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About 20% of the 2200+ categories in Wikipedia:Database reports/Categories categorized in red-linked categories are year-related (sort by Member category to get an idea - the three pages have different biases, page1 has a lot of 1st millennium dates, page3 has the most in total). Some of these cats have been red links for 2+ years, but are potentially quite amenable to creation by bot and would allow human editors to concentrate on the more demanding categories. I'm thinking of pseudo-code along the lines of
Discussion on whether this is a good idea (conclusion: yes it is)
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Billboard has revamped its site, and we have tens of thousands of dead links. The old link looks like
http://www.billboard.com/artist/<artist name, urlencoded>/chart-history/<magic number>?f=<chart number>&g=Singles with "#" inserted at random locations.
for example
These all now take the form of http://www.billboard.com/artist/<different magic number>/<artist name, with varying punctuation>/chart?f=<chart number>
All the magic numbers for the artists changed. The artist's names stayed the same, even though the formatting has shifted. The chart numbers remain the same.
I've done the crawl of Billboard to find the new tokens. The results are now in templates. {{ BillboardID}} will return the appropriate number for the artist. {{ BillboardChartNum}} will return the chart number from a chart name (which should stay more stable). The new template {{ BillboardURLbyName}} will take that data and return a correct URL. The purpose of the template is to keep from having to go through this again when Billboard revamps again. It seems to happen every few years.
For size considerations, {{ BillboardID}} is actually broken into 40 separate templates, broken by first character. Take a peek at {{ BillboardID/Q}} and {{ BillboardID/R}} and it will be obvious.
So, what the bot needs to do:
- For each URL of the form http://www.billboard.com/artist/<artist name, urlencoded>/chart-history/<magic number>?f=<chart number>&g=Singles or http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/<artist name, urlencoded>/chart-history/<magic number>?f=<chart number>&g=Singles
- extract artist name and chart number
- if (artist name not translated by BillboardID)
- then log error and skip
- else if (chart number not translated by BillboardChartNum)
- then log error and skip
- else replace URL with
{{
BillboardURLbyName|artist=<artist name>|chart=<chart name>}}
When the bot is done, it should provide a log of every time it found an artist that it couldn't handle or a chart that it couldn't handle. I'll take those errors and fix the templates to handle those cases, and we can rerun as necessary.
To see an example of a before and after rework, look at the Usher discography revamp or the Nicki Minaj discography revamp.— Kww( talk) 16:28, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I decided to dive in, and I'm at the 95% complete stage on this bot. I'll ask again if I need help crossing the finish line.— Kww( talk) 01:58, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys! I currently dont really have much time but it would be great if someone has or could write a bot that could archive or just remove sections from User:Addbot/log/wikidata that have {{ done}} or {{ notdone}} on them! ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 23:21, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
There are hundreds of articles, mostly about settlements in Brazil, that specify 'language=Portguese' as a citation template parameter. There are too many to correct to 'Portuguese' by hand, but it would be an easy job for a bot. Colonies Chris ( talk) 22:09, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Over 200 articles that cite the Cancer Dictionary all need the same trivial change to the links to the original source to make them right, as the base URL, but not the article codes, for those entries has been changed on the cancer.gov website. Example: in Peritoneal mesothelioma, the link to
http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.aspx?CdrID=44992
should be replaced by
http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary?CdrID=44992
A full list of the articles that need changing can be found For this set of pages:
I could easily fix this myself with my own bot in a few lines of code, but don't want to have to go through the process of obtaining permission to do so for such a small task: if someone with an already authorized search-replace bot is an a position to do this without putting themselves to any great effort, and would be kind enough to help, I'd be very grateful.
Alternatively, if this is such a small task that it would OK to just to this without going through the usual bot-task process, I'd be happy to do it myself.
Thanks, -- The Anome ( talk) 18:45, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I've recently discovered that AnomieBOT will create conflicting references when there's a citation error in an article and there are references that are created by {{ singlechart}}. Note this edit, for example, where AnomieBOT's response to a broken reference named "Hungary" was to treat the reference "Australia" as orphaned, even though the Australia reference was fine. Given the discussion at User talk:AnomieBOT/Archive 5#breaking references, I'm not expecting a fix from AnomieBOT any time soon. To control the damage it's causing, I need to get a list of articles that are in Category:Singlechart making named ref and have a colliding reference defined both through <ref name=xxxxx> and through {{singlechart|...|refname=xxxx}}. Hopefully one of the existing bots with a good search capability can do that for me. I'll do the fixes manually, but I don't want to try and trawl through 450 articles manually searching for something that doesn't even give an easily visible error message.— Kww( talk) 07:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
We on Sanskrit wiki want a bot to generate an html page to contain all our categories in form of html tree-view control, something like this. I know that there is a special page on wiki for category viewing,but the problem is that it doesn't work readily (loading time is required on each click); while if we can download a single html page, we can view the category structure easily by collapsing & expanding as needed, even offline, and i want to review the category structure using that method. We have manageable number of categories on sawiki. So please tell if that is feasible. - Hemant wikikosh ( talk) 11:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Featured pictures are (with one or two exceptions) stored on Commons but have a local page that links to their FP nomination page and indicates the date they were picture of the day, if applicable. Sometimes, however, the FP templates are replaced due to vandalism, and then the pages are deleted per WP:CSD#F2 ( example 1; example 2). These bother me and I would like to fix them; those local templates are the primary advertisement the FP project gets. I find these at random, but it seems like it would be fairly straightforward to write a script that would list all FPs with no local page, just by going through the subpages of the directory (one way might be to compare images linked in the directory to Category:Featured pictures; if they're not in the category they're missing the local page or its templates). Piece of cake, right? Thanks. Chick Bowen 19:14, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
{{ Ethnologue}} has been used as a shortcut to {{ Ethnologue16}}. However, with the publication of the new edition of Ethnologue today, this is no longer appropriate. Please convert all transclusions of {{ Ethnologue}} to {{ Ethnologue16}}, then delete {{ Ethnologue}}.
— kwami ( talk) 21:23, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
This is a nice easy task that might suit a bot beginner, or could be bolted onto something else.
That should be good enough - if you read {{ Sockpuppet category}} you can see that there's a bit of scope to get cute about encoding certain non-alphanumeric characters but the template is smart enough to sideline "problem" names into a maintenance category so it's not very necessary. It's a simple enough little task that could be done manually with AWB, but it might as well be automated, sockpuppet cats make up 20% of those red-link categories and anything that helps out the anti-sock guys is worth doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Le Deluge ( talk • contribs) 18:50, February 18, 2013
At
Talk:Main Page#Today's article for improvement on the Main Page, there appears to be consensus (pending an uninvolved party's discussion closure) to proceed with the addition of a
TAFI section to the main page, with the dynamic display of three article links from a pool of ten (
example).
A concern is that the links, generated via {{
random subpage}}, change only when the page's cache is purged. So I'm requesting that a bot purge
Main Page's cache with whatever frequency is feasible and acceptable (once per minute, perhaps?). —
David Levy 18:27, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Just as a question - does this HAVE to be done by something hard-coded that gets refreshed periodically? Since the aim is just to present 3 out of 10 links, could you not slice it by some other way than by a cache-purge? I'm thinking of using Javascript to do something like If CURRENTTIME-in-milliseconds ends in 1, show links 1,2,3; if CURRENTTIME-in-milliseconds ends in 2, show links 2,3,4 and so on. Doesn't have to be done on time either - it could be done on the ASCII value of their user name, sum of their IP address (with a bit of help server-side), whatever. It seems a better way of doing something that is fundamentally quite simple, rather than messing with the caching on such a heavy-traffic page. Le Deluge ( talk) 19:46, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Well I have the one line cron job ready to go, and am thinking about being bold about it, but I would much rather Joe add the 15 minute interval to Joe's Null Bot. Joe? Neo Poz ( talk) 22:13, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I have just closed Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 4#Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San_Francisco.2C_California as "merge" Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco County, California to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco, California.
To implement this, all the pages currently in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco County, California need to be edited as follows:
{{Image requested|in=San Francisco County, California}}
with {{Image requested|in=San Francisco, California}}
Please can some kind bot-owner do this?
Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 08:12, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
See the "Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag" section of the current revision of WP:AN. DumbBOT persists in creating something that was once useful but has now been made useless, and because the operator is AWOL, there's no way to stop the bot, as far as I can tell, except for the horribly unhelpful method of blocking it. Could someone please produce a replacement bot? Its functions are:
- creates daily categories and subpages (see User:DumbBOT/CatCreate for details)
- list incomplete AfD nominations at User:DumbBOT/IncompleteAfD
- complete nominations when the AfD subpage exists but is not listed
- creates a summary of the articles tagged WP:PROD at /ProdSummary
- list articles that are tagged {{copyvio}} but not listed
- maintain User:DumbBOT/RfArSummary and User:DumbBOT/UsernameChange
- removes protection templates from non-protected pages
One problematic category isn't a big deal, but if we make broader changes in the future, this bot may start having serious issues; imagine if the AFD nomination process were have a fundamental change in its page structure, for example. Basically, the only reason I'm requesting this is so that we'll again have a bot doing this under the control of an operator who's active here at Wikipedia, so that changes could be made to its operation if necessary; if you create such a bot, we can softblock DumbBOT until the operator returns, which probably isn't going to happen. Nyttend ( talk) 16:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
After IAAF web site reform, this is the situation:
It requires the work of a bot to fix the many templates of the first kind. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 11:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Recently I found two articles in the same category, which were sorted differently. After my question on WP:HD User:John of Reading fixed them [1], however there's still plenty of mis-sorted bigraphies in Category:Icelandic people and its subcategories. Possibly some bot, when supplied with a list of categories (or just searching them by regexp 'Iceland|Icelandic'), might correct such biographies sorting, just by picking the DEFAULTSORT key, swapping it, dropping a comma and adding it explicitely to appropriate categories' links. Of course it must also recognize biographies among other articles. -- CiaPan ( talk) 12:16, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
This sounds like something that may have been proposed before, but can we run a bot to add missing merge tags on all the articles in Category:Articles to be merged? I would say about half of the articles proposed to be merged do not have the accompanying tag on the target article. What I mean is that, if the article has {{ mergeto}} or {{ mergefrom}}, the bot would check that target article article has the reciprocal merge tag. My thinking here is that if there's an article missing one of them, and the merge is clearly not supported, someone would remove the tag from both articles.
Also, on a similar train of thought, a more permanent bot would be one that could check that these tags are in place until the merge is resolved. I think many proposed merges are inactive simply because 50% of the editors have no idea there has even been such a proposal. Usually the merge tag winds up on the crappier, less viewed article rahter than the highly viewed target. -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 01:49, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I need a bot to check certain pages which have had, for years now, IP addresses with no other edits, spam links to commercial sites. Microsoft Ants for example, if you check the history, you will find voobly.com has been spammed there many times over the years, and reverted by me or others. I filed a report on some cases of them spamming articles at [2]. I would like to be able to run a bot on any page I select to investigate, which would check every single edit in the page's history, scanning the text in each edit to determine when certain text was added, and then list that information. Be able to see the edit, date, and name of editor who put it there, clicking on a link to see their contributions. It makes it easier to show a constant pattern of abuse by commercial sites that do this across Wikipedia. If looking over that, one finds that dozens of different IP addresses have edited only to add the same spam link to an article or other articles, it proves the Wikipedia Spam filter needs to be updated to stop that, and those pages protected from IP address edits. When scanning for something, should be able to do multiple scans at the same time, typing in the names of various often spammed links, since sometimes they have the same owner, and they rotate which link they put in there, or more than one site is regularly doing this to the same place. Dream Focus 07:55, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Do we have a bot that can be used to empty a category? Category:French loanwords was taken to CFD, which ended with "listify and then delete". I've converted it into a list, but I don't feel like manually stripping it from 176 articles. Note that I've checked for things that should go into parent categories; for example, I put List of French words and phrases used by English speakers into Category:French language. Nyttend ( talk) 01:37, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can automatically purge null edit all pages in a category after a specific period of time? --
Toshio
Yamaguchi 08:03, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I think this whole tree needs to be deleted, and some related trees as well. I really do not feel like tagging the whole thing, so I was hoping it would be possible to have a bot assist. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 18:45, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I have nominated a lot of categories for speedy renaming (at WP:CFD/S), but can't run AWB at the moment, so they are too much work to tag.
Please can a kind bot-owner tag them by inserting {{subst:cfr-speedy}}
at the top of each page? --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 23:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#COI_Template there are 10 supports and zero opposes for the suggestion that we begin a trial deployment of Template:COI editnotice to Category:Companies based in Idaho. The idea is to eventually apply it to Category: organizations if the template results in a lift in Request Edit submissions. I think there is strong enough consensus to request a bot to begin tagging. If I'm not doing it right, let me know. CorporateM ( Talk) 15:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
A bunch of articles [3]; [4] are using the deprecated {{ Coor dm}} or {{ Coor dms}} for their coordinates; they should use {{ Coord}} instead, to which the former templates redirect. As we don't simply fix redirects, it would be good if this could be added to some routine cleanup bots'/ AWB's tasks (is there a better place to request this?) Here is an example edit. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:11, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
The sub-categories of Category:Motorsport in Italy by year are parented in Category:YYYY in Italy, whereas they should be subcats of Category:YYYY in Italian sport. This needs to be fixed, and I have done Category:1996 in Italian motorsport an example in this edit.
The categories I have checked have made odd usage of {{
Year by category}}, and not used the parent
parameter, so it seems to me that the best thing to do is to replace the entire content of the category.
The search string only needs to select the whole page while matching the year, and split it into 4 parts: ^.*([12])([890])([0-9])([0-9]).*$
... the replace it with:
{{Cat main|Motorsport in Italy}} {{Year by category |m=$1 |c=$2 |d=$3 |y=$4 |cat = in Italian motorsport |subcat = $1$2$3$4 in Italian sport |sortkey = Motorsport |parent = Motorsport in Italy by year }} [[Category:$1$2$3$4 in motorsport|Italian]]
Any volunteers? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 02:40, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Would someone with some time please be able to go through and add {{ dead link}} to Special:LinkSearch/*.george-orwell.org. One could argue that the links should be stripped altogether as the works are still under copyright in the US and the home nation. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:42, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
A publisher is set to shut down three major RS sites for video games: 1UP, UGO, and Gamespy. (The sites effectively have stopped publishing but their content is still there, but we have no idea how long that will last). We want to try to webcite these links, a list is given at [5]. We had a previous situation where we knew a web site was going dark in a matter of days and had a bot run through and webcite the links and update the articles, but I'm having problems finding that request from before. Here we don't think we're in as big a rush to fix this but certainly have the issue that we have no idea of the timing here. Is there a bot set up to handle this or would a new one need to be made? -- MASEM ( t) 17:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I have put in a nomination here to rename all of the by-year categories which currently are subcategories of Category:Events_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies to Category:Events in the British colonies of North America. I put a note on the CfD talk page (per the instructions) for help tagging all of the relevant categories, but someone suggested I try here instead. Can you help? In short, I need to add a CfD note for a rename to all of the 180+ subcategories of [:Category:Events in the Thirteen Colonies] -- Dis/establishment by Year/Decade/Century. There are one per year from 1607 to 1775, plus 18 decade ones, and two centuries. Thankfully, most of the "Disestablishment" categories haven't been created yet. Thank you!! JRP ( talk) 07:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
At CFD 2013 March 17 I have nominated Category:Formula One race reports for renaming, along with its 64 subcategories.
The 64 sub-categories (listed below) are untagged, and I hope that a kind bot-owner could do the job.
It could be done in two ways:
{{
subst:cfr|Formula One race reports}}
The resulting notice won't state the renaming target, and it would be better if the rename target was specified.
{{
subst:cfr|$1 Formula One races|Formula One race reports}}
However, the most important thing is that the categories are tagged today, before the date changes. So the simple tagging is better than no tagging! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:57, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Template:CongLinks, used in External links, has a washpo parameter, for Washington Post. The broken links are all alphabetic (plus underlines and possibly commas) but the working ones are a mix of alpha and numbers in two versions. For example, Blanche Lincoln is broken, Dick Durbin works, and anything that looks like f9d0a3fa-4bbc-11e2-8758-b64a2997a921 works. I need a bot to go through and blank out only the broken (old version) instances. 184.78.81.245 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:10, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
|nndb=
and |findagrave=
parameters also be removed at the same time, since the template no longer supports them? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)The following categories were renamed to include a dash instead of a hyphen. Now category redirects are needed. Could someone create them? Armbrust The Homunculus 22:30, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
I have a massive number of redirects for a bot to create. Bellow is a list (from Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia) of former Virginia counties, now part of West Virginia and Kentucky. The list also includes some cities and towns that are now part of West Virginia. The list has been modified so that it links to X, Virginia instead of X, Kentucky/West Virginia
The vast majority of entries on this modified list are redlinks. I would like a bot to redirect these redlinks to the correct Kentucky/West Virginia article. Be aware that, as the article says "Many of these [Kentucky] names were later reused to name other new Virginia counties. Some of those were "lost" again when the state of West Virginia was formed in 1863." so in those cases where Kentucky and a West Virginia county have the same name , I would strongly recommended the bot create a disambig instead of a redirect to eater article. In the case where a current Virginia location has the same name as one of these old counties/cities/towns, I would like the bot to create a hatnote. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 01:53, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Update: I've taken care of the Kentucky counties manually, including the ones that needed a disambig for a West Virginia county having the same name. That just leaves the West Virginia ones for the bot to take care of. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 02:21, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Update:I've manually added the hatnotes, now the bot just needs to create the redirects. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 02:43, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
The ten Virginia counties "lost" in the formation of the new Commonwealth of Kentucky were (alphabetically):
Listed alphabetically, the 50 counties of Virginia lost to the formation of West Virginia were:
Also lost to Virginia with the formation of West Virginia were many cities and towns. A partial listing of these (there were many more) is:
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A couple of months ago, Yobot fulfilled a request that I made on behalf of WP:JAZZ; the details are available in the archived discussion. It appears that at least some of the edits need some cleanup:
class=
rating from the existing WikiProject banners (or derive it from article's length, or presence of a stub template in the article)songs=yes
was added; it should have been song=yes
(I'm not sure if it affects all the song articles, but I've noticed it with those pages that were originally tagged with album=yes
and then re-tagged a few minutes later).I have spot-checked a few dozen edits from Jan. 4-5 and I'm consistently seeing these issues. For example, [8], [9]. Of course where there were no existing assessments, or no banner shell, this is a non-issue (other than not identifying stubs).
I apologize that I didn't spot this and bring it up any sooner. I'm not sure if Yobot (or another 'bot) can simply retrace its earlier steps, or whether it needs to go back through the categories again, but the category scheme remains largely the same (cat. list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/Categories. I'm making a few edits to remove red links, add at least one known new category, etc.). If it does need to go through the categories again, maybe tag any new articles along the way, as per the previous request. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:20, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
I am sorry my edits weren't perfect. I hope someone helps to fix these because I am busy in real life to deal with this task. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:17, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
|songs=yes
before proceeding further.
GoingBatty (
talk) 20:58, 16 March 2013 (UTC)|songs=
is now also a valid parameter for {{
WikiProject Jazz}}.
GoingBatty (
talk) 21:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Can we get a 'bot to help with the auto-assessment?
class=
from other WikiProjects (if any):class=
if only a single rating is availableclass=
if two or more ratings are available; in the event of auto-stub/inherit conflict, inherit the most frequent (or highest) class=
rating|auto=yes
|auto=inherit
|auto=length
|autoi=yes
class=stub
based either of the following criteria:importance=
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Archive 50 | Archive 51 | Archive 52 | Archive 53 | Archive 54 | Archive 55 | → | Archive 60 |
About 20% of the 2200+ categories in Wikipedia:Database reports/Categories categorized in red-linked categories are year-related (sort by Member category to get an idea - the three pages have different biases, page1 has a lot of 1st millennium dates, page3 has the most in total). Some of these cats have been red links for 2+ years, but are potentially quite amenable to creation by bot and would allow human editors to concentrate on the more demanding categories. I'm thinking of pseudo-code along the lines of
Discussion on whether this is a good idea (conclusion: yes it is)
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Billboard has revamped its site, and we have tens of thousands of dead links. The old link looks like
http://www.billboard.com/artist/<artist name, urlencoded>/chart-history/<magic number>?f=<chart number>&g=Singles with "#" inserted at random locations.
for example
These all now take the form of http://www.billboard.com/artist/<different magic number>/<artist name, with varying punctuation>/chart?f=<chart number>
All the magic numbers for the artists changed. The artist's names stayed the same, even though the formatting has shifted. The chart numbers remain the same.
I've done the crawl of Billboard to find the new tokens. The results are now in templates. {{ BillboardID}} will return the appropriate number for the artist. {{ BillboardChartNum}} will return the chart number from a chart name (which should stay more stable). The new template {{ BillboardURLbyName}} will take that data and return a correct URL. The purpose of the template is to keep from having to go through this again when Billboard revamps again. It seems to happen every few years.
For size considerations, {{ BillboardID}} is actually broken into 40 separate templates, broken by first character. Take a peek at {{ BillboardID/Q}} and {{ BillboardID/R}} and it will be obvious.
So, what the bot needs to do:
- For each URL of the form http://www.billboard.com/artist/<artist name, urlencoded>/chart-history/<magic number>?f=<chart number>&g=Singles or http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/<artist name, urlencoded>/chart-history/<magic number>?f=<chart number>&g=Singles
- extract artist name and chart number
- if (artist name not translated by BillboardID)
- then log error and skip
- else if (chart number not translated by BillboardChartNum)
- then log error and skip
- else replace URL with
{{
BillboardURLbyName|artist=<artist name>|chart=<chart name>}}
When the bot is done, it should provide a log of every time it found an artist that it couldn't handle or a chart that it couldn't handle. I'll take those errors and fix the templates to handle those cases, and we can rerun as necessary.
To see an example of a before and after rework, look at the Usher discography revamp or the Nicki Minaj discography revamp.— Kww( talk) 16:28, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
I decided to dive in, and I'm at the 95% complete stage on this bot. I'll ask again if I need help crossing the finish line.— Kww( talk) 01:58, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys! I currently dont really have much time but it would be great if someone has or could write a bot that could archive or just remove sections from User:Addbot/log/wikidata that have {{ done}} or {{ notdone}} on them! ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 23:21, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
There are hundreds of articles, mostly about settlements in Brazil, that specify 'language=Portguese' as a citation template parameter. There are too many to correct to 'Portuguese' by hand, but it would be an easy job for a bot. Colonies Chris ( talk) 22:09, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Over 200 articles that cite the Cancer Dictionary all need the same trivial change to the links to the original source to make them right, as the base URL, but not the article codes, for those entries has been changed on the cancer.gov website. Example: in Peritoneal mesothelioma, the link to
http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.aspx?CdrID=44992
should be replaced by
http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary?CdrID=44992
A full list of the articles that need changing can be found For this set of pages:
I could easily fix this myself with my own bot in a few lines of code, but don't want to have to go through the process of obtaining permission to do so for such a small task: if someone with an already authorized search-replace bot is an a position to do this without putting themselves to any great effort, and would be kind enough to help, I'd be very grateful.
Alternatively, if this is such a small task that it would OK to just to this without going through the usual bot-task process, I'd be happy to do it myself.
Thanks, -- The Anome ( talk) 18:45, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I've recently discovered that AnomieBOT will create conflicting references when there's a citation error in an article and there are references that are created by {{ singlechart}}. Note this edit, for example, where AnomieBOT's response to a broken reference named "Hungary" was to treat the reference "Australia" as orphaned, even though the Australia reference was fine. Given the discussion at User talk:AnomieBOT/Archive 5#breaking references, I'm not expecting a fix from AnomieBOT any time soon. To control the damage it's causing, I need to get a list of articles that are in Category:Singlechart making named ref and have a colliding reference defined both through <ref name=xxxxx> and through {{singlechart|...|refname=xxxx}}. Hopefully one of the existing bots with a good search capability can do that for me. I'll do the fixes manually, but I don't want to try and trawl through 450 articles manually searching for something that doesn't even give an easily visible error message.— Kww( talk) 07:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
We on Sanskrit wiki want a bot to generate an html page to contain all our categories in form of html tree-view control, something like this. I know that there is a special page on wiki for category viewing,but the problem is that it doesn't work readily (loading time is required on each click); while if we can download a single html page, we can view the category structure easily by collapsing & expanding as needed, even offline, and i want to review the category structure using that method. We have manageable number of categories on sawiki. So please tell if that is feasible. - Hemant wikikosh ( talk) 11:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Featured pictures are (with one or two exceptions) stored on Commons but have a local page that links to their FP nomination page and indicates the date they were picture of the day, if applicable. Sometimes, however, the FP templates are replaced due to vandalism, and then the pages are deleted per WP:CSD#F2 ( example 1; example 2). These bother me and I would like to fix them; those local templates are the primary advertisement the FP project gets. I find these at random, but it seems like it would be fairly straightforward to write a script that would list all FPs with no local page, just by going through the subpages of the directory (one way might be to compare images linked in the directory to Category:Featured pictures; if they're not in the category they're missing the local page or its templates). Piece of cake, right? Thanks. Chick Bowen 19:14, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
{{ Ethnologue}} has been used as a shortcut to {{ Ethnologue16}}. However, with the publication of the new edition of Ethnologue today, this is no longer appropriate. Please convert all transclusions of {{ Ethnologue}} to {{ Ethnologue16}}, then delete {{ Ethnologue}}.
— kwami ( talk) 21:23, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
This is a nice easy task that might suit a bot beginner, or could be bolted onto something else.
That should be good enough - if you read {{ Sockpuppet category}} you can see that there's a bit of scope to get cute about encoding certain non-alphanumeric characters but the template is smart enough to sideline "problem" names into a maintenance category so it's not very necessary. It's a simple enough little task that could be done manually with AWB, but it might as well be automated, sockpuppet cats make up 20% of those red-link categories and anything that helps out the anti-sock guys is worth doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Le Deluge ( talk • contribs) 18:50, February 18, 2013
At
Talk:Main Page#Today's article for improvement on the Main Page, there appears to be consensus (pending an uninvolved party's discussion closure) to proceed with the addition of a
TAFI section to the main page, with the dynamic display of three article links from a pool of ten (
example).
A concern is that the links, generated via {{
random subpage}}, change only when the page's cache is purged. So I'm requesting that a bot purge
Main Page's cache with whatever frequency is feasible and acceptable (once per minute, perhaps?). —
David Levy 18:27, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Just as a question - does this HAVE to be done by something hard-coded that gets refreshed periodically? Since the aim is just to present 3 out of 10 links, could you not slice it by some other way than by a cache-purge? I'm thinking of using Javascript to do something like If CURRENTTIME-in-milliseconds ends in 1, show links 1,2,3; if CURRENTTIME-in-milliseconds ends in 2, show links 2,3,4 and so on. Doesn't have to be done on time either - it could be done on the ASCII value of their user name, sum of their IP address (with a bit of help server-side), whatever. It seems a better way of doing something that is fundamentally quite simple, rather than messing with the caching on such a heavy-traffic page. Le Deluge ( talk) 19:46, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Well I have the one line cron job ready to go, and am thinking about being bold about it, but I would much rather Joe add the 15 minute interval to Joe's Null Bot. Joe? Neo Poz ( talk) 22:13, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I have just closed Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 4#Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_San_Francisco.2C_California as "merge" Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco County, California to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco, California.
To implement this, all the pages currently in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco County, California need to be edited as follows:
{{Image requested|in=San Francisco County, California}}
with {{Image requested|in=San Francisco, California}}
Please can some kind bot-owner do this?
Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 08:12, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
See the "Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag" section of the current revision of WP:AN. DumbBOT persists in creating something that was once useful but has now been made useless, and because the operator is AWOL, there's no way to stop the bot, as far as I can tell, except for the horribly unhelpful method of blocking it. Could someone please produce a replacement bot? Its functions are:
- creates daily categories and subpages (see User:DumbBOT/CatCreate for details)
- list incomplete AfD nominations at User:DumbBOT/IncompleteAfD
- complete nominations when the AfD subpage exists but is not listed
- creates a summary of the articles tagged WP:PROD at /ProdSummary
- list articles that are tagged {{copyvio}} but not listed
- maintain User:DumbBOT/RfArSummary and User:DumbBOT/UsernameChange
- removes protection templates from non-protected pages
One problematic category isn't a big deal, but if we make broader changes in the future, this bot may start having serious issues; imagine if the AFD nomination process were have a fundamental change in its page structure, for example. Basically, the only reason I'm requesting this is so that we'll again have a bot doing this under the control of an operator who's active here at Wikipedia, so that changes could be made to its operation if necessary; if you create such a bot, we can softblock DumbBOT until the operator returns, which probably isn't going to happen. Nyttend ( talk) 16:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
After IAAF web site reform, this is the situation:
It requires the work of a bot to fix the many templates of the first kind. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 11:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Recently I found two articles in the same category, which were sorted differently. After my question on WP:HD User:John of Reading fixed them [1], however there's still plenty of mis-sorted bigraphies in Category:Icelandic people and its subcategories. Possibly some bot, when supplied with a list of categories (or just searching them by regexp 'Iceland|Icelandic'), might correct such biographies sorting, just by picking the DEFAULTSORT key, swapping it, dropping a comma and adding it explicitely to appropriate categories' links. Of course it must also recognize biographies among other articles. -- CiaPan ( talk) 12:16, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
This sounds like something that may have been proposed before, but can we run a bot to add missing merge tags on all the articles in Category:Articles to be merged? I would say about half of the articles proposed to be merged do not have the accompanying tag on the target article. What I mean is that, if the article has {{ mergeto}} or {{ mergefrom}}, the bot would check that target article article has the reciprocal merge tag. My thinking here is that if there's an article missing one of them, and the merge is clearly not supported, someone would remove the tag from both articles.
Also, on a similar train of thought, a more permanent bot would be one that could check that these tags are in place until the merge is resolved. I think many proposed merges are inactive simply because 50% of the editors have no idea there has even been such a proposal. Usually the merge tag winds up on the crappier, less viewed article rahter than the highly viewed target. -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 01:49, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I need a bot to check certain pages which have had, for years now, IP addresses with no other edits, spam links to commercial sites. Microsoft Ants for example, if you check the history, you will find voobly.com has been spammed there many times over the years, and reverted by me or others. I filed a report on some cases of them spamming articles at [2]. I would like to be able to run a bot on any page I select to investigate, which would check every single edit in the page's history, scanning the text in each edit to determine when certain text was added, and then list that information. Be able to see the edit, date, and name of editor who put it there, clicking on a link to see their contributions. It makes it easier to show a constant pattern of abuse by commercial sites that do this across Wikipedia. If looking over that, one finds that dozens of different IP addresses have edited only to add the same spam link to an article or other articles, it proves the Wikipedia Spam filter needs to be updated to stop that, and those pages protected from IP address edits. When scanning for something, should be able to do multiple scans at the same time, typing in the names of various often spammed links, since sometimes they have the same owner, and they rotate which link they put in there, or more than one site is regularly doing this to the same place. Dream Focus 07:55, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Do we have a bot that can be used to empty a category? Category:French loanwords was taken to CFD, which ended with "listify and then delete". I've converted it into a list, but I don't feel like manually stripping it from 176 articles. Note that I've checked for things that should go into parent categories; for example, I put List of French words and phrases used by English speakers into Category:French language. Nyttend ( talk) 01:37, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can automatically purge null edit all pages in a category after a specific period of time? --
Toshio
Yamaguchi 08:03, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I think this whole tree needs to be deleted, and some related trees as well. I really do not feel like tagging the whole thing, so I was hoping it would be possible to have a bot assist. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 18:45, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I have nominated a lot of categories for speedy renaming (at WP:CFD/S), but can't run AWB at the moment, so they are too much work to tag.
Please can a kind bot-owner tag them by inserting {{subst:cfr-speedy}}
at the top of each page? --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 23:32, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#COI_Template there are 10 supports and zero opposes for the suggestion that we begin a trial deployment of Template:COI editnotice to Category:Companies based in Idaho. The idea is to eventually apply it to Category: organizations if the template results in a lift in Request Edit submissions. I think there is strong enough consensus to request a bot to begin tagging. If I'm not doing it right, let me know. CorporateM ( Talk) 15:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
A bunch of articles [3]; [4] are using the deprecated {{ Coor dm}} or {{ Coor dms}} for their coordinates; they should use {{ Coord}} instead, to which the former templates redirect. As we don't simply fix redirects, it would be good if this could be added to some routine cleanup bots'/ AWB's tasks (is there a better place to request this?) Here is an example edit. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:11, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
The sub-categories of Category:Motorsport in Italy by year are parented in Category:YYYY in Italy, whereas they should be subcats of Category:YYYY in Italian sport. This needs to be fixed, and I have done Category:1996 in Italian motorsport an example in this edit.
The categories I have checked have made odd usage of {{
Year by category}}, and not used the parent
parameter, so it seems to me that the best thing to do is to replace the entire content of the category.
The search string only needs to select the whole page while matching the year, and split it into 4 parts: ^.*([12])([890])([0-9])([0-9]).*$
... the replace it with:
{{Cat main|Motorsport in Italy}} {{Year by category |m=$1 |c=$2 |d=$3 |y=$4 |cat = in Italian motorsport |subcat = $1$2$3$4 in Italian sport |sortkey = Motorsport |parent = Motorsport in Italy by year }} [[Category:$1$2$3$4 in motorsport|Italian]]
Any volunteers? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 02:40, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Would someone with some time please be able to go through and add {{ dead link}} to Special:LinkSearch/*.george-orwell.org. One could argue that the links should be stripped altogether as the works are still under copyright in the US and the home nation. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:42, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
A publisher is set to shut down three major RS sites for video games: 1UP, UGO, and Gamespy. (The sites effectively have stopped publishing but their content is still there, but we have no idea how long that will last). We want to try to webcite these links, a list is given at [5]. We had a previous situation where we knew a web site was going dark in a matter of days and had a bot run through and webcite the links and update the articles, but I'm having problems finding that request from before. Here we don't think we're in as big a rush to fix this but certainly have the issue that we have no idea of the timing here. Is there a bot set up to handle this or would a new one need to be made? -- MASEM ( t) 17:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I have put in a nomination here to rename all of the by-year categories which currently are subcategories of Category:Events_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies to Category:Events in the British colonies of North America. I put a note on the CfD talk page (per the instructions) for help tagging all of the relevant categories, but someone suggested I try here instead. Can you help? In short, I need to add a CfD note for a rename to all of the 180+ subcategories of [:Category:Events in the Thirteen Colonies] -- Dis/establishment by Year/Decade/Century. There are one per year from 1607 to 1775, plus 18 decade ones, and two centuries. Thankfully, most of the "Disestablishment" categories haven't been created yet. Thank you!! JRP ( talk) 07:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
At CFD 2013 March 17 I have nominated Category:Formula One race reports for renaming, along with its 64 subcategories.
The 64 sub-categories (listed below) are untagged, and I hope that a kind bot-owner could do the job.
It could be done in two ways:
{{
subst:cfr|Formula One race reports}}
The resulting notice won't state the renaming target, and it would be better if the rename target was specified.
{{
subst:cfr|$1 Formula One races|Formula One race reports}}
However, the most important thing is that the categories are tagged today, before the date changes. So the simple tagging is better than no tagging! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:57, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Template:CongLinks, used in External links, has a washpo parameter, for Washington Post. The broken links are all alphabetic (plus underlines and possibly commas) but the working ones are a mix of alpha and numbers in two versions. For example, Blanche Lincoln is broken, Dick Durbin works, and anything that looks like f9d0a3fa-4bbc-11e2-8758-b64a2997a921 works. I need a bot to go through and blank out only the broken (old version) instances. 184.78.81.245 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:10, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
|nndb=
and |findagrave=
parameters also be removed at the same time, since the template no longer supports them? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 03:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)The following categories were renamed to include a dash instead of a hyphen. Now category redirects are needed. Could someone create them? Armbrust The Homunculus 22:30, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
I have a massive number of redirects for a bot to create. Bellow is a list (from Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia) of former Virginia counties, now part of West Virginia and Kentucky. The list also includes some cities and towns that are now part of West Virginia. The list has been modified so that it links to X, Virginia instead of X, Kentucky/West Virginia
The vast majority of entries on this modified list are redlinks. I would like a bot to redirect these redlinks to the correct Kentucky/West Virginia article. Be aware that, as the article says "Many of these [Kentucky] names were later reused to name other new Virginia counties. Some of those were "lost" again when the state of West Virginia was formed in 1863." so in those cases where Kentucky and a West Virginia county have the same name , I would strongly recommended the bot create a disambig instead of a redirect to eater article. In the case where a current Virginia location has the same name as one of these old counties/cities/towns, I would like the bot to create a hatnote. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 01:53, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Update: I've taken care of the Kentucky counties manually, including the ones that needed a disambig for a West Virginia county having the same name. That just leaves the West Virginia ones for the bot to take care of. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 02:21, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Update:I've manually added the hatnotes, now the bot just needs to create the redirects. Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 02:43, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
The ten Virginia counties "lost" in the formation of the new Commonwealth of Kentucky were (alphabetically):
Listed alphabetically, the 50 counties of Virginia lost to the formation of West Virginia were:
Also lost to Virginia with the formation of West Virginia were many cities and towns. A partial listing of these (there were many more) is:
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A couple of months ago, Yobot fulfilled a request that I made on behalf of WP:JAZZ; the details are available in the archived discussion. It appears that at least some of the edits need some cleanup:
class=
rating from the existing WikiProject banners (or derive it from article's length, or presence of a stub template in the article)songs=yes
was added; it should have been song=yes
(I'm not sure if it affects all the song articles, but I've noticed it with those pages that were originally tagged with album=yes
and then re-tagged a few minutes later).I have spot-checked a few dozen edits from Jan. 4-5 and I'm consistently seeing these issues. For example, [8], [9]. Of course where there were no existing assessments, or no banner shell, this is a non-issue (other than not identifying stubs).
I apologize that I didn't spot this and bring it up any sooner. I'm not sure if Yobot (or another 'bot) can simply retrace its earlier steps, or whether it needs to go back through the categories again, but the category scheme remains largely the same (cat. list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/Categories. I'm making a few edits to remove red links, add at least one known new category, etc.). If it does need to go through the categories again, maybe tag any new articles along the way, as per the previous request. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:20, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
I am sorry my edits weren't perfect. I hope someone helps to fix these because I am busy in real life to deal with this task. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:17, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
|songs=yes
before proceeding further.
GoingBatty (
talk) 20:58, 16 March 2013 (UTC)|songs=
is now also a valid parameter for {{
WikiProject Jazz}}.
GoingBatty (
talk) 21:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Can we get a 'bot to help with the auto-assessment?
class=
from other WikiProjects (if any):class=
if only a single rating is availableclass=
if two or more ratings are available; in the event of auto-stub/inherit conflict, inherit the most frequent (or highest) class=
rating|auto=yes
|auto=inherit
|auto=length
|autoi=yes
class=stub
based either of the following criteria:importance=
ratings.