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At WT:STiki#Warning for registered users only the idea came up of having a bot to remove old warnings from IP talk pages. The rationale being that:
Obviously there is an issue about the specifics of how the bot should work so I would like to discuss that here, if this is the appropriate venue.
As a starting point for discussion, I would like to suggest that we should first do a bot that deals with the cases most obviously in need of such a bot. For example:
Where an IPs has:
The bot will blank the IP user's talk page.
Once this is up and running we can look at more complicated cases like when there are other messages on the talk page, and more contentious issues like should we removes warnings sooner.
Yaris678 ( talk) 12:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
I don't think benefits of removing IP userpage messages outweighs the problems. Firstly, if people want to see previous messages they go to the talk page. Browsing page's history is more trouble (not to mention messages don't get all archived at the same time). Scripts (like TW) that open IP talk page for editing/message delivery will show the previous messages clearly and I doubt I would bother browsing history. Adding "welcome to Wikipedia" instead of higher level messages every time seems pointless if it is clear the IP has no intention to do so right now. Secondly, I often see IPs that come about to vandalise less frequent than that, like once a year, especially if their edit is unclear. This is when previous messages are most useful, so I can asses what they have done in the long-time past. I don't know if "Admins generally consider warnings older than about 2 weeks to be stale" is what really happens, but I would definitely pay attention to the long-term activity of an IP. Finally, this will trigger all the watchlists of those who watchlisted the IP (for those that don't hide bot edits). The cases where this is truly useful (like the school->business example or new genuine user) are not something a bot can detect anyway. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 11:39, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
If it's possible I'd much rather that the bot collapse warnings which are more than x months (whatever is decided - I'd suggest 6 or more) old. That way it's still easy to check on the IP's history and new user's don't see a huge bunch of warnings as soon as they look at their talk page. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 13:46, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
What happens to customised warnings and messages? What about regular discussions that are obviously stale? Just archive them. Osiris ( talk) 02:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
A small number of the pages in Category:Articles with missing files have an ext link as a file page name, i.e File:http://SomeRandomLink.com. Can these be fixed with a bot? Ta. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 19:36, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Not a bad idea, but not the best either. I learned something today...
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This is probably a bad idea, but I've not yet figured out why. Occasionally, we'll find a mass group of pages that need to be speedy deleted, and Special:Nuke doesn't work for some reason. It takes quite a while to delete dozens or hundreds of pages manually: substantially more time than is required simply to check the pages to ensure that deletion is needed. What if we had a bot with the following components:
Right now, I can't see any downsides to this: full protection would prevent non-admins from having pages deleted; link to admin's name makes it clear who's responsible for the deletion; mandatory rationale ensures that deletion is properly explained; and mass restoration page ensures that mass deletion can be undone equally easily. Feel free to pick apart any problems that I failed to address. Nyttend ( talk) 02:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
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Could someone make a bot that will edit navboxes that link to disambiguated redirects to point to the correct title? I do not mean any redirect, simply redirects that have the same article title with different disambiguation, like Neverwinter Nights (AOL game) which is a redirect to Neverwinter Nights (MMORPG), or Lost Girl (TV series) which redirects to Lost Girl, as these sorts of edits would be uncontroversial. This would only be necessary for navboxes, as redirects make them harder to navigate (they don't create the black link to show you where you currently are). ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 20:22, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've just finished uploading in Wikimedia Commons de audio files with the 306 names of the 308 portuguese municipalities (two of them have the same name. Now, I would like that they could be "available" on the pages, editing this part "(Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈβɾɐ̃tɨʃ])" that would become (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈβɾɐ̃tɨʃ] ⓘ) by adding the ogg file link, in this example on Abrantes Municipality's page. I think this "Template : IPA-pt" exists in all of them. I think a bot or a semibot would do this a lot faster!!! Another way would be by changing the "Geobox" but I think that it would more dangerous. Thank you. FilipeFalcão ( talk) 21:50, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
videosurf.com now is part of a bing videos search results that get concatenated into a gallery of images. To me it would seem that this is not encyclopaedic, and that the links should all be neutralised as being in contravention of Wikipedia:External links — billinghurst sDrewth 13:32, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Seeing how Category:Userboxes is a container category, it should only contain subcategories. As such, I'd like to request that a bot be made to move all pages from Category:Userboxes into Category:Unsorted userboxes. I don't think it would be a recurring task, as userboxes aren't created that often, but I'll leave that to the bot creator's judgement. ❤ Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 14:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm thinking that this may be too much trouble, but I figured that I would request it. Would it be possible to detect foreign text in an article and tag it with the appropriate template? To make it easier for the bot creator, you could possibly just implement tagging for the more common foreign languages. ❤ Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 14:47, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
There are about 2,500 talk pages with substituted Oldafdfull. Could someone make a list of all of them and, if possible fix them? Example 1, Example 2. The number is an estimate based on wikisearch on Talk pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:04, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Magioladitis, would you be able to generate the 2.5k page list for me? My script is ready, but I'm only able to find ~18 pages with the standard api search (of which I fixed them all). Thanks, Lego Kontribs TalkM 06:15, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Almost all templates linked from Template:Football in North America templates have categories and the navbox in the template's code. We need to fix this and move categories/navbox to a documentation page. This requires two steps:
I am fighting a loosing battle at Category:Articles with missing files. There are at least a couple of bots that remove deleted image links from pages but it seems that they are a little lazy. An example I came across is File:ClaremontDesign.png ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). It was deleted in August and it is used on a number of different pages. How do we make sure the bots do their job properly? I don't want to sack them because they can be quite hard-working... -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 20:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I don't like the idea of removing missing files unless there were deleted. If someone by mistake changes a filename and create a redlink the bot will come and completely remove the file. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:52, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Just came across this example: File:Assia Abdullah.jpg ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). It was deleted over at Commons since it lacked licensing info. Is this a common thing maybe. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:41, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Is a bot able to detect and revert any bad faith or good faith bad edits to image links where the result becomes a redlinked image? Examp\es: [2], [3], [4]. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:19, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Combine_multiple_common_categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:32, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I request an AWB bot to change {{WikiProject Guyana|class=stub|importance=low}} to {{WikiProject South America|class=stub|importance=low|Guyana=yes|Guyana-importance=low}} , or better yet, the same change, but carry class= and importance= parameter values for Guyana templates to the equivalent South America templates.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 19:23, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
This is not you're normal typo bot request!
Is there a bot that will correct the spelling of of a link to a redirect tagged with {{ R from misspelling}}. (I thought I read that User:WildBot did that, but it looks like I was wrong.) If not would this be a good task for a bot. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 05:30, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Note I raised and had declined for lack of consensus a similar task for endash/diacritics redirects at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RjwilmsiBot 8. Rjwilmsi 17:22, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
sic}}
(or similar). Also, what should the bot do with
Category:Printworthy redirects?
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 16:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
R from misspelling}}
, but have a valid usage as they are.
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 17:16, 25 September 2012 (UTC)I recently added the quality assessment scale to {{ WikiProject Oz}}. Could someone please run a bot to automatically assess the articles in the project? Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 15:14, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Done Log can be seen at User:Legobot/Tagger/WikiProject Oz. Lego Kontribs TalkM 05:35, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
I appreciate the quick response to my recent request for auto assessment in {{ WikiProject Oz}}. While it would be a much larger job, I wonder if the same could be done for {{ WikiProject Film}}? There are currently over 3000 articles in Category:Unassessed film articles. I intend to eventually go through them manually, but any help cleaning them up beforehand would be appreciated. Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 19:01, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Film}}
currently has set. I will start the run later today. Thanks,
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 16:41, 27 September 2012 (UTC)It would be appreciated if {{ has-NFUR}} could be removed from pages with a {{ Non-free audio sample}} license tag, I did ask at AWB but they said given the huge number of transclusions, a bot was better suited to the task.
This request is made because of a a TFD, and the non-free license template concerned has already been migrated to the approach suggested by the TFD.
Thanks Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 23:20, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
|file has rationale=yes
be added as well?
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 23:25, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 23:28, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
"They suggest Wikipedia editors ... build tools that aid in identifying and supporting desirable newcomers." -- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-09-24/Recent research
How about, say, watching new editor's article contributions and saying something nice on the talk pages of new editors who have made two edits with <ref> tags in them, for example? — Cupco 15:29, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
For each item in:
[toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?categories=Non-free+images+for+NFUR+review&ns%5B0%5D=1&ns%5B6%5D=1&templates_any=Non-free+use+rationale%0D%0ANon-free+image+rationale&smaller=500&ext_image_data=1&doit=1 this CATSCAN quey] insert
|image has rationale=yes<nowiki> before the closing <nowiki>}}
This task is best suited to a bot as mindless repetitive text insertion.
Limited to file size 500 on the CATSCAN for performance reasons..
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:01, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
|image has rationale=yes
before the closing "}}" —
Cupco 01:17, 28 September 2012 (UTC)Could a bot create redirects for the Mandatory Palestine year articles (listed at Template:Mandatory Palestine year nav) from "Year in Palestine" and "Year in Israel", e.g. 1936 in Israel, 1936 in Palestine? Also on the articles talk pages, could a bot add {{ WikiProject Palestine}} and {{ WikiProject Israel}}? Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 02:36, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Redirect creation is Done. Lego Kontribs TalkM 18:10, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I listed the following categories at WP:CFD/W for implementation for speedy renaming proposed at WP:CFD/S
However, in each case the category is populated by use of {{ Image requested}} (or its many aliases), and for various reasons that template doesn't alter the capitalisation of its parameters.
So all the pages in these categories need to have the parameter changed to lower case, as follows;
{{
Image requested|Technology}}
--> {{
Image requested|technology}}
{{
Image requested|Society}}
--> {{
Image requested|society}}
{{
Image requested|Science}}
--> {{
Image requested|history}}
{{
Image requested|History}}
--> {{
Image requested|technology}}
{{
Image requested|Arts}}
--> {{
Image requested|arts}}
I would do it myself in AWB, but I can't get AWB to work on this Windows 7 machine :(
So any help would be muchly appreciated. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 20:40, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
Image requested|United States}}
. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 00:33, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Done Lego Kontribs TalkM 03:35, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
At the moment, there are over 173,000 articles tagged with {{ orphan}}. I have an idea to reduce the number, but not the technical expertise to pull it off: For each article tagged as an orphan, visit each of the wikilinked articles. If any of those articles contain the exact name of the orphaned article, turn it into a wikilink to the article. If the orphaned article now has more than 2 incoming links, remove the {{ orphan}} tag.
Example: An article about a television character tagged with {{ orphan}} contains 10 wikilinks to the episodes in which the character appears. In five of those episode articles, it mentions the character's name. Create a link from each episode article to the character article, and remove {{ orphan}} from the character article.
Don't know how many false positives this would create, so maybe creating a list first before creating an automated bot? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:06, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
orphan}}
tag if it has more than 2 incoming links. Though it may be worth having a bot go through all the currently tagged articles to see if it can remove the backlog.
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 03:11, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Manually updating current hurricane stats for a hurricane info box/current storm information, like on this one, can be tedious and possibly inaccurate. Is there a way for a bot to do this? It would somehow have to use the NHC advisory info to replace the current data. Is this even possible?
–– Anonymouse321 ( talk) 17:07, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Add "Category:X in in Israel" and "Category:X in the Palestinian territories" to "Category:X in Palestine". (Palestine, in this context, refers to the whole Israel/Palestine region, not specifically the West Bank and Gaza strip, per Category:Palestine.) Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 00:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
In the articles of
Hindu temple architecture,
Jaga mohan is some times written Jagamohan or Jagamohana.
Is there a bot to replace Jaga mohan, jaga mohan, Jagamohan, jagamohan, Jagamohana, jagamohana by Jaga mohan ?
Is my request a regular one ? If yes, I have some other ones. -- Tangopaso ( talk) 19:35, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to request that a bot be made to add a class=list
parameter to all transclusions of the following templates (excluding ones with a class=fl
parameter): {{
WikiProject Lists}} , {{
WikiProject Discographies}} , {{
WikiProject Bibliographies}} & {{
WikiProject Outlines}}
Basically, the bot would automate what I did here. ❤ Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 20:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Could we get a list of all local file pages and file talk pages that link to other language Wikipedia projects (an example, though I've come across dozens over the years)? These are unlikely to be anything other than an image copied from that wiki, and these images have a unique set of problems, most often including broken history. Instead of moving these images to Commons, I'd like to go through them and move the original image to Commons, so the ENWP copies can be deleted. Thanks! ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 00:31, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
I am plan to remove some of the automatic categorization of {{ Infobox animanga}} and it's sub-templates. As such, I will need a bot to hard cat Category:Manga series and Category:Anime series. Both of these categorizes have close to 2,000 articles each and would be too much for a simple AWB run. — Farix ( t | c) 10:07, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Doing... Lego Kontribs TalkM 01:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Why is your bot doing this? This category is redundant (or a parent category) to those already on the category. Please stop this and reverse all the additions of this category. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 06:06, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
The problem with the year subcategories are that they don't make a distinction between television series, OVAs and films. There is no Category:2012 anime series (for television series), Category:2012 anime OVAs (for direct-to-video releases), or Category:2012 anime ONAs (for net animations). but they all get lumped into Category:2012 anime. Also, I don't recall a discussion of replacing the main category in favor of the year subcategories—instead of in addition to—unless it occurred during the last year when I was inactive. But the only way to properly sort articles would be to use the template as a temporary method to sort the articles into those cats, then do a run through each category to add the category directly into the article if it is not already there. But we can do that later after the main categories are dealt with. — Farix ( t | c) 11:20, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
The ISP btinternet has announced that it is closing its webspace for customers on 31 October 2012. [5] There are over 1500 links to btinternet.com and over 2000 links to btinternet.co.uk and I would guess that many of these will be references rather than external links. Presumably these will all become dead links when the webspace is closed, unless there is some sort of automated archive with the links being replaced.-- Rumping ( talk) 06:20, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
First thing to do is warn as many people as possible via WP:PUMP etc - X201 ( talk) 12:50, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, new recreate Portal:Trucks include to template portal Trucks to based the liste of toolserver ; 895 page for trucks. Thank you FrankyLeRoutier ( talk) 16:55, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
The articles in Category:Lists of Tamil films by year are all lists, but are currently named "Tamil films of YYYY". They should be renamed to "Lists of Tamil films of YYYY". -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:03, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
2nd try: Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_48#Removing_flag_templates_from_infoboxes
There have been no objections since this was proposed, and the box documentation changed, in April. I went through and did this with AWB. However, I didn't know how to capture all possible ways of encoding flags, so I'm sure I missed some.
The details of the request: Remove any flag icons from the fields "state"/"states" and "region". They are acceptable under "nation" and "minority". If they appear anywhere else, perhaps they could be flagged for human attention? — kwami ( talk) 03:42, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
Infobox language}}
and remove any usage of {{
flag}}
, {{
flagcountry}}
, {{
flagicon}}
IFF they are within |state=
, |states=
, or |region=
?
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 03:53, 14 October 2012 (UTC)Would it be possible for a bot to :
(This is so that in time the links can be converted to full citations, and because of differing copyright jurisdictions not all Google Books link are valid outside the US)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:12, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Statues_in_Dublin&diff=prev&oldid=517997061
Would it be possible to have a bot which does this link stripping automatically?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:52, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
According to the article on GoogleKnol , it was closed down by Google in October 2012.
Would it be posisble for a bot to migrate the links to Waybacks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=knol.google.com
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 12:45, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Could a bot create redirects for "X of the Palestinian territories" to "X of the Palestinian National Authority" please. this is partly because of Template_talk:Asia_topic#Palestinian_territories, but this should be done regardless of what is done with the template. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 13:31, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
One other thing, it would probably be a good idea to create redirects from "Palestine" to "the Palestinian territories" and "the Palestinian National Authority" (but not visa-versa). Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 19:36, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
I posted the question below to Village pump (technical) and Village pump (miscellaneous) and no one's answering except by suggesting I post the question here. Can anyone here suggest anything?
How would I get a list of discussion pages of WikiProjects (so I'm talking about pages called "Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Whatever") ranked by the frequency with which they are edited---in effect the most active WikiProjects listed first? Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:18, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I would like to see the Expand by language Wikipedia templates moved to the reference section. They are too imposing when added to the top of the article. See Dokka Umarov as an example of two of them in use. I cannot think of any policy or guidelines that would prevent this from being done. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 19:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I would like to request bot notification of editors who participated in WP:RFC/AAT of an RFC following up to it, WP:RFC/AAMC. The list of relevant editors is at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Abortion advocacy movement coverage/Notification worksheet (best viewed as source). The text I'm requesting for the notification is:
Appreciate any assistance. :) Thanks! —chaos5023 ( talk) 19:35, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
ODNBsub}} was edited a few months ago (not by me) to put brackets around the text that it generates, to make it consistent with {{
subscription required}} - it now looks like this: (subscription or
UK public library membership required). It has frequently been used in the past in citation templates such as {{
cite web}} as |format={{ODNBsub}}
, and as "format=" itself generates brackets, it looks messy. The template should now be between the closing double brackets of the cite template and the </ref>
closing the reference.
I would be very grateful if some kind bot operator could go through the whatlinkshere for {{ ODNBsub}} and replace
<ref>{{cite ... |format={{ODNBsub}} |...}}</ref>
with
<ref>{{cite ... |...}} {{ODNBsub}} </ref>
As I fear that many of the examples of this former usage are mine, I would be particularly grateful to be saved this task! Thanks. Bencherlite Talk 10:56, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I want a script to add a specific text automatically on new users' pages, can anyone help me? -- AhMedRMaaty ( talk) 06:16, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I often see citations to WP in the references section. These should be removed. I have regexes in my script, but think it may be useful if a bot was tasked to systematically remove these strings:
<ref>https?:\/\/[\w]{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/[^\s\]<]*<\/ref> <ref>\[https?:\/\/[\w]{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/[^\s\]]*[ ][\w\d][^\]]*\]<\/ref>
and perhaps a regex to remove all those that are within citation templates too, while we are at it? ;-) -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 01:30, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
If these are in fact translation templates, they probably should be maintained in some form, because they give attribution as required by CC-BY-SA. It probably requires a human editor's judgment to see whether the attribution is already done elsewhere (e.g. talk page banner or edit summary) before any removal. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. We have a template (
Template:Canadian election result) that we use to make tables for election results. It currently includes the jurisdiction and party name in one parameter, so |CA Conservative|
is for the Conservative Party of Canada and |ON NDP|
is for the Ontario New Democratic Party. There are also some where jurisdiction is assumed, like |BQ|
and |CAQ|
for Quebec-based parties (those two are federal and provincial, respectively). We want to put jurisdiction in its own parameter and make it mandatory, eg: |CA|Conservative|, |ON|NDP|, |CA|BQ|, and |QC|CAQ|.
We will do this via
Template:CANelec. In all of the allowed party names that contain two letters followed by a space, the two letters are the jurisdiction, so could your bot please replace all instances of
{{Canadian election result|(\a)(\a) (\a)
with
{{CANelec|$1$2|$3
After that, there will still be several articles where the old template is used because of the parties that don't use jurisdiction. We can manually change those ourselves, but it would be helpful if your bot could change some of the more common ones:
# | Change | To |
---|---|---|
1 | {{Canadian election result|Wildrose | {{CANelec|AB|Wildrose |
2 | {{Canadian election result|BQ | {{CANelec|CA|BQ |
3 | {{Canadian election result|Christian Heritage | {{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage |
4 | {{Canadian election result|Commonwealth of Canada | {{CANelec|CA|Commonwealth of Canada |
5 | {{Canadian election result|Laurier Liberals | {{CANelec|CA|Laurier Liberals |
6 | {{Canadian election result|National Government | {{CANelec|CA|National Government |
7 | {{Canadian election result|Progressive Canadian | {{CANelec|CA|Progressive Canadian |
8 | {{Canadian election result|Unionist | {{CANelec|CA|Unionist |
9 | {{Canadian election result|ADQ | {{CANelec|QC|ADQ |
10 | {{Canadian election result|CAQ | {{CANelec|QC|CAQ |
11 | {{Canadian election result|PQ | {{CANelec|QC|PQ |
12 | {{Canadian election result|Québec solidaire | {{CANelec|QC|Québec solidaire |
13 | {{Canadian election result|Saskatchewan | {{CANelec|SK|Saskatchewan |
14 | {{Canadian election result|Independent | {{CANelec|XX|Independent |
Thank you! — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:45, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
If the changes in the table are too much, I can do those myself. If a bot could just make the basic change above the table, that wolud be a big help. If I need to make any changes to the request, let me know. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 20:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Never mind, I made the changes myself. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 21:00, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Are there any bots that can convert a url of an article on Wikipedia to a wikilink? For example: this → this
Anonymouse321 ( talk • contribs) 05:16, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Frescobot is doing this task. AWB can't do it for reason unexplained. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:12, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Please, replace galllery with gallery (and Galllery too). Thx.-- Tomas62 ( talk) 09:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
It's simple. Over at the requested articles place, there are many articles listed that have been created already. Which is good, but they should not be listed. If someone can employ his task to removing all the blue listings, I will give him and his bot both a beautiful barnstar. Legolover26 ( talk) 01:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
if page.exists() and not page.isRedirectPage()
to ensure it's a full-fledged article. Is there anything else that should be checked? Otherwise it seems like a pretty simple task to code.
Legoktm (
talk) 10:35, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Request: Execute a null edit on all articles in Category:Pages with incomplete DOI references
Rationale: When an editor adds {{ cite doi}} to an article, the article is automatically added to Category:Pages with incomplete DOI references. When the User:Citation bot subsequently creates the appropriate template, the article is not removed from the category until the next edit occurs. A null edit of all pages would help clear out the category of such pages, thus simplifying the job of manually addressing other DOI errors.
Suggested frequency: Perhaps this bot could run once daily.
Thanks -- Illia Connell ( talk) 22:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
my $apires = $mw->api( {action => 'purge', titles => $thistitle, forcelinkupdate => 1} );
Hi, I would like to request that a bot be made which can add all of the possible combinations of redirects for article titles that have accents in them. So, for instance, for the article László Endre the bot would create the redirects "Laszló Endre", "Lászlo Endre", and "Laszlo Endre". This would save a lot of time and effort for editors. Thank you. Hoops gza ( talk) 20:56, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
R from title without diacritics}}
and
Category:Redirects from titles without diacritics exist.
Legoktm (
talk) 21:52, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
There was no response to my initial request - have I defeated the minds of Wikipedia's finest bot operators, or does nobody think it's a sufficient challenge/problem?! Bencherlite Talk 21:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Original request:
|format={{ODNBsub}}
, and as "format=" itself generates brackets, it looks messy. The template should now be between the closing double brackets of the cite template and the </ref>
closing the reference.<ref>{{cite ... |format={{ODNBsub}} |...}}</ref>
with
<ref>{{cite ... |...}} {{ODNBsub}} </ref>
As I fear that many of the examples of this former usage are mine, I would be particularly grateful to be saved this task! Thanks. Bencherlite Talk 10:56, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
|format=
parameter? b) How many pages do you estimate need to be fixed?
this shows 1969 transclusions. Thanks,
Legoktm (
talk) 21:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format=
<--OOH, thanks for showing me {{
para}}! Hopefully not too many to fix, after all: I checked a dozen or so pages at random, some (mainly the better-quality articles) had it fixed already, only a few had a problem. In fact, 929 of that 1969 use it via {{
ODNBweb}} in a way that has been fixed, so there's only about 1,000 direct instances, and hopefully no more than a few hundred that will need fixing. Fortunately the few that I found weren't pages that I had written, so I'm not the only culprit! Thanks.
Bencherlite
Talk 21:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format=
? If so, is it possible multiple templates will be there?
Legoktm (
talk) 21:40, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format={{
ODNBsub}}, something else
; sometimes you get things like |format=PDF
but that doesn't apply for the ODNB, which is just a plain ol' webpage.
Bencherlite
Talk 21:48, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format=
, if that's not the case I can just adjust the code.
Legoktm (
talk) 09:07, 2 November 2012 (UTC)Could a bot remove {{Portal|Wikipedia}} from the pages it's used on per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Wikipedia#.7B.7BPortal.7CWikipedia.7D.7D. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 01:40, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there any chance a bot could please run through all articles in Category:Amusement parks (and its subcategories) to see if they have an infobox. For those that don't have infoboxes, it would be great if a list could be compiled at Wikipedia:WikiProject Amusement Parks/Need infoboxes or a similar location. Is this possible? Kind regards Themeparkgc Talk 03:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Please search and replace these templates:
Total is a little over three thousand affected pages. Wikivoyage ( voy:) is now a WMF project, Wikitravel is a fork of the same project owned by a for-profit (Internet Brands) which is currently suing various individual WMF volunteers per [6]. K7L ( talk) 21:31, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
When I list a file at WP:NFCR for review, the file should be tagged with {{ Non-free review}}. I also often tag articles with {{ NFCC issue note}}. Is it possible to have a bot do the file and article taggings? The file tagging should be trivial, as there are no parameters to be passed to the template. The article template might need to be modified to be usable by a bot. Please let me know whether that is possible and if so what would need to be changed in the article template. This would make the work of NFCC enforcers a bit easier. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:17, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I should perhaps mention that there also was a discussion (well only between me and one other user) to automate NFCC 10c enforcement. I guess a bot for 10c enforcement should have a wider prior consensus (for example at WP:VPR). If it would be better to first reach a consensus on this and then implement both functionalities in one bot, then please let me know. In that case I could propose the 10c enforcement bot at the Village pump first, as that seems like a task that should be backed up by a clear community consensus. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:28, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I think bot that deletes explicit articles should be made, as that would be extremely useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SmartyPantsKid ( talk • contribs) 21:49, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please add a task to a maintaince bot to fix talkspace subpages that are left without their parent pages? I'm pretty sure admins have the ability to move all subpages, but non-admins do not, and many times editors forget to look for talk page archives (as I did when I moved this article). Ideally the bot would wait a specified amount of time, a week or whatever, to make sure the page move is mildly stable. This should happen with any move that is in the main Talk: space, as archives or side-discussion pages may not always be named "Archive". ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 19:31, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Other than JL-Bot (cf. User:JL-Bot/Project content), are there any bots that can generate (and then periodically update) a listing of articles in an assessment category? (By "assessment category", I mean something like Category:A-Class military history articles; note that the actual items present in the category are the talk pages rather than the articles themselves.) Kirill [talk] 13:10, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
There should be a bot that searches for dead-end pages, stubs, explict pages, and non-credible pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SmartyPantsKid ( talk • contribs) 21:56, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I am trying to clear the backlog at Category:Articles with missing files (feels like a loosing battle sometimes). There are a few tasks that bots could help out with:
File:http://pathname.ext
and File:C:\pathname.ext
to articles. These are a clear-cut edit that a bot could sort out.Help! -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 22:27, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I think the AnomieBot's TagDater module should be expanded to date {{
Non-free reduced}} tags. Articles which are not properly dated are already sorted into
Category:Rescaled fairuse files with invalid timestamp, so if the bot (or another bot) just looks at that category it could run through the pages and add the dates to the templates. Templates without dates are in the form {{Non-free reduced}}
and templates with proper dates are in the form {{Non-free reduced|16 November 2012}}
. Thank you for hearing my request. --
Odie5533 (
talk) 05:15, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Many instances of {{
Infobox officeholder}} have inline HTML (<small>
, <br />
)in the |honorific-prefix=
, |name=
and |honorific-suffix=
parameters.
As discussed at Formatting of name & honorifcs, we've made improvements to the infobox, so this is no longer necessary. We need a bot to remove it, please.
If, at the same time, the BOT could move any honorifics from the |name=
parameter to the more specific parameters, that would be helpful, too.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 12:12, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Can anyone help, with part if not all of this, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:31, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I asked Legoktm to help. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:27, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dt7607 ( talk • contribs) 20:20, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
There are currently more than 2600 links to {{ wikitravel}} and a few hundred to {{ wikitravelpar}} which need to be replaced with a link to the corresponding Wikimedia project, Wikivoyage: {{ wikivoyage-inline}}
TfD has already been closed yesterday as "delete after replacement"; mere redirection of the deprecated templates is not an option due to trademark issues (this is a company which is already suing our volunteers, WMF has countersued [7] [8]) but there are too many of these for manual replacement (as was already done on fr: and simple:) to be viable on en: K7L ( talk) 15:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
There are around 800 articles containing a cite template with a parameter author=Associated Press
or AP
or Reuters
or UPI
or United Press International
(sometimes wikilinked, sometimes not). These should all be agency=agency-name
. In some cases, this would also require changing the template type from cite web
to cite news
, and in some cases also removal of an associated authorlink=agency-name
parameter. Is this a possible task for a bot?
Colonies Chris (
talk) 15:53, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Additional note: including other news agencies Xinhua, Canadian Press and Agence France-Presse, the number of articles concerned is about 1000. Colonies Chris ( talk) 09:22, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Could a bot remove the {{ RFD}} from those redirects and add the following to the redirects talk pages: Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 11:29, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
{{oldrfd | date = 2012 November 2 | action = delete | result = keep | page = 2012 November 2#Template:UCIProTour-teams }}
Is there an existing bot that I can ask to help tidy up a page move I just made, to avoid redirects in articles? -- Dweller ( talk) 11:22, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Yes, thanks, I was looking for a bot to change all the Jewish holiday links to Jewish holidays. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:44, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there anyone here willing to take over (the functions of) User:RMCD bot? The source code has approval but the bot is down and the bot-operator absent. DrKiernan ( talk) 13:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
The content and titling of some of our fair use rationale templates has got out of sync and I'm attempting to rationalize the situation. It's explained in detail here, but the short version is that there are about 5,000 uses of the redirect {{ Non-free media rationale}} that need to be replaced with their target name {{ Non-free use rationale}}. This should be achievable in a single bot run. Anyone up for helping out? Many thanks. — Hex (❝?!❞) 12:53, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
EDIT: I had a lot of data and some analysis here, but it turned out to be completely bogus. My code was analyzing the data for the revision before the one in which the template was added. My apologies and I'll re-analyze the data shortly. — Wolfgang42 ( talk) 02:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
This means that if you change the meaning of this template you're likely to get users accidentally using the wrong one. Admittedly, there wouldn't be very many, but it would still cause confusion. My suggestion, if you still want to go through with the change, would be to:
Let me know if you still want to go through with the rename. — Wolfgang42 ( talk) 18:58, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am entering a bot request for for replacing {{ BPN}} with {{ Authority control}}. See the discussion here: Template talk:Authority control#TSURL and BPN. Apparently I have made 360 of these links, which is a lot to fix by hand. I would like to see all of the BPN numbers in the Authority control template. Thanks, and if any more info is necessary, pls let me know! Jane ( talk) 11:55, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Moving category X-gu to Category:X District per WP:CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 2. Sawol ( talk) 06:12, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
I initially found and changed a few Wikipedia pages where the units for oil volume are (usually converted from barrels) listed in km^3. The proper SI and conventional unit in commerce is m^3, usually with engineering exponents. Wikipedia has proper conversion functions, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Convert/Goilbbl but, I searched and found over 14 000 pages that have the improper km^3 units. Is it possible for you wiki folk to automate the change process?
thanks! Baden 197.159.156.208 ( talk) 15:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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At WT:STiki#Warning for registered users only the idea came up of having a bot to remove old warnings from IP talk pages. The rationale being that:
Obviously there is an issue about the specifics of how the bot should work so I would like to discuss that here, if this is the appropriate venue.
As a starting point for discussion, I would like to suggest that we should first do a bot that deals with the cases most obviously in need of such a bot. For example:
Where an IPs has:
The bot will blank the IP user's talk page.
Once this is up and running we can look at more complicated cases like when there are other messages on the talk page, and more contentious issues like should we removes warnings sooner.
Yaris678 ( talk) 12:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
I don't think benefits of removing IP userpage messages outweighs the problems. Firstly, if people want to see previous messages they go to the talk page. Browsing page's history is more trouble (not to mention messages don't get all archived at the same time). Scripts (like TW) that open IP talk page for editing/message delivery will show the previous messages clearly and I doubt I would bother browsing history. Adding "welcome to Wikipedia" instead of higher level messages every time seems pointless if it is clear the IP has no intention to do so right now. Secondly, I often see IPs that come about to vandalise less frequent than that, like once a year, especially if their edit is unclear. This is when previous messages are most useful, so I can asses what they have done in the long-time past. I don't know if "Admins generally consider warnings older than about 2 weeks to be stale" is what really happens, but I would definitely pay attention to the long-term activity of an IP. Finally, this will trigger all the watchlists of those who watchlisted the IP (for those that don't hide bot edits). The cases where this is truly useful (like the school->business example or new genuine user) are not something a bot can detect anyway. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 11:39, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
If it's possible I'd much rather that the bot collapse warnings which are more than x months (whatever is decided - I'd suggest 6 or more) old. That way it's still easy to check on the IP's history and new user's don't see a huge bunch of warnings as soon as they look at their talk page. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 13:46, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
What happens to customised warnings and messages? What about regular discussions that are obviously stale? Just archive them. Osiris ( talk) 02:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
A small number of the pages in Category:Articles with missing files have an ext link as a file page name, i.e File:http://SomeRandomLink.com. Can these be fixed with a bot? Ta. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 19:36, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Not a bad idea, but not the best either. I learned something today...
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This is probably a bad idea, but I've not yet figured out why. Occasionally, we'll find a mass group of pages that need to be speedy deleted, and Special:Nuke doesn't work for some reason. It takes quite a while to delete dozens or hundreds of pages manually: substantially more time than is required simply to check the pages to ensure that deletion is needed. What if we had a bot with the following components:
Right now, I can't see any downsides to this: full protection would prevent non-admins from having pages deleted; link to admin's name makes it clear who's responsible for the deletion; mandatory rationale ensures that deletion is properly explained; and mass restoration page ensures that mass deletion can be undone equally easily. Feel free to pick apart any problems that I failed to address. Nyttend ( talk) 02:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
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Could someone make a bot that will edit navboxes that link to disambiguated redirects to point to the correct title? I do not mean any redirect, simply redirects that have the same article title with different disambiguation, like Neverwinter Nights (AOL game) which is a redirect to Neverwinter Nights (MMORPG), or Lost Girl (TV series) which redirects to Lost Girl, as these sorts of edits would be uncontroversial. This would only be necessary for navboxes, as redirects make them harder to navigate (they don't create the black link to show you where you currently are). ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 20:22, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've just finished uploading in Wikimedia Commons de audio files with the 306 names of the 308 portuguese municipalities (two of them have the same name. Now, I would like that they could be "available" on the pages, editing this part "(Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈβɾɐ̃tɨʃ])" that would become (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈβɾɐ̃tɨʃ] ⓘ) by adding the ogg file link, in this example on Abrantes Municipality's page. I think this "Template : IPA-pt" exists in all of them. I think a bot or a semibot would do this a lot faster!!! Another way would be by changing the "Geobox" but I think that it would more dangerous. Thank you. FilipeFalcão ( talk) 21:50, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
videosurf.com now is part of a bing videos search results that get concatenated into a gallery of images. To me it would seem that this is not encyclopaedic, and that the links should all be neutralised as being in contravention of Wikipedia:External links — billinghurst sDrewth 13:32, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Seeing how Category:Userboxes is a container category, it should only contain subcategories. As such, I'd like to request that a bot be made to move all pages from Category:Userboxes into Category:Unsorted userboxes. I don't think it would be a recurring task, as userboxes aren't created that often, but I'll leave that to the bot creator's judgement. ❤ Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 14:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm thinking that this may be too much trouble, but I figured that I would request it. Would it be possible to detect foreign text in an article and tag it with the appropriate template? To make it easier for the bot creator, you could possibly just implement tagging for the more common foreign languages. ❤ Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 14:47, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
There are about 2,500 talk pages with substituted Oldafdfull. Could someone make a list of all of them and, if possible fix them? Example 1, Example 2. The number is an estimate based on wikisearch on Talk pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:04, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Magioladitis, would you be able to generate the 2.5k page list for me? My script is ready, but I'm only able to find ~18 pages with the standard api search (of which I fixed them all). Thanks, Lego Kontribs TalkM 06:15, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Almost all templates linked from Template:Football in North America templates have categories and the navbox in the template's code. We need to fix this and move categories/navbox to a documentation page. This requires two steps:
I am fighting a loosing battle at Category:Articles with missing files. There are at least a couple of bots that remove deleted image links from pages but it seems that they are a little lazy. An example I came across is File:ClaremontDesign.png ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). It was deleted in August and it is used on a number of different pages. How do we make sure the bots do their job properly? I don't want to sack them because they can be quite hard-working... -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 20:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I don't like the idea of removing missing files unless there were deleted. If someone by mistake changes a filename and create a redlink the bot will come and completely remove the file. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:52, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Just came across this example: File:Assia Abdullah.jpg ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). It was deleted over at Commons since it lacked licensing info. Is this a common thing maybe. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:41, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Is a bot able to detect and revert any bad faith or good faith bad edits to image links where the result becomes a redlinked image? Examp\es: [2], [3], [4]. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:19, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Combine_multiple_common_categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:32, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I request an AWB bot to change {{WikiProject Guyana|class=stub|importance=low}} to {{WikiProject South America|class=stub|importance=low|Guyana=yes|Guyana-importance=low}} , or better yet, the same change, but carry class= and importance= parameter values for Guyana templates to the equivalent South America templates.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 19:23, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
This is not you're normal typo bot request!
Is there a bot that will correct the spelling of of a link to a redirect tagged with {{ R from misspelling}}. (I thought I read that User:WildBot did that, but it looks like I was wrong.) If not would this be a good task for a bot. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 05:30, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
Note I raised and had declined for lack of consensus a similar task for endash/diacritics redirects at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RjwilmsiBot 8. Rjwilmsi 17:22, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
sic}}
(or similar). Also, what should the bot do with
Category:Printworthy redirects?
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 16:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
R from misspelling}}
, but have a valid usage as they are.
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 17:16, 25 September 2012 (UTC)I recently added the quality assessment scale to {{ WikiProject Oz}}. Could someone please run a bot to automatically assess the articles in the project? Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 15:14, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Done Log can be seen at User:Legobot/Tagger/WikiProject Oz. Lego Kontribs TalkM 05:35, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
I appreciate the quick response to my recent request for auto assessment in {{ WikiProject Oz}}. While it would be a much larger job, I wonder if the same could be done for {{ WikiProject Film}}? There are currently over 3000 articles in Category:Unassessed film articles. I intend to eventually go through them manually, but any help cleaning them up beforehand would be appreciated. Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 19:01, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Film}}
currently has set. I will start the run later today. Thanks,
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 16:41, 27 September 2012 (UTC)It would be appreciated if {{ has-NFUR}} could be removed from pages with a {{ Non-free audio sample}} license tag, I did ask at AWB but they said given the huge number of transclusions, a bot was better suited to the task.
This request is made because of a a TFD, and the non-free license template concerned has already been migrated to the approach suggested by the TFD.
Thanks Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 23:20, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
|file has rationale=yes
be added as well?
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 23:25, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 23:28, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
"They suggest Wikipedia editors ... build tools that aid in identifying and supporting desirable newcomers." -- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-09-24/Recent research
How about, say, watching new editor's article contributions and saying something nice on the talk pages of new editors who have made two edits with <ref> tags in them, for example? — Cupco 15:29, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
For each item in:
[toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?categories=Non-free+images+for+NFUR+review&ns%5B0%5D=1&ns%5B6%5D=1&templates_any=Non-free+use+rationale%0D%0ANon-free+image+rationale&smaller=500&ext_image_data=1&doit=1 this CATSCAN quey] insert
|image has rationale=yes<nowiki> before the closing <nowiki>}}
This task is best suited to a bot as mindless repetitive text insertion.
Limited to file size 500 on the CATSCAN for performance reasons..
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:01, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
|image has rationale=yes
before the closing "}}" —
Cupco 01:17, 28 September 2012 (UTC)Could a bot create redirects for the Mandatory Palestine year articles (listed at Template:Mandatory Palestine year nav) from "Year in Palestine" and "Year in Israel", e.g. 1936 in Israel, 1936 in Palestine? Also on the articles talk pages, could a bot add {{ WikiProject Palestine}} and {{ WikiProject Israel}}? Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 02:36, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Redirect creation is Done. Lego Kontribs TalkM 18:10, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I listed the following categories at WP:CFD/W for implementation for speedy renaming proposed at WP:CFD/S
However, in each case the category is populated by use of {{ Image requested}} (or its many aliases), and for various reasons that template doesn't alter the capitalisation of its parameters.
So all the pages in these categories need to have the parameter changed to lower case, as follows;
{{
Image requested|Technology}}
--> {{
Image requested|technology}}
{{
Image requested|Society}}
--> {{
Image requested|society}}
{{
Image requested|Science}}
--> {{
Image requested|history}}
{{
Image requested|History}}
--> {{
Image requested|technology}}
{{
Image requested|Arts}}
--> {{
Image requested|arts}}
I would do it myself in AWB, but I can't get AWB to work on this Windows 7 machine :(
So any help would be muchly appreciated. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 20:40, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
{{
Image requested|United States}}
. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 00:33, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Done Lego Kontribs TalkM 03:35, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
At the moment, there are over 173,000 articles tagged with {{ orphan}}. I have an idea to reduce the number, but not the technical expertise to pull it off: For each article tagged as an orphan, visit each of the wikilinked articles. If any of those articles contain the exact name of the orphaned article, turn it into a wikilink to the article. If the orphaned article now has more than 2 incoming links, remove the {{ orphan}} tag.
Example: An article about a television character tagged with {{ orphan}} contains 10 wikilinks to the episodes in which the character appears. In five of those episode articles, it mentions the character's name. Create a link from each episode article to the character article, and remove {{ orphan}} from the character article.
Don't know how many false positives this would create, so maybe creating a list first before creating an automated bot? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:06, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
orphan}}
tag if it has more than 2 incoming links. Though it may be worth having a bot go through all the currently tagged articles to see if it can remove the backlog.
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 03:11, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Manually updating current hurricane stats for a hurricane info box/current storm information, like on this one, can be tedious and possibly inaccurate. Is there a way for a bot to do this? It would somehow have to use the NHC advisory info to replace the current data. Is this even possible?
–– Anonymouse321 ( talk) 17:07, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Add "Category:X in in Israel" and "Category:X in the Palestinian territories" to "Category:X in Palestine". (Palestine, in this context, refers to the whole Israel/Palestine region, not specifically the West Bank and Gaza strip, per Category:Palestine.) Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 00:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
In the articles of
Hindu temple architecture,
Jaga mohan is some times written Jagamohan or Jagamohana.
Is there a bot to replace Jaga mohan, jaga mohan, Jagamohan, jagamohan, Jagamohana, jagamohana by Jaga mohan ?
Is my request a regular one ? If yes, I have some other ones. -- Tangopaso ( talk) 19:35, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to request that a bot be made to add a class=list
parameter to all transclusions of the following templates (excluding ones with a class=fl
parameter): {{
WikiProject Lists}} , {{
WikiProject Discographies}} , {{
WikiProject Bibliographies}} & {{
WikiProject Outlines}}
Basically, the bot would automate what I did here. ❤ Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 20:24, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Could we get a list of all local file pages and file talk pages that link to other language Wikipedia projects (an example, though I've come across dozens over the years)? These are unlikely to be anything other than an image copied from that wiki, and these images have a unique set of problems, most often including broken history. Instead of moving these images to Commons, I'd like to go through them and move the original image to Commons, so the ENWP copies can be deleted. Thanks! ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 00:31, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
I am plan to remove some of the automatic categorization of {{ Infobox animanga}} and it's sub-templates. As such, I will need a bot to hard cat Category:Manga series and Category:Anime series. Both of these categorizes have close to 2,000 articles each and would be too much for a simple AWB run. — Farix ( t | c) 10:07, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Doing... Lego Kontribs TalkM 01:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Why is your bot doing this? This category is redundant (or a parent category) to those already on the category. Please stop this and reverse all the additions of this category. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 06:06, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
The problem with the year subcategories are that they don't make a distinction between television series, OVAs and films. There is no Category:2012 anime series (for television series), Category:2012 anime OVAs (for direct-to-video releases), or Category:2012 anime ONAs (for net animations). but they all get lumped into Category:2012 anime. Also, I don't recall a discussion of replacing the main category in favor of the year subcategories—instead of in addition to—unless it occurred during the last year when I was inactive. But the only way to properly sort articles would be to use the template as a temporary method to sort the articles into those cats, then do a run through each category to add the category directly into the article if it is not already there. But we can do that later after the main categories are dealt with. — Farix ( t | c) 11:20, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
The ISP btinternet has announced that it is closing its webspace for customers on 31 October 2012. [5] There are over 1500 links to btinternet.com and over 2000 links to btinternet.co.uk and I would guess that many of these will be references rather than external links. Presumably these will all become dead links when the webspace is closed, unless there is some sort of automated archive with the links being replaced.-- Rumping ( talk) 06:20, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
First thing to do is warn as many people as possible via WP:PUMP etc - X201 ( talk) 12:50, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello, new recreate Portal:Trucks include to template portal Trucks to based the liste of toolserver ; 895 page for trucks. Thank you FrankyLeRoutier ( talk) 16:55, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
The articles in Category:Lists of Tamil films by year are all lists, but are currently named "Tamil films of YYYY". They should be renamed to "Lists of Tamil films of YYYY". -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:03, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
2nd try: Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_48#Removing_flag_templates_from_infoboxes
There have been no objections since this was proposed, and the box documentation changed, in April. I went through and did this with AWB. However, I didn't know how to capture all possible ways of encoding flags, so I'm sure I missed some.
The details of the request: Remove any flag icons from the fields "state"/"states" and "region". They are acceptable under "nation" and "minority". If they appear anywhere else, perhaps they could be flagged for human attention? — kwami ( talk) 03:42, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
Infobox language}}
and remove any usage of {{
flag}}
, {{
flagcountry}}
, {{
flagicon}}
IFF they are within |state=
, |states=
, or |region=
?
Lego
Kontribs
TalkM 03:53, 14 October 2012 (UTC)Would it be possible for a bot to :
(This is so that in time the links can be converted to full citations, and because of differing copyright jurisdictions not all Google Books link are valid outside the US)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:12, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Statues_in_Dublin&diff=prev&oldid=517997061
Would it be possible to have a bot which does this link stripping automatically?
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:52, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
According to the article on GoogleKnol , it was closed down by Google in October 2012.
Would it be posisble for a bot to migrate the links to Waybacks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=knol.google.com
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 12:45, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Could a bot create redirects for "X of the Palestinian territories" to "X of the Palestinian National Authority" please. this is partly because of Template_talk:Asia_topic#Palestinian_territories, but this should be done regardless of what is done with the template. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 13:31, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
One other thing, it would probably be a good idea to create redirects from "Palestine" to "the Palestinian territories" and "the Palestinian National Authority" (but not visa-versa). Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 19:36, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
I posted the question below to Village pump (technical) and Village pump (miscellaneous) and no one's answering except by suggesting I post the question here. Can anyone here suggest anything?
How would I get a list of discussion pages of WikiProjects (so I'm talking about pages called "Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Whatever") ranked by the frequency with which they are edited---in effect the most active WikiProjects listed first? Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:18, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I would like to see the Expand by language Wikipedia templates moved to the reference section. They are too imposing when added to the top of the article. See Dokka Umarov as an example of two of them in use. I cannot think of any policy or guidelines that would prevent this from being done. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 19:44, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I would like to request bot notification of editors who participated in WP:RFC/AAT of an RFC following up to it, WP:RFC/AAMC. The list of relevant editors is at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Abortion advocacy movement coverage/Notification worksheet (best viewed as source). The text I'm requesting for the notification is:
Appreciate any assistance. :) Thanks! —chaos5023 ( talk) 19:35, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
{{
ODNBsub}} was edited a few months ago (not by me) to put brackets around the text that it generates, to make it consistent with {{
subscription required}} - it now looks like this: (subscription or
UK public library membership required). It has frequently been used in the past in citation templates such as {{
cite web}} as |format={{ODNBsub}}
, and as "format=" itself generates brackets, it looks messy. The template should now be between the closing double brackets of the cite template and the </ref>
closing the reference.
I would be very grateful if some kind bot operator could go through the whatlinkshere for {{ ODNBsub}} and replace
<ref>{{cite ... |format={{ODNBsub}} |...}}</ref>
with
<ref>{{cite ... |...}} {{ODNBsub}} </ref>
As I fear that many of the examples of this former usage are mine, I would be particularly grateful to be saved this task! Thanks. Bencherlite Talk 10:56, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I want a script to add a specific text automatically on new users' pages, can anyone help me? -- AhMedRMaaty ( talk) 06:16, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I often see citations to WP in the references section. These should be removed. I have regexes in my script, but think it may be useful if a bot was tasked to systematically remove these strings:
<ref>https?:\/\/[\w]{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/[^\s\]<]*<\/ref> <ref>\[https?:\/\/[\w]{2}\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki\/[^\s\]]*[ ][\w\d][^\]]*\]<\/ref>
and perhaps a regex to remove all those that are within citation templates too, while we are at it? ;-) -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 01:30, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
If these are in fact translation templates, they probably should be maintained in some form, because they give attribution as required by CC-BY-SA. It probably requires a human editor's judgment to see whether the attribution is already done elsewhere (e.g. talk page banner or edit summary) before any removal. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 00:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. We have a template (
Template:Canadian election result) that we use to make tables for election results. It currently includes the jurisdiction and party name in one parameter, so |CA Conservative|
is for the Conservative Party of Canada and |ON NDP|
is for the Ontario New Democratic Party. There are also some where jurisdiction is assumed, like |BQ|
and |CAQ|
for Quebec-based parties (those two are federal and provincial, respectively). We want to put jurisdiction in its own parameter and make it mandatory, eg: |CA|Conservative|, |ON|NDP|, |CA|BQ|, and |QC|CAQ|.
We will do this via
Template:CANelec. In all of the allowed party names that contain two letters followed by a space, the two letters are the jurisdiction, so could your bot please replace all instances of
{{Canadian election result|(\a)(\a) (\a)
with
{{CANelec|$1$2|$3
After that, there will still be several articles where the old template is used because of the parties that don't use jurisdiction. We can manually change those ourselves, but it would be helpful if your bot could change some of the more common ones:
# | Change | To |
---|---|---|
1 | {{Canadian election result|Wildrose | {{CANelec|AB|Wildrose |
2 | {{Canadian election result|BQ | {{CANelec|CA|BQ |
3 | {{Canadian election result|Christian Heritage | {{CANelec|CA|Christian Heritage |
4 | {{Canadian election result|Commonwealth of Canada | {{CANelec|CA|Commonwealth of Canada |
5 | {{Canadian election result|Laurier Liberals | {{CANelec|CA|Laurier Liberals |
6 | {{Canadian election result|National Government | {{CANelec|CA|National Government |
7 | {{Canadian election result|Progressive Canadian | {{CANelec|CA|Progressive Canadian |
8 | {{Canadian election result|Unionist | {{CANelec|CA|Unionist |
9 | {{Canadian election result|ADQ | {{CANelec|QC|ADQ |
10 | {{Canadian election result|CAQ | {{CANelec|QC|CAQ |
11 | {{Canadian election result|PQ | {{CANelec|QC|PQ |
12 | {{Canadian election result|Québec solidaire | {{CANelec|QC|Québec solidaire |
13 | {{Canadian election result|Saskatchewan | {{CANelec|SK|Saskatchewan |
14 | {{Canadian election result|Independent | {{CANelec|XX|Independent |
Thank you! — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 19:45, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
If the changes in the table are too much, I can do those myself. If a bot could just make the basic change above the table, that wolud be a big help. If I need to make any changes to the request, let me know. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 20:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Never mind, I made the changes myself. — Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 21:00, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Are there any bots that can convert a url of an article on Wikipedia to a wikilink? For example: this → this
Anonymouse321 ( talk • contribs) 05:16, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Frescobot is doing this task. AWB can't do it for reason unexplained. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:12, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Please, replace galllery with gallery (and Galllery too). Thx.-- Tomas62 ( talk) 09:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
It's simple. Over at the requested articles place, there are many articles listed that have been created already. Which is good, but they should not be listed. If someone can employ his task to removing all the blue listings, I will give him and his bot both a beautiful barnstar. Legolover26 ( talk) 01:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
if page.exists() and not page.isRedirectPage()
to ensure it's a full-fledged article. Is there anything else that should be checked? Otherwise it seems like a pretty simple task to code.
Legoktm (
talk) 10:35, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Request: Execute a null edit on all articles in Category:Pages with incomplete DOI references
Rationale: When an editor adds {{ cite doi}} to an article, the article is automatically added to Category:Pages with incomplete DOI references. When the User:Citation bot subsequently creates the appropriate template, the article is not removed from the category until the next edit occurs. A null edit of all pages would help clear out the category of such pages, thus simplifying the job of manually addressing other DOI errors.
Suggested frequency: Perhaps this bot could run once daily.
Thanks -- Illia Connell ( talk) 22:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
my $apires = $mw->api( {action => 'purge', titles => $thistitle, forcelinkupdate => 1} );
Hi, I would like to request that a bot be made which can add all of the possible combinations of redirects for article titles that have accents in them. So, for instance, for the article László Endre the bot would create the redirects "Laszló Endre", "Lászlo Endre", and "Laszlo Endre". This would save a lot of time and effort for editors. Thank you. Hoops gza ( talk) 20:56, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
R from title without diacritics}}
and
Category:Redirects from titles without diacritics exist.
Legoktm (
talk) 21:52, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
There was no response to my initial request - have I defeated the minds of Wikipedia's finest bot operators, or does nobody think it's a sufficient challenge/problem?! Bencherlite Talk 21:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Original request:
|format={{ODNBsub}}
, and as "format=" itself generates brackets, it looks messy. The template should now be between the closing double brackets of the cite template and the </ref>
closing the reference.<ref>{{cite ... |format={{ODNBsub}} |...}}</ref>
with
<ref>{{cite ... |...}} {{ODNBsub}} </ref>
As I fear that many of the examples of this former usage are mine, I would be particularly grateful to be saved this task! Thanks. Bencherlite Talk 10:56, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
|format=
parameter? b) How many pages do you estimate need to be fixed?
this shows 1969 transclusions. Thanks,
Legoktm (
talk) 21:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format=
<--OOH, thanks for showing me {{
para}}! Hopefully not too many to fix, after all: I checked a dozen or so pages at random, some (mainly the better-quality articles) had it fixed already, only a few had a problem. In fact, 929 of that 1969 use it via {{
ODNBweb}} in a way that has been fixed, so there's only about 1,000 direct instances, and hopefully no more than a few hundred that will need fixing. Fortunately the few that I found weren't pages that I had written, so I'm not the only culprit! Thanks.
Bencherlite
Talk 21:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format=
? If so, is it possible multiple templates will be there?
Legoktm (
talk) 21:40, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format={{
ODNBsub}}, something else
; sometimes you get things like |format=PDF
but that doesn't apply for the ODNB, which is just a plain ol' webpage.
Bencherlite
Talk 21:48, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
|format=
, if that's not the case I can just adjust the code.
Legoktm (
talk) 09:07, 2 November 2012 (UTC)Could a bot remove {{Portal|Wikipedia}} from the pages it's used on per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Wikipedia#.7B.7BPortal.7CWikipedia.7D.7D. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 01:40, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there any chance a bot could please run through all articles in Category:Amusement parks (and its subcategories) to see if they have an infobox. For those that don't have infoboxes, it would be great if a list could be compiled at Wikipedia:WikiProject Amusement Parks/Need infoboxes or a similar location. Is this possible? Kind regards Themeparkgc Talk 03:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Please search and replace these templates:
Total is a little over three thousand affected pages. Wikivoyage ( voy:) is now a WMF project, Wikitravel is a fork of the same project owned by a for-profit (Internet Brands) which is currently suing various individual WMF volunteers per [6]. K7L ( talk) 21:31, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
When I list a file at WP:NFCR for review, the file should be tagged with {{ Non-free review}}. I also often tag articles with {{ NFCC issue note}}. Is it possible to have a bot do the file and article taggings? The file tagging should be trivial, as there are no parameters to be passed to the template. The article template might need to be modified to be usable by a bot. Please let me know whether that is possible and if so what would need to be changed in the article template. This would make the work of NFCC enforcers a bit easier. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:17, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I should perhaps mention that there also was a discussion (well only between me and one other user) to automate NFCC 10c enforcement. I guess a bot for 10c enforcement should have a wider prior consensus (for example at WP:VPR). If it would be better to first reach a consensus on this and then implement both functionalities in one bot, then please let me know. In that case I could propose the 10c enforcement bot at the Village pump first, as that seems like a task that should be backed up by a clear community consensus. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:28, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I think bot that deletes explicit articles should be made, as that would be extremely useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SmartyPantsKid ( talk • contribs) 21:49, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please add a task to a maintaince bot to fix talkspace subpages that are left without their parent pages? I'm pretty sure admins have the ability to move all subpages, but non-admins do not, and many times editors forget to look for talk page archives (as I did when I moved this article). Ideally the bot would wait a specified amount of time, a week or whatever, to make sure the page move is mildly stable. This should happen with any move that is in the main Talk: space, as archives or side-discussion pages may not always be named "Archive". ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 19:31, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Other than JL-Bot (cf. User:JL-Bot/Project content), are there any bots that can generate (and then periodically update) a listing of articles in an assessment category? (By "assessment category", I mean something like Category:A-Class military history articles; note that the actual items present in the category are the talk pages rather than the articles themselves.) Kirill [talk] 13:10, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
There should be a bot that searches for dead-end pages, stubs, explict pages, and non-credible pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SmartyPantsKid ( talk • contribs) 21:56, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I am trying to clear the backlog at Category:Articles with missing files (feels like a loosing battle sometimes). There are a few tasks that bots could help out with:
File:http://pathname.ext
and File:C:\pathname.ext
to articles. These are a clear-cut edit that a bot could sort out.Help! -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 22:27, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I think the AnomieBot's TagDater module should be expanded to date {{
Non-free reduced}} tags. Articles which are not properly dated are already sorted into
Category:Rescaled fairuse files with invalid timestamp, so if the bot (or another bot) just looks at that category it could run through the pages and add the dates to the templates. Templates without dates are in the form {{Non-free reduced}}
and templates with proper dates are in the form {{Non-free reduced|16 November 2012}}
. Thank you for hearing my request. --
Odie5533 (
talk) 05:15, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Many instances of {{
Infobox officeholder}} have inline HTML (<small>
, <br />
)in the |honorific-prefix=
, |name=
and |honorific-suffix=
parameters.
As discussed at Formatting of name & honorifcs, we've made improvements to the infobox, so this is no longer necessary. We need a bot to remove it, please.
If, at the same time, the BOT could move any honorifics from the |name=
parameter to the more specific parameters, that would be helpful, too.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 12:12, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Can anyone help, with part if not all of this, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:31, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I asked Legoktm to help. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:27, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dt7607 ( talk • contribs) 20:20, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
There are currently more than 2600 links to {{ wikitravel}} and a few hundred to {{ wikitravelpar}} which need to be replaced with a link to the corresponding Wikimedia project, Wikivoyage: {{ wikivoyage-inline}}
TfD has already been closed yesterday as "delete after replacement"; mere redirection of the deprecated templates is not an option due to trademark issues (this is a company which is already suing our volunteers, WMF has countersued [7] [8]) but there are too many of these for manual replacement (as was already done on fr: and simple:) to be viable on en: K7L ( talk) 15:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
There are around 800 articles containing a cite template with a parameter author=Associated Press
or AP
or Reuters
or UPI
or United Press International
(sometimes wikilinked, sometimes not). These should all be agency=agency-name
. In some cases, this would also require changing the template type from cite web
to cite news
, and in some cases also removal of an associated authorlink=agency-name
parameter. Is this a possible task for a bot?
Colonies Chris (
talk) 15:53, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Additional note: including other news agencies Xinhua, Canadian Press and Agence France-Presse, the number of articles concerned is about 1000. Colonies Chris ( talk) 09:22, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Could a bot remove the {{ RFD}} from those redirects and add the following to the redirects talk pages: Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 11:29, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
{{oldrfd | date = 2012 November 2 | action = delete | result = keep | page = 2012 November 2#Template:UCIProTour-teams }}
Is there an existing bot that I can ask to help tidy up a page move I just made, to avoid redirects in articles? -- Dweller ( talk) 11:22, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Yes, thanks, I was looking for a bot to change all the Jewish holiday links to Jewish holidays. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:44, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there anyone here willing to take over (the functions of) User:RMCD bot? The source code has approval but the bot is down and the bot-operator absent. DrKiernan ( talk) 13:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
The content and titling of some of our fair use rationale templates has got out of sync and I'm attempting to rationalize the situation. It's explained in detail here, but the short version is that there are about 5,000 uses of the redirect {{ Non-free media rationale}} that need to be replaced with their target name {{ Non-free use rationale}}. This should be achievable in a single bot run. Anyone up for helping out? Many thanks. — Hex (❝?!❞) 12:53, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
EDIT: I had a lot of data and some analysis here, but it turned out to be completely bogus. My code was analyzing the data for the revision before the one in which the template was added. My apologies and I'll re-analyze the data shortly. — Wolfgang42 ( talk) 02:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
This means that if you change the meaning of this template you're likely to get users accidentally using the wrong one. Admittedly, there wouldn't be very many, but it would still cause confusion. My suggestion, if you still want to go through with the change, would be to:
Let me know if you still want to go through with the rename. — Wolfgang42 ( talk) 18:58, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am entering a bot request for for replacing {{ BPN}} with {{ Authority control}}. See the discussion here: Template talk:Authority control#TSURL and BPN. Apparently I have made 360 of these links, which is a lot to fix by hand. I would like to see all of the BPN numbers in the Authority control template. Thanks, and if any more info is necessary, pls let me know! Jane ( talk) 11:55, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Moving category X-gu to Category:X District per WP:CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 2. Sawol ( talk) 06:12, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
I initially found and changed a few Wikipedia pages where the units for oil volume are (usually converted from barrels) listed in km^3. The proper SI and conventional unit in commerce is m^3, usually with engineering exponents. Wikipedia has proper conversion functions, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Convert/Goilbbl but, I searched and found over 14 000 pages that have the improper km^3 units. Is it possible for you wiki folk to automate the change process?
thanks! Baden 197.159.156.208 ( talk) 15:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC)