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Many articles on geographic locations have coordinates that are given with far too many digits of "precision". In some cases, these coordinates are not even pointing to the correct location, and others (especially towns) point to some user's house or some other such shenanigans. (0.0001° is <11 m, 1″ is <31 m) Is it possible to built a bot that would list (not change) all articles with coordinates that are, say, 10 digits long or longer after a decimal point? Then once I deal with those, 9 digits and so forth? For a fuller discussion of the inanity of lengthy decimal coordinates see WP:Coordinates. Abductive ( reasoning) 15:50, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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el_to
FROM page
JOIN externallinks
ON el_from = page_id
WHERE el_to LIKE 'http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?%'
AND el_to REGEXP 'params\=[0-9]+\.[0-9]{12}'
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The preponderance of recurring digits suggests rounding errors by a script; it would be good to deal with that at source. I've added a pointer to this discussion from WT:COORD and notified User:The_Anome, whose bot already deals with a number of coordinate-related tasks. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
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parameter, where present, gives us an indicator for calculating the the required precision; for example, |type=city
requires less precision than |type=landmark
. that said, six decimal places should always be sufficient. I seem to remember being taught that one should truncate, not round, coordinates (where one is not referring back to a map for a more exact point); is that so, or is my memory playing tricks
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 10:20, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
My request is trigged by the recent deletion discussion of the
redirect:Talinn. Talinn is an implausible typo of Tallinn and, as such, useful redirect. At the same time, there was a number of links linking to this incorrect name without being fixed for years as they had perfectly normal blue links and they are quite hard to notice. Therefore I propose that if the redirect is marked with {{R from incorrect name|Correct name}}
template, the bot should automatically fix incoming links (from articles only, excluding talk pages, user pages and project pages) replacing them with the correct spelling. In case of the above example (Talinn) that means that bot will replace all links linked to 'Talinn' with links to correct spelling 'Tallinn'.
Currently there are 65 pages marked with this template, which is not a large number. However, as a rule they are not regularly checked by editors and therefore these misspellings which could be easily fixed by bot may stay unfixed for the long time. Beagel ( talk) 19:20, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
{{R from incorrect name}}
template and not any other type of redirects.
Beagel (
talk) 21:42, 28 February 2012 (UTC)The main issue is not if you end up the right place by clicking on the link, but that the article containing the link contains also a misspelling/typo, which is hard to notice and therefore it may stay not corrected for quite a long time. To make more clear what I meant, just some examples I proposed to be changed by bot:
At the same time, it should not included redirects if there is no consensus what is the the common name in English or if different forms are accepted. E.g. Kyiv should be not automatically replaced with Kiev. It should also not replace diacritics. In this context, the proposal that there should be approved list makes a sense. Beagel ( talk) 22:30, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I have a couple of ideas for bots and I am a programmer so I wouldn't mind making these myself (I think I might even enjoy it). I just wanted to check here to see if there are already bots doing these or if these are stupid ideas (feel free to say so) or something else.
My first idea is for an antivandalism bot. I have noticed that some vandalism is does not make actual words. My idea is the bot that follows the recent changes and if an edit is mostly words it does not find in a dictionary it would either just revert it or alert someone or something.
My other idea is for an "as of" bot. It would wander wikipedia and if it finds any phrases that say "as of" and then a date older than, say five years, it would leave a nice note on the article talk page (or maybe on an associated project page or something).
Those are my ideas, let me know what you think. Eomund ( talk) 03:36, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
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As of}}
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GoingBatty (
talk) 03:55, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Please make a bot to order the templates in Category:Chemistry compounds templates by period number.-- Kc kennylau ( talk) 10:04, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, would it be possible to generate a list of all articles that use the "distributor" field in {{ Infobox video game}}? I suspect that it is only being used for online services such as Steam, and not for physical distributors as intended, and as such should be re-purposed to make that clearer for editors and readers. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 16:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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Raw: distributor distribution media1 media2 (size limit) — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 19:37, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm concerned that after approval, there is no oversight of bot operations; it is assumed that an approved bot will only perform the tasks to which it is approved. Bot edits are flagged and generally ignored, so there's a reasonable scope for a bot account to go off reservation without anyone noticing, at least for a while. There have also been incidents lately of this occurring and causing a ruckus.
I'd like a dev to propose a minimally intrusive bot to monitor all bot accounts on Wikipedia. I imagine that over time it will grow more sophisticated, but for a first iteration I'd like to see at least monitoring of the namespaces edited and use of edit summaries. There ought to be some thought given to security/monitoring/auditing/generation of the data that configures the monitor's operation.
A retrospective report of all bot accounts that have operated outside approved tasks would be of interest. It would not be able to be generated until appropriate configuration data had been assembled.
Others might suggest other necessary, basic functionality. Josh Parris 03:06, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
The use of list templates ({{ Plainlist}}; {{ Flatlist}}; example edit) in infoboxes has proved uncontroversial; it improves their accessibility and web standards compliance, makes the content easier to edit (especially for longer lists), and makes the data more easily parsable. I'd like to work with a bot owner to look for cases where the conversion could be automated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:49, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
([\|]\s*)(occupation|spouse|notableworks)(\s*=\s*)([^\|\}]+<[Bb][Rr]\s?/?>.*)(?=\s*(\||}})) $4 is the value passed to the template; the other matches are to maintain existing formatting A variation is required for lists expected to be separated by commas
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time ;-)
Thank you for the time you spent on this. You have identified some issues I anticipated. I would start by, say, doing all the "occupation" fields in {{ Infobox person}}, rather than trying to do all infoboxes at once. Unfortunately, AWB wont run properly on netbooks, which is what I'm using. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pigsonthewing ( talk • contribs)
In the past I have requested that a bot be designed to apply the {{ Old prod full}} template to talk pages of articles that have been prod-tagged and then deprodded. This bot has never been built, although a couple programmers have said they would like to. Perhaps the technical difficulties could be overcome this year? Here are some of the technical problems that I have thought of or that have been mentioned before: 1) The detection of Prod and Prod-nn tags is difficult, because they are assigned to a category with a date that, perforce, always changes. 2) If an article is prodded and rapidly deprodded, is it hard to detect. 3) If an article was prodded, deleted and recreated, it requires a different sort of detection. Anyway, any takers? Abductive ( reasoning) 15:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Citation bot ( talk · contribs) has a tendency to upload things at the wrong place following bad template usage from humans. So there's some cleanup to be had.
First, the following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/:10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
The following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/doi: 10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
The following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/doi:10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
And lastly the following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/http:.2F.2Fdx.doi.org.2F10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
Additionally,
{{
cite doi|10.Foobar}}
arguments{{
db-t3|~~~~~|10.Foobar of the correct tempalte}}
I've left a message to
User:Smith609, but he's on a wikibreak so anyone that wants to clean this stuff up is more than welcomed to.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 06:18, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
.*\p{Lu}(\P{L}*\p{Lu}){9}.* <casesensitive | moveonly>
, which is intended to prevent moves to titles with more than nine consecutive capital letters (after ignoring non-letter characters). Looks like Headbomb used his accountcreator
flag to move it already.
Anomie
⚔ 18:19, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Would a bot operator willing to spend a bit of time looking into a series of discussions be able to look at the request here that was not done at the time (for the reasons given there) and see if anything can be done about it? The links are provided from that page. Essentially, the task would involve re-tagging for review the articles listed at User:Δ/Sandbox 4 (this list was generated on request back in November 2011). If it would be better to generate a new list, please say so. What was suggested, given the problems found with some of the reviews, was to re-tag all the articles to be re-reviewed (an example of the tag to be replaced is here). If a new consensus is needed to run such a re-tagging request, please say so and I'll raise that in the appropriate location. Carcharoth ( talk) 18:40, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I have encountered several users, both new and experienced, who by accident made a mainspace page when tried to make a user subpage by forgetting the user: prefix. (i.e. Yoenit/Sandbox instead of user:Yoenit/Sandbox).
Could somebody make a bot which automatically moves pages to userspace without redirect if the page name starts with username of creator followed by "/". I think this would result in very few false positives as "/" is not commonly used in article titles. The bot should also leave a message at the creators talkpage with information what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future. Yoenit ( talk) 11:19, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
<--Oh did not know that. BRFA filed here Lego Kontribs TalkM 04:47, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Can we get a bot to remove expired {{
show by date}} and {{
update after}} templates if it is not already done? It is only a minor issue but removing redundant wikitext is a nice thing to do to help any editors who subsequently edit the page. --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs) 21:25, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
The Magny Cours and Lisbon server parts will be released in 2010.{{update after|2010|12|31}}
" -
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:24, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
update after|2012|March|1}}
is all that much worse than something like {{
update-inline|date=March 2012}}
.
Anomie
⚔ 02:29, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
update-inline}}
redirects to {{
update after}}
.
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:35, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Often English speakers, used to talking about "The UK" and "The USA" make the mistake of writing "The Ukraine", which is incorrect (the country is simply Ukraine). Currently a search for "The Ukraine" -Ukrainian returns 2,719 results, about half of which I guess are incorrect instances of the country's name. I had a go at correcting the first dozen or so instances in the search (hence you may find the first few pages to be all false positives), but I quickly realised this could do with some semi-automation.
What I propose is a semi-automated bot/editing tool that allows this to be done as efficiently as possible, with a user reviewing every edit before it's implemented of course. I'd be happy to be one of those users.
Cheers -- LukeSurl t c 17:27, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite doi}}, {{
cite pmid}} etc are nice ways of adding references and I see the need for a {{
cite ISBN}}/{{
cite isbn}}. Books are frequently cited in articles and most new books and most books published in the past 20-30 years have an ISBN. Adding book citations by hand is tedious and some of the citation tools are sporadic in operation or are a little "fiddly". I would like to have a {{
cite ISBN}} template created and then a bot goes off to find the biblio data to build a reference along the same lines as what happens with {{
cite doi}}. There are concerns about availability of
ISBN data in the quantities that would be used by WP, however
WorldCat allows up to
1000 ISBN queries per day with other options available. That may be sufficient for WP needs. The citation templates would then be placed in a
Category:Cite ISBN templates similar to
Category:Cite doi templates,
Category:Cite pmid templates etc. This is surely a simple task for the experts who lurk here? --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs) 01:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I have gone off this idea completely. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 19:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I am looking into ensuring rigour in WP referencing. I would like a bot to do a sample run on references to see how they compare with external sources. It should not be too hard for a bot to pull ISBN, doi, pmid numbers out of {{ cite}} templates in an article, get the bibliographic metadata from an external database, and then compare it to what has been put in the {{ cite}} template fields. Initially I am interested in the percentage of perfect matches and getting a spreadsheet of how the rest mismatch. Anyone interested in doing a sample of 1000 refs? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 20:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
WP: India has a massive backlog of over 18,000 unassessed articles. To help significantly bring down the backlog, an Assessment Drive has been planned. Could a bot please message users who are reviewers as well as members of WP:India to request them to volunteer to help clear the backlog? Thanks, Around The Globe सत्यमेव जयते 06:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Tag & Assess 2012
Each Wikiproject in Wikipedia has many article under its stewardship. Assessment means the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
In WikiProject India we have 93,867 articles under it as of date. Of these a stupendous, 18235 17511 articles are completely unassessed, both for class and importance. In addition, another 42,772 articles are unassessed for importance. Accordingly, a
Tag & Assess 2012 contest has been proposed to run from 01 March 2012 to 31 May 2012.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page itself. There are many awards to be given and scope for everyone to win huge awards. Come & join us in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India this way.
ssriram_mt ( talk) & AshLin ( talk) (Drive coordinators)
WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest
Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
ssriram_mt ( talk) & AshLin ( talk) (Drive coordinators)
Thank You! From a satisfied customer. AshLin ( talk) 14:04, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
A few minutes ago I was merging and checking all parameters of {{
Infobox AFL player}} and merged the last four missing parameters to {{
Infobox AFL biography}} as noted at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Holding_cell per the outcome at
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 April 5. The "only" problem now is to determine the two nonstandardized parameters {{{coachingteams}}} and {{{playingteams}}}.
The two parameters should be divided to
and (for the coaching related)
That is (I believe) not an easy task, but this template is simply too often transcluded (~1900) to do this by hand. mabdul 20:41, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Pursuant to Template talk:Further#Requested move and Template talk:Further#Move process, looking for a bot to replace all invocations of {{ further}} with {{ further2}} (exact same template, it's just being renamed). Any takers? -- Cybercobra (talk) 05:27, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
|text=
for custom output and links like the one currently used at {{
further}}? Why do we even need 2 templates? —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK 16:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
|text=
parameter (or something similar)?
—SW—
yak 18:12, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Done Magioladitis ( talk) 21:32, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
When a user creates an article with <ref> tags, but doesn't understand that they need to put {{ reflist}} in the article, a glaring red message appears on the page directing them to the help page. They probably will figure it out on their own eventually in most cases, but it seems to be a fairly common point of confusion for newbies. It seems like it would make things a whole lot simpler if a bot were simply to add the template where it's needed. Is this plausible? Swarm X 16:51, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
au.geocities is a dead duck, and it would be great if someone could get a bot to go through and appropriately dead link this domain. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
pointing to an archive at the
Internet Archive or
WebCite. Are there any that aren't?
Anomie
⚔ 17:29, 13 March 2012 (UTC)Hello, everybody, I have come up with a new idea. Why not run a bot which will tag orphaned non-free files? It is really a very hard work to find out orphaned non-free files and delete them (or tag them). Dipankan says.. ( "Edit count do not matter") 14:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Bot People,
I recently created Wikipedia:Short popular vital articles to help figure out what to work on next, and my preliminary reviews of the first few dozen articles on that list suggest to me that it is likely a very useful resource. However, if it becomes out of date while articles grow, it will become confusing and possibly lose its appeal.
It took more than twelve hours to query the 60-day JSON data from http://stats.grok.se for all of the ~10,000 level 4 Wikipedia:Vital articles, so I am considering assuming that article page view popularity will not change much. I think it is also safe to assume that articles will not shrink, or if they do, there is really no pressing need to move them on to the table from the larger list of level 4 vital articles.
However, it would be a great help if a bot could update the table -- perhaps weekly? -- with correct article sizes from the API. If you can help with this, let me remember to say, use the &redirects& API option when querying article size because many of those links are redirects to other spellings and character sets.
Is there anyone willing to take on this low priority maintenance task? If you reply here, please ping me on my talk page so I don't miss replies in my (now 1,068 page larger) watchlist. Thank you very much for any and all your help. Npmay ( talk) 23:07, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a host with WikiProject Teahouse, which is a supportive social and help space for new editors. The Teahouse is in pilot phase, and one of the main tasks of this period is reaching new editors to come and use the project. A helpful database report is available which creates a daily list of new but active editors (1 day, >10 edits; 4 days>20 edits). These lists are used for hosts to leave welcome and invitation messages on user talk pages.
The problem is that checking each page to see if there's been an invite previously made significantly slows down efficiency, and with 25 hosts aiming for a minimum of 500 invites per weak, that adds up in time costs. What would be amazing-great-phenomenal, is if someone with bot coding experience could whip up a simple machine to check the talk pages of the users on the database report, search for the word Teahouse, and then update an 'invited' column in the database report at regular intervals. I don't know how much time it would take, but it seems to be on the less complex end of things. Any help would be greatly appreciated by me, as well as the other Teahouse hosts. Or tips on who might be able to make such a thing. Thanks so much for your help and suggestions! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 13:19, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm hoping this is the right forum for this request, but is there any way to get a bot to fix instances where the word "fellow" is redundant? I notice quite a bit of "fellow teammate" and "fellow bandmate" and this seems to be a fairly pervasive error, and searching for common terms showing fellow-ness reveals as much:
These don't account for cases where "fellow" and "co-" or "-mate" are separated, and obviously, the last search yields uses of "fellow" that aren't redundant. But in the very obvious cases, simply deleting the word "fellow" would remove the redundancy. Is it possible to get a bot to do that? -- Mosmof ( talk) 14:33, 15 March 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)
Would it be possible for someone to create a bot that periodically goes through the sub-categories Category:Container categories, and tags categories, that doesn't only contain categories, with {{ Category diffuse}}? Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 02:48, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Done
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 [2]. 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)
How can I import an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet to use in a Wikipedia table? Is there a bot? Allen ( talk) 02:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Would be grateful if a bot could replace all calls to {{ Infobox Indian jurisdiction}} with ones to {{ Infobox settlement}}, as the former was deleted at TFD and is deprecated and outdated. Saravask 22:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I recall a bot removing links to dead images. Is it still around or has it rusted up? Category:Pages with missing files has got a backlog of 30,000 odd pages. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
(Reviving an old request that was never coded...) When uploaders' images are moved to the commons, they likely won't be aware of deletion discussions so they can address fixable issues like lack of sourcing. Sometimes deletion nominators on commons make notifications to uploaders on en.wiki, but this is generally rare. (There are bots that leave messages at article talk pages for in-use images, but this doesn't necessarily accomplish the same thing. For example, the original uploader might know the source of an image that is difficult to determine by later passers-by.) A bot should be able to detect the original uploaders at least for images moved to commons using the standard CommonsHelper format. Notifications of the uploaders on en.wiki would be very useful to avoid unnecessary image deletions at commons. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible for someone to create a bot that would replace article categories from user pages with links to the categories per WP:USERNOCAT? (e.g. this edit, which just added colons) Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I wish it was some code I'd written, so then I could argue it doesn't have to be open-source, but seeing as it's AWB I'll tell you. It seems rather obvious really; get a category in the make list box, like Category:Living people, filter it to userpages and then set off with the find and replace. I did that and then went through things like births and deaths through year categories, and racked up nearly 200 edits just with this trial. No, it's easy and would be much quicker with a bot too. You want to file the BRFA or shall I? Rcsprinter (shout) 22:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Looks nice. Bot trial has gone well and I think I'll take the task too. We'll share the responsibility between two bots. Rcsprinter (gas) 15:10, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Seems to me the Commons is in need of bots to do batch uploads of images. There's quite a backlog, should anyone here care to get involved. See also Commons:Bots. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:59, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
It would be worthwhile someone deadlinking Special:LinkSearch/*.dansdata.com. It seems to be gone, though someone may want to leave it a few extra days before initiating. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:24, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
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Many articles on geographic locations have coordinates that are given with far too many digits of "precision". In some cases, these coordinates are not even pointing to the correct location, and others (especially towns) point to some user's house or some other such shenanigans. (0.0001° is <11 m, 1″ is <31 m) Is it possible to built a bot that would list (not change) all articles with coordinates that are, say, 10 digits long or longer after a decimal point? Then once I deal with those, 9 digits and so forth? For a fuller discussion of the inanity of lengthy decimal coordinates see WP:Coordinates. Abductive ( reasoning) 15:50, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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FROM page
JOIN externallinks
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The preponderance of recurring digits suggests rounding errors by a script; it would be good to deal with that at source. I've added a pointer to this discussion from WT:COORD and notified User:The_Anome, whose bot already deals with a number of coordinate-related tasks. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
|type=
parameter, where present, gives us an indicator for calculating the the required precision; for example, |type=city
requires less precision than |type=landmark
. that said, six decimal places should always be sufficient. I seem to remember being taught that one should truncate, not round, coordinates (where one is not referring back to a map for a more exact point); is that so, or is my memory playing tricks
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 10:20, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
My request is trigged by the recent deletion discussion of the
redirect:Talinn. Talinn is an implausible typo of Tallinn and, as such, useful redirect. At the same time, there was a number of links linking to this incorrect name without being fixed for years as they had perfectly normal blue links and they are quite hard to notice. Therefore I propose that if the redirect is marked with {{R from incorrect name|Correct name}}
template, the bot should automatically fix incoming links (from articles only, excluding talk pages, user pages and project pages) replacing them with the correct spelling. In case of the above example (Talinn) that means that bot will replace all links linked to 'Talinn' with links to correct spelling 'Tallinn'.
Currently there are 65 pages marked with this template, which is not a large number. However, as a rule they are not regularly checked by editors and therefore these misspellings which could be easily fixed by bot may stay unfixed for the long time. Beagel ( talk) 19:20, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
{{R from incorrect name}}
template and not any other type of redirects.
Beagel (
talk) 21:42, 28 February 2012 (UTC)The main issue is not if you end up the right place by clicking on the link, but that the article containing the link contains also a misspelling/typo, which is hard to notice and therefore it may stay not corrected for quite a long time. To make more clear what I meant, just some examples I proposed to be changed by bot:
At the same time, it should not included redirects if there is no consensus what is the the common name in English or if different forms are accepted. E.g. Kyiv should be not automatically replaced with Kiev. It should also not replace diacritics. In this context, the proposal that there should be approved list makes a sense. Beagel ( talk) 22:30, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
I have a couple of ideas for bots and I am a programmer so I wouldn't mind making these myself (I think I might even enjoy it). I just wanted to check here to see if there are already bots doing these or if these are stupid ideas (feel free to say so) or something else.
My first idea is for an antivandalism bot. I have noticed that some vandalism is does not make actual words. My idea is the bot that follows the recent changes and if an edit is mostly words it does not find in a dictionary it would either just revert it or alert someone or something.
My other idea is for an "as of" bot. It would wander wikipedia and if it finds any phrases that say "as of" and then a date older than, say five years, it would leave a nice note on the article talk page (or maybe on an associated project page or something).
Those are my ideas, let me know what you think. Eomund ( talk) 03:36, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
{{
As of}}
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GoingBatty (
talk) 03:55, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Please make a bot to order the templates in Category:Chemistry compounds templates by period number.-- Kc kennylau ( talk) 10:04, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, would it be possible to generate a list of all articles that use the "distributor" field in {{ Infobox video game}}? I suspect that it is only being used for online services such as Steam, and not for physical distributors as intended, and as such should be re-purposed to make that clearer for editors and readers. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 16:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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I'm concerned that after approval, there is no oversight of bot operations; it is assumed that an approved bot will only perform the tasks to which it is approved. Bot edits are flagged and generally ignored, so there's a reasonable scope for a bot account to go off reservation without anyone noticing, at least for a while. There have also been incidents lately of this occurring and causing a ruckus.
I'd like a dev to propose a minimally intrusive bot to monitor all bot accounts on Wikipedia. I imagine that over time it will grow more sophisticated, but for a first iteration I'd like to see at least monitoring of the namespaces edited and use of edit summaries. There ought to be some thought given to security/monitoring/auditing/generation of the data that configures the monitor's operation.
A retrospective report of all bot accounts that have operated outside approved tasks would be of interest. It would not be able to be generated until appropriate configuration data had been assembled.
Others might suggest other necessary, basic functionality. Josh Parris 03:06, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
The use of list templates ({{ Plainlist}}; {{ Flatlist}}; example edit) in infoboxes has proved uncontroversial; it improves their accessibility and web standards compliance, makes the content easier to edit (especially for longer lists), and makes the data more easily parsable. I'd like to work with a bot owner to look for cases where the conversion could be automated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:49, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
([\|]\s*)(occupation|spouse|notableworks)(\s*=\s*)([^\|\}]+<[Bb][Rr]\s?/?>.*)(?=\s*(\||}})) $4 is the value passed to the template; the other matches are to maintain existing formatting A variation is required for lists expected to be separated by commas
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time ;-)
Thank you for the time you spent on this. You have identified some issues I anticipated. I would start by, say, doing all the "occupation" fields in {{ Infobox person}}, rather than trying to do all infoboxes at once. Unfortunately, AWB wont run properly on netbooks, which is what I'm using. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pigsonthewing ( talk • contribs)
In the past I have requested that a bot be designed to apply the {{ Old prod full}} template to talk pages of articles that have been prod-tagged and then deprodded. This bot has never been built, although a couple programmers have said they would like to. Perhaps the technical difficulties could be overcome this year? Here are some of the technical problems that I have thought of or that have been mentioned before: 1) The detection of Prod and Prod-nn tags is difficult, because they are assigned to a category with a date that, perforce, always changes. 2) If an article is prodded and rapidly deprodded, is it hard to detect. 3) If an article was prodded, deleted and recreated, it requires a different sort of detection. Anyway, any takers? Abductive ( reasoning) 15:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Citation bot ( talk · contribs) has a tendency to upload things at the wrong place following bad template usage from humans. So there's some cleanup to be had.
First, the following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/:10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
The following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/doi: 10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
The following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/doi:10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
And lastly the following
should be moved from Template:Cite doi/http:.2F.2Fdx.doi.org.2F10.Foobar to Template:Cite doi/10.Foobar.
Additionally,
{{
cite doi|10.Foobar}}
arguments{{
db-t3|~~~~~|10.Foobar of the correct tempalte}}
I've left a message to
User:Smith609, but he's on a wikibreak so anyone that wants to clean this stuff up is more than welcomed to.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 06:18, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
.*\p{Lu}(\P{L}*\p{Lu}){9}.* <casesensitive | moveonly>
, which is intended to prevent moves to titles with more than nine consecutive capital letters (after ignoring non-letter characters). Looks like Headbomb used his accountcreator
flag to move it already.
Anomie
⚔ 18:19, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Would a bot operator willing to spend a bit of time looking into a series of discussions be able to look at the request here that was not done at the time (for the reasons given there) and see if anything can be done about it? The links are provided from that page. Essentially, the task would involve re-tagging for review the articles listed at User:Δ/Sandbox 4 (this list was generated on request back in November 2011). If it would be better to generate a new list, please say so. What was suggested, given the problems found with some of the reviews, was to re-tag all the articles to be re-reviewed (an example of the tag to be replaced is here). If a new consensus is needed to run such a re-tagging request, please say so and I'll raise that in the appropriate location. Carcharoth ( talk) 18:40, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I have encountered several users, both new and experienced, who by accident made a mainspace page when tried to make a user subpage by forgetting the user: prefix. (i.e. Yoenit/Sandbox instead of user:Yoenit/Sandbox).
Could somebody make a bot which automatically moves pages to userspace without redirect if the page name starts with username of creator followed by "/". I think this would result in very few false positives as "/" is not commonly used in article titles. The bot should also leave a message at the creators talkpage with information what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future. Yoenit ( talk) 11:19, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
<--Oh did not know that. BRFA filed here Lego Kontribs TalkM 04:47, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Can we get a bot to remove expired {{
show by date}} and {{
update after}} templates if it is not already done? It is only a minor issue but removing redundant wikitext is a nice thing to do to help any editors who subsequently edit the page. --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs) 21:25, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
The Magny Cours and Lisbon server parts will be released in 2010.{{update after|2010|12|31}}
" -
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:24, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
update after|2012|March|1}}
is all that much worse than something like {{
update-inline|date=March 2012}}
.
Anomie
⚔ 02:29, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
update-inline}}
redirects to {{
update after}}
.
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:35, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Often English speakers, used to talking about "The UK" and "The USA" make the mistake of writing "The Ukraine", which is incorrect (the country is simply Ukraine). Currently a search for "The Ukraine" -Ukrainian returns 2,719 results, about half of which I guess are incorrect instances of the country's name. I had a go at correcting the first dozen or so instances in the search (hence you may find the first few pages to be all false positives), but I quickly realised this could do with some semi-automation.
What I propose is a semi-automated bot/editing tool that allows this to be done as efficiently as possible, with a user reviewing every edit before it's implemented of course. I'd be happy to be one of those users.
Cheers -- LukeSurl t c 17:27, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
cite doi}}, {{
cite pmid}} etc are nice ways of adding references and I see the need for a {{
cite ISBN}}/{{
cite isbn}}. Books are frequently cited in articles and most new books and most books published in the past 20-30 years have an ISBN. Adding book citations by hand is tedious and some of the citation tools are sporadic in operation or are a little "fiddly". I would like to have a {{
cite ISBN}} template created and then a bot goes off to find the biblio data to build a reference along the same lines as what happens with {{
cite doi}}. There are concerns about availability of
ISBN data in the quantities that would be used by WP, however
WorldCat allows up to
1000 ISBN queries per day with other options available. That may be sufficient for WP needs. The citation templates would then be placed in a
Category:Cite ISBN templates similar to
Category:Cite doi templates,
Category:Cite pmid templates etc. This is surely a simple task for the experts who lurk here? --
Alan Liefting (
talk -
contribs) 01:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
I have gone off this idea completely. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 19:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I am looking into ensuring rigour in WP referencing. I would like a bot to do a sample run on references to see how they compare with external sources. It should not be too hard for a bot to pull ISBN, doi, pmid numbers out of {{ cite}} templates in an article, get the bibliographic metadata from an external database, and then compare it to what has been put in the {{ cite}} template fields. Initially I am interested in the percentage of perfect matches and getting a spreadsheet of how the rest mismatch. Anyone interested in doing a sample of 1000 refs? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 20:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
WP: India has a massive backlog of over 18,000 unassessed articles. To help significantly bring down the backlog, an Assessment Drive has been planned. Could a bot please message users who are reviewers as well as members of WP:India to request them to volunteer to help clear the backlog? Thanks, Around The Globe सत्यमेव जयते 06:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Tag & Assess 2012
Each Wikiproject in Wikipedia has many article under its stewardship. Assessment means the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
In WikiProject India we have 93,867 articles under it as of date. Of these a stupendous, 18235 17511 articles are completely unassessed, both for class and importance. In addition, another 42,772 articles are unassessed for importance. Accordingly, a
Tag & Assess 2012 contest has been proposed to run from 01 March 2012 to 31 May 2012.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page itself. There are many awards to be given and scope for everyone to win huge awards. Come & join us in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India this way.
ssriram_mt ( talk) & AshLin ( talk) (Drive coordinators)
WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest
Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
ssriram_mt ( talk) & AshLin ( talk) (Drive coordinators)
Thank You! From a satisfied customer. AshLin ( talk) 14:04, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
A few minutes ago I was merging and checking all parameters of {{
Infobox AFL player}} and merged the last four missing parameters to {{
Infobox AFL biography}} as noted at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Holding_cell per the outcome at
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 April 5. The "only" problem now is to determine the two nonstandardized parameters {{{coachingteams}}} and {{{playingteams}}}.
The two parameters should be divided to
and (for the coaching related)
That is (I believe) not an easy task, but this template is simply too often transcluded (~1900) to do this by hand. mabdul 20:41, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Pursuant to Template talk:Further#Requested move and Template talk:Further#Move process, looking for a bot to replace all invocations of {{ further}} with {{ further2}} (exact same template, it's just being renamed). Any takers? -- Cybercobra (talk) 05:27, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
|text=
for custom output and links like the one currently used at {{
further}}? Why do we even need 2 templates? —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK 16:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
|text=
parameter (or something similar)?
—SW—
yak 18:12, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Done Magioladitis ( talk) 21:32, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
When a user creates an article with <ref> tags, but doesn't understand that they need to put {{ reflist}} in the article, a glaring red message appears on the page directing them to the help page. They probably will figure it out on their own eventually in most cases, but it seems to be a fairly common point of confusion for newbies. It seems like it would make things a whole lot simpler if a bot were simply to add the template where it's needed. Is this plausible? Swarm X 16:51, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
au.geocities is a dead duck, and it would be great if someone could get a bot to go through and appropriately dead link this domain. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
pointing to an archive at the
Internet Archive or
WebCite. Are there any that aren't?
Anomie
⚔ 17:29, 13 March 2012 (UTC)Hello, everybody, I have come up with a new idea. Why not run a bot which will tag orphaned non-free files? It is really a very hard work to find out orphaned non-free files and delete them (or tag them). Dipankan says.. ( "Edit count do not matter") 14:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Bot People,
I recently created Wikipedia:Short popular vital articles to help figure out what to work on next, and my preliminary reviews of the first few dozen articles on that list suggest to me that it is likely a very useful resource. However, if it becomes out of date while articles grow, it will become confusing and possibly lose its appeal.
It took more than twelve hours to query the 60-day JSON data from http://stats.grok.se for all of the ~10,000 level 4 Wikipedia:Vital articles, so I am considering assuming that article page view popularity will not change much. I think it is also safe to assume that articles will not shrink, or if they do, there is really no pressing need to move them on to the table from the larger list of level 4 vital articles.
However, it would be a great help if a bot could update the table -- perhaps weekly? -- with correct article sizes from the API. If you can help with this, let me remember to say, use the &redirects& API option when querying article size because many of those links are redirects to other spellings and character sets.
Is there anyone willing to take on this low priority maintenance task? If you reply here, please ping me on my talk page so I don't miss replies in my (now 1,068 page larger) watchlist. Thank you very much for any and all your help. Npmay ( talk) 23:07, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a host with WikiProject Teahouse, which is a supportive social and help space for new editors. The Teahouse is in pilot phase, and one of the main tasks of this period is reaching new editors to come and use the project. A helpful database report is available which creates a daily list of new but active editors (1 day, >10 edits; 4 days>20 edits). These lists are used for hosts to leave welcome and invitation messages on user talk pages.
The problem is that checking each page to see if there's been an invite previously made significantly slows down efficiency, and with 25 hosts aiming for a minimum of 500 invites per weak, that adds up in time costs. What would be amazing-great-phenomenal, is if someone with bot coding experience could whip up a simple machine to check the talk pages of the users on the database report, search for the word Teahouse, and then update an 'invited' column in the database report at regular intervals. I don't know how much time it would take, but it seems to be on the less complex end of things. Any help would be greatly appreciated by me, as well as the other Teahouse hosts. Or tips on who might be able to make such a thing. Thanks so much for your help and suggestions! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 13:19, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm hoping this is the right forum for this request, but is there any way to get a bot to fix instances where the word "fellow" is redundant? I notice quite a bit of "fellow teammate" and "fellow bandmate" and this seems to be a fairly pervasive error, and searching for common terms showing fellow-ness reveals as much:
These don't account for cases where "fellow" and "co-" or "-mate" are separated, and obviously, the last search yields uses of "fellow" that aren't redundant. But in the very obvious cases, simply deleting the word "fellow" would remove the redundancy. Is it possible to get a bot to do that? -- Mosmof ( talk) 14:33, 15 March 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)
Would it be possible for someone to create a bot that periodically goes through the sub-categories Category:Container categories, and tags categories, that doesn't only contain categories, with {{ Category diffuse}}? Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 02:48, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Done
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}}
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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 [2]. 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)
How can I import an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet to use in a Wikipedia table? Is there a bot? Allen ( talk) 02:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Would be grateful if a bot could replace all calls to {{ Infobox Indian jurisdiction}} with ones to {{ Infobox settlement}}, as the former was deleted at TFD and is deprecated and outdated. Saravask 22:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I recall a bot removing links to dead images. Is it still around or has it rusted up? Category:Pages with missing files has got a backlog of 30,000 odd pages. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 05:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
(Reviving an old request that was never coded...) When uploaders' images are moved to the commons, they likely won't be aware of deletion discussions so they can address fixable issues like lack of sourcing. Sometimes deletion nominators on commons make notifications to uploaders on en.wiki, but this is generally rare. (There are bots that leave messages at article talk pages for in-use images, but this doesn't necessarily accomplish the same thing. For example, the original uploader might know the source of an image that is difficult to determine by later passers-by.) A bot should be able to detect the original uploaders at least for images moved to commons using the standard CommonsHelper format. Notifications of the uploaders on en.wiki would be very useful to avoid unnecessary image deletions at commons. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible for someone to create a bot that would replace article categories from user pages with links to the categories per WP:USERNOCAT? (e.g. this edit, which just added colons) Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I wish it was some code I'd written, so then I could argue it doesn't have to be open-source, but seeing as it's AWB I'll tell you. It seems rather obvious really; get a category in the make list box, like Category:Living people, filter it to userpages and then set off with the find and replace. I did that and then went through things like births and deaths through year categories, and racked up nearly 200 edits just with this trial. No, it's easy and would be much quicker with a bot too. You want to file the BRFA or shall I? Rcsprinter (shout) 22:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Looks nice. Bot trial has gone well and I think I'll take the task too. We'll share the responsibility between two bots. Rcsprinter (gas) 15:10, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Seems to me the Commons is in need of bots to do batch uploads of images. There's quite a backlog, should anyone here care to get involved. See also Commons:Bots. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:59, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
It would be worthwhile someone deadlinking Special:LinkSearch/*.dansdata.com. It seems to be gone, though someone may want to leave it a few extra days before initiating. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:24, 21 March 2012 (UTC)