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The web domain for the official German music charts has been changed without a proper redirect. These urls are being used by templates {{ albumchart}} and {{ singlechart}} and can be found on lots of pages. So updating the links may require a bot. If someone's bot has free capacity to do this, please perform the following operation:
http://www.charts.de/...
→ http://www.officialcharts.de/...
(case insensitive).Thank you. De728631 ( talk) 14:30, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
De728631 should the publisher change from charts.de to officialcharts.de too? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:08, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
De728631 I think we are basically done. The others are, most probably, through a template. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:43, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
I did some more null edits because I also have missed some pages. 337 pages left. Most of them in non-article space. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:49, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
We need a bot to automatically tag articles for WikiProject Architecture/Historic houses task force. If they are already tagged for WikiProject Architecture than only add the taskforce tag "|historic-houses=yes". If not than add the WikiProject Architecture banner as well. Tag all articles in Category:Country houses and subcategories, except Category:Films set in country houses (no consensus whether is in scope) and Category:Castles in Scotland (separate WikiProject). Relevant WikiProject discussion is here. -- ELEKHH T 02:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Elekhh and Mdann52:: Elekhh is a member of the WikiProject, posted here and in bot's page. I also need to see that it was posted on WikiProject's page and I'll start doing the task after 3 days. I would help if the exact categories where given to me (no subcategories) because I've seen a lot of "ooops I forgot to exclude this one" cases. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:05, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Architecture/Historic_houses_task_force#WikiProject_taskforce_tagging posted in task force talk page. I'll start tomorrow or the day after tomorrow of there are no disagreements. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:06, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Starting. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:50, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
5462 pages loaded. 3769 without the tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:55, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I'll have first to normalise pages with redirects as step 1. I'll finish this and continue in about 8 hours. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:24, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
3769 tagged. Now starting the 1128 pages that that the banner but not the task force parameter. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:37, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Elekhh: Done! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Is their a bot that groups wikiproject templates on a talk page into a multiple wikiprojects banner if more than two. If not their should be. Another job could be putting clean-up tags under multiple issues header if more than three (if not already done). NickGibson3900 ( Talk - Cont.) 10:20, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot that tags every page with {{User:NickGibson3900/Aus Worlds 2013}} to be tagged with {{Australian athletes at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics}}. This is because I would like all these pages together under 1 template. Thanks.
P.S. I'm sure this job can be added to an existing bot NickGibson3900 ( Talk - Cont.) 18:54, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
File:'Head of a Woman', oil on panel painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)2.jpg should be removed from all editions of Wikipedia, because it has NOTHING to do with Bona Sforza. -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Ghirla: It looks like the image from Commons is used on about 15 total pages on all wikipedias. If you are feeling bold and you believe that you are correct, just remove it. A bot is not needed for 15 simple edits. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:27, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if @ GoingBatty: was still working on the bot request for tagging pages. The archive can be found here. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_60#Trams
With the Toolserver now dead, various non-migrated processes have now stopped, WP:EDITS being an example. Would anyone be willing to take them over? Ϣere SpielChequers 22:52, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot like SuggestBot but the user can request articles so they can easily compare a set of articles. NickGibson3900 ( Talk - Cont.) 03:58, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
K League, The top division of South Korea, was renamed K League Classic in 2013 and now K League commonly means all professional leagues in Korea including first division K League Classic and second division K League Challenge, not specific a league. In other words, 'K League Classic players' include 'K League players' because two leagues are not different, just renamed. So all pages under Category:K League players should be moved to Category:K League Classic players.-- z4617925 ( talk) 01:29, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests/Archive_10#Replace_literal_hard_spaces_with_corresponding_HTML_entity I would like to replace hard spaces with normal spaces unless nbsp is required using AWB's logic. The list is based on a db scan to the June dump and contains ~20,000 pages. Any disagreements? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:09, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
I receive feedback/suggestions/complains on my talk page. Feel free to raise your opinion there. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:07, 23 July 2014 (UTC) I abandoned the idea to perform this task as a bot task for now. AWB's logic expanded to cover some of these cases. I am working manually to gather more feedback. Please post any feedback/suggestions/complains on my talk page. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:41, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to ask for replacing all subcategories from Category:Video games developed in Japan by company to Category:Video games by Japanese company, from Category:Video games developed in the United States by company to Category:Video games by the United States company and from Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom by company to Category:Video games by the United Kingdom company. -- Bedivere.cs ( talk) 22:02, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Per instructions in my bot's page, the community should be notified for mass tagging to reduce errors. Tagging for WikiProject Athletics will start in 3 days in the categories given to me by User:Sillyfolkboy, a lead member of the project. The list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Categories. Please report any disagreements/doubts/concerns on my talk page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:34, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
At various places on wikiprojects, there are some lists of members who signed up for some specific task or get involved in the project. I am thinking of a bot that could review some of these lists, check the date of the last contribution of each member, and if it is older than a year ago (say), then mark this user as inactive, either by moving him/her to a separate list, or simply add a small text after the name of the contributor. The lists on which the bot operates would be added to the bot on an individual basis (if the corresponding team is interested). The bot would not generate much traffic as the task could be performed every week, for instance, because we don't need to have a very up-to-date result.
I can write the code for this bot, but I want to check first that it hasn't been done already. What do you think? -- Pintoch ( talk) 14:32, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
According to Wikipedia's recategorization how-to guide: Pages in the category namespace can be moved but in a non-automated way which requires considerable post-move cleanup.
Does Wikipedia have any automated process for category renaming, or is it still necessary to re-categorize all pages manually after a category name has been changed? Jarble ( talk) 19:48, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
For a while now, I've been replacing mass search&replaces of largely bare external links that look like this:
...and which are better handled with the {{ Timatic}} template instead. After a while, I'm tired of doing it almost manually, instead a bot can be tasked with this chore.
The target articles are the main space articles listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timaticweb.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ftim_website_client.cgi%3FSpecData%3D1
I've been using the Notepad++ regular expression engine over those article sources to do:
This is quite imperfect - it ignores the exact link format under the assumption that if there's a &NA= argument, that's enough to recognize what we mean. It usually is, but sometimes there's also parameters like HEALTH=1 or AR=<countrycode> or EM=<countrycode> that can map into the health=, residence= and embarkation= template parameters. Or there's some completely different parameter. I was doing this because it was easy enough and it didn't care for permutations of the various parameters much, and then I was visually checking the results for any regressions. For a bot, the best thing would be to try to be more specific - search for any particular combination of parameters, and as long as the combination is all known, regardless of order - generate a link to {{ Timatic}}.
Hope someone can pick it up. TIA. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 20:30, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Help_desk#Business_and_economics_portal: two bots used to update the daily market indices and business news, the former seems to be working again, the latter stopped working Jan 26. The correct information is actually found on this page: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Economy_and_business
Lbertolotti ( talk) 20:13, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
The market indices bot is working alright, but the data being uploaded is just plain wrong. Lbertolotti ( talk) 13:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Realtively straightforward task...
For a link of the form *.google.* look for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replace with &hl=en&
Given this is the English Wikipedia, it seems reasonable to use the english language UI on Google where possible, and this is an ideal task for the bot.
A further task is migrating links of the form ^((.)*)'.'google'.'([a-z][a-z])(.)*) to being straightforward google.com links. For prefixs like books, scholar, news and groups it should be straightforward to do this. :)
An example API query for finding the links (mainspace only) is as follows (link) :
A bot should be able to make easy work of the results returned (provided it has an exceptions list, to cope with titles where the link should NOT be modified (like in the list of Google domains article.)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:57, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
I have a webpage that goes idle every 20 minutes and logs me out. I'd like to to stay open and active while i'm asleep. May I request a bot to just disturb the web page while I'm afk?
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.174.157.80 ( talk) 23:07, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Help_desk#Business_and_economics_portal: two bots used to update the daily market indices and business news, the former seems to be working again, the latter stopped working Jan 26. The correct information is actually found on this page: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Economy_and_business
Lbertolotti ( talk) 20:13, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
The market indices bot is working alright, but the data being uploaded is just plain wrong. Lbertolotti ( talk) 13:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Realtively straightforward task...
For a link of the form *.google.* look for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replace with &hl=en&
Given this is the English Wikipedia, it seems reasonable to use the english language UI on Google where possible, and this is an ideal task for the bot.
A further task is migrating links of the form ^((.)*)'.'google'.'([a-z][a-z])(.)*) to being straightforward google.com links. For prefixs like books, scholar, news and groups it should be straightforward to do this. :)
An example API query for finding the links (mainspace only) is as follows (link) :
A bot should be able to make easy work of the results returned (provided it has an exceptions list, to cope with titles where the link should NOT be modified (like in the list of Google domains article.)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:57, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
I have a webpage that goes idle every 20 minutes and logs me out. I'd like to to stay open and active while i'm asleep. May I request a bot to just disturb the web page while I'm afk?
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.174.157.80 ( talk) 23:07, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Since Toolserver went off line the page Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits is no longer being updated (Also WP:10000)
A previous request was made by WereSpielChequers [1] but not answered. However as it was for all "non-migrated" processes it may have been a bit general for someone to take on, so I thought I would re-request specifically for this job only.
I'm not sure it it helps but this configuration page was left by MZMcBride (last edited 1 November 2013)
Yes, its a frivolous page with stats that have little real meaning (see all the caveats) - however as with games etc, statistics and comparisons are good ways to encourage some people. When I found it via another users userbox it gave me a lift to find I was in the top 5000. Basically I think its a bit of fun that is worth fixing if we can. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 17:17, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure if this is an appropriate task for a bot, but I thought I'd check. There are an enormous number of articles tagged with {{reqphoto|in=x}} that could be tagged instead with {{reqphoto|people of x}}. This would effectively move them, for example, from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Kenya to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people of Kenya. A bot could look for an equivalent sub-category, check the talk page for "Wikiproject:Biography" template to see if the article is about a person, and then swap one reqphoto template for another. Does that make sense? This could be done continuously, as people will continue to tag people with just the country. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 15:58, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
there is normally no need for a {{
reqphoto}}
as well - all that should be needed is to add |needs-photo=yes
to the {{
WikiProject Biography}}
. Many other WikiProject banners (but not all) have an equivalent parammeter. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:17, 7 August 2014 (UTC)Hi, I wonder if there is a bot that can translate all references to the aforementioned article ?, translate from Portuguese to English.-- Damián (talk) 03:02, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
As someone who has been doing this manually for years, I hereby dutifully beg of anyone who is technically proficient and knows how to create and run a bot that will:
To see an example of just how tedious this process can be, see this article I just alphabetized the categories manually: before and after. Whoever will undertake this will be doing Wikipedia a great service because it will create order out of the growing chaos as tens of thousands of categories are added and mushrooming, and instate a built-in system for finally automatically alphabetizing categories (after they have been inserted by an editor of course) and placing them in the correct alphabetical and number sequence thus making it easier for any users and readers who search and read categories to locate any categories in a rational manner that are now often just a hodge-podge jumble of scrambled categories, the more notable the topic the more categories on that page and the more jumbled they all are. Wikipedia has all sorts of bots to check spelling, wikify some things, check on citations and even fix them, etc, so it would be greatly appreciated by us poor "categorizers" who just cannot keep up with this at this rate. Thank you so much to anyone who will finally undertake this long-needed improvement that stands to benefit all editors, users and readers of Wikipedia. I will notify a few related talk pages about this discussion in order to centralize it. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 08:42, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
The order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule (for example, it does not need to be alphabetical, although partially alphabetical ordering can sometimes be helpful). Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first.- quote from Wikipedia:Categories#Articles. There are many cases where it is more sensible for a group of related categories,not necessarily alphabetically adjacent, to appear together. In some cases the editor(s) of an article will have added the categories in a thoughtful order; in some cases, of course, the categories are in random order. This bot won't be able to distinguish those two situations. Pam D 09:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 114#Create a BOT to alphabetize and organize categories automatically. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 22:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#CatVisor and User:Paradoctor/CatVisor#Planned features if you are willing and able to assist this innovative WP project move along it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 23:03, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot add {{ WikiProject Disambiguation}} to the talk pages of all disambiguation pages (pages using {{ Disambiguation}}, or with a name ending "(disambiguation)"), please? Note that many, but not all, such pages are currently red links. ( Project notified.) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:46, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
I am not against WikiProject tagging but this should imply that the WikiProject agrees with the tagging. I am a member of WikiProject Disambiguation since 2006 and I do not recall any discussion on requesting mass tagging of all disambiguation pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:33, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
I agree that disambiguation page talk pages should be tagged, that way the two WP-based bots can provide standard notifications when things change.
Any claim that having the WP disambiguation header on disambiguation Talk pages is discouraged
- is arbitrary and void, because I've made probably hundreds or thousands of such edits and never had any issues.
I'm going to remove that from the project page now because it does not reflect consensus.
There are countless talk pages out there that are merely tagged for WikiProjects.
I'm opposed for whatever it's worth. Makes moving over dab pages significantly more annoying for no benefit – these pages are all in the mainspace cats anyway. Jenks24 ( talk) 18:18, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
The fact that a disambiguation talk page is unlikely to have much traffic is exactly why it should be tagged with the project template; editors need to know where they can take a query for discussion, and where it will be seen by interested parties. Such tags serve our readers and occasional/ novice editors. Assisting them should not take second place to things like the convenience of gnoming editors who do things like moving pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:39, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
I am against the tagging of redirects (unless it is done at their creation), the talk pages of dabs and redirect talk pages pages because although there may be some benefits to some editors that has to be weighed against the problem that it causes problems with moves and causes a lot more requests for technical moves at WP:RM. -- PBS ( talk) 09:53, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
The most important thing for me is that for any tagging the WikiProject members should agree with it. If a projects does not pages to be tagged then nobody should tag pages for them. For instance, some WikiProjects do not want some namespaces tagged. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I need some help with formatting of about 130 articles in
Category:Cephalotes; most articles look like
this and
this. What to do: wikilink "ant" in the lead and change
Cephalotes to
Cephalotes in the infobox and lead. If possible, I'd very much appreciate if someone could add | binomial_authority =
(blank parameter) to the bottom of the infobox at the same time. Thank you,
jonkerz ♠
talk
This bot appears to be posting the same message over and over on some pages. See the discussion here: User_talk:Cyberpower678#Cyberbot appears to be malfunctioning on some pages Jarble ( talk) 21:12, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot (I don't know if there is already one) that reverts all edits that blanked a section without any summary in the edit summary. Thanks, TheQ Editor (Talk) 16:32, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot apply AWB talk page general fixes to the pages in Category:All Wikipedia level-1 vital articles, Category:All Wikipedia level-2 vital articles, Category:All Wikipedia level-3 vital articles, and Category:All Wikipedia level-4 vital articles? This is something that Magioladitis/Yobot have been doing for a while now, and it would be great if a bot could do this task for these pages, especially since WP:TPL has been updated for {{ Vital article}}. Malerisch ( talk) 17:39, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello all; could somebody please make a bot to redirect non-notable numbered and named minor planets to the correct lists, subject to the terms at WT:AST? The bot would need to redirect minor planet articles to lists such as list of minor planets: 10001–11000 subject to the following criteria:
It would be nice to see a list of the articles that would be redirected before actually carrying out the operation, but I personally would be satisfied if I saw a trial run of 100 edits with no errors. StringTheory11 ( t • c) 19:13, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot tag any article with the words "election", "elections", "referendum" and "referendums" in their title with {{ WikiProject Elections and Referendums}}? Cheers, Number 5 7 17:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Number 57: compiling the category tree it's very important because it had proven to be broken many many times. Even restricting to level 3 depth in the past ended in unpleasant situations. Bad tagging already has cost me many hours of my life and I would like to reduce the risk as much as possible. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:11, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Number 57: If the project is semi-active what good will be done if we give them more pages to check? -- Magioladitis ( talk)
Btw, I won't proceed to any tagging unless your add your name as a member of the project. I want to be sure that the person requesting the bot tagging is related somehow to the project. Any mass tagging with a WikiProject banner should enjoy the support of the WikiProject itself. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Tennis}}
- it soon became apparent that the common factor was that both biogs used {{
Infobox tennis biography}}
. If you look at
Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscription list#T, you'll see that the Tennis entry has both the WikiProject banner and Infobox shown. If there is an infobox that is used on most (all?) election articles, it should therefore be possible to do something similar for elections. Let's assume that it's {{
Infobox election}}
, so locate the relevant {{
ArticleAlertSubscription}}
at
Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscription list#E - it presently has one parameter, |project=WikiProject Elections and Referendums
- so add both of the following: |banner=WikiProject Elections and Referendums
|infobox=Infobox election
More at
Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Subscribe via an Infobox and the "Combinations" subsection immediately below. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
That relies on creating a list and then maintaining it – can a bot do that?
And my experience is that most of the talk pages are there, but just not with this tag on yet.
I was specifically told elsewhere that the only way to get the bot to recognise the articles was to tag the talk pages.
I was then told that the only way of getting this done was to compile the category tree. I then spent rather a lot of time compiling a list of over 7,000 categories with articles in that needed to be tagged. Now I'm being told that this was a waste of time?
I appreciate the sentiments, but I'd rather just get the talk pages tagged.
It's standard practice for article-based WikiProjects (as opposed to disambiguation pages, which you referred to above as being problematic)
After all the faffing around here, I'd really rather not get involved in a request to change the way the bot operates, as this has done more than enough to sap my morale. Can we just get on with it please?
My point is that despite the project not being very active, at least one other editor has requested the same thing within the last couple of months
- that's about as good as it's going to get.
Apart from you, no-one has raised any objections to tagging the articles,
and as I said earlier, I don't believe your objection is reasonable given normal procedures on Wikipedia.
But in anticipation of more obstructionism,
I'm now contacting every listed project member directly to try and get some more people involved so you have a consensus (or not) to see.
Yes, of course I'm aware of WP:CANVASS. I asked people to comment - I didn't tell them which way to comment.
There has already been three responses, all positive, so that's a total of five people from the project in favour.
Add this templates, each one in its articles.
-- Vivaelcelta { talk · contributions} 02:51, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
I am one of the editors over at WP:TAFI and a project participant has provided a bot that maintains several mundane tasks like administering our nomination page, adding and removing templates, sending out project notices and such. The code for all functions are available on the bot maintainer @ Theopolisme:'s github page, with the "tafi_" prefix.
Essentially the bot maintainer is busy and is unavailable to make changes to the code. Several attempts to get in touch with them have been unsuccessful. I request that another bot maintainer absorb these already approved tasks, somehow these specific tasks from the other bot be stopped, and the new bot maintainer be able to make some of the changes we have been discussing over at the relevant discussion area. -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 16:21, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I haven't analysed the code in detail, just commetning on why you may have not recieved a response. -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 13:38, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Can we please have a replacement for Erwin85Bot (especially the Catcount task). Or is there already a replacement? NickGibson3900 - Talk - Sign my Guestbook 00:28, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:categoryname|pages}}
meet your needs? Documented at
Help:Magic words. --
Bamyers99 (
talk) 18:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
I want a bot thats why I'm in wikipedia not only to help it but to make bots i love robots and like programming i request to make a bot that can revert vandalism and more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnPaulH1 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Not done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:48, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
I would like to create a bot account because I want to automate tasks and revert vandalism faster. It is really hard to find vandalism so I would like a bot to help me revert vandalism.
Bot info:
Not done Magioladitis ( talk) 08:48, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
The list of Broken section links hasn't been updated in over a year. Will it be possible to update this list so that we can repair these broken links? Jarble ( talk) 05:43, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to convert the British OSGB36 Grid References to latitude and longitude (and vice versa)? Wikipedia has an increasing number of lists using Template:EH listed building row (these include listed buildings and scheduled monuments). Many have been been created in connection with "Wiki Loves Monuments" which is currently running in the UK (and several other countries). The data sheets provided by English Heritage give the Grid Ref ( example) however wikipedia mapping systems use lat & long.
I have manually done the 58 on the list at List of Scheduled Monuments in Bath and North East Somerset, but have another 600+ to do on lists detailed at Scheduled Monuments in Somerset. Others are working on those at List of Scheduled Monuments. Many thousands more can be seen at Category:Lists of Grade I listed buildings in England by county, Category:Grade II* listed buildings & Category:Grade II listed buildings in England by county etc. I believe very similar templates are used by Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (but I've not been involved with them). If someone thought the job was possible a much fuller list could be produced.
Details of the Ordnance Survey National Grid are available but the technical issues of any conversion between this and the other Geographic coordinate systems is beyond me, but User:Pigsonthewing suggest I ask here to see whether it would be possible either for a one off bot run or ongoing tool?— Rod talk 13:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Could someone (with a bot, or perhaps AWB) split the date column in each of the sixteen lists under Wikipedia:GLAM/Your paintings#Artists by birth period (you can ignore the "Popular painters" list), into separate birth and death dates, and make each of those columns sortable? Watch out for "circa" and "active" dates!
Then, if the death year is 1943 or before, please apply a pastel green shade (say, #98FB98) to the cell background; if it's 1944, a pastel amber (say #FFA500).
That would facilitate some further work I'm planning. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:14, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
I want a bot operation for my (+100) edits yesterday which changes:
|map_type = Central Moscow grayscale.png
to:
|map_type = Central Moscow |AlternativeMap= Central Moscow grayscale.png
Also:
|map_type = Moscow Ring Road grayscale.png
to:
|map_type = Moscow Ring Road |AlternativeMap= Moscow map MKAD grayscale.png
Thank you. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk) 22:51, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
There are still occasionally editors who unnecessarily add interwiki links where Wikidata has already set up the link to the other language page(s) e.g. this recent non-improving interwiki addition. Could one of the bots revert added interwikis in cases where:
Of course, there could be other types of unproductive interwiki changes on articles that warrant a bot revert. Dl2000 ( talk) 21:34, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please create the following redirects? Note that some of them already exist; I just supplied them so you'd know that I'd not missed any.
With Washington being an unambiguous term, "Washington license plates" ought to exist, and the term "license plate" being an Americanism, we need not worry about the Georgia plates being confused with registration plates from Tblisi. Nyttend ( talk) 21:21, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
The above portal was made into a redirect to Portal:China after a recent MfD: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:People's Republic of China (2nd nomination), but still seems to be in hundreds of articles. The problem is that in many if not almost all cases it's now a duplicate, as Portal:China already is linked in those articles. I.e. it needs removing, usually from the portal box, when China's already listed. E.g. something like:
Though it would also need to handle cases with other portals listed. Too many to easily be done by hand, is it something a bot could do?-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 23:06, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 August 28#Wolverine (comics), this redirect is imminently likely to be made into a disambiguation link. Several thousand links need to be changed from Wolverine (comics) to Wolverine (character). Sounds like a job for a bot! bd2412 T 01:10, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
This template is theoretically an important link to Commons. Theoretically. In fact, it hasn't actually updated since November 2012 from what I can tell. If the template is to become relevant again, it needs updating, and this updating needs to be systematic.
Alternatively, if there is some easy way to update from Commons directly - Lua, say - that would work even better. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 05:42, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
In the past few months, the markup bgcolor="#XXXXXX" (with X substituting for the individual colour code) has stopped working for mobile users as it is no longer supported by the browser. The issue has been raised at VPT, and has been recognised by Bugzilla (ID #66413). style=background-color:"#XXXXXX" has been provided as an alternative markup.
Discussions among regular editors of the Formula 1-related articles have discovered the extent of this problem. It affects every single season, driver, team and car article in almost every motorsport discipline. I am certain that it affects much more of Wikipedia, but as I only occasionally edit outside motorsport articles, I have no idea where else it might be used, much less the scale of it.
Consequently, it was felt that fixing this issue is too much for a group of editors to resolve on their own. As such, it was decided that a BOTREQUEST was the best way forward. Here is the proposal:
This may only be something that affects mobile browsers (for now), but we at the Formula 1 WikiProject have always edited with the belief that mobile users should be accomodated when and where possible. Prisonermonkeys ( talk) 01:04, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
style=background-color:"#XXXXXX"
is invalid markup, so a simple change of bgcolor=
to style=background-color:
won't work. The opening quote needs to be after the equals sign, as in style="background-color:#XXXXXX"
. Second, even if the correct markup were used, it will have undesirable results if the table row or cell already has a style=
attribute - no more than one per element (row or cell), may be used: if there are two or more on the same element, many browsers will ignore all except the last one. Therefore, these conversions wouldn't work as intended:
|bgcolor="#XXXXXX" style="text-align:center"|data
to |style="background-color:#XXXXXX" style="text-align:center"|data
|style="text-align:center" bgcolor="#XXXXXX"|data
to |style="text-align:center" style="background-color:#XXXXXX"|data
style=
attributes are desired, their values may be concatenated using a semicolon as a separator. So,
|bgcolor="#XXXXXX" style="text-align:center"|data
becomes |style="background-color:#XXXXXX;text-align:center"|data
|style="text-align:center" bgcolor="#XXXXXX"|data
becomes |style="text-align:center;background-color:#XXXXXX"|data
I'm happy with whatever solution can be found. It's quite difficult to follow results matrices in particular without the colours. Prisonermonkeys ( talk) 11:20, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
bgcolor=
attribute has been used. It doesn't just affect F1 articles: see for example
British Rail Class 86#Fleet details. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:23, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
As per the discussion above concerning Portal:People's Republic of China, please remove links to Portal:Republic of China, and replace them with a link to Portal:Taiwan (if it is not already present) because this portal was converted into a redirect 3 years ago. Best regards - The ChampionMan 1234 05:45, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
This bot has been listed to Requests for approval and trial approve could come soon. For the trial to be successful, please give it a bot flag. Wikipedian 2 ( talk) 09:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
I recently came across a duplicated sentence within an article. Would it be possible to run a bot that listed articles containing duplicated consecutive sentences and paragraphs, or is this just too large a potential use of CPU power? Ϣere SpielChequers 10:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
As has come up recently at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 130#Changing the interface texts for users who have Wikipedia configured for British English, it was proposed that we have a bot to synchronize the MediaWiki namespace pages for en-gb and en-ca. The bot would have a configuration page, editable only by admins, which has the words which are spelled differently; it would then create clones of all existing general MediaWiki: namespace pages (other than .css and .js) for en-gb and en-ca, fixing the words on this list (except in names of pages and formatting codes). Obviously, this would need to be an adminbot, since MediaWiki pages are editabl only by admins. The bot would do a single run on the entire MediaWiki namespace, and then watch for mnew changes in that namespace and redo the pages accordingly. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:03, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to see a bot that looks at user sandbox pages that do not have the {{user sandbox}} tagging, and apply that tag (especially to newly created pages). Seems like a trivial request, but I've seen a lot of new users creating what would be a CSD-U5 (not-webhost violation) or U11 (promotional use of userspace) in sandbox space. By removing this tag, they remove the embedded __NOINDEX__ from it, thus having it show up in Google searches. I don't know if that's deliberate (i.e. there's a guide somewhere telling how to keep a promo page on WP) or if they just don't bother to read the "edit below this line" in their sandbox. Either way, I think this tag should be put back on when removed. An additional benefit is that it allows truly good-faith editors to then click the nice big "Submit" button for AfC to then evaluate. Thoughts? Comments? Crow Talk 15:09, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
select page_title from page where page_namespace = 2 and page_title like '%/sandbox'
from tool labs will work.
Jackmcbarn (
talk) 14:36, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
{{
NOINDEX}}
, __NOINDEX__
, or
templates which apply NOINDEX (such as {{
Userspace draft}}
and its redirects) in the page. -
Evad37 [
talk 13:58, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
As part of the project mw:Archived Pages, the Internet Archive has been preserving every URL linked from dozens Wikipedias for several months now. They're waiting for us to move next. The next logical step is that a bot goes around looking for dead links (either those already marked as such or new ones found with weblinkchecker.py/ reflinks.py) and replaces them with archived links automatically. Any volunteer? Legoktm already wrote an example code but no longer has the time to work on it. Ideally, the bot would be written in a way that can scale to other languages and projects, e.g. by not relying too much on specific local templates and parameters. -- Nemo 09:01, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Can a bot replace every instance of "first began" with just "began"?
I'd like to just outright delete "Upon its release", because in 99% of cases it's redundant. It shows up everywhere in articles about movies, albums etc. I suspect this may be more complex, though. Popcornduff ( talk) 16:47, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to create about 1000 categories of the form Category:Draft-Class xyz articles. We have recently added this class to the extended quality scale (see discussion) leaving a bunch of categories which need creating.
Templates with missing categories are tracked via Category:WPBannerMeta templates with missing assessment categories, most of which relate to the missing Draft-class categories.
The categories can be created with
{{cat more|Wikipedia:WikiProject PROJECT}} {{cat class | topic=TOPIC | class=Draft}} {{Category TOC}}
where
Can anyone help with this? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:04, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be better to have a bot create the populated cats (and tag the empty ones)? Creating 1000 cats where most will be empty (there are at the moment some 1000 Draft talk pages) seems like overkill. From the 59 draft cats we already have ( Category:Draft-Class articles), no less than 25 are empty. Fram ( talk) 11:59, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
WP:NRHP maintains lists of historic sites throughout the United States, with one or more separate lists for each of the country's 3000+ counties. These lists employ {{ NRHP row}}, which (among its many parameters) includes parameters to display latitude and longitude through {{ coord}}. For most of the project's history, the lists used an older format with manually written coords (e.g. a page would include the code {{coord|40|30|0|N|95|30|0|W|name=House}}, when today they just have |lat=40.5 |lon=95.5), and when a bot was run to add the templates to the lists, it somehow didn't address the coordinates in some lists. With this in mind, I'd like if someone could instruct a bot to discover all WP:NRHP lists that are currently using both {{ NRHP row}} and {{ coord}}. I tried to use Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Coord, but it didn't produce good results: since {{ NRHP row}} transcludes {{ coord}} when it's correctly implemented, all of these lists have links to {{ coord}}. As a result, I was imagining that the bot would perform the following procedure:
"Results" could be a spot in the bot's userspace. Since the bot won't be doing anything except editing the results page, you won't need to worry about opening a BRFA. Nyttend ( talk) 01:49, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't know how to use bots and the taskforce is too large to go one by one adding articles to WP:Tejano. Best, .jona talk 18:37, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Tejano music, Banda, Duranguense, Jarocho, Ranchera, Mariachi, Norteño (music). Erick ( talk) 21:17, 15 October 2014 (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 55 | ← | Archive 59 | Archive 60 | Archive 61 | Archive 62 | Archive 63 | → | Archive 65 |
The web domain for the official German music charts has been changed without a proper redirect. These urls are being used by templates {{ albumchart}} and {{ singlechart}} and can be found on lots of pages. So updating the links may require a bot. If someone's bot has free capacity to do this, please perform the following operation:
http://www.charts.de/...
→ http://www.officialcharts.de/...
(case insensitive).Thank you. De728631 ( talk) 14:30, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
De728631 should the publisher change from charts.de to officialcharts.de too? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:08, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
De728631 I think we are basically done. The others are, most probably, through a template. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:43, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
I did some more null edits because I also have missed some pages. 337 pages left. Most of them in non-article space. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:49, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
We need a bot to automatically tag articles for WikiProject Architecture/Historic houses task force. If they are already tagged for WikiProject Architecture than only add the taskforce tag "|historic-houses=yes". If not than add the WikiProject Architecture banner as well. Tag all articles in Category:Country houses and subcategories, except Category:Films set in country houses (no consensus whether is in scope) and Category:Castles in Scotland (separate WikiProject). Relevant WikiProject discussion is here. -- ELEKHH T 02:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Elekhh and Mdann52:: Elekhh is a member of the WikiProject, posted here and in bot's page. I also need to see that it was posted on WikiProject's page and I'll start doing the task after 3 days. I would help if the exact categories where given to me (no subcategories) because I've seen a lot of "ooops I forgot to exclude this one" cases. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:05, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Architecture/Historic_houses_task_force#WikiProject_taskforce_tagging posted in task force talk page. I'll start tomorrow or the day after tomorrow of there are no disagreements. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 07:06, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Starting. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:50, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
5462 pages loaded. 3769 without the tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:55, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I'll have first to normalise pages with redirects as step 1. I'll finish this and continue in about 8 hours. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:24, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
3769 tagged. Now starting the 1128 pages that that the banner but not the task force parameter. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:37, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Elekhh: Done! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Is their a bot that groups wikiproject templates on a talk page into a multiple wikiprojects banner if more than two. If not their should be. Another job could be putting clean-up tags under multiple issues header if more than three (if not already done). NickGibson3900 ( Talk - Cont.) 10:20, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot that tags every page with {{User:NickGibson3900/Aus Worlds 2013}} to be tagged with {{Australian athletes at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics}}. This is because I would like all these pages together under 1 template. Thanks.
P.S. I'm sure this job can be added to an existing bot NickGibson3900 ( Talk - Cont.) 18:54, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
File:'Head of a Woman', oil on panel painting by Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani)2.jpg should be removed from all editions of Wikipedia, because it has NOTHING to do with Bona Sforza. -- Ghirla -трёп- 06:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Ghirla: It looks like the image from Commons is used on about 15 total pages on all wikipedias. If you are feeling bold and you believe that you are correct, just remove it. A bot is not needed for 15 simple edits. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:27, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if @ GoingBatty: was still working on the bot request for tagging pages. The archive can be found here. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_60#Trams
With the Toolserver now dead, various non-migrated processes have now stopped, WP:EDITS being an example. Would anyone be willing to take them over? Ϣere SpielChequers 22:52, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot like SuggestBot but the user can request articles so they can easily compare a set of articles. NickGibson3900 ( Talk - Cont.) 03:58, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
K League, The top division of South Korea, was renamed K League Classic in 2013 and now K League commonly means all professional leagues in Korea including first division K League Classic and second division K League Challenge, not specific a league. In other words, 'K League Classic players' include 'K League players' because two leagues are not different, just renamed. So all pages under Category:K League players should be moved to Category:K League Classic players.-- z4617925 ( talk) 01:29, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests/Archive_10#Replace_literal_hard_spaces_with_corresponding_HTML_entity I would like to replace hard spaces with normal spaces unless nbsp is required using AWB's logic. The list is based on a db scan to the June dump and contains ~20,000 pages. Any disagreements? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:09, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
I receive feedback/suggestions/complains on my talk page. Feel free to raise your opinion there. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:07, 23 July 2014 (UTC) I abandoned the idea to perform this task as a bot task for now. AWB's logic expanded to cover some of these cases. I am working manually to gather more feedback. Please post any feedback/suggestions/complains on my talk page. Thanks. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:41, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
I would like to ask for replacing all subcategories from Category:Video games developed in Japan by company to Category:Video games by Japanese company, from Category:Video games developed in the United States by company to Category:Video games by the United States company and from Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom by company to Category:Video games by the United Kingdom company. -- Bedivere.cs ( talk) 22:02, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Per instructions in my bot's page, the community should be notified for mass tagging to reduce errors. Tagging for WikiProject Athletics will start in 3 days in the categories given to me by User:Sillyfolkboy, a lead member of the project. The list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Categories. Please report any disagreements/doubts/concerns on my talk page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:34, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
At various places on wikiprojects, there are some lists of members who signed up for some specific task or get involved in the project. I am thinking of a bot that could review some of these lists, check the date of the last contribution of each member, and if it is older than a year ago (say), then mark this user as inactive, either by moving him/her to a separate list, or simply add a small text after the name of the contributor. The lists on which the bot operates would be added to the bot on an individual basis (if the corresponding team is interested). The bot would not generate much traffic as the task could be performed every week, for instance, because we don't need to have a very up-to-date result.
I can write the code for this bot, but I want to check first that it hasn't been done already. What do you think? -- Pintoch ( talk) 14:32, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
According to Wikipedia's recategorization how-to guide: Pages in the category namespace can be moved but in a non-automated way which requires considerable post-move cleanup.
Does Wikipedia have any automated process for category renaming, or is it still necessary to re-categorize all pages manually after a category name has been changed? Jarble ( talk) 19:48, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
For a while now, I've been replacing mass search&replaces of largely bare external links that look like this:
...and which are better handled with the {{ Timatic}} template instead. After a while, I'm tired of doing it almost manually, instead a bot can be tasked with this chore.
The target articles are the main space articles listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timaticweb.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ftim_website_client.cgi%3FSpecData%3D1
I've been using the Notepad++ regular expression engine over those article sources to do:
This is quite imperfect - it ignores the exact link format under the assumption that if there's a &NA= argument, that's enough to recognize what we mean. It usually is, but sometimes there's also parameters like HEALTH=1 or AR=<countrycode> or EM=<countrycode> that can map into the health=, residence= and embarkation= template parameters. Or there's some completely different parameter. I was doing this because it was easy enough and it didn't care for permutations of the various parameters much, and then I was visually checking the results for any regressions. For a bot, the best thing would be to try to be more specific - search for any particular combination of parameters, and as long as the combination is all known, regardless of order - generate a link to {{ Timatic}}.
Hope someone can pick it up. TIA. -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 20:30, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Help_desk#Business_and_economics_portal: two bots used to update the daily market indices and business news, the former seems to be working again, the latter stopped working Jan 26. The correct information is actually found on this page: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Economy_and_business
Lbertolotti ( talk) 20:13, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
The market indices bot is working alright, but the data being uploaded is just plain wrong. Lbertolotti ( talk) 13:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Realtively straightforward task...
For a link of the form *.google.* look for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replace with &hl=en&
Given this is the English Wikipedia, it seems reasonable to use the english language UI on Google where possible, and this is an ideal task for the bot.
A further task is migrating links of the form ^((.)*)'.'google'.'([a-z][a-z])(.)*) to being straightforward google.com links. For prefixs like books, scholar, news and groups it should be straightforward to do this. :)
An example API query for finding the links (mainspace only) is as follows (link) :
A bot should be able to make easy work of the results returned (provided it has an exceptions list, to cope with titles where the link should NOT be modified (like in the list of Google domains article.)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:57, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
I have a webpage that goes idle every 20 minutes and logs me out. I'd like to to stay open and active while i'm asleep. May I request a bot to just disturb the web page while I'm afk?
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.174.157.80 ( talk) 23:07, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Help_desk#Business_and_economics_portal: two bots used to update the daily market indices and business news, the former seems to be working again, the latter stopped working Jan 26. The correct information is actually found on this page: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Economy_and_business
Lbertolotti ( talk) 20:13, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
The market indices bot is working alright, but the data being uploaded is just plain wrong. Lbertolotti ( talk) 13:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi
Realtively straightforward task...
For a link of the form *.google.* look for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replace with &hl=en&
Given this is the English Wikipedia, it seems reasonable to use the english language UI on Google where possible, and this is an ideal task for the bot.
A further task is migrating links of the form ^((.)*)'.'google'.'([a-z][a-z])(.)*) to being straightforward google.com links. For prefixs like books, scholar, news and groups it should be straightforward to do this. :)
An example API query for finding the links (mainspace only) is as follows (link) :
A bot should be able to make easy work of the results returned (provided it has an exceptions list, to cope with titles where the link should NOT be modified (like in the list of Google domains article.)
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:57, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
I have a webpage that goes idle every 20 minutes and logs me out. I'd like to to stay open and active while i'm asleep. May I request a bot to just disturb the web page while I'm afk?
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.174.157.80 ( talk) 23:07, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Since Toolserver went off line the page Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits is no longer being updated (Also WP:10000)
A previous request was made by WereSpielChequers [1] but not answered. However as it was for all "non-migrated" processes it may have been a bit general for someone to take on, so I thought I would re-request specifically for this job only.
I'm not sure it it helps but this configuration page was left by MZMcBride (last edited 1 November 2013)
Yes, its a frivolous page with stats that have little real meaning (see all the caveats) - however as with games etc, statistics and comparisons are good ways to encourage some people. When I found it via another users userbox it gave me a lift to find I was in the top 5000. Basically I think its a bit of fun that is worth fixing if we can. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 17:17, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure if this is an appropriate task for a bot, but I thought I'd check. There are an enormous number of articles tagged with {{reqphoto|in=x}} that could be tagged instead with {{reqphoto|people of x}}. This would effectively move them, for example, from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Kenya to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people of Kenya. A bot could look for an equivalent sub-category, check the talk page for "Wikiproject:Biography" template to see if the article is about a person, and then swap one reqphoto template for another. Does that make sense? This could be done continuously, as people will continue to tag people with just the country. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 15:58, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
there is normally no need for a {{
reqphoto}}
as well - all that should be needed is to add |needs-photo=yes
to the {{
WikiProject Biography}}
. Many other WikiProject banners (but not all) have an equivalent parammeter. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:17, 7 August 2014 (UTC)Hi, I wonder if there is a bot that can translate all references to the aforementioned article ?, translate from Portuguese to English.-- Damián (talk) 03:02, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
As someone who has been doing this manually for years, I hereby dutifully beg of anyone who is technically proficient and knows how to create and run a bot that will:
To see an example of just how tedious this process can be, see this article I just alphabetized the categories manually: before and after. Whoever will undertake this will be doing Wikipedia a great service because it will create order out of the growing chaos as tens of thousands of categories are added and mushrooming, and instate a built-in system for finally automatically alphabetizing categories (after they have been inserted by an editor of course) and placing them in the correct alphabetical and number sequence thus making it easier for any users and readers who search and read categories to locate any categories in a rational manner that are now often just a hodge-podge jumble of scrambled categories, the more notable the topic the more categories on that page and the more jumbled they all are. Wikipedia has all sorts of bots to check spelling, wikify some things, check on citations and even fix them, etc, so it would be greatly appreciated by us poor "categorizers" who just cannot keep up with this at this rate. Thank you so much to anyone who will finally undertake this long-needed improvement that stands to benefit all editors, users and readers of Wikipedia. I will notify a few related talk pages about this discussion in order to centralize it. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 08:42, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
The order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule (for example, it does not need to be alphabetical, although partially alphabetical ordering can sometimes be helpful). Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first.- quote from Wikipedia:Categories#Articles. There are many cases where it is more sensible for a group of related categories,not necessarily alphabetically adjacent, to appear together. In some cases the editor(s) of an article will have added the categories in a thoughtful order; in some cases, of course, the categories are in random order. This bot won't be able to distinguish those two situations. Pam D 09:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 114#Create a BOT to alphabetize and organize categories automatically. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 22:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#CatVisor and User:Paradoctor/CatVisor#Planned features if you are willing and able to assist this innovative WP project move along it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, IZAK ( talk) 23:03, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot add {{ WikiProject Disambiguation}} to the talk pages of all disambiguation pages (pages using {{ Disambiguation}}, or with a name ending "(disambiguation)"), please? Note that many, but not all, such pages are currently red links. ( Project notified.) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:46, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
I am not against WikiProject tagging but this should imply that the WikiProject agrees with the tagging. I am a member of WikiProject Disambiguation since 2006 and I do not recall any discussion on requesting mass tagging of all disambiguation pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:33, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
I agree that disambiguation page talk pages should be tagged, that way the two WP-based bots can provide standard notifications when things change.
Any claim that having the WP disambiguation header on disambiguation Talk pages is discouraged
- is arbitrary and void, because I've made probably hundreds or thousands of such edits and never had any issues.
I'm going to remove that from the project page now because it does not reflect consensus.
There are countless talk pages out there that are merely tagged for WikiProjects.
I'm opposed for whatever it's worth. Makes moving over dab pages significantly more annoying for no benefit – these pages are all in the mainspace cats anyway. Jenks24 ( talk) 18:18, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
The fact that a disambiguation talk page is unlikely to have much traffic is exactly why it should be tagged with the project template; editors need to know where they can take a query for discussion, and where it will be seen by interested parties. Such tags serve our readers and occasional/ novice editors. Assisting them should not take second place to things like the convenience of gnoming editors who do things like moving pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:39, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
I am against the tagging of redirects (unless it is done at their creation), the talk pages of dabs and redirect talk pages pages because although there may be some benefits to some editors that has to be weighed against the problem that it causes problems with moves and causes a lot more requests for technical moves at WP:RM. -- PBS ( talk) 09:53, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
The most important thing for me is that for any tagging the WikiProject members should agree with it. If a projects does not pages to be tagged then nobody should tag pages for them. For instance, some WikiProjects do not want some namespaces tagged. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I need some help with formatting of about 130 articles in
Category:Cephalotes; most articles look like
this and
this. What to do: wikilink "ant" in the lead and change
Cephalotes to
Cephalotes in the infobox and lead. If possible, I'd very much appreciate if someone could add | binomial_authority =
(blank parameter) to the bottom of the infobox at the same time. Thank you,
jonkerz ♠
talk
This bot appears to be posting the same message over and over on some pages. See the discussion here: User_talk:Cyberpower678#Cyberbot appears to be malfunctioning on some pages Jarble ( talk) 21:12, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot (I don't know if there is already one) that reverts all edits that blanked a section without any summary in the edit summary. Thanks, TheQ Editor (Talk) 16:32, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot apply AWB talk page general fixes to the pages in Category:All Wikipedia level-1 vital articles, Category:All Wikipedia level-2 vital articles, Category:All Wikipedia level-3 vital articles, and Category:All Wikipedia level-4 vital articles? This is something that Magioladitis/Yobot have been doing for a while now, and it would be great if a bot could do this task for these pages, especially since WP:TPL has been updated for {{ Vital article}}. Malerisch ( talk) 17:39, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello all; could somebody please make a bot to redirect non-notable numbered and named minor planets to the correct lists, subject to the terms at WT:AST? The bot would need to redirect minor planet articles to lists such as list of minor planets: 10001–11000 subject to the following criteria:
It would be nice to see a list of the articles that would be redirected before actually carrying out the operation, but I personally would be satisfied if I saw a trial run of 100 edits with no errors. StringTheory11 ( t • c) 19:13, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Could a bot tag any article with the words "election", "elections", "referendum" and "referendums" in their title with {{ WikiProject Elections and Referendums}}? Cheers, Number 5 7 17:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Number 57: compiling the category tree it's very important because it had proven to be broken many many times. Even restricting to level 3 depth in the past ended in unpleasant situations. Bad tagging already has cost me many hours of my life and I would like to reduce the risk as much as possible. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:11, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Number 57: If the project is semi-active what good will be done if we give them more pages to check? -- Magioladitis ( talk)
Btw, I won't proceed to any tagging unless your add your name as a member of the project. I want to be sure that the person requesting the bot tagging is related somehow to the project. Any mass tagging with a WikiProject banner should enjoy the support of the WikiProject itself. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Tennis}}
- it soon became apparent that the common factor was that both biogs used {{
Infobox tennis biography}}
. If you look at
Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscription list#T, you'll see that the Tennis entry has both the WikiProject banner and Infobox shown. If there is an infobox that is used on most (all?) election articles, it should therefore be possible to do something similar for elections. Let's assume that it's {{
Infobox election}}
, so locate the relevant {{
ArticleAlertSubscription}}
at
Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscription list#E - it presently has one parameter, |project=WikiProject Elections and Referendums
- so add both of the following: |banner=WikiProject Elections and Referendums
|infobox=Infobox election
More at
Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Subscribe via an Infobox and the "Combinations" subsection immediately below. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
That relies on creating a list and then maintaining it – can a bot do that?
And my experience is that most of the talk pages are there, but just not with this tag on yet.
I was specifically told elsewhere that the only way to get the bot to recognise the articles was to tag the talk pages.
I was then told that the only way of getting this done was to compile the category tree. I then spent rather a lot of time compiling a list of over 7,000 categories with articles in that needed to be tagged. Now I'm being told that this was a waste of time?
I appreciate the sentiments, but I'd rather just get the talk pages tagged.
It's standard practice for article-based WikiProjects (as opposed to disambiguation pages, which you referred to above as being problematic)
After all the faffing around here, I'd really rather not get involved in a request to change the way the bot operates, as this has done more than enough to sap my morale. Can we just get on with it please?
My point is that despite the project not being very active, at least one other editor has requested the same thing within the last couple of months
- that's about as good as it's going to get.
Apart from you, no-one has raised any objections to tagging the articles,
and as I said earlier, I don't believe your objection is reasonable given normal procedures on Wikipedia.
But in anticipation of more obstructionism,
I'm now contacting every listed project member directly to try and get some more people involved so you have a consensus (or not) to see.
Yes, of course I'm aware of WP:CANVASS. I asked people to comment - I didn't tell them which way to comment.
There has already been three responses, all positive, so that's a total of five people from the project in favour.
Add this templates, each one in its articles.
-- Vivaelcelta { talk · contributions} 02:51, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
I am one of the editors over at WP:TAFI and a project participant has provided a bot that maintains several mundane tasks like administering our nomination page, adding and removing templates, sending out project notices and such. The code for all functions are available on the bot maintainer @ Theopolisme:'s github page, with the "tafi_" prefix.
Essentially the bot maintainer is busy and is unavailable to make changes to the code. Several attempts to get in touch with them have been unsuccessful. I request that another bot maintainer absorb these already approved tasks, somehow these specific tasks from the other bot be stopped, and the new bot maintainer be able to make some of the changes we have been discussing over at the relevant discussion area. -- Nick Penguin( contribs) 16:21, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I haven't analysed the code in detail, just commetning on why you may have not recieved a response. -- Mdann 52 talk to me! 13:38, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Can we please have a replacement for Erwin85Bot (especially the Catcount task). Or is there already a replacement? NickGibson3900 - Talk - Sign my Guestbook 00:28, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
{{PAGESINCATEGORY:categoryname|pages}}
meet your needs? Documented at
Help:Magic words. --
Bamyers99 (
talk) 18:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
I want a bot thats why I'm in wikipedia not only to help it but to make bots i love robots and like programming i request to make a bot that can revert vandalism and more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnPaulH1 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Not done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:48, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
I would like to create a bot account because I want to automate tasks and revert vandalism faster. It is really hard to find vandalism so I would like a bot to help me revert vandalism.
Bot info:
Not done Magioladitis ( talk) 08:48, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
The list of Broken section links hasn't been updated in over a year. Will it be possible to update this list so that we can repair these broken links? Jarble ( talk) 05:43, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Would it be possible for a bot to convert the British OSGB36 Grid References to latitude and longitude (and vice versa)? Wikipedia has an increasing number of lists using Template:EH listed building row (these include listed buildings and scheduled monuments). Many have been been created in connection with "Wiki Loves Monuments" which is currently running in the UK (and several other countries). The data sheets provided by English Heritage give the Grid Ref ( example) however wikipedia mapping systems use lat & long.
I have manually done the 58 on the list at List of Scheduled Monuments in Bath and North East Somerset, but have another 600+ to do on lists detailed at Scheduled Monuments in Somerset. Others are working on those at List of Scheduled Monuments. Many thousands more can be seen at Category:Lists of Grade I listed buildings in England by county, Category:Grade II* listed buildings & Category:Grade II listed buildings in England by county etc. I believe very similar templates are used by Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (but I've not been involved with them). If someone thought the job was possible a much fuller list could be produced.
Details of the Ordnance Survey National Grid are available but the technical issues of any conversion between this and the other Geographic coordinate systems is beyond me, but User:Pigsonthewing suggest I ask here to see whether it would be possible either for a one off bot run or ongoing tool?— Rod talk 13:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Could someone (with a bot, or perhaps AWB) split the date column in each of the sixteen lists under Wikipedia:GLAM/Your paintings#Artists by birth period (you can ignore the "Popular painters" list), into separate birth and death dates, and make each of those columns sortable? Watch out for "circa" and "active" dates!
Then, if the death year is 1943 or before, please apply a pastel green shade (say, #98FB98) to the cell background; if it's 1944, a pastel amber (say #FFA500).
That would facilitate some further work I'm planning. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:14, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
I want a bot operation for my (+100) edits yesterday which changes:
|map_type = Central Moscow grayscale.png
to:
|map_type = Central Moscow |AlternativeMap= Central Moscow grayscale.png
Also:
|map_type = Moscow Ring Road grayscale.png
to:
|map_type = Moscow Ring Road |AlternativeMap= Moscow map MKAD grayscale.png
Thank you. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk) 22:51, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
There are still occasionally editors who unnecessarily add interwiki links where Wikidata has already set up the link to the other language page(s) e.g. this recent non-improving interwiki addition. Could one of the bots revert added interwikis in cases where:
Of course, there could be other types of unproductive interwiki changes on articles that warrant a bot revert. Dl2000 ( talk) 21:34, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please create the following redirects? Note that some of them already exist; I just supplied them so you'd know that I'd not missed any.
With Washington being an unambiguous term, "Washington license plates" ought to exist, and the term "license plate" being an Americanism, we need not worry about the Georgia plates being confused with registration plates from Tblisi. Nyttend ( talk) 21:21, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
The above portal was made into a redirect to Portal:China after a recent MfD: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:People's Republic of China (2nd nomination), but still seems to be in hundreds of articles. The problem is that in many if not almost all cases it's now a duplicate, as Portal:China already is linked in those articles. I.e. it needs removing, usually from the portal box, when China's already listed. E.g. something like:
Though it would also need to handle cases with other portals listed. Too many to easily be done by hand, is it something a bot could do?-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 23:06, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 August 28#Wolverine (comics), this redirect is imminently likely to be made into a disambiguation link. Several thousand links need to be changed from Wolverine (comics) to Wolverine (character). Sounds like a job for a bot! bd2412 T 01:10, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
This template is theoretically an important link to Commons. Theoretically. In fact, it hasn't actually updated since November 2012 from what I can tell. If the template is to become relevant again, it needs updating, and this updating needs to be systematic.
Alternatively, if there is some easy way to update from Commons directly - Lua, say - that would work even better. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 05:42, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
In the past few months, the markup bgcolor="#XXXXXX" (with X substituting for the individual colour code) has stopped working for mobile users as it is no longer supported by the browser. The issue has been raised at VPT, and has been recognised by Bugzilla (ID #66413). style=background-color:"#XXXXXX" has been provided as an alternative markup.
Discussions among regular editors of the Formula 1-related articles have discovered the extent of this problem. It affects every single season, driver, team and car article in almost every motorsport discipline. I am certain that it affects much more of Wikipedia, but as I only occasionally edit outside motorsport articles, I have no idea where else it might be used, much less the scale of it.
Consequently, it was felt that fixing this issue is too much for a group of editors to resolve on their own. As such, it was decided that a BOTREQUEST was the best way forward. Here is the proposal:
This may only be something that affects mobile browsers (for now), but we at the Formula 1 WikiProject have always edited with the belief that mobile users should be accomodated when and where possible. Prisonermonkeys ( talk) 01:04, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
style=background-color:"#XXXXXX"
is invalid markup, so a simple change of bgcolor=
to style=background-color:
won't work. The opening quote needs to be after the equals sign, as in style="background-color:#XXXXXX"
. Second, even if the correct markup were used, it will have undesirable results if the table row or cell already has a style=
attribute - no more than one per element (row or cell), may be used: if there are two or more on the same element, many browsers will ignore all except the last one. Therefore, these conversions wouldn't work as intended:
|bgcolor="#XXXXXX" style="text-align:center"|data
to |style="background-color:#XXXXXX" style="text-align:center"|data
|style="text-align:center" bgcolor="#XXXXXX"|data
to |style="text-align:center" style="background-color:#XXXXXX"|data
style=
attributes are desired, their values may be concatenated using a semicolon as a separator. So,
|bgcolor="#XXXXXX" style="text-align:center"|data
becomes |style="background-color:#XXXXXX;text-align:center"|data
|style="text-align:center" bgcolor="#XXXXXX"|data
becomes |style="text-align:center;background-color:#XXXXXX"|data
I'm happy with whatever solution can be found. It's quite difficult to follow results matrices in particular without the colours. Prisonermonkeys ( talk) 11:20, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
bgcolor=
attribute has been used. It doesn't just affect F1 articles: see for example
British Rail Class 86#Fleet details. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:23, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
As per the discussion above concerning Portal:People's Republic of China, please remove links to Portal:Republic of China, and replace them with a link to Portal:Taiwan (if it is not already present) because this portal was converted into a redirect 3 years ago. Best regards - The ChampionMan 1234 05:45, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
This bot has been listed to Requests for approval and trial approve could come soon. For the trial to be successful, please give it a bot flag. Wikipedian 2 ( talk) 09:30, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
I recently came across a duplicated sentence within an article. Would it be possible to run a bot that listed articles containing duplicated consecutive sentences and paragraphs, or is this just too large a potential use of CPU power? Ϣere SpielChequers 10:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
As has come up recently at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 130#Changing the interface texts for users who have Wikipedia configured for British English, it was proposed that we have a bot to synchronize the MediaWiki namespace pages for en-gb and en-ca. The bot would have a configuration page, editable only by admins, which has the words which are spelled differently; it would then create clones of all existing general MediaWiki: namespace pages (other than .css and .js) for en-gb and en-ca, fixing the words on this list (except in names of pages and formatting codes). Obviously, this would need to be an adminbot, since MediaWiki pages are editabl only by admins. The bot would do a single run on the entire MediaWiki namespace, and then watch for mnew changes in that namespace and redo the pages accordingly. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:03, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to see a bot that looks at user sandbox pages that do not have the {{user sandbox}} tagging, and apply that tag (especially to newly created pages). Seems like a trivial request, but I've seen a lot of new users creating what would be a CSD-U5 (not-webhost violation) or U11 (promotional use of userspace) in sandbox space. By removing this tag, they remove the embedded __NOINDEX__ from it, thus having it show up in Google searches. I don't know if that's deliberate (i.e. there's a guide somewhere telling how to keep a promo page on WP) or if they just don't bother to read the "edit below this line" in their sandbox. Either way, I think this tag should be put back on when removed. An additional benefit is that it allows truly good-faith editors to then click the nice big "Submit" button for AfC to then evaluate. Thoughts? Comments? Crow Talk 15:09, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
select page_title from page where page_namespace = 2 and page_title like '%/sandbox'
from tool labs will work.
Jackmcbarn (
talk) 14:36, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
{{
NOINDEX}}
, __NOINDEX__
, or
templates which apply NOINDEX (such as {{
Userspace draft}}
and its redirects) in the page. -
Evad37 [
talk 13:58, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
As part of the project mw:Archived Pages, the Internet Archive has been preserving every URL linked from dozens Wikipedias for several months now. They're waiting for us to move next. The next logical step is that a bot goes around looking for dead links (either those already marked as such or new ones found with weblinkchecker.py/ reflinks.py) and replaces them with archived links automatically. Any volunteer? Legoktm already wrote an example code but no longer has the time to work on it. Ideally, the bot would be written in a way that can scale to other languages and projects, e.g. by not relying too much on specific local templates and parameters. -- Nemo 09:01, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Can a bot replace every instance of "first began" with just "began"?
I'd like to just outright delete "Upon its release", because in 99% of cases it's redundant. It shows up everywhere in articles about movies, albums etc. I suspect this may be more complex, though. Popcornduff ( talk) 16:47, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to create about 1000 categories of the form Category:Draft-Class xyz articles. We have recently added this class to the extended quality scale (see discussion) leaving a bunch of categories which need creating.
Templates with missing categories are tracked via Category:WPBannerMeta templates with missing assessment categories, most of which relate to the missing Draft-class categories.
The categories can be created with
{{cat more|Wikipedia:WikiProject PROJECT}} {{cat class | topic=TOPIC | class=Draft}} {{Category TOC}}
where
Can anyone help with this? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:04, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be better to have a bot create the populated cats (and tag the empty ones)? Creating 1000 cats where most will be empty (there are at the moment some 1000 Draft talk pages) seems like overkill. From the 59 draft cats we already have ( Category:Draft-Class articles), no less than 25 are empty. Fram ( talk) 11:59, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
WP:NRHP maintains lists of historic sites throughout the United States, with one or more separate lists for each of the country's 3000+ counties. These lists employ {{ NRHP row}}, which (among its many parameters) includes parameters to display latitude and longitude through {{ coord}}. For most of the project's history, the lists used an older format with manually written coords (e.g. a page would include the code {{coord|40|30|0|N|95|30|0|W|name=House}}, when today they just have |lat=40.5 |lon=95.5), and when a bot was run to add the templates to the lists, it somehow didn't address the coordinates in some lists. With this in mind, I'd like if someone could instruct a bot to discover all WP:NRHP lists that are currently using both {{ NRHP row}} and {{ coord}}. I tried to use Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Coord, but it didn't produce good results: since {{ NRHP row}} transcludes {{ coord}} when it's correctly implemented, all of these lists have links to {{ coord}}. As a result, I was imagining that the bot would perform the following procedure:
"Results" could be a spot in the bot's userspace. Since the bot won't be doing anything except editing the results page, you won't need to worry about opening a BRFA. Nyttend ( talk) 01:49, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't know how to use bots and the taskforce is too large to go one by one adding articles to WP:Tejano. Best, .jona talk 18:37, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Tejano music, Banda, Duranguense, Jarocho, Ranchera, Mariachi, Norteño (music). Erick ( talk) 21:17, 15 October 2014 (UTC)