be placed on the talk page of all articles that are tagged as part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways (they have the {{ TrainsWikiProject}} template with the "UK" parameter set to "yes") and which include the exact phrase "British Rail Class" or "British Rail Classes" (if any such exist) in the article title. An example article is Talk:British Rail Class 37.
Message:
Please could you also note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Notification when this has been done.
Thanks, Thryduulf ( talk) 15:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I'm here to request some bot-related work to be done. We have an article at Wikipedia List of countries by proven oil reserves, which is outdated. It needs to be updated according to CIA Factbook. It's not so hard to do it manually but there are some difficulties in calculating total reserves and then calculating each country's percentage in total reserves. I think it'd rather be done by bot. If the table was simply updated I'd put back all 'more information' links.-- RoadTrain ( talk) 14:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I was wondering if you could help me organize a bot to draw up lists of listed buildings in the UK from http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/. We are missing a massive amount of content and I think we should have at least lists like the lists of National Registry US places for the British equivalent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps for some of the places which have just a few Grade II listed buildings without much info on them it would be better for articles like Grade II listed buildings in Bournemouth or something.I think that alist of all listed buildings would be very useful as a reference point, even if many of the Grade II listed buildings ar enot notable noeugh for separate articles. I think tabled lists which intiially have location and geo coordinates would prove pretty valuable. What I'd suggest is that such tabled lists would eventually be developed to have a summary of the buildings, much like Hassocks has done with Brighton landmarks and that if there is enough info then create separate articles. So what I'm proposing is that we have a full lists of Graded buildings of all types just like Grade I listed buildings in Brighton and Hove, Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove and Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: A–B. I'd say quite a lot of Grade II listed buildings might deserve a brief summary even if not notable for a full article and would be very encyclopedic and comprehensive if it was to list them like this. So initially the bot would create the lists with name and coordinates and like the rest of wikipedia count on them being developed with information summaries over time. The problem though as said above is that some Grade II listed buildings are nothing more than small residential cottages... I suppose one could argue that being officially listed would make it notable enough for a brief mention in a list, even if many grade II listed buildings will never have enough info for a separate article.I think Hassocks work on Brighton buildings is the ideal of what we want for everywhere in the UK... I'd say for a starting point though we get a bot to list all Grade I and Grade II* listed buildings in the UK.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm playing with code for this. Is the idea is to create a table-style list like this? Should it be at the county level or split like it is now, where some are at the county and some are at the locality? How much information to fetch? If someone could use this as an example to create the article(s), it'd give me an idea of what the bot should be doing. tedder ( talk) 05:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello again; here are my thoughts/comments, based on work I have already done with listed buildings of all grades:
Cheers, Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!) 13:44, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Comment/questions from across the pond I whole-heartedly support the idea of using a bot or some other programming approach plus editors making manual edits, to create usable lists of Listed buildings. Doing similarly in the U.S. for National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed places has worked out well, in creating tables during 2009-2010 that are included in county- and city-organized NRHP lists indexed from List of RHPs. These list-articles have developed nicely, further, since. With a copy of the National Register's NRIS database, editor User:Elkman programmed a "table-generator" and made output available at an off-wiki website; I and other editors cut-and-pasted it over into the relevant Wikipedia pages. Would the process here work similarly? Is the English Heritage database downloadable, or could it be obtained and given to a programmer?
Also, the U.S. initiative also covered development of corresponding disambiguation pages. Editor Elkman generated a generator to draft text for disambiguation pages, where there were more than one NRHP-listed building having exactly the same name. I programmed a different version of such a generator, too. All of these results have been used to start or expand disambiguation pages covering NRHP listed places. Probably same should be done for Listed buildings, too. There are multiple buildings having exactly the same name, within the English Heritage database, correct? -- do ncr am 20:13, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
While patrolling the user creation log, I frequently come across usernames that are obvious conflicts of interest accounts, in violation of Wikipedia:Username_policy#Company.2Fgroup_names. Some of these are not readily discernible, but many are easy to determine. For example; User:Risingtidecapital (www.risingtidecapital.org), and User:Carpetdyesticks (www.carpetdyesticks.com). Sometimes, I run into usernames with spaces in the name, but which resolve to a URL ultimately. For example; User:BVB Productions (www.bvbproductions.com).
I'm thinking that a bot could do this work. In particular, the bot would:
This would place the accounts in Category:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over, allowing later administrator attention as needed. Thoughts? -- Hammersoft ( talk) 16:37, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
A great many infoboxes already emit microformats, and have for months, or even years. However, in some articles, these are incomplete, because the dates which form part of them do not use an appropriate sub-template, in order to emit the date in the correct metadata format. A bot (or bots - this task could be subdivided) is required, to complete the task of converting opening-, release-, first shown-, incident- and such dates from plain text to use {{ Start date}}, as seen in this example edit for a year, and this one for a full date and as described in the various infoboxes' documentation. Note that {{ start date}} allows for YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD and in a few cases YYY-M-DD:HH:MM formats. Note that Smackbot was approved to do this, and started, but failed to complete the task. A list of affected templates is available. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
At MOTD, when we are normally running low on mottos I send a message to members encouraging participation. We are in that situation at the moment. There are lots of members at MOTD. This time I have been too busy to do the message so could one be sent on behalf of my main account Simply south and Motto of the Day? The members can be found at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Participants and Category:Wikipedians who contribute to Motto of the day. Difficultly north ( talk) 00:52, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
There was a discussion on the Adopt-a-user talk page some months back and there was sufficient support from active project participants for a bot to be created :
"A bot, similar to the one used at SPI to keep track of cases, the one used at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits, and the one used at WP:MEDCAB could be useful for this project too. The bot would check the list of editor's edits and update a centralized adoption tracking page so we will know how each pair is moving and how long they've been in the program. For example, it could be set to run every other night on the list of adopters and those in any of the program's categories and create a unified list with information on their last edit date and whether or not the user is blocked. An immediate benefit would be cleaning up Category:Wikipedians adopted in Adopt-a-user so we can actually know how many users are active. I propose we apply for such a bot." (taken from Netalarm's proposal)
Discussion for the proposal here: Wikipedia talk:Adopt-a-user#Bot to track progress and pairs
— Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:46am • 22:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I request your help to remove those templates: {{Nicole}}
and {{Nicole (Chilean singer)}}
, to date is suppressed. Thanks, --
DO IT THE CHILEAN WAY!!! (
talk) 05:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
PD: Those templates will be replaced by another:
{{Nicole}}
was deleted. 1 problem less. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 03:43, 19 March 2011 (UTC)Drugbank has been updated to v 3.0, but the links on wikipedia still use the old nomenclature eg. Procaine as the link for APRD00650, which should be changed to DB00721.
It would be great if someone could please update those links. Drugbank is also downloadable in XML format if that makes it any easier to get lists of names.
Thank you!
Could someone deliver this message ( User:Headbomb/Sandbox4) on all WikiProjects and Taskforces' talk pages, on behalf of WikiProject Wikipedia-Books? I've asked Noomos (who coded the bot) and Sven Manguard from WikiProject Wikipedia-Books to check/review the message and they are both fine with it. If would really help us get the word out about book reports. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Anyone else? This would really help us at WP:WBOOKS. If the "non-active" Wikiproject is the holdup, just don't message them (although I'd rather have them messaged as well). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:59, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Unarchived, this still needs to be done. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:29, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
I know that wildbot was shut down. Can a bot remove the unnecessary notices from that pages. The toolserver says that there are 8568 pages that using the template. Going through all would be really time-consuming. I will / would check the rest and correct the links. (I'm doing some already!) mabdul 17:38, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Could someone add "{{ WikiProject Estonia}}" to all talk pages that start with "Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/" and "Portal:Estonia/"? Thanks! Pelmeen10 ( talk) 18:01, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject pages usually have subpage request/proposal pages. Those subpage proposal pages typically require the request to be transcluded or otherwise linked to a parent page (so that the WikiProject members can be made aware of the page and the request). I'm working WP:NPP Wikipedia: namespace pages and just found Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Battle of the Wilderness and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Engineering Education. Neither proposal was completed, which I discovered by looking at "What links here". Please create a bot that checks the "What links here" for all the subpages of the pages listed User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject. If a page (i) lacks any links to it and (ii) has had only one contributor, post a link to the page at User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject/nolink. Once the bot is finished posting to User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject/nolink, please post a note on my talk page to let me know that was done. I'll then patrol the pages at User:Uzma Gamal/WikiProject/nolink individually to see what, if anything, needs to be done to make others aware of the orphaned page. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 15:58, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Searching on google for typos in wikipedia, I find it very time-consuming to have to search for a commonly misspelled word, replacing it with the correct word, and then saving the page. However, a bot could very easily do this, in that it could automatically explain and save the change, and requiring far less work than an actual human. --M. Schneider [Schneider anc] ( talk • contribs) 08:38, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I need a copyright tool, not a bot. I've asked a few independent tool developers, but they have either lacked know-how or time. I'm hoping somebody here can help out, because it would be HUGELY beneficial in copyright work. Like on par with inventing the cotton gin; no foolin'!
We have bots and tools that can compare the text in an article to the results of search engine tests. Earwig's copyvio detector is far and away the most useful tool in my work. I really, really could also use a tool that allows me to compare two specific pages. Often, somebody will tag Article Fu as a copy of [http://Random website], but give no guidance on where on the target page the text is drawn. I spend a lot of time scanning through documents trying to find these alleged text matches so that I can close out listings at WP:CP. If anybody could make a tool that would allow me to have two pages compared with results listed ala Earwig, I would then be able to find the exact text matches on the suspected source so that I can see how extensive the problem is, or if it even exists.
In my dream world, this tool could also evaluate PDFs, because the absolute worst cases I've encountered were documents hundreds of pages long. It would also be great if the tool could, as the once-planned "URL Intersection Tool" would have done, compare versions of Wikipedia articles via permanent diffs. (This lets us see if copyvios entered by WP:CCI subjects have been completely overwritten.) I don't know if this dream world tool is possible, but I'd be ecstatic just to get a tool that could compare a Wikipedia article with a website.
Can anybody help me? Wikipedia:Proposed tools doesn't really seem to have flown. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:32, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
I posted a Bot school request here. The school would be in need of someone to develop code for very simple bots that can be used as a template on how to write a bot to take a very simple action. Any takers? -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 03:19, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that will change all dates in an article from British to American style or vice-versa?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Feedback. I installed the script and used it on a section of Enrico Caruso. As far as I could tell, it worked perfectly. The use of the script is here. Thanks for the help.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:51, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
A little history first: This was proposed awhile back with very little warning to affected parties, and it was also ironically begun rather quickly as well but not halted once a user voiced concern with the task. The controversial situation found its way to the administrator's noticeboard quickly in response to the two suspicious events.
It turns out the reason the edits were opposed was due to the speedy bot request with no RfC first. Since then, an RfC has been carried out for it to gain consensus. I will ask that in the event of any controversy the task be halted immediately. No need to have the same dispute all over again.
Bot request:
Approximately 21.6 K articles are listed at
Category:Taxoboxes employing both unranked familia and superfamilia. Due to a miscoding in the {{
taxobox}} template, editors have been forced to use the |unranked_familia=
and |superfamilia=
parameters incorrectly. A recent complaint about this has prompted us to fix this problem. Before we can modify the template, however, all affected articles must be corrected in such a manner that they will not be rendered incorrect by the modification.
The articles listed in the aforementioned category need to have the following operations performed:
|unranked_familia=
and |unranked_familia_authority=
with the parameters |unranked_superfamilia=
and |unranked_superfamilia_authority=
, respectively.No exceptions are anticipated, since the |unranked_superfamilia=
and |unranked_superfamilia_authority=
parameters were just added to the template. The category should be deleted once it is emptied.
Thanks in advance! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:38, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
|unranked_familia=
and |unranked_familia_authority=
be replaced with |unranked_superfamilia=
and |unranked_superfamilia_authority=
even if the parameters aren't empty?
Noom
talk
contribs 14:35, 4 April 2011 (UTC)Hi, everyone. I have coded a bot framework and currently I'm looking for a suitable task with which to put the bot to work. I have plenty of complicated ideas for my bot, but for now I want to start off with something simple owing to the fact that the bot framework is new. I'm happy to write custom code. If you have a task that you need a bot for, let me know on my talk page. - Richard Cavell ( talk) 08:51, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Category:ship classes and its sub-categories (to one level) include 1500 articles which should have hyphens in their names. At ship class, they get around some of the problem w link coding, e.g. with [[County class cruiser|County-class cruiser]]. The correction should be made for all phrases "X class Y", where X is the class and Y the type of ship. Or an en dash if the X is two words, such as Hikawa Maru class ocean liner (< 200 articles). ( Trafalgar class submarine is incorrect in lacking a hyphen in the title but also in having a hyphen in the bold phrase of the lede, where the name is not attributive—that is, where there is no "Y".) This doesn't just follow our MOS, but also the sources and external links of these articles, such as here. — kwami ( talk) 06:53, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
There has been consensus for hyphens in all ship class articles at WP:NC-SHIPS, but no one ever implemented it. I've never seen anything about en dashes, and I see no reason to use them. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Style isn't an OR issue. Of course, the Ships project could decide to opt out of the MOS on en dashes, but normally we do go by our style guide, just as the EB or a newspaper would follow their style guides. But as SW noted, that's independent of the hyphenation issue.
There are two conventions. The other is to place the class in quotation marks. (That would avoid the whole en-dash thing.) For example, the Illustrated Directory of Warships of the World has County-class cruiser, but the The encyclopedia of weapons of World War II has ‘County’ class cruiser. The former is in keeping with the ship-name site ref'd by our article, and has been in our guideline on ship naming for eight years, but either would be correct.
Oh, here's another: The life that Jack lived: experiences of a Norfolk soldier and policeman uses capitalization: County Class Cruiser. But given our 8 yrs of consensus, I doubt we'd want to change things around like that. It wouldn't be supported by the articles. If people have problems w the dashes, I propose that we go ahead and move all titles to hyphens, and we can decide whether to move the 150 or so to dashes later.
Also, odd titles such as ‘S’ and ‘T’ class could be left for now, pending discussion on their individual pages. (I've seen a pair of quotes and a single hyphen from the T, but that one's a bit iffy.) — kwami ( talk) 21:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Some statistics:
I'll create a table shortly listing the results. —SW— chat 22:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
to include the hyphen.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 22:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)Perhaps this conversion could/should continue at WT:SHIPNAME or WT:SHIPS? Even if a consensus is reached here, it will be missing parties that follow the ship pages. tedder ( talk) 23:21, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
This is not a good idea. If it is adopted, we will then get into fine distinctions between hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes in article titles. These distinctions do not exist in normal English; though the may exist in the world of type setters. It leads to utterly lame edit wars and disputes (see for example Talk:Mexican-American War#Revisit requested move). It has no advantages.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 12:54, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Agreed with Toddy. I would like hyphens in page titles, and there is consensus for it, but using endashes in certain situations is not a good idea. By proposing it, you've muddled the issue and made everything more confusing here. Can we get back to the original intent of hyphenating these class articles and forget about dashes? Thanks. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 20:40, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
There was consensus in October here. Just to be clear, I've asked again here. — kwami ( talk) 21:08, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Just fyi for everyone: getting the italics right would require a person (or people) to review every single one of the ship class articles to see if the lead ship's name is the same as the class name. Most classes are named after the lead ship, hence the italics. However, some were named after a theme, like the River class destroyer or County class cruiser, so they don't get italicized. I got down to "Alexandrit class minesweeper" in about 15 minutes and came up with Admiral class battlecruiser, Admiral class battleship, and Admiralen class destroyer, and Akula class submarine that should not be italicized. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:37, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to ask to ask this here and I would have done it myself but my access to AWB was revoked by User:CBM and he refuses to do restore it and I'm not about to tag all these pages manually. I suggested he do the work but he brushed it off and told me to come here making more work for you (sorry for my tone but I have little time or patience for people who don't want to do the work themselves or enable others to do so, but then push that work to others). Since I don't feel it's appropriate for someone else to override his decision (however poor I believe it to be) I am forced to come here and ask for someone else to do this simply and non contreversial task.
The attached link contains a list of 517 articles under Portal:United States needing to be tagged as WikiProject United States. All other pages have been marked as such with these pages being added in an effort to get that portal to featured status. Since I was very active and will probably continue to be in the future this is the first of what will be multiple requests for bot action.
The banner should look like {{WikiProject United States|class=portal|importance=NA}}.
Please let me know if you have any questions and thanks again for the help. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:23, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
A new field has been added to {{ Infobox company}} for stock ticker symbols, per template talk:Infobox company. Often these are inserted in the "type" field. Could someone make a bot to take any of the stock ticker symbol templates found elsewhere in the template, and place it under the "traded as" field? Preferably, the bot would also remove any parenthesis around the templates (if any), and search the article intro for ticker symbols if none are contained in the template itself. Thanks! ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 22:43, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
See here for further reference. In summation, The Baseball Cube, a reputable site for baseball statistics, moved around their pages the other day, from http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/NAME.shtml to http://www.thebaseballcube.com/profile.asp?P=NAME, but the player name went from "First.initial.of.last.name/First.name-Last.name" to "First.name-Last.name". The Cube set up no redirects.
To temporarily solve this problem, an admin string functions, whereas {{str right|R/babe-ruth|2}} now becomes babe-ruth. We now need a bot that can convert all usages of the old format to the new format where Template:Baseballstats is employed and the input "cube" is used. – Muboshgu ( talk) 13:56, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to request a mass relinking. All incoming links to Alan Ball (footballer) should be replaced with Alan Ball, Jr., as there are multiple footballers by this name. After it is relinked, Alan Ball (footballer) should retarget to Alan Ball disambiguation page. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 06:02, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just discovered that a lot of ship-related categories have been renamed on Commons, without leaving redirects behind. This has probably resulted in a lot of broken commonscat links. An example: commons:Category:The Matthew has been moved to commons:Category:Matthew (ship, 1996), but commonscat in Matthew (ship) still points to the (now-deleted) original category. It's easy to fix this in this single instance, but it's much more difficult to do that for all of the affected ships, and there should probably be a bot that checks the commonscat links every so often, and updates them as needed (or adds in commonscat where possible, or if that can't be done automatically then it could flag the article as needing a commonscat link).
Would anyone be interested in putting together such a bot? I'm sure it would be (fairly easily) possible to do... Mike Peel ( talk) 12:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
I recently added a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy#Request for input in discussion forum inviting input at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/2011 meeting. I would be very appreciative if the message could be copied and delivered by bot to all the talk pages of WikiProjects listed in the philosophy and religion section of the WP:PROJDIR. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 15:43, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Use Template:Death date and age and Template:Birth date to fill in the each namespace dates content in the Template:Months. (explanation: each date's article has a Birth and Death section, as seen in the Table of Contents).
Take note of the parameters spacing
*[[1875]] – [[Joe Corbett]], American baseball player (d. 1945)
* 1875 – [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Austrian poet (d. 1926)
footnote: January, Feb...etc months are not require to be complete.
As an additional feature, i think it would nice if bot can include Template:Infobox requested to any biographical article that doesn't contain infoboxeses. I recommend using Category:Categories by nationality to start crawling might be a good place to begin with. Don't forget to crawl Stubs too. Thanks a lot for your help.
If possible statistics of number of assessed and unassessed article entries should be reported in a table statistics on Bot's talk page. (Optional)
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Reply Smallman12q: First Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a compendium holding a summary of information for the general audience. I think making it like an essay and being technical is not user friendly. I've seen infobox on biography of musician, politicians and famous philosophers have done a good job to guide people to simplify technical terms. Don't try to giving your personal opinion WP:OPINION as commented in Archive 1, Wikipedia doesn't ask for perfectionist ( WP:PERFECTION, FYI). Further, being perfection in this situation has violated WP:OWNERSHIP. I don't think giving an excuse like I can't find a better picture in Archive 2 should be a legitimate reason to not include infobox, they are the graphic department and other museums coordination that are happy to provide donations in Wikimedia Commons. Please don't discuss the infobox thing on this article, that belongs to the relevant sections of WP:FA or Template talk:infobox and WikiProject. Their unconstructive and inconsiderate is carelessness is their personal evaluation responsibility of themselves, not wikipedia to mentor them. We are not a hospital. -- 111.241.72.178 ( talk) 09:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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Per Template:WikiProjectBannerShell#Optional parameters:
blp=yes
should be specified if the subject of the article is a living personactivepol=yes
should be specified if the subject of the article is an active politicianCould a bot perform the following tasks:
blp=yes
is not specified, then add blp=yes
before the |1=
parameter.activepol=yes
is not specified, then add activepol=yes
before the |1=
parameter.-- Black Falcon ( talk) 18:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Citation templates now support |bibcode=
. While there are current efforts by
Rjwilmsi to convert URLs into
bibcodes (which gives a partial coverage of citations), and by
Smith609 to add bibcodes via citation bot (which is very slow), the systematic way bibcodes are made should allow for a quick and easy update of several {{
citation}} and {{
cite journal}} referring to the most cited astronomy journals.
Bibcode format is in YYYYJJJJJVVVVMPPPPA
YYYY
is the 4-digit code for the yearJJJJJ
is the 5-letter code for the journal. The complete list of code/journal is given at
User:Headbomb/Bibcode bot (based on
[15]), but should not be necessary for this task.VVVV
is the 4-digit code for volumes. Volume 45 is ..45
Volume 1 is ...1
PPPP
is the 4-digit code for the starting page. Page 34 is ..34
Page 1 is ...1
For pages greater than 9999, the M
column (see below) is used.M
is the section-letter. Certain sections have their dedicated journal code (JJJJJ=PhRvL
for
Physical Review Letters, with M=.
), others do not (
Astrophysical Journal Letters has JJJJJ=ApJ..
, with M=L
)A
is the first letter of the first author's last name. For a paper written by John Smith, this is S. For a paper written by John Adams and William Shatner, this is A.This basically means that from an existing citation, you can determine the bibcode without too much fancy pants logic.
A bot can check for a citation such a
And determine the bibcode from the details. In this case,
YYYYJJJJJVVVVMPPPPA 1974AJ.....79..819H
If
Bibcode:
1974AJ.....79..819H works, which can be tested via
this link, then the bot can add |bibcode=1974AJ.....79..819H
to the citation.
|journal=
and JJJJJ
codes for the top astronomy journalsBibcodes | possible |journal= (case insensitive)
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possible M value |
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ApJ.. |
The Astrophysical Journal Astrophysical Journal Astrophys. J. Astrophys J Astro. J. Astro J Ap J. Ap J ApJ The Astrophysical Journal Letters Astrophysical Journal Letters Astrophys. J. Lett. Astrophys J Lett Astro. J. Lett. Astro J Lett Ap JL ApJL |
Note Some existing citations have something like |journal=Astrophysical Journal |page=L51 . The L in the pages tells you this is a reference to Astrophysical Journal Letters rather than Astrophysical Journal
L = Astrophysical Journal Letters |
ApJS. |
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series The Astrophysical Journal Supplements The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Astrophysical Journal Supplements Astrophysical Journal Supplement Astrophys. J. Suppl. Astrophys J Suppl Astro. J. Suppl. Astro J Suppl ApJS |
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AJ... |
The Astronomical Journal Astronomical Journal Astron. J. Astron J AJ |
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A&A.. |
Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomy and Astrophysics Astron. Astrophys. Astron Astrophys A. & A. A & A A.&A. A&A Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters Astron. Astrophys. Lett. Astron Astrophys Lett A. & A. L. A & A L A.&A.L. A&AL |
Note Some existing citations have something like |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |page=L51 . The L in the pages tells you this is a reference to Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters rather than Astronomy & Astrophysics
L = Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters |
A&AS. |
Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplements Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Astron Astrophys Suppl A. & A. S. A & A S A.&A.S. A&AS |
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MNRAS |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Monthly Notices of the R. A. S. Monthly Notices of the R.A.S. Monthly Notices of the RAS Mon. Not. R. Ast. Soc. Mon.Not.R.Ast.Soc. MonNotRAstSoc MNRAS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters Monthly Notices of the R. A. S. Letters Monthly Notices of the R.A.S. Letters Monthly Notices of the RAS Letters Mon. Not. R. Ast. Soc. Lett. Mon.Not.R.Ast.Soc.Let. MonNotRAstSocLet MNRASL |
Note Some existing citations have something like |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |page=L51 . The L in the pages tells you this is a reference to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters rather than Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
L = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters |
PASP. |
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. Publ Astron Soc Pac P. A. S. P. P A S P P.A.S.P. PASP |
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PASA. |
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Australia Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust. Publ Astron Soc Aust P. A. S. A. P A S A P.A.S.A. PASA |
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PASJ. |
Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Japan Proc. Astron. Soc. Jpn. Proc Astron Soc Jpn P. A. S. J. P A S J P.A.S.J PASJ |
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PhRv. |
Physical Review Phys. Rev. Phys Rev |
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PhRvA |
Physical Review A Phys. Rev. A Phys Rev A PRA |
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PhRvB |
Physical Review B Phys. Rev. B Phys Rev B PRB |
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PhRvC |
Physical Review C Phys. Rev. C Phys Rev C PRC |
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PhRvD |
Physical Review D Phys. Rev. D Phys Rev D PRD |
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PhRvE |
Physical Review E Phys. Rev. E Phys Rev E PRE |
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PhRvL |
Physical Review Letters Phys. Rev. Lett. Phys Rev Lett PRL.. |
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PhL.. |
Physics Letters Phys. Lett. Phys Lett |
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PhLA. |
Physics Letters A Phys. Lett. A Phys Lett A |
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PhLB. |
Physics Letters B Phys. Lett. B Phys Lett B |
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PhLC. |
Physics Letters C Phys. Lett. C Phys Lett C |
So if a bot could go through the database, and build/test bibcodes on citations with these |journal=
parameters, that would be really, really awesome. There might be a problem with parsing |
to find the last name of the first author, so maybe restrict the bot to citations with |last=
/|last1=
. Or maybe try 1974AJ.....79..819A, 1974AJ.....79..819B, 1974AJ.....79..819C... until there is a match in the ADSABS database.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 03:57, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
Maybe this has been addressed (maybe many times!) but it would seem sensible to make a bot that finds all the articles with "and" in their name-- like Set and setting-- & then creates redirects on all the (blank) pages for the same title, only with the ampersand (like Set & setting). mordicai. ( talk) 11:23, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I would like a (simplistic) bot to replace manual ViralZone entries to the SIB-template ({{SIB|xx|Virusname}}, which points to the academic non-for-profit databank of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. ViralZone is part of this institute, but the many entries on Wikipedia should be more professionally 'templated'. For example, replace:
with:
(See also info on the
SIB template page)
Thanks! Dr. F.C. Turner - [
USERPAGE|
USERTALK] - 13:02, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there an active bot that can replace dead links with their equivalents on archive.org? The domain northvegr.org once belonged to the Northvegr Foundation, a private educational foundation focused on publishing texts from northern European pre-Christian history. The foundation is defunct, the domain is now owned by an unrelated entity, and their web site is completely different.
Wikipedia has over 700 links to the original site — links that are now dead, but preserved on archive.org. Is there a bot that can help out replacing them? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any active bots with this capability in the bot list. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 00:56, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Could someone change "|quality=" to "|class=" on WikiProject templates. It doesn't work with "quality". Talked about it here. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 18:09, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Doing... using the list xeno created. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:41, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
In some WikiProjects, there is "|priority=" instead of "|importance=". Could someone check? Pelmeen10 ( talk) 16:28, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Oh, and many WikiProjects have "|attention=", "|comments=", "|needs-infobox=", "|needs-photo=" etc in talk pages, but it's not icluded in the main WP template. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 16:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Browsing the various tools available on the toolserver, I've found that I've contributed more edits to Spain than any other mainspace page. However, I can't remember what these were (they were probably therefore several years ago). Would it be possible for a bot owner to satisfy my idle curiosity and put links to all my edits on the Spain article at User:Thryduulf/Spain, or point to a tool that I can use to get this list myself (I've had a look for one without success, but I've a poor track record when it comes to finding what is available on the toolserver). What I'm after would ideally look like a standard history page, but filtered to show only my edits.
This is a very low priority request.
Cheers, Thryduulf ( talk) 14:55, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I have set up a wiki and its very empty. I need a few pages so it serves a purpose lol.
Example Page title/Content:
-C++ programming:
tutorials
source code
examples
^all in link format with a few details about the site the link points to kind of like how google displays search results.
I can supply the links and edit the output, but I would have to do this for many pages each having a different subject and a bot would be very useful.
Could someone here create a bot that, upon editing a config file for each page and logging in, would format and post the page content for me?
Or possibly I could enter a topic into the config file or script and it would make a page with neatly formatted revelant info about the topic so I have consistant page content and it takes a little bit off my workload?
Thank you, Nick - The forum — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stickynicky1411 ( talk • contribs)
Hi All, I made 2500 articles in Fa.Wiki (one of them is this fa:کاوانیشی، هیوگو) and I added en.Wiki interwiki inside the articles but after 5 days none of our Interwiki bots couldn't detect interwiki and adding another wiki's links and had confect's error so they didn't add the other wiki's links. what should i do? If I prepare the list of our articles that they have one side interwiki, Would you please add farsi interwiki links to related english articles? also we have this problem for other articles.yours Reza1615 ( talk) 20:24, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
I am on the Wikipedia Welcoming Committe who's goal it is to welcome all new users. However, there are currently less than 20 of us and there is no way we can welcome all new users. I was wondering if ther was a bot that could welcome new users for us? Oddbodz ( talk) 12:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed that many of the articles that the Holocaust nav box links to do not have the nav box listed on it. In fact, I've noticed this with lots of nav boxes on Wikipedia. Is there a way to have a robot automatically do all of the linking of nav boxes on the articles that it links to? If not, can't Wikipedia create a robot to do stuff like that? This seems like the exact type of task that could be programmed into a bot. It would save a ton of tedious work and time for people. Hoops gza ( talk) 06:39, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
I've found that my time available for operating my WikiProject tagging and auto-assessment bot has greatly reduced.
I am looking for a replacement operator who can deal with the requests at User:Xenobot/R and any subsequent requests that may be left there. There are at least five pending requests.
Any replacement needs to be able to mirror Xenobot's autoassessment process, outlined at User:Xenobot/A. I have some AWB settings that achieve this, and also a Python script written by User:EdoDodo (still developmental and with some known issues), both of which I can provide on request.
(Note: some projects also request custom work such as the open request for SEATTLE.)
Thanks in advance, – xeno talk 14:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
We need to get a new bot to take up the work prepping each day's pages for Files for Deletion and Possibly Unfree Files. This involved making edits like this and like this, just setting up the pages for FFD and PUF discussions ahead of people who will actually be using them.
This task was previously done by Zorglbot, until said bot was blocked for malfunctioning on March 26, and has not since been unblocked. Thus we need a bot to pick up this task of Zorglbot's. SchuminWeb ( Talk) 01:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
Google video will be closing at the end of april, should a bot redirect the links to an archive service? Smallman12q ( talk) 13:36, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi all, I need a bot that will replace all the occurrence of " File:Stub_femminismo.png" with " File:Womanpower logo.svg. I am doing this in all the other projects. Thanks. -- Lucas ( talk) 15:36, 25 April 2011 (UTC)