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I'm looking for a bot that can replace a link for me. About 200 MBTA articles have this old link: http://members.aol.com/eddanamta/busfiles/contents.pdf while the file is now located at http://mysite.verizon.net/rtspcc/MBTARouteHistory.pdf . Would it be possible for a bot to seek out and replace the old links? Thanks; Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 17:36, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Summary: migrate Vorlage:Normdaten to Template:Authority_control
Details: Libraries have been doing what they call authority control and wikipedia calls disambiguation, for a very long time, and without the notability criteria (all the VIAF libraries are copyright libraries, they have a legal requirement to carry vanity press) they have much, much largely collections of personal names than wikipedia does. ~160000 biographies in the de wikipedia have the template containing the authors' bibliographic identifiers; there is a corresponding template in the en wikipedia which has about a hundredth of the number. The task is to migrate the missing ones across. See also information at Wikipedia:Authority control/ talk and Personennamendatei. Stuartyeates ( talk) 10:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I request for having a bot that filters out userspace drafts that was made by an inactive user and wasn't edited for a long time. It also looks in the deletion log for the mainspace (example "Example" was deleted by AfD. It got moved to userspace. It is stale. The bot recognizes it at the deletion log). After, it puts a template on it ({{
Abandoned userspace draft|deleted=<yes/no>}}
.
~~ EBE123~~ talk Contribs 17:14, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that removes non-userspace categories from userspace (by converting [[Category into [[:Category)? That seems like a low-hanging fruit from problems that stale drafts cause. And what about just giving editors an annual reminder of subpages (non.css/.js) they haven't edited in the last 12 months? The notice can equally advertise {{ db-user}} and WP:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. Rd232 talk 22:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to tag scotland=yes to the above template within all articles within Category:Football in Scotland and subcategories. Is this something a bot could help with. Warburton1368 ( talk) 22:24, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
If both {{ IPA}} and {{ Infobox language}} are transcluded in an article, could the parameter "notice = ipa" be added to the infobox? (Last line before the template closes, if that's workable.) This had been the default behaviour of the template, but the large majority of notices served no purpose. Now we trigger the notice when the IPA is actually used in an article.
If 'notice' is already used, say for 'notice=Indic', then please used 'notice2=ipa'.
I asked one week ago if there would be any objections to making such a bot request,[Template_talk:Infobox_language#notices_now_opitional] and there have been none. — kwami ( talk) 10:15, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Before bots were used that much we tried setting up a system of comparing the FAs across different interwikis at Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages (now redirected). A bot could do this job much better than we were able to back then. The idea is that FAs in other languages have gone through some level of review and should be of a good standard - they could therefore be good sources of content.
An example action would be that it goes through the French FA list and compares each article to the English equivalent. This is probably only relevant to a small number of other languages with the larger interwikis being most useful.
Possible output would be:
I know that this is quite a challenging request compared to simple edits, so any thoughts would be nice to hear. It would be nice if we could trial this with just one interwiki. violet/riga [talk] 21:29, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
When a talk page thread gets archived (manually or by one of the bots in Category:Wikipedia archive bots) this breaks the wikilinks incoming to this section. Is it possible to create a bot that for example watches the archiving edits these archiving bots perform and automatically repairs these links? I think this would be very useful, if I want to follow an archived discussion that is scattered over multiple archives. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 13:58, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Add {{subst:npd}} to all images whose description contains vicrailstations.com and notify the uploaders - several have already been deleted for a bad OTRS ticket, the others (100+) just say "used with permission" but never give proof.
Thanks. - mattbuck ( Talk) 10:45, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
We have bots that maintain the interwikis to the other Wikipedias, however as far as I can tell the links to Commons via {{ commons category}} and like are unmaintained. The categories are moved about on Commons - to disambiguate, or to implement a standard naming scheme, for instance, but the inward links from WP are not typicaly updated by the Commons users. Therefore its probably in WPs best interests to create a bot with similar functionality to the interwiki bots for this task.-- Nilf anion ( talk) 12:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
commons category|<name of commons cat>|<enwp article title>}}
as this looks best for things like the bizarre ship convention on Commons.--
Nilf
anion (
talk) 09:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Commonscat template is already on Warwick Found link for Warwick at [[simple:Warwick]] to Warwick, England. >>> Warwick <<< - {{Commons category}} + {{Commons category|Warwick, England|Warwick}} Comment: Bot: Changing commonscat link from [[:Commons:Category:Warwick|Warwick]] to [[:Commons:Category:Warwick, England|Warwick, England]] Do you want to accept these changes? ([y]es, [N]o, [a]lways, [q]uit)
Note: by chance, there is a related discussion at Commons:Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Commons-Wikipedia Category Interlinking and Translation Project. Rd232 talk 15:48, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Note that on Commons, most renamed categories have the new destination name in the deletion edit summary. Many categories on Commons link back to en:Wikipedia articles. -- Foroa ( talk) 16:10, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
With the inactive admins proposal having passed, and the bit to allow bureaucrats the ability to desysop people due to get flipped soonish, I had an idea. A bot - with the bureaucrat bit - would make the entire process of desysopping inactive admins much easier and much more routine; there wouldn't be any issues associated with an inactive admin getting forgotten for some reason. With all the fuss that happens over adminbots, though, I can imagine this would be more contentious, though, so I wanted to run it by people before even doing anything with the idea. I see a couple options for this:
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Obviously, Option 1 will likely be the most controversial, but also the most useful; Option 2 would be my preferred alternative if the community doesn't approve of the idea of a cratbot; Option 3 seems kinda silly given that we can do it locally now (soon) but is still something to consider. So... thoughts? Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 17:31, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
The CratBot idea should email each inactive administrator and post to their respectful talkpages if the procedure has not already been done. As an aside, perhaps a bot that could "clean" out Category:Wikipedia administrators would in the meantime be less controversial and could more easily gain consensus from BAG members. TeleComNasSprVen ( talk • contribs) 22:48, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
How about simply making a
database reports of which admins have been emailed and are eligible for desysoping? This could make the process completely transparent and possibly provide a way of privately reconfirming using an emailed link. Also using JavaScript (specifically &withJS=
) it would add a one click desysop button for bureaucrats. —
Dispenser 14:31, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
I think it feels a little friendlier if a real person does the actual desysopping. Otherwise, it seems kind of like we're ignoring what the inactive admin has done in the past by leaving a bot to "clean up" after a year. / ƒETCH COMMS / 16:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Option #1 seems to not be finding much favour. Option #2 probably does not require too much community input, since the community already approved the actual process. Hersfold, were you planning on programming the bot? I'd say run with option #2 for now - and run it on the last day of each month. – xeno talk 19:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
I would also prefer option 2. I don't like the idea of bot desysoping inactive admins. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 12:30, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to create a bot that would automatically notify me of a new file uploaded to Commons when its name starts with BSicon and the filetype is .svg? I'm trying to keep the Wikipedia:Route diagram template/Catalog of pictograms up-to-date, and sometimes it's like trying to catch the wind... Useddenim ( talk) 03:46, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Do you have an account on Commons? — Bility ( talk) 18:06, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:Bility/filefinder.js');
filename=BSicon*.svg
for the last seven days.)
Useddenim (
talk) 21:04, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
ugBS2l
) – a brand-new file – this afternoon...
Useddenim (
talk) 00:00, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
While doing cleanup of user pages [1], I have noticed many user pages and user sub pages from 2006 and above that are vandalism, copyvios, promotional articles, or attack pages. I have got a lot of them deleted, but of course there is no way that I will try to delete them all. That would be an impossible task for any editor including editors with administrator tools. My proposal is for a bot that can detect certain words or sentences that are common in vandalism, attack pages, and promotional articles while also having the bot be able to determine whether a user page has a copyvio. I think that maybe there would need to be a separate bot to detect copyvios in user pages. It would be even more useful for the bots to also place those detected articles in categories for easy access to editors and especially admins. I have no idea if these two tasks are impossible, but I thought that I would see about it. Joe Chill ( talk) 03:33, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm doing this message on behalf of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones and WikiProject Wikipedia-Books. It would really help us if a bot would assist us in our efforts in creating and maintaining Wikipedia books similar to Book:2008 Atlantic hurricane season. The request is a bit long, but that is mostly because I detailed exactly what would be involved.
In general books follow a certain structure detailed here, but summarized below.
{{saved book |title= |subtitle= |cover-image= |cover-color= |text-color= }} == Title == === Subtitle === ;Chapter 1 :[[First article]] :[[Article 2|Second article]] :[[Third article]] ;Chapter 2 :[[Fourth article]] :[[5th article|Fifth article]] :[[Sixth article]] [[Category:Wikipedia books on topic]]
Hurricane seasons are rather well-structured, so it's easy for a bot to create a well-structured book on them.
The {{ saved book}} template should be filled as follows
{{saved book |title=YYYY Atlantic hurricane season |subtitle= |cover-image=<!--Image from infobox in the YYYY Atlantic hurricane season article --> |cover-color= |sort_as=Atlantic Hurricane Season, YYYY }}
The beginning of the book proper should be
==YYYY Atlantic hurricane season== ;Overview :[[YYYY Atlantic hurricane season]] :[[YYYY Atlantic hurricane season statistics]] :[[Timeline of the YYYY Atlantic hurricane season]]
If the articles don't exist, they should just be omitted. This covers the first half of the book, and no special logic should be required here.
Then comes the "core" of the book, the individual hurricanes in the season, along with their meteorological history. This is a bit trickier. The general structure is
;Individual hurricanes :[[List of storms in the YYYY Atlantic hurricane season]] :[[Hurricane A]] :[[Meteorological history of Hurricane A]] :[[Hurricane B]] :[[Meteorological history of Hurricane B]] ...
As before, articles which don't exist should be omitted. These articles can be retrieved from several places, but the best would probably be the
YYYY Atlantic hurricane season article itself and the {{
YYYY Atlantic hurricane season buttons}} template. The hurricanes should be listed chronologically in the book, and it should be possible to determine the order based on either the article or the template.
For the finishing touches, the bot should fetch any additional article in Category:YYYY Atlantic Hurricane season (but not its subcategories) and place them in a "Miscellany" chapter. And then it should categorize the book in Category:Wikipedia books on Atlantic hurricane seasons and Category:YYYY Atlantic hurricane season.
;Miscellany :[[Foobar 1]] :[[Foobar 2]] :[[Foobar 3]] [[Category:Wikipedia books on Atlantic hurricane seasons]] [[Category:YYYY Atlantic hurricane season|β]]
After this is done, the bot should tag the talk page of the book with
{{WikiProject Wikipedia-Books|class=Book}} {{WikiProject Tropical cyclones|class=Book}} {{WikiProject United States|class=book}}
as well as add {{
Wikipedia-Books|YYYY Atlantic hurricane season}}
to
Category:YYYY Atlantic hurricane season.
Books on the Pacific seasons would follow the same logic, but with "Pacific" instead of "Atlantic". There are other hurricane seasons out there, but let's start with these as they are the simplest and best-structured. Hopefully I didn't overwhelm you too much with this request. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:57, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello all. I would like a bot to assist with the matching of our articles on Royal Navy warships to the data available at Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM. This would be valuable in helping that project, in particular because it would then make it very easy for the National Maritime Museum to make use of Wikipedia articles! I think the specification for what I would ideally like is as follows, though I'm not at all familiar with Wikimedia scripting so I may be talking nonsense.
If you are able to assist, even if only in part, I would be extremely grateful. Regards, The Land ( talk) 19:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
AFAIK there is no active bot with this task, bot on plwiki is quite useful and I think this idea may be useful also for enwiki. It is possible that on request bot operator will extend this task to enwiki. Bulwersator ( talk) 19:39, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordanjamiesonkyser ( talk • contribs)
The following message was posted to our helpdesk [4] Chzz ► 05:44, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
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Dear friends, during last weeks I was involved mainly in adding the German version of this template
de:template:Normdaten to dozens of pages; adding the required parameters where required. Today, I activated the linking to WorldCat identities containing the works from / about authors. I never have seen trailing zeros as template parameters to the third part of parameter LCCN.
example:
Abraham Lincoln#normdaten contains now the link
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-6779 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
Works: 22,532 works in 36,882 publications in 66 languages and 1,323,107 library holdings
This information is very important for readers. They will find books in smaller languages.
The template did not work from the beginning. It was necessary to remove the leading zeros before the third subpart of parameter LCCN:
{{Normdaten|LCCN=n/79/006779}} changed to {{Normdaten|LCCN=n/79/6779}})
Bot support request: Please remove such leading zeros at all pages using
template:Authority control. Thanks in advance!
user:Gangleri ·
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I would like to see a bot that follows wikilinks which link to specific sections and then adds something similar to what I did here.
==The schooner ''Allen Gardiner''<!--- Note: Articles link to this section, do not change the section heading without using {{anchor}}--->==
It would be even better if the bot could automatically create anchors, but I am not sure if either of these things are possible. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:23, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
This is a simple request. It is to put a colon for the categories in an userspace draft and after, it notifies the user. ~~ Ebe123~~ talk Contribs 12:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
&action=edit
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Ebe123~~
talk
Contribs 21:48, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I have thought of the possibilities of a new bot, but I am unsure if it is possible. I would like to see a bot that would place talkback messages on the talk pages of users involved in a discussion. A {{ talkback bot}} ({{ tbb}}) template would need to be created. When that template gets placed directly behind a user's signature, the bot would place a talkback message on their user talk page linking to the section. Is it possible? Ryan Vesey Review me! 02:48, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
It seems that something like this was proposed before by Rich Farmbrough called Mirror threads ( BRfA here), but the BRfA expired. Logan Talk Contributions 00:45, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
We are still looking for a bot to automate some tasks for the US Collaboration of the month if anyone is interested. Noomos was working on one but he withdrew the request due to being busy in real life. Here is a link to the task he started Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Project Messenger Bot 2 if anyone is interested.
Basically the request would automate the notification of users and WikiProjects if an article is submitted.
If anyone is interested I can provide the messages that we would like to be sent. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot go through the book namespace and see whether or not it has one of the related Wikipedia "book" templates, such as {{
saved book}}
, and then populate a new category created within
Category:Wikipedia books (tracking and cleanup categories) with those books that do not contain such a template. An experienced user would be able to check pages in the new category for errors and fix them, if possible, or mark for deletion if they are unusable. I've seen a fair amount of crud that pops up there, when new users misplace their articles because they do not understand our namespace scheme.
TeleComNasSprVen (
talk •
contribs) 12:12, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
saved book}}
. I've listed them below. :-)
Avic
ennasis @ 07:16, 20 Av 5771 / 07:16, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. This is a re-request as I was seriously hoping to get a bot operator to do this and nearly 6 months has passed and nothing has been done. 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)
Category:Active Wikipedia bots and Category:Inactive Wikipedia bots are not very useful, since they rarely are maintained and cleaned up. Could someone make a bot that check every bot's Category:All Wikipedia bots edit history, and appropriately categorizes them? A bot can be considered inactive if it didn't edit in the last month (or whatever BAG feel's a good cut-off). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:52, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
I have been repetitively performing this task, converting:
==foo== {{Foo and parameters}} Junk :more junk
To this:
==foo== Junk :more junk ::my junk
These edits occur on userspace discussion pages with the {{foo}} template. It seems like a task that is easily searchable and executable to those with skills and prowess. Thanks Cliff ( talk) 04:00, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
This bot should act only on pages in userspace. It would search for the {{ Requested move}} tag in user talk space, usually on a subpage, and remove it, appending my message. It should ignore the template on user pages because those are incorrectly placed and will be handled differently. It has nothing to do with the AFC process, except to instruct users with drafts of new articles how to submit their creation. IP editors are not involved because they usually do not create article drafts in their userspace. If the article gets moved from userspace as part of the AFC I assume they move the attached talk page. There is no duplicate talk page because all talk has occurred in user talk. Does this address your concern? Cliff ( talk) 18:41, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Template magic could be used here. If a RM template is in User/User talk space it can show the message that is desired about the AfC process.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:08, 21 August 2011 (UTC).
I have some beta code ready-ish. Just to summarize, the edit will look for the {{ requested move}} template in the user talk namespace. On each occurrence, it'll remove the template, and add the notice drafted by Cliff at the bottom of the page. Is this correct? — Kudu ~I/O~ 02:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
User:Josh Parris, had this very useful bot ( User:WildBot) that would patrol for disambiguation links. How about we resuscitate the idea?
Basically, take the article, retrieve the bluelinks (or maybe just whatever matches [[Foobar]] (or [[Foobar|Barfoo]]), ignore those ending with (disambiguation) and cross-check them against Category:All disambiguation pages. If there's a match, there should be a disambiguation needed added. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:06, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
+----------+-------+ | Watchers | Pages | +----------+-------+ | 0 | 520 | | 1 | 1855 | | 2-3 | 1742 | | 4-7 | 656 | | 8-15 | 469 | | 16-31 | 443 | | 32-63 | 344 | | 64-127 | 237 | | 128-245 | 100 | | 261-505 | 20 | | 515-867 | 10 | +----------+-------+
BTW, apparently Dispenser has as script for this, but he needs someone with TS access to run it. I would, but I don't have TS access. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:34, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
The thread title says it all. Could a bot that patrols and tags new pages ever exist? -- Σ talk contribs 07:37, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I wrote a bot designed to assess the quality of random pages and then publish a list of pages that could be improved. Right now, it trolls through pages and checks if the first sentence has [is, was, will, were, refers...] in the first sentence (as all pages should). It turns out that this is usually (but not always) a good way of finding articles that could use some help. The bot posts articles here.
My questions to you:
• What do you think of the potential of such a bot?
• Can you think of any rules other than having a definition in the first sentence?
Thanks! -- PointBot ( talk) 16:16, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I proposed to merge three different Doctor Who-related lists into one at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Doctor Who#Revisiting merging the creature/alien lists. While the proposal is still active, I wondered if such a task could be performed by a bot at all, since merging them manually is probably a huge task. Does anyone have an idea if and how this can be done? Regards So Why 10:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
I've just closed a couple of merge requests from 2008 and 2009. I'm not a bot coder, but it seems to me that it would be reasonable and not to difficult for a bot to check Category:Articles to be merged, close still-open merge requests more than X months old, and remove the related templates in the affected articles. Then again, perhaps it is a messy enough task that it is inappropriate for a bot. It does look like a problem in search of a solution, though. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 07:57, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was a bot already running or a bot that could be modified to update the Tasks template. I have created the To do lists for several US related projects so that all the 38 projects that are supported by WikiProject United States (and I am sure this would be useful for other projects as well) have the template. It would be great if the updating of this template could be automated in some way.
I am not recommending that every article for the project be displayed that fits the criteria but maybe 2 or 3 could be displayed andn the bot could check periodically if the problem had been fixed on that article and if so replace it with another. -- Kumioko ( talk) 22:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
I request the help of a bot for the following tasks:
|kickboxing=yes
to the banner {{
WikiProject Martial arts}} in all articles within
Category:Kickboxing people and its subcategories that already have the banner.|kickboxing=yes
to all articles within
Category:Kickboxing people and its subcategories that do not have the banner|kickboxing=yes
to the banner {{
WikiProject Martial arts}} in all articles within
Category:Kickboxing and its subcategories that already have the banner.|kickboxing=yes
to all articles within
Category:Kickboxing and its subcategories that do not have the banner.Jfgslo ( talk) 16:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi all - I'm copying this across from VP (proposals) where I originally made the suggestion - the part in italics is the bit which was at VP (pr). Grutness... wha? 01:35, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to propose the creation of an extra cleanup category, to be populated by a bot which simply scans all articles looking for mismatched square brackets, curly brackets, and parentheses. There's no real reason why any article should have a mismatch in any of these things, and it usually indicates a faulty link, template addition, or punctuation. It should theoretically be possible to sort articles within the maintenance category under C (curly bracket), S (square bracket) or P (parenthesis). I suspect it would be a useful addition to the other cleanup resources around WP... Grutness... wha? 01:40, 7 September 2011 (UTC)z
In general, articles in potential need of cleanup make very bad bot tasks or very bad categories. If you want a list of articles with potential mismatch, it is much better to compile one from database downloads. I believe WP:CHECKWIKI is already doing this however. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:38, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
This request initially was made on the
Geobox talk page and moved here.
Is there a way that a bot could be programmed to update some map parameter values for articles in
Ontario,
Canada using the template {{
Geobox}}? I have changed the background graphic used in the {{
Geobox locator Ontario}} template, which is called by Geobox when the appropriate map_locator
parameter value is present, to the file
Canada Ontario location map 2.svg (which has an inset map of Ontario in Canada, I thought nicer than the old graphic without the insert), and would like to update the corresponding Geobox map
parameter value to the new file name. (Aside: more on how these parameters work at
Template:Geobox/legend#Maps.) The condition to be programmed would be:
FOR articles using template Geobox
IF map_locator = Ontario
IF (map ≠ Canada Ontario location map 2.svg)
SET map = Canada Ontario location map 2.svg
Hope this makes sense. -- papageno ( talk) 04:01, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
The Wasteland Survival Guide wiki would like to request for a bot to fix spelling errors, welcome new members, help fix vandalism, and just provide general maintenance for the wiki. If there are any questions please contact me under the wikia user name Ramallah. Thank you -- 75.139.57.106 ( talk) 00:32, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Request withdrawn by the requesting editor.
I request that a bot be created that automatically adds shortcuts to AfD discussion. These shortcuts should have the form {{shortcut|WP:AFD/<Articlename>}} As an example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hex-a-Hop should contain the shortcut {{shortcut|WP:AFD/Hex-a-Hop}}. The rationale for this is that when I enter WP:AFD/Hex-a-hop into the search box, I am not taken to that AfD and I have to enter the full name of the nomination to arrive there. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 09:48, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Sidenote: This request is made primarily for convenience purposes. I don't know whether editorial convenience really is a good rationale to divert bot developer efforts to this, but apart from that I believe it to be mostly uncontroversial. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 09:59, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm an admin fron gl.wikipedia and we would like to ask for help. Recently, I have updated all the templates related to coordinates ({{ coord}}) at gl.wp but this has caused several errors due to the different format. I would like to know if there is any code to make these changes example 1, example 2, and example 3 using a bot. Just post the code below (if any) and we will make the task. Thank you very much! -- Toliño ( talk) 11:27, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Could anyone make a bot that put all album articles whose info box has the cover field left blank into a category, making it easier to locate said pages, and upload covers? Jasper420 19:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{Cover|}}}||[[Category:Articles lacking a cover]]}}
{{#ifeq:{{{Cover}}}|???|[[Category:Articles lacking a cover]]|}}
cover
parameter being set, that page will be added to the category. --RA (
talk) 12:03, 12 September 2011 (UTC)I would like to request a bot be created to move all hatnotes in all articles to the very top of the articles per the Manuel of Style found here and reiterated here. I am constantly seeing and having to manually fix hatnotes placed below the infoboxes or below maintenance tags. Based on my anecdotal observations, I can only assume this MoS error easily occurs in literally thousands of articles. Rreagan007 ( talk) 03:41, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I had a request but it has been archived without reply, so I'm trying again. Please see here. Regards So Why 22:05, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Done Using Luasóg. Script as follows:
var my_bot = new Luasog("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"); var creaturesArray = []; var pages = ["List of Doctor Who creatures and aliens", "List of Torchwood creatures and aliens", "List of The Sarah Jane Adventures creatures and aliens"]; function swap(items, firstIndex, secondIndex){ var temp = items[firstIndex]; items[firstIndex] = items[secondIndex]; items[secondIndex] = temp; } function bubbleSort(items){ for (var i=0; i < items.length; i++){ for (var j=0; j < items.length-i-1; j++){ if (items[j] > items[j+1]){ swap(items, j, j+1); } } } return items; } var callback = function(success, result){ if (!success) { error(result.info); } else { var strArray = result.content.replace(/\={4}/g, "==="); strArray = strArray.replace(/\={3} /g, "\n==="); strArray = strArray.replace(/ \={3}/g, "===\n"); strArray = strArray.split(/\n=/g); if (creaturesArray === null) { kill("IT WAS NULL"); } for (var i=0; i<strArray.length; i++){ if (strArray[i].substr(0,2) == "==") { creaturesArray.push("="+strArray[i]); } } } if (pages.length > 0) { trace("Getting next..."); my_bot.get({page:pages.pop()}, callback); } else { trace("Sorting..."); bubbleSort(creaturesArray); for (var j=0; j<creaturesArray.length; j++){ trace(creaturesArray[j]); stop(); } } }; trace("Getting..."); my_bot.get({page:pages.pop()}, callback);
--RA ( talk) 21:07, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm requesting a bot that will create the daily maintenance subcategories for Category:Wikipedia files missing permission, which are in the naming format of, for example, Category:Wikipedia files missing permission as of 10 September 2011, and they are created just by substituting {{ subst:Files missing permission subcategory starter}}. This seemed like a good task for DumbBOT, but a request by Fastily for this functionality has remained unanswered on the operator's page for almost a month. Logan Talk Contributions 21:51, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot (or could there be a bot) that puts lists in alphabetical order? Going a step further, could such a bot change lists from one type of alphabetical order to a different type of alphabetical order? The problem I'm trying to solve is that List of humorists is currently in alphabetical order by first name, and it really should be in alphabetical order by last name. I could do this manually, but it would take a while and it seems like a perfect task for a bot. Thanks, BMRR ( talk) 21:53, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
var my_bot = new Luasog("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php");var callback = function(success, result){ if (!success) { error(result.info); } else { var contentArray = result.content.split("\n"); var listArray = new Array(); var output = ""; var colCount = 0; for (var i=0; i<contentArray.length; i++){ if (contentArray[i].substr(0,1) == "*"){ listArray.push(contentArray[i]); } else if (contentArray[i] != "{{col-break}}") { if (listArray.length > 0){ var sortedListArray = bubbleSort(listArray); for (var j=0; j<sortedListArray.length; j++){ if (colCount > 0 && j%Math.ceil(sortedListArray.length/colCount) == 0) output += "{{col-break}}\n"; output += sortedListArray[j] + "\n"; } if (colCount > 0) output += "{{col-break}}\n"; listArray = new Array(); colCount = 0; } output += contentArray[i] + "\n"; } else { colCount++; } } trace(output); } stop(); }; my_bot.get({page:"List of humorists"}, callback); function swap(items, firstIndex, secondIndex){ var temp = items[firstIndex]; items[firstIndex] = items[secondIndex]; items[secondIndex] = temp; } function bubbleSort(items){ var len = items.length, i, j, stop; for (var i=0; i < items.length; i++){ for (var j=0; j < items.length-i-1; j++){ var res1 = items[j].match(/\w*(?=(]|\s\(|,))/)[0]; var res2 = items[j+1].match(/\w*(?=(]|\s\(|,))/)[0] if (res1 > res2){ swap(items, j, j+1); } } } return items; }
Done Updated List of humorists. --RA ( talk) 21:48, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
A year ago I applied and got approved to run Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 20 which would replace superscripted text with normal text per WP:ORDINAL. I had written a script but it took a lot of time since the task was approved and I never really completely run it. Unfortunately I don't have the script anymore. Is anyone interested to write a script and run this task? I would like that my bot does less at the moment. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:20, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
([0-2]?\d|30|31)<sup>(?:th|st|nd|rd|)<\/sup>(?:\sof\s?)?\s(Jan(?:uary|\.|)|Feb(?:ruary|\.|)|Mar(?:ch|\.|)|Apr(?:il|\.|)|May\.?|Jun(?:e|\.|)|Jul(?:y|\.|)|Aug(?:ust|\.|)|Sep(?:tember|\.|t\.|)|Oct(?:ober|\.|)|Nov(?:ember|\.|)|Dec(?:ember|\.|))([^\w\d])
(Jan(?:uary|\.|)|Feb(?:ruary|\.|)|Mar(?:ch|\.|)|Apr(?:il|\.|)|May\.?|Jun(?:e|\.|)|Jul(?:y|\.|)|Aug(?:ust|\.|)|Sep(?:tember|\.|t\.|)|Oct(?:ober|\.|)|Nov(?:ember|\.|)|Dec(?:ember|\.|))\s(?:the\s)?([0-2]?\d|30|31)<sup>(?:th|st|nd|rd)<\/sup>([^\]\|\w\d][^\d])
I would like to request that a bot be used to remove the templates Template:Letter-NumberCombination and Template:LetterCombination from all pages in Category:Disambiguation where they are currently used; this will probably constitute removing virtually all of the templates' ~1700 and ~300 respective transclusions. These templates were placed in contradiction to the Manual of Style, and the consensus at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages is for the templates to be removed from those pages (since two TFD proposals to simply delete them entirely have failed), rather than for the MOS to be amended.
From reviewing other requests here, it appears that similar requests are commonly referred to use AWB instead, but given the massive number of pages to edit, I was hoping it'd be a simple thing to fully automate the task. Thanks for your consideration. Theoldsparkle ( talk) 21:14, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Wikipedia, I was wondering if you could make me a question answering bot? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saijc11 ( talk • contribs) 00:00, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, is there a bot that regularly checks and sorts Wikitables by specified criteria? Specifically, I'd like some help sorting List of Tecmo Koei games (even a one-time run would be great) It occurs to me that most tables are sorting by one field (usually name or date), and a bot that tidies those up based on a tag might be a helpful thing. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 09:01, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I'd like a bot process that would go through other language wiki and iterate a category and look at each article and create a list where the article did not have an equivalent English (en) article interwikied on it. This could be worked out from languages (based on working from an english category such as Category:Turtles). I'm especially interested to find those articles in nl/pl/es/de/fr/it wiki' that are not in the English wiki. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 15:49, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
See WP:WikiProject Intertranswiki. We began creating a directory, see Albanian for instance. Granted we need a bot coder to ransack all of the language wikipedias and generate such lists. But the chances of actually getting somebody to fulfill a request here are very slim.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:39, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject China/NNU Class Project could do with a bot checking all articles tagged in Category:WikiProject China/NNU liaison/Articles and dumping the WP:China class and importance rating on a subpage. see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject China/NNU Class Project#Request This could be possibly a daily task while the university project is running. Agathoclea ( talk) 10:08, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I request a bot to populate Category:Redirects from Unicode characters. The category is meant for all redirects whose titles are Unicode characters, so the bot would have to do the following tasks.
{{R from Unicode}}
, [[Category:Redirects from Unicode characters]]
, or {{This is a redirect|from Unicode}}
.Note that this is not a request to create new redirects, just to categorize the existing pages. 155.33.149.25 ( talk) 03:36, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to add a couple more possibilities to this list. There seems to be a lot of existing redirects not tagged and that might also be useful. For example:
I realize that there is no way for the bot to know for sure every case but it seems like we should be able to account for a very large number of them. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:16, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a discussion cross-post.
End of cross-post.
I want a bot please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.129.25 ( talk) 15:45, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering if it would be possible to develop a bot or some other way of having a sportspersons stats updated from thier page at the relevant sporting associations database.
For example, can a MLB players infobox statistics be lionked to their statistics on www.mlb.com so that they do not need to be editied on a regular basis. Kreiny ( talk) 04:32, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Somebody should make a bot that tracks identified vandals, and people who edit similarly to known sockpuppets and update people with thier activities. A good example would be Grawp and his various puppets, who, with this bot could have been easily defeated. School district 43 Coquitlam Learn with us! 18:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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Archive 40 | Archive 41 | Archive 42 | Archive 43 | Archive 44 | Archive 45 | → | Archive 50 |
I'm looking for a bot that can replace a link for me. About 200 MBTA articles have this old link: http://members.aol.com/eddanamta/busfiles/contents.pdf while the file is now located at http://mysite.verizon.net/rtspcc/MBTARouteHistory.pdf . Would it be possible for a bot to seek out and replace the old links? Thanks; Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 17:36, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Summary: migrate Vorlage:Normdaten to Template:Authority_control
Details: Libraries have been doing what they call authority control and wikipedia calls disambiguation, for a very long time, and without the notability criteria (all the VIAF libraries are copyright libraries, they have a legal requirement to carry vanity press) they have much, much largely collections of personal names than wikipedia does. ~160000 biographies in the de wikipedia have the template containing the authors' bibliographic identifiers; there is a corresponding template in the en wikipedia which has about a hundredth of the number. The task is to migrate the missing ones across. See also information at Wikipedia:Authority control/ talk and Personennamendatei. Stuartyeates ( talk) 10:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I request for having a bot that filters out userspace drafts that was made by an inactive user and wasn't edited for a long time. It also looks in the deletion log for the mainspace (example "Example" was deleted by AfD. It got moved to userspace. It is stale. The bot recognizes it at the deletion log). After, it puts a template on it ({{
Abandoned userspace draft|deleted=<yes/no>}}
.
~~ EBE123~~ talk Contribs 17:14, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that removes non-userspace categories from userspace (by converting [[Category into [[:Category)? That seems like a low-hanging fruit from problems that stale drafts cause. And what about just giving editors an annual reminder of subpages (non.css/.js) they haven't edited in the last 12 months? The notice can equally advertise {{ db-user}} and WP:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts. Rd232 talk 22:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to tag scotland=yes to the above template within all articles within Category:Football in Scotland and subcategories. Is this something a bot could help with. Warburton1368 ( talk) 22:24, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
If both {{ IPA}} and {{ Infobox language}} are transcluded in an article, could the parameter "notice = ipa" be added to the infobox? (Last line before the template closes, if that's workable.) This had been the default behaviour of the template, but the large majority of notices served no purpose. Now we trigger the notice when the IPA is actually used in an article.
If 'notice' is already used, say for 'notice=Indic', then please used 'notice2=ipa'.
I asked one week ago if there would be any objections to making such a bot request,[Template_talk:Infobox_language#notices_now_opitional] and there have been none. — kwami ( talk) 10:15, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Before bots were used that much we tried setting up a system of comparing the FAs across different interwikis at Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages (now redirected). A bot could do this job much better than we were able to back then. The idea is that FAs in other languages have gone through some level of review and should be of a good standard - they could therefore be good sources of content.
An example action would be that it goes through the French FA list and compares each article to the English equivalent. This is probably only relevant to a small number of other languages with the larger interwikis being most useful.
Possible output would be:
I know that this is quite a challenging request compared to simple edits, so any thoughts would be nice to hear. It would be nice if we could trial this with just one interwiki. violet/riga [talk] 21:29, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
When a talk page thread gets archived (manually or by one of the bots in Category:Wikipedia archive bots) this breaks the wikilinks incoming to this section. Is it possible to create a bot that for example watches the archiving edits these archiving bots perform and automatically repairs these links? I think this would be very useful, if I want to follow an archived discussion that is scattered over multiple archives. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 13:58, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Add {{subst:npd}} to all images whose description contains vicrailstations.com and notify the uploaders - several have already been deleted for a bad OTRS ticket, the others (100+) just say "used with permission" but never give proof.
Thanks. - mattbuck ( Talk) 10:45, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
We have bots that maintain the interwikis to the other Wikipedias, however as far as I can tell the links to Commons via {{ commons category}} and like are unmaintained. The categories are moved about on Commons - to disambiguate, or to implement a standard naming scheme, for instance, but the inward links from WP are not typicaly updated by the Commons users. Therefore its probably in WPs best interests to create a bot with similar functionality to the interwiki bots for this task.-- Nilf anion ( talk) 12:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
commons category|<name of commons cat>|<enwp article title>}}
as this looks best for things like the bizarre ship convention on Commons.--
Nilf
anion (
talk) 09:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Commonscat template is already on Warwick Found link for Warwick at [[simple:Warwick]] to Warwick, England. >>> Warwick <<< - {{Commons category}} + {{Commons category|Warwick, England|Warwick}} Comment: Bot: Changing commonscat link from [[:Commons:Category:Warwick|Warwick]] to [[:Commons:Category:Warwick, England|Warwick, England]] Do you want to accept these changes? ([y]es, [N]o, [a]lways, [q]uit)
Note: by chance, there is a related discussion at Commons:Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Commons-Wikipedia Category Interlinking and Translation Project. Rd232 talk 15:48, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Note that on Commons, most renamed categories have the new destination name in the deletion edit summary. Many categories on Commons link back to en:Wikipedia articles. -- Foroa ( talk) 16:10, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
With the inactive admins proposal having passed, and the bit to allow bureaucrats the ability to desysop people due to get flipped soonish, I had an idea. A bot - with the bureaucrat bit - would make the entire process of desysopping inactive admins much easier and much more routine; there wouldn't be any issues associated with an inactive admin getting forgotten for some reason. With all the fuss that happens over adminbots, though, I can imagine this would be more contentious, though, so I wanted to run it by people before even doing anything with the idea. I see a couple options for this:
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Obviously, Option 1 will likely be the most controversial, but also the most useful; Option 2 would be my preferred alternative if the community doesn't approve of the idea of a cratbot; Option 3 seems kinda silly given that we can do it locally now (soon) but is still something to consider. So... thoughts? Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 17:31, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
The CratBot idea should email each inactive administrator and post to their respectful talkpages if the procedure has not already been done. As an aside, perhaps a bot that could "clean" out Category:Wikipedia administrators would in the meantime be less controversial and could more easily gain consensus from BAG members. TeleComNasSprVen ( talk • contribs) 22:48, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
How about simply making a
database reports of which admins have been emailed and are eligible for desysoping? This could make the process completely transparent and possibly provide a way of privately reconfirming using an emailed link. Also using JavaScript (specifically &withJS=
) it would add a one click desysop button for bureaucrats. —
Dispenser 14:31, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
I think it feels a little friendlier if a real person does the actual desysopping. Otherwise, it seems kind of like we're ignoring what the inactive admin has done in the past by leaving a bot to "clean up" after a year. / ƒETCH COMMS / 16:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Option #1 seems to not be finding much favour. Option #2 probably does not require too much community input, since the community already approved the actual process. Hersfold, were you planning on programming the bot? I'd say run with option #2 for now - and run it on the last day of each month. – xeno talk 19:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
I would also prefer option 2. I don't like the idea of bot desysoping inactive admins. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 12:30, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to create a bot that would automatically notify me of a new file uploaded to Commons when its name starts with BSicon and the filetype is .svg? I'm trying to keep the Wikipedia:Route diagram template/Catalog of pictograms up-to-date, and sometimes it's like trying to catch the wind... Useddenim ( talk) 03:46, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Do you have an account on Commons? — Bility ( talk) 18:06, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:Bility/filefinder.js');
filename=BSicon*.svg
for the last seven days.)
Useddenim (
talk) 21:04, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
ugBS2l
) – a brand-new file – this afternoon...
Useddenim (
talk) 00:00, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
While doing cleanup of user pages [1], I have noticed many user pages and user sub pages from 2006 and above that are vandalism, copyvios, promotional articles, or attack pages. I have got a lot of them deleted, but of course there is no way that I will try to delete them all. That would be an impossible task for any editor including editors with administrator tools. My proposal is for a bot that can detect certain words or sentences that are common in vandalism, attack pages, and promotional articles while also having the bot be able to determine whether a user page has a copyvio. I think that maybe there would need to be a separate bot to detect copyvios in user pages. It would be even more useful for the bots to also place those detected articles in categories for easy access to editors and especially admins. I have no idea if these two tasks are impossible, but I thought that I would see about it. Joe Chill ( talk) 03:33, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm doing this message on behalf of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones and WikiProject Wikipedia-Books. It would really help us if a bot would assist us in our efforts in creating and maintaining Wikipedia books similar to Book:2008 Atlantic hurricane season. The request is a bit long, but that is mostly because I detailed exactly what would be involved.
In general books follow a certain structure detailed here, but summarized below.
{{saved book |title= |subtitle= |cover-image= |cover-color= |text-color= }} == Title == === Subtitle === ;Chapter 1 :[[First article]] :[[Article 2|Second article]] :[[Third article]] ;Chapter 2 :[[Fourth article]] :[[5th article|Fifth article]] :[[Sixth article]] [[Category:Wikipedia books on topic]]
Hurricane seasons are rather well-structured, so it's easy for a bot to create a well-structured book on them.
The {{ saved book}} template should be filled as follows
{{saved book |title=YYYY Atlantic hurricane season |subtitle= |cover-image=<!--Image from infobox in the YYYY Atlantic hurricane season article --> |cover-color= |sort_as=Atlantic Hurricane Season, YYYY }}
The beginning of the book proper should be
==YYYY Atlantic hurricane season== ;Overview :[[YYYY Atlantic hurricane season]] :[[YYYY Atlantic hurricane season statistics]] :[[Timeline of the YYYY Atlantic hurricane season]]
If the articles don't exist, they should just be omitted. This covers the first half of the book, and no special logic should be required here.
Then comes the "core" of the book, the individual hurricanes in the season, along with their meteorological history. This is a bit trickier. The general structure is
;Individual hurricanes :[[List of storms in the YYYY Atlantic hurricane season]] :[[Hurricane A]] :[[Meteorological history of Hurricane A]] :[[Hurricane B]] :[[Meteorological history of Hurricane B]] ...
As before, articles which don't exist should be omitted. These articles can be retrieved from several places, but the best would probably be the
YYYY Atlantic hurricane season article itself and the {{
YYYY Atlantic hurricane season buttons}} template. The hurricanes should be listed chronologically in the book, and it should be possible to determine the order based on either the article or the template.
For the finishing touches, the bot should fetch any additional article in Category:YYYY Atlantic Hurricane season (but not its subcategories) and place them in a "Miscellany" chapter. And then it should categorize the book in Category:Wikipedia books on Atlantic hurricane seasons and Category:YYYY Atlantic hurricane season.
;Miscellany :[[Foobar 1]] :[[Foobar 2]] :[[Foobar 3]] [[Category:Wikipedia books on Atlantic hurricane seasons]] [[Category:YYYY Atlantic hurricane season|β]]
After this is done, the bot should tag the talk page of the book with
{{WikiProject Wikipedia-Books|class=Book}} {{WikiProject Tropical cyclones|class=Book}} {{WikiProject United States|class=book}}
as well as add {{
Wikipedia-Books|YYYY Atlantic hurricane season}}
to
Category:YYYY Atlantic hurricane season.
Books on the Pacific seasons would follow the same logic, but with "Pacific" instead of "Atlantic". There are other hurricane seasons out there, but let's start with these as they are the simplest and best-structured. Hopefully I didn't overwhelm you too much with this request. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:57, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello all. I would like a bot to assist with the matching of our articles on Royal Navy warships to the data available at Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM. This would be valuable in helping that project, in particular because it would then make it very easy for the National Maritime Museum to make use of Wikipedia articles! I think the specification for what I would ideally like is as follows, though I'm not at all familiar with Wikimedia scripting so I may be talking nonsense.
If you are able to assist, even if only in part, I would be extremely grateful. Regards, The Land ( talk) 19:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
AFAIK there is no active bot with this task, bot on plwiki is quite useful and I think this idea may be useful also for enwiki. It is possible that on request bot operator will extend this task to enwiki. Bulwersator ( talk) 19:39, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordanjamiesonkyser ( talk • contribs)
The following message was posted to our helpdesk [4] Chzz ► 05:44, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
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Dear friends, during last weeks I was involved mainly in adding the German version of this template
de:template:Normdaten to dozens of pages; adding the required parameters where required. Today, I activated the linking to WorldCat identities containing the works from / about authors. I never have seen trailing zeros as template parameters to the third part of parameter LCCN.
example:
Abraham Lincoln#normdaten contains now the link
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-6779 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
Works: 22,532 works in 36,882 publications in 66 languages and 1,323,107 library holdings
This information is very important for readers. They will find books in smaller languages.
The template did not work from the beginning. It was necessary to remove the leading zeros before the third subpart of parameter LCCN:
{{Normdaten|LCCN=n/79/006779}} changed to {{Normdaten|LCCN=n/79/6779}})
Bot support request: Please remove such leading zeros at all pages using
template:Authority control. Thanks in advance!
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I would like to see a bot that follows wikilinks which link to specific sections and then adds something similar to what I did here.
==The schooner ''Allen Gardiner''<!--- Note: Articles link to this section, do not change the section heading without using {{anchor}}--->==
It would be even better if the bot could automatically create anchors, but I am not sure if either of these things are possible. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:23, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
This is a simple request. It is to put a colon for the categories in an userspace draft and after, it notifies the user. ~~ Ebe123~~ talk Contribs 12:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
&action=edit
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Ebe123~~
talk
Contribs 21:48, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I have thought of the possibilities of a new bot, but I am unsure if it is possible. I would like to see a bot that would place talkback messages on the talk pages of users involved in a discussion. A {{ talkback bot}} ({{ tbb}}) template would need to be created. When that template gets placed directly behind a user's signature, the bot would place a talkback message on their user talk page linking to the section. Is it possible? Ryan Vesey Review me! 02:48, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
It seems that something like this was proposed before by Rich Farmbrough called Mirror threads ( BRfA here), but the BRfA expired. Logan Talk Contributions 00:45, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
We are still looking for a bot to automate some tasks for the US Collaboration of the month if anyone is interested. Noomos was working on one but he withdrew the request due to being busy in real life. Here is a link to the task he started Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Project Messenger Bot 2 if anyone is interested.
Basically the request would automate the notification of users and WikiProjects if an article is submitted.
If anyone is interested I can provide the messages that we would like to be sent. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:15, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot go through the book namespace and see whether or not it has one of the related Wikipedia "book" templates, such as {{
saved book}}
, and then populate a new category created within
Category:Wikipedia books (tracking and cleanup categories) with those books that do not contain such a template. An experienced user would be able to check pages in the new category for errors and fix them, if possible, or mark for deletion if they are unusable. I've seen a fair amount of crud that pops up there, when new users misplace their articles because they do not understand our namespace scheme.
TeleComNasSprVen (
talk •
contribs) 12:12, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
saved book}}
. I've listed them below. :-)
Avic
ennasis @ 07:16, 20 Av 5771 / 07:16, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. This is a re-request as I was seriously hoping to get a bot operator to do this and nearly 6 months has passed and nothing has been done. 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)
Category:Active Wikipedia bots and Category:Inactive Wikipedia bots are not very useful, since they rarely are maintained and cleaned up. Could someone make a bot that check every bot's Category:All Wikipedia bots edit history, and appropriately categorizes them? A bot can be considered inactive if it didn't edit in the last month (or whatever BAG feel's a good cut-off). Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:52, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
I have been repetitively performing this task, converting:
==foo== {{Foo and parameters}} Junk :more junk
To this:
==foo== Junk :more junk ::my junk
These edits occur on userspace discussion pages with the {{foo}} template. It seems like a task that is easily searchable and executable to those with skills and prowess. Thanks Cliff ( talk) 04:00, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
This bot should act only on pages in userspace. It would search for the {{ Requested move}} tag in user talk space, usually on a subpage, and remove it, appending my message. It should ignore the template on user pages because those are incorrectly placed and will be handled differently. It has nothing to do with the AFC process, except to instruct users with drafts of new articles how to submit their creation. IP editors are not involved because they usually do not create article drafts in their userspace. If the article gets moved from userspace as part of the AFC I assume they move the attached talk page. There is no duplicate talk page because all talk has occurred in user talk. Does this address your concern? Cliff ( talk) 18:41, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Template magic could be used here. If a RM template is in User/User talk space it can show the message that is desired about the AfC process.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:08, 21 August 2011 (UTC).
I have some beta code ready-ish. Just to summarize, the edit will look for the {{ requested move}} template in the user talk namespace. On each occurrence, it'll remove the template, and add the notice drafted by Cliff at the bottom of the page. Is this correct? — Kudu ~I/O~ 02:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
User:Josh Parris, had this very useful bot ( User:WildBot) that would patrol for disambiguation links. How about we resuscitate the idea?
Basically, take the article, retrieve the bluelinks (or maybe just whatever matches [[Foobar]] (or [[Foobar|Barfoo]]), ignore those ending with (disambiguation) and cross-check them against Category:All disambiguation pages. If there's a match, there should be a disambiguation needed added. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:06, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
+----------+-------+ | Watchers | Pages | +----------+-------+ | 0 | 520 | | 1 | 1855 | | 2-3 | 1742 | | 4-7 | 656 | | 8-15 | 469 | | 16-31 | 443 | | 32-63 | 344 | | 64-127 | 237 | | 128-245 | 100 | | 261-505 | 20 | | 515-867 | 10 | +----------+-------+
BTW, apparently Dispenser has as script for this, but he needs someone with TS access to run it. I would, but I don't have TS access. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:34, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
The thread title says it all. Could a bot that patrols and tags new pages ever exist? -- Σ talk contribs 07:37, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I wrote a bot designed to assess the quality of random pages and then publish a list of pages that could be improved. Right now, it trolls through pages and checks if the first sentence has [is, was, will, were, refers...] in the first sentence (as all pages should). It turns out that this is usually (but not always) a good way of finding articles that could use some help. The bot posts articles here.
My questions to you:
• What do you think of the potential of such a bot?
• Can you think of any rules other than having a definition in the first sentence?
Thanks! -- PointBot ( talk) 16:16, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I proposed to merge three different Doctor Who-related lists into one at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Doctor Who#Revisiting merging the creature/alien lists. While the proposal is still active, I wondered if such a task could be performed by a bot at all, since merging them manually is probably a huge task. Does anyone have an idea if and how this can be done? Regards So Why 10:50, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
I've just closed a couple of merge requests from 2008 and 2009. I'm not a bot coder, but it seems to me that it would be reasonable and not to difficult for a bot to check Category:Articles to be merged, close still-open merge requests more than X months old, and remove the related templates in the affected articles. Then again, perhaps it is a messy enough task that it is inappropriate for a bot. It does look like a problem in search of a solution, though. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 07:57, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was a bot already running or a bot that could be modified to update the Tasks template. I have created the To do lists for several US related projects so that all the 38 projects that are supported by WikiProject United States (and I am sure this would be useful for other projects as well) have the template. It would be great if the updating of this template could be automated in some way.
I am not recommending that every article for the project be displayed that fits the criteria but maybe 2 or 3 could be displayed andn the bot could check periodically if the problem had been fixed on that article and if so replace it with another. -- Kumioko ( talk) 22:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
I request the help of a bot for the following tasks:
|kickboxing=yes
to the banner {{
WikiProject Martial arts}} in all articles within
Category:Kickboxing people and its subcategories that already have the banner.|kickboxing=yes
to all articles within
Category:Kickboxing people and its subcategories that do not have the banner|kickboxing=yes
to the banner {{
WikiProject Martial arts}} in all articles within
Category:Kickboxing and its subcategories that already have the banner.|kickboxing=yes
to all articles within
Category:Kickboxing and its subcategories that do not have the banner.Jfgslo ( talk) 16:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi all - I'm copying this across from VP (proposals) where I originally made the suggestion - the part in italics is the bit which was at VP (pr). Grutness... wha? 01:35, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to propose the creation of an extra cleanup category, to be populated by a bot which simply scans all articles looking for mismatched square brackets, curly brackets, and parentheses. There's no real reason why any article should have a mismatch in any of these things, and it usually indicates a faulty link, template addition, or punctuation. It should theoretically be possible to sort articles within the maintenance category under C (curly bracket), S (square bracket) or P (parenthesis). I suspect it would be a useful addition to the other cleanup resources around WP... Grutness... wha? 01:40, 7 September 2011 (UTC)z
In general, articles in potential need of cleanup make very bad bot tasks or very bad categories. If you want a list of articles with potential mismatch, it is much better to compile one from database downloads. I believe WP:CHECKWIKI is already doing this however. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:38, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
This request initially was made on the
Geobox talk page and moved here.
Is there a way that a bot could be programmed to update some map parameter values for articles in
Ontario,
Canada using the template {{
Geobox}}? I have changed the background graphic used in the {{
Geobox locator Ontario}} template, which is called by Geobox when the appropriate map_locator
parameter value is present, to the file
Canada Ontario location map 2.svg (which has an inset map of Ontario in Canada, I thought nicer than the old graphic without the insert), and would like to update the corresponding Geobox map
parameter value to the new file name. (Aside: more on how these parameters work at
Template:Geobox/legend#Maps.) The condition to be programmed would be:
FOR articles using template Geobox
IF map_locator = Ontario
IF (map ≠ Canada Ontario location map 2.svg)
SET map = Canada Ontario location map 2.svg
Hope this makes sense. -- papageno ( talk) 04:01, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
The Wasteland Survival Guide wiki would like to request for a bot to fix spelling errors, welcome new members, help fix vandalism, and just provide general maintenance for the wiki. If there are any questions please contact me under the wikia user name Ramallah. Thank you -- 75.139.57.106 ( talk) 00:32, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Request withdrawn by the requesting editor.
I request that a bot be created that automatically adds shortcuts to AfD discussion. These shortcuts should have the form {{shortcut|WP:AFD/<Articlename>}} As an example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hex-a-Hop should contain the shortcut {{shortcut|WP:AFD/Hex-a-Hop}}. The rationale for this is that when I enter WP:AFD/Hex-a-hop into the search box, I am not taken to that AfD and I have to enter the full name of the nomination to arrive there. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 09:48, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Sidenote: This request is made primarily for convenience purposes. I don't know whether editorial convenience really is a good rationale to divert bot developer efforts to this, but apart from that I believe it to be mostly uncontroversial. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 09:59, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I'm an admin fron gl.wikipedia and we would like to ask for help. Recently, I have updated all the templates related to coordinates ({{ coord}}) at gl.wp but this has caused several errors due to the different format. I would like to know if there is any code to make these changes example 1, example 2, and example 3 using a bot. Just post the code below (if any) and we will make the task. Thank you very much! -- Toliño ( talk) 11:27, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Could anyone make a bot that put all album articles whose info box has the cover field left blank into a category, making it easier to locate said pages, and upload covers? Jasper420 19:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{Cover|}}}||[[Category:Articles lacking a cover]]}}
{{#ifeq:{{{Cover}}}|???|[[Category:Articles lacking a cover]]|}}
cover
parameter being set, that page will be added to the category. --RA (
talk) 12:03, 12 September 2011 (UTC)I would like to request a bot be created to move all hatnotes in all articles to the very top of the articles per the Manuel of Style found here and reiterated here. I am constantly seeing and having to manually fix hatnotes placed below the infoboxes or below maintenance tags. Based on my anecdotal observations, I can only assume this MoS error easily occurs in literally thousands of articles. Rreagan007 ( talk) 03:41, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I had a request but it has been archived without reply, so I'm trying again. Please see here. Regards So Why 22:05, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Done Using Luasóg. Script as follows:
var my_bot = new Luasog("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"); var creaturesArray = []; var pages = ["List of Doctor Who creatures and aliens", "List of Torchwood creatures and aliens", "List of The Sarah Jane Adventures creatures and aliens"]; function swap(items, firstIndex, secondIndex){ var temp = items[firstIndex]; items[firstIndex] = items[secondIndex]; items[secondIndex] = temp; } function bubbleSort(items){ for (var i=0; i < items.length; i++){ for (var j=0; j < items.length-i-1; j++){ if (items[j] > items[j+1]){ swap(items, j, j+1); } } } return items; } var callback = function(success, result){ if (!success) { error(result.info); } else { var strArray = result.content.replace(/\={4}/g, "==="); strArray = strArray.replace(/\={3} /g, "\n==="); strArray = strArray.replace(/ \={3}/g, "===\n"); strArray = strArray.split(/\n=/g); if (creaturesArray === null) { kill("IT WAS NULL"); } for (var i=0; i<strArray.length; i++){ if (strArray[i].substr(0,2) == "==") { creaturesArray.push("="+strArray[i]); } } } if (pages.length > 0) { trace("Getting next..."); my_bot.get({page:pages.pop()}, callback); } else { trace("Sorting..."); bubbleSort(creaturesArray); for (var j=0; j<creaturesArray.length; j++){ trace(creaturesArray[j]); stop(); } } }; trace("Getting..."); my_bot.get({page:pages.pop()}, callback);
--RA ( talk) 21:07, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm requesting a bot that will create the daily maintenance subcategories for Category:Wikipedia files missing permission, which are in the naming format of, for example, Category:Wikipedia files missing permission as of 10 September 2011, and they are created just by substituting {{ subst:Files missing permission subcategory starter}}. This seemed like a good task for DumbBOT, but a request by Fastily for this functionality has remained unanswered on the operator's page for almost a month. Logan Talk Contributions 21:51, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot (or could there be a bot) that puts lists in alphabetical order? Going a step further, could such a bot change lists from one type of alphabetical order to a different type of alphabetical order? The problem I'm trying to solve is that List of humorists is currently in alphabetical order by first name, and it really should be in alphabetical order by last name. I could do this manually, but it would take a while and it seems like a perfect task for a bot. Thanks, BMRR ( talk) 21:53, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
var my_bot = new Luasog("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php");var callback = function(success, result){ if (!success) { error(result.info); } else { var contentArray = result.content.split("\n"); var listArray = new Array(); var output = ""; var colCount = 0; for (var i=0; i<contentArray.length; i++){ if (contentArray[i].substr(0,1) == "*"){ listArray.push(contentArray[i]); } else if (contentArray[i] != "{{col-break}}") { if (listArray.length > 0){ var sortedListArray = bubbleSort(listArray); for (var j=0; j<sortedListArray.length; j++){ if (colCount > 0 && j%Math.ceil(sortedListArray.length/colCount) == 0) output += "{{col-break}}\n"; output += sortedListArray[j] + "\n"; } if (colCount > 0) output += "{{col-break}}\n"; listArray = new Array(); colCount = 0; } output += contentArray[i] + "\n"; } else { colCount++; } } trace(output); } stop(); }; my_bot.get({page:"List of humorists"}, callback); function swap(items, firstIndex, secondIndex){ var temp = items[firstIndex]; items[firstIndex] = items[secondIndex]; items[secondIndex] = temp; } function bubbleSort(items){ var len = items.length, i, j, stop; for (var i=0; i < items.length; i++){ for (var j=0; j < items.length-i-1; j++){ var res1 = items[j].match(/\w*(?=(]|\s\(|,))/)[0]; var res2 = items[j+1].match(/\w*(?=(]|\s\(|,))/)[0] if (res1 > res2){ swap(items, j, j+1); } } } return items; }
Done Updated List of humorists. --RA ( talk) 21:48, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
A year ago I applied and got approved to run Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 20 which would replace superscripted text with normal text per WP:ORDINAL. I had written a script but it took a lot of time since the task was approved and I never really completely run it. Unfortunately I don't have the script anymore. Is anyone interested to write a script and run this task? I would like that my bot does less at the moment. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:20, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
([0-2]?\d|30|31)<sup>(?:th|st|nd|rd|)<\/sup>(?:\sof\s?)?\s(Jan(?:uary|\.|)|Feb(?:ruary|\.|)|Mar(?:ch|\.|)|Apr(?:il|\.|)|May\.?|Jun(?:e|\.|)|Jul(?:y|\.|)|Aug(?:ust|\.|)|Sep(?:tember|\.|t\.|)|Oct(?:ober|\.|)|Nov(?:ember|\.|)|Dec(?:ember|\.|))([^\w\d])
(Jan(?:uary|\.|)|Feb(?:ruary|\.|)|Mar(?:ch|\.|)|Apr(?:il|\.|)|May\.?|Jun(?:e|\.|)|Jul(?:y|\.|)|Aug(?:ust|\.|)|Sep(?:tember|\.|t\.|)|Oct(?:ober|\.|)|Nov(?:ember|\.|)|Dec(?:ember|\.|))\s(?:the\s)?([0-2]?\d|30|31)<sup>(?:th|st|nd|rd)<\/sup>([^\]\|\w\d][^\d])
I would like to request that a bot be used to remove the templates Template:Letter-NumberCombination and Template:LetterCombination from all pages in Category:Disambiguation where they are currently used; this will probably constitute removing virtually all of the templates' ~1700 and ~300 respective transclusions. These templates were placed in contradiction to the Manual of Style, and the consensus at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages is for the templates to be removed from those pages (since two TFD proposals to simply delete them entirely have failed), rather than for the MOS to be amended.
From reviewing other requests here, it appears that similar requests are commonly referred to use AWB instead, but given the massive number of pages to edit, I was hoping it'd be a simple thing to fully automate the task. Thanks for your consideration. Theoldsparkle ( talk) 21:14, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Wikipedia, I was wondering if you could make me a question answering bot? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saijc11 ( talk • contribs) 00:00, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, is there a bot that regularly checks and sorts Wikitables by specified criteria? Specifically, I'd like some help sorting List of Tecmo Koei games (even a one-time run would be great) It occurs to me that most tables are sorting by one field (usually name or date), and a bot that tidies those up based on a tag might be a helpful thing. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 09:01, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I'd like a bot process that would go through other language wiki and iterate a category and look at each article and create a list where the article did not have an equivalent English (en) article interwikied on it. This could be worked out from languages (based on working from an english category such as Category:Turtles). I'm especially interested to find those articles in nl/pl/es/de/fr/it wiki' that are not in the English wiki. Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 15:49, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
See WP:WikiProject Intertranswiki. We began creating a directory, see Albanian for instance. Granted we need a bot coder to ransack all of the language wikipedias and generate such lists. But the chances of actually getting somebody to fulfill a request here are very slim.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:39, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject China/NNU Class Project could do with a bot checking all articles tagged in Category:WikiProject China/NNU liaison/Articles and dumping the WP:China class and importance rating on a subpage. see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject China/NNU Class Project#Request This could be possibly a daily task while the university project is running. Agathoclea ( talk) 10:08, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
I request a bot to populate Category:Redirects from Unicode characters. The category is meant for all redirects whose titles are Unicode characters, so the bot would have to do the following tasks.
{{R from Unicode}}
, [[Category:Redirects from Unicode characters]]
, or {{This is a redirect|from Unicode}}
.Note that this is not a request to create new redirects, just to categorize the existing pages. 155.33.149.25 ( talk) 03:36, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to add a couple more possibilities to this list. There seems to be a lot of existing redirects not tagged and that might also be useful. For example:
I realize that there is no way for the bot to know for sure every case but it seems like we should be able to account for a very large number of them. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:16, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a discussion cross-post.
End of cross-post.
I want a bot please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.129.25 ( talk) 15:45, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering if it would be possible to develop a bot or some other way of having a sportspersons stats updated from thier page at the relevant sporting associations database.
For example, can a MLB players infobox statistics be lionked to their statistics on www.mlb.com so that they do not need to be editied on a regular basis. Kreiny ( talk) 04:32, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Somebody should make a bot that tracks identified vandals, and people who edit similarly to known sockpuppets and update people with thier activities. A good example would be Grawp and his various puppets, who, with this bot could have been easily defeated. School district 43 Coquitlam Learn with us! 18:05, 29 September 2011 (UTC)