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Hi,
I have an AWB job for some person. I need following changes:
Any questions? Who can do this? This job includes ~1000-1200 pages, so a BFRA might be required. mabdul 13:39, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I suppose you only want the National ones done, and that to avoid dual-listing?
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:53, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
The current workload at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working & Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large includes several aime & manga categories that contain many huge articles that individually take far longer than average to edit and thus the categories take hours to rename. This in turn is creating a logjam for the regular bot.
Can extra bots please help to rename the following (all renamed per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy):
Many thanks in advance. Timrollpickering ( talk) 14:08, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Category redirect|Shinigami anime and manga}}
for example, a bot will come and take care of it.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:02, 24 March 2012 (UTC).On the face of it this should be a simple substitution - Indian financial media company did a deal with Bloomberg under which their old website www.utvi.com mapped to www.yourmoneysite.com with pathnames intact. However old material seems to have been lost in the deal, eg you don't get a 404 or anything when you convert this utvi.com link to yourmoneysite.com it just doesn't give you the article. That one isn't on archive.org either. I'm swamped at the moment, would someone mind having a look around to see how widespread this problem is? FlagSteward ( talk) 14:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Here is the special page to see the list.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:42, 25 March 2012 (UTC).
One of my main projects on Wikipedia is to create articles for all fungal taxa down to the level of genus. Over the past few years, I've made some pretty good progress; of the estimated 9000+ taxa from Kingdom to genus, I estimate we're at about 70%–90% coverage. I was wondering if a bot could be made that would help me finish my task. Basically, it would scan all taxon pages associated with WP:FUNGI (i.e., those with a taxobox), and prepare a list of all redlinks it finds that are not species. Would this be relatively easy to do? Sasata ( talk) 17:06, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
The people who have tagged articles in WP:CHIBOTCATS with {{ WikiProject Chicago}} have mostly gone inactive, except for one admin who no longer tags. Are there any bots that tag by category? If not we need a new one.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
So is Chicago in somebody's queue now?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:30, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply. I did some more, but I was having some problems, hence this. I'll get back to it ASAP, hopefully. As for Chicago, that would be a longer hold. Hazard-SJ ㋡ 03:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I submitted a BRFA to allow my bot to do this type of task but before I get started I got a couple questions about this one.
Are there any projects that are currently being tagged regularly.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:30, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I've just created an article about
George T. Noszlopy. We have lots of other articles which cite his work does anyone have tool that will add |authorlink=George T. Noszlopy
(and similar for other cases) to the relevant citation templates? To complicate matters, some cite him as George Thomas Noszlopy - it may be possible to use ISBNs to identify relevant instances.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 18:20, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Authority control}}
or whatever title we wish to give it.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:04, 24 March 2012 (UTC).{{
Normdaten|342687683}}
then it is a sound link target for thje author of that work.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:27, 25 March 2012 (UTC).{{
Normdaten|342687683}}
template. So it would be quite a bit more involved than the usual bot.{{
Normdaten|342687683}}
is bloody awful.
Jc3s5h (
talk) 01:57, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
(Reviving an old request that was never coded...) I have created templates like {{ Expand Spanish}} from the master templates {{ Expand language}} and {{ Expand language (non-Latin script)}}. These templates are used to mark articles needing translation from other Wikipedias. Right now the articlename parameter is optional, and I would like it to stay this way (makes it easier for editors to apply these tags). The bot I am after would find {{ Expand XXX}} templates without an articlename, look for the interwiki link at the bottom of the article, and append this articlename to the template. For example, on the article The Colossus (painting), {{Expand Spanish|topic=culture|date=March 2009}} would be changed to {{Expand Spanish|El coloso|topic=culture|date=March 2009}}. Ideally, this bot would run regularly, so editors wouldn't have to worry about specifying the article title. If there is no interwiki link, or more than one, the bot could notify the person who tagged the article, so they could fix the problem. Note: right now the {{ Expand language}} templates automatically create links to foreign-language articles based on the en.wiki article title. This is an imperfect solution to the problem, and I would like to discontinue this, making all the templates behave like {{ Expand language (non-Latin script)}}. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chrisrus, I remembered that I forgot to finish your request at WP:BOTREQ. The list of articles that returned no results from the Harvard Abstract Search is here (a revision of my userspace sandbox). The table of articles that returned at least one result from the Harvard Abstract Search is here (annother revision of my userspace sandbox). Leave me a message if you want anything else done! -- Tim 1357 talk 02:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
OK! Now we have a list! On to the next step: Needed: a bot to convert all of the following to redirects to the List of minor planets as described in Wikipedia:NASTRO#Dealing_with_minor_planets:
While this seems nice and all, wouldn't it be a good idea to cross check that list against the JPL Small Body Database too? Some data on the traffic stats of these minor planets might also reveal a few that are notable for reasons other than pure scientific research. Still looking forward to having a mini-purge on these useless stubs however. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:43, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Needed: Bot to search the titles on this list through another "good faith effort to establish notablity" websearch, as per Wikipedia:NASTRO#Insufficient_sources, this time using the JPL Small Body Database ( http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi) and to report number of hits, as was done here last time with this list using the Harvard site: [3], explained here.
This site is reportedly much less user-friendly than the Harvard. Please look into what it would take and let us know if it looks extremely difficult or impossible, or whatever the case may be. Chrisrus ( talk) 05:40, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much Mr. Farmbrough! You've done great work and it is much appreciated. I'll send you a Wikibeer or some such. A few points:
Chrisrus ( talk) 04:13, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Could we add a ==References== section with {{ reflist}} for all articles which have {{ Infobox language}} and don't yet have one?
Nearly all of these articles are actually ref'd, but they're ref'd through a link in the info box and it doesn't show up in the text. What I'd like is for a bot to add a ref section, and also add some of the newer infobox parameters next to the old 'speakers' parameter, like so:
|ethnicity = |speakers = |date = |ref =
(Assuming these don't already exist.)
If there is an 'extinct' parameter instead of 'speakers', then we'd want:
|ethnicity = |extinct = |ref =
These parameters have all been around for a while, and any kinks have been worked out. The ethnicity parameter is to link to our article on the speakers of the language, if we have one. Date is for the census date of the number of speakers. Ref is for just that, and goes w the ref section. There's a code we can use to autogenenerate the ref we've already linked to; I hope to have the project get together, review the data to verify it's supported, and then add the code (e16) to the ref field if it is. But with 6,000 articles, it would be a lot easier if the parameters and ref section were already there. Also, since we tend to copy over the layout of old articles when we make a new one, once this is done, it should propagate through future articles.
— kwami ( talk) 02:13, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Could I request that, if any changes are made, the parameters be placed in that order? Ethnicity comes after speakers in quite a few articles, which becomes difficult to follow once other parameters intervene, but it's not important enough to change unless the article's being edited already. It also might be worth bypassing the caps rd while you're at it (Infobox Language → Infobox language). — kwami ( talk) 20:00, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
While we're at it, we might as well add in states or region, if both are not present, as a minor change. While only one is required, it's convenient to have both available (it encourages better documentation than just listing the country), and it does no harm. — kwami ( talk) 03:38, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
A website that is used on a number of articles relating to football/soccer has recently moved domains - from 'zerozerofootball.com' to 'footballzz.co.uk' but the rest of the URL remains the same i.e. from http://www.zerozerofootball.com/jogador.php?id=85 to http://www.footballzz.co.uk/jogador.php?id=85. I was intending to use AWB to change the domain, but after a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Bugger :( an editor has created {{ Zerozero profile}}; so basically is it possible for a bot to convert all the old 'zerozerofootball.com' and the new 'footballzz.co.uk' to the template format? Thanks in advance, Giant Snowman 20:01, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
The list of minor planets has some 1900 subpages (including subpaged redirects) in the mainspace, which isn't allowed. See [4]. These are subpages per 100 minor planets, used as a kind of templates inside larger (per 1,000) regular pages (and with the text "This page is not meant to be viewed directly", which shouldn't appear on any mainspace pages...). Some years ago, I merged a fair number of them, but the process was very tedious and repetitive. To get rid of the rest, and considering the repetitiveness, perhaps a bot could do the other ones?
The current situation is that List of minor planets: 118001–119000 is composed of ten subpages, like List of minor planets/118101–118200. The wanted situation is what you get in e.g. List of minor planets: 200001–201000. Is this feasible? Fram ( talk) 07:26, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
I created Template:Stub redirect which places pages where the template is used on in a maintenance category, for example Category:Articles to be redirected from March 2012. It would be nice if a bot could date the template, so that the tagged page is placed in the correct category. Thus I have two questions:
1. Is there a bot that could perform the date tagging?
2. Could that bot also automatically create the corresponding maintenance category if it doesn't exist already?
Edit:
Perhaps the bot should also delete empty and obsolete categories. For example, if the bot had created
Category:Articles to be redirected from January 2012 and that category would now be empty, the bot should delete the category in February. In other words, the bot would need to check the current number of articles in the category and and the current month. If the number of articles is zero and the current month is the month following the month of the category, the bot should automatically delete that category.
-- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 20:48, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to collaborate on a bot called "MiniotisBot" or "BookBot" or "litBot". Title to be determined by the programmer.
I don't know anything other than HMTL and am unsure of the issues at hand. This is merely an idea.
What BookBot would do is scan through books, particularily those already posted on Wikipedia, and fix any relevant quotes. It would be a keyword search bot intended to use literature and other reference material to make sure that:
a) there are no quotes from a book which are typos (particularily as pertains to literature) b) all references to authors are properly annotated
Source material operations: 1. Scan through literature and other books, particularly all those posted on all wikimedia associated webpages (source material). 2. If possible, scan through all http://www.gutenberg.org/ books (source material). --you can download all of these for free and insert them into the code
Basically, I think that a collaboration between gutenberg.org and wiki to create and promote a bot which fact checks and references would be an ideal situation. However, this bot can be done in another way; and kept only for wikimedia associated pages (eg. use only wikibooks and wiki associated materials).
I'd like a little credit for the idea. Slap me on a page or two. Thanks for working hard! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephen M. Miniotis ( talk • contribs) 14:00, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello. Pursuant to the outcome of Template talk:Spaced ndash#Requested move would it be possible for someone to use a bot or AWB to change all instances of {{ ndash}} to {{ spaced ndash}}? Jenks24 ( talk) 03:33, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I am an administrator at the Assamese Wikipedia. Due to absent of the bot operator Chaipau, i want to run the bot , If it possible, please guide me. Bishnu Saikia ( talk) 20:33, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Sometimes, although not often, articles are recreated after deletion. It would be nice if a bot could fetch the various deletion history of such pages, and tag the talk pages with the appropriate templates. For example, Trademarkia was previously deleted ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trademarkia). The talk page should thus be tagged with the relevant {{ Old AfD multi}} et al. templates, and possibly a {{ recreated on}} template too. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:20, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
I have nominated a large number of templates at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 March 30#Usprimary templates. could I get someone to have a bot (or AWB) tag them for me with {{tfd|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}} or {{tfd|Usprimary templates}}? the last TfD for these was rejected since the templates were not properly tagged (see here). they are all orphaned, so there shouldn't be a problem with having the tag transcluded onto other pages. Frietjes ( talk) 21:42, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Would somebody rerun this task and nominate all 130129 templates in
Category:Periodic table infobox templates: All templates are only transcluded once and should simply 'SUBSTed.
mabdul 20:37, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
(oh I missed the one sandbox in userspace which should be excluded
mabdul 20:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC))
Before posting mass requests it should be normal to look at old discussions! Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements/Archive_10#Template:Infobox_.3Celement.3E_-_why_do_these_exist.3F -- Stone ( talk) 06:03, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Asking for a bot to deliver the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/April 2012 to the members listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach#Subscriptions. John Carter ( talk) 00:55, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
More huge categories that overall take hours to process with a single bot. Any help in moving the articles is much appreciated:
Thanks in advance! Timrollpickering ( talk) 12:54, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I have been wondering if there is any way, possibly a bot, to combat a years-long problem at the article San Diego. The article gets vandalized over and over by people adding some version of "The name 'San Diego' is German for 'a whale's vagina'." This is a joke based on the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, in which the main character demonstrates his arrogant ignorance by telling someone that is what San Diego means. We who watch the article have to manually remove these edits, and warn the editor, multiple times a month for the past many years - except during periods when the article was semiprotected. It can't be semiprotected permanently, and in any case our problem is not with non-autoconfirmed users as such; it is with users who insert this particular vandalism edit. Would someone be willing to design a bot which would automatically remove any edit which contains the phrase "whale's vagina" or "whales vagina" (the people who make this joke are not particularly good at grammar) and post a bot-note on the user's talk page? San Diego is rated as a Good Article; we worked hard to get it to that status but it takes constant vigilance to keep it that way. Thanks for any information about this possibility. -- MelanieN ( talk) 15:19, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Does anybody have a tool to create a list of all pages in main namespace I ever made contributions to? If that is possible, I would like that list to be created at User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Articles I contributed to. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 09:04, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
There is a tool that is mostly used for WP:CCI that does the same thing here. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 15:21, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
WP:AWB might be able to get it from the "Special pages" option, with Contributions/YourName in the option. I haven't tested though. -- Izno ( talk) 16:02, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
May be not exactly what you are looking for ... but User:DrTrigonBot could add the content of e.g. latest, say 5000 Special:Contributions or latest 1000 'Contribution survey' to the page you mentioned. Greetings -- DrTrigon ( talk) 21:28, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
A number of articles relating to railroads use {{ Infobox SG rail}} (which is a wrapper for {{ Infobox rail}}. A typical usage is at Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. If you check the page source you'll note that the call to the Infobox includes only those parameters in use. I think this is a result from copy-and-paste behavior, but it doesn't matter. If you'll note from Infobox railroad there are many other parameters which could, in theory, be used but I think it's less likely they'll get filled if the empty parameters aren't present. I'd like to see a bot go through and add the missing parameters, merging in the existing content. I might be interested in trying this myself, though I've never written a bot before. Mackensen (talk) 22:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
All the imeem.com links ( Special:Linksearch/*.imeem.com) are pretty well dead as the specific links now are generically feeding to the root page at myspace.com. It would be my recommendation that we treat them as dead links. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:43, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Is there a bot that will automatically roam the Internet, search for appropriate links (for references/citations on Wikipedia pages), and insert the appropriate code on the pages? The bot may need to be told what page(s) to scan, and when to run. Allen ( talk) 18:37, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry if I'll sound dismissive, but what you are proposing is essentially natural language processing. Even smartest algorithms today cannot do this well enough (think: translation), and this task would not only require to parse the language, but understand the context in order to find a citation that talks about the same facts -- i.e. strong AI. If someone creates this, they will probably get an equivalent of Nobel Prize. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_3#Category:Eponymous_categories a whole bunch of categories were deemed to be project rather than content and were moved by the addition of a "Wikipedia"" prefix. They now needed to have the content categories taken off the pages. A nice wee task for a bot? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 02:10, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
PS, it would be nice if I could get some bot to do that {{Wikipedia category|hidden=yes}} addition please :) - RunningOnBrains( talk) 05:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to replace Template:Fb overall competition and Template:Fb overall2 competition by a normal wikitable? Consensus at WikiProject_Football#.22fb.22_template_system is to get rid of these fb-templates that require the creation of hundreds of competition templates. An example would be 2009–10_F.C._Porto_season#Overall or 2006–07_Aberdeen_F.C._season#Overall which shows missing templates now. - Koppapa ( talk) 15:14, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
WP:United States has a massive backlog of over 76,000 + unknown-importance articles and 28,000+ unassessed articles. In order to see that this numbers are brought down, an contest has started: Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012
If this request is granted then please convey this message to members of WikiProject United States. Message is given below:
United States Tag & Assess 2012
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 United States, we have a massive backlog of over 76,000 + unknown-importance articles and 28,000+ unassessed articles. So, a Tag & Assess 2012 contest has been proposed to run from 11 April 2012 to 11 December 2012. You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page itself. There are many Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012#Rewards awards to be given and anyone can bag a lot of barnstars. Please join us in this exciting new venture. This will be beneficial for articles as well as editors as they will be able to interact with other editors in their country and will learn new things and can obtain a lot of knowledge about their country.
Yash t 101 (Contest Organizer)
Thank you! Yash t 101 08:28, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Since this was accepted but then got derailed, I'm requesting again, along with some of the developments during discussion.
Could we add a ==References== section with {{ reflist}} for all articles which have a {{ Infobox language}} box that could auto-generate refs, and don't yet have a ref section?
Nearly all of these articles are actually ref'd, but they're ref'd through a link in the info box and it doesn't show up in the text. (People periodically tag these articles as unreferenced.) What I'd like is for a bot to add a ref section, and also add some of the newer infobox parameters next to the old 'speakers' parameter, like so:
|speakers = (or |signers =) |date = |ref =
(Assuming these don't already exist.)
If there is an 'extinct' parameter instead of 'speakers', then we'd want:
|extinct = (or era =) |ref =
Ideally, all of our articles would be properly ref'd, and this would make that easier to do. Entering ⟨e16⟩ in the ref field auto-generates a ref in combination with the values in the iso3 and lc1, lc2, lc3 fields. Once the bot is done, I plan to set up a Wikiproject task to verify that our 6,000 language-box articles are properly referenced and dated, which would be overwhelming without the bot laying the groundwork.
While we're at it, we might as well make some 'cosmetic' changes. I'm only proposing this for articles the bot would already be modifying. I've wasted time, and wasted time at the help desk, when the params were out of order, were therefore not noticed, got duplicated, and then interfered with each other. (Nothing happens if you enter a value in a field, if there's an empty duplicate field further down in the template.) So, *if* we're already modifying the article, can we put the params in the expected order of the template documentation page? (It would be nice to do this across the board, but I suspect that would be objected to as a cosmetic change, even though it has real effects on editing.)
Lc# and ld# are normally on the same line for each number, rather than on separate lines as the documentation implies. This makes them easier to follow, and should not be changed. But lc# should be first, ld# second (as in the documentation), as that aligns better.
Also, *if* we're already modifying the page, it would be nice to add some useful but optional parameters which are currently under-utilized:
|ethnicity = (to link to our ethnography article, if there is one) |altname = (most of the entries under 'nativename' are not the nativename, and should go here, though that needs to be done manually; also, newbies don't know about this and add line breaks to |name, which cases display problems) |states / region = (currently we tend to have one or the other, but in most cases we would be better organized to have both)
No values, just the empty fields: infrastructure for further manual editing of the box.
Finally, any unsupported params (ones not listed in the documentation) should be tagged with an error category, to be cleaned up manually. (Or, if empty, simply deleted by the bot.) Also, any duplicate params should be tagged (best to clean this up manually as well, even if one is empty, because we don't want previously hidden material to appear without human review), as well as any fam# entry that does not have the preceding number, or for which the preceding number is empty (apart from fam2, which does not need a fam1, or a final empty param, which might be used for future expansion and does no harm). That is, if we have fam2, fam3, fam4, fam6, the box should be tagged for missing fam5 (same if fam5 is empty), as without it fam6 will not display.
There shouldn't be many of these, as I cleaned up a lot of them last year with AWB. Similar probs with unmatched lc#/ld# (listed below).
Move the closing }} to its own line. (Most boxes are already like this, and it makes them easier to scan visually during editing.)
So, the 1ary (!) and 2ary (m) requests:
#(!) Add a reference section and/or template, if either doesn't exist
|date'= census
with a space plus "census"
For minor (m) requests, I'm only asking for when the bot is modifying the page anyway. Some of them are things I could scan for with AWB, if there are objections to including them in the bot request, but a bot would be *much* more efficient, and others simply not worth doing on their own.
For error tagging, I leave that up to you. You might want to add an |error parameter, and enter the names of the fields that triggered errors. We could have the template track it from there. — kwami ( talk) 23:39, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
“ | add a ==References== section with {{
reflist}} for all articles which have a {{
Infobox language}} box that could auto-generate refs, and don't yet have a ref section?
|
” |
— kwami ( talk) |
At the BRFA, the concern was raised about adding a references section for footnotes when there are no footnotes. What should be added to the infobox to make the footnote automatically appear? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:34, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Just to make sure everything is in order. As I understand it the request is to add the "e16" value to the "ref" parameter in all these stubs, and also add a references section if none exists. Is there a discussion somewhere that establishes that all this has some consensus, at least at the wikiproject level? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 00:18, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Okay, could we take out the ref section, and do the rest? — kwami ( talk) 05:49, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Before invert redirect Michael Johnson (track and field) to Michael Johnson (athlete), like everybody others athletes with homonyms, I ask to a bot to correct all the redirect. Of course, if the bot befor make the inversion o the pages is better. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 05:36, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Editors have needlessly busied themselves moving files to the Commons. Wouldn't it be better to have a bot do this tedious task? ChromaNebula (talk) 22:43, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
During my work on category pages I occasionally come across {{ Portal}} which does not have any parameters. It therefore shows up as a very little empty box. I have not seen the problem on article pages as yet. May hav been a change in the template coding? So can we get a bot to list the instances where there is no parameter added? It will need an actual human to add a parameter unless the bot can be programmed to add a valid portal that relates to the page in quaetion. {{ Portal}} is used on over four million articles. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:25, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Done Will ask for the template to be modified as suggested. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 21:08, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Following a discussion regarding the {{ Cleanup}} I was hoping it would be feasible to link to the diff that shows the edit that tagged an article. Something like This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: See talk page. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. ( April 2010) In short the advantages would be to easily show who added the tag, what condition the article was in when the tag was added and any clues in the edit summary as to what the issues were. Although it was only discussed at {{ cleanup}} it would possibly be useful on all the tags in Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. It would be good if one of the date tagging bots could incorporate this when they add the date and if it could be applied to old tags and tags with the date applied manually. AIRcorn (talk) 08:43, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like a bot to change all of the links to Eberhard Karl Schöngarth (which is a wrong name and a redirect) to Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (which is the right name). Hoops gza ( talk) 18:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Now saying bot-working is not my area of expertise is an understatement, but I am wondering if these articles can be updated by bot - Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/bird articles by size], Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi/fungus articles by size and Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/dinosaur articles by size. There is a Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/mammal articles by size but it is currently being discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/mammal articles by size. Now the dino one was started early but all were updated at one point by Betacommandbot ( talk · contribs) before later input from 718 Bot ( talk · contribs) and ClueBot II ( talk · contribs). Now I'd love these to be periodically updated again and wasn't sure whether to ask one of the bot operators or throw it up here...? All help appreciated while I fumble round with this....cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 21:38, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Articles in
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System need to have the coordinate templates set to |display=inline,title
(if not already so),
like this, please. this will casue them to appear in the mapping part of our mobile apps, and in Google Maps' and similar services' Wikipedia layers. If using the deprecated {{
coor dm}}, it should be changed to {{
coord}}, at the same time.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 14:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
A great many infoboxes already emit microformats, and have for months, or even years. However, in some articles, these are incomplete, because the dates which form part of them do not use an appropriate sub-template, in order to emit the date in the correct metadata format. A bot (or bots - this task could be subdivided) is required, to complete the task of converting opening-, release-, first shown-, incident- and such dates from plain text to use {{ Start date}}, as seen in this example edit for a year, and this one for a full date and as described in the various infoboxes' documentation. Note that {{ start date}} allows for YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD and in a few cases YYY-M-DD:HH:MM formats. Note also that Smackbot was approved to do this, and started, but failed to complete the task. A list of affected templates is available. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:25, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, old friends. Back in 2006, I received permission from Dave Whitinger at Dave's Garden < http://davesgarden.com/> to release all his photos at that site under the GFDL. I uploaded several here, and many other people uploaded other photos here from that site. These have since been moved to Commons.
Dave is not with the Dave's Garden site anymore, and his "about" page has been removed from that site. He created a new site at < http://allthingsplants.com>, and all his photos have been moved there. He e-mailed me, asking if I could update the image description files to attribute him at his new site. (He also explicitly released the images under the GFDL and cc-by-sa on his new site, rather than relying on an e-mail confirmation.) Could someone run a script to update these?
Specifically, there are a couple hundred images on Commons that say:
This photo was taken by [http://davesgarden.com/members/dave/ Dave] at [http://davesgarden.com/ Dave's Garden]. Released under the GFDL, as documented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Successful_requests_for_permission#Dave.27s_Garden here].
(There may be others with different wording, but all will link to < http://davesgarden.com/>.) They all need to change to say:
This photo was taken by [http://allthingsplants.com/users/profile/dave/ Dave Whitinger] at [http://allthingsplants.com/ All Things Plants]. Released under the GFDL and cc-by-sa-3.0 licenses, as documented [http://allthingsplants.com/plants/browse/user/images/dave/ here].
This will help to save several hundred great plant images on Commons, most of which are used in multiple wikis. Thanks for any help! – Quadell ( talk) 18:23, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
ChzzBot II has stopped, and the sandbox is no longer being cleared automatically. Is anyone willing to take over the task? 124.149.84.97 ( talk) 02:03, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
I would like to request the fixing of names I systematically changed wrong when updating the systematics from families to superfamilies, about 500 in total. The names are (faulty --> correct):
(Summary, the extention -dae should have been -dea. Names are capped.) Thanks -- Kim van der Linde at venus 02:47, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
We also have Psittacoidaee surely that's not right?
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:29, 1 May 2012 (UTC).
Fixed
Partially Done by requester, with help from GoingBatty.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:31, 1 May 2012 (UTC).
I am working on a collaboration with Translators Without Borders to improve and translate 80 articles into as many other languages as possible as per here. It would be useful to have a bot that could notify users when new articles are translated and ready for integration into their languages. Currently for example I have three people helping out with Bengali. The first Bengali article was translated today and I must than post to these three users pages to let them know it is ready. The article is here [6] and I will be added to this table as they come out [7]. Translation is being done off wiki. Is there anyone interested in helping with this? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 21:19, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Category:Science citation templates is filled with orphaned templates due to deletions, article updates and rewrites, and so on. I think it's time for a good cleanup is done there. Specifically, when no page what-so-ever (redirects don't count as links) links to a template categorized in the following categories
They should be tagged with {{
db-g6|rationale=Unused {{
cite doi/hdl/jstor/pmc/pmid}} template.}}
. This would remove the useless clutter from these categories, and let bots/humans focus on cleaning up the citations that are actually used, rather than spend time on useless ones.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 03:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm an admin and bureaucrat at Wiki-cy. Can I request a bot to check all external links - on every page - on the Welsh Wikipedia. If that's possible then a template should be left on such pages with a name such as "Dolen wallus" (bad link). We will then manually amend. Many thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 07:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Could we add missing parameters that most templates should have by default? And, if a change is made, it would be nice if they were ordered per the template documentation so that they don't get duplicated, as sometimes happens now.
This request has gotten hung up on adding a reference section, so I've omitted that this time.
So, if these don't already exist:
|speakers = (basic info) |date = (date of that figure) |ref = (ref for that figure)
If there is an 'extinct' or 'era' parameter instead of 'speakers', then we'd want:
|extinct = (or era =) |ref =
Now, *if* we make that change in an article, we should check that we have the following as well:
|ethnicity = (to link to our ethnography article, if there is one) |altname = (most of the entries under 'nativename' are not the nativename, and should go here, though that needs to be done manually; also, newbies don't know about this and add line breaks to |name, which cases display problems) |states = |region = (currently we tend to have 'states' or 'region', but in most cases we would be better organized to have both)
Also, *if* we're already changing an article, arrange the parameters to match the documentation.
But: lc# and ld# are normally on the same line for each number, rather than on separate lines as the documentation implies. This makes them easier to follow, and should not be changed. However, lc# should be first, ld# second (as in the documentation), as that aligns better.
Any unsupported params (ones not listed in the documentation) should be tagged with an error category, to be cleaned up manually. (Or, if empty, simply deleted by the bot.)
Any duplicate params should be tagged (best to clean this up manually as well, even if one is empty, because we don't want previously hidden material to appear without human review), as well as any fam# entry that does not have the preceding number, or for which the preceding number is empty (apart from fam2, which does not need a fam1, or a final empty param, which might be used for future expansion and does no harm). That is, if we have fam2, fam3, fam4, fam6, the box should be tagged for missing fam5 (same if fam5 is present but empty), as without it fam6 will not display.
There shouldn't be many of these, as I cleaned up a lot of them last year with AWB. Similar probs with unmatched lc#/ld# (listed below).
Replace |date'= census
with a space plus "census" (Merging with |date, per recent change in code: 280 tokens remain after AWB)
Delete any ll# series if set to 'none'; tag if set to anything else. This was an earlier bot request that was accepted and then never acted on.
Tag as an error if an lc# series is missing either lc1 or lc2 (later gaps are not a problem), or if each ld# does not have a matching lc# and vice versa
Tag any dia# or stand# series that is missing dia1 or stand1 (later gaps are not a problem)
Tag as an error any lc1 not followed by lc2 (needs manual review)
Fix caps in template name (Infobox Language → Infobox language)
Move the closing }} to its own line. (Most boxes are already like this, and it makes them easier to scan visually during editing.)
For error tagging, we might want to add an |error parameter, and enter the names of the fields that triggered errors. We could have the template track it from there. —
kwami (
talk) 10:38, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Are any bots doing WP:UM? I did a recent move ( my recent moves) and it has 97 transclusions that need updating. This is an uncontroversial task, so anyone can do it.-- Otterathome ( talk) 09:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, following this thread at VPT I learned that we used to have a bot that converted bare URLs to valid refs ( User:DumZiBoT/refLinks), but this bot appears to have died a tragic bot death. Is it possible to get another bot to take over this duty, like User:Citation bot? ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 19:56, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
my @cj_tags = ( # cite journal tag, meta tag list
- [qw( author dc.creator dc.contributor citation_authors )],
- [qw( title citation_title dc.title )],
- [qw( issn citation_issn prism.issn )],
- [qw( journal citation_journal_title prism.publicationname )],
- [qw( volume citation_volume prism.volume )],
- [qw( issue citation_issue prism.number )],
- [qw( pages prism.endingpage citation_lastpage citation_firstpage prism.startingpage )],
- [qw( date citation_date prism.publicationdate dc.date citation_year )],
- [qw( pmid citation_pmid )],
- [qw( url citation_fulltext_html_url citation_pdf_url citation_abstract_html_url )],
- [qw( doi citation_doi dc.identifier )],
- [qw( language dc.language )],
- [qw( publisher dc.publisher dc.publisher.corporatename )]
);
All the WP:ARBPIA articles are under 1RR.Usually editors active in the area tag the talk page of the article {{ ARBPIA}} tag(for example Talk:Israel) but they usually don't add edit notice(ex. of edit notice. Template:Editnotices/Page/Israel) so the article stays without edit notice(for ex. Israel Defense Forces) and new editor usually don't see talk page or don't pay attention so they may break the rules.I ask that bot will add edit notice as soon one of editors will add the tag to the talk page.-- Shrike ( talk) 09:18, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Many pages seem to use Template:Commons_category when they do not have a Commons category of the correct name (or indeed any relevant content on commons). The link doesn't show as red and so most people miss the broken link. Is this something that could be checked by a bot and commented out if broken? Stuartyeates ( talk) 20:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I've seen this a bunch of times: an article has references added but someone forgets to remove the {{ unreferenced}}. Is there some way that a bot can remove all instances of {{ unreferenced}} from pages having a {{ reflist}} and/or <references/> code? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 23:59, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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Archive 40 | ← | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | Archive 47 | Archive 48 | Archive 49 | Archive 50 |
Hi,
I have an AWB job for some person. I need following changes:
Any questions? Who can do this? This job includes ~1000-1200 pages, so a BFRA might be required. mabdul 13:39, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I suppose you only want the National ones done, and that to avoid dual-listing?
Rich
Farmbrough, 04:53, 24 March 2012 (UTC).
The current workload at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working & Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large includes several aime & manga categories that contain many huge articles that individually take far longer than average to edit and thus the categories take hours to rename. This in turn is creating a logjam for the regular bot.
Can extra bots please help to rename the following (all renamed per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy):
Many thanks in advance. Timrollpickering ( talk) 14:08, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Category redirect|Shinigami anime and manga}}
for example, a bot will come and take care of it.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:02, 24 March 2012 (UTC).On the face of it this should be a simple substitution - Indian financial media company did a deal with Bloomberg under which their old website www.utvi.com mapped to www.yourmoneysite.com with pathnames intact. However old material seems to have been lost in the deal, eg you don't get a 404 or anything when you convert this utvi.com link to yourmoneysite.com it just doesn't give you the article. That one isn't on archive.org either. I'm swamped at the moment, would someone mind having a look around to see how widespread this problem is? FlagSteward ( talk) 14:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Here is the special page to see the list.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:42, 25 March 2012 (UTC).
One of my main projects on Wikipedia is to create articles for all fungal taxa down to the level of genus. Over the past few years, I've made some pretty good progress; of the estimated 9000+ taxa from Kingdom to genus, I estimate we're at about 70%–90% coverage. I was wondering if a bot could be made that would help me finish my task. Basically, it would scan all taxon pages associated with WP:FUNGI (i.e., those with a taxobox), and prepare a list of all redlinks it finds that are not species. Would this be relatively easy to do? Sasata ( talk) 17:06, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
The people who have tagged articles in WP:CHIBOTCATS with {{ WikiProject Chicago}} have mostly gone inactive, except for one admin who no longer tags. Are there any bots that tag by category? If not we need a new one.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
So is Chicago in somebody's queue now?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:30, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply. I did some more, but I was having some problems, hence this. I'll get back to it ASAP, hopefully. As for Chicago, that would be a longer hold. Hazard-SJ ㋡ 03:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
I submitted a BRFA to allow my bot to do this type of task but before I get started I got a couple questions about this one.
Are there any projects that are currently being tagged regularly.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:30, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I've just created an article about
George T. Noszlopy. We have lots of other articles which cite his work does anyone have tool that will add |authorlink=George T. Noszlopy
(and similar for other cases) to the relevant citation templates? To complicate matters, some cite him as George Thomas Noszlopy - it may be possible to use ISBNs to identify relevant instances.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 18:20, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
Authority control}}
or whatever title we wish to give it.
Rich
Farmbrough, 18:04, 24 March 2012 (UTC).{{
Normdaten|342687683}}
then it is a sound link target for thje author of that work.
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:27, 25 March 2012 (UTC).{{
Normdaten|342687683}}
template. So it would be quite a bit more involved than the usual bot.{{
Normdaten|342687683}}
is bloody awful.
Jc3s5h (
talk) 01:57, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
(Reviving an old request that was never coded...) I have created templates like {{ Expand Spanish}} from the master templates {{ Expand language}} and {{ Expand language (non-Latin script)}}. These templates are used to mark articles needing translation from other Wikipedias. Right now the articlename parameter is optional, and I would like it to stay this way (makes it easier for editors to apply these tags). The bot I am after would find {{ Expand XXX}} templates without an articlename, look for the interwiki link at the bottom of the article, and append this articlename to the template. For example, on the article The Colossus (painting), {{Expand Spanish|topic=culture|date=March 2009}} would be changed to {{Expand Spanish|El coloso|topic=culture|date=March 2009}}. Ideally, this bot would run regularly, so editors wouldn't have to worry about specifying the article title. If there is no interwiki link, or more than one, the bot could notify the person who tagged the article, so they could fix the problem. Note: right now the {{ Expand language}} templates automatically create links to foreign-language articles based on the en.wiki article title. This is an imperfect solution to the problem, and I would like to discontinue this, making all the templates behave like {{ Expand language (non-Latin script)}}. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Chrisrus, I remembered that I forgot to finish your request at WP:BOTREQ. The list of articles that returned no results from the Harvard Abstract Search is here (a revision of my userspace sandbox). The table of articles that returned at least one result from the Harvard Abstract Search is here (annother revision of my userspace sandbox). Leave me a message if you want anything else done! -- Tim 1357 talk 02:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
OK! Now we have a list! On to the next step: Needed: a bot to convert all of the following to redirects to the List of minor planets as described in Wikipedia:NASTRO#Dealing_with_minor_planets:
While this seems nice and all, wouldn't it be a good idea to cross check that list against the JPL Small Body Database too? Some data on the traffic stats of these minor planets might also reveal a few that are notable for reasons other than pure scientific research. Still looking forward to having a mini-purge on these useless stubs however. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:43, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Needed: Bot to search the titles on this list through another "good faith effort to establish notablity" websearch, as per Wikipedia:NASTRO#Insufficient_sources, this time using the JPL Small Body Database ( http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi) and to report number of hits, as was done here last time with this list using the Harvard site: [3], explained here.
This site is reportedly much less user-friendly than the Harvard. Please look into what it would take and let us know if it looks extremely difficult or impossible, or whatever the case may be. Chrisrus ( talk) 05:40, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much Mr. Farmbrough! You've done great work and it is much appreciated. I'll send you a Wikibeer or some such. A few points:
Chrisrus ( talk) 04:13, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Could we add a ==References== section with {{ reflist}} for all articles which have {{ Infobox language}} and don't yet have one?
Nearly all of these articles are actually ref'd, but they're ref'd through a link in the info box and it doesn't show up in the text. What I'd like is for a bot to add a ref section, and also add some of the newer infobox parameters next to the old 'speakers' parameter, like so:
|ethnicity = |speakers = |date = |ref =
(Assuming these don't already exist.)
If there is an 'extinct' parameter instead of 'speakers', then we'd want:
|ethnicity = |extinct = |ref =
These parameters have all been around for a while, and any kinks have been worked out. The ethnicity parameter is to link to our article on the speakers of the language, if we have one. Date is for the census date of the number of speakers. Ref is for just that, and goes w the ref section. There's a code we can use to autogenenerate the ref we've already linked to; I hope to have the project get together, review the data to verify it's supported, and then add the code (e16) to the ref field if it is. But with 6,000 articles, it would be a lot easier if the parameters and ref section were already there. Also, since we tend to copy over the layout of old articles when we make a new one, once this is done, it should propagate through future articles.
— kwami ( talk) 02:13, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Could I request that, if any changes are made, the parameters be placed in that order? Ethnicity comes after speakers in quite a few articles, which becomes difficult to follow once other parameters intervene, but it's not important enough to change unless the article's being edited already. It also might be worth bypassing the caps rd while you're at it (Infobox Language → Infobox language). — kwami ( talk) 20:00, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
While we're at it, we might as well add in states or region, if both are not present, as a minor change. While only one is required, it's convenient to have both available (it encourages better documentation than just listing the country), and it does no harm. — kwami ( talk) 03:38, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
A website that is used on a number of articles relating to football/soccer has recently moved domains - from 'zerozerofootball.com' to 'footballzz.co.uk' but the rest of the URL remains the same i.e. from http://www.zerozerofootball.com/jogador.php?id=85 to http://www.footballzz.co.uk/jogador.php?id=85. I was intending to use AWB to change the domain, but after a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Bugger :( an editor has created {{ Zerozero profile}}; so basically is it possible for a bot to convert all the old 'zerozerofootball.com' and the new 'footballzz.co.uk' to the template format? Thanks in advance, Giant Snowman 20:01, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
The list of minor planets has some 1900 subpages (including subpaged redirects) in the mainspace, which isn't allowed. See [4]. These are subpages per 100 minor planets, used as a kind of templates inside larger (per 1,000) regular pages (and with the text "This page is not meant to be viewed directly", which shouldn't appear on any mainspace pages...). Some years ago, I merged a fair number of them, but the process was very tedious and repetitive. To get rid of the rest, and considering the repetitiveness, perhaps a bot could do the other ones?
The current situation is that List of minor planets: 118001–119000 is composed of ten subpages, like List of minor planets/118101–118200. The wanted situation is what you get in e.g. List of minor planets: 200001–201000. Is this feasible? Fram ( talk) 07:26, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
I created Template:Stub redirect which places pages where the template is used on in a maintenance category, for example Category:Articles to be redirected from March 2012. It would be nice if a bot could date the template, so that the tagged page is placed in the correct category. Thus I have two questions:
1. Is there a bot that could perform the date tagging?
2. Could that bot also automatically create the corresponding maintenance category if it doesn't exist already?
Edit:
Perhaps the bot should also delete empty and obsolete categories. For example, if the bot had created
Category:Articles to be redirected from January 2012 and that category would now be empty, the bot should delete the category in February. In other words, the bot would need to check the current number of articles in the category and and the current month. If the number of articles is zero and the current month is the month following the month of the category, the bot should automatically delete that category.
-- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 20:48, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to collaborate on a bot called "MiniotisBot" or "BookBot" or "litBot". Title to be determined by the programmer.
I don't know anything other than HMTL and am unsure of the issues at hand. This is merely an idea.
What BookBot would do is scan through books, particularily those already posted on Wikipedia, and fix any relevant quotes. It would be a keyword search bot intended to use literature and other reference material to make sure that:
a) there are no quotes from a book which are typos (particularily as pertains to literature) b) all references to authors are properly annotated
Source material operations: 1. Scan through literature and other books, particularly all those posted on all wikimedia associated webpages (source material). 2. If possible, scan through all http://www.gutenberg.org/ books (source material). --you can download all of these for free and insert them into the code
Basically, I think that a collaboration between gutenberg.org and wiki to create and promote a bot which fact checks and references would be an ideal situation. However, this bot can be done in another way; and kept only for wikimedia associated pages (eg. use only wikibooks and wiki associated materials).
I'd like a little credit for the idea. Slap me on a page or two. Thanks for working hard! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephen M. Miniotis ( talk • contribs) 14:00, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello. Pursuant to the outcome of Template talk:Spaced ndash#Requested move would it be possible for someone to use a bot or AWB to change all instances of {{ ndash}} to {{ spaced ndash}}? Jenks24 ( talk) 03:33, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
I am an administrator at the Assamese Wikipedia. Due to absent of the bot operator Chaipau, i want to run the bot , If it possible, please guide me. Bishnu Saikia ( talk) 20:33, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Sometimes, although not often, articles are recreated after deletion. It would be nice if a bot could fetch the various deletion history of such pages, and tag the talk pages with the appropriate templates. For example, Trademarkia was previously deleted ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trademarkia). The talk page should thus be tagged with the relevant {{ Old AfD multi}} et al. templates, and possibly a {{ recreated on}} template too. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:20, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
I have nominated a large number of templates at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 March 30#Usprimary templates. could I get someone to have a bot (or AWB) tag them for me with {{tfd|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}} or {{tfd|Usprimary templates}}? the last TfD for these was rejected since the templates were not properly tagged (see here). they are all orphaned, so there shouldn't be a problem with having the tag transcluded onto other pages. Frietjes ( talk) 21:42, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Would somebody rerun this task and nominate all 130129 templates in
Category:Periodic table infobox templates: All templates are only transcluded once and should simply 'SUBSTed.
mabdul 20:37, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
(oh I missed the one sandbox in userspace which should be excluded
mabdul 20:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC))
Before posting mass requests it should be normal to look at old discussions! Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements/Archive_10#Template:Infobox_.3Celement.3E_-_why_do_these_exist.3F -- Stone ( talk) 06:03, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Asking for a bot to deliver the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach/April 2012 to the members listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Outreach#Subscriptions. John Carter ( talk) 00:55, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
More huge categories that overall take hours to process with a single bot. Any help in moving the articles is much appreciated:
Thanks in advance! Timrollpickering ( talk) 12:54, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I have been wondering if there is any way, possibly a bot, to combat a years-long problem at the article San Diego. The article gets vandalized over and over by people adding some version of "The name 'San Diego' is German for 'a whale's vagina'." This is a joke based on the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, in which the main character demonstrates his arrogant ignorance by telling someone that is what San Diego means. We who watch the article have to manually remove these edits, and warn the editor, multiple times a month for the past many years - except during periods when the article was semiprotected. It can't be semiprotected permanently, and in any case our problem is not with non-autoconfirmed users as such; it is with users who insert this particular vandalism edit. Would someone be willing to design a bot which would automatically remove any edit which contains the phrase "whale's vagina" or "whales vagina" (the people who make this joke are not particularly good at grammar) and post a bot-note on the user's talk page? San Diego is rated as a Good Article; we worked hard to get it to that status but it takes constant vigilance to keep it that way. Thanks for any information about this possibility. -- MelanieN ( talk) 15:19, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Does anybody have a tool to create a list of all pages in main namespace I ever made contributions to? If that is possible, I would like that list to be created at User:Toshio Yamaguchi/Articles I contributed to. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 09:04, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
There is a tool that is mostly used for WP:CCI that does the same thing here. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 15:21, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
WP:AWB might be able to get it from the "Special pages" option, with Contributions/YourName in the option. I haven't tested though. -- Izno ( talk) 16:02, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
May be not exactly what you are looking for ... but User:DrTrigonBot could add the content of e.g. latest, say 5000 Special:Contributions or latest 1000 'Contribution survey' to the page you mentioned. Greetings -- DrTrigon ( talk) 21:28, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
A number of articles relating to railroads use {{ Infobox SG rail}} (which is a wrapper for {{ Infobox rail}}. A typical usage is at Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad. If you check the page source you'll note that the call to the Infobox includes only those parameters in use. I think this is a result from copy-and-paste behavior, but it doesn't matter. If you'll note from Infobox railroad there are many other parameters which could, in theory, be used but I think it's less likely they'll get filled if the empty parameters aren't present. I'd like to see a bot go through and add the missing parameters, merging in the existing content. I might be interested in trying this myself, though I've never written a bot before. Mackensen (talk) 22:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
All the imeem.com links ( Special:Linksearch/*.imeem.com) are pretty well dead as the specific links now are generically feeding to the root page at myspace.com. It would be my recommendation that we treat them as dead links. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:43, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Is there a bot that will automatically roam the Internet, search for appropriate links (for references/citations on Wikipedia pages), and insert the appropriate code on the pages? The bot may need to be told what page(s) to scan, and when to run. Allen ( talk) 18:37, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry if I'll sound dismissive, but what you are proposing is essentially natural language processing. Even smartest algorithms today cannot do this well enough (think: translation), and this task would not only require to parse the language, but understand the context in order to find a citation that talks about the same facts -- i.e. strong AI. If someone creates this, they will probably get an equivalent of Nobel Prize. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_3#Category:Eponymous_categories a whole bunch of categories were deemed to be project rather than content and were moved by the addition of a "Wikipedia"" prefix. They now needed to have the content categories taken off the pages. A nice wee task for a bot? -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 02:10, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
PS, it would be nice if I could get some bot to do that {{Wikipedia category|hidden=yes}} addition please :) - RunningOnBrains( talk) 05:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Would it be possible to replace Template:Fb overall competition and Template:Fb overall2 competition by a normal wikitable? Consensus at WikiProject_Football#.22fb.22_template_system is to get rid of these fb-templates that require the creation of hundreds of competition templates. An example would be 2009–10_F.C._Porto_season#Overall or 2006–07_Aberdeen_F.C._season#Overall which shows missing templates now. - Koppapa ( talk) 15:14, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
WP:United States has a massive backlog of over 76,000 + unknown-importance articles and 28,000+ unassessed articles. In order to see that this numbers are brought down, an contest has started: Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012
If this request is granted then please convey this message to members of WikiProject United States. Message is given below:
United States Tag & Assess 2012
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 United States, we have a massive backlog of over 76,000 + unknown-importance articles and 28,000+ unassessed articles. So, a Tag & Assess 2012 contest has been proposed to run from 11 April 2012 to 11 December 2012. You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page itself. There are many Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012#Rewards awards to be given and anyone can bag a lot of barnstars. Please join us in this exciting new venture. This will be beneficial for articles as well as editors as they will be able to interact with other editors in their country and will learn new things and can obtain a lot of knowledge about their country.
Yash t 101 (Contest Organizer)
Thank you! Yash t 101 08:28, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Since this was accepted but then got derailed, I'm requesting again, along with some of the developments during discussion.
Could we add a ==References== section with {{ reflist}} for all articles which have a {{ Infobox language}} box that could auto-generate refs, and don't yet have a ref section?
Nearly all of these articles are actually ref'd, but they're ref'd through a link in the info box and it doesn't show up in the text. (People periodically tag these articles as unreferenced.) What I'd like is for a bot to add a ref section, and also add some of the newer infobox parameters next to the old 'speakers' parameter, like so:
|speakers = (or |signers =) |date = |ref =
(Assuming these don't already exist.)
If there is an 'extinct' parameter instead of 'speakers', then we'd want:
|extinct = (or era =) |ref =
Ideally, all of our articles would be properly ref'd, and this would make that easier to do. Entering ⟨e16⟩ in the ref field auto-generates a ref in combination with the values in the iso3 and lc1, lc2, lc3 fields. Once the bot is done, I plan to set up a Wikiproject task to verify that our 6,000 language-box articles are properly referenced and dated, which would be overwhelming without the bot laying the groundwork.
While we're at it, we might as well make some 'cosmetic' changes. I'm only proposing this for articles the bot would already be modifying. I've wasted time, and wasted time at the help desk, when the params were out of order, were therefore not noticed, got duplicated, and then interfered with each other. (Nothing happens if you enter a value in a field, if there's an empty duplicate field further down in the template.) So, *if* we're already modifying the article, can we put the params in the expected order of the template documentation page? (It would be nice to do this across the board, but I suspect that would be objected to as a cosmetic change, even though it has real effects on editing.)
Lc# and ld# are normally on the same line for each number, rather than on separate lines as the documentation implies. This makes them easier to follow, and should not be changed. But lc# should be first, ld# second (as in the documentation), as that aligns better.
Also, *if* we're already modifying the page, it would be nice to add some useful but optional parameters which are currently under-utilized:
|ethnicity = (to link to our ethnography article, if there is one) |altname = (most of the entries under 'nativename' are not the nativename, and should go here, though that needs to be done manually; also, newbies don't know about this and add line breaks to |name, which cases display problems) |states / region = (currently we tend to have one or the other, but in most cases we would be better organized to have both)
No values, just the empty fields: infrastructure for further manual editing of the box.
Finally, any unsupported params (ones not listed in the documentation) should be tagged with an error category, to be cleaned up manually. (Or, if empty, simply deleted by the bot.) Also, any duplicate params should be tagged (best to clean this up manually as well, even if one is empty, because we don't want previously hidden material to appear without human review), as well as any fam# entry that does not have the preceding number, or for which the preceding number is empty (apart from fam2, which does not need a fam1, or a final empty param, which might be used for future expansion and does no harm). That is, if we have fam2, fam3, fam4, fam6, the box should be tagged for missing fam5 (same if fam5 is empty), as without it fam6 will not display.
There shouldn't be many of these, as I cleaned up a lot of them last year with AWB. Similar probs with unmatched lc#/ld# (listed below).
Move the closing }} to its own line. (Most boxes are already like this, and it makes them easier to scan visually during editing.)
So, the 1ary (!) and 2ary (m) requests:
#(!) Add a reference section and/or template, if either doesn't exist
|date'= census
with a space plus "census"
For minor (m) requests, I'm only asking for when the bot is modifying the page anyway. Some of them are things I could scan for with AWB, if there are objections to including them in the bot request, but a bot would be *much* more efficient, and others simply not worth doing on their own.
For error tagging, I leave that up to you. You might want to add an |error parameter, and enter the names of the fields that triggered errors. We could have the template track it from there. — kwami ( talk) 23:39, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
“ | add a ==References== section with {{
reflist}} for all articles which have a {{
Infobox language}} box that could auto-generate refs, and don't yet have a ref section?
|
” |
— kwami ( talk) |
At the BRFA, the concern was raised about adding a references section for footnotes when there are no footnotes. What should be added to the infobox to make the footnote automatically appear? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 02:34, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Just to make sure everything is in order. As I understand it the request is to add the "e16" value to the "ref" parameter in all these stubs, and also add a references section if none exists. Is there a discussion somewhere that establishes that all this has some consensus, at least at the wikiproject level? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 00:18, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Okay, could we take out the ref section, and do the rest? — kwami ( talk) 05:49, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Before invert redirect Michael Johnson (track and field) to Michael Johnson (athlete), like everybody others athletes with homonyms, I ask to a bot to correct all the redirect. Of course, if the bot befor make the inversion o the pages is better. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 05:36, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Editors have needlessly busied themselves moving files to the Commons. Wouldn't it be better to have a bot do this tedious task? ChromaNebula (talk) 22:43, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
During my work on category pages I occasionally come across {{ Portal}} which does not have any parameters. It therefore shows up as a very little empty box. I have not seen the problem on article pages as yet. May hav been a change in the template coding? So can we get a bot to list the instances where there is no parameter added? It will need an actual human to add a parameter unless the bot can be programmed to add a valid portal that relates to the page in quaetion. {{ Portal}} is used on over four million articles. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:25, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Done Will ask for the template to be modified as suggested. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 21:08, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Following a discussion regarding the {{ Cleanup}} I was hoping it would be feasible to link to the diff that shows the edit that tagged an article. Something like This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: See talk page. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. ( April 2010) In short the advantages would be to easily show who added the tag, what condition the article was in when the tag was added and any clues in the edit summary as to what the issues were. Although it was only discussed at {{ cleanup}} it would possibly be useful on all the tags in Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. It would be good if one of the date tagging bots could incorporate this when they add the date and if it could be applied to old tags and tags with the date applied manually. AIRcorn (talk) 08:43, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like a bot to change all of the links to Eberhard Karl Schöngarth (which is a wrong name and a redirect) to Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (which is the right name). Hoops gza ( talk) 18:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Now saying bot-working is not my area of expertise is an understatement, but I am wondering if these articles can be updated by bot - Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/bird articles by size], Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi/fungus articles by size and Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/dinosaur articles by size. There is a Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/mammal articles by size but it is currently being discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/mammal articles by size. Now the dino one was started early but all were updated at one point by Betacommandbot ( talk · contribs) before later input from 718 Bot ( talk · contribs) and ClueBot II ( talk · contribs). Now I'd love these to be periodically updated again and wasn't sure whether to ask one of the bot operators or throw it up here...? All help appreciated while I fumble round with this....cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 21:38, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Articles in
Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System need to have the coordinate templates set to |display=inline,title
(if not already so),
like this, please. this will casue them to appear in the mapping part of our mobile apps, and in Google Maps' and similar services' Wikipedia layers. If using the deprecated {{
coor dm}}, it should be changed to {{
coord}}, at the same time.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 14:49, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
A great many infoboxes already emit microformats, and have for months, or even years. However, in some articles, these are incomplete, because the dates which form part of them do not use an appropriate sub-template, in order to emit the date in the correct metadata format. A bot (or bots - this task could be subdivided) is required, to complete the task of converting opening-, release-, first shown-, incident- and such dates from plain text to use {{ Start date}}, as seen in this example edit for a year, and this one for a full date and as described in the various infoboxes' documentation. Note that {{ start date}} allows for YYYY, YYYY-MM, YYYY-MM-DD and in a few cases YYY-M-DD:HH:MM formats. Note also that Smackbot was approved to do this, and started, but failed to complete the task. A list of affected templates is available. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:25, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, old friends. Back in 2006, I received permission from Dave Whitinger at Dave's Garden < http://davesgarden.com/> to release all his photos at that site under the GFDL. I uploaded several here, and many other people uploaded other photos here from that site. These have since been moved to Commons.
Dave is not with the Dave's Garden site anymore, and his "about" page has been removed from that site. He created a new site at < http://allthingsplants.com>, and all his photos have been moved there. He e-mailed me, asking if I could update the image description files to attribute him at his new site. (He also explicitly released the images under the GFDL and cc-by-sa on his new site, rather than relying on an e-mail confirmation.) Could someone run a script to update these?
Specifically, there are a couple hundred images on Commons that say:
This photo was taken by [http://davesgarden.com/members/dave/ Dave] at [http://davesgarden.com/ Dave's Garden]. Released under the GFDL, as documented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Successful_requests_for_permission#Dave.27s_Garden here].
(There may be others with different wording, but all will link to < http://davesgarden.com/>.) They all need to change to say:
This photo was taken by [http://allthingsplants.com/users/profile/dave/ Dave Whitinger] at [http://allthingsplants.com/ All Things Plants]. Released under the GFDL and cc-by-sa-3.0 licenses, as documented [http://allthingsplants.com/plants/browse/user/images/dave/ here].
This will help to save several hundred great plant images on Commons, most of which are used in multiple wikis. Thanks for any help! – Quadell ( talk) 18:23, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
ChzzBot II has stopped, and the sandbox is no longer being cleared automatically. Is anyone willing to take over the task? 124.149.84.97 ( talk) 02:03, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
I would like to request the fixing of names I systematically changed wrong when updating the systematics from families to superfamilies, about 500 in total. The names are (faulty --> correct):
(Summary, the extention -dae should have been -dea. Names are capped.) Thanks -- Kim van der Linde at venus 02:47, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
We also have Psittacoidaee surely that's not right?
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:29, 1 May 2012 (UTC).
Fixed
Partially Done by requester, with help from GoingBatty.
Rich
Farmbrough, 02:31, 1 May 2012 (UTC).
I am working on a collaboration with Translators Without Borders to improve and translate 80 articles into as many other languages as possible as per here. It would be useful to have a bot that could notify users when new articles are translated and ready for integration into their languages. Currently for example I have three people helping out with Bengali. The first Bengali article was translated today and I must than post to these three users pages to let them know it is ready. The article is here [6] and I will be added to this table as they come out [7]. Translation is being done off wiki. Is there anyone interested in helping with this? Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 21:19, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Category:Science citation templates is filled with orphaned templates due to deletions, article updates and rewrites, and so on. I think it's time for a good cleanup is done there. Specifically, when no page what-so-ever (redirects don't count as links) links to a template categorized in the following categories
They should be tagged with {{
db-g6|rationale=Unused {{
cite doi/hdl/jstor/pmc/pmid}} template.}}
. This would remove the useless clutter from these categories, and let bots/humans focus on cleaning up the citations that are actually used, rather than spend time on useless ones.
Headbomb {
talk /
contribs /
physics /
books} 03:57, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm an admin and bureaucrat at Wiki-cy. Can I request a bot to check all external links - on every page - on the Welsh Wikipedia. If that's possible then a template should be left on such pages with a name such as "Dolen wallus" (bad link). We will then manually amend. Many thanks. Llywelyn2000 ( talk) 07:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Could we add missing parameters that most templates should have by default? And, if a change is made, it would be nice if they were ordered per the template documentation so that they don't get duplicated, as sometimes happens now.
This request has gotten hung up on adding a reference section, so I've omitted that this time.
So, if these don't already exist:
|speakers = (basic info) |date = (date of that figure) |ref = (ref for that figure)
If there is an 'extinct' or 'era' parameter instead of 'speakers', then we'd want:
|extinct = (or era =) |ref =
Now, *if* we make that change in an article, we should check that we have the following as well:
|ethnicity = (to link to our ethnography article, if there is one) |altname = (most of the entries under 'nativename' are not the nativename, and should go here, though that needs to be done manually; also, newbies don't know about this and add line breaks to |name, which cases display problems) |states = |region = (currently we tend to have 'states' or 'region', but in most cases we would be better organized to have both)
Also, *if* we're already changing an article, arrange the parameters to match the documentation.
But: lc# and ld# are normally on the same line for each number, rather than on separate lines as the documentation implies. This makes them easier to follow, and should not be changed. However, lc# should be first, ld# second (as in the documentation), as that aligns better.
Any unsupported params (ones not listed in the documentation) should be tagged with an error category, to be cleaned up manually. (Or, if empty, simply deleted by the bot.)
Any duplicate params should be tagged (best to clean this up manually as well, even if one is empty, because we don't want previously hidden material to appear without human review), as well as any fam# entry that does not have the preceding number, or for which the preceding number is empty (apart from fam2, which does not need a fam1, or a final empty param, which might be used for future expansion and does no harm). That is, if we have fam2, fam3, fam4, fam6, the box should be tagged for missing fam5 (same if fam5 is present but empty), as without it fam6 will not display.
There shouldn't be many of these, as I cleaned up a lot of them last year with AWB. Similar probs with unmatched lc#/ld# (listed below).
Replace |date'= census
with a space plus "census" (Merging with |date, per recent change in code: 280 tokens remain after AWB)
Delete any ll# series if set to 'none'; tag if set to anything else. This was an earlier bot request that was accepted and then never acted on.
Tag as an error if an lc# series is missing either lc1 or lc2 (later gaps are not a problem), or if each ld# does not have a matching lc# and vice versa
Tag any dia# or stand# series that is missing dia1 or stand1 (later gaps are not a problem)
Tag as an error any lc1 not followed by lc2 (needs manual review)
Fix caps in template name (Infobox Language → Infobox language)
Move the closing }} to its own line. (Most boxes are already like this, and it makes them easier to scan visually during editing.)
For error tagging, we might want to add an |error parameter, and enter the names of the fields that triggered errors. We could have the template track it from there. —
kwami (
talk) 10:38, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Are any bots doing WP:UM? I did a recent move ( my recent moves) and it has 97 transclusions that need updating. This is an uncontroversial task, so anyone can do it.-- Otterathome ( talk) 09:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, following this thread at VPT I learned that we used to have a bot that converted bare URLs to valid refs ( User:DumZiBoT/refLinks), but this bot appears to have died a tragic bot death. Is it possible to get another bot to take over this duty, like User:Citation bot? ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 19:56, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
my @cj_tags = ( # cite journal tag, meta tag list
- [qw( author dc.creator dc.contributor citation_authors )],
- [qw( title citation_title dc.title )],
- [qw( issn citation_issn prism.issn )],
- [qw( journal citation_journal_title prism.publicationname )],
- [qw( volume citation_volume prism.volume )],
- [qw( issue citation_issue prism.number )],
- [qw( pages prism.endingpage citation_lastpage citation_firstpage prism.startingpage )],
- [qw( date citation_date prism.publicationdate dc.date citation_year )],
- [qw( pmid citation_pmid )],
- [qw( url citation_fulltext_html_url citation_pdf_url citation_abstract_html_url )],
- [qw( doi citation_doi dc.identifier )],
- [qw( language dc.language )],
- [qw( publisher dc.publisher dc.publisher.corporatename )]
);
All the WP:ARBPIA articles are under 1RR.Usually editors active in the area tag the talk page of the article {{ ARBPIA}} tag(for example Talk:Israel) but they usually don't add edit notice(ex. of edit notice. Template:Editnotices/Page/Israel) so the article stays without edit notice(for ex. Israel Defense Forces) and new editor usually don't see talk page or don't pay attention so they may break the rules.I ask that bot will add edit notice as soon one of editors will add the tag to the talk page.-- Shrike ( talk) 09:18, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Many pages seem to use Template:Commons_category when they do not have a Commons category of the correct name (or indeed any relevant content on commons). The link doesn't show as red and so most people miss the broken link. Is this something that could be checked by a bot and commented out if broken? Stuartyeates ( talk) 20:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I've seen this a bunch of times: an article has references added but someone forgets to remove the {{ unreferenced}}. Is there some way that a bot can remove all instances of {{ unreferenced}} from pages having a {{ reflist}} and/or <references/> code? Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 23:59, 5 May 2012 (UTC)