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DePiep (
talk) 08:22, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Request. About:
Category:Chembox templates, that lists ~150 templates (at top level). I'd like to have:
If not too difficult, I'd like to have too:
The table can be written on any convenient page, also my User:DePiep/sandbox or a new page in my userspace. Can someone make that? - DePiep ( talk) 15:04, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I would like to request User:Yobot or any other bot to tag all ant-related articles with Template:WPINSECTS. I've notified WikiProject Insects about this request and estimate that this run involves about 1800 pages excluding redirects.
{{WikiProject Insects|class=|importance=|ants=yes|ants-importance=}}
to the listed categoriesI am aware that "including all subcategories" requests goes against Yobot's rules, but there should not be any "oops I forgot to exclude that category" moments here as all member pages of Category:Ant taxonomy are taxa or list of taxa (and I've spent quite some time expanding/managing these categories). If the bot owner still prefer a 100% no-oopises list, I'll expand this list with the about 30 remaining subcategories.
Thanks in advance, jonkerz ♠ talk 16:03, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
|ants-importance=
not |ants-priority=
as shown above. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:48, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Some stats:
Seems reasonable. I already normalised banners waiting for final bot run. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
needs-photo=yes
to articles not containing any images?
jonkerz ♠
talk 14:54, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis:
{{WikiProject Insects|class=|importance=|ants=yes|ants-importance=}}
Bot assessing stub articles is more important than needs-photo=yes
, but if the bot could take care of both tasks, that would be a real timesaver.
jonkerz ♠
talk 23:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Started tagging (at last!). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:16, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
jonkerz bot done with |ants=
. I did not do the stub articles and the needs-photo=yes
part... yet. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 13:12, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Greetings,
I'm reaching out to you because this wiki is the 2nd wiki with the most files missing machine-readable information, and I'm hoping you can help.
As you may know, the official Licensing policy of the Wikimedia Foundation mandates that "Non-free content […] must be identified in a machine-readable format so that it can be easily identified by users of the site as well as re-users."
As part of the File metadata cleanup drive, I and others have been adding machine-readable markers to many templates, but that is not enough.
Many files on this wiki don't have an Information (or similar) template, which means that the description, author and source of the file can't be accessed by image tools.
Due to the high number of images to fix, it would take a long time to fix every file manually, so it's recommended to use bots. You may want to use a tracking category for the bot-fixed files, so you can check them later to improve the fields manually. In the meantime, the information will be available thanks to the bots, even if it's not perfect.
You may try different approaches to add the information template. What has worked well on other wikis is a progressive approach like this:
This approach isn't perfect, since some information like the Author and the Source may be put into the Description field. However, it's better for it to be shown in the Description field than not be shown at all, at least until the file is checked manually.
More information is available in the how-to, and I'm also available if you need help. Over a third of all broken files have already been fixed across all wikis, and I'm hoping that we can continue this work to get rid of most of those files.
Guillaume (WMF) ( talk) 18:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
This is, I hope, a relatively simple request – all the bot has to do is mark nominations on
Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Nominations with {{Approved}} ~~~~
or {{Unapproved}}: <insert reason> ~~~~
, with the following conditions:
'''Support'''
s minus number of '''Oppose'''
s (participants are already instructed that only those bolded words will count)That is all, as archiving is handled by Cluebot. Ideally run once every day or two, or at least once a week.
Hello Iam mogoeilor and I'm user of luri lrc and bqi and lki wiki incubators and I want to have a bot with mogoeilor name please help me to create this bot best wishes Mogoeilor ( talk) 01:15, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
so thanks Going Batty I want to have bot in luri lrc incubator please help me best wishes Mogoeilor ( talk) 13:32, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Since we've got syntax-fixing bot tasks (stuff linked with WP:CHECKWIKI), I wonder if one of these bots' operators would be willing to add a link-fixing task. Not everyone knows that [[Subject (disambiguator)|]] doesn't expand to [[Subject (disambiguator)|Subject]] when encased in <ref></ref> tags, so fixes like this one are sometimes necessary. I'm interested in seeing a bot expand these links. It doesn't seem like a WP:CONTEXTBOT problem, since it's obvious what was intended when we see [[Subject (disambiguator)|]] in ref tags. Nyttend ( talk) 15:21, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
It would be helpful to have a bot that compiled a numerical result showing how many articles on any given Wikipedia edition lack references. While quality assessment is very difficult, such an analysis would give a rough 'verifiability index' of individual editions (and a possibility for comparisons between editions).
I assume a simple string search for <ref or reference tags in each article would suffice. If found, the article can be added to the number of referenced articles and the bot can skip to the next one. If it reaches the end of the article and no reference tag is found, the 'unreferenced' count is increased. The end result would just have to be the two resulting sums, which constitute the ratio of referenced vs. unreferenced articles.
I realize there is a certain error margin due to several factors, e.g. malformed references, but that would probably even out, as such errors would be equally distributed between editions.
There's no need for the bot to make any markup, it would just be for statistical QA.
If such a bot already exists or easily can be modified for the task, please advice. Thank you! Asav | Talk 18:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Reflist}}
template. The current number is 3,410,088. Then, subtract it from the number of articles (currently 4,717,510). The downsides of this method are:
{{
Reflist}}
might not have references.<references />
instead. Then there are the articles with neither, but which are still fully-referenced - such as
Actuary. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Reflist}}
. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 04:41, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
(contrary to
WP:CITEVAR and
WP:PAREN). Following
this edit, the {{
reflist}}
should definitely have been removed; so I've now
done that. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:50, 14 February 2015 (UTC){{
Reflist}}
template, so I believe we'll get almost accurate numbers. In fact, most articles with inline citations will have the template. We can change it to transclusions in article namespace, so the python script should work fine. I'm fine with running the script but someone has to help me migrate it to the Labs cluster. And I'm going away on 21st. So, I would rather do it before that. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 04:41, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Ref}}
which can be tackled by the script. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 04:46, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Reflist}}
template,' do you mean the localized or the translated versions (such as {{
Referanser}}
and {{
références}}
) as well? Also, quite a few articles still use the deprecated <references> tag. Would that bot work on those too, or will it have to be adjusted for national/localized editions?May I please have the services of a bot that will run a copy of http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/1889 every week, add columns for the article assessment class, first image, and first sentence, and post the result to Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-11/Traffic report where "2015-02-11" is incremented by 7 days each time? EllenCT ( talk) 01:13, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
@ West.andrew.g: how do you automate the article class for WP:5000? EllenCT ( talk) 01:12, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
@ EllenCT, Milowent, and Serendipodous: Are you still interested in this most edited articles report? I have coded a bot to generate it. Here is a sample. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 04:21, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
I noticed that see also sections sometimes contain multiple redirect links that point to the same page. Would it be possible to automatically remove duplicate links from see also sections, like this section here? Jarble ( talk) 21:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I think the very first question we have to answer is how many pages contain duplicated see also links. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:03, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
We need a bot to scan redirects to sections, and to tag any where the section no longer exists (such as this one; since fixed), with a cleanup tag and/or category. This could be run on a periodic basis Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:27, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Could somebody extract some data for me, please?
I need the Journalisted ID values from: {{ UK MP links}}, {{ UK Peer links}} and {{ Journalisted}}, in a CSV (or Goggle spreadsheet or similar), with the corresponding Wikidata IDs. I'll then add the values to Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:00, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
The {{ unreferenced section}} tag sometimes appears in sections that already have references, including this one. Is it possible to automatically remove these outdated tags? Jarble ( talk) 02:21, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I've been meaning for ages to ask if some kind bot would take this on. The subpage name is of the form Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 February 26; it needs to be added to Wikipedia:Copyright problems after seven days; i.e., the page for 19 February is added at midnight on 26 February. It's being done manually at the moment, would be good if it could be automated. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:24, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
As noted at WP:AN (same section title as this one), this category is supposed to be removed from users that haven't edited lately or that have been indef-blocked, but it's chock full of both kinds of users. Evaluating the first criterion will require a human, but a bot could do the other side. Could someone write a bot that loads each page in the category, examines the block log, and acts on it? With a user that's not indefinitely blocked (this includes temporarily blocked users and non-blocked users), the bot should do nothing, while with a user that is indefinitely blocked, the bot can simply remove the category. Administrative rights might be required in a few exceptional cases, but in most or all cases, the bot wouldn't need any unusual privileges. Nyttend ( talk) 21:19, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
List of these users, thanks to something by Betacommand on the toolserver:
Not sure if this is useful or not, but I appreciate being shown the list. Nyttend ( talk) 01:04, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
I have found a possible way to make filling out the annoying table much easier at WP:TAFIACCOMP. The way is to have a robot to fill out the rest of the {{ Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments/row}} template once the oldid and the diff are added in. I won't have trouble adding the oldids and diffs but am easily bored of adding the rest of the table. If you go to WP:TAFIACCOMP and see the source, then you can see what the other template information is. Qwertyxp2000 ( talk) 03:30, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Stub sorting has been a perennial problem. All too often editors tag articles with Template:Stub, Template:Bio-stub, and other vague stub categories. This leaves categories that should be empty, like Category:Stubs, with hundreds of articles that have to be manually resorted. I propose a bot that leaves a message on the talkpage of users who add vague stub tags, informing them of how stub sorting works and linking them to the article they tagged, asking them to retag it. The disambiguation bot works this way now, so I'm sure it would work for stubs. The stub categories defined as too vague by WikiProject Stub sorting are Template:Animal-stub, Template:Japan-stub, Template:Magazine-stub, Template:Bio-stub, Template:Rpg-videogame-stub, Template:Sports-videogame-stub, Template:Stubs, and Template:Videogame-stub. Liam987 (talk) 01:28, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Could someone add Authority control templates to c. 1000-4000 biograms like bot [2] [3] in Polish wikipedia. Code here: [4] Thanks. Mały koleżka ( talk) 15:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello all, we at the Signpost are currently underway introducing technical archival architecture at the Signpost, and we're in need of talented people to develop the damn thing =). There are essentially two different things we're trying to do:
{{#invoke:Signpost|tag|wikisym}}
you will get:{{#invoke:Signpost|tag|wikisym}}
We want to extend this system to every Signpost article to date, a massive task that'll require combing through more than a decade's worth of published material by volunteers. For the moment, however, I have presented what I hope will serve as the lynchpin of this effort, a proposed research hub of sorts, at User:Resident Mario/sandbox. The next steps are outlined in the To-do. Even populating this list is going to be a challenge and so we need a userscript that'll help us maintain the hub—adding things, deleting them, changing information, etc.
Please help us! :) Res Mar 17:11, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Why not use a bot to move all pages listed at Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation to the corresponding Draft: title? All pages should be moved except (i) redirects and (ii) pages beginning with a number (which are not drafts but talk pages of archives). SD0001 ( talk) 20:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
A common issue with novels is to take a non-notable cheap modern edition of a classic work - say, a Penguin Classics, a Signet Classics, you get the idea. Some modern paperback - and claim irreplaceable fair use on it, when, of course, they are not only replaceable with at least a {{ PD-US-1923-abroad}} image, the replacements have far more encyclopedic value.
I'd like a bot to work backwards from Category:1922 novels until, I don't know, categories will presumably stop by the 17th century or so, and after giving seven days to allow for any actually valid justifications to be stated and made into a whitelist - I wouldn't expect very many - it should nominate all images not on that whitelist for RFU. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 16:42, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Category | Number of articles | Number of bad fair use images found | Number of images that shouldn't be fair use in the first place. | Uncertain (insufficient documentation) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Category:1920 novels | 45 | 1 1a, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6a 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8 | 1, 2, 3, 4 (this one really bad: very obvious.), 5, 6, 7, 8 | 1 (may be a valid fair-use. Published as book much later than written; depends if this is the first book edition, really.) |
Category:1870 novels | 15 | None | None | None |
Category:1820 novels | 5 | None | 1 (at worst, needs cropped) | None |
Moral: People are idiots when it comes to copyright. Also, it may be better to list for discussion, rather than nominate for deletion. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 17:03, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Could someone help with this request please. It used to be processed by SporkBot, but unfortunately Plastikspork is not around lately. It is uncontroversial/maintenance related (which was steadily ongoing for about a year), and can be done quickly. Reh man 06:51, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@
Rehman: Hi! Nice seeing you around! M bot can do most of it but I have a couple of questions: My note on parameters standardisation say that |caption=
and |alt=
is generally preferred than |image_caption=
and |image_alt=
. Moreover, the infobox seems to support both. I see no reason to rename |caption=
to |image_caption=
. Same for alt. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 15:21, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
|caption=
to |image_caption=
alone, there is no use. But this is part of the cleanups we did (since about a year) to comb the parameters on both {{
Infobox power station}} and {{
Infobox dam}}. The target parameters are the most commonly used one anyway, the rename is just to update the last few remaining articles, so that the older parameters can be removed from the infobox once and for all. Thanks,
Reh
man 15:29, 22 February 2015 (UTC)@ Rehman: OK! I can do it. Is there any link to relevant discussions about the renaming? Is this part of some WikiProject? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:36, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Rehman: I can start tomorrow to give time to other editors to check this bot request. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:08, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Rehman: My bot is done. I replaced/removed the requested parameters. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:34, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Rehman: Someone has to check and fix the problems occurred so far. Approx. 250 pages with duplicated parameters created. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:25, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
This part was fixed. Additional request was made. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:03, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Can someone help an admin out here? I closed Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_February_11#Sailors_at_the_Olympics and have been manually removing the CSD tag and adding {{cfd result|Sailors_at_the_Olympics | date = 2015 February 11}} on each talk page. I'm up to 1932 and I really don't want to finish this out. There's possibly more than 75 to go. I'd rather be closing the CSD backlog than doing this. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 05:45, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Ricky81682 It turns you did all by yourself afterall. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I think there are many pages (in many languages) which uses references beginning " http://comenius.susqu.edu/bi/", which changed to: http://comenius.susqu.edu/biol/... eg.: Parazoa(this one I corrected). Can somebody check and correct these URL references? Thanks, JSoos ( talk) 20:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all. Could someone help create a table like this, please (second table)?. Basically, the table should list all articles which uses parameters currently not documented in Template:Infobox power station/doc. The bot owner that handled it previously is no longer active, unfortunately :( Reh man 10:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
I use the visual editor for most of my edits, and I've noticed a class of reference errors that weren't easily visible in the wikitext editor. Here's an example: <ref ="dictionary">Christensen, Lawrence O, (1999) Dictionary of Missouri Biography ISBN 0-8262-1222-0.</ref>; I fixed it, but it's a nuisance because you have to switch to the wikitext editor to do so -- to VE it's not a reference, it's just text, so it can't be easily converted to a proper reference. Another similar problem is when there's no closing or opening quote on the name of the reference -- e.g. <ref name = "dictionary>. Is there a bot that already fixes these? Or is this something that an automated tool such as AWB could do? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 13:15, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty cn you make a database scan and tell me how many pages are with this problem? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
\<ref\s*=
in mainspace (excluding comments).
GoingBatty (
talk) 23:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)GoingBatty did you fix these 344 instances? Do you want me do it? Maybe Rjwilmsi could add something in AWB. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty rev 10869 -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:39, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:24, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:46, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Please see this discussion.
Some citation titles were filled in as "Log In - The New York Times" by Reflinks users because of a technical glitch. I believe that there are about 70 articles, some with more than one citation.
Can a bot or AWB user please do a search for "title=Log In - The New York Times" in article space and simply blank the |title=
parameter? An empty title will generate a red error message in the citation so that helpful gnomes know to look up the article's actual title and fill in the missing information.
Extra credit task: If you are able to generate a list of articles that have had their incorrect titles blanked, I will be happy to fill in the citation titles by hand. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 01:13, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Template talk:Asbox#Prevent categorization in user sandboxes?, would someone be willing to run a null edit bot over the user pages in the stubs categories listed on Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 20:34, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:21, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there! The |format=
parameter at
Template:Infobox television was deprecated a while ago, but as editor Mdrnpndr pointed out, according to
Category:Articles passing format parameter to Infobox television there are still 13.6k articles using |format=
. Per his suggestion in
this discussion on WikiProject Television's talk page, I am requesting a bot to remove the parameter and its contents from these articles, please. If there's anything I can do to help, please ping me. Thank you,
Cyphoidbomb (
talk) 18:11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
|format=
represents data in the system that is not useful. It exists in 13,000+ television articles, but is no longer supported, and was deemed unnecessary after a lengthy discussion (which was actually the last of of several similar discussions I'd opened over several months/years). People keep adding the parameter, presumably because they are copy/pasting from out-of-date infoboxes with which they are familiar. The useless data is taking up space, and if I were slick enough and fast enough with regex and AWB, I'd remove it myself over a looooong span of time and without contest. May I ask what exactly is your objection to the removal of this data that it should be countered with something more verbose than "the parameter has been deprecated"? That is to say that the discussions have already taken place, the parameter was deprecated a few months ago, I don't see a clear reason to oppose the automated removal unless you wish to challenge the change.
Cyphoidbomb (
talk) 02:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
X201 I agree on that. We could make a list of "small fixes" and perform them all at once instead of doing all these small requests one per one. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:36, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
{{ ForaDeJogo}} and {{ ForaDeJogo manager}} should replace ForaDeJogo.net links (in association football articles). SLBedit ( talk) 17:24, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, bot operators. I'd like to request a bot to substitute all transclusions of {{
Infobox Ireland disused station}}, per the
TfD outcome. All that needs to be done is to replace {{Infobox Ireland disused station
with {{subst:Infobox Ireland disused station
. In addition, would it be possible for the bot to relocate any {{
coord}}s to the infobox's coordinate parameters? Thanks!
Alakzi (
talk) 20:31, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
@ Alakzi and Pigsonthewing: The result is this and then I had to do this. Anything else I should be aware of? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:25, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:13, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:26, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
{{ Infobox standard}} is now a wrapper for {{ Infobox song}}, per this discussion. Each of the ~800 instances of the former needs to be Subst:. please. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:10, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:32, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Done Magioladitis ( talk) 00:26, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Request withdrawn
With the deployment of
Module:TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis, cells are now styled with cell padding instead of with a leading whitespace. To match the indentation in doubles tournaments, <br/>
is used to indent the second player in each team. This is no longer necessary.
Requesting change (in AWB format):
<br */?> * *
<br/>
16TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3
16TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3-
-- SocietyBox ( talk) 03:40, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
We've got a problem over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting - by far the largest stub category is Cat:Main Belt asteroid stubs, with 14,000 articles. The thing is, a couple of thousand of them aren't articles - they're redirects, which shouldn't have stub templates (the result of a huge merging campaign on asteroid articles). Is it possible to get a bot to remove the stub templates from all the redirects in this category? Note there are a lot of genuine articles in there too, which would still require stub templates. TIA, Grutness... wha? 00:52, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stub_sorting#.7B.7BCl.7CMain_Belt_asteroid_stubs.7D.7D. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:23, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
A bot that ran through the Signpost archives in 2010 broke a lot of articles circa 2006 by removing (?) closing small
tags. These need to be reinserted. For instance:
[5],
[6],
[7]. @
FinalRapture: though he appears to be vanished.
Res
Mar 16:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, Res Mar 16:37, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Not done
Https ought to be encouraged and as such where an URL is available in https rather than http and the content is the same the https version should be used. I therefore propose a bot which goes through http links, checks if they exist in https, checks the content if they do and if the content is identical replaces the link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dizzi90 ( talk • contribs) 12:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Not done Per reasons expressed above this task can't be done. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
It would be helpful for dealing with some of the over 10,000 broken redirect section titles if we could had a bot that quickly found very similar section titles for redirects, having found List_of_Tom_and_Jerry_characters#Tom_.26_Jerry_Kids to not work, it would check section headings and find List_of_Tom_and_Jerry_characters#Tom_and_Jerry_Kids works, so replace/recommend replacing it with that (depending on if it is automatic or semi-automatic). Ideally it would also do captialisation
It would also be helpful if when presented with Direct sum of abelian groups which redirected to the broken Direct sum#abgrps it noticed Direct sum#Direct sum of abelian groups and suggested this (ie noticed the title of the page it's redirecting from as a section header).
Ideally I'd like this bot to run on the two pages of Wikipedia:Database_reports/Broken_section_anchors directly. Banak ( talk) 05:24, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Is this really resolved? Special:Contributions/Dexbot shows zero contributions since 19 March 2015, before his discussion started. Banak ( talk) 14:47, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Banak please contact Ladsgroup directly so that we have this case cleared out. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 09:13, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Per discussion at WT:SHIPS#On hull/pennant numbers I'd like to request that a bot create redirects from IMO Numbers to ship articles. The redirects would be in the form of IMO 12345767890, where 1234567890 represents the actual number. The IMO numbers are listed in the infoboxes of ship articles where the ship is listed in Category:IMO Number. Once created, a monthly or bi-monthly run to update would be required. Mjroots ( talk) 20:34, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Bot approved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:16, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Please remove {{ Iw-ref}} from all articles and replace with {{ Translated page}} on the article's talk page. Consensus here: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 March 22#Iw-ref. Thank you, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:37, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Quite a simple request. Need a bot to go through the template populated category of
Category:Maintained articles and remove all uses of {{
Maintained}}. I have been using this edit summary so far, but with 4,000-ish transclusions a bot would be quicker. Removing {{
Maintained}} from header per
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 March 16#Template:Maintained
. Thanks!
EoRdE6(
Come Talk to Me!) 00:09, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
On a daily basis, I come across {{ Citation needed}} templates placed incorrectly. When put at the end of a sentence, the template should be located after the period, not before. For example: "X is Y.{{ Citation needed}}" is correct; "X is Y{{ Citation needed}}." is wrong. Would it be possible to have a bot move the template (as well as other similar inline templates) to the correct position? Many thanks. -- Albany NY ( talk) 16:38, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Yobot, BG19bot and other fix this error daily. In fact, is part of WP:CHECKWIKI and in particular it is part error #61. We provide list of pages with references and citation templates before punctuation. The fix is also part of WP:AWB's general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
When working on some other page, I found that there was more than one Hungarian Politician named Imre Horváth. I created a new article for the other one ( Imre Horváth (Hungarian politician, born 1944) Currently the name links to one of them, and has a number of backlinks (which I assume are to the correct person, as he seems more famous). My request is to help change the links that link to Imre Horváth to link to Imre Horváth (Hungarian politician, 1901-1958) (also, did I get the naming correct?), so a disambiguation page can be added for the name. WP:FIXDABLINKS recommends changing links before creating a disambiguation page, and seing as it suggest using a bot to accomplish this I though it would be relevant to ask here. Øln ( talk) 00:40, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
EDIT: Please ignore this request, as it turns out most of the links are from the same template, so fixing it manually won't be as much work after all. Øln ( talk) 00:46, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
I messed up with User_talk:Legobot#GA_bot.2FStats. Can anyone help? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:03, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Problem fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:12, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The "Edit" links on many "List of minor planets" articles no longer work, due to some mass page moves a few years ago. To fix this, and to keep things tidy, these articles should be edited to bypass the redirects that say "asteroids" instead of "minor planets". Specifically, every occurrence of "List of asteroids/" should be replaced with "List of minor planets/" on every page beginning with "List of minor planets: ". See List of minor planets: 16001–17000 for an example of a page that needs to be fixed, and see my manual edits here and here for examples of the change that needs to be made. Thank you. — Granger ( talk · contribs) 18:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:}}
to a lot of these subpages, but placed them outside the existing <noinclude>...</noinclude>
, with the result that the pages transcluding them end up in
Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts - because e.g.
List of minor planets: 110001–111000 transcludes ten subpages, each with a different {{DEFAULTSORT:}}
. I've fixed a few,
like this. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:58, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
<onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude>
instead of the dual <noinclude>...</noinclude>
since that one is easier for Yobot to understand. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 23:51, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Plastikspork is this task done now? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:34, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Instances of {{ Infobox German location}} which use German parameter names should have them replaced with English parameter names (both sets of names are listed in the template's documentation). Can someone oblige, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:22, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
Pigsonthewing Bot done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:34, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
It would be useful to have a bot update the lists at WikiProject Fix common mistakes. This would need to be done every month when a new database dump is produced. The bot would;
The above would save a lot of hassle for human editors and ensure that the list were always up to date. A possible addition could be to check the 'list pages' Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes/a a etc. once a week and remove any pages from the list that no longer contain the error (this would clean up after editors that forgot to and would mean later editors wouldn't be checking pages that had no mistakes) Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 10:35, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
I would like a bot to add Template:WikiProject New Zealand to the talk page of all articles and lists that are in Category:New Zealand and descendants. I'm not 100% sure that none of the descendants link to Category:Humans or something insane, so some kind of check may be needed. Leakage to other parts of the Realm of New Zealand is expected due to the ambiguity of 'New Zealand' and not a problem. I'm happy to do manual checking if necessary. I expect these additions to be non-controversial, but I'll post a message to the Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board pointing to this discussion. Stuartyeates ( talk) 03:56, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
|politics=yes
, |maori=yes
, and |music=yes
. Lastly, I'd like to suggest that the class and relevant importance parameters be included as empty fields. By way of example, if an article were to be part of all three sub-projects, the complete code to add would be as follows: {{WPNZ|class=|importance=|politics=yes|politics-importance=|maori=yes|maori-importance=|music=yes|music-importance=}}
Schwede
66 10:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone help to subst {{ cite isbn}}? Fewer than 1,000 tranclusions. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:58, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes do you know why the script does not work for August Kekulé? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:31, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
{{cite doi}}
was often only used once, whereas {{cite isbn}}
is more frequently used in many articles).
Curly Turkey
¡gobble! 22:57, 27 April 2015 (UTC)Frietjes, Plastikspork I did some more. What is to be done with those with no subpage attached? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:56, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes, Plastikspork 41 pages in mainspace. Any help is appreciated. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:34, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Pinging Magioladitis, Alakzi, AManWithNoPlan as Erel Segal did not sign when doing so at 08:16. Rcsprinter123 (drawl) @ 16:23, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi - I'd like to request a bot run a quick text edit on about 100 New Zealand-related articles which refer to "Northern Canterbury" (about 70 articles) and "Southern Canterbury" (about 30). In New Zealand usage, such terms are never encountered - the two areas are always known as "North Canterbury" and "South Canterbury" respectively. TIA, Grutness... wha? 02:25, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I have just made a humungous mass-nomination (over 2000 categories) at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 1#Churches/Church buildings, and I need a bot to tag most of these - I tagges the base category ( Category:Church buildings), a pair of categories which will need to be merged, and a single category which has an unrelated deletion nomination; I would like a bot to tag the rest - see full list at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 1/list. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:22, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Could all articles in the categories listed at
Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Category_List please be added to
WP:WPNZ using the {{WPNZ}}
template. As a secondary concern, the automated tagging of biographies, politics, maori and music subs would be icing on the cake.
Stuartyeates (
talk) 11:28, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Stuartyeates I can do that. Here are the rules: User:Yobot#WikiProject_tagging. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:18, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
5157 categories... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:20, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Thus, the bot run will start in 3 days. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 22:27, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Stuartyeates I expect 20,000 new pages to be tagged for the project. The project right now has 36,714 pages and after the tagging it will expand to 56,714 pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:31, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
{{WikiProject New Zealand|class=|importance=}}
be added instead, so that assessment is a tad easier?
Schwede
66 01:47, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I am 100% ready to run the bot. I performed the preliminary run that is needed in order to avoid duplicated tags, etc. If I have not started in the next 2 days, please ping me. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:38, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Doing... Bot started. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:05, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Lugnuts: thanks for stopping the bot. Stuartyeates please check the category tree again and remove the inappropriate categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Lugnuts: The bot did 1523 edits prior to stop. Please free to remove all those who were not appropriate. I won't be online for the next 48 hours. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:29, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Stuartyeates please check the category tree again and remove the inappropriate categories. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:30, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Ritchie333 I renamed the section in order to directly link here per request. I set some rules of how the bot tagging is done. It is responsibility of the person who requests the tagging and of the wikiproject to check the details. This is the reason I give 3 days to raise questions about the tagging. I usually start 3 days after the last comment. This time I started 4 days after. It turns to be a common situation that a bad category is included in the list requested. It was slightly reduced after the tagging stopped including subcategories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:41, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Magioladitis I've removed even more cats. Are you thinking of restarting the bot, or are we giving up on this? I'll trust your judgment as a bot operator. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:18, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Less than 10,000 pages. Much better than last time. List reduced 50%. I'll start the bot soon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:48, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Doing... Bot started again. Lugnuts, Ritchie333, Stuartyeates feel free to stop the bot at anytime. I'll limit tagging in 6 pages per minute for the first few hours. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:30, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
I stopped the bot to investigate. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:25, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64 and Schwede66:: These were in the category tree
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:27, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
213 pages affected... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:29, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64 and Schwede66:: I'll fix all. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:38, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64, Schwede66, and Stuartyeates::Done. I removed all the invalid tags. I resumed the bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:49, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
I stopped temporarily to fix my PC. I'll resume in a few hours. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:09, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Resumed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:50, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
I stopped the bot to investigate. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:51, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Schwede66 pages are in hidden Category:Singlechart usages for New Zealand. (A reason I dislike hidden categories). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:56, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Removed category from the list. 412 pages affected. Fixing them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:01, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
2000 pages excluded from the to-do list. Bot resumed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:04, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64, Schwede66, and Stuartyeates:: Bot run completed. Feel free to review the edits. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:43, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Stuartyeates: I reverted 7 pages per User_talk:Magioladitis#Yobot_and_WikiProject_New_Zealand. The rest is up to WikiProject to decide. Everyone feel free to revert my bot. I just did what I was asked to do. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:44, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Its been years since Wikivoyage moved under Wikimedia umbrella and it was discussed somewhere that links to Wikitravel articles on respective geographical articles on WP will be replaced by links to Wikivoyage articles but I can still see many WP articles still have links to to Wikitravel articles but not to Wikivoyage. I on behald of Wikivoyage community kindly request that a bot be run to replace all the Wikitravel links with Wikivoyage and add template where there's no link right now. -- Saqib ( talk) 14:45, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
I am not sure but somebody would have already asked it.
Can there something be done to Teahouse so that unanswered questions have some notice (either in bold or a tag on it like {{unanswered}}) for those questions which has not been answered yet?
Sometimes, I see some user's question goes down (under other questions:) and other were actually answered quickly but not his/her
aGastya
✉ let's have a constructive talk about it (: 15:04, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there! As part of WikiProject X, we are looking for volunteers to work on some bots and gadgets that will help address the various needs of WikiProjects and Wikipedia editors. If you are interested, check out Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Volunteers, which will be updated as new ideas are developed. Thanks, Harej ( talk) 21:03, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
i have created two articla one name
Chrome (Rapper) AND THE OTHER IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT A RAPPER NAME CHROME WHO I HAVE BEEN WRITTING AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE TITLE OF THE PAGE IS project landlord (chrome)..can you please help me
MuzicFan1981 (
talk) 09:36, 16 April 2015
Per this discussion: Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#access_date_without_url And this category Category:Pages_using_citations_with_accessdate_and_no_URL Remove access dates from {{ citation}} and {{ cite}} when there is no url. Only do this if(and only if) there is another link out such as HDL, PMC, PMID, JSTOR, or DOI. Otherwise assume that a human needs to look at it, since there is an access date, but no link of any kind. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 15:25, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
This can't be that difficult. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:26, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
I can do the task with the following restrictions:
Please comment, if you agree with this restrictions or there are any other restrictions necessary. -- Pavlo Chemist ( talk) 09:07, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
@ AManWithNoPlan, GoingBatty, and Rjwilmsi: for advice and for the questions posed by Pavlo. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:15, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Most of the Indian villages and towns does not contain any population data or have older(2001) data. This bot will update insert data from official Indian census website — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mittalmailbox ( talk • contribs) 14:52, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Last year, a dft_category
parameter was added to {{
Infobox GB station}}. However, still only a minority of railway station articles are using it, although there have been Wikipedia categories for them for much longer.
I am therefore requesting a bot to go through these articles (categories A–C2 have been done manually, and so only
D,
E,
F1 and
F2 still need to be done). The action to be performed on each is to add | dft_category = [category]
to the infobox, and remove the manually-added category (since the infobox automagically adds the article to the relevant category, and having it there manually as well would create a risk of the two becoming out of sync).
I can see that there are cases that would need to be considered:
— Smjg ( talk) 17:28, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
infobox London station}}
{{
infobox GB station}}
or its redirect {{
infobox UK station}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:37, 12 March 2015 (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) 04:11, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
I need a bot that can receive input data, feed it into a field on a page, and then request that data be returned from the server. This process needs to be done repeatedly with hundreds of data samples. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.141.50.174 ( talk) 02:37, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
There are many articles on Wikipedia that have too many cleanup tags, and many of these tags have remained in place for years without being resolved. I propose the creation of an automatically maintained category called Category:Articles with more than 5 cleanup tags, which would help us to remove these unnecessary tags. Jarble ( talk) 03:45, 4 May 2015 (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 60 | Archive 61 | Archive 62 | Archive 63 | Archive 64 | Archive 65 | → | Archive 70 |
Done paused
-
DePiep (
talk) 08:22, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Request. About:
Category:Chembox templates, that lists ~150 templates (at top level). I'd like to have:
If not too difficult, I'd like to have too:
The table can be written on any convenient page, also my User:DePiep/sandbox or a new page in my userspace. Can someone make that? - DePiep ( talk) 15:04, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I would like to request User:Yobot or any other bot to tag all ant-related articles with Template:WPINSECTS. I've notified WikiProject Insects about this request and estimate that this run involves about 1800 pages excluding redirects.
{{WikiProject Insects|class=|importance=|ants=yes|ants-importance=}}
to the listed categoriesI am aware that "including all subcategories" requests goes against Yobot's rules, but there should not be any "oops I forgot to exclude that category" moments here as all member pages of Category:Ant taxonomy are taxa or list of taxa (and I've spent quite some time expanding/managing these categories). If the bot owner still prefer a 100% no-oopises list, I'll expand this list with the about 30 remaining subcategories.
Thanks in advance, jonkerz ♠ talk 16:03, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
|ants-importance=
not |ants-priority=
as shown above. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:48, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Some stats:
Seems reasonable. I already normalised banners waiting for final bot run. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
needs-photo=yes
to articles not containing any images?
jonkerz ♠
talk 14:54, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
@ Magioladitis:
{{WikiProject Insects|class=|importance=|ants=yes|ants-importance=}}
Bot assessing stub articles is more important than needs-photo=yes
, but if the bot could take care of both tasks, that would be a real timesaver.
jonkerz ♠
talk 23:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Started tagging (at last!). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:16, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
jonkerz bot done with |ants=
. I did not do the stub articles and the needs-photo=yes
part... yet. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 13:12, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Greetings,
I'm reaching out to you because this wiki is the 2nd wiki with the most files missing machine-readable information, and I'm hoping you can help.
As you may know, the official Licensing policy of the Wikimedia Foundation mandates that "Non-free content […] must be identified in a machine-readable format so that it can be easily identified by users of the site as well as re-users."
As part of the File metadata cleanup drive, I and others have been adding machine-readable markers to many templates, but that is not enough.
Many files on this wiki don't have an Information (or similar) template, which means that the description, author and source of the file can't be accessed by image tools.
Due to the high number of images to fix, it would take a long time to fix every file manually, so it's recommended to use bots. You may want to use a tracking category for the bot-fixed files, so you can check them later to improve the fields manually. In the meantime, the information will be available thanks to the bots, even if it's not perfect.
You may try different approaches to add the information template. What has worked well on other wikis is a progressive approach like this:
This approach isn't perfect, since some information like the Author and the Source may be put into the Description field. However, it's better for it to be shown in the Description field than not be shown at all, at least until the file is checked manually.
More information is available in the how-to, and I'm also available if you need help. Over a third of all broken files have already been fixed across all wikis, and I'm hoping that we can continue this work to get rid of most of those files.
Guillaume (WMF) ( talk) 18:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
This is, I hope, a relatively simple request – all the bot has to do is mark nominations on
Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Nominations with {{Approved}} ~~~~
or {{Unapproved}}: <insert reason> ~~~~
, with the following conditions:
'''Support'''
s minus number of '''Oppose'''
s (participants are already instructed that only those bolded words will count)That is all, as archiving is handled by Cluebot. Ideally run once every day or two, or at least once a week.
Hello Iam mogoeilor and I'm user of luri lrc and bqi and lki wiki incubators and I want to have a bot with mogoeilor name please help me to create this bot best wishes Mogoeilor ( talk) 01:15, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
so thanks Going Batty I want to have bot in luri lrc incubator please help me best wishes Mogoeilor ( talk) 13:32, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Since we've got syntax-fixing bot tasks (stuff linked with WP:CHECKWIKI), I wonder if one of these bots' operators would be willing to add a link-fixing task. Not everyone knows that [[Subject (disambiguator)|]] doesn't expand to [[Subject (disambiguator)|Subject]] when encased in <ref></ref> tags, so fixes like this one are sometimes necessary. I'm interested in seeing a bot expand these links. It doesn't seem like a WP:CONTEXTBOT problem, since it's obvious what was intended when we see [[Subject (disambiguator)|]] in ref tags. Nyttend ( talk) 15:21, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
It would be helpful to have a bot that compiled a numerical result showing how many articles on any given Wikipedia edition lack references. While quality assessment is very difficult, such an analysis would give a rough 'verifiability index' of individual editions (and a possibility for comparisons between editions).
I assume a simple string search for <ref or reference tags in each article would suffice. If found, the article can be added to the number of referenced articles and the bot can skip to the next one. If it reaches the end of the article and no reference tag is found, the 'unreferenced' count is increased. The end result would just have to be the two resulting sums, which constitute the ratio of referenced vs. unreferenced articles.
I realize there is a certain error margin due to several factors, e.g. malformed references, but that would probably even out, as such errors would be equally distributed between editions.
There's no need for the bot to make any markup, it would just be for statistical QA.
If such a bot already exists or easily can be modified for the task, please advice. Thank you! Asav | Talk 18:57, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Reflist}}
template. The current number is 3,410,088. Then, subtract it from the number of articles (currently 4,717,510). The downsides of this method are:
{{
Reflist}}
might not have references.<references />
instead. Then there are the articles with neither, but which are still fully-referenced - such as
Actuary. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Reflist}}
. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 04:41, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
(contrary to
WP:CITEVAR and
WP:PAREN). Following
this edit, the {{
reflist}}
should definitely have been removed; so I've now
done that. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 16:50, 14 February 2015 (UTC){{
Reflist}}
template, so I believe we'll get almost accurate numbers. In fact, most articles with inline citations will have the template. We can change it to transclusions in article namespace, so the python script should work fine. I'm fine with running the script but someone has to help me migrate it to the Labs cluster. And I'm going away on 21st. So, I would rather do it before that. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 04:41, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Ref}}
which can be tackled by the script. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 04:46, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
Reflist}}
template,' do you mean the localized or the translated versions (such as {{
Referanser}}
and {{
références}}
) as well? Also, quite a few articles still use the deprecated <references> tag. Would that bot work on those too, or will it have to be adjusted for national/localized editions?May I please have the services of a bot that will run a copy of http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/1889 every week, add columns for the article assessment class, first image, and first sentence, and post the result to Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-11/Traffic report where "2015-02-11" is incremented by 7 days each time? EllenCT ( talk) 01:13, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
@ West.andrew.g: how do you automate the article class for WP:5000? EllenCT ( talk) 01:12, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
@ EllenCT, Milowent, and Serendipodous: Are you still interested in this most edited articles report? I have coded a bot to generate it. Here is a sample. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 04:21, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
I noticed that see also sections sometimes contain multiple redirect links that point to the same page. Would it be possible to automatically remove duplicate links from see also sections, like this section here? Jarble ( talk) 21:47, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I think the very first question we have to answer is how many pages contain duplicated see also links. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:03, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
We need a bot to scan redirects to sections, and to tag any where the section no longer exists (such as this one; since fixed), with a cleanup tag and/or category. This could be run on a periodic basis Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:27, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Could somebody extract some data for me, please?
I need the Journalisted ID values from: {{ UK MP links}}, {{ UK Peer links}} and {{ Journalisted}}, in a CSV (or Goggle spreadsheet or similar), with the corresponding Wikidata IDs. I'll then add the values to Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:00, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
The {{ unreferenced section}} tag sometimes appears in sections that already have references, including this one. Is it possible to automatically remove these outdated tags? Jarble ( talk) 02:21, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I've been meaning for ages to ask if some kind bot would take this on. The subpage name is of the form Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2015 February 26; it needs to be added to Wikipedia:Copyright problems after seven days; i.e., the page for 19 February is added at midnight on 26 February. It's being done manually at the moment, would be good if it could be automated. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:24, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
As noted at WP:AN (same section title as this one), this category is supposed to be removed from users that haven't edited lately or that have been indef-blocked, but it's chock full of both kinds of users. Evaluating the first criterion will require a human, but a bot could do the other side. Could someone write a bot that loads each page in the category, examines the block log, and acts on it? With a user that's not indefinitely blocked (this includes temporarily blocked users and non-blocked users), the bot should do nothing, while with a user that is indefinitely blocked, the bot can simply remove the category. Administrative rights might be required in a few exceptional cases, but in most or all cases, the bot wouldn't need any unusual privileges. Nyttend ( talk) 21:19, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
List of these users, thanks to something by Betacommand on the toolserver:
Not sure if this is useful or not, but I appreciate being shown the list. Nyttend ( talk) 01:04, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
I have found a possible way to make filling out the annoying table much easier at WP:TAFIACCOMP. The way is to have a robot to fill out the rest of the {{ Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Accomplishments/row}} template once the oldid and the diff are added in. I won't have trouble adding the oldids and diffs but am easily bored of adding the rest of the table. If you go to WP:TAFIACCOMP and see the source, then you can see what the other template information is. Qwertyxp2000 ( talk) 03:30, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Stub sorting has been a perennial problem. All too often editors tag articles with Template:Stub, Template:Bio-stub, and other vague stub categories. This leaves categories that should be empty, like Category:Stubs, with hundreds of articles that have to be manually resorted. I propose a bot that leaves a message on the talkpage of users who add vague stub tags, informing them of how stub sorting works and linking them to the article they tagged, asking them to retag it. The disambiguation bot works this way now, so I'm sure it would work for stubs. The stub categories defined as too vague by WikiProject Stub sorting are Template:Animal-stub, Template:Japan-stub, Template:Magazine-stub, Template:Bio-stub, Template:Rpg-videogame-stub, Template:Sports-videogame-stub, Template:Stubs, and Template:Videogame-stub. Liam987 (talk) 01:28, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Could someone add Authority control templates to c. 1000-4000 biograms like bot [2] [3] in Polish wikipedia. Code here: [4] Thanks. Mały koleżka ( talk) 15:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello all, we at the Signpost are currently underway introducing technical archival architecture at the Signpost, and we're in need of talented people to develop the damn thing =). There are essentially two different things we're trying to do:
{{#invoke:Signpost|tag|wikisym}}
you will get:{{#invoke:Signpost|tag|wikisym}}
We want to extend this system to every Signpost article to date, a massive task that'll require combing through more than a decade's worth of published material by volunteers. For the moment, however, I have presented what I hope will serve as the lynchpin of this effort, a proposed research hub of sorts, at User:Resident Mario/sandbox. The next steps are outlined in the To-do. Even populating this list is going to be a challenge and so we need a userscript that'll help us maintain the hub—adding things, deleting them, changing information, etc.
Please help us! :) Res Mar 17:11, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Why not use a bot to move all pages listed at Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation to the corresponding Draft: title? All pages should be moved except (i) redirects and (ii) pages beginning with a number (which are not drafts but talk pages of archives). SD0001 ( talk) 20:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
A common issue with novels is to take a non-notable cheap modern edition of a classic work - say, a Penguin Classics, a Signet Classics, you get the idea. Some modern paperback - and claim irreplaceable fair use on it, when, of course, they are not only replaceable with at least a {{ PD-US-1923-abroad}} image, the replacements have far more encyclopedic value.
I'd like a bot to work backwards from Category:1922 novels until, I don't know, categories will presumably stop by the 17th century or so, and after giving seven days to allow for any actually valid justifications to be stated and made into a whitelist - I wouldn't expect very many - it should nominate all images not on that whitelist for RFU. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 16:42, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Category | Number of articles | Number of bad fair use images found | Number of images that shouldn't be fair use in the first place. | Uncertain (insufficient documentation) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Category:1920 novels | 45 | 1 1a, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6a 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8 | 1, 2, 3, 4 (this one really bad: very obvious.), 5, 6, 7, 8 | 1 (may be a valid fair-use. Published as book much later than written; depends if this is the first book edition, really.) |
Category:1870 novels | 15 | None | None | None |
Category:1820 novels | 5 | None | 1 (at worst, needs cropped) | None |
Moral: People are idiots when it comes to copyright. Also, it may be better to list for discussion, rather than nominate for deletion. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 17:03, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Could someone help with this request please. It used to be processed by SporkBot, but unfortunately Plastikspork is not around lately. It is uncontroversial/maintenance related (which was steadily ongoing for about a year), and can be done quickly. Reh man 06:51, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@
Rehman: Hi! Nice seeing you around! M bot can do most of it but I have a couple of questions: My note on parameters standardisation say that |caption=
and |alt=
is generally preferred than |image_caption=
and |image_alt=
. Moreover, the infobox seems to support both. I see no reason to rename |caption=
to |image_caption=
. Same for alt. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 15:21, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
|caption=
to |image_caption=
alone, there is no use. But this is part of the cleanups we did (since about a year) to comb the parameters on both {{
Infobox power station}} and {{
Infobox dam}}. The target parameters are the most commonly used one anyway, the rename is just to update the last few remaining articles, so that the older parameters can be removed from the infobox once and for all. Thanks,
Reh
man 15:29, 22 February 2015 (UTC)@ Rehman: OK! I can do it. Is there any link to relevant discussions about the renaming? Is this part of some WikiProject? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:36, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Rehman: I can start tomorrow to give time to other editors to check this bot request. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:08, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Rehman: My bot is done. I replaced/removed the requested parameters. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 02:34, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Rehman: Someone has to check and fix the problems occurred so far. Approx. 250 pages with duplicated parameters created. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:25, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
This part was fixed. Additional request was made. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:03, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Can someone help an admin out here? I closed Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_February_11#Sailors_at_the_Olympics and have been manually removing the CSD tag and adding {{cfd result|Sailors_at_the_Olympics | date = 2015 February 11}} on each talk page. I'm up to 1932 and I really don't want to finish this out. There's possibly more than 75 to go. I'd rather be closing the CSD backlog than doing this. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 05:45, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Ricky81682 It turns you did all by yourself afterall. :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:11, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
I think there are many pages (in many languages) which uses references beginning " http://comenius.susqu.edu/bi/", which changed to: http://comenius.susqu.edu/biol/... eg.: Parazoa(this one I corrected). Can somebody check and correct these URL references? Thanks, JSoos ( talk) 20:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all. Could someone help create a table like this, please (second table)?. Basically, the table should list all articles which uses parameters currently not documented in Template:Infobox power station/doc. The bot owner that handled it previously is no longer active, unfortunately :( Reh man 10:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
I use the visual editor for most of my edits, and I've noticed a class of reference errors that weren't easily visible in the wikitext editor. Here's an example: <ref ="dictionary">Christensen, Lawrence O, (1999) Dictionary of Missouri Biography ISBN 0-8262-1222-0.</ref>; I fixed it, but it's a nuisance because you have to switch to the wikitext editor to do so -- to VE it's not a reference, it's just text, so it can't be easily converted to a proper reference. Another similar problem is when there's no closing or opening quote on the name of the reference -- e.g. <ref name = "dictionary>. Is there a bot that already fixes these? Or is this something that an automated tool such as AWB could do? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 13:15, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty cn you make a database scan and tell me how many pages are with this problem? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
\<ref\s*=
in mainspace (excluding comments).
GoingBatty (
talk) 23:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)GoingBatty did you fix these 344 instances? Do you want me do it? Maybe Rjwilmsi could add something in AWB. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty rev 10869 -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:39, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:24, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:46, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Please see this discussion.
Some citation titles were filled in as "Log In - The New York Times" by Reflinks users because of a technical glitch. I believe that there are about 70 articles, some with more than one citation.
Can a bot or AWB user please do a search for "title=Log In - The New York Times" in article space and simply blank the |title=
parameter? An empty title will generate a red error message in the citation so that helpful gnomes know to look up the article's actual title and fill in the missing information.
Extra credit task: If you are able to generate a list of articles that have had their incorrect titles blanked, I will be happy to fill in the citation titles by hand. Thanks. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 01:13, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Template talk:Asbox#Prevent categorization in user sandboxes?, would someone be willing to run a null edit bot over the user pages in the stubs categories listed on Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 20:34, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
GoingBatty done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:21, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi there! The |format=
parameter at
Template:Infobox television was deprecated a while ago, but as editor Mdrnpndr pointed out, according to
Category:Articles passing format parameter to Infobox television there are still 13.6k articles using |format=
. Per his suggestion in
this discussion on WikiProject Television's talk page, I am requesting a bot to remove the parameter and its contents from these articles, please. If there's anything I can do to help, please ping me. Thank you,
Cyphoidbomb (
talk) 18:11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
|format=
represents data in the system that is not useful. It exists in 13,000+ television articles, but is no longer supported, and was deemed unnecessary after a lengthy discussion (which was actually the last of of several similar discussions I'd opened over several months/years). People keep adding the parameter, presumably because they are copy/pasting from out-of-date infoboxes with which they are familiar. The useless data is taking up space, and if I were slick enough and fast enough with regex and AWB, I'd remove it myself over a looooong span of time and without contest. May I ask what exactly is your objection to the removal of this data that it should be countered with something more verbose than "the parameter has been deprecated"? That is to say that the discussions have already taken place, the parameter was deprecated a few months ago, I don't see a clear reason to oppose the automated removal unless you wish to challenge the change.
Cyphoidbomb (
talk) 02:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
X201 I agree on that. We could make a list of "small fixes" and perform them all at once instead of doing all these small requests one per one. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:36, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
{{ ForaDeJogo}} and {{ ForaDeJogo manager}} should replace ForaDeJogo.net links (in association football articles). SLBedit ( talk) 17:24, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, bot operators. I'd like to request a bot to substitute all transclusions of {{
Infobox Ireland disused station}}, per the
TfD outcome. All that needs to be done is to replace {{Infobox Ireland disused station
with {{subst:Infobox Ireland disused station
. In addition, would it be possible for the bot to relocate any {{
coord}}s to the infobox's coordinate parameters? Thanks!
Alakzi (
talk) 20:31, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
@ Alakzi and Pigsonthewing: The result is this and then I had to do this. Anything else I should be aware of? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:25, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:13, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:26, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
{{ Infobox standard}} is now a wrapper for {{ Infobox song}}, per this discussion. Each of the ~800 instances of the former needs to be Subst:. please. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:10, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Doing... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:32, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Done Magioladitis ( talk) 00:26, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Request withdrawn
With the deployment of
Module:TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis, cells are now styled with cell padding instead of with a leading whitespace. To match the indentation in doubles tournaments, <br/>
is used to indent the second player in each team. This is no longer necessary.
Requesting change (in AWB format):
<br */?> * *
<br/>
16TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3
16TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3-
-- SocietyBox ( talk) 03:40, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
We've got a problem over in Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting - by far the largest stub category is Cat:Main Belt asteroid stubs, with 14,000 articles. The thing is, a couple of thousand of them aren't articles - they're redirects, which shouldn't have stub templates (the result of a huge merging campaign on asteroid articles). Is it possible to get a bot to remove the stub templates from all the redirects in this category? Note there are a lot of genuine articles in there too, which would still require stub templates. TIA, Grutness... wha? 00:52, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stub_sorting#.7B.7BCl.7CMain_Belt_asteroid_stubs.7D.7D. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:23, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
A bot that ran through the Signpost archives in 2010 broke a lot of articles circa 2006 by removing (?) closing small
tags. These need to be reinserted. For instance:
[5],
[6],
[7]. @
FinalRapture: though he appears to be vanished.
Res
Mar 16:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, Res Mar 16:37, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Not done
Https ought to be encouraged and as such where an URL is available in https rather than http and the content is the same the https version should be used. I therefore propose a bot which goes through http links, checks if they exist in https, checks the content if they do and if the content is identical replaces the link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dizzi90 ( talk • contribs) 12:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Not done Per reasons expressed above this task can't be done. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
It would be helpful for dealing with some of the over 10,000 broken redirect section titles if we could had a bot that quickly found very similar section titles for redirects, having found List_of_Tom_and_Jerry_characters#Tom_.26_Jerry_Kids to not work, it would check section headings and find List_of_Tom_and_Jerry_characters#Tom_and_Jerry_Kids works, so replace/recommend replacing it with that (depending on if it is automatic or semi-automatic). Ideally it would also do captialisation
It would also be helpful if when presented with Direct sum of abelian groups which redirected to the broken Direct sum#abgrps it noticed Direct sum#Direct sum of abelian groups and suggested this (ie noticed the title of the page it's redirecting from as a section header).
Ideally I'd like this bot to run on the two pages of Wikipedia:Database_reports/Broken_section_anchors directly. Banak ( talk) 05:24, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Is this really resolved? Special:Contributions/Dexbot shows zero contributions since 19 March 2015, before his discussion started. Banak ( talk) 14:47, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Banak please contact Ladsgroup directly so that we have this case cleared out. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 09:13, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Per discussion at WT:SHIPS#On hull/pennant numbers I'd like to request that a bot create redirects from IMO Numbers to ship articles. The redirects would be in the form of IMO 12345767890, where 1234567890 represents the actual number. The IMO numbers are listed in the infoboxes of ship articles where the ship is listed in Category:IMO Number. Once created, a monthly or bi-monthly run to update would be required. Mjroots ( talk) 20:34, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Bot approved. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:16, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Please remove {{ Iw-ref}} from all articles and replace with {{ Translated page}} on the article's talk page. Consensus here: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 March 22#Iw-ref. Thank you, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 14:37, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Quite a simple request. Need a bot to go through the template populated category of
Category:Maintained articles and remove all uses of {{
Maintained}}. I have been using this edit summary so far, but with 4,000-ish transclusions a bot would be quicker. Removing {{
Maintained}} from header per
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 March 16#Template:Maintained
. Thanks!
EoRdE6(
Come Talk to Me!) 00:09, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
On a daily basis, I come across {{ Citation needed}} templates placed incorrectly. When put at the end of a sentence, the template should be located after the period, not before. For example: "X is Y.{{ Citation needed}}" is correct; "X is Y{{ Citation needed}}." is wrong. Would it be possible to have a bot move the template (as well as other similar inline templates) to the correct position? Many thanks. -- Albany NY ( talk) 16:38, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Yobot, BG19bot and other fix this error daily. In fact, is part of WP:CHECKWIKI and in particular it is part error #61. We provide list of pages with references and citation templates before punctuation. The fix is also part of WP:AWB's general fixes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
When working on some other page, I found that there was more than one Hungarian Politician named Imre Horváth. I created a new article for the other one ( Imre Horváth (Hungarian politician, born 1944) Currently the name links to one of them, and has a number of backlinks (which I assume are to the correct person, as he seems more famous). My request is to help change the links that link to Imre Horváth to link to Imre Horváth (Hungarian politician, 1901-1958) (also, did I get the naming correct?), so a disambiguation page can be added for the name. WP:FIXDABLINKS recommends changing links before creating a disambiguation page, and seing as it suggest using a bot to accomplish this I though it would be relevant to ask here. Øln ( talk) 00:40, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
EDIT: Please ignore this request, as it turns out most of the links are from the same template, so fixing it manually won't be as much work after all. Øln ( talk) 00:46, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
I messed up with User_talk:Legobot#GA_bot.2FStats. Can anyone help? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:03, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Problem fixed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:12, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
The "Edit" links on many "List of minor planets" articles no longer work, due to some mass page moves a few years ago. To fix this, and to keep things tidy, these articles should be edited to bypass the redirects that say "asteroids" instead of "minor planets". Specifically, every occurrence of "List of asteroids/" should be replaced with "List of minor planets/" on every page beginning with "List of minor planets: ". See List of minor planets: 16001–17000 for an example of a page that needs to be fixed, and see my manual edits here and here for examples of the change that needs to be made. Thank you. — Granger ( talk · contribs) 18:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
{{DEFAULTSORT:}}
to a lot of these subpages, but placed them outside the existing <noinclude>...</noinclude>
, with the result that the pages transcluding them end up in
Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts - because e.g.
List of minor planets: 110001–111000 transcludes ten subpages, each with a different {{DEFAULTSORT:}}
. I've fixed a few,
like this. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:58, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
<onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude>
instead of the dual <noinclude>...</noinclude>
since that one is easier for Yobot to understand. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 23:51, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Plastikspork is this task done now? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:34, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Instances of {{ Infobox German location}} which use German parameter names should have them replaced with English parameter names (both sets of names are listed in the template's documentation). Can someone oblige, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:22, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
Pigsonthewing Bot done. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:34, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
It would be useful to have a bot update the lists at WikiProject Fix common mistakes. This would need to be done every month when a new database dump is produced. The bot would;
The above would save a lot of hassle for human editors and ensure that the list were always up to date. A possible addition could be to check the 'list pages' Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes/a a etc. once a week and remove any pages from the list that no longer contain the error (this would clean up after editors that forgot to and would mean later editors wouldn't be checking pages that had no mistakes) Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 10:35, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
I would like a bot to add Template:WikiProject New Zealand to the talk page of all articles and lists that are in Category:New Zealand and descendants. I'm not 100% sure that none of the descendants link to Category:Humans or something insane, so some kind of check may be needed. Leakage to other parts of the Realm of New Zealand is expected due to the ambiguity of 'New Zealand' and not a problem. I'm happy to do manual checking if necessary. I expect these additions to be non-controversial, but I'll post a message to the Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board pointing to this discussion. Stuartyeates ( talk) 03:56, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
|politics=yes
, |maori=yes
, and |music=yes
. Lastly, I'd like to suggest that the class and relevant importance parameters be included as empty fields. By way of example, if an article were to be part of all three sub-projects, the complete code to add would be as follows: {{WPNZ|class=|importance=|politics=yes|politics-importance=|maori=yes|maori-importance=|music=yes|music-importance=}}
Schwede
66 10:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone help to subst {{ cite isbn}}? Fewer than 1,000 tranclusions. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:58, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes do you know why the script does not work for August Kekulé? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:31, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
{{cite doi}}
was often only used once, whereas {{cite isbn}}
is more frequently used in many articles).
Curly Turkey
¡gobble! 22:57, 27 April 2015 (UTC)Frietjes, Plastikspork I did some more. What is to be done with those with no subpage attached? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:56, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Frietjes, Plastikspork 41 pages in mainspace. Any help is appreciated. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:34, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Pinging Magioladitis, Alakzi, AManWithNoPlan as Erel Segal did not sign when doing so at 08:16. Rcsprinter123 (drawl) @ 16:23, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi - I'd like to request a bot run a quick text edit on about 100 New Zealand-related articles which refer to "Northern Canterbury" (about 70 articles) and "Southern Canterbury" (about 30). In New Zealand usage, such terms are never encountered - the two areas are always known as "North Canterbury" and "South Canterbury" respectively. TIA, Grutness... wha? 02:25, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I have just made a humungous mass-nomination (over 2000 categories) at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 1#Churches/Church buildings, and I need a bot to tag most of these - I tagges the base category ( Category:Church buildings), a pair of categories which will need to be merged, and a single category which has an unrelated deletion nomination; I would like a bot to tag the rest - see full list at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 1/list. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:22, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Could all articles in the categories listed at
Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Category_List please be added to
WP:WPNZ using the {{WPNZ}}
template. As a secondary concern, the automated tagging of biographies, politics, maori and music subs would be icing on the cake.
Stuartyeates (
talk) 11:28, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Stuartyeates I can do that. Here are the rules: User:Yobot#WikiProject_tagging. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:18, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
5157 categories... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:20, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Thus, the bot run will start in 3 days. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 22:27, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Stuartyeates I expect 20,000 new pages to be tagged for the project. The project right now has 36,714 pages and after the tagging it will expand to 56,714 pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:31, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
{{WikiProject New Zealand|class=|importance=}}
be added instead, so that assessment is a tad easier?
Schwede
66 01:47, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I am 100% ready to run the bot. I performed the preliminary run that is needed in order to avoid duplicated tags, etc. If I have not started in the next 2 days, please ping me. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:38, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Doing... Bot started. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:05, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Lugnuts: thanks for stopping the bot. Stuartyeates please check the category tree again and remove the inappropriate categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Lugnuts: The bot did 1523 edits prior to stop. Please free to remove all those who were not appropriate. I won't be online for the next 48 hours. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:29, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Stuartyeates please check the category tree again and remove the inappropriate categories. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:30, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Ritchie333 I renamed the section in order to directly link here per request. I set some rules of how the bot tagging is done. It is responsibility of the person who requests the tagging and of the wikiproject to check the details. This is the reason I give 3 days to raise questions about the tagging. I usually start 3 days after the last comment. This time I started 4 days after. It turns to be a common situation that a bad category is included in the list requested. It was slightly reduced after the tagging stopped including subcategories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:41, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Magioladitis I've removed even more cats. Are you thinking of restarting the bot, or are we giving up on this? I'll trust your judgment as a bot operator. Stuartyeates ( talk) 09:18, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Less than 10,000 pages. Much better than last time. List reduced 50%. I'll start the bot soon. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:48, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Doing... Bot started again. Lugnuts, Ritchie333, Stuartyeates feel free to stop the bot at anytime. I'll limit tagging in 6 pages per minute for the first few hours. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:30, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
I stopped the bot to investigate. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:25, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64 and Schwede66:: These were in the category tree
-- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:27, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
213 pages affected... -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:29, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64 and Schwede66:: I'll fix all. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:38, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64, Schwede66, and Stuartyeates::Done. I removed all the invalid tags. I resumed the bot. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:49, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
I stopped temporarily to fix my PC. I'll resume in a few hours. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:09, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Resumed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:50, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
I stopped the bot to investigate. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:51, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Schwede66 pages are in hidden Category:Singlechart usages for New Zealand. (A reason I dislike hidden categories). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:56, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Removed category from the list. 412 pages affected. Fixing them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:01, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
2000 pages excluded from the to-do list. Bot resumed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:04, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Redrose64, Schwede66, and Stuartyeates:: Bot run completed. Feel free to review the edits. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:43, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
@ Stuartyeates: I reverted 7 pages per User_talk:Magioladitis#Yobot_and_WikiProject_New_Zealand. The rest is up to WikiProject to decide. Everyone feel free to revert my bot. I just did what I was asked to do. Thanks, Magioladitis ( talk) 18:44, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Its been years since Wikivoyage moved under Wikimedia umbrella and it was discussed somewhere that links to Wikitravel articles on respective geographical articles on WP will be replaced by links to Wikivoyage articles but I can still see many WP articles still have links to to Wikitravel articles but not to Wikivoyage. I on behald of Wikivoyage community kindly request that a bot be run to replace all the Wikitravel links with Wikivoyage and add template where there's no link right now. -- Saqib ( talk) 14:45, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
I am not sure but somebody would have already asked it.
Can there something be done to Teahouse so that unanswered questions have some notice (either in bold or a tag on it like {{unanswered}}) for those questions which has not been answered yet?
Sometimes, I see some user's question goes down (under other questions:) and other were actually answered quickly but not his/her
aGastya
✉ let's have a constructive talk about it (: 15:04, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there! As part of WikiProject X, we are looking for volunteers to work on some bots and gadgets that will help address the various needs of WikiProjects and Wikipedia editors. If you are interested, check out Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Volunteers, which will be updated as new ideas are developed. Thanks, Harej ( talk) 21:03, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
i have created two articla one name
Chrome (Rapper) AND THE OTHER IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT A RAPPER NAME CHROME WHO I HAVE BEEN WRITTING AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE TITLE OF THE PAGE IS project landlord (chrome)..can you please help me
MuzicFan1981 (
talk) 09:36, 16 April 2015
Per this discussion: Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#access_date_without_url And this category Category:Pages_using_citations_with_accessdate_and_no_URL Remove access dates from {{ citation}} and {{ cite}} when there is no url. Only do this if(and only if) there is another link out such as HDL, PMC, PMID, JSTOR, or DOI. Otherwise assume that a human needs to look at it, since there is an access date, but no link of any kind. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 15:25, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
This can't be that difficult. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:26, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
I can do the task with the following restrictions:
Please comment, if you agree with this restrictions or there are any other restrictions necessary. -- Pavlo Chemist ( talk) 09:07, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
@ AManWithNoPlan, GoingBatty, and Rjwilmsi: for advice and for the questions posed by Pavlo. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:15, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Most of the Indian villages and towns does not contain any population data or have older(2001) data. This bot will update insert data from official Indian census website — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mittalmailbox ( talk • contribs) 14:52, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Last year, a dft_category
parameter was added to {{
Infobox GB station}}. However, still only a minority of railway station articles are using it, although there have been Wikipedia categories for them for much longer.
I am therefore requesting a bot to go through these articles (categories A–C2 have been done manually, and so only
D,
E,
F1 and
F2 still need to be done). The action to be performed on each is to add | dft_category = [category]
to the infobox, and remove the manually-added category (since the infobox automagically adds the article to the relevant category, and having it there manually as well would create a risk of the two becoming out of sync).
I can see that there are cases that would need to be considered:
— Smjg ( talk) 17:28, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
infobox London station}}
{{
infobox GB station}}
or its redirect {{
infobox UK station}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:37, 12 March 2015 (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) 04:11, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
I need a bot that can receive input data, feed it into a field on a page, and then request that data be returned from the server. This process needs to be done repeatedly with hundreds of data samples. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.141.50.174 ( talk) 02:37, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
There are many articles on Wikipedia that have too many cleanup tags, and many of these tags have remained in place for years without being resolved. I propose the creation of an automatically maintained category called Category:Articles with more than 5 cleanup tags, which would help us to remove these unnecessary tags. Jarble ( talk) 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC)