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Since a few of you have toolserver access and coding skills, would it be possible to create some toolserver tool that would create a CASSI query when used like such {{CODEN|DTARAF}}?
AKA you'd get something like
With the DTARAF link linking to http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp, with the search option set to "CODEN" and the search field populated with "DTARAF"? (And possibly the search would be performed automatically?) Or something very similar to that? Or is this outside the realm of what the toolserver can do? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:06, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Per WP:MOSHEAD and Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Images in sections, it would be pretty nice to have a bot remove all those annoying images and flag icons (e.g. [1]) from section headers. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:03, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
{{fb|ARG}}
should be replaced by "Argentina". There are hundreds of flag template combinations like these, so that would be a lot of bloat to add to AWB general fixes. If anything, an AWB enhancement should be limited to plain MediaWiki image markup, and use a dedicated bot to handle all the flag template transclusions that appear in a section header context. —
Andrwsc (
talk ·
contribs) 21:25, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
I request a bot to go through the categories listed below and update them to use the new parameters of {{ R from alternative language}}.
{{R from alternative language|zh}}
{{R from alternative language|el}}
{{R from alternative language|ja}}
{{R from alternative language|ko}}
{{R from alternative language|mk}}
{{R from alternative language|fa}}
{{R from alternative language|ru}}
This means that, for instance, every article in
Category:Redirects from Macedonian should be edited to remove [[Category:Redirects from Macedonian]]
(and {{R from alternative language}}
if present) and add {{R from alternative language|mk}}
. This request is due to a recent change in the categorization system.
Gorobay (
talk) 06:14, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I was just wondering if there was a bot that added {{
Unreferenced}}
or {{
Unreferenced BLP}}
to articles?
If so would the operator of said bot (if you are reading this) be willing to modify the bot to add |unref=
to certain WikiProjects banners on the articles talk page such as WikiProject United States)? If possible I would like it to remove |unref=
if the article has references. Since not all project support the unref parameter it should be optin but I think it would be very useful and would allow the individual projects to help police some of this by letting them focus on the articles in their projects. --
Kumioko (
talk) 20:39, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
I made a change to an infobox template here. This change however srews up the articles where it appears and there needs a fix to be done on all articles transcluding this template as in this edit. Can someone go through all transclusions of the infobox and fix it? Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 21:28, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
|image_size=
to regulate the size of the image. --
Philosopher
Let us reason together. 19:08, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
There is a group of parameters that are deprecated in Template:Multiple issues, and if one or more of the deprecated parameters are present, the article will be placed into Category:Articles using Multiple issues with deprecated parameters (0). Here are the codes that are deprecated, and then the parameter that they must be changed to:
{{Multiple issues|advertising=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|advert=}}
{{Multiple issues|biased=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|POV=}}
{{Multiple issues|blpdispute=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|disputed=}}
{{Multiple issues|BLPrefimprove=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|BLP sources=}}
{{Multiple issues|BLPunref=}}
and{{Multiple issues|BLPunreferenced=}}
and{{Multiple issues|unrefBLP=}}
and{{Multiple issues|unreferencedBLP=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|BLP unsourced=}}
{{Multiple issues|grammar=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|copy edit=}}
{{Multiple issues|in-universe-cat=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|in-universe=}}
{{Multiple issues|intro-rewrite=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead rewrite=}}
{{Multiple issues|leadtoolong=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead too long=}}
{{Multiple issues|leadtooshort=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead too short=}}
{{Multiple issues|moreref=}}
and{{Multiple issues|morerefs=}}
and{{Multiple issues|morereferences=}}
and{{Multiple issues|Refimprove=}}
and{{Multiple issues|ref-improve=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|refimprove=}}
{{Multiple issues|OR=}}
and{{Multiple issues|or=}}
and{{Multiple issues|research=}}
and{{Multiple issues|originalresearch=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|original research=}}
{{Multiple issues|out of=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|out of date=}}
{{Multiple issues|proseline=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|prose=}}
{{Multiple issues|recent=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|recentism=}}
{{Multiple issues|toolong=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|very long=}}
{{Multiple issues|tooshort=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead too short=}}
Is there a bot that would be able to cleanup the maintenance category for this template? Thanks, -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 22:53, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Please send a meetup notice to Wikipedians in and around the Charlotte, North Carolina area inviting them to join the Wikipedia:Meetup/Charlotte group and attend our first event on October 15th. Thanks! Eric Cable | Talk 15:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi bot people
At Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 September 22 it was decided to make red link into a blue link. But a lot of the previous links were intended to be red, so what we want is for a bot to go through every page at Special:WhatLinksHere/Red_link and replace the text red link with wikimarkup that will make that link red rather than blue.
I hope this makes sense!— S Marshall T/ C 01:10, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Since Oct. 2nd User:Oktanyum added several dozen of iw to articles in tr:wiki, however, none of them actually exists. I have checked and reverted about ten of them but it is quite arduous work. Is it possible that a bot could do it? Previous revisions by Oktanyum done in September are OK. Michał Sobkowski ( talk) 21:28, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can be set to clear a page in regular intervals, similar to what ChzzBot II does at WP:Sandbox? Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 00:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
I am requesting a bot that will locate all album covers under 220x220 pixels and add them to a category, to make it easier for editors to find them and replace with an image 220x200-300x300 pixels. I do not know how to write bot code, so I am requesting someone who knows how to do it. Thanks. Jasper420 17:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
SELECT img_name, img_width, img_height, COUNT(*)
FROM image
JOIN page ON page_namespace=6/*File:*/ AND page_title=img_name
JOIN categorylinks ON cl_from=page_id
WHERE img_width < 200 AND img_height < 200
AND cl_to IN ("Album_covers")
I wouldn't worry about the image height, just the width. — Bility ( talk) 00:08, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I can do this for you with the API also. Either by putting the category on the files or creating a page with the list of files for AWB to put the categories on. Let me know. — Bility ( talk) 17:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
There are a lot of images in English Wikipedia that are duplicates of files in Commons. A few tools that can give a list are available in toolserver ( [2], [3],...) but none of them actually tags the images here as {{ NowCommons}}. Will it be a good idea to create a bot which tags all such images as duplicates? -- Sreejith K ( talk) 20:03, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Can someone change all transclusions of User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Article talk notification to substitutions? Another user reminded me that the template is incorrectly transcluded on some talk pages and should be substituted. There are not many transclusions, but I don't have the time right now to do it myself and would appreciate if someone could do it. Thanks. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 17:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Botmaster Overlords,
Occupy Wall Street is missing some named references that the usual reference-restoring bot(s) have not restored. Please help. Thank you. Dualus ( talk) 01:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Recently, Babel AutoCreate ( talk · contribs) has generated hundreds of empty or very sparsely populated categories such as Category:User aa-1. The general form of these categories is Category:User foo-X where foo is the ISO 639 code of some language and X belongs to the set {1,2,3,4,5,N}. (See also Category:Wikipedians by language)
I noticed these new categories because almost 600 of them ended up being flagged as uncategorized categories. So I was wondering if a bot could fix this. The idea is that all Category:User foo-X should be categorized in Category:User foo (which in many cases will have to be created) and that parent category should in turn be categorized in Category:Wikipedians by language. Thanks in advance, Pichpich ( talk) 22:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
{{
Babel category|level|language|code}}
on the categories instead.
Anomie
⚔ 22:46, 19 October 2011 (UTC)These are just two examples that I've noticed where I declined a speedy and it was renominated later. A bot should either automatically decline these re-nominations or else tag the re-nomination with a boilerplate warning that the article had previously been nominated and the nomination was declined. causa sui ( talk) 21:46, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
After finding lots of non-free files with old unused revisions, I think a bot would be necessary here. It would tag all non-free files with old file revisions with {{ subst:orfurrev}}. Things it would exclude:
Any problems/takers? — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 20:38, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
We've about 4,000 external links of the form google.com/url?url=... (plus other Google domains) - they redirect the reader to the target page, so they're not strictly broken as such, but they are problematic for other reasons, including that it allows an external site to see people's reading information! They've been blacklisted but, of course, are still around in articles - would it be practical for a bot to convert all these to "plain" URLs? Shimgray | talk | 16:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello; two months ago the names of the Canadian Forces service branches changed and the page were moved accordingly :
A lot of links were changed accordingly, but a lot of them remain, so I'm asking for help from a bot operator to change these links (except in user and user talk space of course), which should be fairly straightforward. Redirects are generally not an issue, but in this case many of them are piped (exemple Canadian Forces Land Force Command|Canadian Army
(useless redirect), or if they display the old names as in Canadian Forces Land Force Command
, it's not accurate anymore.
I'm no bot expert, but I figure it would be fairly easy to scan WhatLinksHere, remove the redirects from the evident piped links (like |Canadian Army
, |Royal Canadian Navy
, and |Royal Canadian Air Force
), and change the other links, using the exact syntax to avoid possible mistakes (variants such as Canadian Forces Land Force Command|Army of Canada
would be dealt with manually).
Is anyone interested in running a bot for this task? Thanks in advance. :) — CharlieEchoTango — 04:02, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to bring this to your attention. Any willing and able bot ops here who'd like to help out? Please let me know! Thanks, Maryana (WMF) ( talk) 19:14, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
I've just created around 200 articles about flag bearers, as listed at Template:Olympic national flag bearers lists. The articles could do with a few redirects. For example, List of flag bearers for Mozambique at the Olympics could do with:
There could of course be many other variations, especially given "flagbearers" and "flag-bearers", but I think that these are the main ones. If someone were able to create these redirects for all the articles I'd be most grateful. violet/riga [talk] 12:11, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Is there a way to make a bot that will automatically categorize song articles by record label (e.g. Category:RCA Records singles? I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard, since almost all song article have {{ Infobox single}} and something typed into the Label = field — I don't know a thing about bots, but it should be easy to work from that. The singles-by-label schematic is very underpopulated. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 05:55, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Requesting bot be created and run for this....that is, an editor other than me to run it.
Texas Historic Sites Atlas, changed their URL for references obtained by right-clicking and then "Open Link in a new window". Rather than the Texas Historical Commission just redirecting links going to the old address, it seems it will be up to the individual editor to go back and manually correct such links the editor may have inserted in any Wikipedia article.
Here's details of the difference:
All they did was remove the word "common" and a forward slash, but it messes up any Wikipedia links out there to the old address.
Maile66 ( talk) 22:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Currently, the template Lists of Russians is applied to over 2000 articles, mostly individual people from Russia (rather than articles containing lists of Russians). According to the usage instructions (and common sense) we should only apply a navigation box to the articles for which it navigates. As such, it would be amazing if a bot could help remove it from all articles about individual people. It might be easiest to just load up the entire transclusion list in AWB, then remove by hand the dozen or so articles that it is intended to navigate. Thank you. 198.102.153.2 ( talk) 17:19, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Might I respectfully suggest that this discussion be moved to Template talk:Lists of Russians for further discussion? With appropriate discussion notices put up elsewhere to reach a reasonable consensus on its use on articles, of course. The Bot requests page hardly seems the appropriate forum for this discussion, especially since it is now clear that a bot request for this will not be approved until after the discussion. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:03, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
mmh, I'm not sure if it is possible to create a bot without creating too many false/positives.
Check that diff and read the IPs edit summary ;) There are (correctly) too many pages with unwanted newlines and forced newlines (by placing
on that. Is there any way to create a bot that removes these?
mabdul 11:16, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey,I think a bot made for Speedy deletion would be great,it would make the New page patrolling tasks more easier.If it contains all the criterias,it would be the best.Please consider on making this a success.A bot will be really very useful to all the New page patrollers.With regards,Dipankan001. That's me! Have doubt? What I done? 07:19, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Can a bot be setup to add all the redlinks from the recent deaths page to an archive? I think there's a lot of useful info that is lost when the page is cleaned and entries >1 month old without a Wiki article are removed. The archive could be in the same format as the current page and stored outside the mainspace. Maybe there could be a daily sweep to add new redlinks to the archive. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lugnuts ( talk • contribs) 09:37, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
While reviewing one of my own articles I found a type: awared instead of awarded (or award). A quick search gave me the horrible sentece "Results 1–20 of 765,699 for awared". To make it difficult, not in all cases this will be wrong, as there is a volcano with "Awared" in its name. I hope a bot-owner has time to take on this challenge! Night of the Big Wind talk 12:49, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
WP:AN and WP:ANI have recently seen an unexpectedly large number of requests for help with AFD discussions that never made it to any day's log. See the "Very old AfD's" section of the current WP:ANI page. I'm requesting a bot to list AFDs that aren't on any logs if at least one day has passed since their creation. Nyttend ( talk) 22:06, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
We have just created WikiProject Bibliographies and would appreciate it if you could tag all articles in Category:Bibliographies with {{ WikiProject Bibliographies}}. RockMagnetist ( talk) 16:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
It would be nice if we had a bot that could do null edits on request by user, perhaps on a semi-protected page. It would save me and probably other users from going through large numbers of pages with AWB. — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 03:31, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
I've just about finished moving WikiProject Etymology, WikiProject Phonetics, and WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics to task forces of WikiProject Linguistics (per
this discussion), and I would like some bot help in moving over the old project talk page banners to the WP Linguistics banner.
WP Phonetics and WP Theoretical Linguistics are standard banner implementations, but the WP Etymology banner is a bit funky and will need a little more complexity when completing the move.
First of all, the simple ones:
|class=
should stay the same|importance=
should be moved to |theoretical-importance=
Now for WP Etymology. As well as the usual class system categories, there are three additional categories for grading the etymology sections of articles on general topics: "good", "incomplete", and "missing". These have corresponding values of |class=
. I have also added a fourth category into the WP Linguistics template, for unassessed etymology sections. The WP Etymology template distinguishes between articles on etymology topics and articles on general topics by using |section=yes
. I have mirrored this use in the WP Linguistics template with |etymology-section=
, and I have changed the section class system to use |etymology-section-class=
(or |etymology-class=
). So here are the changes that are necessary:
|section=
should be moved to |etymology-section=
|class=
should not change, except in the following three cases:
|class=good
should be moved to |etymology-section-class=good
|class=incomplete
should be moved to |etymology-section-class=incomplete
|class=missing
should be moved to |etymology-section-class=missing
{{
WikiProject Etymology}} also uses both |priority=
and |importance=
for the importance scale. In some cases this may be the default scale, but in most cases it is a numerical scale from 1 to 9. This scale is based on the number of links to an article in "what links here". So:
|priority=
and |importance=
should be moved to |etymology-importance=
|priority=
or |importance=
that are numerical should be converted like this:|1|2 = Top |3|4 = High |5|6 = Mid |7|8|9 = Low
(At this point I need to come clean and admit that I have moved 7 from Mid to Low, just because I think it makes the number of linked pages look neater. See this version of the project page for details on the old number system.)
Finally, if there is a WP Linguistics banner already on the page in addition to any of the other banners, they can safely be merged if the |class=
parameters are the same on both templates (with the caveats for the unusual classes in WP Etymology outlined above). However, if the |class=
parameters differ, then the pages should probably be listed in a special category for manual attention (maybe
Category:WikiProject Linguistics banner transclusions needing attention?), although I am open to suggestion if there are better ways of doing it.
Thanks for bearing with me through this long post, and please let me know whether this would be possible. Thanks.
Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 07:40, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
The application of {{ Start date}} in infoboxes (per the documentation of those infoboxes) is still outstanding; could we have a response to this long-standing review request, please? Even without a bot, we have gone from 54,500 transclusion of {{ Start date}} on 11 May, to 71,070 today. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships#Tons Burthen cannot be given metric equivalents, we need a bot to remove the many spurious conversions from 'tons burthen' in ship's infoboxes and replace them with a reference to builders measure. Preferably it would producing a listing of what had been changed to allow checking.
To change this:
|Ship tons burthen=521 long tons (529.4 t)
To this:
|Ship tons burthen=521 tons bm
Thanks Petecarney ( talk) 18:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I'd like to get a bot to go through all files on English wikipedia and compile a list of files that contain both:
1) one of {{ PD-textlogo}}, {{ PD-text}}, {{ PD-shape}}
and
2) any of the templates in the box below.
The aforementioned "box below"
|
---|
|
From there all the files should be tagged with {{
wrong license}}, or better {{
wrong license|bot reviewed}}
(which should be made to put the items into a sub-category.
I'll then go through and clear the list. Sven Manguard Wha? 12:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Per resolved discussion at
MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Flatlist css tweak and
WP:HLIST, we need a bot to replace dot-separated pseudo-lists in navboxes with proper, accessible and HTML-standards-compliant wiki-list (asterisked) markup, and class="hlist"
, per this
sample conversion. The edit summaries should refer to WP:HLIST. Please raise any technical queries at
MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Bot req.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 15:44, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Articles like 1741 in Great Britain will also need conversion (or perhaps need a template); see for example. See {{Tl|GB year nav}] and others in Category:History and events navbox templates for lists; no doubt there are others. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:19, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I found many redirect pages that their history has more that one revisions and some of the are more that 10 revisions please merge history of this pages that listed here . thank you Reza1615 ( talk) 08:09, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
The application of {{ Start date}} in infoboxes (per the documentation of those infoboxes) is still outstanding; could we have a response to this long-standing review request, please? Even without a bot, we have gone from 54,500 transclusion of {{ Start date}} on 11 May, to 71,070 today. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey all. I've been doing some recent changes patrol, and I've noticed that when a new page is reached through recent changes, one can't mark it as patrolled for the new pages page. Would it be possible to make a bot to go through the new pages patrol and mark any already-patrolled pages as patrolled? My first thought was to just flag as patrolled the ones marked for deletion (through speedy, prod, or whatever), but I guess it could also look for maintenance tags, as well. Would this be useful? I don't *think* it's being done by any bot currently, but I could be wrong. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 15:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Once again I see an article taken to AFD a month after it survived the last AFD. Can someone make a bot that checks the AFD logs and determines which ones say 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. nomination, and then check to see how long ago the previous one was made, and if recently, goes ahead and contacts every single person who participated there? Dream Focus 15:33, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
A reliable source for the video games project, gamepro.com, has announced they are closing down due to financial reasons and taking the website with them (redirecting requests to the people that are buying their assets but not the content). This is to happen by Dec 5. We have more than 1000 pages (AWB check) that use links to gamepro.com, and it would be nice if we could have a bot (does one already exist?) tag these for webcite archival, possibly creating a report file that we at the VG project can use later to fill in archiveurl + date points (though if the bot can do that do all the better).
I do note that archive.org does have some links from July 21, 2011, so if there's a way to focus on the most recent gamepro.com additions, that would be the fastest solution (or even to generate a list of articles where gamepro.com has been added after this point). There's probably some other options but I'd like to see what can be done in the fastest time with existing tools if possible. -- MASEM ( t) 22:39, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
On hold Request put on hold by original proposer until a consensus has been reached at WP:VPR#Bot to maintain and auto update a list. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 10:37, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
(Originally posted by Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk · contribs) to WP:VPR, posted here as a courtesy.)
I would like to get consensus for the following bot task: Automatically update Sony Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries#Shareholders with information from http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/stock/information.html where it says Principal Shareholders. That is, the shareholder rang, name and percentage should be checked by the bot against the information present on the website and automatically updated, when there is a discrepancy between the two pages. Paolo Napolitano 10:58, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
(Original post is at WP:VPR#Bot to maintain and auto update a list). Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 11:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if someone would cause a bot to tag the talk pages of all articles found the categories in the collapsed section, below, as follows:
If the talk page does not have {{
WPUKroads}} or {{
WikiProject UK Roads}}, then tag with {{WPUKroads|importance=low|class=}}. Ideally inherit a value for class=
from another wikiproject template on the page.
Note that data in the collapsed table is a simple list, albeit wraps when you expand the section below. Best grabbed in edit mode. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 20:45, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Could someone write a bot/script to move any entry in this list with "archive" or "comments" in the subpage name to the proper subpage of the redirect target? It would have to be human-monitored to ensure that merged pages don't have multiple talk page archives. — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 00:49, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible to run a bot that could automatically flag possible disputes, based on reverts or talk-page keywords? We have been discussing this idea over at WikiProject Dispute Resolution, and I was wondering if it would be technically possible. It would probably both tag the relevant article talk page, and list the possible dispute on a central noticeboard for human inspection. It would also de-list them if they became stale. There was a research team who wrote a tool like this based on reverts (Signpost coverage here and here), although I'm not sure how the details would work out if we tried to incorporate it. Let me know if this idea seems workable or not. Thanks — Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 09:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Please can someone convert album and single lengths, inside {{ Infobox album}} and {{ Track listing}}, to use {{ Duration}}. Here's a sample edit.
If you like, at the same time convert {{
Singles}}' release date to use {{
Start date}}, as in the same edit, but only if {{Start date}}
is already in use (or converted at the same time) for the main album release date. df=y must be used where appropriate.
This will allow dates and durations to be emitted as metadata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:22, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Should be done for {{ Infobox single}} & {{ Infobox song}}, too (as per their documentation since August 2010). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Hundreds of stubs in
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System need to have their coordinate display parameter set to |display=inline,title
, as in
this example edit. among other things, this will cause them to be included in Google Maps' Wikipedia layer.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 15:31, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to generate list of 1000 images inside Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons, without deletion template(s), used in mainspace? I am interesting in moving this type of files as first priority and it seems trivial to generate similar list. Bulwersator ( talk) 20:33, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
I like Johnny's idea; I'm currently hacking up a rudimentary .NET program to transfer images to Commons. We'll see what comes of it. — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Notate file pages with they articles they have been used on - I would like to request a bot to do two related tasks:
Rather than copy-pasting, I ask that to see my full reasoning you see the VP link above. This will also require a template to be made here and at Commons (something like {{ Usage history}}), and my thinking is that something close to Template:Tracklist would be best (with auto-collapse). I can do the template myself, but not well (I would be find/replacing Template:Tracklist), so if someone more skilled in template code would do that part as well, that would be great. Thanks! ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 21:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for somone to have a bot that looks for redirects in Image namespace and does a cleanup on the usage of those images by replacing the source link with the target appropriately in articles?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 12:00, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
even though it's a redirect target. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:29, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
There are a large number of pages for people whose surnames begin with "Mc" where there is a DEFAULTSORT to have the person's name alphabetized as though it began with "Mac". So, for example, John McCain's DEFAULTSORT is "Maccain, John". Alphabetizing names that begin with "Mc" as though they began with "Mac" is no longer standard nor desired. Could we get a bot to change the DEFAULTSORT on all the names like that to be as they are spelled? (Whether the letter after the prefix needs to be in lowercase to preserve alphabetical order is a separate matter that I'm not familiar with. I don't know if it needs to be "Mccain, John" or if "McCain, John" would work as well.) -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
I would like to make sure that all historical Canadian MPs are tagged in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada. I can do most of them with AWB, but when I started the two big provinces, the task started to look kind of daunting. So, could someone please look for talk pages that don't have {{WikiProject Canada
or {{WPCANADA
and prepend the following:
{{WikiProject Canada |on=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |qc=yes |ppap=yes}}
Those are the two categories with over 1000 articles each, but if you'd be willing to do the same with British Columbia (bc=yes), Nova Scotia (ns=yes), and New Brunswick (nb=yes), it would save me quite a bit of time. Also, I don't know whether this is possible, but if your bot sees any articles that only have the base template, it would be helpful if it added the ppap=yes parameter and the province parameter. Thank you, and have a nice holiday! — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:23, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Canada |ab=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |bc=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |sk=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |mb=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |ns=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |nb=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |pe=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |nl=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |nt=yes |ppap=yes}}
Will you be able to add ppap=yes and the provinces=yes to pages that already have the template? If this kind of request is pretty straightforward, I'll probably come back here at some point, because I usually spend many hours adding project banners with AWB. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 00:35, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
BRFA filed Cheers! Feedintm ( talk) 02:58, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I would like to download a few samples of different versions of an article. For instance, imagine I want to download all the December edits of this page. Is there a way to automate a download from
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Bot_requests&action=history (I don't mind if it is slow to avoid too much work on the servers). Ideally, there could be other information, like the date of the edit.
Thank you!
Lugan. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
87.217.185.79 (
talk) 21:55, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
—SW—
confer 17:47, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you!
— Preceding
unsigned comment added by
87.217.185.79 (
talk) 18:33, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to request that a bot be made that has the ability to monitor the number of reverts per minute and the number of edits per minute and with either the ratio of reverts to edits or just the raw number of reverts, update the
Vandalism information template every so often. I believe
this bot already does this on the German Wikipedia so it's definatly possible.
Thanks,
CJ
Drop me a line! •
Contribs 14:28, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
A daily approach. emijrp ( talk) 11:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
I've enjoyed using the telephone area codes added to the infoboxes in other states and I decided to do the legwork for Wisconsin. I went through the counties in the state using this document from the state's Public Service Commission and created a Sandbox article. The first section has the counties where all of the communities are within a single area code. All communities in the category + tree are within the indicated area code. In the second section, I manually when through each community (city/village/census-designated place(CDP)/town/unincorporated community). For those that an area code is apparent from the document, I added to the list. When it was not apparent, no area code should be added since it's not verifiable. Some town(ships) that have multiple telephone exchanges, so nothing should be listed in the infobox. Note the Political subdivisions of Wisconsin are EXTREMELY confusing to a non-native so it is critical to not confuse a town and a city/village. They are very different which has caused plenty of on-Wiki confusion that WikiProject Wisconsin had to deal with.
Note that I used shorthand for the area codes. 715 actually needs to be programmed as a wikilink to Area codes 715 and 534 and display 715/534. With the overlay area code 274 coming in 2014, I think consensus would be against adding the overlaid area code combination.
Should I do any more processing on the data? Would it be helpful for me to create 3 sandboxes, each with a different area code, to make it easier to program?
I can deal with manually correcting errors if you want to email the error output to me. Some communities are in multiple counties which will certainly cause errors. Royal broil 23:19, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
area_code
parameter is filled in as indicated for all the linked articles and for the articles in the linked categories?
Anomie
⚔ 00:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Vandals can disrupt Wikipedia by creating offensive page names, avoiding automatic detection by using obscure characters which might in reality pertain to mathematical equations or come from some rare language, but which are visually similar enough to English letters for readers to recognise that the page name is abusive. I feel that our main weapon against such vandalism: homoglyph lists: is currently in need of better coordination and organisation. Such equivalence classes are currently strewn about in various locations such as MediaWiki:Titleblacklist and User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Similar, and there is no communication between these. For example, if someone working on the blacklist should discover an obscure character that looks like an "A" and therefore adds it to the regex, this revision will not automatically benefit WP:UAA or the abuse filter. I feel that it would be productive to have a bot maintain and "sync" (à la Dropbox) these glyph equivalence classes, so that a new addition in one area benefits all the areas which stand to benefit from it. Case sensitivity is to be kept in mind here, I feel (since, for example, Υ looks like a "Y" but υ looks like a "u"). It would be handy if the bot could search for and remove duplicates within a single list; it might also be useful to have the bot sort these in some way (by Unicode number, say) to make it easier to find one or check if one is missing. Note that there is a relevant discussion here. It Is Me Here t / c 23:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
I would like to ask for someone to create a red link bot that would identify the top say 500 - 1000 articles within a project that are redlinks. Basically, this bot would look through the articles for a project and count the number of times a certain red link appears in the articles. This will help the project identify a couple things.
I am not asking for the bot to delink these red links just to list them. -- Kumioko ( talk) 03:31, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that there is an image database operated by NASA that allows searching using coordinates ( example) Is may be interesting to create list of pages with coordinates, without photo and with image(s) of this place in database Bulwersator ( talk) 09:34, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
A bot that lists pages that have most recently had a WikiProject banner placed on the talk page, i.e. a WikiProject new articles bot. I imagine it could be a top 10/20/.. new articles with the most recent being added to the top. Jack ( talk) 17:49, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I brought this up at
Template talk:Infobox French commune. We have thousands of articles using this infobox in which dms-format latitudes and longitudes have been converted to decimal format, which was fine except that they ran the computation out to as many as 12 decimal places, which give the superficial appearance of sub-millimetre precision in the location of the commune.
Écrammeville, for example. I'm convinced that the source data is only precise to 1 second of arc (about 0.00028 degrees of arc or 31-metre (102 ft)). While it's true that, for most users, the template displays only second-of-arc precision, this looks like a blatant example of
excess precision. I'd like to task a bot with rounding the |latitude=
and |longitude=
parameters to four decimal places: 0.0001-degree of arc (11-metre (36 ft)) precision. —
Stepheng3 (
talk) 19:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
~ Feedintm Parley 23:22, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Template:WP Computing, Template:WPComputing, Template:Computing, and Template:WikiProject Computers are four rarely used redirects to {{ WikiProject Computing}}, each with fewer than 150 transclusions. Would it be possible to modify the articles so they transclude {{ WikiProject Computing}} directly?
For background, I'm preparing for a bot request to help merge Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases#Restructure proposals as a task force, and I think eliminating synonyms for WikiProject Computing would simplify the task. – Pnm ( talk) 18:39, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Databases}}
(and redirects used) with {{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes|science=auto}}
. If the talk page already transcludes {{
WikiProject Computing}} or one of its redirects, add |databases=yes|database-importance=___|science=auto
, using the importance=
parameter from {{WikiProject Databases}}
(or redirect used), and remove {{WikiProject Databases}}
(or redirect used).Could someone write a bot to automatically close TfDs as 'Delete' when an admin deletes the template in question? We already have something like this at WP:PUF/ WP:FFD and it'd be a great help to have it at TfD as well. - FASTILY (TALK) 05:14, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
We should have a bot that runs around making sure that the categories are alphabetized on articles. There should also be a temple indicating that a page is not to have its categories alphabetized as well as a template telling the bot that certain categories shall remain above all of the alphabetized ones regardless of where alphabetical ordering would put them. -- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 04:04, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
This is a purely cosmetic change and (so far) just one editor's style preference. In the list of categories on the rendered page, they'd likely never be alphabetized anyway with all the templates that insert categories. Surely there are few enough FACs that they can be alphabetized by hand? Maybe you'd like a script that will alphabetize them for you when you're editing an article? — Bility ( talk) 16:48, 3 January 2012 (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 40 | ← | Archive 42 | Archive 43 | Archive 44 | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | → | Archive 50 |
Since a few of you have toolserver access and coding skills, would it be possible to create some toolserver tool that would create a CASSI query when used like such {{CODEN|DTARAF}}?
AKA you'd get something like
With the DTARAF link linking to http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp, with the search option set to "CODEN" and the search field populated with "DTARAF"? (And possibly the search would be performed automatically?) Or something very similar to that? Or is this outside the realm of what the toolserver can do? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:06, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Per WP:MOSHEAD and Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Images in sections, it would be pretty nice to have a bot remove all those annoying images and flag icons (e.g. [1]) from section headers. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:03, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
{{fb|ARG}}
should be replaced by "Argentina". There are hundreds of flag template combinations like these, so that would be a lot of bloat to add to AWB general fixes. If anything, an AWB enhancement should be limited to plain MediaWiki image markup, and use a dedicated bot to handle all the flag template transclusions that appear in a section header context. —
Andrwsc (
talk ·
contribs) 21:25, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
I request a bot to go through the categories listed below and update them to use the new parameters of {{ R from alternative language}}.
{{R from alternative language|zh}}
{{R from alternative language|el}}
{{R from alternative language|ja}}
{{R from alternative language|ko}}
{{R from alternative language|mk}}
{{R from alternative language|fa}}
{{R from alternative language|ru}}
This means that, for instance, every article in
Category:Redirects from Macedonian should be edited to remove [[Category:Redirects from Macedonian]]
(and {{R from alternative language}}
if present) and add {{R from alternative language|mk}}
. This request is due to a recent change in the categorization system.
Gorobay (
talk) 06:14, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I was just wondering if there was a bot that added {{
Unreferenced}}
or {{
Unreferenced BLP}}
to articles?
If so would the operator of said bot (if you are reading this) be willing to modify the bot to add |unref=
to certain WikiProjects banners on the articles talk page such as WikiProject United States)? If possible I would like it to remove |unref=
if the article has references. Since not all project support the unref parameter it should be optin but I think it would be very useful and would allow the individual projects to help police some of this by letting them focus on the articles in their projects. --
Kumioko (
talk) 20:39, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
I made a change to an infobox template here. This change however srews up the articles where it appears and there needs a fix to be done on all articles transcluding this template as in this edit. Can someone go through all transclusions of the infobox and fix it? Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 21:28, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
|image_size=
to regulate the size of the image. --
Philosopher
Let us reason together. 19:08, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
There is a group of parameters that are deprecated in Template:Multiple issues, and if one or more of the deprecated parameters are present, the article will be placed into Category:Articles using Multiple issues with deprecated parameters (0). Here are the codes that are deprecated, and then the parameter that they must be changed to:
{{Multiple issues|advertising=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|advert=}}
{{Multiple issues|biased=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|POV=}}
{{Multiple issues|blpdispute=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|disputed=}}
{{Multiple issues|BLPrefimprove=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|BLP sources=}}
{{Multiple issues|BLPunref=}}
and{{Multiple issues|BLPunreferenced=}}
and{{Multiple issues|unrefBLP=}}
and{{Multiple issues|unreferencedBLP=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|BLP unsourced=}}
{{Multiple issues|grammar=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|copy edit=}}
{{Multiple issues|in-universe-cat=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|in-universe=}}
{{Multiple issues|intro-rewrite=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead rewrite=}}
{{Multiple issues|leadtoolong=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead too long=}}
{{Multiple issues|leadtooshort=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead too short=}}
{{Multiple issues|moreref=}}
and{{Multiple issues|morerefs=}}
and{{Multiple issues|morereferences=}}
and{{Multiple issues|Refimprove=}}
and{{Multiple issues|ref-improve=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|refimprove=}}
{{Multiple issues|OR=}}
and{{Multiple issues|or=}}
and{{Multiple issues|research=}}
and{{Multiple issues|originalresearch=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|original research=}}
{{Multiple issues|out of=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|out of date=}}
{{Multiple issues|proseline=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|prose=}}
{{Multiple issues|recent=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|recentism=}}
{{Multiple issues|toolong=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|very long=}}
{{Multiple issues|tooshort=}}
→ {{Multiple issues|lead too short=}}
Is there a bot that would be able to cleanup the maintenance category for this template? Thanks, -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 22:53, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Please send a meetup notice to Wikipedians in and around the Charlotte, North Carolina area inviting them to join the Wikipedia:Meetup/Charlotte group and attend our first event on October 15th. Thanks! Eric Cable | Talk 15:09, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi bot people
At Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 September 22 it was decided to make red link into a blue link. But a lot of the previous links were intended to be red, so what we want is for a bot to go through every page at Special:WhatLinksHere/Red_link and replace the text red link with wikimarkup that will make that link red rather than blue.
I hope this makes sense!— S Marshall T/ C 01:10, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Since Oct. 2nd User:Oktanyum added several dozen of iw to articles in tr:wiki, however, none of them actually exists. I have checked and reverted about ten of them but it is quite arduous work. Is it possible that a bot could do it? Previous revisions by Oktanyum done in September are OK. Michał Sobkowski ( talk) 21:28, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can be set to clear a page in regular intervals, similar to what ChzzBot II does at WP:Sandbox? Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 00:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
I am requesting a bot that will locate all album covers under 220x220 pixels and add them to a category, to make it easier for editors to find them and replace with an image 220x200-300x300 pixels. I do not know how to write bot code, so I am requesting someone who knows how to do it. Thanks. Jasper420 17:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
SELECT img_name, img_width, img_height, COUNT(*)
FROM image
JOIN page ON page_namespace=6/*File:*/ AND page_title=img_name
JOIN categorylinks ON cl_from=page_id
WHERE img_width < 200 AND img_height < 200
AND cl_to IN ("Album_covers")
I wouldn't worry about the image height, just the width. — Bility ( talk) 00:08, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I can do this for you with the API also. Either by putting the category on the files or creating a page with the list of files for AWB to put the categories on. Let me know. — Bility ( talk) 17:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
There are a lot of images in English Wikipedia that are duplicates of files in Commons. A few tools that can give a list are available in toolserver ( [2], [3],...) but none of them actually tags the images here as {{ NowCommons}}. Will it be a good idea to create a bot which tags all such images as duplicates? -- Sreejith K ( talk) 20:03, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Can someone change all transclusions of User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Article talk notification to substitutions? Another user reminded me that the template is incorrectly transcluded on some talk pages and should be substituted. There are not many transclusions, but I don't have the time right now to do it myself and would appreciate if someone could do it. Thanks. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 17:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Dear Botmaster Overlords,
Occupy Wall Street is missing some named references that the usual reference-restoring bot(s) have not restored. Please help. Thank you. Dualus ( talk) 01:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Recently, Babel AutoCreate ( talk · contribs) has generated hundreds of empty or very sparsely populated categories such as Category:User aa-1. The general form of these categories is Category:User foo-X where foo is the ISO 639 code of some language and X belongs to the set {1,2,3,4,5,N}. (See also Category:Wikipedians by language)
I noticed these new categories because almost 600 of them ended up being flagged as uncategorized categories. So I was wondering if a bot could fix this. The idea is that all Category:User foo-X should be categorized in Category:User foo (which in many cases will have to be created) and that parent category should in turn be categorized in Category:Wikipedians by language. Thanks in advance, Pichpich ( talk) 22:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
{{
Babel category|level|language|code}}
on the categories instead.
Anomie
⚔ 22:46, 19 October 2011 (UTC)These are just two examples that I've noticed where I declined a speedy and it was renominated later. A bot should either automatically decline these re-nominations or else tag the re-nomination with a boilerplate warning that the article had previously been nominated and the nomination was declined. causa sui ( talk) 21:46, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
After finding lots of non-free files with old unused revisions, I think a bot would be necessary here. It would tag all non-free files with old file revisions with {{ subst:orfurrev}}. Things it would exclude:
Any problems/takers? — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 20:38, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
We've about 4,000 external links of the form google.com/url?url=... (plus other Google domains) - they redirect the reader to the target page, so they're not strictly broken as such, but they are problematic for other reasons, including that it allows an external site to see people's reading information! They've been blacklisted but, of course, are still around in articles - would it be practical for a bot to convert all these to "plain" URLs? Shimgray | talk | 16:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello; two months ago the names of the Canadian Forces service branches changed and the page were moved accordingly :
A lot of links were changed accordingly, but a lot of them remain, so I'm asking for help from a bot operator to change these links (except in user and user talk space of course), which should be fairly straightforward. Redirects are generally not an issue, but in this case many of them are piped (exemple Canadian Forces Land Force Command|Canadian Army
(useless redirect), or if they display the old names as in Canadian Forces Land Force Command
, it's not accurate anymore.
I'm no bot expert, but I figure it would be fairly easy to scan WhatLinksHere, remove the redirects from the evident piped links (like |Canadian Army
, |Royal Canadian Navy
, and |Royal Canadian Air Force
), and change the other links, using the exact syntax to avoid possible mistakes (variants such as Canadian Forces Land Force Command|Army of Canada
would be dealt with manually).
Is anyone interested in running a bot for this task? Thanks in advance. :) — CharlieEchoTango — 04:02, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, just wanted to bring this to your attention. Any willing and able bot ops here who'd like to help out? Please let me know! Thanks, Maryana (WMF) ( talk) 19:14, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
I've just created around 200 articles about flag bearers, as listed at Template:Olympic national flag bearers lists. The articles could do with a few redirects. For example, List of flag bearers for Mozambique at the Olympics could do with:
There could of course be many other variations, especially given "flagbearers" and "flag-bearers", but I think that these are the main ones. If someone were able to create these redirects for all the articles I'd be most grateful. violet/riga [talk] 12:11, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Is there a way to make a bot that will automatically categorize song articles by record label (e.g. Category:RCA Records singles? I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard, since almost all song article have {{ Infobox single}} and something typed into the Label = field — I don't know a thing about bots, but it should be easy to work from that. The singles-by-label schematic is very underpopulated. Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 05:55, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Requesting bot be created and run for this....that is, an editor other than me to run it.
Texas Historic Sites Atlas, changed their URL for references obtained by right-clicking and then "Open Link in a new window". Rather than the Texas Historical Commission just redirecting links going to the old address, it seems it will be up to the individual editor to go back and manually correct such links the editor may have inserted in any Wikipedia article.
Here's details of the difference:
All they did was remove the word "common" and a forward slash, but it messes up any Wikipedia links out there to the old address.
Maile66 ( talk) 22:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Currently, the template Lists of Russians is applied to over 2000 articles, mostly individual people from Russia (rather than articles containing lists of Russians). According to the usage instructions (and common sense) we should only apply a navigation box to the articles for which it navigates. As such, it would be amazing if a bot could help remove it from all articles about individual people. It might be easiest to just load up the entire transclusion list in AWB, then remove by hand the dozen or so articles that it is intended to navigate. Thank you. 198.102.153.2 ( talk) 17:19, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Might I respectfully suggest that this discussion be moved to Template talk:Lists of Russians for further discussion? With appropriate discussion notices put up elsewhere to reach a reasonable consensus on its use on articles, of course. The Bot requests page hardly seems the appropriate forum for this discussion, especially since it is now clear that a bot request for this will not be approved until after the discussion. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:03, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
mmh, I'm not sure if it is possible to create a bot without creating too many false/positives.
Check that diff and read the IPs edit summary ;) There are (correctly) too many pages with unwanted newlines and forced newlines (by placing
on that. Is there any way to create a bot that removes these?
mabdul 11:16, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey,I think a bot made for Speedy deletion would be great,it would make the New page patrolling tasks more easier.If it contains all the criterias,it would be the best.Please consider on making this a success.A bot will be really very useful to all the New page patrollers.With regards,Dipankan001. That's me! Have doubt? What I done? 07:19, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Can a bot be setup to add all the redlinks from the recent deaths page to an archive? I think there's a lot of useful info that is lost when the page is cleaned and entries >1 month old without a Wiki article are removed. The archive could be in the same format as the current page and stored outside the mainspace. Maybe there could be a daily sweep to add new redlinks to the archive. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lugnuts ( talk • contribs) 09:37, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
While reviewing one of my own articles I found a type: awared instead of awarded (or award). A quick search gave me the horrible sentece "Results 1–20 of 765,699 for awared". To make it difficult, not in all cases this will be wrong, as there is a volcano with "Awared" in its name. I hope a bot-owner has time to take on this challenge! Night of the Big Wind talk 12:49, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
WP:AN and WP:ANI have recently seen an unexpectedly large number of requests for help with AFD discussions that never made it to any day's log. See the "Very old AfD's" section of the current WP:ANI page. I'm requesting a bot to list AFDs that aren't on any logs if at least one day has passed since their creation. Nyttend ( talk) 22:06, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
We have just created WikiProject Bibliographies and would appreciate it if you could tag all articles in Category:Bibliographies with {{ WikiProject Bibliographies}}. RockMagnetist ( talk) 16:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
It would be nice if we had a bot that could do null edits on request by user, perhaps on a semi-protected page. It would save me and probably other users from going through large numbers of pages with AWB. — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 03:31, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
I've just about finished moving WikiProject Etymology, WikiProject Phonetics, and WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics to task forces of WikiProject Linguistics (per
this discussion), and I would like some bot help in moving over the old project talk page banners to the WP Linguistics banner.
WP Phonetics and WP Theoretical Linguistics are standard banner implementations, but the WP Etymology banner is a bit funky and will need a little more complexity when completing the move.
First of all, the simple ones:
|class=
should stay the same|importance=
should be moved to |theoretical-importance=
Now for WP Etymology. As well as the usual class system categories, there are three additional categories for grading the etymology sections of articles on general topics: "good", "incomplete", and "missing". These have corresponding values of |class=
. I have also added a fourth category into the WP Linguistics template, for unassessed etymology sections. The WP Etymology template distinguishes between articles on etymology topics and articles on general topics by using |section=yes
. I have mirrored this use in the WP Linguistics template with |etymology-section=
, and I have changed the section class system to use |etymology-section-class=
(or |etymology-class=
). So here are the changes that are necessary:
|section=
should be moved to |etymology-section=
|class=
should not change, except in the following three cases:
|class=good
should be moved to |etymology-section-class=good
|class=incomplete
should be moved to |etymology-section-class=incomplete
|class=missing
should be moved to |etymology-section-class=missing
{{
WikiProject Etymology}} also uses both |priority=
and |importance=
for the importance scale. In some cases this may be the default scale, but in most cases it is a numerical scale from 1 to 9. This scale is based on the number of links to an article in "what links here". So:
|priority=
and |importance=
should be moved to |etymology-importance=
|priority=
or |importance=
that are numerical should be converted like this:|1|2 = Top |3|4 = High |5|6 = Mid |7|8|9 = Low
(At this point I need to come clean and admit that I have moved 7 from Mid to Low, just because I think it makes the number of linked pages look neater. See this version of the project page for details on the old number system.)
Finally, if there is a WP Linguistics banner already on the page in addition to any of the other banners, they can safely be merged if the |class=
parameters are the same on both templates (with the caveats for the unusual classes in WP Etymology outlined above). However, if the |class=
parameters differ, then the pages should probably be listed in a special category for manual attention (maybe
Category:WikiProject Linguistics banner transclusions needing attention?), although I am open to suggestion if there are better ways of doing it.
Thanks for bearing with me through this long post, and please let me know whether this would be possible. Thanks.
Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 07:40, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
The application of {{ Start date}} in infoboxes (per the documentation of those infoboxes) is still outstanding; could we have a response to this long-standing review request, please? Even without a bot, we have gone from 54,500 transclusion of {{ Start date}} on 11 May, to 71,070 today. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships#Tons Burthen cannot be given metric equivalents, we need a bot to remove the many spurious conversions from 'tons burthen' in ship's infoboxes and replace them with a reference to builders measure. Preferably it would producing a listing of what had been changed to allow checking.
To change this:
|Ship tons burthen=521 long tons (529.4 t)
To this:
|Ship tons burthen=521 tons bm
Thanks Petecarney ( talk) 18:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I'd like to get a bot to go through all files on English wikipedia and compile a list of files that contain both:
1) one of {{ PD-textlogo}}, {{ PD-text}}, {{ PD-shape}}
and
2) any of the templates in the box below.
The aforementioned "box below"
|
---|
|
From there all the files should be tagged with {{
wrong license}}, or better {{
wrong license|bot reviewed}}
(which should be made to put the items into a sub-category.
I'll then go through and clear the list. Sven Manguard Wha? 12:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Per resolved discussion at
MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Flatlist css tweak and
WP:HLIST, we need a bot to replace dot-separated pseudo-lists in navboxes with proper, accessible and HTML-standards-compliant wiki-list (asterisked) markup, and class="hlist"
, per this
sample conversion. The edit summaries should refer to WP:HLIST. Please raise any technical queries at
MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Bot req.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 15:44, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Articles like 1741 in Great Britain will also need conversion (or perhaps need a template); see for example. See {{Tl|GB year nav}] and others in Category:History and events navbox templates for lists; no doubt there are others. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:19, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I found many redirect pages that their history has more that one revisions and some of the are more that 10 revisions please merge history of this pages that listed here . thank you Reza1615 ( talk) 08:09, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
The application of {{ Start date}} in infoboxes (per the documentation of those infoboxes) is still outstanding; could we have a response to this long-standing review request, please? Even without a bot, we have gone from 54,500 transclusion of {{ Start date}} on 11 May, to 71,070 today. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey all. I've been doing some recent changes patrol, and I've noticed that when a new page is reached through recent changes, one can't mark it as patrolled for the new pages page. Would it be possible to make a bot to go through the new pages patrol and mark any already-patrolled pages as patrolled? My first thought was to just flag as patrolled the ones marked for deletion (through speedy, prod, or whatever), but I guess it could also look for maintenance tags, as well. Would this be useful? I don't *think* it's being done by any bot currently, but I could be wrong. Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 15:59, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Once again I see an article taken to AFD a month after it survived the last AFD. Can someone make a bot that checks the AFD logs and determines which ones say 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. nomination, and then check to see how long ago the previous one was made, and if recently, goes ahead and contacts every single person who participated there? Dream Focus 15:33, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
A reliable source for the video games project, gamepro.com, has announced they are closing down due to financial reasons and taking the website with them (redirecting requests to the people that are buying their assets but not the content). This is to happen by Dec 5. We have more than 1000 pages (AWB check) that use links to gamepro.com, and it would be nice if we could have a bot (does one already exist?) tag these for webcite archival, possibly creating a report file that we at the VG project can use later to fill in archiveurl + date points (though if the bot can do that do all the better).
I do note that archive.org does have some links from July 21, 2011, so if there's a way to focus on the most recent gamepro.com additions, that would be the fastest solution (or even to generate a list of articles where gamepro.com has been added after this point). There's probably some other options but I'd like to see what can be done in the fastest time with existing tools if possible. -- MASEM ( t) 22:39, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
On hold Request put on hold by original proposer until a consensus has been reached at WP:VPR#Bot to maintain and auto update a list. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 10:37, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
(Originally posted by Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk · contribs) to WP:VPR, posted here as a courtesy.)
I would like to get consensus for the following bot task: Automatically update Sony Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries#Shareholders with information from http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/stock/information.html where it says Principal Shareholders. That is, the shareholder rang, name and percentage should be checked by the bot against the information present on the website and automatically updated, when there is a discrepancy between the two pages. Paolo Napolitano 10:58, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
(Original post is at WP:VPR#Bot to maintain and auto update a list). Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 11:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if someone would cause a bot to tag the talk pages of all articles found the categories in the collapsed section, below, as follows:
If the talk page does not have {{
WPUKroads}} or {{
WikiProject UK Roads}}, then tag with {{WPUKroads|importance=low|class=}}. Ideally inherit a value for class=
from another wikiproject template on the page.
Note that data in the collapsed table is a simple list, albeit wraps when you expand the section below. Best grabbed in edit mode. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 20:45, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Could someone write a bot/script to move any entry in this list with "archive" or "comments" in the subpage name to the proper subpage of the redirect target? It would have to be human-monitored to ensure that merged pages don't have multiple talk page archives. — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 00:49, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible to run a bot that could automatically flag possible disputes, based on reverts or talk-page keywords? We have been discussing this idea over at WikiProject Dispute Resolution, and I was wondering if it would be technically possible. It would probably both tag the relevant article talk page, and list the possible dispute on a central noticeboard for human inspection. It would also de-list them if they became stale. There was a research team who wrote a tool like this based on reverts (Signpost coverage here and here), although I'm not sure how the details would work out if we tried to incorporate it. Let me know if this idea seems workable or not. Thanks — Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 09:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Please can someone convert album and single lengths, inside {{ Infobox album}} and {{ Track listing}}, to use {{ Duration}}. Here's a sample edit.
If you like, at the same time convert {{
Singles}}' release date to use {{
Start date}}, as in the same edit, but only if {{Start date}}
is already in use (or converted at the same time) for the main album release date. df=y must be used where appropriate.
This will allow dates and durations to be emitted as metadata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:22, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Should be done for {{ Infobox single}} & {{ Infobox song}}, too (as per their documentation since August 2010). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Hundreds of stubs in
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System need to have their coordinate display parameter set to |display=inline,title
, as in
this example edit. among other things, this will cause them to be included in Google Maps' Wikipedia layer.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 15:31, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to generate list of 1000 images inside Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons, without deletion template(s), used in mainspace? I am interesting in moving this type of files as first priority and it seems trivial to generate similar list. Bulwersator ( talk) 20:33, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
I like Johnny's idea; I'm currently hacking up a rudimentary .NET program to transfer images to Commons. We'll see what comes of it. — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Notate file pages with they articles they have been used on - I would like to request a bot to do two related tasks:
Rather than copy-pasting, I ask that to see my full reasoning you see the VP link above. This will also require a template to be made here and at Commons (something like {{ Usage history}}), and my thinking is that something close to Template:Tracklist would be best (with auto-collapse). I can do the template myself, but not well (I would be find/replacing Template:Tracklist), so if someone more skilled in template code would do that part as well, that would be great. Thanks! ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 21:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible for somone to have a bot that looks for redirects in Image namespace and does a cleanup on the usage of those images by replacing the source link with the target appropriately in articles?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 12:00, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
even though it's a redirect target. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:29, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
There are a large number of pages for people whose surnames begin with "Mc" where there is a DEFAULTSORT to have the person's name alphabetized as though it began with "Mac". So, for example, John McCain's DEFAULTSORT is "Maccain, John". Alphabetizing names that begin with "Mc" as though they began with "Mac" is no longer standard nor desired. Could we get a bot to change the DEFAULTSORT on all the names like that to be as they are spelled? (Whether the letter after the prefix needs to be in lowercase to preserve alphabetical order is a separate matter that I'm not familiar with. I don't know if it needs to be "Mccain, John" or if "McCain, John" would work as well.) -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
I would like to make sure that all historical Canadian MPs are tagged in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada. I can do most of them with AWB, but when I started the two big provinces, the task started to look kind of daunting. So, could someone please look for talk pages that don't have {{WikiProject Canada
or {{WPCANADA
and prepend the following:
{{WikiProject Canada |on=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |qc=yes |ppap=yes}}
Those are the two categories with over 1000 articles each, but if you'd be willing to do the same with British Columbia (bc=yes), Nova Scotia (ns=yes), and New Brunswick (nb=yes), it would save me quite a bit of time. Also, I don't know whether this is possible, but if your bot sees any articles that only have the base template, it would be helpful if it added the ppap=yes parameter and the province parameter. Thank you, and have a nice holiday! — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:23, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Canada |ab=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |bc=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |sk=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |mb=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |ns=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |nb=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |pe=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |nl=yes |ppap=yes}}
{{WikiProject Canada |nt=yes |ppap=yes}}
Will you be able to add ppap=yes and the provinces=yes to pages that already have the template? If this kind of request is pretty straightforward, I'll probably come back here at some point, because I usually spend many hours adding project banners with AWB. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 00:35, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
BRFA filed Cheers! Feedintm ( talk) 02:58, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I would like to download a few samples of different versions of an article. For instance, imagine I want to download all the December edits of this page. Is there a way to automate a download from
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Bot_requests&action=history (I don't mind if it is slow to avoid too much work on the servers). Ideally, there could be other information, like the date of the edit.
Thank you!
Lugan. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
87.217.185.79 (
talk) 21:55, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
—SW—
confer 17:47, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you!
— Preceding
unsigned comment added by
87.217.185.79 (
talk) 18:33, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to request that a bot be made that has the ability to monitor the number of reverts per minute and the number of edits per minute and with either the ratio of reverts to edits or just the raw number of reverts, update the
Vandalism information template every so often. I believe
this bot already does this on the German Wikipedia so it's definatly possible.
Thanks,
CJ
Drop me a line! •
Contribs 14:28, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
A daily approach. emijrp ( talk) 11:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
I've enjoyed using the telephone area codes added to the infoboxes in other states and I decided to do the legwork for Wisconsin. I went through the counties in the state using this document from the state's Public Service Commission and created a Sandbox article. The first section has the counties where all of the communities are within a single area code. All communities in the category + tree are within the indicated area code. In the second section, I manually when through each community (city/village/census-designated place(CDP)/town/unincorporated community). For those that an area code is apparent from the document, I added to the list. When it was not apparent, no area code should be added since it's not verifiable. Some town(ships) that have multiple telephone exchanges, so nothing should be listed in the infobox. Note the Political subdivisions of Wisconsin are EXTREMELY confusing to a non-native so it is critical to not confuse a town and a city/village. They are very different which has caused plenty of on-Wiki confusion that WikiProject Wisconsin had to deal with.
Note that I used shorthand for the area codes. 715 actually needs to be programmed as a wikilink to Area codes 715 and 534 and display 715/534. With the overlay area code 274 coming in 2014, I think consensus would be against adding the overlaid area code combination.
Should I do any more processing on the data? Would it be helpful for me to create 3 sandboxes, each with a different area code, to make it easier to program?
I can deal with manually correcting errors if you want to email the error output to me. Some communities are in multiple counties which will certainly cause errors. Royal broil 23:19, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
area_code
parameter is filled in as indicated for all the linked articles and for the articles in the linked categories?
Anomie
⚔ 00:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Vandals can disrupt Wikipedia by creating offensive page names, avoiding automatic detection by using obscure characters which might in reality pertain to mathematical equations or come from some rare language, but which are visually similar enough to English letters for readers to recognise that the page name is abusive. I feel that our main weapon against such vandalism: homoglyph lists: is currently in need of better coordination and organisation. Such equivalence classes are currently strewn about in various locations such as MediaWiki:Titleblacklist and User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Similar, and there is no communication between these. For example, if someone working on the blacklist should discover an obscure character that looks like an "A" and therefore adds it to the regex, this revision will not automatically benefit WP:UAA or the abuse filter. I feel that it would be productive to have a bot maintain and "sync" (à la Dropbox) these glyph equivalence classes, so that a new addition in one area benefits all the areas which stand to benefit from it. Case sensitivity is to be kept in mind here, I feel (since, for example, Υ looks like a "Y" but υ looks like a "u"). It would be handy if the bot could search for and remove duplicates within a single list; it might also be useful to have the bot sort these in some way (by Unicode number, say) to make it easier to find one or check if one is missing. Note that there is a relevant discussion here. It Is Me Here t / c 23:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
I would like to ask for someone to create a red link bot that would identify the top say 500 - 1000 articles within a project that are redlinks. Basically, this bot would look through the articles for a project and count the number of times a certain red link appears in the articles. This will help the project identify a couple things.
I am not asking for the bot to delink these red links just to list them. -- Kumioko ( talk) 03:31, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that there is an image database operated by NASA that allows searching using coordinates ( example) Is may be interesting to create list of pages with coordinates, without photo and with image(s) of this place in database Bulwersator ( talk) 09:34, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
A bot that lists pages that have most recently had a WikiProject banner placed on the talk page, i.e. a WikiProject new articles bot. I imagine it could be a top 10/20/.. new articles with the most recent being added to the top. Jack ( talk) 17:49, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I brought this up at
Template talk:Infobox French commune. We have thousands of articles using this infobox in which dms-format latitudes and longitudes have been converted to decimal format, which was fine except that they ran the computation out to as many as 12 decimal places, which give the superficial appearance of sub-millimetre precision in the location of the commune.
Écrammeville, for example. I'm convinced that the source data is only precise to 1 second of arc (about 0.00028 degrees of arc or 31-metre (102 ft)). While it's true that, for most users, the template displays only second-of-arc precision, this looks like a blatant example of
excess precision. I'd like to task a bot with rounding the |latitude=
and |longitude=
parameters to four decimal places: 0.0001-degree of arc (11-metre (36 ft)) precision. —
Stepheng3 (
talk) 19:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
~ Feedintm Parley 23:22, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Template:WP Computing, Template:WPComputing, Template:Computing, and Template:WikiProject Computers are four rarely used redirects to {{ WikiProject Computing}}, each with fewer than 150 transclusions. Would it be possible to modify the articles so they transclude {{ WikiProject Computing}} directly?
For background, I'm preparing for a bot request to help merge Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases#Restructure proposals as a task force, and I think eliminating synonyms for WikiProject Computing would simplify the task. – Pnm ( talk) 18:39, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Databases}}
(and redirects used) with {{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes|science=auto}}
. If the talk page already transcludes {{
WikiProject Computing}} or one of its redirects, add |databases=yes|database-importance=___|science=auto
, using the importance=
parameter from {{WikiProject Databases}}
(or redirect used), and remove {{WikiProject Databases}}
(or redirect used).Could someone write a bot to automatically close TfDs as 'Delete' when an admin deletes the template in question? We already have something like this at WP:PUF/ WP:FFD and it'd be a great help to have it at TfD as well. - FASTILY (TALK) 05:14, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
We should have a bot that runs around making sure that the categories are alphabetized on articles. There should also be a temple indicating that a page is not to have its categories alphabetized as well as a template telling the bot that certain categories shall remain above all of the alphabetized ones regardless of where alphabetical ordering would put them. -- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 04:04, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
This is a purely cosmetic change and (so far) just one editor's style preference. In the list of categories on the rendered page, they'd likely never be alphabetized anyway with all the templates that insert categories. Surely there are few enough FACs that they can be alphabetized by hand? Maybe you'd like a script that will alphabetize them for you when you're editing an article? — Bility ( talk) 16:48, 3 January 2012 (UTC)