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Similar to the bot that dates maintenance tags, I'd like to suggest a bot that dates maintenance merge tags. This will help by 1) Making it possible to use AWB to edit articles with this tag en masse based on the date, and 2) Allow other editors viewing this articles to quickly identify the time of the proposal and removal it if the merge proposal has sat for a long period of time with no one performing an actual merge.--v/r -
T
P 02:18, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
|date=
, you could just add the tag templates to
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates and their categories to
Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month.
Anomie
⚔ 10:33, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Can some user with an automated process please help moving all the talk pages from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people in Japan to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people in Japan ( sample edit) and from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of New Zealanders to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people of New Zealand ( sample edit)? I believe that the task is simple enough for a bot, but too repetitive and boring for a person; we're talking about 400+ pages total; and the standard CfD helper bot ( Cydebot) isn't capable of this task. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:04, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur has been deleted at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur. Template:User Mercosur and Template:WikiProject Mercosur have been deleted as a consequence, but it would be needed that a bot removes them from the pages that used those templates, to avoid the red links. It would be also needed to empty Category:WikiProject Mercosur and all subcategories, and delete the category pages afterwards. Cambalachero ( talk) 20:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Union of the Centre (historical) has been moved to Union of the Centre (1994) and Union of the Centre (current) has been moved to Union of the Centre (2008). My request is about replacing all the links to the old titles with direct links. Is there any bot able to do it? -- Checco ( talk) 16:43, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Apology accepted, and good job on adding the unprintworthy tags. -- The Σ talk contribs 03:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings,
I was wondering if there is a bot that can rename 50+ (at least) articles in a specific category. It's a non-controversial move. If it can be done, I will response with the details. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 19:06, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Can somebody create a bot that moves automatically userspace pages with {{ AFC submission}} on it to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/whatever? TGhe bot should check this multiple times a day... mabdul 15:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Oh for AFC wasn't bad if a bot can update WP:FFU( Wikipedia:Files_for_upload/recent) pictures (by looking in the archives which were accepted). mabdul 18:53, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Chzzbot III should make sure the heading stays on the sandbox talk page too. The heading is constantly removed from there too but ChzzBot III ignores it. -- Heyitsme22 ( talk) 19:08, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
The Wayback Machine has been used to repair many dead links and now the old URLs are being redirected (sometimes slowly) so I am asking that bots making edits to check for old Wayback links and replace them.
Thanks in advance. – Allen4 names 13:57, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
and text references in {{
Wayback}}. That's assuming they are used as archived versions and not direct links (by mistake or on purpose). Converting bare urls to {{
Wayback}} would bring out the incorrect direct uses of archive urls. But it would also incorrectly convert text references using archive urls correctly. —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK 08:36, 27 April 2011 (UTC)Note that Wayback has now rolled out previously in-beta Replay mode and "replay." sub-domain. It is now the main "web.archive.org/web/" url: [1], so the "replay." part is no longer used. There is still "classic-web.archive.org", for those that need it. But all the "old" urls now point to Replay mode. Just wondering if anyone has converted anything since this request? — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:45, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I know I have brought this up before, but could someone please code a functioning WebCite Bot? Before complaining on this proposal, please consider the following points:
What this bot should do:
I am aware of the fact that no consensus has been reached regarding the use of WebCite to combat Wikipedia's linkrot problems. However WP:LINKROT#Repairing a dead link specifically encourages the use of WebCite to prevent linkrot. Therefore I think it is reasonable to have a working bot for that job.
I am also aware of the fact that Wikipedia's original WebCite bot was the cause for some of WebCite's downtimes. This could be addressed by limiting the submission rate of the bot to an amount that can be safely handled by WebCite.
Thanks for any helpful replies. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 16:27, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Citation links that go dead are a serious problem for Wikipedia because it interferes with people's ability to verify that our content is both accurate and reliable. This is the basis for Wikipedia being a valid source of information and, in my humble opinion, the problem is serious enough to require multiple solutions. Both Wikiwix and WebCite want to help us solve this problem. I think it would be to our benefit if we tried to implement both solutions. Having said that, any movement in a positive direction would be helpful. The worse thing we could do is let the situation continue to deteriorate, which is what the community has been doing. Any suggestions would be most welcome. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 06:28, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Would like to be able to convert very long articles like List of former NTA Film Network affiliates, which uses all citation templates, to non-citation template citations. The templates are causing the page to load very slowly, and successfully editing the page is now nearly impossible. Frequently, a message now pops up that states, "Too many users are trying to view this page", caused by the over 800 citation templates in the article. A stripped-down version of the article, which avoids all citation templates, would be useful. The article is still incomplete, but more info cannot be added at present. And it would take a bot, I believe, to successfully convert all the citations to a different style of citation. Firsfron of Ronchester 11:22, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
So, is there someone interested in coming up with a way of automatically converting citations from citation template format to citations which look the same but do not use templates? There was a lot of work on June 3rd on the NTA list reducing table elements and fixing small reference elements, but the citation templates remain. Avicennasis created a sandbox page to break the citation templates, but that version still has the citation templates still in it. I realize that this conversion is a complicated project, but the list is still incomplete, and I cannot even reference the lead of the list (due to the timeouts). A bot which could perform this task would not only be useful for this article, it would be useful for other editors who are complaining about the length of time it takes to edit articles that use many citation templates. Firsfron of Ronchester 11:57, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to write a bot that detects bad links from {{
sfn}}
, {{
harv}}
, {{
harvnb}}
, {{
harvtxt}}
, {{
harvcol}}
, {{
harvcolnb}}
and {{
harvcoltxt}}
and adds {{
citation not found}}
? For example, it would notice that
Smith (2001) creates a link ("CITEREFSmith2001
") but that there is no corresponding anchor in the article, so it would replace it with
Smith (2001)
citation not found.
I believe there are thousands of these bad links. {{
citation not found}}
places all the articles with bad links into a maintenance category, and it would make it much easier to find these and fix them.
See User:Svick/HarvErrors.js and User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js for related scripts.
Any takers? Any other advice? ---- CharlesGillingham ( talk) 08:48, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Template:NFL player is not a infobox template. please help moving all the pages code from Template:NFL player → Template:Infobox gridiron football person. Thanks in advance.-- 777sms ( talk) 16:04, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm wondering if there is (or should be) a bot to periodically go around checking whether crosswiki links to Commons exist, and if they don't, to add {{ commons}} or {{ commonscat}}. Sounds to me like it might exist, or that there might be a bot suitable for taking the task on. And the task itself seems uncontroversial (he says, fingers crossed). Anyone? Rd232 talk 20:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I'd like the "ordinary iw linkage bot assistance", for Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom and its iw sister articles; cf. Talk:Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom#A_technical_question for details. Thanks, JoergenB ( talk) 21:07, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
A roving IP has been frequently improperly linking names in citation templates, such as
{{cite news|first=Edward|last=[[Edward R. Murrow|Murrow]]|...}}
would it be possible for a bot to change this to the proper:
{{cite news|first=Edward|last=Murrow|authorlink=Edward R. Murrow]]|...}
I'm afraid I don't have the full list of citation templates where "authorlink" is used, or the full list of authorlinkn fields where this is appropriate. It's possible one of the existing citation bots already has this capability, in which case I would request that it be used more often.
— Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:15, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
|first=
, |last=
is a piped link, or |author=
is a link and no |authorlink=
is given, trim the former field to text and move the link to |authorlink=
? —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK 18:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Hi, I'm an admin on the welsh Wicipedia. Is there a ready made Bot for uploading Word pages as Wici articles, please. I have 700 individual Word text files which I have created from my own database on "Mountain Peaks in Wales". To do it by hand would harm my tendons! I've done one by hand: here. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 21:08, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject Biography is explicit about not being substituted; however many articles are using the redirect Template:WPBiography. This is making it difficult to get changes, particularly categories, fully implemented. Can a bot run through articles using the latter and replace the redirect? Timrollpickering ( talk) 09:17, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
I suggest reactivating the automatic assessments, like what BetacommandBot used to do. This would automatically assess articles as stub-class or start-class based on existing assessments by other WikiProjects; this would be done only for WikiProjects that have opted in. This would require two bot tasks as well as an opt-in program. The tasks would be:
I hope that this could be used to reduce assessment backlog for the interested WikiProjects. Note: I am suggesting this here, opposed to above where it was originally, due to the large scope of the request Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:07, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
|auto=inherit
. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 14:28, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. The "qroti.com" domain is dead for several years, but has been crawled by the "wayback machine". Is it possible for a bot to check
these, and either prefix the URL with the Wayback archive (like I did at
Mungar railway station), or even better would be to change them to full citations with the |archiveurl=
and |archivedate=
and the direct link to the most recently crawled version of the page. Thank you.
Frietjes (
talk) 21:06, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
There is a tool on toolserv : http://toolserver.org/~magnus/cgi-bin/duplicate_images_across.pl?lang=en&max=25
That lists duplicates of image between Commons/enwiki.
Would it be possible to automate the tagging of these duplicates? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 09:30, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
HOw about a bot to make talk page redirects from page redirects.
Example:
WP:POKÉ redirects to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon, but WT:POKÉ does not redirect to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pokémon. Could bots do such? ~~
EBE123~~
talk
Contribs 22:41, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
This request has a "two" in the headline because it is very similar to a previous request which was successfully carried out by The Σ and Avicennasis. Some pages have been moved and I'm asking you to bypass the redirects in all the other pages as they are unencyclopedic, bizarre and de facto unprintworthy. The pages are:
The Σ and Avicenassis did a wonderful job the last time. Thanks in advance to whoever will "unleash" his/her bot this time. -- Checco ( talk) 19:30, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Eu gostaria de saber se é possível fabricar um bot para o jogo Metin2? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.186.130.2 ( talk • contribs)
I was wondering if a bot could detect pages that have been vandalized more than 3 times in 24 hours and automatically list them at wp rpp. people will still be able to request protection and the bot will find edits reverted through twinkle or huggle by cluebot or with an edit summary like rvv or revert vandal. itllbe like at uaa. would this be possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heyitsme24 ( talk • contribs) 15:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
( edit conflict) #3 seems OK too but then we 'll need tracking categories for invalid parameters. I could add something to AWB's code but I don't think this problem is common. AWB already fixes importance/priority problem for all(?) cases. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:44, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Could I interest someone with experience with the xml dumps to update this compilation of journals?
In a nutshell, it a bot that would compile all the |journal=
found in citation templates, and build various lists (top 1000 cited journals, top 1000 cited journals without articles, and a comprehensive alphabetical list of everything). Something like
Journal | Target | Citations | Articles (if ≤ 5 uniques) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Am J Foo | American Journal of Foobar | 98 | >5 | Wikipedia · Google |
American Journal of Foobar | American Journal of Foobar | 3 | 1, 2 | Wikipedia · Google |
American Journal of Foobar A | — | 7 | 1, 2, 3 | Wikipedia · Google |
American Journal of Foobar B | — | 1 | 1 | Wikipedia · Google |
J Foo | Journal of Foobar | 4 | 1, 2 | Wikipedia · Google |
J. Foo | Journal of Foobar | 47 | >5 | Wikipedia · Google |
Journal of Foobar | Journal of Foobar | 32 | >5 | Wikipedia · Google |
Journal of PENIS!!!1h!AHA | — | 1 | 1 | Wikipedia · Google |
It's been over a year since WP:JCW has been updated and WP:JOURNALS really could use a fresh one. I've been begging ThaddeusB for ages, but he's missing in action since forever. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
{{
JournalsMain}}
{{
JournalsLetter|letter=A}}
{{
JournalsPrevNext|previous=|current=A1|next=A2}}
| journal = Nature
-- displays Nature with no linking| journal = [[Nature]]
-- displays Nature linked to
Nature| journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
-- displays Nature linked to
Nature (journal)[[Nature]] | [[Nature]]
per the examples, but for the third one do you want [[Nature]] | [[Nature (journal)]]
or [[Nature (journal)]] | [[Nature (journal)]]
?| journal = The Shorter [[Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]
Journal | Link | Redirect |
---|---|---|
Nature | Nature | -- |
Nature | Nature | -- |
Nature | Nature (journal) | -- |
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | -- |
With regards to the compilation, Nature, Nature, and Nature (journal), should all be treated as the same entry on the list. Links should be converted to the pipe (aka. if you find [[Foobar (journal)|Foobar A: Toilets & Plumbing]], treat the entry as Foobar A: Toilets and Plumbing, rather than Foobar.
So basically, if you find
| journal = Nature
| journal = [[Nature]]
| journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
| journal = The Shorter [[Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]
| journal = The Shorter [[Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]
| journal = Sheng li xue bao: [Acta physiologica Sinica]
Then that would make the left side of the table look like
Journal | Target | Citations |
---|---|---|
Nature | Nature (journal) | 3 |
Sheng li xue bao: Acta physiologica Sinica | — | 1 |
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | 1 |
[Convention: Bold = exist, italics = redirect]
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Could I askthat a bot is used to update all 2526 stations across the UK National Rail network? It would need to take the usage from documents located here and worked with {{ Infobox GB station}} and {{ Infobox London station}} which use two slightly different coding.
Simply south.... .. eating shoes for 5 years 23:30, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Has someone moved this thread? If so, then where and why? See [ here]. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 05:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I have a bot-request regarding the WikiAfrica project. We are trying to get an overview of all the articles that need to be created/edited/wikified/etc. on our project page. We want to encourage people to expand existing articles on Africa and start with subject related to art, literature, poetry, etc. To do this, we need to pull in a list of (for example) African poetry stubs: however, this could refer to either Africa stubs, notable Africans, notable Malians, or African literature stubs, all crossed with poetry. Is there a way of creating a bot for this? Did anybody do this before and would anybody like to help us with organizing? Thanks! Riannedac ( talk) 13:31, 24 June 2011 (UTC) P.S. this is not a project similar to WikiProject Africa. We do support their work
The United States Wikipedians collaboration of the month has been back up and running for the last few months and we would like to automate a couple tasks that currently is done manually.
These three tasks would help tremendously. If anyone accepts this task we can discuss what the messages should say. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:12, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
The messages I was thinking of are:
For the nomination:
The
Article, an article within the scope of this project, has been nominated to be the
United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for next Month Year. You can vote for this or other articles to be next months Collaboration of the Month
here.
For the selection:
The
Article, an article within the scope of this project, has been selected as the
United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for current month year. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month
here.
with a title of:
"
Article has been selected/nominated as the
United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for current Month/next month Year"
I asked the other maintainer of the collaboration to review it ( Casliber) and they concurred. If you have any questions please let me know. Thanks again for doing this task for us. -- Kumioko ( talk) 01:42, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
I am contemplating resurrecting WatchListBot, a bot which generated a list of wikiproject-tagged articles used by RecentChangesLinked ( example). The bot owner seems to be MIA. Luckily she published the source code, written in python. My plan would be to upload the code to the Toolserver and run the bot there. Any comments? Lionel ( talk) 08:49, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
To eliminate stubs is NEEDED and the wikia page needs repairing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.197.170.122 ( talk • contribs) 21:52, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I would like to scan the DYK archives and compile a list of DYK articles, submitters, and hooks. I can specify the info I need and how much, and do some analyis afterward, but would like help from a bot maker to get the scrape done.
Also, if they have the ability to do some simple checks on users as well (join date, number of edits, admin flag) that would be useful as well. I'm thinking a little bit like the person who did the RFA reform data compilation. Will read out to him, but not sure if he likes me.
Any advise on person or "other desk" to go for help?
TCO ( talk) 18:53, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
The "Immutability of AN archives" section of WP:AN discusses the possibilities of vandalism to the archives of WP:AN and related pages. 28bytes has made a useful suggestion: could we have a bot that looks at the edit history of the archives periodically (perhaps once per day) and leaves a note at WT:AN if any archive page is edited by an account that isn't an archive bot? Since the point of such a bot is simply to make us aware that someone modified the page, and not to warn users or revert changes or anything else that an antivandal bot does, I doubt that you need to worry about false positives such as someone un-archiving a thread. Nyttend ( talk) 04:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
There are quite a few projects out there that use a 5 point checklist for assessing articles and I was wondering the possibility of getting a bot to do some of the assessment updates. This is just to determine if there is someone who might be interested in creating and running such a bot. Below is some general info just to clarify the intent and purpose of the task for anyone who might be interested. If someone is interested I will start a discussion on the Village pump but I don't want to do that until I determine if this is a task that someone would want to do.
I know that it could not possibly determine everything in the checklist but my idea was this. If a bot were given some specific rules to look for, and if an article met or didn't meet them, then it would change that particular checklist item. For example the checklist typically looks like this:
<-- B-Class 5-criteria checklist --> | B1 <-- Referencing and citations --> = y/n | B2 <-- Coverage and accuracy --> = y/n | B3 <-- Structure --> = y/n | B4 <-- Grammar and style --> = y/n | B5 <-- Supporting materials --> = y/n
I do not think a bot could do much for 2 or 4 but 1, 3 and 5 it might be able to do.
Some notes:
Hi, I'm not very experienced with bots and such but I'd like to ask if there is someone who could make bot that would change every [[Škoda Fabia|Škoda Fabia S2000]] to [[Škoda Fabia S2000]]. This relates many pages so it'd help a lot. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hakulin ( talk • contribs)
File:Vote.png, on Commons, was deleted recently, leaving lots of broken image links here on WP, mainly on user pages (through userboxes), portal pages, and WikiProjects. Could someone fire up a bot to replace all usages with the very similar looking File:A coloured voting box.svg, please? I've found some of the userboxes and the one template that used it, so there shouldn't be much left to do. Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Vote.png Thanks. Bencherlite Talk 12:19, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Could someone please create a bot to scan the subcategories of Category:Radio stations and move any file pages to Category:Radio station logos, removing the other categories? Their appearance in the article categories is contrary to advice offered at Wikipedia:Categorization, and, more importantly, contrary to the NFCC, as the non-free logos are displayed in category-space galleries. I raised the issue on the appropriate WikiProject page a while ago, and received minimal response, so I think it'd be great if we could get a bot to deal with this. J Milburn ( talk) 10:20, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
\[\[Category:(''CATEGORY TITLES SEPARATED BY "|"'')(\|[^\n{|}[\]]*)\]\]\n?
(get the list from catscan) and have fun mindlessly click save for the next hours. —
Dispenser 01:27, 30 June 2011 (UTC)Hello, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction of how to find a bot that could do the following task; simply put a template (I already created it) on every page in a certain category. I can give more specifics if that matters, any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Magister Scienta ( talk) 04:55, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
If a website is found to have had multiple single purpose accounts spamming links to it across many articles, you can then use the Search function to find out what other Wikipedia articles have a link to that site. But its hard to see who added it if a lot of edits have been done since then. Can you make it where an article can have its history searched, edit by edit, to see when a link was added and by who? Then that person can have their contributions checked, and if the only edits they ever did to Wikipedia were adding in links to that site, a spam investigation can follow. Dream Focus 19:16, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
nobody want to do this job? Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_42#moving afc pages mabdul 10:36, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
We are understandably wary of bots deleting articles, but it seems to me that this would be hard to screw up. A bot that would delete talk pages of articles that were deleted for a reason that links WP:CSD could save admins quite a few clicks and let us get on with CSD review more quickly. -- causa sui ( talk) 23:37, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
As the above request states, this would be a bot that would simply check to see if the mainpage was already deleted and if it is delete the associated talkpage. Knowing that people have been on edge about this before, I would like to invite the community to comment on this. -- DQ (t) (e) 00:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Talk pages that have useful discussion on them (for example, from before the main article was deleted) should be preserved and aren't covered by G8. Unless the bot was able to read English to see what the discussion says, it can't just automatically delete the talk page of a deleted article. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:20, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Um, you mean like User:Orphaned talkpage deletion bot? -- Chris 13:36, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Something occurred to me. If we could get a bot to download lists of settlements and coordinates from the geonames server by country like List of United Kingdom locations, such tables could contain an information summary. We could redirect all of the thousands of one liners we have which can't be expanded in the near future until they can be written properly or at least improve the standards we currently have. This way we would have some sort of recognition of all recognised settlements in the world but a new system which we can work off of and maintain some order. If we could try to get a full list of settlements in the world onto wikipedia it would be a good place to work off of I think and would mean we could sort out all of those xxx is a village type stubs we have for Category:Populated places in Kyrgyzstan for example and try to maintain some quality in categories and contain only actual articles. Is it possible somebody could code a bot to generate full lists of settlements by country in a similar fashion? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I need to place {{WP India|education=yes|education-importance=}} to all the articles in Category:Education in India. Can someone help me ? -- naveenpf ( talk) 02:59, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
{{ helpme}}-- naveenpf ( talk) 01:30, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Σ, what has happened to my request and your bot request? Thanks! -- Checco ( talk) 11:21, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Rename Category:Battles of the South American wars of independence and Category:People of South American wars of independence to Category:Battles of the Spanish American wars of independence and Category:People of Spanish American wars of independence. This was discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 June 26#Category:South American wars of independence Cambalachero ( talk) 00:15, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Done Cambalachero ( talk) 14:50, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
It would be very helpful to almost any Wikiproject if someone could program a bot that would compile data on the quality assessments of every article within a wikiproject's categories into a table sort of like those of the bot that makes "popular pages" pages ( example). It would be nice if, additionally, every category could also get a numerical rating averaging the scores of every article it contains. Every assessment level could be assigned a number in increasing order so a stub would be a 1, a start a 2, and so on topping off at 6 for good articles and 7 for featureds. Giving a numerical rating to categories could help Wikiprojects keep track of which categories would be easy to turn into featured topics and which need a lot of work. Would anyone be interested in creating such a bot? Abyssal ( talk) 00:15, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I've been editing Latin American people's names to include the proper accent marks. During the last days I've included thousands of accent marks, but the task is showing itself to be too huge to do it manually. Would some of your bots care to help me with this, please? I have a first list here for your orientation on what to do. When disambiguations are no provided for common names, it is safe to add the accent marks to those names in sports articles (I've checked it out). Please let me know if you decide to give me a hand and do this. Thanks you! Againme ( talk) 02:20, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
User:Starzynka created hundreds of sub-stubs on villages in Argentina like Farallón Negro. When creating these articles in hyperspeed, he automatically inserted {{ Expand Spanish}} on every one of them. (He was determined to have been operating an unauthorized bot by virtue of his manual or assisted super-fast article creations.) Most of these articles are really not that good of candidates for translation--many are three unreferenced sentences or so, and there is no indication that Starzynka considered whether they were accurate enough to consider translating etc. There are hundreds and hundreds more worthy translation candidates, and these are essentially just junking up the translation request category. Can someone have a bot go through and remove all these tags? I don't know if this needs approval from anyone else, but I'm probably the person most involved in translation processes in en.wiki, and these were essentially created by an unauthorized bot to begin with... Don't know if it's possible just to remove them from articles he created, or if we'd have to remove them from all Argentina geostubs (which would probably be worth it even with a bit of collateral damage...). Calliopejen1 ( talk) 03:45, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps ask an AWBer to remove the tags like RichFarmbrough or Ser Amantio? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Σ, thank you for the marvellous job done by your SigmaBot. There are still plenty of unprintworthy redirects to be fixed (see 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). I hope you will find the time to work also on them. Thank you in advance and excuse me for my insistence. -- Checco ( talk) 16:01, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
WP:JOURNALS tags images used in its articles. Specifically of interest are the images found in the |cover=
of {{
Infobox journal}}. It's been a while since our last bot run, so if someone could do one it would be very much appreciated. The code for the banner would be {{WP Journals|class=File}}. Thanks.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 20:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
|cover=
of {{
Infobox journal}}? Do I need to create the list of images too? --
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:35, 11 July 2011 (UTC)A user made a change to a categorization project template last week, but due to a coding error his edit had the accidental side effect of completely depopulating almost 3,000 articles from a backlogged maintenance queue. I've repaired the template error, but wanted to know if anybody's willing and able to set a bot loose on the articles in order to properly repopulate the categories — the mission, if you choose to accept it, is for the bot to do null and/or cleanup edits on all articles that transclude {{ cat improve}} (and its redirects). It's just too tedious and time-consuming a task to do manually in AWB, eh? Bearcat ( talk) 19:29, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! The category Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav should be empty. The corresponding article is at Order of St. Olav (not "Royal Norwegian") following a requested move a while back. Can a bot recategorize the 58 articles in question to Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav? Geschichte ( talk) 09:12, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that could systematize changes like this? This really would help cleaning up articles (esp. in PDF form). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:58, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Per this discussion and this deletion result I would like to substitute some templates and redirects. The article headers have changed for the redirects and they are currently held by anchors, plus it would be better to link to the created or potential article than a specific section within the overview article. Almost every rugby biography and many related articles use one or more of these templates/redirects so there will likely be hundreds to replace. AIRcorn (talk) 02:16, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
List of Redirects and Templates for Substitution
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Looks like a job for AWB if ever there was one. :) Investigating.
Rich
Farmbrough, 12:26, 13 July 2011 (UTC).
I can do all the templates right away. Yobot has already approval for this kind of tasks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:44, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Here's the list:
I can just replace directly instead of subst, or not? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I am off to bed now, but if there is anything I can do to help out tomorrow let me know. AIRcorn (talk) 13:24, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks again. I can probably sort the rest out. AIRcorn (talk) 22:07, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Yet another time I need to manually find and type missing parameters ( example). Is it possible to regenerate this infobox? Bulwersator ( talk) 15:45, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
then it can be done.
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:08, 15 July 2011 (UTC).
Has anyone ever thought of making a bot that people could use to move WikiLove to award pages automatically? -- Nathan2055 talk 19:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix=User talk:ClueBot Commons/Facepalm |format= |age=99999 |index=no |nogenerateindex=1 |archivebox=no |box-advert=no |archivenow={{tl|facepalm,{{Facepalm
Hope it helps. -- Σ talk contribs 22:28, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Request on hold. I will start a discussion on WP:VPR to gain a clear consensus for this first. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 14:07, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Per a proposal by User:Rd232 at WP:VPR#Ratings poll a distraction? I propose to run a bot that mirrors discussions from meta (such as the discussions regarding Liquid Threads, see Rd232s comment at the 4th level 1 indented dot) somewhere here at EN Wikipedia. People then can put that page on their watchlist and keep themselves informed about stuff such as Pending changes or Liquid threads rolled out by the foundation. Maybe this could help enabling a better communication between the foundation and the community. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 23:21, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Please could you change all links to InterCity or Intercity to point to Intercity (Deutsche Bahn) (piped to say Intercity) within the categories Category:Railway stations in Germany and Category:Rolling stock of Germany (and sub categories)? A new, more focused article has been created.
Ideally, every article in Category:Rail transport in Germany would have the change made. Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 12:50, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
The Fakta om Fartyg website has moved from www.faktaomfartyg.se/ to www.faktaomfartyg.nu/. A bot run is needed to change all the .se extenions to .nu instead. I raised this at WT:SHIPS and it was suggested that a general fixes run be done at the same time. 794 articles/talk pages etc are affected. Mjroots ( talk) 10:57, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
A bot request for my request
was made in February, though it was not responded to. From discussions elsewhere, it sounds like DASHbot was actually doing this for a very short while (and no longer does). But I thought I would give it another shot because any help would be tremendous. Consensus was reached
back in 2009 to remove the Reviews
parameter from {{
Infobox album}}, and possibly the bot was initiated at this point. It stopped working for whatever reasons, and the archives have several discussions trying to pick up this project throughout 2010. Only recently has activity really picked up after a notice of deprecation was implemented which would make
the project a highly visible one. There are
50,000+ articles that need to have reviews moved into the {{
Album ratings}} template and placed directly below the Infobox albums template. What would it take to get another bot to kick this project into super high gear? The manual labor on this is fairly extensive and time-consuming and this will most likely otherwise take months, if not a year, to complete.
I'm more than happy to give specific details the bot would be required to do, some of which I think I can easily explain below, using Songs in the Attic and an example:
rev#
parameter, and the review rating and URL would be placed in the rev#Score
parameter. The hash sign is replaced with the order number, rev1, rev2, rev3, etc.<ref></ref>
tags.I think that sums up most of the things I've noticed while doing this manually. How feasible would it be to do something like this? Even if the bot were allowed to say "no" to certain articles due to complexity issues, a bot working on the thousands of easier articles would be tremendously helpful. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 06:27, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
<!--add rating--> <ref>
.... as a quick placeholder, but I haven't asked the people at WikiProject Albums if there's a more professional way of handling that. I'll bring it up and see what I get for responses. As for your second question, if there is not Reception/Critical reception sectionAny progress on the bot request? Should it be whittled down to be less complex? Maybe only articles with one review, or all articles without any Allmusic and Robert Christgau reviews (since those have one or two separate templates, respectively, which can get confusing)? – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 21:45, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
([rR]eception|[Rr]eview|[Cc]ritical|[Ll]egac|[cC]hart)+.*
. That means it will will use the section if it starts with any combination of the words: Rectption,review,critical,legacy,chart. If more than one section is found, the bot chooses the one with the lowest heading level (==Review== will be chosen over ===Review===), and afterwards (if more than one heading remains) it will take the first match.Tim1357, excellent news, and it looks like it's working great! This will really help things out. Two things that come to mind:
I did find a curio, which the bot would have eventually run into, so I'm glad it happened so soon. At this
diff, you can see that the ratings, in this case, were placed after the link, which the bot will apparently miss. As this format is so rare from what I've done, it never rang my bell enough to mention it to you. Sorry! — Wait, nevermind, my diff was apparently you noticing this lol, so we're synchronized there, I think.
Here is a clarification of Robert Christgau reviews, because these get really annoying (even manually). There are several ways these reviews seem to appear, but I think DASHbot may need to recognize the last example:
| review = [[Robert Christgau]] (B-) [http://www.foobar.com link]
| review = [[Robert Christgau]] {{rating-Christgau|hm2}} <ref>[http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=they+might Robert Christgau Review]</ref>
| review = {{subst:User:Edgarde/Review-Christgau|A-|cgurl=http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide/april07}}
rev#
parameter and parse the URL from the template and move it into the rev#Score</rev>
parameter.| review = {{subst:User:Edgarde/Review-Christgau|A-|album=411}}
rev#
parameter and expand the URL to http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=411
, replacing the id number each time.What a pain in the butt, I know, and apparently these templates are condoning the usage of external links in an improper manner/format, but that's for a separate discussion later. Tell me what you think. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 03:45, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Any news about the bot? – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 12:38, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
{{Infobox Film | |name=blablabla| ||director=Mr. Rogers| |}}
{{Infobox Film | |name = blabla | | |director=Mr.Rogers | | }}
So I let the bot do 119 edits by itself. I'm going to look through them before I let it go out into the wild. Tim 1357 talk 16:54, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
([rR]eception|[Rr]eview|[Cc]ritical)+.*
or any section that begins with "Reception";"Review"; or "Critical". (3) I'll probably do another "batch" of 500 and then after that let it go until it's finished. (4) I'll work on getting a list of edits, it will probably involve a database query.
Tim
1357
talk 15:04, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Being able to get a list of all the "album bot" edits would be great. That would make it very easy for editors to go back and check as many edits as they want, whenever the edits were made. But, I have no idea how hard or easy it would be to create a link like that. — Mudwater ( Talk) 00:06, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Things are looking really good. But in my opinion, we should err on the side of caution for the size and number of batches for the bot running. Instead of letting the bot run after the next batch of 500, how about doing a few larger batches -- like, a few thousand at a time -- maybe a day, or a few days, apart? That way more editors will see what's going on, in more differently formatted articles, and have a chance to give feedback on any adjustments. I know that's more work for you, Tim1357, but I think we want to try pretty hard to avoid less than perfect edits on thousands of articles. Perhaps I'm being overly cautious, but I don't think I am. — Mudwater ( Talk) 21:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Tim, can you let us know when you may run a batch of 500? I know I'd be willing to help go through the diffs for a final round of checks. I'm assuming when the bot is set "free", it will go nightly. Any idea how many it'll be limited to? Thanks! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 04:14, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that the bot continued well past 500 articles. It had updated more than 1,300 articles. I tried to shut it off, here, but it looks like that didn't work, and it's still updating articles. — Mudwater ( Talk) 23:43, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Actually, I'm happy to say that that is all I noticed. Now, I didn't look through a whole ton of edits, but a nicely representative sample with the bot doing different things (reception section vs. after infobox, different numbers of reviews, etc.) – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 00:14, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
|type=Album
to change to |type=studio
?
BOVINEBOY
2008 00:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Okay, it's a good thing people above noticed stuff. I haven't found a single error—though eerily, I did find that I'd reverted a DASHBot edit as vandalism, and on my honor, I don't remember making that edit or visiting that page. o.O Not sure what that was about. Anyway, a quick reply/summary list:
Thanks all! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 04:44, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted User:Drilnoth's edit to Template:Album ratings which increased the number of reviews to 14 - I'm sure that the number of reviews the template supports was arrived at after some debate, and so should not be changed just because "album bot" has issues. Could the bot be made to reject any infobox with more than 12 reviews? memphisto 14:59, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I think we're ready for the next test batch. I'd propose a batch of 500 or even 1,000 articles. — Mudwater ( Talk) 12:16, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Here is a link to the latest batch of bot edits. A total of 2,778 articles were updated. — Mudwater ( Talk) 13:12, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
{{Infobox | name=Foo | bar=Baz }}
<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r1574069|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
<ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r1574069}}</ref>
Ok, I think I adressed everything urgent up there. I'll go for 5,000 tonight? Tim 1357 talk 02:20, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Please could a bot operator arrange for their bot to tag all the categories listed below, and the articles they contain, with the project template for Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses using following template: {{ WikiProject Buses}}. For the categories please use the class=Category parameter also. For articles, if possible please use the same quality assessment as other projects (if there is more than one tag with a quality assessment present, and the assessments disagree, please leave the class parameter blank).
Please note that some categories/articles are already tagged with the project banner, and these should only have the class parameter added (per the above rules) if it is absent.
This list was posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Buses#Tagging bus stations for this project for a week without comment or objection so the chance of error is low (in my opinion). Thryduulf ( talk) 22:17, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Done 694 edits. Magioladitis ( talk) 23:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
|class=start
on the two existing project banners was ignored. Thryduulf did allow "if there is more than one tag with a quality assessment present, ... leave the class parameter blank", but only when "the assessments disagree", which in this case they do not. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:14, 27 July 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 40 | Archive 41 | Archive 42 | Archive 43 | Archive 44 | Archive 45 |
Similar to the bot that dates maintenance tags, I'd like to suggest a bot that dates maintenance merge tags. This will help by 1) Making it possible to use AWB to edit articles with this tag en masse based on the date, and 2) Allow other editors viewing this articles to quickly identify the time of the proposal and removal it if the merge proposal has sat for a long period of time with no one performing an actual merge.--v/r -
T
P 02:18, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
|date=
, you could just add the tag templates to
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates and their categories to
Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month.
Anomie
⚔ 10:33, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Can some user with an automated process please help moving all the talk pages from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people in Japan to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people in Japan ( sample edit) and from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of New Zealanders to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people of New Zealand ( sample edit)? I believe that the task is simple enough for a bot, but too repetitive and boring for a person; we're talking about 400+ pages total; and the standard CfD helper bot ( Cydebot) isn't capable of this task. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:04, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur has been deleted at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur. Template:User Mercosur and Template:WikiProject Mercosur have been deleted as a consequence, but it would be needed that a bot removes them from the pages that used those templates, to avoid the red links. It would be also needed to empty Category:WikiProject Mercosur and all subcategories, and delete the category pages afterwards. Cambalachero ( talk) 20:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Union of the Centre (historical) has been moved to Union of the Centre (1994) and Union of the Centre (current) has been moved to Union of the Centre (2008). My request is about replacing all the links to the old titles with direct links. Is there any bot able to do it? -- Checco ( talk) 16:43, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Apology accepted, and good job on adding the unprintworthy tags. -- The Σ talk contribs 03:10, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings,
I was wondering if there is a bot that can rename 50+ (at least) articles in a specific category. It's a non-controversial move. If it can be done, I will response with the details. Thanks in advance. Digirami ( talk) 19:06, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Can somebody create a bot that moves automatically userspace pages with {{ AFC submission}} on it to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/whatever? TGhe bot should check this multiple times a day... mabdul 15:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Oh for AFC wasn't bad if a bot can update WP:FFU( Wikipedia:Files_for_upload/recent) pictures (by looking in the archives which were accepted). mabdul 18:53, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Chzzbot III should make sure the heading stays on the sandbox talk page too. The heading is constantly removed from there too but ChzzBot III ignores it. -- Heyitsme22 ( talk) 19:08, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
The Wayback Machine has been used to repair many dead links and now the old URLs are being redirected (sometimes slowly) so I am asking that bots making edits to check for old Wayback links and replace them.
Thanks in advance. – Allen4 names 13:57, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
and text references in {{
Wayback}}. That's assuming they are used as archived versions and not direct links (by mistake or on purpose). Converting bare urls to {{
Wayback}} would bring out the incorrect direct uses of archive urls. But it would also incorrectly convert text references using archive urls correctly. —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK 08:36, 27 April 2011 (UTC)Note that Wayback has now rolled out previously in-beta Replay mode and "replay." sub-domain. It is now the main "web.archive.org/web/" url: [1], so the "replay." part is no longer used. There is still "classic-web.archive.org", for those that need it. But all the "old" urls now point to Replay mode. Just wondering if anyone has converted anything since this request? — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:45, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I know I have brought this up before, but could someone please code a functioning WebCite Bot? Before complaining on this proposal, please consider the following points:
What this bot should do:
I am aware of the fact that no consensus has been reached regarding the use of WebCite to combat Wikipedia's linkrot problems. However WP:LINKROT#Repairing a dead link specifically encourages the use of WebCite to prevent linkrot. Therefore I think it is reasonable to have a working bot for that job.
I am also aware of the fact that Wikipedia's original WebCite bot was the cause for some of WebCite's downtimes. This could be addressed by limiting the submission rate of the bot to an amount that can be safely handled by WebCite.
Thanks for any helpful replies. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 16:27, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Citation links that go dead are a serious problem for Wikipedia because it interferes with people's ability to verify that our content is both accurate and reliable. This is the basis for Wikipedia being a valid source of information and, in my humble opinion, the problem is serious enough to require multiple solutions. Both Wikiwix and WebCite want to help us solve this problem. I think it would be to our benefit if we tried to implement both solutions. Having said that, any movement in a positive direction would be helpful. The worse thing we could do is let the situation continue to deteriorate, which is what the community has been doing. Any suggestions would be most welcome. - Hydroxonium ( T• C• V) 06:28, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Would like to be able to convert very long articles like List of former NTA Film Network affiliates, which uses all citation templates, to non-citation template citations. The templates are causing the page to load very slowly, and successfully editing the page is now nearly impossible. Frequently, a message now pops up that states, "Too many users are trying to view this page", caused by the over 800 citation templates in the article. A stripped-down version of the article, which avoids all citation templates, would be useful. The article is still incomplete, but more info cannot be added at present. And it would take a bot, I believe, to successfully convert all the citations to a different style of citation. Firsfron of Ronchester 11:22, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
So, is there someone interested in coming up with a way of automatically converting citations from citation template format to citations which look the same but do not use templates? There was a lot of work on June 3rd on the NTA list reducing table elements and fixing small reference elements, but the citation templates remain. Avicennasis created a sandbox page to break the citation templates, but that version still has the citation templates still in it. I realize that this conversion is a complicated project, but the list is still incomplete, and I cannot even reference the lead of the list (due to the timeouts). A bot which could perform this task would not only be useful for this article, it would be useful for other editors who are complaining about the length of time it takes to edit articles that use many citation templates. Firsfron of Ronchester 11:57, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to write a bot that detects bad links from {{
sfn}}
, {{
harv}}
, {{
harvnb}}
, {{
harvtxt}}
, {{
harvcol}}
, {{
harvcolnb}}
and {{
harvcoltxt}}
and adds {{
citation not found}}
? For example, it would notice that
Smith (2001) creates a link ("CITEREFSmith2001
") but that there is no corresponding anchor in the article, so it would replace it with
Smith (2001)
citation not found.
I believe there are thousands of these bad links. {{
citation not found}}
places all the articles with bad links into a maintenance category, and it would make it much easier to find these and fix them.
See User:Svick/HarvErrors.js and User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js for related scripts.
Any takers? Any other advice? ---- CharlesGillingham ( talk) 08:48, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Template:NFL player is not a infobox template. please help moving all the pages code from Template:NFL player → Template:Infobox gridiron football person. Thanks in advance.-- 777sms ( talk) 16:04, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm wondering if there is (or should be) a bot to periodically go around checking whether crosswiki links to Commons exist, and if they don't, to add {{ commons}} or {{ commonscat}}. Sounds to me like it might exist, or that there might be a bot suitable for taking the task on. And the task itself seems uncontroversial (he says, fingers crossed). Anyone? Rd232 talk 20:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I'd like the "ordinary iw linkage bot assistance", for Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom and its iw sister articles; cf. Talk:Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom#A_technical_question for details. Thanks, JoergenB ( talk) 21:07, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
A roving IP has been frequently improperly linking names in citation templates, such as
{{cite news|first=Edward|last=[[Edward R. Murrow|Murrow]]|...}}
would it be possible for a bot to change this to the proper:
{{cite news|first=Edward|last=Murrow|authorlink=Edward R. Murrow]]|...}
I'm afraid I don't have the full list of citation templates where "authorlink" is used, or the full list of authorlinkn fields where this is appropriate. It's possible one of the existing citation bots already has this capability, in which case I would request that it be used more often.
— Arthur Rubin (talk) 17:15, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
|first=
, |last=
is a piped link, or |author=
is a link and no |authorlink=
is given, trim the former field to text and move the link to |authorlink=
? —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK 18:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Hi, I'm an admin on the welsh Wicipedia. Is there a ready made Bot for uploading Word pages as Wici articles, please. I have 700 individual Word text files which I have created from my own database on "Mountain Peaks in Wales". To do it by hand would harm my tendons! I've done one by hand: here. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 21:08, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject Biography is explicit about not being substituted; however many articles are using the redirect Template:WPBiography. This is making it difficult to get changes, particularly categories, fully implemented. Can a bot run through articles using the latter and replace the redirect? Timrollpickering ( talk) 09:17, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
I suggest reactivating the automatic assessments, like what BetacommandBot used to do. This would automatically assess articles as stub-class or start-class based on existing assessments by other WikiProjects; this would be done only for WikiProjects that have opted in. This would require two bot tasks as well as an opt-in program. The tasks would be:
I hope that this could be used to reduce assessment backlog for the interested WikiProjects. Note: I am suggesting this here, opposed to above where it was originally, due to the large scope of the request Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:07, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
|auto=inherit
. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 14:28, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. The "qroti.com" domain is dead for several years, but has been crawled by the "wayback machine". Is it possible for a bot to check
these, and either prefix the URL with the Wayback archive (like I did at
Mungar railway station), or even better would be to change them to full citations with the |archiveurl=
and |archivedate=
and the direct link to the most recently crawled version of the page. Thank you.
Frietjes (
talk) 21:06, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
There is a tool on toolserv : http://toolserver.org/~magnus/cgi-bin/duplicate_images_across.pl?lang=en&max=25
That lists duplicates of image between Commons/enwiki.
Would it be possible to automate the tagging of these duplicates? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 09:30, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
HOw about a bot to make talk page redirects from page redirects.
Example:
WP:POKÉ redirects to Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon, but WT:POKÉ does not redirect to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pokémon. Could bots do such? ~~
EBE123~~
talk
Contribs 22:41, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
This request has a "two" in the headline because it is very similar to a previous request which was successfully carried out by The Σ and Avicennasis. Some pages have been moved and I'm asking you to bypass the redirects in all the other pages as they are unencyclopedic, bizarre and de facto unprintworthy. The pages are:
The Σ and Avicenassis did a wonderful job the last time. Thanks in advance to whoever will "unleash" his/her bot this time. -- Checco ( talk) 19:30, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Eu gostaria de saber se é possível fabricar um bot para o jogo Metin2? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.186.130.2 ( talk • contribs)
I was wondering if a bot could detect pages that have been vandalized more than 3 times in 24 hours and automatically list them at wp rpp. people will still be able to request protection and the bot will find edits reverted through twinkle or huggle by cluebot or with an edit summary like rvv or revert vandal. itllbe like at uaa. would this be possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heyitsme24 ( talk • contribs) 15:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
( edit conflict) #3 seems OK too but then we 'll need tracking categories for invalid parameters. I could add something to AWB's code but I don't think this problem is common. AWB already fixes importance/priority problem for all(?) cases. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:44, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Could I interest someone with experience with the xml dumps to update this compilation of journals?
In a nutshell, it a bot that would compile all the |journal=
found in citation templates, and build various lists (top 1000 cited journals, top 1000 cited journals without articles, and a comprehensive alphabetical list of everything). Something like
Journal | Target | Citations | Articles (if ≤ 5 uniques) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Am J Foo | American Journal of Foobar | 98 | >5 | Wikipedia · Google |
American Journal of Foobar | American Journal of Foobar | 3 | 1, 2 | Wikipedia · Google |
American Journal of Foobar A | — | 7 | 1, 2, 3 | Wikipedia · Google |
American Journal of Foobar B | — | 1 | 1 | Wikipedia · Google |
J Foo | Journal of Foobar | 4 | 1, 2 | Wikipedia · Google |
J. Foo | Journal of Foobar | 47 | >5 | Wikipedia · Google |
Journal of Foobar | Journal of Foobar | 32 | >5 | Wikipedia · Google |
Journal of PENIS!!!1h!AHA | — | 1 | 1 | Wikipedia · Google |
It's been over a year since WP:JCW has been updated and WP:JOURNALS really could use a fresh one. I've been begging ThaddeusB for ages, but he's missing in action since forever. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
{{
JournalsMain}}
{{
JournalsLetter|letter=A}}
{{
JournalsPrevNext|previous=|current=A1|next=A2}}
| journal = Nature
-- displays Nature with no linking| journal = [[Nature]]
-- displays Nature linked to
Nature| journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
-- displays Nature linked to
Nature (journal)[[Nature]] | [[Nature]]
per the examples, but for the third one do you want [[Nature]] | [[Nature (journal)]]
or [[Nature (journal)]] | [[Nature (journal)]]
?| journal = The Shorter [[Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]
Journal | Link | Redirect |
---|---|---|
Nature | Nature | -- |
Nature | Nature | -- |
Nature | Nature (journal) | -- |
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | -- |
With regards to the compilation, Nature, Nature, and Nature (journal), should all be treated as the same entry on the list. Links should be converted to the pipe (aka. if you find [[Foobar (journal)|Foobar A: Toilets & Plumbing]], treat the entry as Foobar A: Toilets and Plumbing, rather than Foobar.
So basically, if you find
| journal = Nature
| journal = [[Nature]]
| journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]
| journal = The Shorter [[Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]
| journal = The Shorter [[Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]
| journal = Sheng li xue bao: [Acta physiologica Sinica]
Then that would make the left side of the table look like
Journal | Target | Citations |
---|---|---|
Nature | Nature (journal) | 3 |
Sheng li xue bao: Acta physiologica Sinica | — | 1 |
The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | 1 |
[Convention: Bold = exist, italics = redirect]
Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Could I askthat a bot is used to update all 2526 stations across the UK National Rail network? It would need to take the usage from documents located here and worked with {{ Infobox GB station}} and {{ Infobox London station}} which use two slightly different coding.
Simply south.... .. eating shoes for 5 years 23:30, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Has someone moved this thread? If so, then where and why? See [ here]. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 05:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I have a bot-request regarding the WikiAfrica project. We are trying to get an overview of all the articles that need to be created/edited/wikified/etc. on our project page. We want to encourage people to expand existing articles on Africa and start with subject related to art, literature, poetry, etc. To do this, we need to pull in a list of (for example) African poetry stubs: however, this could refer to either Africa stubs, notable Africans, notable Malians, or African literature stubs, all crossed with poetry. Is there a way of creating a bot for this? Did anybody do this before and would anybody like to help us with organizing? Thanks! Riannedac ( talk) 13:31, 24 June 2011 (UTC) P.S. this is not a project similar to WikiProject Africa. We do support their work
The United States Wikipedians collaboration of the month has been back up and running for the last few months and we would like to automate a couple tasks that currently is done manually.
These three tasks would help tremendously. If anyone accepts this task we can discuss what the messages should say. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:12, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
The messages I was thinking of are:
For the nomination:
The
Article, an article within the scope of this project, has been nominated to be the
United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for next Month Year. You can vote for this or other articles to be next months Collaboration of the Month
here.
For the selection:
The
Article, an article within the scope of this project, has been selected as the
United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for current month year. All editors interested in improving this article are encouraged to participate. You can also vote for next months article of the Month
here.
with a title of:
"
Article has been selected/nominated as the
United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for current Month/next month Year"
I asked the other maintainer of the collaboration to review it ( Casliber) and they concurred. If you have any questions please let me know. Thanks again for doing this task for us. -- Kumioko ( talk) 01:42, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
I am contemplating resurrecting WatchListBot, a bot which generated a list of wikiproject-tagged articles used by RecentChangesLinked ( example). The bot owner seems to be MIA. Luckily she published the source code, written in python. My plan would be to upload the code to the Toolserver and run the bot there. Any comments? Lionel ( talk) 08:49, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
To eliminate stubs is NEEDED and the wikia page needs repairing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.197.170.122 ( talk • contribs) 21:52, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I would like to scan the DYK archives and compile a list of DYK articles, submitters, and hooks. I can specify the info I need and how much, and do some analyis afterward, but would like help from a bot maker to get the scrape done.
Also, if they have the ability to do some simple checks on users as well (join date, number of edits, admin flag) that would be useful as well. I'm thinking a little bit like the person who did the RFA reform data compilation. Will read out to him, but not sure if he likes me.
Any advise on person or "other desk" to go for help?
TCO ( talk) 18:53, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
The "Immutability of AN archives" section of WP:AN discusses the possibilities of vandalism to the archives of WP:AN and related pages. 28bytes has made a useful suggestion: could we have a bot that looks at the edit history of the archives periodically (perhaps once per day) and leaves a note at WT:AN if any archive page is edited by an account that isn't an archive bot? Since the point of such a bot is simply to make us aware that someone modified the page, and not to warn users or revert changes or anything else that an antivandal bot does, I doubt that you need to worry about false positives such as someone un-archiving a thread. Nyttend ( talk) 04:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
There are quite a few projects out there that use a 5 point checklist for assessing articles and I was wondering the possibility of getting a bot to do some of the assessment updates. This is just to determine if there is someone who might be interested in creating and running such a bot. Below is some general info just to clarify the intent and purpose of the task for anyone who might be interested. If someone is interested I will start a discussion on the Village pump but I don't want to do that until I determine if this is a task that someone would want to do.
I know that it could not possibly determine everything in the checklist but my idea was this. If a bot were given some specific rules to look for, and if an article met or didn't meet them, then it would change that particular checklist item. For example the checklist typically looks like this:
<-- B-Class 5-criteria checklist --> | B1 <-- Referencing and citations --> = y/n | B2 <-- Coverage and accuracy --> = y/n | B3 <-- Structure --> = y/n | B4 <-- Grammar and style --> = y/n | B5 <-- Supporting materials --> = y/n
I do not think a bot could do much for 2 or 4 but 1, 3 and 5 it might be able to do.
Some notes:
Hi, I'm not very experienced with bots and such but I'd like to ask if there is someone who could make bot that would change every [[Škoda Fabia|Škoda Fabia S2000]] to [[Škoda Fabia S2000]]. This relates many pages so it'd help a lot. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hakulin ( talk • contribs)
File:Vote.png, on Commons, was deleted recently, leaving lots of broken image links here on WP, mainly on user pages (through userboxes), portal pages, and WikiProjects. Could someone fire up a bot to replace all usages with the very similar looking File:A coloured voting box.svg, please? I've found some of the userboxes and the one template that used it, so there shouldn't be much left to do. Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Vote.png Thanks. Bencherlite Talk 12:19, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Could someone please create a bot to scan the subcategories of Category:Radio stations and move any file pages to Category:Radio station logos, removing the other categories? Their appearance in the article categories is contrary to advice offered at Wikipedia:Categorization, and, more importantly, contrary to the NFCC, as the non-free logos are displayed in category-space galleries. I raised the issue on the appropriate WikiProject page a while ago, and received minimal response, so I think it'd be great if we could get a bot to deal with this. J Milburn ( talk) 10:20, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
\[\[Category:(''CATEGORY TITLES SEPARATED BY "|"'')(\|[^\n{|}[\]]*)\]\]\n?
(get the list from catscan) and have fun mindlessly click save for the next hours. —
Dispenser 01:27, 30 June 2011 (UTC)Hello, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction of how to find a bot that could do the following task; simply put a template (I already created it) on every page in a certain category. I can give more specifics if that matters, any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Magister Scienta ( talk) 04:55, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
If a website is found to have had multiple single purpose accounts spamming links to it across many articles, you can then use the Search function to find out what other Wikipedia articles have a link to that site. But its hard to see who added it if a lot of edits have been done since then. Can you make it where an article can have its history searched, edit by edit, to see when a link was added and by who? Then that person can have their contributions checked, and if the only edits they ever did to Wikipedia were adding in links to that site, a spam investigation can follow. Dream Focus 19:16, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
nobody want to do this job? Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_42#moving afc pages mabdul 10:36, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
We are understandably wary of bots deleting articles, but it seems to me that this would be hard to screw up. A bot that would delete talk pages of articles that were deleted for a reason that links WP:CSD could save admins quite a few clicks and let us get on with CSD review more quickly. -- causa sui ( talk) 23:37, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
As the above request states, this would be a bot that would simply check to see if the mainpage was already deleted and if it is delete the associated talkpage. Knowing that people have been on edge about this before, I would like to invite the community to comment on this. -- DQ (t) (e) 00:34, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Talk pages that have useful discussion on them (for example, from before the main article was deleted) should be preserved and aren't covered by G8. Unless the bot was able to read English to see what the discussion says, it can't just automatically delete the talk page of a deleted article. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:20, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Um, you mean like User:Orphaned talkpage deletion bot? -- Chris 13:36, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Something occurred to me. If we could get a bot to download lists of settlements and coordinates from the geonames server by country like List of United Kingdom locations, such tables could contain an information summary. We could redirect all of the thousands of one liners we have which can't be expanded in the near future until they can be written properly or at least improve the standards we currently have. This way we would have some sort of recognition of all recognised settlements in the world but a new system which we can work off of and maintain some order. If we could try to get a full list of settlements in the world onto wikipedia it would be a good place to work off of I think and would mean we could sort out all of those xxx is a village type stubs we have for Category:Populated places in Kyrgyzstan for example and try to maintain some quality in categories and contain only actual articles. Is it possible somebody could code a bot to generate full lists of settlements by country in a similar fashion? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I need to place {{WP India|education=yes|education-importance=}} to all the articles in Category:Education in India. Can someone help me ? -- naveenpf ( talk) 02:59, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
{{ helpme}}-- naveenpf ( talk) 01:30, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Σ, what has happened to my request and your bot request? Thanks! -- Checco ( talk) 11:21, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Rename Category:Battles of the South American wars of independence and Category:People of South American wars of independence to Category:Battles of the Spanish American wars of independence and Category:People of Spanish American wars of independence. This was discussed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 June 26#Category:South American wars of independence Cambalachero ( talk) 00:15, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Done Cambalachero ( talk) 14:50, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
It would be very helpful to almost any Wikiproject if someone could program a bot that would compile data on the quality assessments of every article within a wikiproject's categories into a table sort of like those of the bot that makes "popular pages" pages ( example). It would be nice if, additionally, every category could also get a numerical rating averaging the scores of every article it contains. Every assessment level could be assigned a number in increasing order so a stub would be a 1, a start a 2, and so on topping off at 6 for good articles and 7 for featureds. Giving a numerical rating to categories could help Wikiprojects keep track of which categories would be easy to turn into featured topics and which need a lot of work. Would anyone be interested in creating such a bot? Abyssal ( talk) 00:15, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I've been editing Latin American people's names to include the proper accent marks. During the last days I've included thousands of accent marks, but the task is showing itself to be too huge to do it manually. Would some of your bots care to help me with this, please? I have a first list here for your orientation on what to do. When disambiguations are no provided for common names, it is safe to add the accent marks to those names in sports articles (I've checked it out). Please let me know if you decide to give me a hand and do this. Thanks you! Againme ( talk) 02:20, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
User:Starzynka created hundreds of sub-stubs on villages in Argentina like Farallón Negro. When creating these articles in hyperspeed, he automatically inserted {{ Expand Spanish}} on every one of them. (He was determined to have been operating an unauthorized bot by virtue of his manual or assisted super-fast article creations.) Most of these articles are really not that good of candidates for translation--many are three unreferenced sentences or so, and there is no indication that Starzynka considered whether they were accurate enough to consider translating etc. There are hundreds and hundreds more worthy translation candidates, and these are essentially just junking up the translation request category. Can someone have a bot go through and remove all these tags? I don't know if this needs approval from anyone else, but I'm probably the person most involved in translation processes in en.wiki, and these were essentially created by an unauthorized bot to begin with... Don't know if it's possible just to remove them from articles he created, or if we'd have to remove them from all Argentina geostubs (which would probably be worth it even with a bit of collateral damage...). Calliopejen1 ( talk) 03:45, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps ask an AWBer to remove the tags like RichFarmbrough or Ser Amantio? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Σ, thank you for the marvellous job done by your SigmaBot. There are still plenty of unprintworthy redirects to be fixed (see 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). I hope you will find the time to work also on them. Thank you in advance and excuse me for my insistence. -- Checco ( talk) 16:01, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
WP:JOURNALS tags images used in its articles. Specifically of interest are the images found in the |cover=
of {{
Infobox journal}}. It's been a while since our last bot run, so if someone could do one it would be very much appreciated. The code for the banner would be {{WP Journals|class=File}}. Thanks.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 20:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
|cover=
of {{
Infobox journal}}? Do I need to create the list of images too? --
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:35, 11 July 2011 (UTC)A user made a change to a categorization project template last week, but due to a coding error his edit had the accidental side effect of completely depopulating almost 3,000 articles from a backlogged maintenance queue. I've repaired the template error, but wanted to know if anybody's willing and able to set a bot loose on the articles in order to properly repopulate the categories — the mission, if you choose to accept it, is for the bot to do null and/or cleanup edits on all articles that transclude {{ cat improve}} (and its redirects). It's just too tedious and time-consuming a task to do manually in AWB, eh? Bearcat ( talk) 19:29, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! The category Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav should be empty. The corresponding article is at Order of St. Olav (not "Royal Norwegian") following a requested move a while back. Can a bot recategorize the 58 articles in question to Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav? Geschichte ( talk) 09:12, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that could systematize changes like this? This really would help cleaning up articles (esp. in PDF form). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:58, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Per this discussion and this deletion result I would like to substitute some templates and redirects. The article headers have changed for the redirects and they are currently held by anchors, plus it would be better to link to the created or potential article than a specific section within the overview article. Almost every rugby biography and many related articles use one or more of these templates/redirects so there will likely be hundreds to replace. AIRcorn (talk) 02:16, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
List of Redirects and Templates for Substitution
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Looks like a job for AWB if ever there was one. :) Investigating.
Rich
Farmbrough, 12:26, 13 July 2011 (UTC).
I can do all the templates right away. Yobot has already approval for this kind of tasks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:44, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Here's the list:
I can just replace directly instead of subst, or not? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I am off to bed now, but if there is anything I can do to help out tomorrow let me know. AIRcorn (talk) 13:24, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks again. I can probably sort the rest out. AIRcorn (talk) 22:07, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Yet another time I need to manually find and type missing parameters ( example). Is it possible to regenerate this infobox? Bulwersator ( talk) 15:45, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
then it can be done.
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:08, 15 July 2011 (UTC).
Has anyone ever thought of making a bot that people could use to move WikiLove to award pages automatically? -- Nathan2055 talk 19:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix=User talk:ClueBot Commons/Facepalm |format= |age=99999 |index=no |nogenerateindex=1 |archivebox=no |box-advert=no |archivenow={{tl|facepalm,{{Facepalm
Hope it helps. -- Σ talk contribs 22:28, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Request on hold. I will start a discussion on WP:VPR to gain a clear consensus for this first. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 14:07, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Per a proposal by User:Rd232 at WP:VPR#Ratings poll a distraction? I propose to run a bot that mirrors discussions from meta (such as the discussions regarding Liquid Threads, see Rd232s comment at the 4th level 1 indented dot) somewhere here at EN Wikipedia. People then can put that page on their watchlist and keep themselves informed about stuff such as Pending changes or Liquid threads rolled out by the foundation. Maybe this could help enabling a better communication between the foundation and the community. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 23:21, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Please could you change all links to InterCity or Intercity to point to Intercity (Deutsche Bahn) (piped to say Intercity) within the categories Category:Railway stations in Germany and Category:Rolling stock of Germany (and sub categories)? A new, more focused article has been created.
Ideally, every article in Category:Rail transport in Germany would have the change made. Thanks. ArtVandelay13 ( talk) 12:50, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
The Fakta om Fartyg website has moved from www.faktaomfartyg.se/ to www.faktaomfartyg.nu/. A bot run is needed to change all the .se extenions to .nu instead. I raised this at WT:SHIPS and it was suggested that a general fixes run be done at the same time. 794 articles/talk pages etc are affected. Mjroots ( talk) 10:57, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
A bot request for my request
was made in February, though it was not responded to. From discussions elsewhere, it sounds like DASHbot was actually doing this for a very short while (and no longer does). But I thought I would give it another shot because any help would be tremendous. Consensus was reached
back in 2009 to remove the Reviews
parameter from {{
Infobox album}}, and possibly the bot was initiated at this point. It stopped working for whatever reasons, and the archives have several discussions trying to pick up this project throughout 2010. Only recently has activity really picked up after a notice of deprecation was implemented which would make
the project a highly visible one. There are
50,000+ articles that need to have reviews moved into the {{
Album ratings}} template and placed directly below the Infobox albums template. What would it take to get another bot to kick this project into super high gear? The manual labor on this is fairly extensive and time-consuming and this will most likely otherwise take months, if not a year, to complete.
I'm more than happy to give specific details the bot would be required to do, some of which I think I can easily explain below, using Songs in the Attic and an example:
rev#
parameter, and the review rating and URL would be placed in the rev#Score
parameter. The hash sign is replaced with the order number, rev1, rev2, rev3, etc.<ref></ref>
tags.I think that sums up most of the things I've noticed while doing this manually. How feasible would it be to do something like this? Even if the bot were allowed to say "no" to certain articles due to complexity issues, a bot working on the thousands of easier articles would be tremendously helpful. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 06:27, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
<!--add rating--> <ref>
.... as a quick placeholder, but I haven't asked the people at WikiProject Albums if there's a more professional way of handling that. I'll bring it up and see what I get for responses. As for your second question, if there is not Reception/Critical reception sectionAny progress on the bot request? Should it be whittled down to be less complex? Maybe only articles with one review, or all articles without any Allmusic and Robert Christgau reviews (since those have one or two separate templates, respectively, which can get confusing)? – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 21:45, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
([rR]eception|[Rr]eview|[Cc]ritical|[Ll]egac|[cC]hart)+.*
. That means it will will use the section if it starts with any combination of the words: Rectption,review,critical,legacy,chart. If more than one section is found, the bot chooses the one with the lowest heading level (==Review== will be chosen over ===Review===), and afterwards (if more than one heading remains) it will take the first match.Tim1357, excellent news, and it looks like it's working great! This will really help things out. Two things that come to mind:
I did find a curio, which the bot would have eventually run into, so I'm glad it happened so soon. At this
diff, you can see that the ratings, in this case, were placed after the link, which the bot will apparently miss. As this format is so rare from what I've done, it never rang my bell enough to mention it to you. Sorry! — Wait, nevermind, my diff was apparently you noticing this lol, so we're synchronized there, I think.
Here is a clarification of Robert Christgau reviews, because these get really annoying (even manually). There are several ways these reviews seem to appear, but I think DASHbot may need to recognize the last example:
| review = [[Robert Christgau]] (B-) [http://www.foobar.com link]
| review = [[Robert Christgau]] {{rating-Christgau|hm2}} <ref>[http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=they+might Robert Christgau Review]</ref>
| review = {{subst:User:Edgarde/Review-Christgau|A-|cgurl=http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide/april07}}
rev#
parameter and parse the URL from the template and move it into the rev#Score</rev>
parameter.| review = {{subst:User:Edgarde/Review-Christgau|A-|album=411}}
rev#
parameter and expand the URL to http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=411
, replacing the id number each time.What a pain in the butt, I know, and apparently these templates are condoning the usage of external links in an improper manner/format, but that's for a separate discussion later. Tell me what you think. – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 03:45, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Any news about the bot? – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 12:38, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
{{Infobox Film | |name=blablabla| ||director=Mr. Rogers| |}}
{{Infobox Film | |name = blabla | | |director=Mr.Rogers | | }}
So I let the bot do 119 edits by itself. I'm going to look through them before I let it go out into the wild. Tim 1357 talk 16:54, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
([rR]eception|[Rr]eview|[Cc]ritical)+.*
or any section that begins with "Reception";"Review"; or "Critical". (3) I'll probably do another "batch" of 500 and then after that let it go until it's finished. (4) I'll work on getting a list of edits, it will probably involve a database query.
Tim
1357
talk 15:04, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Being able to get a list of all the "album bot" edits would be great. That would make it very easy for editors to go back and check as many edits as they want, whenever the edits were made. But, I have no idea how hard or easy it would be to create a link like that. — Mudwater ( Talk) 00:06, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Things are looking really good. But in my opinion, we should err on the side of caution for the size and number of batches for the bot running. Instead of letting the bot run after the next batch of 500, how about doing a few larger batches -- like, a few thousand at a time -- maybe a day, or a few days, apart? That way more editors will see what's going on, in more differently formatted articles, and have a chance to give feedback on any adjustments. I know that's more work for you, Tim1357, but I think we want to try pretty hard to avoid less than perfect edits on thousands of articles. Perhaps I'm being overly cautious, but I don't think I am. — Mudwater ( Talk) 21:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Tim, can you let us know when you may run a batch of 500? I know I'd be willing to help go through the diffs for a final round of checks. I'm assuming when the bot is set "free", it will go nightly. Any idea how many it'll be limited to? Thanks! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 04:14, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that the bot continued well past 500 articles. It had updated more than 1,300 articles. I tried to shut it off, here, but it looks like that didn't work, and it's still updating articles. — Mudwater ( Talk) 23:43, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Actually, I'm happy to say that that is all I noticed. Now, I didn't look through a whole ton of edits, but a nicely representative sample with the bot doing different things (reception section vs. after infobox, different numbers of reviews, etc.) – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 00:14, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
|type=Album
to change to |type=studio
?
BOVINEBOY
2008 00:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Okay, it's a good thing people above noticed stuff. I haven't found a single error—though eerily, I did find that I'd reverted a DASHBot edit as vandalism, and on my honor, I don't remember making that edit or visiting that page. o.O Not sure what that was about. Anyway, a quick reply/summary list:
Thanks all! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 04:44, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I have reverted User:Drilnoth's edit to Template:Album ratings which increased the number of reviews to 14 - I'm sure that the number of reviews the template supports was arrived at after some debate, and so should not be changed just because "album bot" has issues. Could the bot be made to reject any infobox with more than 12 reviews? memphisto 14:59, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
I think we're ready for the next test batch. I'd propose a batch of 500 or even 1,000 articles. — Mudwater ( Talk) 12:16, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Here is a link to the latest batch of bot edits. A total of 2,778 articles were updated. — Mudwater ( Talk) 13:12, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
{{Infobox | name=Foo | bar=Baz }}
<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r1574069|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
<ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r1574069}}</ref>
Ok, I think I adressed everything urgent up there. I'll go for 5,000 tonight? Tim 1357 talk 02:20, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Please could a bot operator arrange for their bot to tag all the categories listed below, and the articles they contain, with the project template for Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses using following template: {{ WikiProject Buses}}. For the categories please use the class=Category parameter also. For articles, if possible please use the same quality assessment as other projects (if there is more than one tag with a quality assessment present, and the assessments disagree, please leave the class parameter blank).
Please note that some categories/articles are already tagged with the project banner, and these should only have the class parameter added (per the above rules) if it is absent.
This list was posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Buses#Tagging bus stations for this project for a week without comment or objection so the chance of error is low (in my opinion). Thryduulf ( talk) 22:17, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Done 694 edits. Magioladitis ( talk) 23:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
|class=start
on the two existing project banners was ignored. Thryduulf did allow "if there is more than one tag with a quality assessment present, ... leave the class parameter blank", but only when "the assessments disagree", which in this case they do not. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:14, 27 July 2011 (UTC)