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I was wondering if it would be possible for a bot to create / populate the WP:FAR archive each month? The latest example is Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/December 2011. Since August 2010 there have been at most 10 FARs closed in a month, usually less. I assumed if a person made the archive each month, and the FAR delegates added a category (something like kept or demoted), that a bot could add the closed items to the archive. I am not sure the bot would even have to check every day - probably once a month would work.
I asked at CBM's talk page and he said that he thought it would be possible, but that he did not have time to do it himself, so I am asking here. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:57, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
When an article gets sent to AFD, a bot should check to see what Wikiproject it belongs to, and notify that Wikiproject automatically, as well as add in their special search to the top of the AFD. It already has a Google news archive search. Its useful to have the Google searches made for various Wikiprojects, which check only the sites listed as reliable sources. Example: [1] for the Video game articles. Dream Focus 07:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
we have more than enough to work from. I can always come back or Ping GoingBatty ( talk · contribs) if we finish the lists. THANKS! StarM 04:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I've recently come across some museums ( Fichtelgebirge Museum, for example) which are in one or more of the museum sub cats but are not tagged with the Museum WikiProject Banner. In order to avoid an issue like we had with mistagged articles I'd love for a bot to run a list of articles in one of the Museum subcats but without the project banner & place the list here for the project to review. Is that something a bot can do? Members of the project will then work through the list to remove articles that shouldn't be tagged & tag those that should (or generate a list for a bot to tag if there are many).
Caveat, I'm not 100% sure on how to identify all the subcats of CATEGORY:Museums. Is that something a BOT can do? It would be looking for articles that lack WikiProject Museums on their talk. THanks! StarM 23:39, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
I made some statics in fa.wiki that shows in en wiki it have many conflicts in interwikis
this.most of them need to Merge or their interwiki has some problems (bots or users) and most of them have to correct with users in interwiki correction wikiprojects
I developed some codes but I don't know how and where can I put these daily data.I'm appreciate that a user can localize and run
these code.
also I check en wiki interwiki relations and it shows it has many conflicts with de,fr,it,pl (other huge wikis)'s iterwiki that they should solve by user in
wikipedia:wikiproject interwiki corrections.
Reza1615 (
talk) 15:55, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi there.
tv.com has changed the layout of their links and as a result, many of them are now broken. {{
Tv.com episode}} was changed from using {{
Tv.com episode|Number}}
to {{
Tv.com episode|show-name/episode-name-number}}
(e.g. {{
Tv.com episode|1365}}
is now {{
Tv.com episode|the-simpsons/marge-in-chains-1365}}
) but the transclusions with the old number-only parameter are broken now. As such, I would request someone who has already some search-and-replace-code written to adapt it to this:
{{
Tv.com episode|Number}}
{{
Tv.com episode|the-simpsons/episode-title-number}}
For now, I'd limit the task to episodes of The Simpsons to see if it works. If it does, it might be used to check all tranclusions of the template. Also, I'm unsure as to technically handle the case when the URL does not work as intended (although a Google search with the episode name, the number and "site:tv.com" seems to work). Any takers? Regards So Why 18:02, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot add the "arminianism=yes|arminianism-importance=" parameters to those articles which have already been tagged wit Template:WikiProject Christianity and either the "baptist-work-group=yes" parameter or "methodism-work-group=yes" parameters. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 21:18, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
I would very much like a way of getting all the new images under the category Monmouth onto a page on Monmouthpedia, the project I started on en.Wikipedia, if anyone would like to make a bot to do this (or suggest another way of doing it) that would be super. I would like it to be able to show the title of the image below and to copy the images so that the oldest are at the bottom and the newest at the top. We are going to have hopefully lots of people taking images over a couple of months. -- Mrjohncummings ( talk) 13:39, 16 January 2012 (UTC)a
There are perhaps a thousand links to nasal consonant, when nearly all should go to nasal stop, which is the common and also more precise term. (Exact number unknown; I just rd'd the templates, and the number has not yet settled.) 'Nasal consonant' is currently a redirect with some potential to be expanded into an article. I would like to request a bot to rd. links in any article titled 'X language(s)' or 'X phonology'. (The few articles on languages with non-stop nasals I review periodically, and the bot edits will show up on my watch page.) The links that remain I can rd. manually. — kwami ( talk) 01:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, could some one please make some changes due to a moved article? I recently moved the article American Chinese cuisine to Chinese American cuisine and the related links and categories need to be fixed.
Does anyone have a bot that can make these changes? -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 20:23, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
The online version of Encyclopædia Iranica has changed domain from iranica.com to iranicaonline.org. (This happened in 2010, apparently.) The domain iranica.com is now inactive and displays only an error message. Is it possible to update all the links on Wikipedia to iranica.com? At least links of the type http://www.iranica.com/articles/title (which constitute the bulk of the broken links) can be safely changed to http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/title. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 17:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Just picking an article out of the hat, we can use Talk:Bill_Auberlen for example. He has two project tags on his Talk page currently. There should be a bot to wrap project tags into a WikiProjectBannerShell so that they are always grouped together. My only thoughts would perhaps having a minimum number of project tags on a talk page before the bot rolls in and groups them. For starters I think 2 or more would be fine. Or perhaps 3 as the minimum. -- Sabre ball t c 18:24, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
There are a couple of users whose uploads with false own work claims have landed them at CCI. An unforseen side effect of Fbot's tagging of freely licensed files is that many of these copyvios are tagged for transfer.
What is needed is a bot that looks at all files linked to at a page in the Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/ tree, such as Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Arab League, removes the {{ Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} tag if there is one, and adds a template specifiably warning against transferring the file.
This is an urgent task, as I'm already seeing copyvios getting transferred over in the ongoing transfer drive. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
There were actually only 498 of them; I had double counted some. I had the bot scan them all to make sure they were tagged with the CCI tag. Glad to help, — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:09, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Paid editing has been back in the news in the past month big time, and our process to prevent it is somewhat broken or at least not sufficiently smooth and well-known, and that encourages socking. How about a way for Category:Requested edits members (from {{ Request edit}}) more than a few days old to show up in the feedback request service or similar? Selery ( talk) 19:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
I've on occasion "corrected" IMDb external links that don't utilize the template (usually just a simple URL of the page), but it's a tedious process that can never correct all of them, which could number in the thousands. Could there be a bot that would automatically correct every IMDb link so it uses the proper template, both in external links and references? Exceptions to this would be the links to pages such as full cast, box office, technical specs, trivia, goofs, etc., which the template cannot be directly linked to. A related bot could perhaps correct all of the many instances where the template incorrectly repeats the article title, instead of using the title or name as it appears on the IMDb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.87.80 ( talk) 21:55, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a bot that would either notify a board or reverse the edits of a cut-and-paste page move? I've come across two in the last week ( Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within and Serious Sam), which makes me think they are often unnoticed. Presumably, if one page goes blank and the text appears at a previous redirect or new page, it should be pretty obvious.▫ JohnnyMrNinja 06:08, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
This is not a bot request per se, so feel free to move it to a more appropriate page. StatsCan is about to release a flood of new data and we have started to talk about it. One way to tackle it is to look at all the articles linking to www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/*.
So can ayone produce a list of article with extlinks to that address prefix? It would need to be sorted or secondary-keyed by province (get article categories and look for unique use of "Ontario", "Alberta", etc.), not sure whether a wiki-formatted or tab-delimited output would be best, probably both so I could awk the raw text. If someone could do a raw list so I can look at it, that would be great. More refinement requests would likely follow, as we are just looking to update the base population (&c) data for this release. Thanks for any help! Franamax ( talk) 02:33, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
At {{ Infobox language}}, we used to have a parameter that rather perversely needed to be set to "none" if another parameter was not to link to a WP article. Support for this "ll" parameter has now been removed, after I asked 6 wks ago and no-one objected. I hard-linked the articles and set the "ll" parameters to "none" before removing template support, and they no longer have a function.
There are about 400 articles with ll..=none
, where the ".." may be one or two digits. Could these be removed? Pls do not rm. line breaks, unless this would mean two in a row.
If there are any which are not set to 'none', they should be left for me to clean up manually. (Removing them would have no effect on the display, but they would mean I overlooked something.) — kwami ( talk) 09:47, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
At {{ Infobox language}}, we used to have a parameter that rather perversely needed to be set to "none" if another parameter was not to link to a WP article. Support for this "ll" parameter has now been removed, after I asked 6 wks ago and no-one objected. I hard-linked the articles and set the "ll" parameters to "none" before removing template support, and they no longer have a function.
There are about 400 articles with ll..=none
, where the ".." may be one or two digits. Could these be removed? Pls do not rm. line breaks, unless this would mean two in a row.
If there are any which are not set to 'none', they should be left for me to clean up manually. (Removing them would have no effect on the display, but they would mean I overlooked something.) — kwami ( talk) 09:47, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
If you review the last few days of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Computing articles by quality log you'll see that a number of the "reassessed" entries repeat each day, even though the talk pages haven't been changed in months.
A number of templates such as Category:WikiProject Computer science, Category:WikiProject Microsoft Windows, Category:WikiProject Computer Security, and Category:WikiProject Software automatically include the parent WikiProject Computing. When these templates are used in combination, but do not specify the same importance level, or one provides an importance level but the other does not, the articles end up in multiple assessment categories.
I reported this at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index/Archive_6#Help_with_Computing_reassessment_log but was advised that I needed to fix the categories – that this wasn't a problem with the bot. Which makes sense – the articles are indeed in Unassessed-importance computing articles and High-importance computing articles.
These are examples of the fixes I'd like the bot to make:
{{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=Top}} {{WikiProject Technology|class=start|importance=high}} {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=start|importance=}} to {{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=Top}} {{WikiProject Technology|class=start|importance=high}} {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=start|importance=|computing-importance=Top}}
{{WikiProject California|class= C |importance=Mid |sfba=yes|sfba-importance=high}} {{WikiProject Companies|class= C|importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Computing |class=C |importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Software}} {{WikiProject Technology}} {{WikiProject Electronics}} to {{WikiProject California|class= C |importance=Mid |sfba=yes|sfba-importance=high}} {{WikiProject Companies|class= C|importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Computing |class=C |importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Software|class=C|computing-importance=Mid}} {{WikiProject Technology}} {{WikiProject Electronics}}
A theoretical example, which would result from someone naively adding Computing/Databases to a previously categorized Windows article:
{{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=A|importance=High|computing-importance=mid}} {{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes}} to {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=A|importance=High|computing-importance=mid}} {{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|databases=yes}}
And finally a contrived theoretical example:
{{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|science=yes}} {{WikiProject Computer science|class=A|importance=mid}} to {{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|science=yes|science-importance=mid}} {{WikiProject Computer science|class=A|importance=mid|computing-importance=mid}}
These spurious entries make the assessment report much less useful. In 2010 the list was so long that a single day's report spanned 2–3 pages, and I cleared hundreds of them. I used to keep up with the subsequent errors contributors introduce when they add tags without synchronizing the parent project assessments, but it was tedious work and it's a task better suited to automation.
Banner consolidation is a simpler solution, but requires consensus about how to handle the multiple projects. In some cases I think there would be consensus to consolidate (e.g. Software, Computer Security) but in others there would be consensus to keep separate (e.g. Computer Science). So it is necessary to fix the articles which are tagged with multiple projects – on its own banner consolidation will not solve the problem.
This would need to be a recurring bot run. If it's too difficult to identify all the articles which appear in conflicting assessment categories, it could use the results of the various WP 1.0 bot's "reassessed" lists to select which articles need examination. Would someone be willing to set this up? – Pnm ( talk) 17:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
The code < categorytree > is used in categories to display all of the subcats. There has been a change to the MediaWiki software at some point and now all of the subcats are displayed on all the category pages if the limit of 200 is exceeded. this makes < categorytree > redundant. See an example at Category:Japanese musicians. I don't know how often it is used but it I have seen it quite regularly. I would like to have all instances of its use removed. It is often creates quite a clutter on a category page. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 21:19, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
<categorytree>...</categorytree>
construct. In short - if the
Category:Foo page were given the following code:
<categorytree>Foo</categorytree>
<categorytree>Bar</categorytree>
Given that over WP:100 editors were involved overall, I think a bot is the best method to notify all the editors mentioned in Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Fæ#Of_note. ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 05:28, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Okay. I'll do this shortly. I have a list of 179 users who !voted in the RfA, endorsed a summary in the RfC, or commented in the ANI discussion. I'll probably use the text above, with a comment indicating the notification's been delivered by a neutral party, etc. Also considering the age of some of these discussions, I'm probably going to skip any talk pages that haven't been active for two weeks (probably inactive user, not going to contribute, not helpful). Cheers, — madman 18:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Can a bot replace any URLs that start with http://archiv.berlinale.de to http://www.berlinale.de as the "archiv" part of the URL is now redundant. I estimate approx 150-200 articles in scope. Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 13:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
I want a bot to complete school assignments on an online school called Laurel Springs. It has a simple sign in, And a lot of the assignments are multiple choice, And you can retake the tests once or twice. Email below <email address removed> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.105.238.103 ( talk) 17:30, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Can someone help with this, please: For articles where {{
Infobox scientist}} or {{
Infobox person}} has "MBOU" or "M.B.O.U." in |honorific_suffix=
, add the article to the newly-created
Category:Members of the British Ornithologists' Union.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 11:50, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
|honorific_suffix=
is not part of {{
Infobox scientist}}.
GoingBatty (
talk) 21:32, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
I encountered problem with Template:infobox UK place - there are multiple articles where code of infobox is
|static_image =
|static_image_caption=
(...)
|static_image = [[File:Ashbocking - Church of All Saints.jpg|240px]]
|static_image_caption= <small>Ashbocking church</small>
from Ashbocking&oldid=473854671
typical fix is it possible for somebody to mass fix this problem? Bulwersator ( talk) 11:31, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
PS It may be good idea to scan entire wikipedia for more general problem - template used with two or more parameters with the same name Bulwersator ( talk) 11:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
I just did a little checking and noticed something else. The following fields in the template pertain to images:
|static_image=
|static_image_name=
|static_image_width=
|static_image_caption=
|static_image_alt=
But then theres also
|static_image_2=
|static_image_2_name=
|static_image_2_width=
|static_image_2_caption=
|static_image_2_alt=
I recommend if we are going to be there and deleting stuff anyway we should probably delete the extra parameters for static image 2 if blank also. -- Kumioko ( talk) 13:04, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject Texas on its main page has a link for Clean Up listing by category. Therein, Orphaned Articles has a count of 377 articles. There are also almost 2,000 Texas articles that need coordinates. Can anyone run bots that can do either of these tasks? Maile66 ( talk) 12:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Deprecated template {{ pron-en}} is no longer used in mainspace. However, there are still ca. 350 transclusions in portal space. Could you convert these to {{ IPA-en}}, which is still supported? The conversion is simple: if there is only one parameter, add 'pronounced' to the beginning and a pipe at the end:
(The pipe prevents the default behaviour of IPA-en.)
If there is a 2nd parameter, double the pipe between them:
If you could drop me a line if/when this is done, I'll clean up any remainders and mark the template as deprecated.
Thanks! — kwami ( talk) 22:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Incidentally, I now have access to my bot account, so if Kwamikagami needs anything more than that or if you need any help, I'm now available. — madman 13:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, forgot about this briefly. Coding... — madman 02:04, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Are there any bots that could scan my book for any errors? Allen ( talk) 02:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to keep the bad image list in alphabetical order of image title (ignoring the word "the")? It makes it easier to find image names if they are in alphabetical order, and this will stop human users having to worry about it. It Is Me Here t / c 00:02, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if I'm requesting this at the right place -- if not just point me to the proper channels.
{{Wikipedia books|Mario franchise video games|Mario video games}}
In short, I'd need to have all instances of "{{Wikipedia-Books|Mario titles}}" be replaced by "{{Wikipedia books|Mario franchise video games|Mario video games}}", to produce the box seen to the right.
There should be between 100 and 150 articles with the template. Salvidrim! 03:10, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Google Translation Project added thousands of articles into several Indian language wikipedias ( Example Translated page of article on Northern Ireland) by translating popular English wikipedia articles using Human assisted translation during 2009-2011. The project was closed by Google without addressing the feedback of impacted language Wikipedians. A major problem is the existence of too many red links on such pages. A bot to clean up such pages would at least make the articles presentable for subsequent manual editing.--Arjunaraoc 01:55, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Request has become unnecessary
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Can someone make a bot that does the following: 1. scan all files in File: namespace not having a free license tag 2. for each file, check whether it is tagged with a template from Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright tags
This bot should run periodically and update the report continuously. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 10:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Also note that this would be of great interest to a WikiProject I proposed here, although that proposal unfortunately hasn't generated any responses yet. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 12:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC) |
Recently I used a script to help create a reasonable large number of stubs based on the DNZB (see here for details) the stubs need to be sorted into appropriate task forces of WP:WikiProject New Zealand. The rules are:
does that makes sense? Stuartyeates ( talk) 02:58, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way that a bot can be created to look for articles that have, say, less than 30 edits in the past 3 years? The data could be used to maybe bring some musty old articles into the limelight to be fixed up, or find something that slipped through the cracks and should be AFD'ed. (Idea suggested by another, semi-retired user.) Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Query SQL
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SELECT Concat(Concat('# [[', REPLACE(page_title, '_', ' ')), ']]') AS t
FROM page
WHERE page_is_redirect = 0
AND page_namespace = 0
AND page_latest < (SELECT rev_id
FROM revision
WHERE rev_timestamp > Date_format(DATE_SUB(NOW(),
INTERVAL 4 YEAR),
'%Y%m%d%H%i%s')
LIMIT 1)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM categorylinks
WHERE cl_to = 'Disambiguation_pages'
AND cl_from = page_id);
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WHERE cl_to = 'All_disambiguation_pages'
Josh Parris 03:44, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
New SQL
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SELECT Concat(Concat('|[[', REPLACE(page_title, '_', ' ')), ']]||') AS t,
TIMESTAMP((SELECT rev_timestamp
FROM revision
WHERE rev_id = page_latest)) AS ts
FROM page
WHERE page_is_redirect = 0
AND page_namespace = 0
AND page_latest < (SELECT rev_id
FROM revision
WHERE rev_timestamp > Date_format(DATE_SUB(NOW(),
INTERVAL 4 YEAR),
'%Y%m%d%H%i%s')
LIMIT 1)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM categorylinks
WHERE cl_to = 'All_article_disambiguation_pages'
AND cl_from = page_id);
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Same but quicker
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SELECT Concat(Concat('|[[', REPLACE(page_title, '_', ' ')), ']]||') AS t,
TIMESTAMP((SELECT rev_timestamp
FROM revision
WHERE rev_id = page_latest)) AS ts
FROM page
LEFT OUTER JOIN categorylinks
ON cl_to = 'All_article_disambiguation_pages'
AND cl_from = page_id
WHERE page_is_redirect = 0
AND page_namespace = 0
AND page_latest < (SELECT rev_id
FROM revision
WHERE rev_timestamp > Date_format(DATE_SUB(NOW(),
INTERVAL 4 YEAR),
'%Y%m%d%H%i%s')
LIMIT 1)
AND cl_to IS NULL
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It may be an idea to code it to ignore dab pages or pages with any dab template, as appears in Aberdeen North, an article featuring on that list of User:Tim1357. In fact, there seem to be quite a few such dab pages on that list. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed that the {{collapsible option}}
template has been added to many templates which do not actually support it. This is due to either (a) an editor adding it without adding the 'state' parameter, or (b) the 'state' parameter being removed after the {{collapsible option}}
template was added. it would be great if we could have a bot fix this problem. This will only require about 3000 template checks (and many fewer actual edits).
since there are fewer than 3000, it seems like a simple thing to do with AWB. Frietjes ( talk) 16:30, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello all!
Due to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess#Automatic updated FIDE rating in infobox (by bot) there are some changes in how the FIDE rating is handeled in Template:Infobox chess biography now and thus it would be very useful if a bot could give some assist here. There are about 1000 pages out there using that template.
The task would be to look at all those pages (assuming they are chess player articles) and search the template:fide extract the value there, add it to the Template:Infobox chess biography as parameter 'FideID' and remove the ranking number from parameter 'rating'. So for example consider Anatoly Karpov:
We have
{{fide|id=4100026}}
there, so extract '4100026' and check the ranking (in chess infobox)
|rating = 2617 <br /><small>(No. 177 on the July 2011 FIDE ratings list)</small>
to be >= 2400 then change it to
|rating = <br /><small>(No. 177 on the July 2011 FIDE ratings list)</small>
and add
|FideID = 4100026
to the infobox. In order to finish remove the
{{fide|id=4100026}}
template. If this template was not present or the ranking < 2400 do nothing to the article.
One question open is if in the end the
template:fide has to be removed from the page also, but I will work on answering this. And there might be a minimal ranking (e.g. 2400) needed also.
If some bot operator is intressted in solving this task that would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance and greetings -- DrTrigon ( talk) 11:49, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm going to be conducting training for the next few days so I may not be able to code this for a bit, but be assured I haven't forgotten about it. :) — madman 15:40, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
Elo rating}}
is extremely expensive to render. It is in many ways better to update the individual articles.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:56, 9 February 2012 (UTC).Here's a test edit, DrTrigon. Looks like the code works perfectly; if that looks right to you, I'll continue. Cheers! — madman 19:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Done — madman 02:04, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Can a bot add the short description parameter of the person data template to this list . The description can be based on the Category:Gaelic footballers by county in the Republic of Ireland and its sub categories. For example Aaron Hoey would be SHORT DESCRIPTION =Louth Gaelic footballer Gnevin ( talk) 09:35, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
As you well know, User:X! retired from Wikipedia a couple of days ago. User:SoxBot, among other things, created the current event page every day. Is it possible for a currently active bot to take over SoxBot's responsibility and automatically create sub pages for each day's current events? It's a very tedious task for a normal person, so it will be plausible for a bot to take over. -- Luke (Talk) 03:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Good day. The IMDb part of Template:CongLinks has been changed to match the usage of the other IMDb templates. We now provide only the IMDb ID, without the "nm"-prefix. About 1700 pages have been affected (NB: some of these pages use the template correctly). We need to change {{CongLinks [...] imdb = nmXXXXXXX [...] }} to {{CongLinks [...] imdb = XXXXXXX [...] }} (remove the prefix). Does anyone have a bot that might be up for this task? Ddnixx ( talk) 20:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Due to my bot being stopped and the revocation of the previously approved task I need some help with a couple tasks.
Needed: A bot to make a list of articles on Category:Minor Planets that look like this one, 25001 Pacheco, in the following ways.
Here, “exactly like 25001 Pacheco” means that articles consist of:
Basically, we need a bot to make a list of all these articles that are just like this example: 25001 Pacheco. We need this list in order to move on to the next step very carefully. Later, more bots may be needed, but we're taking this one careful doable step at a time. Chrisrus ( talk) 06:07, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Needed: A bot to tag each article on User:Anomie/Asteroid list thusly"{{Notability|Astro}}". Chrisrus ( talk) 03:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
{{Notability|Astro|date=February 2012}}
.
GoingBatty (
talk) 21:50, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Needed: A bot to automate the "good faith effort to establish notablity" referred to in WP:NASTRO. For example, if I copy and paste into the Google Scholar search box, in quotes, the name of the first article on User:Anomie/Asteroid list, (196297) 2003 FA, it returns "no hits" from any of the WP:RSes that it searches. Not one. It is my hope that this will fulfill NASTRO's "good faith effort", but we may need to find the proper database that Ganeshk seemed to be referring to above. If not, it's at least a good start. At this point, however, my question to you is this: Is it possible, practicable, very difficult, or problematic to create a bot that will find out which if any of these do not return exactly zero results on a Google Scholar search? Chrisrus ( talk) 03:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Don't be sorry :), I like doing this stuff. The Harvard and Simbad databases look good. What do you want me to do when the queries return data? For example: 1173 Anchises returns 5 results with the Harvard database [9]. What should the bot do with this data? Just plop it in the Source section? Tim 1357 talk 02:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hey, that's fantastic. Will will be able to separate out make a list of "zero"s? The ones with zero results are the easiest ones to move ahead, to the "convert to List of minor planets chart redirects" step. I guess that won't be necessary if the bot only moves the zeros, but I had been looking forward to getting my hands on the list of zeros.
About the other website, there are some tips and places to go for questions discussed here at WP:NASTRO, but no I'm sorry I don't know how to use it. Chrisrus ( talk) 05:07, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I would like a bot to add {{portal|conservatism}}
templates to the See also sections of all articles which have {{WikiProject Conservatism}}
banners where importance=top
or importance=high
or importance=mid
. Thanks, –
Lionel (
talk) 10:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I would like to get a bot to add {{ EOL}} to the top of the ext link of species articles if it does not already exist. Creating a set of articles may be a problem but using those that have {{ taxobox}} may be the way to proceed. It would then be a simple matter of using the "binomial" value of the taxobox as the search string at eol.org. If it is feasible I will run it past Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals and Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 20:25, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
It may be feasible, but I don't believe it's desirable to add {{ EOL}} to pages robotically. Such links will generally fail the criteria WP:EL, and the decision to include them must be made manually. See WT:PLANTS#Bot task for species articles for more detail. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 11:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Adventure games was converted to a taskforce (at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Adventure games). The task requested on behalf of WP:VG is two-fold:
If some of that would be hard to do, or if there are easier ways, or if there's anything really, just lemme know!
There are a number of pages literally with "(citation needed)" rather than the template. I assume the existing bot(s) that date {{ citation needed}} actually use the API equivalent of What links here to locate pages with templates, so to fix these plain text "templates" would require a search instead.
Once they've been found they can be simply replaced with the template and allow the dating bot(s) to do their thing, or the requested bot could aslo do the dating at the same time.
FYI To see the extent of the problem, search tries to find the relevant articles, though I have manually fixed the first three pages at the moment.
BTW see here for discussion of the general problem. Mark Hurd ( talk) 15:28, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I think that Wikipedia needs a bot to fix the placement of stub templates. I've notice that many articles have stub templates placed before navboxes or somewhere else. Those templates are supposed to be placed after that content. -- JC Talk to me My contributions 02:56, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
In many cases, a species will have a photo in its infobox, but the higher taxa to which the species belongs will not have photos in their infoboxes. I'm not sure how involved coding this bot would be, but it would be great to identify articles for higher taxa missing images that should be filled in from the images in the articles for the lower taxa. E.g. Rufous-crowned Antpitta vs. Pittasoma (old revision because I added the image earlier today). Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:14, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Could we have a bot to clean up the way that citations are placed in relation to punctuation? I often find commas, periods, and other punctuation placed immediately after a </ref> or <ref name=> tag, when instead they belong immediately before a <ref> or <ref name=> tag. I expect that it would be easy to move all punctuation that immediately follows a citation (without a space) so that it's immediately before the citation, and this type of formatting (unlike things such as stub template placement relative to navboxes) is a substantial type of edit that really should be corrected. The same thing could be used for the {{ GR}} series of templates (note that they always have parameters; you'll see GR|6 or GR|2 all over the place, but I can't remember ever seeing GR by itself), since they automatically produce references. Nyttend ( talk) 01:42, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
I've created around 700 articles on all the Welsh mountain peaks here. As you can see, only the OS has been included. Is there a bot which could add the corresponding geotag next to the OS, so that the peaks become visible on the top of the artricle using GeoGroupTemplate? Diolch, thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 12:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
This bot appears to have died. It's been suggested the operator's account is closed due to inactivity.
Can someone help establish if this is the case? Ideally with a view to getting the bot up-and-running again. I'm happy to look after a new account for the bot if need be (but, with the proviso I'd need to add some Python knowledge to my coding toolset were changes required). -- Brian McNeil / talk 14:24, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Thoughts? — Cirt ( talk) 16:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Note the suggestion that the operator's account has been closed is incorrect; apparently, one of the toolserver machines is having issues. See WP:BON#Misza13's bots seem to be down. Anomie ⚔ 17:09, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
And what about that Toolserver issue??? — Cirt ( talk) 21:51, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Well, it does appear to be working again. So thanks to all above! ;) Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 02:05, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
I frequently have a need to refer to the current revision of the article (eg., in GA reviews or dispute resolution procedures like WP:3O or WP:RFC). To do that I have to go to the "page history", copy down the link to the revision and re-format it into {{ oldid}}. Some other editors instead just use wikilinking ([[]]), so to get the idea of how the article looked like back then one has to find the revision by hand.
My proposal is to create a template {{
this revision|pagename}}
which would display a normal wikilink ([[]]) until gets rewritten by Bot into {{
oldid}}. If introduced and made known, this will save some considerable amount of editors' effort.
The algorithm for bot seems to be pretty clear:
Please leave me a {{ talkback}} if you write to this thread. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 15:02, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Ilike.com is a redirect site, redirecting to myspace, and immediately 'like'-ing the subject linked to. Such links utterly fail our goals of Wikipedia - that can NEVER be a reference, and external links are supposed to link to more information about a subject. Could I have a bot going through the existing links to ilike.com, and having them disabled (as soon they will start to annoy people when they get re-inserted after a vandalism edit - the site is blacklisted like all redirect sites). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Note, that for readers who are not logged in to myspace (like me), the links do not even link to the site of the subject, but go to the myspace homepage. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:18, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Can we just nullify the urls by wrapping them in a comment and removing the http component, that at least allows some people to dig further if they so wish. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:44, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! There are a lot of links to Atilla Borhidi on enwiki, but the correct form of his name is Attila Borhidi (Hungarian botanist, see: hu:Borhidi Attila). It would be nice, if someone corrected it. There are a lot of links to the author abbreviation Borhidi too. Kontos ( talk) 21:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Kontos ( talk) 08:50, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way to either add an RSS feed from an external page to Wikipedia or have a bot update a Wikipedia page from the external page? Allen ( talk) 11:34, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
What is it exactly that you want to do? Which external pages do you use, what articles do you update, where do you place the info, what info do you copy and how do you attribute it? How many pages are affected and have the relevant WikiProjects been notified? I don't think editors will lean one way or another unless there are more details here. And given this is on a BOTREQ page, BAG certainly needs more to go on. — HELLKNOWZ TALK 11:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
There are a very large number of articles on the wiki that previously had the Multiple Issues template, but that have since had all but one of the issues resolved. I'm frequently responsible for them myself, since as I work through many outdated tags in a short time I often don't bother to reformat the template. The task of replacing it with the appropriate standalone tag is completely unambiguous and thus is ideally suited for a bot, but would be tedious and time-consuming for a human. -- LWG talk 14:56, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
Multiple issues}}
if it has no parameters and convert it to the original template if it has only one parameter. I'm preparsing the list of 43,000+ articles that use Multiple issues now to see if there's a small number of articles that could be changed manually, or if a bot request should be filed. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:59, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
multiple issues}}
from about 500 articles.
GoingBatty (
talk) 15:03, 24 February 2012 (UTC)I was wondering if there were a bot that would automatically place a notification at WikiProject talk pages when a new section is added to a discussion page. We have a collection of articles that do not have a current WikiProject, but logically belong to any of three other WikiProjects. One of the solutions is to make a working group, and post automatic notifications to the three WikiProjects when a new section is added, but we don't know if there's a bot that can do that. Anybody have any ideas? Van Isaac WS contribs 16:18, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Village Pump needs a bot for one of the proposals. See the discussion for more. BCS (Talk) 02:49, 24 February 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 43 | Archive 44 | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | Archive 47 | → | Archive 50 |
I was wondering if it would be possible for a bot to create / populate the WP:FAR archive each month? The latest example is Wikipedia:Featured article review/archive/December 2011. Since August 2010 there have been at most 10 FARs closed in a month, usually less. I assumed if a person made the archive each month, and the FAR delegates added a category (something like kept or demoted), that a bot could add the closed items to the archive. I am not sure the bot would even have to check every day - probably once a month would work.
I asked at CBM's talk page and he said that he thought it would be possible, but that he did not have time to do it himself, so I am asking here. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:57, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
When an article gets sent to AFD, a bot should check to see what Wikiproject it belongs to, and notify that Wikiproject automatically, as well as add in their special search to the top of the AFD. It already has a Google news archive search. Its useful to have the Google searches made for various Wikiprojects, which check only the sites listed as reliable sources. Example: [1] for the Video game articles. Dream Focus 07:33, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
we have more than enough to work from. I can always come back or Ping GoingBatty ( talk · contribs) if we finish the lists. THANKS! StarM 04:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I've recently come across some museums ( Fichtelgebirge Museum, for example) which are in one or more of the museum sub cats but are not tagged with the Museum WikiProject Banner. In order to avoid an issue like we had with mistagged articles I'd love for a bot to run a list of articles in one of the Museum subcats but without the project banner & place the list here for the project to review. Is that something a bot can do? Members of the project will then work through the list to remove articles that shouldn't be tagged & tag those that should (or generate a list for a bot to tag if there are many).
Caveat, I'm not 100% sure on how to identify all the subcats of CATEGORY:Museums. Is that something a BOT can do? It would be looking for articles that lack WikiProject Museums on their talk. THanks! StarM 23:39, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
I made some statics in fa.wiki that shows in en wiki it have many conflicts in interwikis
this.most of them need to Merge or their interwiki has some problems (bots or users) and most of them have to correct with users in interwiki correction wikiprojects
I developed some codes but I don't know how and where can I put these daily data.I'm appreciate that a user can localize and run
these code.
also I check en wiki interwiki relations and it shows it has many conflicts with de,fr,it,pl (other huge wikis)'s iterwiki that they should solve by user in
wikipedia:wikiproject interwiki corrections.
Reza1615 (
talk) 15:55, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi there.
tv.com has changed the layout of their links and as a result, many of them are now broken. {{
Tv.com episode}} was changed from using {{
Tv.com episode|Number}}
to {{
Tv.com episode|show-name/episode-name-number}}
(e.g. {{
Tv.com episode|1365}}
is now {{
Tv.com episode|the-simpsons/marge-in-chains-1365}}
) but the transclusions with the old number-only parameter are broken now. As such, I would request someone who has already some search-and-replace-code written to adapt it to this:
{{
Tv.com episode|Number}}
{{
Tv.com episode|the-simpsons/episode-title-number}}
For now, I'd limit the task to episodes of The Simpsons to see if it works. If it does, it might be used to check all tranclusions of the template. Also, I'm unsure as to technically handle the case when the URL does not work as intended (although a Google search with the episode name, the number and "site:tv.com" seems to work). Any takers? Regards So Why 18:02, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot add the "arminianism=yes|arminianism-importance=" parameters to those articles which have already been tagged wit Template:WikiProject Christianity and either the "baptist-work-group=yes" parameter or "methodism-work-group=yes" parameters. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 21:18, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
I would very much like a way of getting all the new images under the category Monmouth onto a page on Monmouthpedia, the project I started on en.Wikipedia, if anyone would like to make a bot to do this (or suggest another way of doing it) that would be super. I would like it to be able to show the title of the image below and to copy the images so that the oldest are at the bottom and the newest at the top. We are going to have hopefully lots of people taking images over a couple of months. -- Mrjohncummings ( talk) 13:39, 16 January 2012 (UTC)a
There are perhaps a thousand links to nasal consonant, when nearly all should go to nasal stop, which is the common and also more precise term. (Exact number unknown; I just rd'd the templates, and the number has not yet settled.) 'Nasal consonant' is currently a redirect with some potential to be expanded into an article. I would like to request a bot to rd. links in any article titled 'X language(s)' or 'X phonology'. (The few articles on languages with non-stop nasals I review periodically, and the bot edits will show up on my watch page.) The links that remain I can rd. manually. — kwami ( talk) 01:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, could some one please make some changes due to a moved article? I recently moved the article American Chinese cuisine to Chinese American cuisine and the related links and categories need to be fixed.
Does anyone have a bot that can make these changes? -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 20:23, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
The online version of Encyclopædia Iranica has changed domain from iranica.com to iranicaonline.org. (This happened in 2010, apparently.) The domain iranica.com is now inactive and displays only an error message. Is it possible to update all the links on Wikipedia to iranica.com? At least links of the type http://www.iranica.com/articles/title (which constitute the bulk of the broken links) can be safely changed to http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/title. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 17:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Just picking an article out of the hat, we can use Talk:Bill_Auberlen for example. He has two project tags on his Talk page currently. There should be a bot to wrap project tags into a WikiProjectBannerShell so that they are always grouped together. My only thoughts would perhaps having a minimum number of project tags on a talk page before the bot rolls in and groups them. For starters I think 2 or more would be fine. Or perhaps 3 as the minimum. -- Sabre ball t c 18:24, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
There are a couple of users whose uploads with false own work claims have landed them at CCI. An unforseen side effect of Fbot's tagging of freely licensed files is that many of these copyvios are tagged for transfer.
What is needed is a bot that looks at all files linked to at a page in the Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/ tree, such as Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Arab League, removes the {{ Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} tag if there is one, and adds a template specifiably warning against transferring the file.
This is an urgent task, as I'm already seeing copyvios getting transferred over in the ongoing transfer drive. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
There were actually only 498 of them; I had double counted some. I had the bot scan them all to make sure they were tagged with the CCI tag. Glad to help, — Carl ( CBM · talk) 18:09, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Paid editing has been back in the news in the past month big time, and our process to prevent it is somewhat broken or at least not sufficiently smooth and well-known, and that encourages socking. How about a way for Category:Requested edits members (from {{ Request edit}}) more than a few days old to show up in the feedback request service or similar? Selery ( talk) 19:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
I've on occasion "corrected" IMDb external links that don't utilize the template (usually just a simple URL of the page), but it's a tedious process that can never correct all of them, which could number in the thousands. Could there be a bot that would automatically correct every IMDb link so it uses the proper template, both in external links and references? Exceptions to this would be the links to pages such as full cast, box office, technical specs, trivia, goofs, etc., which the template cannot be directly linked to. A related bot could perhaps correct all of the many instances where the template incorrectly repeats the article title, instead of using the title or name as it appears on the IMDb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.87.80 ( talk) 21:55, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a bot that would either notify a board or reverse the edits of a cut-and-paste page move? I've come across two in the last week ( Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within and Serious Sam), which makes me think they are often unnoticed. Presumably, if one page goes blank and the text appears at a previous redirect or new page, it should be pretty obvious.▫ JohnnyMrNinja 06:08, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
This is not a bot request per se, so feel free to move it to a more appropriate page. StatsCan is about to release a flood of new data and we have started to talk about it. One way to tackle it is to look at all the articles linking to www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/*.
So can ayone produce a list of article with extlinks to that address prefix? It would need to be sorted or secondary-keyed by province (get article categories and look for unique use of "Ontario", "Alberta", etc.), not sure whether a wiki-formatted or tab-delimited output would be best, probably both so I could awk the raw text. If someone could do a raw list so I can look at it, that would be great. More refinement requests would likely follow, as we are just looking to update the base population (&c) data for this release. Thanks for any help! Franamax ( talk) 02:33, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
At {{ Infobox language}}, we used to have a parameter that rather perversely needed to be set to "none" if another parameter was not to link to a WP article. Support for this "ll" parameter has now been removed, after I asked 6 wks ago and no-one objected. I hard-linked the articles and set the "ll" parameters to "none" before removing template support, and they no longer have a function.
There are about 400 articles with ll..=none
, where the ".." may be one or two digits. Could these be removed? Pls do not rm. line breaks, unless this would mean two in a row.
If there are any which are not set to 'none', they should be left for me to clean up manually. (Removing them would have no effect on the display, but they would mean I overlooked something.) — kwami ( talk) 09:47, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
At {{ Infobox language}}, we used to have a parameter that rather perversely needed to be set to "none" if another parameter was not to link to a WP article. Support for this "ll" parameter has now been removed, after I asked 6 wks ago and no-one objected. I hard-linked the articles and set the "ll" parameters to "none" before removing template support, and they no longer have a function.
There are about 400 articles with ll..=none
, where the ".." may be one or two digits. Could these be removed? Pls do not rm. line breaks, unless this would mean two in a row.
If there are any which are not set to 'none', they should be left for me to clean up manually. (Removing them would have no effect on the display, but they would mean I overlooked something.) — kwami ( talk) 09:47, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
If you review the last few days of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Computing articles by quality log you'll see that a number of the "reassessed" entries repeat each day, even though the talk pages haven't been changed in months.
A number of templates such as Category:WikiProject Computer science, Category:WikiProject Microsoft Windows, Category:WikiProject Computer Security, and Category:WikiProject Software automatically include the parent WikiProject Computing. When these templates are used in combination, but do not specify the same importance level, or one provides an importance level but the other does not, the articles end up in multiple assessment categories.
I reported this at Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index/Archive_6#Help_with_Computing_reassessment_log but was advised that I needed to fix the categories – that this wasn't a problem with the bot. Which makes sense – the articles are indeed in Unassessed-importance computing articles and High-importance computing articles.
These are examples of the fixes I'd like the bot to make:
{{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=Top}} {{WikiProject Technology|class=start|importance=high}} {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=start|importance=}} to {{WikiProject Computing|class=start|importance=Top}} {{WikiProject Technology|class=start|importance=high}} {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=start|importance=|computing-importance=Top}}
{{WikiProject California|class= C |importance=Mid |sfba=yes|sfba-importance=high}} {{WikiProject Companies|class= C|importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Computing |class=C |importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Software}} {{WikiProject Technology}} {{WikiProject Electronics}} to {{WikiProject California|class= C |importance=Mid |sfba=yes|sfba-importance=high}} {{WikiProject Companies|class= C|importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Computing |class=C |importance=Mid }} {{WikiProject Software|class=C|computing-importance=Mid}} {{WikiProject Technology}} {{WikiProject Electronics}}
A theoretical example, which would result from someone naively adding Computing/Databases to a previously categorized Windows article:
{{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=A|importance=High|computing-importance=mid}} {{WikiProject Computing|databases=yes}} to {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows|class=A|importance=High|computing-importance=mid}} {{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|databases=yes}}
And finally a contrived theoretical example:
{{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|science=yes}} {{WikiProject Computer science|class=A|importance=mid}} to {{WikiProject Computing|class=A|importance=mid|science=yes|science-importance=mid}} {{WikiProject Computer science|class=A|importance=mid|computing-importance=mid}}
These spurious entries make the assessment report much less useful. In 2010 the list was so long that a single day's report spanned 2–3 pages, and I cleared hundreds of them. I used to keep up with the subsequent errors contributors introduce when they add tags without synchronizing the parent project assessments, but it was tedious work and it's a task better suited to automation.
Banner consolidation is a simpler solution, but requires consensus about how to handle the multiple projects. In some cases I think there would be consensus to consolidate (e.g. Software, Computer Security) but in others there would be consensus to keep separate (e.g. Computer Science). So it is necessary to fix the articles which are tagged with multiple projects – on its own banner consolidation will not solve the problem.
This would need to be a recurring bot run. If it's too difficult to identify all the articles which appear in conflicting assessment categories, it could use the results of the various WP 1.0 bot's "reassessed" lists to select which articles need examination. Would someone be willing to set this up? – Pnm ( talk) 17:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
The code < categorytree > is used in categories to display all of the subcats. There has been a change to the MediaWiki software at some point and now all of the subcats are displayed on all the category pages if the limit of 200 is exceeded. this makes < categorytree > redundant. See an example at Category:Japanese musicians. I don't know how often it is used but it I have seen it quite regularly. I would like to have all instances of its use removed. It is often creates quite a clutter on a category page. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 21:19, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
<categorytree>...</categorytree>
construct. In short - if the
Category:Foo page were given the following code:
<categorytree>Foo</categorytree>
<categorytree>Bar</categorytree>
Given that over WP:100 editors were involved overall, I think a bot is the best method to notify all the editors mentioned in Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Fæ#Of_note. ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 05:28, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Okay. I'll do this shortly. I have a list of 179 users who !voted in the RfA, endorsed a summary in the RfC, or commented in the ANI discussion. I'll probably use the text above, with a comment indicating the notification's been delivered by a neutral party, etc. Also considering the age of some of these discussions, I'm probably going to skip any talk pages that haven't been active for two weeks (probably inactive user, not going to contribute, not helpful). Cheers, — madman 18:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Can a bot replace any URLs that start with http://archiv.berlinale.de to http://www.berlinale.de as the "archiv" part of the URL is now redundant. I estimate approx 150-200 articles in scope. Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 13:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
I want a bot to complete school assignments on an online school called Laurel Springs. It has a simple sign in, And a lot of the assignments are multiple choice, And you can retake the tests once or twice. Email below <email address removed> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.105.238.103 ( talk) 17:30, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
Can someone help with this, please: For articles where {{
Infobox scientist}} or {{
Infobox person}} has "MBOU" or "M.B.O.U." in |honorific_suffix=
, add the article to the newly-created
Category:Members of the British Ornithologists' Union.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 11:50, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
|honorific_suffix=
is not part of {{
Infobox scientist}}.
GoingBatty (
talk) 21:32, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
I encountered problem with Template:infobox UK place - there are multiple articles where code of infobox is
|static_image =
|static_image_caption=
(...)
|static_image = [[File:Ashbocking - Church of All Saints.jpg|240px]]
|static_image_caption= <small>Ashbocking church</small>
from Ashbocking&oldid=473854671
typical fix is it possible for somebody to mass fix this problem? Bulwersator ( talk) 11:31, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
PS It may be good idea to scan entire wikipedia for more general problem - template used with two or more parameters with the same name Bulwersator ( talk) 11:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
I just did a little checking and noticed something else. The following fields in the template pertain to images:
|static_image=
|static_image_name=
|static_image_width=
|static_image_caption=
|static_image_alt=
But then theres also
|static_image_2=
|static_image_2_name=
|static_image_2_width=
|static_image_2_caption=
|static_image_2_alt=
I recommend if we are going to be there and deleting stuff anyway we should probably delete the extra parameters for static image 2 if blank also. -- Kumioko ( talk) 13:04, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject Texas on its main page has a link for Clean Up listing by category. Therein, Orphaned Articles has a count of 377 articles. There are also almost 2,000 Texas articles that need coordinates. Can anyone run bots that can do either of these tasks? Maile66 ( talk) 12:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Deprecated template {{ pron-en}} is no longer used in mainspace. However, there are still ca. 350 transclusions in portal space. Could you convert these to {{ IPA-en}}, which is still supported? The conversion is simple: if there is only one parameter, add 'pronounced' to the beginning and a pipe at the end:
(The pipe prevents the default behaviour of IPA-en.)
If there is a 2nd parameter, double the pipe between them:
If you could drop me a line if/when this is done, I'll clean up any remainders and mark the template as deprecated.
Thanks! — kwami ( talk) 22:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Incidentally, I now have access to my bot account, so if Kwamikagami needs anything more than that or if you need any help, I'm now available. — madman 13:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, forgot about this briefly. Coding... — madman 02:04, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Are there any bots that could scan my book for any errors? Allen ( talk) 02:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to keep the bad image list in alphabetical order of image title (ignoring the word "the")? It makes it easier to find image names if they are in alphabetical order, and this will stop human users having to worry about it. It Is Me Here t / c 00:02, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if I'm requesting this at the right place -- if not just point me to the proper channels.
{{Wikipedia books|Mario franchise video games|Mario video games}}
In short, I'd need to have all instances of "{{Wikipedia-Books|Mario titles}}" be replaced by "{{Wikipedia books|Mario franchise video games|Mario video games}}", to produce the box seen to the right.
There should be between 100 and 150 articles with the template. Salvidrim! 03:10, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Google Translation Project added thousands of articles into several Indian language wikipedias ( Example Translated page of article on Northern Ireland) by translating popular English wikipedia articles using Human assisted translation during 2009-2011. The project was closed by Google without addressing the feedback of impacted language Wikipedians. A major problem is the existence of too many red links on such pages. A bot to clean up such pages would at least make the articles presentable for subsequent manual editing.--Arjunaraoc 01:55, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Request has become unnecessary
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Can someone make a bot that does the following: 1. scan all files in File: namespace not having a free license tag 2. for each file, check whether it is tagged with a template from Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright tags
This bot should run periodically and update the report continuously. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 10:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Also note that this would be of great interest to a WikiProject I proposed here, although that proposal unfortunately hasn't generated any responses yet. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 12:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC) |
Recently I used a script to help create a reasonable large number of stubs based on the DNZB (see here for details) the stubs need to be sorted into appropriate task forces of WP:WikiProject New Zealand. The rules are:
does that makes sense? Stuartyeates ( talk) 02:58, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way that a bot can be created to look for articles that have, say, less than 30 edits in the past 3 years? The data could be used to maybe bring some musty old articles into the limelight to be fixed up, or find something that slipped through the cracks and should be AFD'ed. (Idea suggested by another, semi-retired user.) Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 03:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Query SQL
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SELECT Concat(Concat('# [[', REPLACE(page_title, '_', ' ')), ']]') AS t
FROM page
WHERE page_is_redirect = 0
AND page_namespace = 0
AND page_latest < (SELECT rev_id
FROM revision
WHERE rev_timestamp > Date_format(DATE_SUB(NOW(),
INTERVAL 4 YEAR),
'%Y%m%d%H%i%s')
LIMIT 1)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM categorylinks
WHERE cl_to = 'Disambiguation_pages'
AND cl_from = page_id);
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WHERE cl_to = 'All_disambiguation_pages'
Josh Parris 03:44, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
New SQL
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SELECT Concat(Concat('|[[', REPLACE(page_title, '_', ' ')), ']]||') AS t,
TIMESTAMP((SELECT rev_timestamp
FROM revision
WHERE rev_id = page_latest)) AS ts
FROM page
WHERE page_is_redirect = 0
AND page_namespace = 0
AND page_latest < (SELECT rev_id
FROM revision
WHERE rev_timestamp > Date_format(DATE_SUB(NOW(),
INTERVAL 4 YEAR),
'%Y%m%d%H%i%s')
LIMIT 1)
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM categorylinks
WHERE cl_to = 'All_article_disambiguation_pages'
AND cl_from = page_id);
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Same but quicker
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SELECT Concat(Concat('|[[', REPLACE(page_title, '_', ' ')), ']]||') AS t,
TIMESTAMP((SELECT rev_timestamp
FROM revision
WHERE rev_id = page_latest)) AS ts
FROM page
LEFT OUTER JOIN categorylinks
ON cl_to = 'All_article_disambiguation_pages'
AND cl_from = page_id
WHERE page_is_redirect = 0
AND page_namespace = 0
AND page_latest < (SELECT rev_id
FROM revision
WHERE rev_timestamp > Date_format(DATE_SUB(NOW(),
INTERVAL 4 YEAR),
'%Y%m%d%H%i%s')
LIMIT 1)
AND cl_to IS NULL
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It may be an idea to code it to ignore dab pages or pages with any dab template, as appears in Aberdeen North, an article featuring on that list of User:Tim1357. In fact, there seem to be quite a few such dab pages on that list. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed that the {{collapsible option}}
template has been added to many templates which do not actually support it. This is due to either (a) an editor adding it without adding the 'state' parameter, or (b) the 'state' parameter being removed after the {{collapsible option}}
template was added. it would be great if we could have a bot fix this problem. This will only require about 3000 template checks (and many fewer actual edits).
since there are fewer than 3000, it seems like a simple thing to do with AWB. Frietjes ( talk) 16:30, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello all!
Due to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess#Automatic updated FIDE rating in infobox (by bot) there are some changes in how the FIDE rating is handeled in Template:Infobox chess biography now and thus it would be very useful if a bot could give some assist here. There are about 1000 pages out there using that template.
The task would be to look at all those pages (assuming they are chess player articles) and search the template:fide extract the value there, add it to the Template:Infobox chess biography as parameter 'FideID' and remove the ranking number from parameter 'rating'. So for example consider Anatoly Karpov:
We have
{{fide|id=4100026}}
there, so extract '4100026' and check the ranking (in chess infobox)
|rating = 2617 <br /><small>(No. 177 on the July 2011 FIDE ratings list)</small>
to be >= 2400 then change it to
|rating = <br /><small>(No. 177 on the July 2011 FIDE ratings list)</small>
and add
|FideID = 4100026
to the infobox. In order to finish remove the
{{fide|id=4100026}}
template. If this template was not present or the ranking < 2400 do nothing to the article.
One question open is if in the end the
template:fide has to be removed from the page also, but I will work on answering this. And there might be a minimal ranking (e.g. 2400) needed also.
If some bot operator is intressted in solving this task that would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance and greetings -- DrTrigon ( talk) 11:49, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm going to be conducting training for the next few days so I may not be able to code this for a bit, but be assured I haven't forgotten about it. :) — madman 15:40, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
Elo rating}}
is extremely expensive to render. It is in many ways better to update the individual articles.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:56, 9 February 2012 (UTC).Here's a test edit, DrTrigon. Looks like the code works perfectly; if that looks right to you, I'll continue. Cheers! — madman 19:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Done — madman 02:04, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Can a bot add the short description parameter of the person data template to this list . The description can be based on the Category:Gaelic footballers by county in the Republic of Ireland and its sub categories. For example Aaron Hoey would be SHORT DESCRIPTION =Louth Gaelic footballer Gnevin ( talk) 09:35, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
As you well know, User:X! retired from Wikipedia a couple of days ago. User:SoxBot, among other things, created the current event page every day. Is it possible for a currently active bot to take over SoxBot's responsibility and automatically create sub pages for each day's current events? It's a very tedious task for a normal person, so it will be plausible for a bot to take over. -- Luke (Talk) 03:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Good day. The IMDb part of Template:CongLinks has been changed to match the usage of the other IMDb templates. We now provide only the IMDb ID, without the "nm"-prefix. About 1700 pages have been affected (NB: some of these pages use the template correctly). We need to change {{CongLinks [...] imdb = nmXXXXXXX [...] }} to {{CongLinks [...] imdb = XXXXXXX [...] }} (remove the prefix). Does anyone have a bot that might be up for this task? Ddnixx ( talk) 20:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Due to my bot being stopped and the revocation of the previously approved task I need some help with a couple tasks.
Needed: A bot to make a list of articles on Category:Minor Planets that look like this one, 25001 Pacheco, in the following ways.
Here, “exactly like 25001 Pacheco” means that articles consist of:
Basically, we need a bot to make a list of all these articles that are just like this example: 25001 Pacheco. We need this list in order to move on to the next step very carefully. Later, more bots may be needed, but we're taking this one careful doable step at a time. Chrisrus ( talk) 06:07, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Needed: A bot to tag each article on User:Anomie/Asteroid list thusly"{{Notability|Astro}}". Chrisrus ( talk) 03:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
{{Notability|Astro|date=February 2012}}
.
GoingBatty (
talk) 21:50, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Needed: A bot to automate the "good faith effort to establish notablity" referred to in WP:NASTRO. For example, if I copy and paste into the Google Scholar search box, in quotes, the name of the first article on User:Anomie/Asteroid list, (196297) 2003 FA, it returns "no hits" from any of the WP:RSes that it searches. Not one. It is my hope that this will fulfill NASTRO's "good faith effort", but we may need to find the proper database that Ganeshk seemed to be referring to above. If not, it's at least a good start. At this point, however, my question to you is this: Is it possible, practicable, very difficult, or problematic to create a bot that will find out which if any of these do not return exactly zero results on a Google Scholar search? Chrisrus ( talk) 03:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Don't be sorry :), I like doing this stuff. The Harvard and Simbad databases look good. What do you want me to do when the queries return data? For example: 1173 Anchises returns 5 results with the Harvard database [9]. What should the bot do with this data? Just plop it in the Source section? Tim 1357 talk 02:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hey, that's fantastic. Will will be able to separate out make a list of "zero"s? The ones with zero results are the easiest ones to move ahead, to the "convert to List of minor planets chart redirects" step. I guess that won't be necessary if the bot only moves the zeros, but I had been looking forward to getting my hands on the list of zeros.
About the other website, there are some tips and places to go for questions discussed here at WP:NASTRO, but no I'm sorry I don't know how to use it. Chrisrus ( talk) 05:07, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I would like a bot to add {{portal|conservatism}}
templates to the See also sections of all articles which have {{WikiProject Conservatism}}
banners where importance=top
or importance=high
or importance=mid
. Thanks, –
Lionel (
talk) 10:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I would like to get a bot to add {{ EOL}} to the top of the ext link of species articles if it does not already exist. Creating a set of articles may be a problem but using those that have {{ taxobox}} may be the way to proceed. It would then be a simple matter of using the "binomial" value of the taxobox as the search string at eol.org. If it is feasible I will run it past Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals and Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 20:25, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
It may be feasible, but I don't believe it's desirable to add {{ EOL}} to pages robotically. Such links will generally fail the criteria WP:EL, and the decision to include them must be made manually. See WT:PLANTS#Bot task for species articles for more detail. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 11:06, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Adventure games was converted to a taskforce (at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Adventure games). The task requested on behalf of WP:VG is two-fold:
If some of that would be hard to do, or if there are easier ways, or if there's anything really, just lemme know!
There are a number of pages literally with "(citation needed)" rather than the template. I assume the existing bot(s) that date {{ citation needed}} actually use the API equivalent of What links here to locate pages with templates, so to fix these plain text "templates" would require a search instead.
Once they've been found they can be simply replaced with the template and allow the dating bot(s) to do their thing, or the requested bot could aslo do the dating at the same time.
FYI To see the extent of the problem, search tries to find the relevant articles, though I have manually fixed the first three pages at the moment.
BTW see here for discussion of the general problem. Mark Hurd ( talk) 15:28, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I think that Wikipedia needs a bot to fix the placement of stub templates. I've notice that many articles have stub templates placed before navboxes or somewhere else. Those templates are supposed to be placed after that content. -- JC Talk to me My contributions 02:56, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
In many cases, a species will have a photo in its infobox, but the higher taxa to which the species belongs will not have photos in their infoboxes. I'm not sure how involved coding this bot would be, but it would be great to identify articles for higher taxa missing images that should be filled in from the images in the articles for the lower taxa. E.g. Rufous-crowned Antpitta vs. Pittasoma (old revision because I added the image earlier today). Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:14, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Could we have a bot to clean up the way that citations are placed in relation to punctuation? I often find commas, periods, and other punctuation placed immediately after a </ref> or <ref name=> tag, when instead they belong immediately before a <ref> or <ref name=> tag. I expect that it would be easy to move all punctuation that immediately follows a citation (without a space) so that it's immediately before the citation, and this type of formatting (unlike things such as stub template placement relative to navboxes) is a substantial type of edit that really should be corrected. The same thing could be used for the {{ GR}} series of templates (note that they always have parameters; you'll see GR|6 or GR|2 all over the place, but I can't remember ever seeing GR by itself), since they automatically produce references. Nyttend ( talk) 01:42, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
I've created around 700 articles on all the Welsh mountain peaks here. As you can see, only the OS has been included. Is there a bot which could add the corresponding geotag next to the OS, so that the peaks become visible on the top of the artricle using GeoGroupTemplate? Diolch, thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 12:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
This bot appears to have died. It's been suggested the operator's account is closed due to inactivity.
Can someone help establish if this is the case? Ideally with a view to getting the bot up-and-running again. I'm happy to look after a new account for the bot if need be (but, with the proviso I'd need to add some Python knowledge to my coding toolset were changes required). -- Brian McNeil / talk 14:24, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Thoughts? — Cirt ( talk) 16:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Note the suggestion that the operator's account has been closed is incorrect; apparently, one of the toolserver machines is having issues. See WP:BON#Misza13's bots seem to be down. Anomie ⚔ 17:09, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
And what about that Toolserver issue??? — Cirt ( talk) 21:51, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Well, it does appear to be working again. So thanks to all above! ;) Cheers, — Cirt ( talk) 02:05, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
I frequently have a need to refer to the current revision of the article (eg., in GA reviews or dispute resolution procedures like WP:3O or WP:RFC). To do that I have to go to the "page history", copy down the link to the revision and re-format it into {{ oldid}}. Some other editors instead just use wikilinking ([[]]), so to get the idea of how the article looked like back then one has to find the revision by hand.
My proposal is to create a template {{
this revision|pagename}}
which would display a normal wikilink ([[]]) until gets rewritten by Bot into {{
oldid}}. If introduced and made known, this will save some considerable amount of editors' effort.
The algorithm for bot seems to be pretty clear:
Please leave me a {{ talkback}} if you write to this thread. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff ( talk) 15:02, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Ilike.com is a redirect site, redirecting to myspace, and immediately 'like'-ing the subject linked to. Such links utterly fail our goals of Wikipedia - that can NEVER be a reference, and external links are supposed to link to more information about a subject. Could I have a bot going through the existing links to ilike.com, and having them disabled (as soon they will start to annoy people when they get re-inserted after a vandalism edit - the site is blacklisted like all redirect sites). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Note, that for readers who are not logged in to myspace (like me), the links do not even link to the site of the subject, but go to the myspace homepage. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 13:18, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Can we just nullify the urls by wrapping them in a comment and removing the http component, that at least allows some people to dig further if they so wish. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:44, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! There are a lot of links to Atilla Borhidi on enwiki, but the correct form of his name is Attila Borhidi (Hungarian botanist, see: hu:Borhidi Attila). It would be nice, if someone corrected it. There are a lot of links to the author abbreviation Borhidi too. Kontos ( talk) 21:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Kontos ( talk) 08:50, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way to either add an RSS feed from an external page to Wikipedia or have a bot update a Wikipedia page from the external page? Allen ( talk) 11:34, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
What is it exactly that you want to do? Which external pages do you use, what articles do you update, where do you place the info, what info do you copy and how do you attribute it? How many pages are affected and have the relevant WikiProjects been notified? I don't think editors will lean one way or another unless there are more details here. And given this is on a BOTREQ page, BAG certainly needs more to go on. — HELLKNOWZ TALK 11:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
There are a very large number of articles on the wiki that previously had the Multiple Issues template, but that have since had all but one of the issues resolved. I'm frequently responsible for them myself, since as I work through many outdated tags in a short time I often don't bother to reformat the template. The task of replacing it with the appropriate standalone tag is completely unambiguous and thus is ideally suited for a bot, but would be tedious and time-consuming for a human. -- LWG talk 14:56, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
Multiple issues}}
if it has no parameters and convert it to the original template if it has only one parameter. I'm preparsing the list of 43,000+ articles that use Multiple issues now to see if there's a small number of articles that could be changed manually, or if a bot request should be filed. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:59, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
multiple issues}}
from about 500 articles.
GoingBatty (
talk) 15:03, 24 February 2012 (UTC)I was wondering if there were a bot that would automatically place a notification at WikiProject talk pages when a new section is added to a discussion page. We have a collection of articles that do not have a current WikiProject, but logically belong to any of three other WikiProjects. One of the solutions is to make a working group, and post automatic notifications to the three WikiProjects when a new section is added, but we don't know if there's a bot that can do that. Anybody have any ideas? Van Isaac WS contribs 16:18, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Village Pump needs a bot for one of the proposals. See the discussion for more. BCS (Talk) 02:49, 24 February 2012 (UTC)