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The table on Structural alignment software contains a lot of information, so alternating rows have different colors. This formatting has been around since 2007, so I'm assuming it has community consensus. No doubt there are other examples of tables with alternating row colors. However, the current method of alternating rows using a bgcolor row parameter makes it extremely difficult to add a row in the middle of the table, since all later rows must be recolored.
Recoloring seems like a good task for a bot. After major edits, the bot would
It might also be nice to modify the javascript that handles sortable tables so that it maintains the alternating colors after the rows are resorted by the user.
Is any of this functionality provided by existing bots or scripts?
-- Quantum 7 21:28, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
table.alternating tr:nth-of-type(2n){ background-color:<color>; }
.
Writ Keeper (
t +
c) 19:06, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
See User talk:Drmies#The best way to check all of the articles by an editor. I would like a table with all of the articles created by User:Kavdiaravish with empty cells labelled "Copyvio", "Grammar", "accuracy", "spam", and "Other". Is anyone able to do that? Ryan Vesey 14:21, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Per my comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Shouldn't dead link be an in-line template, like citation needed? there any possible way someone here could design a bot that searches archive sites (like the waybackmachine or WebCite and any others if they exist) any time {{ Dead link}} is used and see if there are any archived copies, then organize that into a table for humans to look through and possibly update? Ryan Vesey 00:15, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
If it is possible, I would like a bot that can sort out refs into {{cite book}}, {{cite news}}, or {{cite web}}. If it is possible, of course....It's really tiring to clean up refs manually.-- Seonookim ( What I've done so far) ( I'm busy here) ( Tell me your requests) 06:43, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
We have a large number of stub articles about diplomats. (I found at least 2,000 of them before I stopped counting.) The structure of categories can be seen at Category:Diplomat stubs. Most of these stubs are only self-referenced (if at all) from government lists and publications (e.g. Category:Canadian diplomat stubs). They clearly don't meet the notability standard of WP:DIPLOMAT.
Obviously it would be impractical to put notability notices (or indeed prod) these articles individually. Would it be possible to run a script to distinguish the articles that are not properly referenced and put notability notices on them? (I would of course contact any relevant projects before any bot run.)
Has anyone done anything similar to this before? Would anyone feel able to help with it? Thanks and regards. -- Klein zach 13:59, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Repeating the request that I made in the final section of Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 51. Basically, I'm asking for a bot that would:
Here is a human doing exactly what I'm hoping the bot will do. The previous request got bogged down when someone kept objecting to the idea of the template in the first place, despite the fact that it has widespread support. Nyttend ( talk) 19:05, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
(begin section that was hatted with label "People trying to require the bot to pass BRFA before it exists.)
(end passage that was hatted; now unhatted)
Task:
Reason for request:
Sfan00 IMG (
talk) 09:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
BRFA filed here. — Theopolisme ( talk) 00:53, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
have a look at the discussion here: http://wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Disambiguation_pages_task_force#Interwikilinks_set_by_a_bot In my opinion it should work, since the rules are quite clear-- Biggerj1 ( talk) 07:17, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
As discussed most recently at Over-precise coordinates – things of the past?, {{ Coord}} should have values no more precise than 6 decimal places. We have some instance with as many as ten. A bot could usefully truncate any such values at the 6th decimal place. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:46, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Can you help me with sending an invitation to all WikiProject Kentucky members? Category:WikiProject_Kentucky_members info is at Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Kentucky#2013 Thank you! Randolph.hollingsworth ( talk) 22:53, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I need a notification message sent out to the members of the Food & Drink WikiProject asking them to participate in a discussion to update the Projects main page. The list is here
Thank you very much for your help! -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 06:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Bot task: Automate the addition of listas params in WP:BIO articles,per the guidelines on the category. Scope: Article in category show only. Operational Frequency: Inital One shot to clear backlog, and then at community determined interval.
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 16:21, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
|listas=
parameter? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 17:16, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
What's the status on this request? Last I heard, Beta was going through Anomie's list but the old discussion was archived due to inactivity. Axem Titanium ( talk) 14:44, 3 April 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 and partial list of cities and towns, now part of West Virginia. The list has been modified so that it links to X, Virginia instead of X, West Virginia
Could a bot turn these "X, Virginia" redlinks into redirects targeting ""X, West Virginia". Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 00:48, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
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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I'm looking for a bot to perform a one-off task of adding parameters to the {{ WikiProject Australia}} talk page banner for the new WikiProject Australian Roads.
|road=yes
and |road-importance=
, pending the implementation of an edit protected request
[1]Thanks, Evad37 ( talk) 02:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I moved the article "Aereo-plain" to " Aereo-Plain" a few minutes ago (see http://www.allmusic.com/album/aereo-plain-mw0000595951 and other sources in the article). There are many articles that link to the old title (see ns0 list). May someone rectify the wikilinks? Thank you. -- Pequod76 ( talk-ita.esp.eng) 22:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia has a lot of disambiguation pages, and some of them have the {{disambig}} template placed above the contents. Some entries ends with periods "." Can someone build a bot to fix both of these error? Thank you. BTW do imform me if you are creating the bot. Hz. tiang 04:45, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The site lease on this site has run out, so I'd like a bot to go through, locate all the uses of chartarchive.org as a source on the Wiki, change the links to chartstats.com (which is still live) where the target is obvious, and place all the rest in Category:Pages with dead links to chartarchive.org for a human to sort through them. Thank you.-- Laun chba ller 14:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Nobody, nobody, should ever be linking directly to these unlicensed sites. Citations to these articles should be replaced http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/{{urlencode:{{{artist}}}|PATH}}, just as {{ singlechart}} does. As noted above, the OCC is being aggressive, and all unlicensed chart sites are being removed.— Kww( talk) 22:33, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
I would like for a bot to tag all article within the [[Category:Reggaeton]] with the project banner {{WikiProject Latin music|class=|importance=|reggaeton=yes}}. Thanks! — Diva Knockouts 20:53, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello everyone, there's a pretty simple task. Some time ago someone (probably a bot) added plenty of chart records to many artist articles. The problem is, instead of creating our very own article about the most prominent Polish hits chart ( Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego), the man behind the bot added links to the Polish wiki article (:pl:Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego). Misia Furtak#Charts is a prime example. Since I recently created the Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego (our counterpart of pl:Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego), is there a chance anyone would be willing to help by correcting the links so that they pointed to English wiki rather than Polish?
Also, while we're at it, how about linking the new article when it's mentioned? It's in hundreds of places, too tedious to add the links by hand.
In easier words:
Thanks in advance. // Halibu tt 11:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
The Encyclopedia of Perm Krai, which is used as a source in a number of articles (such as, for example, Okhansky District), recently changed its main URL from http://enc.permkultura.ru to http://enc.permculture.ru. The remainders of the URLs were unchanged. If someone could run a bot replacing all instances of "permkultura.ru" with "permculture.ru", it would be greatly appreciated.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); April 10, 2013; 16:15 (UTC)
Is there an existing bot or other gadget that cleans up spaces between periods and ref tags, and between consecutive ref tags? I am reviewing Climate change and gender and the main author has mistakenly placed spaces around every ref. I can fix it manually but was hoping some automated solution exists. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 20:48, 14 April 2013 (UTC)`
Ok! Are you lot up for this task? It may be able to be done by a bot but actual humans will need to finish them off. There is a need to create a set of articles for Category:Protected areas by year of establishment. I have created two so far. See List of protected areas established in 2012 and List of protected areas established in 2013. There are two variables: the year and the contents of the category. The year is easy but can a bot pull the contents out of a category and bung them in a wikitable?
Here is a template to work from:
{{Year nav topic3|XXXX|protected areas established}} This is a list of [[protected area]]s established in XXXX. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Name ! Country ! data-sort-type="numeric" |Area (ha) |- | [[Category entry 1]] || || |- | [[Category entry 2]] || || . . . |- | [[Category entry n]] || || |} ==See also== *[[XXXX in the environment]] [[Category:Protected areas established in XXXX| ]]
"XXXX" is the year and "Category entry 1" through to "Category entry n" are the entries in the category for that year. The country and area entries will be done manually. There are 134 article needed at this stage.
It is good practice to have a list as well as a category per WP:CLT. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:32, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Could someone write a bot to do links e.g. "Sir John Smith" (Sir [[John Smith]]) to Sir John Smith ([[John Smith|Sir John Smith]]</ref>) and similarly "Dame [[Joan Smith]]" (<nowiki>Dame [[Joan Smith]]) to Dame Joan Smith ([[Joan Smith|Dame Joan Smith]]). The Sir/Dame part is part of one's name, not a title like Mr or Dr. Barney the barney barney ( talk) 18:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm trying to get all of the articles in the WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome assessed. What I want to do is rate articles with a certain name (say for example: Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 243 through 287), with a certain importance (say "low"). Is there a bot that would be able to do this? (I was thinking maybe TinucherianBot) Bahnheckl ( talk) 21:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
See this discussion for more info. Bahnheckl ( talk) 07:43, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Nice catch -- for some reason I didn't notice that redirect. Implemented, and the bot will rerun momentarily with the fix. — Theopolisme ( talk) 10:09, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Standard operating procedure for TFA selection is that the article is given move protection (if it doesn't have it already) from when it is selected until the time it comes off the main page. Sometimes when scheduling TFAs I forget to do this. Sometimes I set the expiry time by mistake to be midnight at the start of its main page appearance, rather than midnight at the end of the day. It occurred to me that this is a relative simple and uncontroversial task for an adminbot to do. Is there a bot operator who'd be interesed in this? Bencherlite Talk 15:50, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
move=sysop
to expire at 00:00UTC following its appearance on the main page. In no case should any changes be made to any editing protection - some TFAs will have semi-protection in place more-or-less permanently. As I'm sure you've worked out, the bot can discover the articles it needs to protect by looking for new daily TFA blurbs, as per
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/UcuchaBot 4. You might be able to borrow some code from Ucucha, I suppose. Thanks.
Bencherlite
Talk 16:41, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, fellow Wikipedians!
☺ Thanks;
Hi, I extracted
SELECT /*SLOW OK */ page_title FROM page JOIN langlinks ON page_id = ll_from WHERE
page_namespace = 0 AND page_is_redirect = 1 GROUP BY page_title ORDER BY count(ll_from) DESC;
There is no problem with redirects having interwiki links. Sometimes they have to. If one language has articles A and B, but a second language just has one article on B with a redirect from A to B, then we need a langlink on that redirect to match the different languages. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
There should be a bot that deletes rejected AFC's in
Category:Declined AfC submissions that do not have any edits in over a year. There are like 60 or 70 thousand pages that meet the criteria for G13. G13 is a relatively new speedy deletion criterion that applies to rejected AfCs that have not been edited in over a year. See
WP:GCSD. It should also put some sort of message on the creator's page similar to or just {{
Db-afc-notice}} that notifies them about it, how to request undeletion, etc.
Ramaksoud2000 (
Talk to me) 03:55, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Could a bot replace the WikiProject banner {{WikiProject Latin America|music=yes}} on every article within Category:WikiProject Latin American music articles with {{WikiProject Latin music}} as WP:Latin music is not longer a taskforce of WP:Latin america? Thanks! — Diva Knockouts 01:23, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
|music=yes
. For example,
Talk:Bolero contains:
{{WikiProject Latin America|class=start|importance=low|music=yes|music-importance=high}}
.{{WikiProject Latin music|class=start|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Latin America|class=start|importance=low}}
{{WikiProject Latin music|class=start|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Latin music|class=start|importance=high}}
, as any articles that were tagged with the banner are now under
WP:Latin music, having both templates would be redundant. —
Diva
Knockouts 17:49, 24 April 2013 (UTC)Is anyone doing this? I'm coding now, so tell me to stop if you've already started. — Theopolisme ( talk) 14:47, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Can someone adjust all pages transcluding Rhytidocystidae to transclude Template:Rhytidocystidae instead? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Well. I just found there are more pages like this which maybe also should be changed. The same should also be done for {{ Colpodellidae}} and {{ Perkinsidae}}. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
The recently added
Category:Pages with URL errors tracks citations templates where the |url=
parameter (or analogs such as |chapterurl=
, |archiveurl=
) does not contain a well-formed URL. In about half of the cases, this is because the "http://" is missing. In other words someone entered |url=www.google.com
instead of the expected |url=
http://www.google.com
. The other cases tend to involve mistaken or strange uses, such as writing the title in the URL field, or one I saw earlier where someone wrote |url=Not available online. Only available in stores
. The weird cases really need to be resolved by hand, but I figure a simple bot could take care of the cases that are just missing the "http://". If anyone is interested in working on it, I imagine such a bot could go through the pages in that category, find the URL parameters that don't presently work, test whether appending "http://" results in a functional URL, and if so make the appropriate correction.
Dragons flight (
talk) 22:51, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
abc:
is currently assumed to be correct by the template, even though not all
URI schemes are supported by Mediawiki, and some typos such as htp://www.google.com/
probably ought to be detected as errors but aren't at present. In terms of cleanup, such issues shouldn't really matter as long as the bot actually checks whether adding "http://" results in a working URL.
Dragons flight (
talk) 23:11, 28 April 2013 (UTC)Although this is not the correct place, it reaches many contributors who are familiar with JS/Regex and thus might be interested: please add your comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Generating a JS library for cleanup scripts ;-) mabdul 22:45, 4 May 2013 (UTC))
Please check Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Intro-missing and see a bot can do this task i.e. To add {{ intro-missing}} to pages without intro. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:57, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I just had an idea for how to reduce the formidable backlog at Category:Articles to be merged. It involves getting a bot to create lists of pages with merge templates, sorted by the WikiProject tags on the articles' talk pages. Each WikiProject would get a page with automatically updated merge listings that they could transclude onto their project page and that the members could put on their watchlists. Does such a bot already exist, and if not would someone be willing to write one? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Svick's service is very useful (props to him for creating it), but it suffers from the drawbacks that the content is not transclude-able and not watchlist-able, which means regular project members are less likely to notice it. Svick also has to set up each project manually, which takes time and must be a pain for him to do. If the setting-up part could be done automatically it would benefit everyone, I think.
In addition, it would be really useful if the bot could highlight the new cleanup listings. If there are only a couple of new listings in any given update they could be listed in the edit summary so that editors can click through to them from their watchlists. New listings could also be bolded and/or a summary could be made of them at the top of the list. Maybe new listings could also be integrated with article alerts, as that already does something similar. I'm not sure how much of this is possible, practical, or desireable; I'm just throwing ideas around for now. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 08:55, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Query: Any way someone can help with the closing parts of WP:FPORTC for portals, that GimmeBot ( talk · contribs) used to take care of? — Cirt ( talk) 23:59, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
In my days of editing articles, I often see long strings of empty sections on infoboxes. Because these are at the beginning of the page, and can often add thousands of chars to pageweight, they could be "dead weight" that could significantly increase page load time, especially on users with slower internet connections. I would like to "get my feet wet" on this, so if anyone is willing to collaborate on this with me, that would be wonderful. I have lots of HTML, CSS, and Java/Jscript/Jquery work, but less hard programming. I would like to participate in bot coding, so if anyone would be willing to "show me the ropes," I would
love you forever. Thanks! TheOneSean |
Talk to me 00:09, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Schuylkill is a very hard word to spell; a quick search shows many, many misspellings (dropping the first L). Marine Corps Depot of Supplies, Schuykill Warehouse is probably one of the worst, but I'm pretty sure there is no legitimate word "schuykill." Throwing that out here... — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 01:13, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Please can a bot remove all link to http://www.playerhistory.com/ (a defunct website) and http://soccerdatabase.eu/ (a mirror site which the owner of playerhistory is launching legal action against). This was recently discussed at ANI - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Mass removal of references to soccerdatabase.eu website. Giant Snowman 18:21, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
For images in Wikipedia:Database_reports/Unused_file_redirects where the image is transcluded into an Article space page, via redirect, it would be nice if there was a bot that updated the usages. Technically those with file-mover are supposed to do this cleanup, but having a bot which caught the modest number of links that slip by would be appreciated. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:49, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
I think that all of the various dog breed articles (there are several hundred) could use the {{Domestic dog}} template. Can somebody do that? Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 16:37, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Forgive me if this already exists somewhere, or has already been proposed, but here's an idea for a simple bot: For articles containing the archiveurl part of the cite web template, but not having the regular url part (which is required, else it generates an error), would it be possible for a bot to create a url tag by grabbing the archiveurl, stripping out the archive bit of that url, and then copying it into the url tag? like this:
Seems like this would be a useful bot. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 07:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Due to the change of a certain website address, it would be desirable to replace all occurrences (888 in English Wikipedia alone, and also a smaller number in other Wiki projects too) of the string
http://id-team.org/apc/Apcbg-Web-New_files/
(initial segment of several cited sources URLs; the remainder of the relevant addresses is to stay as it is) by the string
I wonder if that could be done by a bot or otherwise automatically? Best, Apcbg ( talk) 07:24, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
A user has made a request on my talkpage, to change all the urls " http://id-team.org/apc/Apcbg-Web-New_files/" to " http://apcbg.org/". I know I've seen bots do this before, anyone got some code and want to take up the task? -- Chris 07:48, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
I am looking for a bot to alphabetize the table rows in the List of Chicago 'L' stations and List of Metra stations articles. Both tables have a sort option, but by default, the rows are not in any type of organized order. I am looking to have them alphabetized by default so I can work on bringing the pages to FL status. – Dream out loud ( talk) 01:33, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Bots! Please help me alphabetize this page's table User:Thatpopularguy123/List of countries and territories according to the country name. That is my user sandbox-style sub-page. PLEASE DO NOT change any information even if it is incorrect. I just need that list to be alphabetized. Thatpopularguy123 ( talk) 08:01, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Anyone willing to do this or try doing it? Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Title_case_for_citations. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:31, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Request is for a text replacement function bot.
Thanks Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 07:55, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
of pagebreaking <br>s. I use syntax highlighter, and amateur formatting like that breaks the rest of the page because the highlighter thinks it's unfinished formatting. Any chance I could get a bot which automatically replaces <br> with <br/>?-- Laun chba ller 08:34, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
<br/>
instead of <br>
." Is the Syntax highlighter used so prominently that it's worth it to make these minor changes that don't impact how the article is presented to the user?
GoingBatty (
talk) 11:07, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Any chance someone's bot can help out with the WP:FPORTC featured portal closing steps that used to be done by GimmeBot ( talk · contribs)? — Cirt ( talk) 22:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Since migration to Lua, the system now emits an error message if it detects a link within a '|title=
'. Can we envisage a bot to remove these unnecessary links, please? --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
{{cite web|title=[http://apple.com Apple]|url = http://google.com}}
{{cite web|title=[[Apple Inc.]]|url = http://google.com}} gives
"[[Apple Inc.]]". {{
cite web}}
: URL–wikilink conflict (
help)
|title=
|title=
that should not be changed (e.g. {{
succession box}})The work I'd like done by a bot would require an adminbot, but it should be done by a bot because it is a menial task. The task I have in mind is deleting PRODed pages after seven days. The bot would delete a page if all the criteria for deleting a PROD are met (template still up after 7 days, never PRODed before, never at AfD). It would require complicated programming, but I think we could do it. ChromaNebula (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The image File:SDTrolley.png has been deleted as a copyright violation from Commons but is linked on over 50 pages. If a bot could remove all the links, I would appreciate it. – Dream out loud ( talk) 23:43, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Change
{{Infobox person| name = Auto Wiki Browser| image = AWB Banner2.png|occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor| }}
to
{{Infobox person |name = Auto Wiki Browser |image = AWB Banner2.png |occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor }}
These types of changes will have no visible effect for readers, but I believe that they will make editing easier. – BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 22:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
| fix_version =
}}
I don't know if someone requested this before. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:45, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can switch in-text links after a move when the old title is to be redirected elsewhere? In accordance with our guidelines on partially disambiguated titles, I moved Poison (band) to Poison (American band) and redirected Poison (band) to Poison (disambiguation). I spent numerous hours yesterday manually switching the corresponding links in the hundreds of articles so that there weren't more than a thousand links to the disambiguation page. There are plenty more articles that need to be moved in this manner with the old title redirecting to a disambiguation page. If there is already a bot that has this functionality, I would be grateful if someone would inform me of how to use it. If there is not already a bot that does this, any help in developing such a bot would be greatly appreciated. Neelix ( talk) 17:42, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Is there ongoing discussion about this? Theopolisme ( talk) 23:22, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Now that MediaWiki supports collapsible tables and thus we have no need for the collapsible tables we have right now in our js. I would like a bot to be run to change all instances of the former and now deprecated version of collapsible tables to be changed to the new version. TechFilmer - Feel free to drop a message. 14:08, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
class="collapsible collapsed"
which is now class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
and class="collapsible"
is now class="mw-collapsible"
. The advantages are, a. no more need for javascript which means that it won't load after the pages is done loading, b. there is somewhat of animation now, making it look better, and c. is in herently built into MediaWiki.
TechFilmer -
Feel free to drop a message. 11:45, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
You are probably aware of Wikipedia's (relatively) new sister project, Wikivoyage. Most articles at Wikivoyage have a an analogue at Wikipedia - the Wikipedia article is an encyclopedic description of a place, while Wikivoyage provides a tourist guide. Interwikilinking between them seems the natural thing to do, guiding readers to the other wiki for more information and eager editors to provide appropriate content in the appropriate Wikispace. And, in fact that is what we (editors involved in Wikivoyage) are doing manually now.
I was wondering, however, if there is any rule governing performing those tasks using a bot. I know there are bots adding and maintaining interwikilinks between different language versions of Wikipedia, and I believe linking between Wikipedia and other projects, such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Commons is also handled by bots (I may be wrong here). What is the chance of having the rather menial task automated by a bot?
My idea is for the en.Wikivoyage editors to continue add interwiki links to en.Wikipedia to articles at Wikivoyage that are indeed relevant, and for the bot to then browse them and add a counterwikilink where there is none. The manual adding of the interwikilink on the Wikivoyage side allows editors to use sound judgement, e.g. not linking an article that is effectively empty or bears little relevance but the name.
Thank you in advance for your replies, PrinceGloria ( talk) 19:26, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
PS. While Wikivoyage is "new" in terms of being a new project, the English language version alone features almost 28K articles already, as it was formed by porting content from Wikitravel. So the task at hand is not entirely trivial.
As
discussed in Village Pump, I would like to request a bot to crop the alternative names listed in
GND profiles (e.g.,
Maimonides), to add to the ALTERNATIVE NAMES
parameter of {{
Persondata}}. As of today, there are over 7,400
Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers. GND data is available in
RDF/XML format. --
bender235 (
talk) 15:14, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
This would probably be a 'one time run' thing, and I honestly don't know an 'non-tedious' way to figure out how many pages would be affected. It would be at least several hundred, from what I've 'seen'.
My request is simply this....a 'bot run' to add the text
{{WikiProject Lists|class=List|importance=Unknown}}
to the talk page of all 'non-redirect' articles that have a title beginning with the text "List of".
A similar thing would apply to articles of the type "(year) in (country)" but that 'working list' might be a bit harder to create, as a 'generic' match to it would probably include unwanted categories...
FWIW, if this is 'done' I'll probably be back with other, very similar requests (I've seen many examples of things like "People from" lists that should be be 'flagged' as WPBio, WPLists, blpo, etc., or "Bibliography of..." that should be assigned to WPBibliography. That would be a matter of finding 'simple' criteria for picking them out, though...some of the 'sets' would be small enough to make doing it with a bot kinda 'pointless' since they would also need other edits.
I've recently done 'large numbers' of edits to fix some of these, mostly by finding them in 'unassessed articles' categories. I'm actually doing it 'manually' and adding other wikiprojects (like 'geography' for all of the lists of places) but this 'particular' change seems like it would be an 'bot kind of task'. :) Revent ( talk) 19:21, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:Most missed articles -- often searched for, nonexistent articles -- has not been updated since a batch run in 2008. The German Wikipedia person, Melancholie ( de:Benutzer:Melancholie) who did the batch run has not been active since 2009. Where would be a good place to ask for someone with expertise to do another run? It does not seem to fit the requirements of Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) since it is not a technical issue about Wikipedia. It is not a new proposal, and not a new idea. It is not about help using Wikipedia, and it is not a factual WP:Reference Desk question. I didn't find a WikiProject that looked promising. So I am asking for direction here. -- Bejnar ( talk) 22:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello all. I have been tinkering with
Module:Infobox, and it's almost ready to be deployed. However, before we can do this, we need to check all of the existing infoboxes to make sure that the |below=
parameter appears below all of the data parameters. This is to deal with the case where a <references />
tag is passed through as a parameter to the template, and is positioned above the corresponding <ref></ref>
tags. This is possible with the current
Template:Infobox as the order is corrected in
Template:Infobox itself before the references are parsed, but there does not seem to be a way of dealing with this in Lua. I have concocted an example at
Template:Infobox/testcases#Reference lists in strange orders. See also
Module talk:Navbox#Bugs,
bugzilla:46566 and
this edit for similar issues that occurred with
Module:Navbox.
In the absence of any way to fix this in the Lua module, the only to do it seems to be to go through all of the templates that use {{
infobox}} and move any |below=
parameters that appear above the data parameters. I would do this myself, but there are about 2000 infobox templates, and it would take me too long and be too error-prone to check them all myself. Could some kind bot operator either compile a list of offending infoboxes for me to go through (shouldn't be too many of them, it will be finding them that takes the work), or get a bot to fix them automatically? All the best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 09:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
|below=
parameter would have to either contain a <references />
tag or a {{
reflist}} template, or be passed through like |below = {{{below|}}}
. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 09:36, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
pairs( frame.args )
(or the equivalent), or at least process the parameters in the "proper" order before doing so (see
this edit to
Module:Navbox).
Anomie
⚔ 10:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 50 | ← | Archive 52 | Archive 53 | Archive 54 | Archive 55 | Archive 56 | → | Archive 60 |
The table on Structural alignment software contains a lot of information, so alternating rows have different colors. This formatting has been around since 2007, so I'm assuming it has community consensus. No doubt there are other examples of tables with alternating row colors. However, the current method of alternating rows using a bgcolor row parameter makes it extremely difficult to add a row in the middle of the table, since all later rows must be recolored.
Recoloring seems like a good task for a bot. After major edits, the bot would
It might also be nice to modify the javascript that handles sortable tables so that it maintains the alternating colors after the rows are resorted by the user.
Is any of this functionality provided by existing bots or scripts?
-- Quantum 7 21:28, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
table.alternating tr:nth-of-type(2n){ background-color:<color>; }
.
Writ Keeper (
t +
c) 19:06, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
See User talk:Drmies#The best way to check all of the articles by an editor. I would like a table with all of the articles created by User:Kavdiaravish with empty cells labelled "Copyvio", "Grammar", "accuracy", "spam", and "Other". Is anyone able to do that? Ryan Vesey 14:21, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Per my comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Shouldn't dead link be an in-line template, like citation needed? there any possible way someone here could design a bot that searches archive sites (like the waybackmachine or WebCite and any others if they exist) any time {{ Dead link}} is used and see if there are any archived copies, then organize that into a table for humans to look through and possibly update? Ryan Vesey 00:15, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
If it is possible, I would like a bot that can sort out refs into {{cite book}}, {{cite news}}, or {{cite web}}. If it is possible, of course....It's really tiring to clean up refs manually.-- Seonookim ( What I've done so far) ( I'm busy here) ( Tell me your requests) 06:43, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
We have a large number of stub articles about diplomats. (I found at least 2,000 of them before I stopped counting.) The structure of categories can be seen at Category:Diplomat stubs. Most of these stubs are only self-referenced (if at all) from government lists and publications (e.g. Category:Canadian diplomat stubs). They clearly don't meet the notability standard of WP:DIPLOMAT.
Obviously it would be impractical to put notability notices (or indeed prod) these articles individually. Would it be possible to run a script to distinguish the articles that are not properly referenced and put notability notices on them? (I would of course contact any relevant projects before any bot run.)
Has anyone done anything similar to this before? Would anyone feel able to help with it? Thanks and regards. -- Klein zach 13:59, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Repeating the request that I made in the final section of Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 51. Basically, I'm asking for a bot that would:
Here is a human doing exactly what I'm hoping the bot will do. The previous request got bogged down when someone kept objecting to the idea of the template in the first place, despite the fact that it has widespread support. Nyttend ( talk) 19:05, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
(begin section that was hatted with label "People trying to require the bot to pass BRFA before it exists.)
(end passage that was hatted; now unhatted)
Task:
Reason for request:
Sfan00 IMG (
talk) 09:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
BRFA filed here. — Theopolisme ( talk) 00:53, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
have a look at the discussion here: http://wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Disambiguation_pages_task_force#Interwikilinks_set_by_a_bot In my opinion it should work, since the rules are quite clear-- Biggerj1 ( talk) 07:17, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
As discussed most recently at Over-precise coordinates – things of the past?, {{ Coord}} should have values no more precise than 6 decimal places. We have some instance with as many as ten. A bot could usefully truncate any such values at the 6th decimal place. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:46, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Can you help me with sending an invitation to all WikiProject Kentucky members? Category:WikiProject_Kentucky_members info is at Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Kentucky#2013 Thank you! Randolph.hollingsworth ( talk) 22:53, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I need a notification message sent out to the members of the Food & Drink WikiProject asking them to participate in a discussion to update the Projects main page. The list is here
Thank you very much for your help! -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 06:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Bot task: Automate the addition of listas params in WP:BIO articles,per the guidelines on the category. Scope: Article in category show only. Operational Frequency: Inital One shot to clear backlog, and then at community determined interval.
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 16:21, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
|listas=
parameter? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 17:16, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
What's the status on this request? Last I heard, Beta was going through Anomie's list but the old discussion was archived due to inactivity. Axem Titanium ( talk) 14:44, 3 April 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 and partial list of cities and towns, now part of West Virginia. The list has been modified so that it links to X, Virginia instead of X, West Virginia
Could a bot turn these "X, Virginia" redlinks into redirects targeting ""X, West Virginia". Emmette Hernandez Coleman ( talk) 00:48, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
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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I'm looking for a bot to perform a one-off task of adding parameters to the {{ WikiProject Australia}} talk page banner for the new WikiProject Australian Roads.
|road=yes
and |road-importance=
, pending the implementation of an edit protected request
[1]Thanks, Evad37 ( talk) 02:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I moved the article "Aereo-plain" to " Aereo-Plain" a few minutes ago (see http://www.allmusic.com/album/aereo-plain-mw0000595951 and other sources in the article). There are many articles that link to the old title (see ns0 list). May someone rectify the wikilinks? Thank you. -- Pequod76 ( talk-ita.esp.eng) 22:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia has a lot of disambiguation pages, and some of them have the {{disambig}} template placed above the contents. Some entries ends with periods "." Can someone build a bot to fix both of these error? Thank you. BTW do imform me if you are creating the bot. Hz. tiang 04:45, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The site lease on this site has run out, so I'd like a bot to go through, locate all the uses of chartarchive.org as a source on the Wiki, change the links to chartstats.com (which is still live) where the target is obvious, and place all the rest in Category:Pages with dead links to chartarchive.org for a human to sort through them. Thank you.-- Laun chba ller 14:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Nobody, nobody, should ever be linking directly to these unlicensed sites. Citations to these articles should be replaced http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/{{urlencode:{{{artist}}}|PATH}}, just as {{ singlechart}} does. As noted above, the OCC is being aggressive, and all unlicensed chart sites are being removed.— Kww( talk) 22:33, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
I would like for a bot to tag all article within the [[Category:Reggaeton]] with the project banner {{WikiProject Latin music|class=|importance=|reggaeton=yes}}. Thanks! — Diva Knockouts 20:53, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello everyone, there's a pretty simple task. Some time ago someone (probably a bot) added plenty of chart records to many artist articles. The problem is, instead of creating our very own article about the most prominent Polish hits chart ( Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego), the man behind the bot added links to the Polish wiki article (:pl:Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego). Misia Furtak#Charts is a prime example. Since I recently created the Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego (our counterpart of pl:Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego), is there a chance anyone would be willing to help by correcting the links so that they pointed to English wiki rather than Polish?
Also, while we're at it, how about linking the new article when it's mentioned? It's in hundreds of places, too tedious to add the links by hand.
In easier words:
Thanks in advance. // Halibu tt 11:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
The Encyclopedia of Perm Krai, which is used as a source in a number of articles (such as, for example, Okhansky District), recently changed its main URL from http://enc.permkultura.ru to http://enc.permculture.ru. The remainders of the URLs were unchanged. If someone could run a bot replacing all instances of "permkultura.ru" with "permculture.ru", it would be greatly appreciated.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); April 10, 2013; 16:15 (UTC)
Is there an existing bot or other gadget that cleans up spaces between periods and ref tags, and between consecutive ref tags? I am reviewing Climate change and gender and the main author has mistakenly placed spaces around every ref. I can fix it manually but was hoping some automated solution exists. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 20:48, 14 April 2013 (UTC)`
Ok! Are you lot up for this task? It may be able to be done by a bot but actual humans will need to finish them off. There is a need to create a set of articles for Category:Protected areas by year of establishment. I have created two so far. See List of protected areas established in 2012 and List of protected areas established in 2013. There are two variables: the year and the contents of the category. The year is easy but can a bot pull the contents out of a category and bung them in a wikitable?
Here is a template to work from:
{{Year nav topic3|XXXX|protected areas established}} This is a list of [[protected area]]s established in XXXX. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Name ! Country ! data-sort-type="numeric" |Area (ha) |- | [[Category entry 1]] || || |- | [[Category entry 2]] || || . . . |- | [[Category entry n]] || || |} ==See also== *[[XXXX in the environment]] [[Category:Protected areas established in XXXX| ]]
"XXXX" is the year and "Category entry 1" through to "Category entry n" are the entries in the category for that year. The country and area entries will be done manually. There are 134 article needed at this stage.
It is good practice to have a list as well as a category per WP:CLT. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 00:32, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Could someone write a bot to do links e.g. "Sir John Smith" (Sir [[John Smith]]) to Sir John Smith ([[John Smith|Sir John Smith]]</ref>) and similarly "Dame [[Joan Smith]]" (<nowiki>Dame [[Joan Smith]]) to Dame Joan Smith ([[Joan Smith|Dame Joan Smith]]). The Sir/Dame part is part of one's name, not a title like Mr or Dr. Barney the barney barney ( talk) 18:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm trying to get all of the articles in the WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome assessed. What I want to do is rate articles with a certain name (say for example: Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 243 through 287), with a certain importance (say "low"). Is there a bot that would be able to do this? (I was thinking maybe TinucherianBot) Bahnheckl ( talk) 21:07, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
See this discussion for more info. Bahnheckl ( talk) 07:43, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Nice catch -- for some reason I didn't notice that redirect. Implemented, and the bot will rerun momentarily with the fix. — Theopolisme ( talk) 10:09, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Standard operating procedure for TFA selection is that the article is given move protection (if it doesn't have it already) from when it is selected until the time it comes off the main page. Sometimes when scheduling TFAs I forget to do this. Sometimes I set the expiry time by mistake to be midnight at the start of its main page appearance, rather than midnight at the end of the day. It occurred to me that this is a relative simple and uncontroversial task for an adminbot to do. Is there a bot operator who'd be interesed in this? Bencherlite Talk 15:50, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
move=sysop
to expire at 00:00UTC following its appearance on the main page. In no case should any changes be made to any editing protection - some TFAs will have semi-protection in place more-or-less permanently. As I'm sure you've worked out, the bot can discover the articles it needs to protect by looking for new daily TFA blurbs, as per
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/UcuchaBot 4. You might be able to borrow some code from Ucucha, I suppose. Thanks.
Bencherlite
Talk 16:41, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello, fellow Wikipedians!
☺ Thanks;
Hi, I extracted
SELECT /*SLOW OK */ page_title FROM page JOIN langlinks ON page_id = ll_from WHERE
page_namespace = 0 AND page_is_redirect = 1 GROUP BY page_title ORDER BY count(ll_from) DESC;
There is no problem with redirects having interwiki links. Sometimes they have to. If one language has articles A and B, but a second language just has one article on B with a redirect from A to B, then we need a langlink on that redirect to match the different languages. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 12:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
There should be a bot that deletes rejected AFC's in
Category:Declined AfC submissions that do not have any edits in over a year. There are like 60 or 70 thousand pages that meet the criteria for G13. G13 is a relatively new speedy deletion criterion that applies to rejected AfCs that have not been edited in over a year. See
WP:GCSD. It should also put some sort of message on the creator's page similar to or just {{
Db-afc-notice}} that notifies them about it, how to request undeletion, etc.
Ramaksoud2000 (
Talk to me) 03:55, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Could a bot replace the WikiProject banner {{WikiProject Latin America|music=yes}} on every article within Category:WikiProject Latin American music articles with {{WikiProject Latin music}} as WP:Latin music is not longer a taskforce of WP:Latin america? Thanks! — Diva Knockouts 01:23, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
|music=yes
. For example,
Talk:Bolero contains:
{{WikiProject Latin America|class=start|importance=low|music=yes|music-importance=high}}
.{{WikiProject Latin music|class=start|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Latin America|class=start|importance=low}}
{{WikiProject Latin music|class=start|importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Latin music|class=start|importance=high}}
, as any articles that were tagged with the banner are now under
WP:Latin music, having both templates would be redundant. —
Diva
Knockouts 17:49, 24 April 2013 (UTC)Is anyone doing this? I'm coding now, so tell me to stop if you've already started. — Theopolisme ( talk) 14:47, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
Can someone adjust all pages transcluding Rhytidocystidae to transclude Template:Rhytidocystidae instead? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Well. I just found there are more pages like this which maybe also should be changed. The same should also be done for {{ Colpodellidae}} and {{ Perkinsidae}}. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
The recently added
Category:Pages with URL errors tracks citations templates where the |url=
parameter (or analogs such as |chapterurl=
, |archiveurl=
) does not contain a well-formed URL. In about half of the cases, this is because the "http://" is missing. In other words someone entered |url=www.google.com
instead of the expected |url=
http://www.google.com
. The other cases tend to involve mistaken or strange uses, such as writing the title in the URL field, or one I saw earlier where someone wrote |url=Not available online. Only available in stores
. The weird cases really need to be resolved by hand, but I figure a simple bot could take care of the cases that are just missing the "http://". If anyone is interested in working on it, I imagine such a bot could go through the pages in that category, find the URL parameters that don't presently work, test whether appending "http://" results in a functional URL, and if so make the appropriate correction.
Dragons flight (
talk) 22:51, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
abc:
is currently assumed to be correct by the template, even though not all
URI schemes are supported by Mediawiki, and some typos such as htp://www.google.com/
probably ought to be detected as errors but aren't at present. In terms of cleanup, such issues shouldn't really matter as long as the bot actually checks whether adding "http://" results in a working URL.
Dragons flight (
talk) 23:11, 28 April 2013 (UTC)Although this is not the correct place, it reaches many contributors who are familiar with JS/Regex and thus might be interested: please add your comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Generating a JS library for cleanup scripts ;-) mabdul 22:45, 4 May 2013 (UTC))
Please check Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Intro-missing and see a bot can do this task i.e. To add {{ intro-missing}} to pages without intro. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:57, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I just had an idea for how to reduce the formidable backlog at Category:Articles to be merged. It involves getting a bot to create lists of pages with merge templates, sorted by the WikiProject tags on the articles' talk pages. Each WikiProject would get a page with automatically updated merge listings that they could transclude onto their project page and that the members could put on their watchlists. Does such a bot already exist, and if not would someone be willing to write one? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Svick's service is very useful (props to him for creating it), but it suffers from the drawbacks that the content is not transclude-able and not watchlist-able, which means regular project members are less likely to notice it. Svick also has to set up each project manually, which takes time and must be a pain for him to do. If the setting-up part could be done automatically it would benefit everyone, I think.
In addition, it would be really useful if the bot could highlight the new cleanup listings. If there are only a couple of new listings in any given update they could be listed in the edit summary so that editors can click through to them from their watchlists. New listings could also be bolded and/or a summary could be made of them at the top of the list. Maybe new listings could also be integrated with article alerts, as that already does something similar. I'm not sure how much of this is possible, practical, or desireable; I'm just throwing ideas around for now. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 08:55, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Query: Any way someone can help with the closing parts of WP:FPORTC for portals, that GimmeBot ( talk · contribs) used to take care of? — Cirt ( talk) 23:59, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
In my days of editing articles, I often see long strings of empty sections on infoboxes. Because these are at the beginning of the page, and can often add thousands of chars to pageweight, they could be "dead weight" that could significantly increase page load time, especially on users with slower internet connections. I would like to "get my feet wet" on this, so if anyone is willing to collaborate on this with me, that would be wonderful. I have lots of HTML, CSS, and Java/Jscript/Jquery work, but less hard programming. I would like to participate in bot coding, so if anyone would be willing to "show me the ropes," I would
love you forever. Thanks! TheOneSean |
Talk to me 00:09, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Schuylkill is a very hard word to spell; a quick search shows many, many misspellings (dropping the first L). Marine Corps Depot of Supplies, Schuykill Warehouse is probably one of the worst, but I'm pretty sure there is no legitimate word "schuykill." Throwing that out here... — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 01:13, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Please can a bot remove all link to http://www.playerhistory.com/ (a defunct website) and http://soccerdatabase.eu/ (a mirror site which the owner of playerhistory is launching legal action against). This was recently discussed at ANI - Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Mass removal of references to soccerdatabase.eu website. Giant Snowman 18:21, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
For images in Wikipedia:Database_reports/Unused_file_redirects where the image is transcluded into an Article space page, via redirect, it would be nice if there was a bot that updated the usages. Technically those with file-mover are supposed to do this cleanup, but having a bot which caught the modest number of links that slip by would be appreciated. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 15:49, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
I think that all of the various dog breed articles (there are several hundred) could use the {{Domestic dog}} template. Can somebody do that? Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 16:37, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Forgive me if this already exists somewhere, or has already been proposed, but here's an idea for a simple bot: For articles containing the archiveurl part of the cite web template, but not having the regular url part (which is required, else it generates an error), would it be possible for a bot to create a url tag by grabbing the archiveurl, stripping out the archive bit of that url, and then copying it into the url tag? like this:
Seems like this would be a useful bot. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 07:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Due to the change of a certain website address, it would be desirable to replace all occurrences (888 in English Wikipedia alone, and also a smaller number in other Wiki projects too) of the string
http://id-team.org/apc/Apcbg-Web-New_files/
(initial segment of several cited sources URLs; the remainder of the relevant addresses is to stay as it is) by the string
I wonder if that could be done by a bot or otherwise automatically? Best, Apcbg ( talk) 07:24, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
A user has made a request on my talkpage, to change all the urls " http://id-team.org/apc/Apcbg-Web-New_files/" to " http://apcbg.org/". I know I've seen bots do this before, anyone got some code and want to take up the task? -- Chris 07:48, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
I am looking for a bot to alphabetize the table rows in the List of Chicago 'L' stations and List of Metra stations articles. Both tables have a sort option, but by default, the rows are not in any type of organized order. I am looking to have them alphabetized by default so I can work on bringing the pages to FL status. – Dream out loud ( talk) 01:33, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Bots! Please help me alphabetize this page's table User:Thatpopularguy123/List of countries and territories according to the country name. That is my user sandbox-style sub-page. PLEASE DO NOT change any information even if it is incorrect. I just need that list to be alphabetized. Thatpopularguy123 ( talk) 08:01, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Anyone willing to do this or try doing it? Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Title_case_for_citations. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:31, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Request is for a text replacement function bot.
Thanks Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 07:55, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
of pagebreaking <br>s. I use syntax highlighter, and amateur formatting like that breaks the rest of the page because the highlighter thinks it's unfinished formatting. Any chance I could get a bot which automatically replaces <br> with <br/>?-- Laun chba ller 08:34, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
<br/>
instead of <br>
." Is the Syntax highlighter used so prominently that it's worth it to make these minor changes that don't impact how the article is presented to the user?
GoingBatty (
talk) 11:07, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Any chance someone's bot can help out with the WP:FPORTC featured portal closing steps that used to be done by GimmeBot ( talk · contribs)? — Cirt ( talk) 22:45, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Since migration to Lua, the system now emits an error message if it detects a link within a '|title=
'. Can we envisage a bot to remove these unnecessary links, please? --
Ohc
¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:27, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
{{cite web|title=[http://apple.com Apple]|url = http://google.com}}
{{cite web|title=[[Apple Inc.]]|url = http://google.com}} gives
"[[Apple Inc.]]". {{
cite web}}
: URL–wikilink conflict (
help)
|title=
|title=
that should not be changed (e.g. {{
succession box}})The work I'd like done by a bot would require an adminbot, but it should be done by a bot because it is a menial task. The task I have in mind is deleting PRODed pages after seven days. The bot would delete a page if all the criteria for deleting a PROD are met (template still up after 7 days, never PRODed before, never at AfD). It would require complicated programming, but I think we could do it. ChromaNebula (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The image File:SDTrolley.png has been deleted as a copyright violation from Commons but is linked on over 50 pages. If a bot could remove all the links, I would appreciate it. – Dream out loud ( talk) 23:43, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Change
{{Infobox person| name = Auto Wiki Browser| image = AWB Banner2.png|occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor| }}
to
{{Infobox person |name = Auto Wiki Browser |image = AWB Banner2.png |occupation = Semi-automated Wikipedia editor }}
These types of changes will have no visible effect for readers, but I believe that they will make editing easier. – BLACK FALCON ( TALK) 22:00, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
| fix_version =
}}
I don't know if someone requested this before. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:45, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Is there a bot that can switch in-text links after a move when the old title is to be redirected elsewhere? In accordance with our guidelines on partially disambiguated titles, I moved Poison (band) to Poison (American band) and redirected Poison (band) to Poison (disambiguation). I spent numerous hours yesterday manually switching the corresponding links in the hundreds of articles so that there weren't more than a thousand links to the disambiguation page. There are plenty more articles that need to be moved in this manner with the old title redirecting to a disambiguation page. If there is already a bot that has this functionality, I would be grateful if someone would inform me of how to use it. If there is not already a bot that does this, any help in developing such a bot would be greatly appreciated. Neelix ( talk) 17:42, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Is there ongoing discussion about this? Theopolisme ( talk) 23:22, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Now that MediaWiki supports collapsible tables and thus we have no need for the collapsible tables we have right now in our js. I would like a bot to be run to change all instances of the former and now deprecated version of collapsible tables to be changed to the new version. TechFilmer - Feel free to drop a message. 14:08, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
class="collapsible collapsed"
which is now class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
and class="collapsible"
is now class="mw-collapsible"
. The advantages are, a. no more need for javascript which means that it won't load after the pages is done loading, b. there is somewhat of animation now, making it look better, and c. is in herently built into MediaWiki.
TechFilmer -
Feel free to drop a message. 11:45, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
You are probably aware of Wikipedia's (relatively) new sister project, Wikivoyage. Most articles at Wikivoyage have a an analogue at Wikipedia - the Wikipedia article is an encyclopedic description of a place, while Wikivoyage provides a tourist guide. Interwikilinking between them seems the natural thing to do, guiding readers to the other wiki for more information and eager editors to provide appropriate content in the appropriate Wikispace. And, in fact that is what we (editors involved in Wikivoyage) are doing manually now.
I was wondering, however, if there is any rule governing performing those tasks using a bot. I know there are bots adding and maintaining interwikilinks between different language versions of Wikipedia, and I believe linking between Wikipedia and other projects, such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Commons is also handled by bots (I may be wrong here). What is the chance of having the rather menial task automated by a bot?
My idea is for the en.Wikivoyage editors to continue add interwiki links to en.Wikipedia to articles at Wikivoyage that are indeed relevant, and for the bot to then browse them and add a counterwikilink where there is none. The manual adding of the interwikilink on the Wikivoyage side allows editors to use sound judgement, e.g. not linking an article that is effectively empty or bears little relevance but the name.
Thank you in advance for your replies, PrinceGloria ( talk) 19:26, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
PS. While Wikivoyage is "new" in terms of being a new project, the English language version alone features almost 28K articles already, as it was formed by porting content from Wikitravel. So the task at hand is not entirely trivial.
As
discussed in Village Pump, I would like to request a bot to crop the alternative names listed in
GND profiles (e.g.,
Maimonides), to add to the ALTERNATIVE NAMES
parameter of {{
Persondata}}. As of today, there are over 7,400
Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers. GND data is available in
RDF/XML format. --
bender235 (
talk) 15:14, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
This would probably be a 'one time run' thing, and I honestly don't know an 'non-tedious' way to figure out how many pages would be affected. It would be at least several hundred, from what I've 'seen'.
My request is simply this....a 'bot run' to add the text
{{WikiProject Lists|class=List|importance=Unknown}}
to the talk page of all 'non-redirect' articles that have a title beginning with the text "List of".
A similar thing would apply to articles of the type "(year) in (country)" but that 'working list' might be a bit harder to create, as a 'generic' match to it would probably include unwanted categories...
FWIW, if this is 'done' I'll probably be back with other, very similar requests (I've seen many examples of things like "People from" lists that should be be 'flagged' as WPBio, WPLists, blpo, etc., or "Bibliography of..." that should be assigned to WPBibliography. That would be a matter of finding 'simple' criteria for picking them out, though...some of the 'sets' would be small enough to make doing it with a bot kinda 'pointless' since they would also need other edits.
I've recently done 'large numbers' of edits to fix some of these, mostly by finding them in 'unassessed articles' categories. I'm actually doing it 'manually' and adding other wikiprojects (like 'geography' for all of the lists of places) but this 'particular' change seems like it would be an 'bot kind of task'. :) Revent ( talk) 19:21, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:Most missed articles -- often searched for, nonexistent articles -- has not been updated since a batch run in 2008. The German Wikipedia person, Melancholie ( de:Benutzer:Melancholie) who did the batch run has not been active since 2009. Where would be a good place to ask for someone with expertise to do another run? It does not seem to fit the requirements of Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) since it is not a technical issue about Wikipedia. It is not a new proposal, and not a new idea. It is not about help using Wikipedia, and it is not a factual WP:Reference Desk question. I didn't find a WikiProject that looked promising. So I am asking for direction here. -- Bejnar ( talk) 22:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello all. I have been tinkering with
Module:Infobox, and it's almost ready to be deployed. However, before we can do this, we need to check all of the existing infoboxes to make sure that the |below=
parameter appears below all of the data parameters. This is to deal with the case where a <references />
tag is passed through as a parameter to the template, and is positioned above the corresponding <ref></ref>
tags. This is possible with the current
Template:Infobox as the order is corrected in
Template:Infobox itself before the references are parsed, but there does not seem to be a way of dealing with this in Lua. I have concocted an example at
Template:Infobox/testcases#Reference lists in strange orders. See also
Module talk:Navbox#Bugs,
bugzilla:46566 and
this edit for similar issues that occurred with
Module:Navbox.
In the absence of any way to fix this in the Lua module, the only to do it seems to be to go through all of the templates that use {{
infobox}} and move any |below=
parameters that appear above the data parameters. I would do this myself, but there are about 2000 infobox templates, and it would take me too long and be too error-prone to check them all myself. Could some kind bot operator either compile a list of offending infoboxes for me to go through (shouldn't be too many of them, it will be finding them that takes the work), or get a bot to fix them automatically? All the best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 09:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
|below=
parameter would have to either contain a <references />
tag or a {{
reflist}} template, or be passed through like |below = {{{below|}}}
. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 09:36, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
pairs( frame.args )
(or the equivalent), or at least process the parameters in the "proper" order before doing so (see
this edit to
Module:Navbox).
Anomie
⚔ 10:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)