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Over at
WP:AFC/Redirects we've had a lot of requests for redirects for articles relating to SpongeBob SquarePants. Specifically, SpongeBob can be written as Spongebob, and SquarePants can be written as Squarepants. It is also reasonable to redirect squarepants to Squarepants.
The requested task would search for all articles containing the word SpongeBob and/or SquarePants and create appropriate redirects for alternative capitalizations. These redirects would be tagged with {{
R from other capitalisation}}. Thank you. --
LukeSurl
t
c 21:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
{{
R from misspelling}}
but {{
R from other capitalisation}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:57, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
A common scenario at XfD discussions is that a nominated article is eligible for speedy deletion, and gets speedily deleted. This scenario is made more common because the CSD criteria are strictly applied and patrollers are told to nominate articles for AfD if unsure. Although this isn't a significant problem at all on the backlog, it could be easily replicated by a bot. Esquivalience t 00:03, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
{{ Soccerway}} should replace Soccerway.com (*.soccerway.com) in external links. This request is similar to this one. SLBedit ( talk) 13:48, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
{{ Zerozero profile}} should replace Footballzz.co.uk in external links ( like this). This request is similar to my previous requests ( 1, 2). SLBedit ( talk) 00:10, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Yes, SLB is correct, still no template available for coaches, only players. However, the coaches one can be removed altogether keeping only the player one, because even a player profile as a coach profile when needed, example Raul Águas, if you check his player profile from the corresponding template, you will see his coach profile immediately below without having to click in the manager link. -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 19:00, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
This request is identical to the previous request above, only the domain changes: {{ Zerozero profile}} and {{ Zerozero manager}} should replace Zerozero.pt in external links (like this and this). SLBedit ( talk) 00:12, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
footballzz.com
.
SLBedit (
talk) 07:22, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
User:Jogersbot used to do a bunch of helpful tasks. Would anyone with bot knowledge be able to resurrect this bot in order to repopulate lists User:Jogers/List3 through User:Jogers/List7? Thanks, from the WP:ALBUM community. -- Fisherjs ( talk) 00:22, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Could anyone help with a Commons bot request? I left a request at COM:BOTR two months ago, but it was archived without action: it shouldn't be hard to program, so I suppose that it's just that nobody got around to it. Here's the request, copied from Commons:Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 11.
I've just discovered Commons:Category:Photographs by date and would like to have its subcategories added to my uploads. This will take a while if I do it manually, as I've uploaded over twelve thousand pictures. Could a bot do it? I'm imagining that the bot goes one-by-one through most of my uploads (details below), adding a date category only when the image uses {{ Information}}, and using the date supplied in the
|Date=
parameter. Bonus points if the bot logs all images that don't use {{ Information}} and all images that use the template but don't have anything in the data parameter or have something in it that's not precisely YYYY-MM-DD ( example of this), and then gives me the full logs for both types so that I can check them and fix them if necessary. I've started adding date categories to new uploads ( example), so it should also check to see if an image is already in a date category and ignore ones that are. Since they're not broken, there's no need to log these images. I was imagining that the bot would go through every image in eight categories; it should ignore things I've uploaded that aren't in any of these categories, and it should add a date to anything uploaded by someone else that's in one of these categories. The categories in question are Commons:Category:Aerial pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Building-centered pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Community pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Highway pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Miscellaneous images by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Portraits by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Scenery pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Signs by User:Nyttend.
Thanks for the help. Nyttend ( talk) 17:15, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia often refers to Creative Commons licences in our references and sources. The way that they are referred to is not always correct. There should never be a dash between the CC and its license elements. So CC BY, not CC-BY. [1] Also Creative Commons capitalises its license abbreviations. I've made a table with common misspellings of the abbreviations:
Bad | Good |
---|---|
CC-BY | CC BY |
CC-BY-NC | CC BY-NC |
CC-BY-SA | CC BY-SA |
CC-BY-NC-SA | CC BY-NC-SA |
CC-BY-ND | CC BY-ND |
CC-BY-NC-ND | CC BY-NC-ND |
cc-by | CC BY |
cc-by-nc | CC BY-NC |
cc-by-sa | CC BY-SA |
cc-by-nc-sa | CC BY-NC-SA |
cc-by-nd | CC BY-ND |
cc-by-nc-nd | CC BY-NC-ND |
I've started changing this manually, but that seems like a large repetitive task (I also get a lot of false positives as the search engine ignores the dash. [2] To me this seems like a task for a bot.
Full disclosure: I work for Creative Commons in the Netherlands, I do not want to create the impression that I am changing material on behalf of Creative Commons, I want te factually represent the licenses and their abbreviations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martsniez ( talk • contribs) 14:11, 16 April 2015
References
This might be impossible, but I was wondering if a bot could help recategorize Kenyan villages/towns/cities into the appropriate county. There were previously eight provinces in Kenya, and most "populated places" in the county were categorized according to those provinces. Category:Populated places in Central Province (Kenya), for instance, contains 625 articles. Category:Populated places in Coast Province contains another 481.
In a 2010 constitutional change, these provinces were eliminated, and replaced by 47 different counties. Yet five years later, a huge number of these place articles have never been updated to reflect the change. The only way to me, as a user, to update these articles is to open the article, click on the geo-location coordinates, figure out from google maps (where the county boundaries are clearly marked) which county it belongs to, then place it in the appropriate category. http://www.fallingrain.com/world/KE/
Is there any way a bot could go through these categories, look for articles with coordinates, compare those coordinates with the boundaries of the counties, and place the article in the appropriate county category? To me, that sounds like a lot to ask, but maybe it's possible? Thanks! - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 07:24, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Could someone have a bot add all the articles on User:Exoplanetaryscience/List of numbered asteroids to Category:Numbered asteroids? exoplanetaryscience ( talk) 17:32, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
[[Category:Numbered asteroids]]
with a qualifier attached (such as [[Category:Numbered asteroids|000001]]
). I too want to see a standard {{
default sort}} among the numbered asteroids, but grouping all the numbered asteroids seems like it should be the 1st step in that multi-step process. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
contribs ⋅
dgaf) 16:18, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
[[Category:Numbered asteroids|000001]]
doesn't exist [[Category:Numbered asteroids]]
to those articles needing it.{{DEFAULTSORT:}}
will be used, which may not be present, in which case the page name becomes the sort key. This is alphanumeric, not pure numeric, so the sort order will by default be 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 100001, 100002 which might not be what is desired. It is in fact contrary to the present sort order of
Category:Numbered asteroids, which is Ceres, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... because those pages each have a sortkey, either a {{DEFAULTSORT:000001)}}
or the explicit [[Category:Numbered asteroids|000001]]
etc. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:19, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Everyone, I'm a sysop in Arabic wikipedia. Recently, I found there that we have a lot of templates directly translated from English Wikipedia ( English names have been maintained) but without interwiki. The templates are mainly for sport and chemistry articles. Is it possible to run a bot in English wiki that tries to find the equivalent in Arabic wikipedia and merge wikidata pages ? For example : Template:Chembox Dipole must be linked to ar:قالب:Chembox Dipole. The word قالب means Template. Thank you a lot. -- Helmoony ( talk) 16:35, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
When transcluding Commons media in the main page's "In the news" section, we upload local copies to ensure that they're protected immediately. Templates for the most common free licenses exists on both sites, but Commons also uses numerous tags of greater specificity or relevance to licenses rarely encountered at the English Wikipedia. In such instances, copying and pasting the image's description results in a broken license template transclusion (a red link).
I request that a bot scan
c:Category:License tags (and its subcategories) and create local copies of all templates that don't exist at the English Wikipedia. This would require the substitution of all subtemplates (down to the lowest level), replacement of any Commons-specific CSS classes with code that functions here, and replacement of Commons categories with
Category:Wikimedia Commons copyright templates (to be created specifically for this purpose).
Is this feasible? —
David Levy 01:13, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to automatically change the net worth to whatever it says here http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:realtime or can it only be done manually? -- Iady391 ( talk) 16:11, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Needs wider discussion.
I added the advertisement parameter to see what people think of this idea.-- 88.104.132.1 ( talk) 17:29, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
A user has requested the attention of a member of the
Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{
t|BAG assistance needed}}
.
<< I added this tag, hopefully some help should be here.--
88.104.132.1 (
talk) 17:46, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
What about a bot that can change the dates in reference tags? Such as in the outside of the "cite web" template, date could be incorrectly put outside the cite web template (which is within reference tags), or the date format is incorrect. For example, below is a date used incorrectly used within ref tags. (Note: ignore the filler text.)
<ref>{{cite web|url=/info/en/?search=Main_Page|title=Wikipedia}} Retrieved on 25th May 2015</ref>
It should really be...
<ref>{{cite web|url=/info/en/?search=Main_Page|title=Wikipedia|accessdate=25 May 2015}}</ref>
Do you reckon this is a good idea? Qwertyxp2000 ( talk) 06:15, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes, this is a good idea. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
{{cite book|title=Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac|editor1 = Sean Urban | editor2=P. Kenneth Seidelmann | publisher = University Science Books | year = 2013 | page = 12 |chapter-url=http://aa.usno.navy.mil/publications/docs/exp_supp_errata.pdf |chapter=Errata |accessdate=May 25, 2015}}
, which renders as:Continuing this Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_62#Sync_official_website_with_Wikidata I asked Ladsgroup to perform a second run in Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia using Dexbot. The bot checks whether the two values differ only in prefix (one has and the other does not). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:35, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
A new initiative (thank you, User:Harej) uses a script to collect stats on WikiProjects; including those which have zero members who have made more than one edit to an article in the project's scope in the last 90 days.
Please can a bot tag those projects with {{WikiProject status|inactive}}
, as in
this edit?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 11:06, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
I guess Harej can do that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:15, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Basically, a website changed their linking from okazu.blogspot.com
to okazu.yuricon.com
, and made some other tiny changes to the URL (mostly removing ".html" and replacing it with a "/", and adding a day in the URL).
For example (to use the example given in the discussion):
is now located at
You can read the details here. The list of links which need to be fixed is here.
Thanks for any help! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:00, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
136 pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:31, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Done Hasteur ( talk) 15:41, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
See my example fix here. I need someone to help me spot and fix those links in case there are more of them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:39, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Per this section on the main page of the Trains in Japan WikiProject, we need to search the talk pages of all articles listed in the Category:Rail transport in Japan (and it's sub categories) for any of the following templates:
...and replace the above templates with Template:Trains in Japan. Additionally, a check should be made for "|Japan=yes" or "|japan=yes" and remove it if present as the replacement template automatically includes that. Here's a few examples of what the bot would do: 1, 2, 3, 4. The purpose of this is so the articles will be properly automatically placed into the appropriate articles by quality category. This will affect several hundred articles, though some have already been done so those would be ignored by this bot process. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:44, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
Trains in Japan}}
? Why not {{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
? Have
WT:RAIL been informed? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:14, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
would be fine, too. They both point to the same thing.
WP:RAIL hasn't been informed as I was just going by the
referenced section on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains in Japan (I'm a member of that project). This is simply implementing instructions already part of the project (the instructions specifically state to use {{
Trains in Japan}}
(which points to {{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
). As this doesn't affect
WP:RAIL in the least (since it's a descendant project), there's no reason to notify them. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 22:38, 16 May 2015 (UTC)As far as I recall we should avoid the wrapper and move the other direction. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:53, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
|Japan=
is present. I haven't been able to figure out why not. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 22:38, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
|Japan=
to work, then nothing needs to be done. There are other descendant projects where it works fine, and I copied the syntax used in those parts of the template, but it still won't work. Using the wrapper does. Very weird. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 22:55, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
where the categorisation is correct. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:32, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
at all, but instead use {{
WikiProject Trains|Japan=yes}}
or equivalent, yet the categorisation is the same. This suggests to me that it does not matter whether the wrapper is used or the main template. One thing that I noticed when I first looked at this matter is that every single one of the pages in subcategories of
Category:WikiProject Trains in Japan articles by quality has {{
WikiProject Japan|trains=yes}}
or similar, which was an indication that it is {{
WikiProject Japan|trains=yes}}
which produced the categorisation that you desired.{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
or {{
WikiProject Trains|Japan=yes}}
is used. Is there any problem with the categorisation? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:26, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains}}
template. I wanted to get it working correctly there before attempting to get it to work on {{
WikiProject Japan}}
. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 05:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC){{WikiProject Trains |class=c |Japan=yes }}
(and no other banners) it is placed in
Category:C-Class rail transport articles
Category:Unknown-importance rail transport articles
Category:C-Class WikiProject Trains in Japan articles, whereas if it has {{WikiProject Japan |class=c |trains=yes }}
(and no other banners) it is placed in
Category:C-Class Japan-related articles
Category:Unknown-importance Japan-related articles
Category:WikiProject Japan articles. There is thus nothing basically wrong with {{
WikiProject Trains}}
; however, code does seem to be lacking from {{
WikiProject Japan}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:47, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains}}
. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 05:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC){{WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
reduces the amount needing to be typed - yes, it saves one character compared to {{WikiProject Trains|Japan=yes}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:26, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
Trains in Japan}}
or {{
TIJ}}
, and the latter saves quite a lot. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 23:22, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:26, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Nihonjoe We can add |Japan=
to the existing banners if you like. ---
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:08, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
|Japan=yes
. If there is a problem with categorisation, I will look into it. I've just
replaced one and the categories seem to work just fine ... — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 08:20, 18 May 2015 (UTC)Not done. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:05, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is a harmonization scheme that many countries have adopted, including nearly all major English-speaking countries. Part of the GHS is the Safety Data Sheet (SDS), which is a standardized version of what was formerly known as a "Material Safety Data Sheet" (MSDS) in many countries. The page "material safety data sheet" has been moved to safety data sheet and I have requested a change be made to Template:Chembox & Template:Chembox Hazards. If you need more details, see Talk:Safety data sheet#Move to Safety Data Sheet and Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox#Change MSDS to SDS.
Many chemicals have a page titled "[name of chemical] (data page)" which has a section titled "Material safety data sheet" and a link to the old page title Material safety data sheet. For example: Methanol (data page)#Material Safety Data Sheet (I didn't change that page so it could be an example for this discussion). I am asking for the help of a bot to:
I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox#Change MSDS to SDS concerning changes in the chemical infoboxes. At the time of making this request, there was no response in that discussion about whether a parameter in the infoboxes should be changed from "ExternalMSDS" to "ExternalSDS". Another editor made these changes to one of the infobox templates. I'm not familiar with template coding, so someone else will need to determine and coordinate any changes to the template parameters.
Also note that there are some links to the old page title that appear in the "What links here" (with transclusions and redirects hidden), but I cannot find the link in the article. For example Carbon monoxide is on the "What links here" (with transclusions and redirects hidden) for material safety data sheet, but when I click the edit tab and use the find functionality in my browser, I cannot find the link to material safety data sheet. I'm not sure why. On a final note, I'll be around for a few hours after making this request, but won't be around for the next couple of days. AHeneen ( talk) 01:32, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Can we possibly change these rankings and automatically place them onto the respective Wikipedia page? The Most Beautiful Women of All Time e.g. in the Audrey Hepburn page mentioned that she is ranked #4 ?-- 88.104.132.1 ( talk) 17:38, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Needs wider discussion.
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.
Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC. A bot is needed, please, to remove it from all articles. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
"Consensus is to deprecate and remove"(emphasis added). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:50, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
infoboxes to many articles systematically", and – daft as I certainly am – I wouldn't want to see any other good-faith editors treated in that way. -- RexxS ( talk) 14:16, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm afraid there isn't anything I can do to help here, and as per the RfC, it appears that some (or most?) of the information provided by persondata cannot be copied to Wikidata by bots due to the formatting. I can understand that to some extent too, seeing as persondata has an array of differences from article to article. All I can add to this conversation is that the majority of articles I edit regularly have all the information from the whole article on the corresponding Wikidata item, and not just name, dob/pob and a description. Over the years, I've always added a persondata box when creating a new article, but now I use Wikidata, I feel the information is much better preserved there, and for those who need to extract the data far more useful (in any given language). I'm sorry I can't offer any more help, maybe Mr. Mabbett could, if he was interested. Jared Preston ( talk) 21:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Jared Preston: So it is not "possible" to write a Help: namespace page that explains the steps for non-bot editors how to use Wikidata instead of Persondata? -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 21:23, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Bots can't/won't move metadata included in the persondata system to wikidata (apart from a limited set already transferred), which led to the deprecation of the persondata system, and the agreement to remove all {{ persondata}} templates and their contents from Wikipedia.en.
Here are the practical steps proposed for a persondata to wikidata migration:
Tx for considering this proposal. -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 05:25, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
What if the bot was to start deleting only those {{ Persondata}} templates where the values within the template are duplicated in categories or infobox parameters? For those who want to get rid of every template now, this would get us started. For those who want to transfer valuable information to Wikidata, this would help you focus on those articles where the information may only exist within Persondata. Maybe logic like this (much of which is similar to how AWB populated the template):
|SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian painter
and
Category:Italian painters)Comments/suggestions are welcome. GoingBatty ( talk) 01:36, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Above, there are proposals to use bots to place notices in articles that the persondata template will soon be deleted, and encourage editors to move the data to Wikidata. Unfortunately, Wikidata is not prepared to receive pre-1924 dates of any kind, such as birth or death dates. This is because the last country to switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar was Greece, and the first full year under the Gregorian calendar in Greece was 1924.
The Wikidata user interface is seriously broken with respect to Julian dates, and contains large number of dates that are labeled as Gregorian but are really Julian. In addition, the format to represent dates internally and in JSON are under discussion with no final decision. An additional problem for dates before the year AD 1 is that some date are stored with the convention year -1 = 1 BC; others are stored with the convention year 0 = 1 BC.
Until Wikidata is capable of storing older dates I suggest that nothing be done to encourage editors to move pre-1924 information to Wikidata. Jc3s5h ( talk) 12:40, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Timestamp +1770-12-17T00:00:00 Timezone +00:00 Calendar Gregorian Precision 1 day
calendarmodel
as "a URI of a calendar model, such as gregorian or julian. Typically given as the URI of a data item on the repository." Presumably, the URI is set to either Gregorian's or Julian's when you toggle between the two on the web interface. What is the issue here?
Alakzi (
talk) 16:25, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Extended content
|
---|
[{"id": "q131981$FBDD5B85-9237-444F-9620-C2B67DE70844",
"mainsnak": {"datatype": "time",
"datavalue": {"type": "time",
"value": {"after": 0,
"before": 0,
"calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985786",
"precision": 11,
"time": "+1683-11-09T00:00:00Z",
"timezone": 0}},
"property": "P569",
"snaktype": "value"},
"rank": "normal",
"references": [{"hash": "7eb64cf9621d34c54fd4bd040ed4b61a88c4a1a0",
"snaks": {"P143": [{"datatype": "wikibase-item",
"datavalue": {"type": "wikibase-entityid",
"value": {"entity-type": "item", "numeric-id": 328}},
"property": "P143",
"snaktype": "value"}]},
"snaks-order": "P143"]}],
"type": "statement"},
{"id": "Q131981$0E7308FE-3995-4A3B-AD50-975331E2ED91",
"mainsnak": {"datatype": "time",
"datavalue": {"type": "time",
"value": {"after": 0,
"before": 0,
"calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727",
"precision": 11,
"time": "+1683-11-10T00:00:00Z",
"timezone": 0}},
"property": "P569",
"snaktype": "value"},
"rank": "normal",
"references": [{"hash": "53bfaabf5974a514924dbd0228602ae119c31435",
"snaks": {"P248": [{"datatype": "wikibase-item",
"datavalue": {"type": "wikibase-entityid",
"value": {"entity-type": "item", "numeric-id": 36578}},
"property": "P248",
"snaktype": "value"}],
"P813": [{"datatype": "time",
"datavalue": {"type": "time",
"value": {"after": 0,
"before": 0,
"calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727",
"precision": 11,
"time": "+2014-04-26T00:00:00Z",
"timezone": 0}},
"property": "P813",
"snaktype": "value"}]},
"snaks-order": "P248", "P813"]}],
"type": "statement"}]
|
The implementation would suggest that calendarmodel
is a representational, and not a presentational, value. [Note: I have since corrected his Julian dob to 30 October.]
Alakzi (
talk) 18:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
This is all very interesting, but appears to bear little if any relevance to the request for a bot to enact the community's decision to remove persondata from this Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:45, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
The above discussions have gone off at various tangents. The original RfC remains valid, and should be implemented, now. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:13, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
No, I am not "the only editor still in support of an immediate deletion of all persondata by bot"; we had an RfC which agreed - with no caveats - that persondata should be removed. However, there are only a couple of editors who are trying to wikilawyer around that consensus. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:38, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
This discussion has gone off many tangents here. It's clear that this is still a controversial decision and as a bot op, I have to consider that the potential for damage is high when operating bots. My final conclusion is that this Needs wider discussion. and a decisive close. I'm not getting any decisive decisions here.— cyberpower Chat:Limited Access 03:12, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Pursuant to the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Can we get a bot to check the Internet Archive for dead link solutions?, we need a bot that will address dead links on Wikipedia by checking to see whether the URL has been archived at the Internet Archive, ideally finding whatever archiving is the closest in time to the addition of the link to the Wikipedia page. The bot would then replace the dead link with the Internet Archive link, with a note indicating that the content still needs to be confirmed by a human editor. Given the proliferation of dead links on Wikipedia, such a bot can massively improve the sourcing of articles. This bot program, once created, will be as important to the quality of Wikipedia as Cluebot is now. bd2412 T 23:31, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Many of the 276 species articles of genus Eleutherodactylus and linked from that article display the family as Leptodactylidae in the taxobox and the body of the article. But Eleutherodactylus is now considered to be in the Eleutherodactylidae family. Some articles that need this fix are Eleutherodactylus amplinympha, South Island telegraph frog (redirected from Eleutherodactylus audanti), Eleutherodactylus auriculatoides.
This task would take a long time to do by hand. Could a bot be generated to edit each of the Eleutherodactylus species articles and set the family to Eleutherodactylidae if it is not already?
I imagine the bot might operate something like this pseudocode:
edit article within {{Taxobox}} template if familia parameter != "Eleutherodactylidae" then replace familia parameter with "Eleutherodactylidae" after {{Taxobox}} template until first period character find the first use of character string "[[...]] family" where ... is any string of alphabetic characters. replace [[...]] with [[Eleutherodactylidae]]
This would work for at least the three articles listed here. I haven't verified it would work for all affected articles. It would mess up if the family were mentioned after the first sentence, or if the taxobox-style display were generated by a different template such as speciesbox. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 04:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
There is Category:Templates using data from Wikidata, for templates using wikidata, which currently contains 29 pages... but searching in template namespace for insource:/\#property/ matches 88 pages. Adding missing templates to the category (or at least generating a worklist), and listing potentially miscategorised templates for human checking, seems like a useful task for a bot to run every so often, so that we have a more accurate idea of how many templates are actually using Wikidata. - Evad37 [ talk 06:44, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot help out clearing the above category? I've been doing this with AWB but it's now becoming too big of a job.
What I need is the following changes to transclusions of {{ National Heritage List for England entry}}, including redirects {{ English Heritage List entry}}, {{ NHLE}} and {{ National Heritage List for England}}:
|separator=,
AND |ps=
replaced with |mode=cs2
Also the following non-essential changes to be made at the same time:
|accessdate=
to |access-date=
|fewer-links=x
to |fewer-links=yes
Probably best to do this in main space only and leave the handfull of non-main space uses for manual review.
Reason: This template defaults to
Citation Style 1; previously it used the |separator=
and |ps=
parameters in tandem to switch to
Citation Style 2, however |separator=
is now deprecated and no longer works.
I'll keep going with AWB in the meantime, but would be grateful for any help. PC78 ( talk) 15:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
The CHU/S clerkbot has stopped marking completed requests as done, and its operator has signalled that they are unable to create a patch at this time, but would be fine with someone else updating the code or taking over the task.
The source code is here: https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/chu.php
I believe the relevant code begins around line 276. Please let me know if you require any further information. – xeno talk 12:41, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
There should be a bot that adds {{subst:
AFC submission/draftnew}}
on pages on the draftspace when there is no AFC tag on the draft and that removes duplicate AFC tags. --
TL22 (
talk) 18:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
{{
AFC submission/pending}}
, {{
AFC submission/reviewing}}
, {{
AFC submission/draft}}
or {{
AFC submission/draftnew}}
written twice. --
TL22 (
talk) 21:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)I want a simple UI bot that runs on desktop or pc for the clash of clans game that is played in android and IOS device. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.92.206.138 ( talk) 06:11, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Denied.-- 88.104.134.194 ( talk) 07:47, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Can_we_add_WikiProject_Poland_template_to_all_articles_that_are_missing_it_but_have_the_milhist-Poland_taskforce_template.3F. Piotrus requested that Yobot adds banners of WikiProject Poland to pages that already have the milhist-Poland taskforce template. Any comments are welcome. IF there are no disagreements the bot will start the task in the next few days.
Done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Articles in Category:Academic journals may lack Template:WikiProject Academic Journals in their talk pages; could a bot check and list those, please? I guess asking a bot to fix automatically might be risky. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 04:16, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Click on "►" below to display subcategories: |
---|
Can someone have a bot scan all the (approx 3650) transclusions of
Template:infobox television season and provide a list of the values used with |bgcolour=
or |bgcolor=
or |headercolour=
or |headercolor=
? you can put the result in a subpage of my userspace, and I will process it to compute colour contrast ratios. thank you.
Frietjes (
talk) 14:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
Infobox Smallville season}}
{{
Infobox television Project Runway}}
{{
Infobox reality dance competition}}
{{
Infobox Strictly Come Dancing Series}}
{{
Infobox Dancing with the Stars season}}
{{
Infobox Dancing on Ice series}}
{{
Infobox Television season}}
{{
Infobox tvseason}}
{{
Infobox Television Season}}
{{
Infobox dancingwiththestarsseason}}
{{
Infobox dancing with the stars}}
{{
Infobox television series}}
{{
Infobox Television Top Chef}}
{{
Infobox Television Project Runway}}
{{
Infobox TV series}}
why is a request for information controversial? this is seriously a sad day for Wikipedia. Frietjes ( talk) 15:14, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
As per WP:CAT#T, seeking a bot to:
{{
template category}}
, check other categories where it is categorized and remove the other categorizations, quoting
WP:CAT#T.{{
template category}}
, but should and is arguably a solution for false positives.{{
template category}}
, possibly update a list of templates which need to be looked at as breaking
WP:CAT#T, as opposed to taking an action that would leave them uncategorized.
Slivicon (
talk) 14:57, 6 August 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 62 | Archive 63 | Archive 64 | Archive 65 | Archive 66 | → | Archive 70 |
Over at
WP:AFC/Redirects we've had a lot of requests for redirects for articles relating to SpongeBob SquarePants. Specifically, SpongeBob can be written as Spongebob, and SquarePants can be written as Squarepants. It is also reasonable to redirect squarepants to Squarepants.
The requested task would search for all articles containing the word SpongeBob and/or SquarePants and create appropriate redirects for alternative capitalizations. These redirects would be tagged with {{
R from other capitalisation}}. Thank you. --
LukeSurl
t
c 21:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
{{
R from misspelling}}
but {{
R from other capitalisation}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:57, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
A common scenario at XfD discussions is that a nominated article is eligible for speedy deletion, and gets speedily deleted. This scenario is made more common because the CSD criteria are strictly applied and patrollers are told to nominate articles for AfD if unsure. Although this isn't a significant problem at all on the backlog, it could be easily replicated by a bot. Esquivalience t 00:03, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
{{ Soccerway}} should replace Soccerway.com (*.soccerway.com) in external links. This request is similar to this one. SLBedit ( talk) 13:48, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
{{ Zerozero profile}} should replace Footballzz.co.uk in external links ( like this). This request is similar to my previous requests ( 1, 2). SLBedit ( talk) 00:10, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Yes, SLB is correct, still no template available for coaches, only players. However, the coaches one can be removed altogether keeping only the player one, because even a player profile as a coach profile when needed, example Raul Águas, if you check his player profile from the corresponding template, you will see his coach profile immediately below without having to click in the manager link. -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 19:00, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
This request is identical to the previous request above, only the domain changes: {{ Zerozero profile}} and {{ Zerozero manager}} should replace Zerozero.pt in external links (like this and this). SLBedit ( talk) 00:12, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
footballzz.com
.
SLBedit (
talk) 07:22, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
User:Jogersbot used to do a bunch of helpful tasks. Would anyone with bot knowledge be able to resurrect this bot in order to repopulate lists User:Jogers/List3 through User:Jogers/List7? Thanks, from the WP:ALBUM community. -- Fisherjs ( talk) 00:22, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Could anyone help with a Commons bot request? I left a request at COM:BOTR two months ago, but it was archived without action: it shouldn't be hard to program, so I suppose that it's just that nobody got around to it. Here's the request, copied from Commons:Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 11.
I've just discovered Commons:Category:Photographs by date and would like to have its subcategories added to my uploads. This will take a while if I do it manually, as I've uploaded over twelve thousand pictures. Could a bot do it? I'm imagining that the bot goes one-by-one through most of my uploads (details below), adding a date category only when the image uses {{ Information}}, and using the date supplied in the
|Date=
parameter. Bonus points if the bot logs all images that don't use {{ Information}} and all images that use the template but don't have anything in the data parameter or have something in it that's not precisely YYYY-MM-DD ( example of this), and then gives me the full logs for both types so that I can check them and fix them if necessary. I've started adding date categories to new uploads ( example), so it should also check to see if an image is already in a date category and ignore ones that are. Since they're not broken, there's no need to log these images. I was imagining that the bot would go through every image in eight categories; it should ignore things I've uploaded that aren't in any of these categories, and it should add a date to anything uploaded by someone else that's in one of these categories. The categories in question are Commons:Category:Aerial pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Building-centered pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Community pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Highway pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Miscellaneous images by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Portraits by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Scenery pictures by User:Nyttend, Commons:Category:Signs by User:Nyttend.
Thanks for the help. Nyttend ( talk) 17:15, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia often refers to Creative Commons licences in our references and sources. The way that they are referred to is not always correct. There should never be a dash between the CC and its license elements. So CC BY, not CC-BY. [1] Also Creative Commons capitalises its license abbreviations. I've made a table with common misspellings of the abbreviations:
Bad | Good |
---|---|
CC-BY | CC BY |
CC-BY-NC | CC BY-NC |
CC-BY-SA | CC BY-SA |
CC-BY-NC-SA | CC BY-NC-SA |
CC-BY-ND | CC BY-ND |
CC-BY-NC-ND | CC BY-NC-ND |
cc-by | CC BY |
cc-by-nc | CC BY-NC |
cc-by-sa | CC BY-SA |
cc-by-nc-sa | CC BY-NC-SA |
cc-by-nd | CC BY-ND |
cc-by-nc-nd | CC BY-NC-ND |
I've started changing this manually, but that seems like a large repetitive task (I also get a lot of false positives as the search engine ignores the dash. [2] To me this seems like a task for a bot.
Full disclosure: I work for Creative Commons in the Netherlands, I do not want to create the impression that I am changing material on behalf of Creative Commons, I want te factually represent the licenses and their abbreviations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martsniez ( talk • contribs) 14:11, 16 April 2015
References
This might be impossible, but I was wondering if a bot could help recategorize Kenyan villages/towns/cities into the appropriate county. There were previously eight provinces in Kenya, and most "populated places" in the county were categorized according to those provinces. Category:Populated places in Central Province (Kenya), for instance, contains 625 articles. Category:Populated places in Coast Province contains another 481.
In a 2010 constitutional change, these provinces were eliminated, and replaced by 47 different counties. Yet five years later, a huge number of these place articles have never been updated to reflect the change. The only way to me, as a user, to update these articles is to open the article, click on the geo-location coordinates, figure out from google maps (where the county boundaries are clearly marked) which county it belongs to, then place it in the appropriate category. http://www.fallingrain.com/world/KE/
Is there any way a bot could go through these categories, look for articles with coordinates, compare those coordinates with the boundaries of the counties, and place the article in the appropriate county category? To me, that sounds like a lot to ask, but maybe it's possible? Thanks! - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 07:24, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Could someone have a bot add all the articles on User:Exoplanetaryscience/List of numbered asteroids to Category:Numbered asteroids? exoplanetaryscience ( talk) 17:32, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
[[Category:Numbered asteroids]]
with a qualifier attached (such as [[Category:Numbered asteroids|000001]]
). I too want to see a standard {{
default sort}} among the numbered asteroids, but grouping all the numbered asteroids seems like it should be the 1st step in that multi-step process. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
contribs ⋅
dgaf) 16:18, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
[[Category:Numbered asteroids|000001]]
doesn't exist [[Category:Numbered asteroids]]
to those articles needing it.{{DEFAULTSORT:}}
will be used, which may not be present, in which case the page name becomes the sort key. This is alphanumeric, not pure numeric, so the sort order will by default be 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 100001, 100002 which might not be what is desired. It is in fact contrary to the present sort order of
Category:Numbered asteroids, which is Ceres, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... because those pages each have a sortkey, either a {{DEFAULTSORT:000001)}}
or the explicit [[Category:Numbered asteroids|000001]]
etc. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:19, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Everyone, I'm a sysop in Arabic wikipedia. Recently, I found there that we have a lot of templates directly translated from English Wikipedia ( English names have been maintained) but without interwiki. The templates are mainly for sport and chemistry articles. Is it possible to run a bot in English wiki that tries to find the equivalent in Arabic wikipedia and merge wikidata pages ? For example : Template:Chembox Dipole must be linked to ar:قالب:Chembox Dipole. The word قالب means Template. Thank you a lot. -- Helmoony ( talk) 16:35, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
When transcluding Commons media in the main page's "In the news" section, we upload local copies to ensure that they're protected immediately. Templates for the most common free licenses exists on both sites, but Commons also uses numerous tags of greater specificity or relevance to licenses rarely encountered at the English Wikipedia. In such instances, copying and pasting the image's description results in a broken license template transclusion (a red link).
I request that a bot scan
c:Category:License tags (and its subcategories) and create local copies of all templates that don't exist at the English Wikipedia. This would require the substitution of all subtemplates (down to the lowest level), replacement of any Commons-specific CSS classes with code that functions here, and replacement of Commons categories with
Category:Wikimedia Commons copyright templates (to be created specifically for this purpose).
Is this feasible? —
David Levy 01:13, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to automatically change the net worth to whatever it says here http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:realtime or can it only be done manually? -- Iady391 ( talk) 16:11, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Needs wider discussion.
I added the advertisement parameter to see what people think of this idea.-- 88.104.132.1 ( talk) 17:29, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
A user has requested the attention of a member of the
Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{
t|BAG assistance needed}}
.
<< I added this tag, hopefully some help should be here.--
88.104.132.1 (
talk) 17:46, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
What about a bot that can change the dates in reference tags? Such as in the outside of the "cite web" template, date could be incorrectly put outside the cite web template (which is within reference tags), or the date format is incorrect. For example, below is a date used incorrectly used within ref tags. (Note: ignore the filler text.)
<ref>{{cite web|url=/info/en/?search=Main_Page|title=Wikipedia}} Retrieved on 25th May 2015</ref>
It should really be...
<ref>{{cite web|url=/info/en/?search=Main_Page|title=Wikipedia|accessdate=25 May 2015}}</ref>
Do you reckon this is a good idea? Qwertyxp2000 ( talk) 06:15, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes, this is a good idea. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:39, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
{{cite book|title=Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac|editor1 = Sean Urban | editor2=P. Kenneth Seidelmann | publisher = University Science Books | year = 2013 | page = 12 |chapter-url=http://aa.usno.navy.mil/publications/docs/exp_supp_errata.pdf |chapter=Errata |accessdate=May 25, 2015}}
, which renders as:Continuing this Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_62#Sync_official_website_with_Wikidata I asked Ladsgroup to perform a second run in Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia using Dexbot. The bot checks whether the two values differ only in prefix (one has and the other does not). -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:35, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
A new initiative (thank you, User:Harej) uses a script to collect stats on WikiProjects; including those which have zero members who have made more than one edit to an article in the project's scope in the last 90 days.
Please can a bot tag those projects with {{WikiProject status|inactive}}
, as in
this edit?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 11:06, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
I guess Harej can do that. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:15, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Basically, a website changed their linking from okazu.blogspot.com
to okazu.yuricon.com
, and made some other tiny changes to the URL (mostly removing ".html" and replacing it with a "/", and adding a day in the URL).
For example (to use the example given in the discussion):
is now located at
You can read the details here. The list of links which need to be fixed is here.
Thanks for any help! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:00, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
136 pages. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:31, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Done Hasteur ( talk) 15:41, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
See my example fix here. I need someone to help me spot and fix those links in case there are more of them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:39, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Per this section on the main page of the Trains in Japan WikiProject, we need to search the talk pages of all articles listed in the Category:Rail transport in Japan (and it's sub categories) for any of the following templates:
...and replace the above templates with Template:Trains in Japan. Additionally, a check should be made for "|Japan=yes" or "|japan=yes" and remove it if present as the replacement template automatically includes that. Here's a few examples of what the bot would do: 1, 2, 3, 4. The purpose of this is so the articles will be properly automatically placed into the appropriate articles by quality category. This will affect several hundred articles, though some have already been done so those would be ignored by this bot process. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:44, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
Trains in Japan}}
? Why not {{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
? Have
WT:RAIL been informed? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:14, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
would be fine, too. They both point to the same thing.
WP:RAIL hasn't been informed as I was just going by the
referenced section on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains in Japan (I'm a member of that project). This is simply implementing instructions already part of the project (the instructions specifically state to use {{
Trains in Japan}}
(which points to {{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
). As this doesn't affect
WP:RAIL in the least (since it's a descendant project), there's no reason to notify them. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 22:38, 16 May 2015 (UTC)As far as I recall we should avoid the wrapper and move the other direction. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:53, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
|Japan=
is present. I haven't been able to figure out why not. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 22:38, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
|Japan=
to work, then nothing needs to be done. There are other descendant projects where it works fine, and I copied the syntax used in those parts of the template, but it still won't work. Using the wrapper does. Very weird. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 22:55, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
where the categorisation is correct. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:32, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
at all, but instead use {{
WikiProject Trains|Japan=yes}}
or equivalent, yet the categorisation is the same. This suggests to me that it does not matter whether the wrapper is used or the main template. One thing that I noticed when I first looked at this matter is that every single one of the pages in subcategories of
Category:WikiProject Trains in Japan articles by quality has {{
WikiProject Japan|trains=yes}}
or similar, which was an indication that it is {{
WikiProject Japan|trains=yes}}
which produced the categorisation that you desired.{{
WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
or {{
WikiProject Trains|Japan=yes}}
is used. Is there any problem with the categorisation? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:26, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains}}
template. I wanted to get it working correctly there before attempting to get it to work on {{
WikiProject Japan}}
. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 05:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC){{WikiProject Trains |class=c |Japan=yes }}
(and no other banners) it is placed in
Category:C-Class rail transport articles
Category:Unknown-importance rail transport articles
Category:C-Class WikiProject Trains in Japan articles, whereas if it has {{WikiProject Japan |class=c |trains=yes }}
(and no other banners) it is placed in
Category:C-Class Japan-related articles
Category:Unknown-importance Japan-related articles
Category:WikiProject Japan articles. There is thus nothing basically wrong with {{
WikiProject Trains}}
; however, code does seem to be lacking from {{
WikiProject Japan}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:47, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains}}
. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 05:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC){{WikiProject Trains in Japan}}
reduces the amount needing to be typed - yes, it saves one character compared to {{WikiProject Trains|Japan=yes}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:26, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
Trains in Japan}}
or {{
TIJ}}
, and the latter saves quite a lot. ···
日本穣
? ·
投稿 ·
Talk to Nihonjoe ·
Join WP Japan! 23:22, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Trains}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:26, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Nihonjoe We can add |Japan=
to the existing banners if you like. ---
Magioladitis (
talk) 22:08, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
|Japan=yes
. If there is a problem with categorisation, I will look into it. I've just
replaced one and the categories seem to work just fine ... — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 08:20, 18 May 2015 (UTC)Not done. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:05, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is a harmonization scheme that many countries have adopted, including nearly all major English-speaking countries. Part of the GHS is the Safety Data Sheet (SDS), which is a standardized version of what was formerly known as a "Material Safety Data Sheet" (MSDS) in many countries. The page "material safety data sheet" has been moved to safety data sheet and I have requested a change be made to Template:Chembox & Template:Chembox Hazards. If you need more details, see Talk:Safety data sheet#Move to Safety Data Sheet and Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox#Change MSDS to SDS.
Many chemicals have a page titled "[name of chemical] (data page)" which has a section titled "Material safety data sheet" and a link to the old page title Material safety data sheet. For example: Methanol (data page)#Material Safety Data Sheet (I didn't change that page so it could be an example for this discussion). I am asking for the help of a bot to:
I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox#Change MSDS to SDS concerning changes in the chemical infoboxes. At the time of making this request, there was no response in that discussion about whether a parameter in the infoboxes should be changed from "ExternalMSDS" to "ExternalSDS". Another editor made these changes to one of the infobox templates. I'm not familiar with template coding, so someone else will need to determine and coordinate any changes to the template parameters.
Also note that there are some links to the old page title that appear in the "What links here" (with transclusions and redirects hidden), but I cannot find the link in the article. For example Carbon monoxide is on the "What links here" (with transclusions and redirects hidden) for material safety data sheet, but when I click the edit tab and use the find functionality in my browser, I cannot find the link to material safety data sheet. I'm not sure why. On a final note, I'll be around for a few hours after making this request, but won't be around for the next couple of days. AHeneen ( talk) 01:32, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Can we possibly change these rankings and automatically place them onto the respective Wikipedia page? The Most Beautiful Women of All Time e.g. in the Audrey Hepburn page mentioned that she is ranked #4 ?-- 88.104.132.1 ( talk) 17:38, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Needs wider discussion.
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.
Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC. A bot is needed, please, to remove it from all articles. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
"Consensus is to deprecate and remove"(emphasis added). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:50, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
infoboxes to many articles systematically", and – daft as I certainly am – I wouldn't want to see any other good-faith editors treated in that way. -- RexxS ( talk) 14:16, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm afraid there isn't anything I can do to help here, and as per the RfC, it appears that some (or most?) of the information provided by persondata cannot be copied to Wikidata by bots due to the formatting. I can understand that to some extent too, seeing as persondata has an array of differences from article to article. All I can add to this conversation is that the majority of articles I edit regularly have all the information from the whole article on the corresponding Wikidata item, and not just name, dob/pob and a description. Over the years, I've always added a persondata box when creating a new article, but now I use Wikidata, I feel the information is much better preserved there, and for those who need to extract the data far more useful (in any given language). I'm sorry I can't offer any more help, maybe Mr. Mabbett could, if he was interested. Jared Preston ( talk) 21:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Jared Preston: So it is not "possible" to write a Help: namespace page that explains the steps for non-bot editors how to use Wikidata instead of Persondata? -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 21:23, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Bots can't/won't move metadata included in the persondata system to wikidata (apart from a limited set already transferred), which led to the deprecation of the persondata system, and the agreement to remove all {{ persondata}} templates and their contents from Wikipedia.en.
Here are the practical steps proposed for a persondata to wikidata migration:
Tx for considering this proposal. -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 05:25, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
What if the bot was to start deleting only those {{ Persondata}} templates where the values within the template are duplicated in categories or infobox parameters? For those who want to get rid of every template now, this would get us started. For those who want to transfer valuable information to Wikidata, this would help you focus on those articles where the information may only exist within Persondata. Maybe logic like this (much of which is similar to how AWB populated the template):
|SHORT DESCRIPTION=Italian painter
and
Category:Italian painters)Comments/suggestions are welcome. GoingBatty ( talk) 01:36, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Above, there are proposals to use bots to place notices in articles that the persondata template will soon be deleted, and encourage editors to move the data to Wikidata. Unfortunately, Wikidata is not prepared to receive pre-1924 dates of any kind, such as birth or death dates. This is because the last country to switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar was Greece, and the first full year under the Gregorian calendar in Greece was 1924.
The Wikidata user interface is seriously broken with respect to Julian dates, and contains large number of dates that are labeled as Gregorian but are really Julian. In addition, the format to represent dates internally and in JSON are under discussion with no final decision. An additional problem for dates before the year AD 1 is that some date are stored with the convention year -1 = 1 BC; others are stored with the convention year 0 = 1 BC.
Until Wikidata is capable of storing older dates I suggest that nothing be done to encourage editors to move pre-1924 information to Wikidata. Jc3s5h ( talk) 12:40, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Timestamp +1770-12-17T00:00:00 Timezone +00:00 Calendar Gregorian Precision 1 day
calendarmodel
as "a URI of a calendar model, such as gregorian or julian. Typically given as the URI of a data item on the repository." Presumably, the URI is set to either Gregorian's or Julian's when you toggle between the two on the web interface. What is the issue here?
Alakzi (
talk) 16:25, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Extended content
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[{"id": "q131981$FBDD5B85-9237-444F-9620-C2B67DE70844",
"mainsnak": {"datatype": "time",
"datavalue": {"type": "time",
"value": {"after": 0,
"before": 0,
"calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985786",
"precision": 11,
"time": "+1683-11-09T00:00:00Z",
"timezone": 0}},
"property": "P569",
"snaktype": "value"},
"rank": "normal",
"references": [{"hash": "7eb64cf9621d34c54fd4bd040ed4b61a88c4a1a0",
"snaks": {"P143": [{"datatype": "wikibase-item",
"datavalue": {"type": "wikibase-entityid",
"value": {"entity-type": "item", "numeric-id": 328}},
"property": "P143",
"snaktype": "value"}]},
"snaks-order": "P143"]}],
"type": "statement"},
{"id": "Q131981$0E7308FE-3995-4A3B-AD50-975331E2ED91",
"mainsnak": {"datatype": "time",
"datavalue": {"type": "time",
"value": {"after": 0,
"before": 0,
"calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727",
"precision": 11,
"time": "+1683-11-10T00:00:00Z",
"timezone": 0}},
"property": "P569",
"snaktype": "value"},
"rank": "normal",
"references": [{"hash": "53bfaabf5974a514924dbd0228602ae119c31435",
"snaks": {"P248": [{"datatype": "wikibase-item",
"datavalue": {"type": "wikibase-entityid",
"value": {"entity-type": "item", "numeric-id": 36578}},
"property": "P248",
"snaktype": "value"}],
"P813": [{"datatype": "time",
"datavalue": {"type": "time",
"value": {"after": 0,
"before": 0,
"calendarmodel": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727",
"precision": 11,
"time": "+2014-04-26T00:00:00Z",
"timezone": 0}},
"property": "P813",
"snaktype": "value"}]},
"snaks-order": "P248", "P813"]}],
"type": "statement"}]
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The implementation would suggest that calendarmodel
is a representational, and not a presentational, value. [Note: I have since corrected his Julian dob to 30 October.]
Alakzi (
talk) 18:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
This is all very interesting, but appears to bear little if any relevance to the request for a bot to enact the community's decision to remove persondata from this Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:45, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
The above discussions have gone off at various tangents. The original RfC remains valid, and should be implemented, now. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:13, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
No, I am not "the only editor still in support of an immediate deletion of all persondata by bot"; we had an RfC which agreed - with no caveats - that persondata should be removed. However, there are only a couple of editors who are trying to wikilawyer around that consensus. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:38, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
This discussion has gone off many tangents here. It's clear that this is still a controversial decision and as a bot op, I have to consider that the potential for damage is high when operating bots. My final conclusion is that this Needs wider discussion. and a decisive close. I'm not getting any decisive decisions here.— cyberpower Chat:Limited Access 03:12, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Pursuant to the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Can we get a bot to check the Internet Archive for dead link solutions?, we need a bot that will address dead links on Wikipedia by checking to see whether the URL has been archived at the Internet Archive, ideally finding whatever archiving is the closest in time to the addition of the link to the Wikipedia page. The bot would then replace the dead link with the Internet Archive link, with a note indicating that the content still needs to be confirmed by a human editor. Given the proliferation of dead links on Wikipedia, such a bot can massively improve the sourcing of articles. This bot program, once created, will be as important to the quality of Wikipedia as Cluebot is now. bd2412 T 23:31, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Many of the 276 species articles of genus Eleutherodactylus and linked from that article display the family as Leptodactylidae in the taxobox and the body of the article. But Eleutherodactylus is now considered to be in the Eleutherodactylidae family. Some articles that need this fix are Eleutherodactylus amplinympha, South Island telegraph frog (redirected from Eleutherodactylus audanti), Eleutherodactylus auriculatoides.
This task would take a long time to do by hand. Could a bot be generated to edit each of the Eleutherodactylus species articles and set the family to Eleutherodactylidae if it is not already?
I imagine the bot might operate something like this pseudocode:
edit article within {{Taxobox}} template if familia parameter != "Eleutherodactylidae" then replace familia parameter with "Eleutherodactylidae" after {{Taxobox}} template until first period character find the first use of character string "[[...]] family" where ... is any string of alphabetic characters. replace [[...]] with [[Eleutherodactylidae]]
This would work for at least the three articles listed here. I haven't verified it would work for all affected articles. It would mess up if the family were mentioned after the first sentence, or if the taxobox-style display were generated by a different template such as speciesbox. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 04:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
There is Category:Templates using data from Wikidata, for templates using wikidata, which currently contains 29 pages... but searching in template namespace for insource:/\#property/ matches 88 pages. Adding missing templates to the category (or at least generating a worklist), and listing potentially miscategorised templates for human checking, seems like a useful task for a bot to run every so often, so that we have a more accurate idea of how many templates are actually using Wikidata. - Evad37 [ talk 06:44, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a bot help out clearing the above category? I've been doing this with AWB but it's now becoming too big of a job.
What I need is the following changes to transclusions of {{ National Heritage List for England entry}}, including redirects {{ English Heritage List entry}}, {{ NHLE}} and {{ National Heritage List for England}}:
|separator=,
AND |ps=
replaced with |mode=cs2
Also the following non-essential changes to be made at the same time:
|accessdate=
to |access-date=
|fewer-links=x
to |fewer-links=yes
Probably best to do this in main space only and leave the handfull of non-main space uses for manual review.
Reason: This template defaults to
Citation Style 1; previously it used the |separator=
and |ps=
parameters in tandem to switch to
Citation Style 2, however |separator=
is now deprecated and no longer works.
I'll keep going with AWB in the meantime, but would be grateful for any help. PC78 ( talk) 15:28, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
The CHU/S clerkbot has stopped marking completed requests as done, and its operator has signalled that they are unable to create a patch at this time, but would be fine with someone else updating the code or taking over the task.
The source code is here: https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/chu.php
I believe the relevant code begins around line 276. Please let me know if you require any further information. – xeno talk 12:41, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
There should be a bot that adds {{subst:
AFC submission/draftnew}}
on pages on the draftspace when there is no AFC tag on the draft and that removes duplicate AFC tags. --
TL22 (
talk) 18:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
{{
AFC submission/pending}}
, {{
AFC submission/reviewing}}
, {{
AFC submission/draft}}
or {{
AFC submission/draftnew}}
written twice. --
TL22 (
talk) 21:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)I want a simple UI bot that runs on desktop or pc for the clash of clans game that is played in android and IOS device. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.92.206.138 ( talk) 06:11, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Denied.-- 88.104.134.194 ( talk) 07:47, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Can_we_add_WikiProject_Poland_template_to_all_articles_that_are_missing_it_but_have_the_milhist-Poland_taskforce_template.3F. Piotrus requested that Yobot adds banners of WikiProject Poland to pages that already have the milhist-Poland taskforce template. Any comments are welcome. IF there are no disagreements the bot will start the task in the next few days.
Done -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Articles in Category:Academic journals may lack Template:WikiProject Academic Journals in their talk pages; could a bot check and list those, please? I guess asking a bot to fix automatically might be risky. Thanks. Fgnievinski ( talk) 04:16, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
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Can someone have a bot scan all the (approx 3650) transclusions of
Template:infobox television season and provide a list of the values used with |bgcolour=
or |bgcolor=
or |headercolour=
or |headercolor=
? you can put the result in a subpage of my userspace, and I will process it to compute colour contrast ratios. thank you.
Frietjes (
talk) 14:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
Infobox Smallville season}}
{{
Infobox television Project Runway}}
{{
Infobox reality dance competition}}
{{
Infobox Strictly Come Dancing Series}}
{{
Infobox Dancing with the Stars season}}
{{
Infobox Dancing on Ice series}}
{{
Infobox Television season}}
{{
Infobox tvseason}}
{{
Infobox Television Season}}
{{
Infobox dancingwiththestarsseason}}
{{
Infobox dancing with the stars}}
{{
Infobox television series}}
{{
Infobox Television Top Chef}}
{{
Infobox Television Project Runway}}
{{
Infobox TV series}}
why is a request for information controversial? this is seriously a sad day for Wikipedia. Frietjes ( talk) 15:14, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
As per WP:CAT#T, seeking a bot to:
{{
template category}}
, check other categories where it is categorized and remove the other categorizations, quoting
WP:CAT#T.{{
template category}}
, but should and is arguably a solution for false positives.{{
template category}}
, possibly update a list of templates which need to be looked at as breaking
WP:CAT#T, as opposed to taking an action that would leave them uncategorized.
Slivicon (
talk) 14:57, 6 August 2015 (UTC)