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I am requesting that a bot be assigned to fix links to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The correct link they should be using is The Lord of the Rings (film series), where the original link redirects to. Spidey 104 13:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
I am requesting a bot to revert any edits done to the Death Section of the article Premakeerthi De Alwis, /info/en/?search=Premakeerthi_de_Alwis The death section has been vandalized to include a reference to a book published by the wife of late Mr. De Alwis. The book violates several Wikipedia policies and has been addressed by several independent Administrators (can be viewed in the Talk page). Therefore, I am kindly requesting a bot to be placed on this page, so that the vandalism to this page can be minimized.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramya20 ( talk • contribs) 14:20, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot check transclusions of {{ Image requested}}, on talk pages, and remove them if the corresponding article includes an image? It would probably be best to ignore flag icons and similar. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:34, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Bumping so It stays on the page. This could be a fine task for a up and coming Bot Operator to take on... Hasteur ( talk) 15:19, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone write a bot that could scan all the categories under the jurisdiction of a particular Wikproject, fill in a template like this along with a calculation for what percent along the way the category is to each article having featured status, then paste that template as a new section on the category talk page and in a new subpage for the wikiproject listing all of the newly generated templates, vaguely like the bot that does the popular pages template? I think a bot like that would be really useful for helping wikiprojects evaluate which categories are most in need of work and which could be most easily made into good or featured topics. Abyssal ( talk) 16:40, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
I would like to volunteer to migrate the CleanupListing tool from Toolserver to Wikimedia Labs. I am bringing it up here because I would be creating a bot to update bot userspace pages with cleanup listings. Toolserver is scheduled to be decommissioned around June 30, 2014.
<
section />
tags that can be
transcluded individually.-- Bamyers99 ( talk) 20:31, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Do you think we can and/or should get a bot to do this? Jinkinson talk to me 23:45, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have all the pages linked at wp:GT and wp:FT have their {{ classicon}} changed to {{ icon}}? Nergaal ( talk) 11:50, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
In a recent discussion on whether or not to allow more leniency towards omitting spaces between a period and an initial in page names, In ictu oculi remarked this would probably cause problems unless a bot can prevent undesirable effects.
Could someone look into this? Maybe also inform whether there is a bot currently preventing duplicate articles with names that are only different by a space less in the article name? -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 09:07, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to request a bot that invites users on the NYC Invite list to Writing for Wadewitz: Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-thon. Mwacha ( talk) 20:08, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
I have a semicolon delimited data file, with the first item on each line being an article title, and the rest (~100-900, averaging 250 Japanese characters) being items that should be found within that article. I would like a data dump on which items either do not appear in an article, or appear more than one time, with an indication of the article for which it does not conform, either by grouping by article, or indicating individually for each entry. You can replace the above data file with the results if you wish. A big shiny barnstar and my eternal gratitude on double checking about 500 edits and a month's worth of my Wikipedia time goes to the bot owner who can pull this off. Van Isaac WS cont 00:04, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
I said I was "considering" two requests (now archived: one concerning Category:Articles containing video clips, another concerning talk pages of IP addresses). I would like to inform everyone that I've been too busy to implement them at this time. If anyone else wishes to take these up, please make a note here. Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 03:06, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Request to change all piped links of Empire (magazine) to Empire (film magazine), so the former page can be redirected to Empire (disambiguation) due to the creation of Empire (South African magazine). – Dream out loud ( talk) 18:45, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
The West Midland Bird Club website - http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ - [Disclosure: I used to mange it] has been replaced with a new site [Disclaimer: Nothing to do with me!]. All the links in our citations, in a number of articles, are now broken, and most of the previous content is not on the new site. Can someone replace the links in citations with the Wayback Machine versions, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:40, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
and |archivedate=
parameters to citation templates. Since pages such as
Alan Dean (ornithologist) don't have the links inside citation templates, could you please be more specific as to what you would like? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:12, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 May 14#Category:England_MP_stubs it was agreed to rename the following two templates, whose previous name is ambiguous:
The renaming has taken place, and I now want to delete the redirects from the old ambiguous titles. However, that cannot be done until all uses of the template have been updated.
Please can some kind bot-owner update all article-space uses of these old names?
Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:08, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:08, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I finished the "Wales-..." -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:28, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I did 1,800. Still 271 to go. I need some rest. I'll finish it later today. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:41, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Done 2,076 pages! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:27, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
BrownHairedGirl all done + I deleted the old stub for you. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:11, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Please create one Page on Actor Called "Aashish Mehrotra" from C=the serial of #Paanch from #Channel V :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShruSD ( talk • contribs) 05:50, May 30, 2014 (UTC)
Can I please have this done for WP:TRAM all articles are in Category:WikiProject Streetcars articles and I need the WikiProject Trains template replaced with {{ WikiProject Streetcars}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fremantle99 ( talk • contribs) 09:09, June 2, 2014 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Trains|...|streetcars=yes|...}}
changed to {{WikiProject Streetcars|...}}
and leave the other parameters as is? Or replace it with {{WikiProject Streetcars|class=|importance=}}
so others can populate the parameters? Could you please point us to a discussion where consensus was made for this move? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 23:44, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Streetcars|class=|importance=}}
Please. You can find consensus at
[1]. Sorry for the late reply.
Fremantle99 (
talk) 22:59, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
|class=
and |importance=
parameters. While this would be easy for a bot operator to do, I'm concerned that there doesn't yet seem to be consensus to perform this task.
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:54, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
As stated in the guideline WP:NOTUSA, the term "U.S." is preferred over "USA", with some exceptions. I primarily edit geographic infoboxes, so it occurred to me that a bot could make many of the edits I have made such as this without much risk of error.
My idea is to have a bot that would make the change 'USA → U.S.' only if USA appears within a geographic infobox template (such as Infobox mountain, lake, river, mountain pass, etc.) and only then make the same change in the body of the article if USA appears there as well. Bot action would include a linked reference to the MOS guideline WP:NOTUSA in the edit summary.
My rationale is if USA appears in the these templates, it is almost certainly a part of location description of a geographic feature in the United States, so the change to "U.S." (rather than to "US") would be appropriate. I have already made a couple hundred of these edits myself and it seems the vast majority of times, USA is appearing in small, under-developed or inactive articles. It is unlikely these articles would also have an exception term such as "Team USA"; and I suppose you could program exceptions, so the bot would ignore certain character strings such "Team USA", as an added measure to reduce false positives.
While a bot working under these rules would only be fixing a small percentage of total number misuses of USA globally within WP, it would take care of most of the articles on geographic features, and do so with a very low error rate I expect.
Is it feasible for someone to create this bot? -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 00:21, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
On second thought, maybe not. I just remembered the infobox location map names often include USA in front of the the state name, 'map = USA Washington' for example. In some cases I think this is necessary and with some states it's optional. Either way the resulting text "U.S. Washington" would cause an error as it would be an invalid value for the map parameter. And there's probably more things I haven't considered. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 00:35, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Could the bot's action be confined to only certain parameter values within the infobox templates? The 'map_caption = ' and 'location = ' parameters for example are two places where the term is likely to appear, and neither of those parameters require specific syntax in order to be functional. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 00:57, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Sure:
These are the templates I am familiar with and the ones I am interested in for the bot. If the bot designer really wants to carry it further with deserts, swamps, etc. that would be up to them, and they should get an idea from the above which parameters to fix and which to avoid, as well as I can decide, for those. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 23:43, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
USA}}
(which it picks up) puts a flag and the words "United States", I believe the flag icons are deprecated in this type of infobox. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:20, 5 June 2014 (UTC).Can someone make a bot that would scan articles in WikiProject Paleontology and WikiProject Dinosaurs, extract the year from the genus authority heading of the infobox, and automatically add Category: Fossil taxa described in 2014, to the bottom of the article with the appropriate year extracted from the infobox substituted for 2014? Abyssal ( talk) 16:38, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Fossil taxa by year}}
for the new categories that will be needed. I will post a list of articles presently. Should we include ichnotaxa? All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC).I've been doing a bit of work fixing articles in Category:Pages with ISBN errors. I've noticed that a number of them were of journal articles, where a completely fake ISBN was pulled from the DOI. I finally got around to looking for the source of the error, and discovered that it was the fault of a bot. Would it be possible for someone to make a list of articles where a citation template has both a DOI and an ISBN parameter defined? I'm concerned that there may be cases where this bot introduced an error that created a nominally valid, but fake, ISBN which wouldn't show up in the cleanup category. {{ Nihiltres| talk| edits}} 22:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Proposal: Per Category talk:Integers#199E03 vs. 199e03 (no objection, from 2011, but PrimeHunter still hasn't gotten around to it) All articles (not redirects) in Category:Integers which start with a digit are to have sort key set as follows (ignoring commas and spaces):
To be run occasionally. As Category:Integers presently has only 384 members, it doesn't cost much. I have no objection to an AWB addon, but it would require a new macro (template) to compute the key. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:50, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
In order to get a grip of articles under the scope of the new WP:Physiology, I request that all articles under Category:Physiologists and Category:Physiology and all subcategories be tagged with:
{{WikiProject Physiology |class=|importance=|field=}}
Thanks in advance, -- LT910001 ( talk) 00:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I can do it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:41, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Done LT910001 I did the all the pages in the first category and all its subcategories. It was impossible to grab all the pages of the second category and subategories. They should be thousands. Maybe to badly constructed category tree? -- Magioladitis ( talk)
Looking at the confusing category tree makes me quite depressed... I think instead I will ask for some specific subcategories, and then other things can be tagged as the project develops. If possible, could you please tag:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=neuro}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=renal}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=cell}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=respiratory}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=blood}}
:
And that should be a fairly comprehensive overview of articles under our scope. Please let me know if there's any grouping I can do to make this easier for you. I and WP:PHYSIOLOGY are very grateful for your help! -- LT910001 ( talk) 02:16, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
LT910001, Rich cannot do it and I have to do it manually since by bot is blocked for 2 weeks now! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:07, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you all! -- LT910001 ( talk) 21:12, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Pinging Ceradon for status on something that seems to have been dropped. If Ceradon is no longer active, or does not respond, can anyone else provide information? Please see Did You Know Noting bot. Matty.007 originally input the request on Feb 23, 2014, and Ceradon said on March 2, 2014 that he was coding this. Ceradon again replied March 28 that the coding was going well, and he should have the task filed by Monday, March 31. We are now two months past that date, and no bot in sight. It looks like Ceradon created Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cerabot II, User:Cerabot/Umbox and User:Cerabot/Run/Task 2 for DYK, but nothing has been done with these. I don't see anything on Bots/Requests for approval that bear Ceradon's name, or anything in the bots denied. — Maile ( talk) 21:47, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to but in: APerson: what kind of timescale are we talking before the bot goes operational? Thanks, Mat ty. 007 12:17, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Would any of you care to assist with the OpenStreetMap wiki? (It documents OSM; it's not part of the map itself.) There is an apparent need for a number of bot tasks, for example resolving hundreds of double redirects. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:36, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
There's another OSM bot job that needs doing, which is more directly relevant, and of benefit, to Wikipedia - adding links from OSM entities (that is editing the map, not the OSM wiki) to Wikidata (and optionally to Wikipedia). It's a large and complex task, which will need to be tested and agreed with the OSM community. Details are in my OSM user space. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:27, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Can someone create a bot to fix some incoming links for Skate? Per talk:Skate (fish) pages were swapped. So pages in Category:Rajidae that linked to "skate" should now link to ((skate (fish)|skate)) and "skates" to ((skate (fish)|skates)) . -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 06:39, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I want to create a bot called Nahnahbot (named after me), but I don't know programming language. I want to request for a bot that can help to put the {{ di-orphaned fair use}} template at orphaned files quickly, so that it will be easier. Not just that, the bot will after that add it into the category and then inform the owner of the file. In this case, it will be easier. Thanks! -- Nahnah4 | Any thoughts? Pen 'em down here! | No Editcountitis! 06:56, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot tag all references to Falling Rain Genomics as ({{ unreliable source}}) and all references to FindArticles.com as {{ dead link}}s, as proposed in this discussion? Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive 170#An_unreliable_source_and_a_dead_one:_Falling_Rain_Genomics_and_FindArticles.com. There are about 3,700 of the first, and 2,400 of the second. Colonies Chris ( talk) 14:37, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Recently I requested that a script assisted tool for pulling image captions from Article pages was developed.
This was implemented as part of Vada.
I was now owndering if it was feasible to have a bot do essentialy the same task as the VADA script, automatically for recent uploads.
I've found that in MANY instances descriptions for images can be found in the captions where they are used.
Automating the caption genneration process would assist image patrollers like me, by furthe reducing the worload of doing mundane tasks, allowing more focus on the edge cases, requireing greater investigation.
On that note I would also appreciate it if someone could write a bot to identify Commons candidates. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:21, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
I am requesting that a bot be assigned to fix links to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The correct link they should be using is The Lord of the Rings (film series), where the original link redirects to. Spidey 104 13:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
A (sysop) bot that would be able to synchronize the messages in the MediaWiki namespace to the /en-GB and /en-CA subpages of a MediaWiki page, so that these variants of American English do not miss the customizations of these messages. The bot would need to run regularly, updating the messages in case primary messages have changed. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 14:17, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
In theory, Category:Wikipedia template categories should be a container category with nothing but subcategories. In practice, it's not. Could a bot go through the main categories and systematically remove every subcategory from Category:Wikipedia template categories? This is a massive undertaking I'm aware (approximately 24k subcategories into a few main ones). For example, Category:10-Team bracket templates is in Category:Tournament bracket templates which is in Category:Sports templates, etc., etc. If it was cleaned out, I think it would be useful as a holding area for templates that haven't been categorized. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 19:19, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Template category}}
. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:47, 11 June 2014 (UTC).Can someone move the subtemplates under Template:Cite CAstat (such as Template:Cite CAstat/title 1895 128) from Category:Law citation templates to Category:California law citation templates). There may be about 100 or so. There's also five under Template:Cite WAstat that could go to Category:Washington (state) law citation templates but five I can handle after a break. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 02:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
|{{PAGENAME}}
for the sortkey: this has two common reasons. The first, when used used on categories that are either bare, or wrapped in <includeonly>...</includeonly>
, is a valid purpose: it overrides any {{DEFAULTSORT:}}
that may be present on the transcluding page, so that the transcluding page sorts in "natural" order. The second, when used on categories that are wrapped in <noinclude>...</noinclude>
, is obsolete: it excludes the namespace from the sort order. At one time, templates always sorted under T, because the namespace was taken into account for the "natural" sort order; but somewhat more than five years ago the system was changed so that the namespace is ignored, meaning that constructs like <noinclude>[[Category:Foo|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>
may be simplified to <noinclude>[[Category:Foo]]</noinclude>
in the majority of cases. The only times that such simplification may not be advisable is if the template has a {{DEFAULTSORT:}}
, which is rare. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:23, 18 June 2014 (UTC)I was recently helping someone out and noticed there was no stub relating to beauty pageant related stubs. I made one and would like to apply it to the 1000+ articles that are in the category without manually doing all of it. I hope I'm in the right place. :-) ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪ ߷ ♀ 投稿 ♀ 05:38, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Solarra: I am aware; It is simple enough to flip namespaces. @ GoingBatty: I am assuming you do not oppose going through and adding the templates; as it will be transcluded, it is easy enough to change them in future. -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 06:34, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Pageant-stub}}
should feed
Category:Pageant stubs. We already have {{
Pageant-bio-stub}}
and the associated
Category:Beauty pageant contestant stubs - I think there should be a connection between the contestant cat and the pageant cat, either by having one as the parent of the other, or making sure that they have a common parent.
Redrose64 (
talk) 11:02, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Pageant-bio-stub}}
to our attention, I will add a comment at
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 3. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 15:08, 18 June 2014 (UTC)The list
shows several cantons of France that have an article in 10 or more Wikipedias but not in the English Wikipedia. Here is some research:
So, it would be nice if a bot could use data from Wikidata or/and French Wikipedia to create stubs or little articles.
The page Canton of Chalamont could be used as a model.
Tamawashi ( talk) 01:29, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Vosges has just been moved to Vosges (department) and Moselle to Moselle (department) to make way for primary topics ( Vosges mountains and River Moselle). However, there are hundreds of villages in those departments now pointing to the primary topic instead of the department. We could make a big inroad into the changes if a bot could change all instances of [[Vosges]] [[Departments of France|department]] to [[Vosges (department)|Vosges]] [[Departments of France|department]] and similarly for Moselle. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 12:10, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
I have a request for a bot insert the WikiProject Pop music banner on every talk page under the category for Pop music and the bot automatically asses the class on auto-inheritance. Erick ( talk) 17:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
@ GoingBatty: Could you have a look at the project's talk page to see if the bot request has sufficient approval to tag the article pages? Erick ( talk) 23:55, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm looking for a bot that can run roughly once a week that can build a list of all the pages in WikiProject Louisville, namely all the files and associated talk pages in Category:WikiProject Louisville and its subcategory Category:WikiProject Louisville articles. What's linked are the talk pages, so the list builder would have to pull all those, and create links not only for those but the associated pages. The bot will replace the info in Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Watchall using the format you currently see. This list will be used for change patrol for the project. Thank you for your consideration. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:28, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject United States}}
template is coded to recognise |louisville=
as an alias for |Louisville=
, similarly |louisville-importance=
and |Louisville-importance=
, so it's only case-insensitive on first letter. But the way that it's written, funny things will happen if you specify both: part of the template is coded to ignore the small-l form if the capital-L form is also present, but part of the template will process both forms together. I'd say to stick with |Louisville=
and |Louisville-importance=
, don't use the other two. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:12, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
This isn't so much of a BOT request but rather a hidden category request. I would like to have a hidden category to check entries in subcategories of Category:County seats of the United States for the image_skyline variable within the Infobox settlement template. If no image_skyline variable, then put it in Category:County Seats Missing Skyline Photo. Most county seats are significant enough settlements that they should have a photo associated with them. -- Ichabod ( talk) 20:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{image_skyline|}}}||[[Category:County Seats Missing Skyline Photo]]}}
?
Van
Isaac
WS
cont 22:20, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
seat =
parameter, but that's the other way around - it's for a link to the county seat from the county article. You might be right about this needing a bot.
Van
Isaac
WS
cont 20:05, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Mendaliv brought up a great point over at AN/I. I imagine if this was done with proper parameters we could ensure that every creator of a tagged article is notified, which would resolve this rather long-standing issue in the community. Of course, this may have been presented and denied before and I'm just unaware... but I figure, in the best interests of the community, the question should at least be formally asked. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 11:47, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Based on this discussion I am wondering if a bot operator is able to compile a list of users who have exclusively edited their user page. A large fraction of such users is likely to have misused for advertisement. -- Leyo 21:44, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
This looks very much like Special:AbuseFilter/354 'Promotional text added by user to own user(-talk) page'. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 07:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
A better category to review for humans at least is Category:Userspace_drafts_created_via_the_Article_Wizard. At least half of what I see if that kind of stuff and there's at least 44k to go through. A bot could pull a list off that if it's helpful. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 22:31, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to make a request for a bot to add a low importance rating to 8,000 or so Talk pages of Romania river stub articles. The articles are those that have a WP:Rivers and a WP:Romania project banner, and have a class of Stub for both projects, and also have an unknown importance for both projects.
The wikicode on the Talk pages is the same, and looks like this, see Adona River as an example.
{{WikiProject Romania|class=Stub|importance=}}
{{river|class=Stub}}
Changed to;
{{WikiProject Romania|class=stub|importance=low}}
{{WikiProject Rivers|class=stub|importance=low}}
I am a member of WP: Rivers and have approval from the project here, I also asked User:Afil here who created these articles, who agreed that they can be marked as Low importance. Afil is also a member of WP: Romania.
The requested changes will help to reduce the backlog of unknown importance pages on both projects. Thanks... Jokulhlaup ( talk) 16:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Bot approved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:04, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
I recently noticed that many Wikipedia articles use the CNET news site for one or more references. That is great -- in general, I wish more people added more references to Wikipedia articles.
Alas, it appears that the CNET news site has (recently?) moved from the "news.com.com" domain name to the "news.cnet.com" domain name.
(Could someone please tell the nice people at CNET that Cool URIs don't change ?)
Could someone write a bot that converts these references to the new domain name?
For example I manually changed [5]
and I think I saw another article use
It seems to me that such substitution is completely mechanical and repetitive and uncontroversial, exactly the sort of thing bots are good at.
I suspect that well-meaning editors may have deleted some of these apparently dead links. Is there some way a bot could dig through the history and detect such deletes? -- DavidCary ( talk) 14:14, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
It turns there were only 50 occurrences. I fixed them all. Let's see if more pop-up. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:01, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Done I fixed 500 more occurrences semi-manually. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:04, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Per [6] “We envisage the actual task of annotation [as] a Wikipedia bot.” I so request. EllenCT ( talk) 05:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see: reviews needed for upcoming query functionality for Wikidata. EllenCT ( talk) 23:37, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
WP:CHICAGO could use a project tagging run. Who is doing that now?-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:56, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger I'll start tagging in two days due to other priorities. I see a lot of red-linked categories in the list you gave me. Can you please clean it up? Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 15:11, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger should I start? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:33, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
I started loading the pages from the list. I am do more than 1 run per page to ensure that the page was tagged + properly assessed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:28, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
41608 pages on the list. 4865 without the banner. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:22, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger 359 pages are categories. 70 are files. 73 are templates. 4 are user pages. 1 is a draft. 4358 pages to be checked for inheriting class. This is going to be done as step 2. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:59, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Step 1 completed. Moving to step 2. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:25, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
From the 4358 pages only 17 are GA/FA/FL. I'll do them later today. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:03, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
The list. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger I finished. Should I assess for stub class too? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:13, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
1697 new pages in stub class. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:01, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger I finished stub-tagging too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:59, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
The wiki is full of broken links of this form:
as I noted in this diff. This includes most if not all of
Anyone interested in bot-fixing the dead/broken links? I'll figure out the form of replacements if someone expresses interest in fulfilling the request.
Perhaps better: anyone willing to help me learn to make bots by learning to make this bot? I'm working toward it. I program. I have a working labs account. I guess I can ask around per this --{{U| Elvey}} ( t• c) 17:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
s/http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_(\d\d).shtml/{{UnitedStatesCode|\1}}/
would be my first stab at it, but I'm guessing someone's written code to replace a form of URL with a template appropriately, whether they're raw, wikilinks, or in a cite... --{{U|
Elvey}} (
t•
c) 23:33, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Per request on User_talk:Yobot#WikiProject_Pop_music_banner_tagging Yobot will run and tag with WP Pop music banner every article in the following categories:
Tagging will start in 1 or 2 days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:51, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Bot started. Wish me good luck. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
15,219 new tags are expected in 680 categories. WikiProject notified 24 June 2014. I was noticed 28 June 2014. List given 8 July 2014. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Pop_music#Bot_request. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Task completed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:53, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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Archive 55 | ← | Archive 58 | Archive 59 | Archive 60 | Archive 61 | Archive 62 | → | Archive 65 |
I am requesting that a bot be assigned to fix links to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The correct link they should be using is The Lord of the Rings (film series), where the original link redirects to. Spidey 104 13:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
I am requesting a bot to revert any edits done to the Death Section of the article Premakeerthi De Alwis, /info/en/?search=Premakeerthi_de_Alwis The death section has been vandalized to include a reference to a book published by the wife of late Mr. De Alwis. The book violates several Wikipedia policies and has been addressed by several independent Administrators (can be viewed in the Talk page). Therefore, I am kindly requesting a bot to be placed on this page, so that the vandalism to this page can be minimized.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramya20 ( talk • contribs) 14:20, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot check transclusions of {{ Image requested}}, on talk pages, and remove them if the corresponding article includes an image? It would probably be best to ignore flag icons and similar. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:34, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Bumping so It stays on the page. This could be a fine task for a up and coming Bot Operator to take on... Hasteur ( talk) 15:19, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone write a bot that could scan all the categories under the jurisdiction of a particular Wikproject, fill in a template like this along with a calculation for what percent along the way the category is to each article having featured status, then paste that template as a new section on the category talk page and in a new subpage for the wikiproject listing all of the newly generated templates, vaguely like the bot that does the popular pages template? I think a bot like that would be really useful for helping wikiprojects evaluate which categories are most in need of work and which could be most easily made into good or featured topics. Abyssal ( talk) 16:40, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
I would like to volunteer to migrate the CleanupListing tool from Toolserver to Wikimedia Labs. I am bringing it up here because I would be creating a bot to update bot userspace pages with cleanup listings. Toolserver is scheduled to be decommissioned around June 30, 2014.
<
section />
tags that can be
transcluded individually.-- Bamyers99 ( talk) 20:31, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Do you think we can and/or should get a bot to do this? Jinkinson talk to me 23:45, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have all the pages linked at wp:GT and wp:FT have their {{ classicon}} changed to {{ icon}}? Nergaal ( talk) 11:50, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
In a recent discussion on whether or not to allow more leniency towards omitting spaces between a period and an initial in page names, In ictu oculi remarked this would probably cause problems unless a bot can prevent undesirable effects.
Could someone look into this? Maybe also inform whether there is a bot currently preventing duplicate articles with names that are only different by a space less in the article name? -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 09:07, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to request a bot that invites users on the NYC Invite list to Writing for Wadewitz: Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-thon. Mwacha ( talk) 20:08, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
I have a semicolon delimited data file, with the first item on each line being an article title, and the rest (~100-900, averaging 250 Japanese characters) being items that should be found within that article. I would like a data dump on which items either do not appear in an article, or appear more than one time, with an indication of the article for which it does not conform, either by grouping by article, or indicating individually for each entry. You can replace the above data file with the results if you wish. A big shiny barnstar and my eternal gratitude on double checking about 500 edits and a month's worth of my Wikipedia time goes to the bot owner who can pull this off. Van Isaac WS cont 00:04, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
I said I was "considering" two requests (now archived: one concerning Category:Articles containing video clips, another concerning talk pages of IP addresses). I would like to inform everyone that I've been too busy to implement them at this time. If anyone else wishes to take these up, please make a note here. Anon126 ( notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 03:06, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Request to change all piped links of Empire (magazine) to Empire (film magazine), so the former page can be redirected to Empire (disambiguation) due to the creation of Empire (South African magazine). – Dream out loud ( talk) 18:45, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
The West Midland Bird Club website - http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ - [Disclosure: I used to mange it] has been replaced with a new site [Disclaimer: Nothing to do with me!]. All the links in our citations, in a number of articles, are now broken, and most of the previous content is not on the new site. Can someone replace the links in citations with the Wayback Machine versions, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:40, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
|archiveurl=
and |archivedate=
parameters to citation templates. Since pages such as
Alan Dean (ornithologist) don't have the links inside citation templates, could you please be more specific as to what you would like? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:12, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 May 14#Category:England_MP_stubs it was agreed to rename the following two templates, whose previous name is ambiguous:
The renaming has taken place, and I now want to delete the redirects from the old ambiguous titles. However, that cannot be done until all uses of the template have been updated.
Please can some kind bot-owner update all article-space uses of these old names?
Thanks! -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:08, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:08, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I finished the "Wales-..." -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:28, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I did 1,800. Still 271 to go. I need some rest. I'll finish it later today. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:41, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Done 2,076 pages! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:27, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
BrownHairedGirl all done + I deleted the old stub for you. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:11, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Please create one Page on Actor Called "Aashish Mehrotra" from C=the serial of #Paanch from #Channel V :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShruSD ( talk • contribs) 05:50, May 30, 2014 (UTC)
Can I please have this done for WP:TRAM all articles are in Category:WikiProject Streetcars articles and I need the WikiProject Trains template replaced with {{ WikiProject Streetcars}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fremantle99 ( talk • contribs) 09:09, June 2, 2014 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Trains|...|streetcars=yes|...}}
changed to {{WikiProject Streetcars|...}}
and leave the other parameters as is? Or replace it with {{WikiProject Streetcars|class=|importance=}}
so others can populate the parameters? Could you please point us to a discussion where consensus was made for this move? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 23:44, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Streetcars|class=|importance=}}
Please. You can find consensus at
[1]. Sorry for the late reply.
Fremantle99 (
talk) 22:59, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
|class=
and |importance=
parameters. While this would be easy for a bot operator to do, I'm concerned that there doesn't yet seem to be consensus to perform this task.
GoingBatty (
talk) 01:54, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
As stated in the guideline WP:NOTUSA, the term "U.S." is preferred over "USA", with some exceptions. I primarily edit geographic infoboxes, so it occurred to me that a bot could make many of the edits I have made such as this without much risk of error.
My idea is to have a bot that would make the change 'USA → U.S.' only if USA appears within a geographic infobox template (such as Infobox mountain, lake, river, mountain pass, etc.) and only then make the same change in the body of the article if USA appears there as well. Bot action would include a linked reference to the MOS guideline WP:NOTUSA in the edit summary.
My rationale is if USA appears in the these templates, it is almost certainly a part of location description of a geographic feature in the United States, so the change to "U.S." (rather than to "US") would be appropriate. I have already made a couple hundred of these edits myself and it seems the vast majority of times, USA is appearing in small, under-developed or inactive articles. It is unlikely these articles would also have an exception term such as "Team USA"; and I suppose you could program exceptions, so the bot would ignore certain character strings such "Team USA", as an added measure to reduce false positives.
While a bot working under these rules would only be fixing a small percentage of total number misuses of USA globally within WP, it would take care of most of the articles on geographic features, and do so with a very low error rate I expect.
Is it feasible for someone to create this bot? -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 00:21, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
On second thought, maybe not. I just remembered the infobox location map names often include USA in front of the the state name, 'map = USA Washington' for example. In some cases I think this is necessary and with some states it's optional. Either way the resulting text "U.S. Washington" would cause an error as it would be an invalid value for the map parameter. And there's probably more things I haven't considered. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 00:35, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Could the bot's action be confined to only certain parameter values within the infobox templates? The 'map_caption = ' and 'location = ' parameters for example are two places where the term is likely to appear, and neither of those parameters require specific syntax in order to be functional. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 00:57, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Sure:
These are the templates I am familiar with and the ones I am interested in for the bot. If the bot designer really wants to carry it further with deserts, swamps, etc. that would be up to them, and they should get an idea from the above which parameters to fix and which to avoid, as well as I can decide, for those. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 23:43, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
USA}}
(which it picks up) puts a flag and the words "United States", I believe the flag icons are deprecated in this type of infobox. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 01:20, 5 June 2014 (UTC).Can someone make a bot that would scan articles in WikiProject Paleontology and WikiProject Dinosaurs, extract the year from the genus authority heading of the infobox, and automatically add Category: Fossil taxa described in 2014, to the bottom of the article with the appropriate year extracted from the infobox substituted for 2014? Abyssal ( talk) 16:38, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Fossil taxa by year}}
for the new categories that will be needed. I will post a list of articles presently. Should we include ichnotaxa? All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 16:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC).I've been doing a bit of work fixing articles in Category:Pages with ISBN errors. I've noticed that a number of them were of journal articles, where a completely fake ISBN was pulled from the DOI. I finally got around to looking for the source of the error, and discovered that it was the fault of a bot. Would it be possible for someone to make a list of articles where a citation template has both a DOI and an ISBN parameter defined? I'm concerned that there may be cases where this bot introduced an error that created a nominally valid, but fake, ISBN which wouldn't show up in the cleanup category. {{ Nihiltres| talk| edits}} 22:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Proposal: Per Category talk:Integers#199E03 vs. 199e03 (no objection, from 2011, but PrimeHunter still hasn't gotten around to it) All articles (not redirects) in Category:Integers which start with a digit are to have sort key set as follows (ignoring commas and spaces):
To be run occasionally. As Category:Integers presently has only 384 members, it doesn't cost much. I have no objection to an AWB addon, but it would require a new macro (template) to compute the key. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:50, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
In order to get a grip of articles under the scope of the new WP:Physiology, I request that all articles under Category:Physiologists and Category:Physiology and all subcategories be tagged with:
{{WikiProject Physiology |class=|importance=|field=}}
Thanks in advance, -- LT910001 ( talk) 00:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I can do it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:41, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Done LT910001 I did the all the pages in the first category and all its subcategories. It was impossible to grab all the pages of the second category and subategories. They should be thousands. Maybe to badly constructed category tree? -- Magioladitis ( talk)
Looking at the confusing category tree makes me quite depressed... I think instead I will ask for some specific subcategories, and then other things can be tagged as the project develops. If possible, could you please tag:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=neuro}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=renal}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=cell}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=respiratory}}
:
Done With {{
WikiProject Physiology|class=|importance=mid|field=blood}}
:
And that should be a fairly comprehensive overview of articles under our scope. Please let me know if there's any grouping I can do to make this easier for you. I and WP:PHYSIOLOGY are very grateful for your help! -- LT910001 ( talk) 02:16, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
LT910001, Rich cannot do it and I have to do it manually since by bot is blocked for 2 weeks now! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:07, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you all! -- LT910001 ( talk) 21:12, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Pinging Ceradon for status on something that seems to have been dropped. If Ceradon is no longer active, or does not respond, can anyone else provide information? Please see Did You Know Noting bot. Matty.007 originally input the request on Feb 23, 2014, and Ceradon said on March 2, 2014 that he was coding this. Ceradon again replied March 28 that the coding was going well, and he should have the task filed by Monday, March 31. We are now two months past that date, and no bot in sight. It looks like Ceradon created Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cerabot II, User:Cerabot/Umbox and User:Cerabot/Run/Task 2 for DYK, but nothing has been done with these. I don't see anything on Bots/Requests for approval that bear Ceradon's name, or anything in the bots denied. — Maile ( talk) 21:47, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to but in: APerson: what kind of timescale are we talking before the bot goes operational? Thanks, Mat ty. 007 12:17, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Would any of you care to assist with the OpenStreetMap wiki? (It documents OSM; it's not part of the map itself.) There is an apparent need for a number of bot tasks, for example resolving hundreds of double redirects. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:36, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
There's another OSM bot job that needs doing, which is more directly relevant, and of benefit, to Wikipedia - adding links from OSM entities (that is editing the map, not the OSM wiki) to Wikidata (and optionally to Wikipedia). It's a large and complex task, which will need to be tested and agreed with the OSM community. Details are in my OSM user space. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:27, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Can someone create a bot to fix some incoming links for Skate? Per talk:Skate (fish) pages were swapped. So pages in Category:Rajidae that linked to "skate" should now link to ((skate (fish)|skate)) and "skates" to ((skate (fish)|skates)) . -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 06:39, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I want to create a bot called Nahnahbot (named after me), but I don't know programming language. I want to request for a bot that can help to put the {{ di-orphaned fair use}} template at orphaned files quickly, so that it will be easier. Not just that, the bot will after that add it into the category and then inform the owner of the file. In this case, it will be easier. Thanks! -- Nahnah4 | Any thoughts? Pen 'em down here! | No Editcountitis! 06:56, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot tag all references to Falling Rain Genomics as ({{ unreliable source}}) and all references to FindArticles.com as {{ dead link}}s, as proposed in this discussion? Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive 170#An_unreliable_source_and_a_dead_one:_Falling_Rain_Genomics_and_FindArticles.com. There are about 3,700 of the first, and 2,400 of the second. Colonies Chris ( talk) 14:37, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Recently I requested that a script assisted tool for pulling image captions from Article pages was developed.
This was implemented as part of Vada.
I was now owndering if it was feasible to have a bot do essentialy the same task as the VADA script, automatically for recent uploads.
I've found that in MANY instances descriptions for images can be found in the captions where they are used.
Automating the caption genneration process would assist image patrollers like me, by furthe reducing the worload of doing mundane tasks, allowing more focus on the edge cases, requireing greater investigation.
On that note I would also appreciate it if someone could write a bot to identify Commons candidates. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:21, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
I am requesting that a bot be assigned to fix links to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The correct link they should be using is The Lord of the Rings (film series), where the original link redirects to. Spidey 104 13:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
A (sysop) bot that would be able to synchronize the messages in the MediaWiki namespace to the /en-GB and /en-CA subpages of a MediaWiki page, so that these variants of American English do not miss the customizations of these messages. The bot would need to run regularly, updating the messages in case primary messages have changed. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 14:17, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
In theory, Category:Wikipedia template categories should be a container category with nothing but subcategories. In practice, it's not. Could a bot go through the main categories and systematically remove every subcategory from Category:Wikipedia template categories? This is a massive undertaking I'm aware (approximately 24k subcategories into a few main ones). For example, Category:10-Team bracket templates is in Category:Tournament bracket templates which is in Category:Sports templates, etc., etc. If it was cleaned out, I think it would be useful as a holding area for templates that haven't been categorized. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 19:19, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Template category}}
. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough, 13:47, 11 June 2014 (UTC).Can someone move the subtemplates under Template:Cite CAstat (such as Template:Cite CAstat/title 1895 128) from Category:Law citation templates to Category:California law citation templates). There may be about 100 or so. There's also five under Template:Cite WAstat that could go to Category:Washington (state) law citation templates but five I can handle after a break. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 02:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
|{{PAGENAME}}
for the sortkey: this has two common reasons. The first, when used used on categories that are either bare, or wrapped in <includeonly>...</includeonly>
, is a valid purpose: it overrides any {{DEFAULTSORT:}}
that may be present on the transcluding page, so that the transcluding page sorts in "natural" order. The second, when used on categories that are wrapped in <noinclude>...</noinclude>
, is obsolete: it excludes the namespace from the sort order. At one time, templates always sorted under T, because the namespace was taken into account for the "natural" sort order; but somewhat more than five years ago the system was changed so that the namespace is ignored, meaning that constructs like <noinclude>[[Category:Foo|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>
may be simplified to <noinclude>[[Category:Foo]]</noinclude>
in the majority of cases. The only times that such simplification may not be advisable is if the template has a {{DEFAULTSORT:}}
, which is rare. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:23, 18 June 2014 (UTC)I was recently helping someone out and noticed there was no stub relating to beauty pageant related stubs. I made one and would like to apply it to the 1000+ articles that are in the category without manually doing all of it. I hope I'm in the right place. :-) ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪ ߷ ♀ 投稿 ♀ 05:38, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Solarra: I am aware; It is simple enough to flip namespaces. @ GoingBatty: I am assuming you do not oppose going through and adding the templates; as it will be transcluded, it is easy enough to change them in future. -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 06:34, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Pageant-stub}}
should feed
Category:Pageant stubs. We already have {{
Pageant-bio-stub}}
and the associated
Category:Beauty pageant contestant stubs - I think there should be a connection between the contestant cat and the pageant cat, either by having one as the parent of the other, or making sure that they have a common parent.
Redrose64 (
talk) 11:02, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
Pageant-bio-stub}}
to our attention, I will add a comment at
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mdann52 bot 3. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 15:08, 18 June 2014 (UTC)The list
shows several cantons of France that have an article in 10 or more Wikipedias but not in the English Wikipedia. Here is some research:
So, it would be nice if a bot could use data from Wikidata or/and French Wikipedia to create stubs or little articles.
The page Canton of Chalamont could be used as a model.
Tamawashi ( talk) 01:29, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Vosges has just been moved to Vosges (department) and Moselle to Moselle (department) to make way for primary topics ( Vosges mountains and River Moselle). However, there are hundreds of villages in those departments now pointing to the primary topic instead of the department. We could make a big inroad into the changes if a bot could change all instances of [[Vosges]] [[Departments of France|department]] to [[Vosges (department)|Vosges]] [[Departments of France|department]] and similarly for Moselle. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 12:10, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
I have a request for a bot insert the WikiProject Pop music banner on every talk page under the category for Pop music and the bot automatically asses the class on auto-inheritance. Erick ( talk) 17:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
@ GoingBatty: Could you have a look at the project's talk page to see if the bot request has sufficient approval to tag the article pages? Erick ( talk) 23:55, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm looking for a bot that can run roughly once a week that can build a list of all the pages in WikiProject Louisville, namely all the files and associated talk pages in Category:WikiProject Louisville and its subcategory Category:WikiProject Louisville articles. What's linked are the talk pages, so the list builder would have to pull all those, and create links not only for those but the associated pages. The bot will replace the info in Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Watchall using the format you currently see. This list will be used for change patrol for the project. Thank you for your consideration. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:28, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject United States}}
template is coded to recognise |louisville=
as an alias for |Louisville=
, similarly |louisville-importance=
and |Louisville-importance=
, so it's only case-insensitive on first letter. But the way that it's written, funny things will happen if you specify both: part of the template is coded to ignore the small-l form if the capital-L form is also present, but part of the template will process both forms together. I'd say to stick with |Louisville=
and |Louisville-importance=
, don't use the other two. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:12, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
This isn't so much of a BOT request but rather a hidden category request. I would like to have a hidden category to check entries in subcategories of Category:County seats of the United States for the image_skyline variable within the Infobox settlement template. If no image_skyline variable, then put it in Category:County Seats Missing Skyline Photo. Most county seats are significant enough settlements that they should have a photo associated with them. -- Ichabod ( talk) 20:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{image_skyline|}}}||[[Category:County Seats Missing Skyline Photo]]}}
?
Van
Isaac
WS
cont 22:20, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
seat =
parameter, but that's the other way around - it's for a link to the county seat from the county article. You might be right about this needing a bot.
Van
Isaac
WS
cont 20:05, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Mendaliv brought up a great point over at AN/I. I imagine if this was done with proper parameters we could ensure that every creator of a tagged article is notified, which would resolve this rather long-standing issue in the community. Of course, this may have been presented and denied before and I'm just unaware... but I figure, in the best interests of the community, the question should at least be formally asked. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 11:47, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Based on this discussion I am wondering if a bot operator is able to compile a list of users who have exclusively edited their user page. A large fraction of such users is likely to have misused for advertisement. -- Leyo 21:44, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
This looks very much like Special:AbuseFilter/354 'Promotional text added by user to own user(-talk) page'. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 07:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
A better category to review for humans at least is Category:Userspace_drafts_created_via_the_Article_Wizard. At least half of what I see if that kind of stuff and there's at least 44k to go through. A bot could pull a list off that if it's helpful. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 22:31, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to make a request for a bot to add a low importance rating to 8,000 or so Talk pages of Romania river stub articles. The articles are those that have a WP:Rivers and a WP:Romania project banner, and have a class of Stub for both projects, and also have an unknown importance for both projects.
The wikicode on the Talk pages is the same, and looks like this, see Adona River as an example.
{{WikiProject Romania|class=Stub|importance=}}
{{river|class=Stub}}
Changed to;
{{WikiProject Romania|class=stub|importance=low}}
{{WikiProject Rivers|class=stub|importance=low}}
I am a member of WP: Rivers and have approval from the project here, I also asked User:Afil here who created these articles, who agreed that they can be marked as Low importance. Afil is also a member of WP: Romania.
The requested changes will help to reduce the backlog of unknown importance pages on both projects. Thanks... Jokulhlaup ( talk) 16:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Bot approved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:04, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
I recently noticed that many Wikipedia articles use the CNET news site for one or more references. That is great -- in general, I wish more people added more references to Wikipedia articles.
Alas, it appears that the CNET news site has (recently?) moved from the "news.com.com" domain name to the "news.cnet.com" domain name.
(Could someone please tell the nice people at CNET that Cool URIs don't change ?)
Could someone write a bot that converts these references to the new domain name?
For example I manually changed [5]
and I think I saw another article use
It seems to me that such substitution is completely mechanical and repetitive and uncontroversial, exactly the sort of thing bots are good at.
I suspect that well-meaning editors may have deleted some of these apparently dead links. Is there some way a bot could dig through the history and detect such deletes? -- DavidCary ( talk) 14:14, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
It turns there were only 50 occurrences. I fixed them all. Let's see if more pop-up. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:01, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Done I fixed 500 more occurrences semi-manually. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:04, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Per [6] “We envisage the actual task of annotation [as] a Wikipedia bot.” I so request. EllenCT ( talk) 05:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see: reviews needed for upcoming query functionality for Wikidata. EllenCT ( talk) 23:37, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
WP:CHICAGO could use a project tagging run. Who is doing that now?-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:56, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger I'll start tagging in two days due to other priorities. I see a lot of red-linked categories in the list you gave me. Can you please clean it up? Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 15:11, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger should I start? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 05:33, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
I started loading the pages from the list. I am do more than 1 run per page to ensure that the page was tagged + properly assessed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:28, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
41608 pages on the list. 4865 without the banner. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:22, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger 359 pages are categories. 70 are files. 73 are templates. 4 are user pages. 1 is a draft. 4358 pages to be checked for inheriting class. This is going to be done as step 2. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:59, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Step 1 completed. Moving to step 2. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:25, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
From the 4358 pages only 17 are GA/FA/FL. I'll do them later today. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:03, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
The list. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger I finished. Should I assess for stub class too? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:13, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
1697 new pages in stub class. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:01, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
TonyTheTiger I finished stub-tagging too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:59, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
The wiki is full of broken links of this form:
as I noted in this diff. This includes most if not all of
Anyone interested in bot-fixing the dead/broken links? I'll figure out the form of replacements if someone expresses interest in fulfilling the request.
Perhaps better: anyone willing to help me learn to make bots by learning to make this bot? I'm working toward it. I program. I have a working labs account. I guess I can ask around per this --{{U| Elvey}} ( t• c) 17:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
s/http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_(\d\d).shtml/{{UnitedStatesCode|\1}}/
would be my first stab at it, but I'm guessing someone's written code to replace a form of URL with a template appropriately, whether they're raw, wikilinks, or in a cite... --{{U|
Elvey}} (
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c) 23:33, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Per request on User_talk:Yobot#WikiProject_Pop_music_banner_tagging Yobot will run and tag with WP Pop music banner every article in the following categories:
Tagging will start in 1 or 2 days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:51, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Bot started. Wish me good luck. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
15,219 new tags are expected in 680 categories. WikiProject notified 24 June 2014. I was noticed 28 June 2014. List given 8 July 2014. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Pop_music#Bot_request. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Task completed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:53, 10 July 2014 (UTC)