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one pattern i see a lot more often and which inho may warrant a bot fix is a citation template followed by a language icon template. such language template could easily and more efficiently combined using the |language=
parameter within the citation template. --
Ohc
¡digame! 04:56, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
{{xx icon}}
to |language=xx
like
this one. It's easy to change, but not easy to check to see if the template already has a |language=
parameter, and then determine what to do (e.g.
this edit).
GoingBatty (
talk) 16:16, 30 May 2015 (UTC){{cite journal|title=Title|journal=Journal}} {{sv icon}}
"Title". Journal. (in Swedish){{cite journal|title=Title|journal=Journal|language=sv}}
"Title". Journal (in Swedish).{{xx icon}}
fixes around cs1|2 templates and when appropriate modifies |title=
to |script-title=
. The content of |language=
is not part of the citation metadata.Can someone program a bot that compiles a chronological list of all articles that have been exhibited on the main page as DYK hooks under the jurisdiction of a given wiki project and posts the list as a subpage of the wikiproject's page? All the bot has to do to source the list is see which article talk pages contain both the DYK template and the template denoting it as under the purview of the wikiproject the list is being compiled for. Abyssal ( talk) 01:02, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I noticed that there are many categories on Wikipedia with names that are identical on Wikimedia Commons, such as Category:Political parties by continent. Nonetheless, these pages haven't been automatically linked. Can we obtain a list of identically-named categories without these links? Jarble ( talk) 04:48, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Perhaps this isn't the right place to request this feature. Can we send this request to the developers of Wikidata so that they can implement it? Jarble ( talk)
Following the RFC consensus that this template should not be used on articles that aren't linked directly to the template, please can a bot go through and remove this from approx. 17,000 articles that include the template. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 07:18, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm looking for a bot that will add links to pages that already exist. So for instance "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains" does anyone know of one? -- Stuartbman ( talk) 09:45, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
There can be many shared ip notices on talk pages as seen here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:165.72.200.11&oldid=672279975
This can be confusing, looks bad. Only one is needed at the bottom.
TheMagikCow (
talk) 14:36, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Please could somebody either count, or better, provide a list (with a count) of articles using {{ Infobox company}} and {{ Coord}}? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:04, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Is there any way to automatically revive the links for all the Athletic Bilbao football players? The club's website keeps changing configuration, so it frequently crashes down. Right now, current (which now have already been revived by a fellow WP user) and past players combined, we have 236 articles, it would be a pity to lose that link because it's quite comprehensive and in English (or it has an English version available, better said).
Attentively -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 20:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes sir, please see Eneko Bóveda before and after (here https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Eneko_B%C3%B3veda&diff=671009484&oldid=669542171). -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 23:53, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
Athletic Bilbao profile}}
with content like [http://www.athletic-club.eus/en/players/{{{1|}}}/{{{2|}}}.html {{{title|Athletic Bilbao profile}}}]
and currently calling it with two parameters like {{
Athletic Bilbao profile|842|eboveda}}
will create protection if a potential future url can be derived from "842" and "eboveda". Then a single template edit could immediately fix all uses of the template. If only "842" had been in the url before like the example change then a bot could have been coded to scan the 26 index pages at
http://www.athletic-club.eus/en/careers.html and discover which name goes with which number.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 15:17, 27 July 2015 (UTC){{
Athletic Bilbao profile}}
. It's not documented yet and may add or modify named parameters later today but for unnamed parameters, {{Athletic Bilbao profile|842|eboveda}}
produces:Many thanks for your help, sorry for the delay because I have only read the follow-up to my query now. By "which now have already been revived by a fellow WP user", I meant the link had been fixed only in the current players of this club (please see the Athletic Bilbao WP article, then "Current squad", to see who they are), but the old players (dead, retired, with other teams) were not working. My intention was never to seek protection against future changes to the URLs, that's not feasible of course, and this link in particular has changed configuration several times, we'll just have to configure as they do.
Cheers again -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 18:31, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
Athletic Bilbao profile}}
on around 200 articles (including some where the url was already fixed) so hopefully the fixes will be easier next time.
List of Athletic Bilbao players had a lot of formatted references so I only changed url's there.
[2] There are still many articles with broken url's with other paths at
http://www.athletic-club.net. I expect to look at that later today.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 19:55, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Please could some compile a list (or lists, one er space) of talk pages (in all spaces), over a size of say 80Kb, where there is no sub-page titled "/Archive*"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:28, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
I need a bot on my account — Preceding unsigned comment added by Udo Princewill Samuel ( talk • contribs) 06:42, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible, please for someone to produce a table showing all the user pages/ user talk pages (no more than 59 in all) that transclude {{ Useronline}}, and the date of last edit of those pages? If it also includes the date of the last edit by the editor in whose user-space the page is, that would be even better. Please feel free to dump the results in my user space. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:12, 22 August 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?-count
, do not enter any arguments at all, just set it in the article namespace. Btw, this script would take days to output the number on a very large wiki. Anyway, the code for {{
Referanser}}
would be templatecount.py -namespace:0 referanser
. I have no idea if this script supports redirects or parameters. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 16:52, 24 March 2015 (UTC)Needs wider discussion.
I think this would be hugely controversial and difficult, but if it can happen it could change WikiPedia forever. I think we need to get concencus-- 88.104.132.1 ( talk) 17:42, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
In making a small script in python to be used with an alias on linux machines. It would be a super easy way to view content from wikipedia.
It simply grabs the extract from a page of your choice. In checking it's functionality, I've noticed not all pages have an extract. Is there a tool to be made or already made to make sure all pages have an extract?
-Ben — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:47:4102:1FEC:2C11:67D6:6917:BB7E ( talk) 01:07, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to put together a list of the templates in the sub-categories (as deep as they go) of Category:Navigational boxes by topic along with their transclusion counts? This would be helpful in finding over-transcluded navboxes that are being used in articles that are not listed in the navbox, as per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. I'm not sure if a bot is best for this task or if an existing tool would work better. ~ Rob Talk 13:33, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Avicennasis is Doing.... Thanks for taking on this task! ~ Rob Talk 19:33, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of non-navbox templates in those lists, for example {{ 1940s-Hindi-film-stub}} and {{ ALeague MV}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:31, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
06, 07, 08, 09, 10, and 11 posted. I've modified the code so it will (hopefully) move faster. Avic ennasis @ 11:32, 14 Elul 5775 / 11:32, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Symbol was officially announced on 15 July 2010. However as of date Rs. is still being used on numerous articles on Wikipedia. The job of bot will be pretty simple. Just replace Rs. with the symbol. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo 07:04, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Bot criteria Replace Rs. with Rupee symbol, Where
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Capankajsmilyo ( talk • contribs)
{{
currency|50|INR}}
gives
₹50. I'm not sure this is a bot-suitable task, as it's hard to determine accurately which currency is being referred to in any given circumstance.
Relentlessly (
talk) 09:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
|title=
parameter of a citation, and that "Rs." appears in the original title of the cited source.If the symbol was introduced in 2010, then surely we shouldn't use it when referring to payments or values from before then? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:34, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
A bot to replace jain texts and jain Scriptures with Jain Agamas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capankajsmilyo ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
A bot to add infobox on pages with biography tag and vice versa. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capankajsmilyo ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Can a bot be set up to go through Another Believer ( talk · contribs) postings to talk pages about "Wiki Loves Pride" (on June 3 and June 2)? All the announcements (such as this one [3]) are missing dated signatures, and are thus going to break the archival bots on all these WikiProject talk pages that automatically archive discussions based on a date timestamp. Missing the timestamp, these will not be archived, so will continue to advertise the event well after it is over, becoming useless congestion on the talk pages. -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 04:19, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
On 31 July (that's next Friday!) the top level domain .an (used for the Netherlands Antilles, until their dissolution in 2010) will be terminated, which will result in a significant number of dead links. Most (but not all) domain owners moved to the corresponding Curacao domain (.cw), while keeping the .an page in tact. I'd like a bot to:
Would that be doable or am I making a very complicated request? L.tak ( talk) 22:04, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of articles on Wikipedia containing blogs as sources. The job of the bot will be to tag specific sections containing such unreliable sources with appropriate tag. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 18:11, 1 September 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)Please could someone do this:
For example, for the existing Category:20th-century war artists, I just created:
Other examples matching the above pattern would include:
This might usefully be added to a list of monthly cleanup tasks, for new articles and categories matching the above pattern. Note the overlap with #Redirects to lists, from the things they are lists of, above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
The bot would monitor recent changes and look for people adding username mentions to existing posts but not not changing the timestamp. It would then ping the new mention user, giving them a diff of where their username was added in an ineffective ping attempt. Opt-out capable for both the mentioner and the mentioned. – xeno talk 10:07, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Any help is appreciated with diffusing Category:Userboxes, which was tagged as a container cat, possibly with operations such as considering moving pages in the 'User' namespace to the Category:Userbox user templates subcategory. -- Slivicon ( talk) 09:36, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I am currently looking to clean up a series of confusing and unnecessary redirects created for non-notable hockey players. We've already grabbed the low hanging fruit ( Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 September 1#NHL team draft pick redirects), but many of these spurious redirects will also fall into a series of articles that numbers about 4000+ pages. Impossible to do by hand. What I would like to request is a list of all redirects pointing to any article in Category:National Hockey League team seasons and it's children, and any article in Category:Ice hockey trophies and awards and it's children. Either as a CSV or as a list in a table on a user subpage. (this may be huge, incidentally.) I will then review and deal with the redirects I believe should be deleted or modified myself. Thanks! Reso lute 13:24, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
A bot that removes super category from articles. I mean that article has a category a and b. Category b is a subcategory of a. Then it should remove a from categories of that article. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo 13:52, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
{{allincluded|bridges in New York City|bridges}}
which produces: For convenience, all bridges in New York City should be included in this category. This includes all bridges that can also be found in the subcategories. |
suggestion is as stated in the section header. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 21:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
<references>
). --
Izno (
talk) 02:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
There is no consensus to replace with the tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:58, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Not done per above. Avic ennasis @ 22:18, 29 Elul 5775 / 22:18, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
It'd be nice if a bot automatically moved Template:Expand Japanese tags incorrectly placed on the talk page to the article page. – czar 06:51, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
Illinois (album) was moved to Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album), to disambiguate from the newer article Illinois (Brett Eldredge album). Please fix the links to Illinois (album) to point them to Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album). Then I can redirect Illinois (album) to Illinois (disambiguation)#Media and entertainment. Jujutacular ( talk) 00:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
As of June 4, 2015 The LiederNet Archive has migrated from http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ to http://www.lieder.net/lieder/ – Up till now they maintain "soft" redirects for each of their previous pages, but as there are quite a few links to this website in Wikipedia, could a bot assist in replacing the string "www.recmusic.org/lieder" by "www.lieder.net/lieder" wherever the former string appears in wikicode text on the site? Examples:
Tx! -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 19:20, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 August 21#Template:NNDB, Template:NNDB with 1,165 transclusions needs to be orphaned. Most of the time it's used as an external link, but some of its transclusions are contained within references. I suggest that the latter group be left to humans to deal with. Alakzi ( talk) 16:40, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Back in the 2000s, I went on a rampage of blanking or deleting thousands of old IP talk pages because the messages on them were stale. A consensus of the community later developed that these pages should generally be templated, so that the record of the IP activity remains visible in the edit history. Last month I went back and templated all of the pages I had previously deleted or blanked for deletion, in order to restore their edit history accordingly. For the time being, these show up as pages templated to indicate in edit history, but with no underlying edit history visible to most editors. I am now in the much slower process of restoring those edit histories. Is it possible for a bot to restore the edit histories for this set of 2,585 pages? Cheers! bd2412 T 17:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL, templates should only be transcluded onto articles which are linked from the template. Currently {{ Ballet}} is transcluded on 1400+ articles. Please could a bot remove from all other articles. We had a similar situation recently with #Template:Aviation lists. -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 09:48, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to make a request now for a "Music bot", to help expand the list at Wikipedia:Sound/list. This list is very helpful for finding music at Wikimedia Commons for insertion into Wikipedia articles. This bot would:
Of course, the bot could perform this task for any letter of the alphabet other than "A", or even for a combination of letters like "Ba" (as in Bach). This bot would be very useful for identifying music that is sitting around at Commons needing to be inserted into Wikipedia articles. Thanks very much. Incidentally, please note that I have already done this tedious task for the letter "A" by hand, but the rest of the alphabet needs to be done too, and AWB is not enough to do the job. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 01:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is something that needs to be done, but it feels like the right thing to do: We used to have a Wikiproject WP:SLR, which has become defunct as it served its stated purpose. I think this means that the template {{ WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation}} should be removed from article talk pages. — Sebastian 22:56, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Can someone make a list of which of the thousands of Template:cite isbn subpages are orphaned. Category:ISBN templates only shows 209 pages so if the bot could add the non-orphaned (or all I don't care) to that category, that would be a double fix. Template:cite isbn used to work (still does) by literally transulating a page from a subpage. However, a consensus formed to deprecate its use. While its use may have been deprecated, there's possibly dozens if not hundreds of orphaned pages and it seems like listing them by hand isn't favored. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:01, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Remark: Obviously, all subpages are orphan. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:03, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
The cite isbn templates are already orphan. No deletion process has been decided. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:58, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
I've started to probe through Category:Surnames and Category:Given names and I've noticed that there are a bunch of disambiguation pages in those categories. That is erroneous because disambiguation pages should be tagged with Category:Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists, for example. I would like to sort that out, but going through almost 60,000 pages is impossible to do by hand. Therefore, I'd like to have a list of all pages in Category:Surnames and Category:Given names that either are disambiguations or are redirects to disambiguation pages. Once it's compiled, it'd be great if it could be posted in my userspace. Once I have that list, I'll go through it manually because there are a few different ways to solve the problem and I'd like to do general clean-up to them as well. Thanks! -- Tavix ( talk) 03:51, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Similar to Template:Cite isbn, can a bot orphan and deprecate the cite hdl subpages? At the start, a listing like User:Ricky81682/cite of the orphaned ones would be helpful. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 23:16, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just started advertising a survey of UK editors about how to improve wikimeets, see e.g. [4]. I've just been pointed to Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom, where there are many thousands of user pages, so I've seriously underestimated the relevant community here. Would anyone be able to run a bot to post notices on the talk pages of users in this category, using the message I linked to above (also at User:Mike Peel/Wikimeet survey request), before the end of the survey on the 30th September? Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 19:00, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Can some bot replace the BDFutbol links to its templates? Template:BDFutbol/ Template:BDFutbol manager? This edit is a representation of what should be done. BDFutbol hasn't changed his links since the creation of the website, so I think this will not be a problem after all. Thank you, MYS 77 ✉ 03:53, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
The article currently at Sprint (running) was formerly, until 2010, at Sprint (race). The latter remains a redirect to the running article, although the idea of a "sprint race" is no more aligned with the running article than it is with either Sprint (cycling) or Sprint car racing (the original purpose for the move). All incoming links (over 1000) refer to the running concept, but "sprint (race)" should be orphaned as ambiguous. Would it be possible to do a bot-run to amend all links to "sprint (race)" to "sprint (running)" instead? SFB 21:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
I see this all over Wikipedia, all the time, especially in the opening sentences of articles about (Jewish) Israeli people. The article will start "X person (born Y date) is an
Israeli so-and-so ..."—with the word "Israeli" linking to the article
Israeli Jews. This rather pervasive practice is at the very least
WP:EASTEREGG linking and, in my opinion, frankly racist. It's as if white American people had their articles opening "X person (born Y date) is an
American so-and-so ...", with a link to
White American under the word "American". I have removed at least a couple dozen of these usages by hand as I've come across them over the last month or so, but since the number of them seems to be so high (and people with a certain agenda seem to re-add these links occasionally), I think a bot would be advisable to change the wikicode [[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
to just Israeli
, without a link. I have no experience in these things so I am listing this here. Any assistance would be appreciated. Cheers, —
Cliftonian
(talk) 09:49, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
We've had the discussion open there for a week, and I've just closed the RFC there (I apologise for holding it here originally). Consensus seems to me to be indecisive on whether to put no link, a link to the country Israel, or a link to Israelis, but everyone who commented seems to agree with my original point that linking "Israeli" to "Israeli Jews" is unacceptable. I'd therefore like to re-submit my request for a bot to help remove the links. If anyone could help I'd appreciate it very much. Cheers, — Cliftonian (talk) 06:33, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
[[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
and replacing it with [[Israel]]i
?
Relentlessly (
talk) 19:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
and replacing it with Israeli
. If you could make something replicating this I would appreciate it very much. Thanks and have a great week. Cheers, —
Cliftonian
(talk) 20:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
[[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
construction. —
Cliftonian
(talk) 20:08, 4 October 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 63 | Archive 64 | Archive 65 | Archive 66 | Archive 67 | → | Archive 70 |
one pattern i see a lot more often and which inho may warrant a bot fix is a citation template followed by a language icon template. such language template could easily and more efficiently combined using the |language=
parameter within the citation template. --
Ohc
¡digame! 04:56, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
{{xx icon}}
to |language=xx
like
this one. It's easy to change, but not easy to check to see if the template already has a |language=
parameter, and then determine what to do (e.g.
this edit).
GoingBatty (
talk) 16:16, 30 May 2015 (UTC){{cite journal|title=Title|journal=Journal}} {{sv icon}}
"Title". Journal. (in Swedish){{cite journal|title=Title|journal=Journal|language=sv}}
"Title". Journal (in Swedish).{{xx icon}}
fixes around cs1|2 templates and when appropriate modifies |title=
to |script-title=
. The content of |language=
is not part of the citation metadata.Can someone program a bot that compiles a chronological list of all articles that have been exhibited on the main page as DYK hooks under the jurisdiction of a given wiki project and posts the list as a subpage of the wikiproject's page? All the bot has to do to source the list is see which article talk pages contain both the DYK template and the template denoting it as under the purview of the wikiproject the list is being compiled for. Abyssal ( talk) 01:02, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I noticed that there are many categories on Wikipedia with names that are identical on Wikimedia Commons, such as Category:Political parties by continent. Nonetheless, these pages haven't been automatically linked. Can we obtain a list of identically-named categories without these links? Jarble ( talk) 04:48, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Perhaps this isn't the right place to request this feature. Can we send this request to the developers of Wikidata so that they can implement it? Jarble ( talk)
Following the RFC consensus that this template should not be used on articles that aren't linked directly to the template, please can a bot go through and remove this from approx. 17,000 articles that include the template. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 07:18, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm looking for a bot that will add links to pages that already exist. So for instance "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains" does anyone know of one? -- Stuartbman ( talk) 09:45, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
There can be many shared ip notices on talk pages as seen here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:165.72.200.11&oldid=672279975
This can be confusing, looks bad. Only one is needed at the bottom.
TheMagikCow (
talk) 14:36, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Please could somebody either count, or better, provide a list (with a count) of articles using {{ Infobox company}} and {{ Coord}}? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:04, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Is there any way to automatically revive the links for all the Athletic Bilbao football players? The club's website keeps changing configuration, so it frequently crashes down. Right now, current (which now have already been revived by a fellow WP user) and past players combined, we have 236 articles, it would be a pity to lose that link because it's quite comprehensive and in English (or it has an English version available, better said).
Attentively -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 20:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Yes sir, please see Eneko Bóveda before and after (here https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Eneko_B%C3%B3veda&diff=671009484&oldid=669542171). -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 23:53, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
Athletic Bilbao profile}}
with content like [http://www.athletic-club.eus/en/players/{{{1|}}}/{{{2|}}}.html {{{title|Athletic Bilbao profile}}}]
and currently calling it with two parameters like {{
Athletic Bilbao profile|842|eboveda}}
will create protection if a potential future url can be derived from "842" and "eboveda". Then a single template edit could immediately fix all uses of the template. If only "842" had been in the url before like the example change then a bot could have been coded to scan the 26 index pages at
http://www.athletic-club.eus/en/careers.html and discover which name goes with which number.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 15:17, 27 July 2015 (UTC){{
Athletic Bilbao profile}}
. It's not documented yet and may add or modify named parameters later today but for unnamed parameters, {{Athletic Bilbao profile|842|eboveda}}
produces:Many thanks for your help, sorry for the delay because I have only read the follow-up to my query now. By "which now have already been revived by a fellow WP user", I meant the link had been fixed only in the current players of this club (please see the Athletic Bilbao WP article, then "Current squad", to see who they are), but the old players (dead, retired, with other teams) were not working. My intention was never to seek protection against future changes to the URLs, that's not feasible of course, and this link in particular has changed configuration several times, we'll just have to configure as they do.
Cheers again -- 84.90.219.128 ( talk) 18:31, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
{{
Athletic Bilbao profile}}
on around 200 articles (including some where the url was already fixed) so hopefully the fixes will be easier next time.
List of Athletic Bilbao players had a lot of formatted references so I only changed url's there.
[2] There are still many articles with broken url's with other paths at
http://www.athletic-club.net. I expect to look at that later today.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 19:55, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Please could some compile a list (or lists, one er space) of talk pages (in all spaces), over a size of say 80Kb, where there is no sub-page titled "/Archive*"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:28, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
I need a bot on my account — Preceding unsigned comment added by Udo Princewill Samuel ( talk • contribs) 06:42, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible, please for someone to produce a table showing all the user pages/ user talk pages (no more than 59 in all) that transclude {{ Useronline}}, and the date of last edit of those pages? If it also includes the date of the last edit by the editor in whose user-space the page is, that would be even better. Please feel free to dump the results in my user space. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:12, 22 August 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?-count
, do not enter any arguments at all, just set it in the article namespace. Btw, this script would take days to output the number on a very large wiki. Anyway, the code for {{
Referanser}}
would be templatecount.py -namespace:0 referanser
. I have no idea if this script supports redirects or parameters. --
QEDK ♠
T ♥
C 16:52, 24 March 2015 (UTC)Needs wider discussion.
I think this would be hugely controversial and difficult, but if it can happen it could change WikiPedia forever. I think we need to get concencus-- 88.104.132.1 ( talk) 17:42, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
In making a small script in python to be used with an alias on linux machines. It would be a super easy way to view content from wikipedia.
It simply grabs the extract from a page of your choice. In checking it's functionality, I've noticed not all pages have an extract. Is there a tool to be made or already made to make sure all pages have an extract?
-Ben — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:47:4102:1FEC:2C11:67D6:6917:BB7E ( talk) 01:07, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to put together a list of the templates in the sub-categories (as deep as they go) of Category:Navigational boxes by topic along with their transclusion counts? This would be helpful in finding over-transcluded navboxes that are being used in articles that are not listed in the navbox, as per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. I'm not sure if a bot is best for this task or if an existing tool would work better. ~ Rob Talk 13:33, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Avicennasis is Doing.... Thanks for taking on this task! ~ Rob Talk 19:33, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of non-navbox templates in those lists, for example {{ 1940s-Hindi-film-stub}} and {{ ALeague MV}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:31, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
06, 07, 08, 09, 10, and 11 posted. I've modified the code so it will (hopefully) move faster. Avic ennasis @ 11:32, 14 Elul 5775 / 11:32, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Symbol was officially announced on 15 July 2010. However as of date Rs. is still being used on numerous articles on Wikipedia. The job of bot will be pretty simple. Just replace Rs. with the symbol. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo 07:04, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Bot criteria Replace Rs. with Rupee symbol, Where
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Capankajsmilyo ( talk • contribs)
{{
currency|50|INR}}
gives
₹50. I'm not sure this is a bot-suitable task, as it's hard to determine accurately which currency is being referred to in any given circumstance.
Relentlessly (
talk) 09:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
|title=
parameter of a citation, and that "Rs." appears in the original title of the cited source.If the symbol was introduced in 2010, then surely we shouldn't use it when referring to payments or values from before then? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:34, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
A bot to replace jain texts and jain Scriptures with Jain Agamas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capankajsmilyo ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
A bot to add infobox on pages with biography tag and vice versa. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capankajsmilyo ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Can a bot be set up to go through Another Believer ( talk · contribs) postings to talk pages about "Wiki Loves Pride" (on June 3 and June 2)? All the announcements (such as this one [3]) are missing dated signatures, and are thus going to break the archival bots on all these WikiProject talk pages that automatically archive discussions based on a date timestamp. Missing the timestamp, these will not be archived, so will continue to advertise the event well after it is over, becoming useless congestion on the talk pages. -- 70.51.202.183 ( talk) 04:19, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
On 31 July (that's next Friday!) the top level domain .an (used for the Netherlands Antilles, until their dissolution in 2010) will be terminated, which will result in a significant number of dead links. Most (but not all) domain owners moved to the corresponding Curacao domain (.cw), while keeping the .an page in tact. I'd like a bot to:
Would that be doable or am I making a very complicated request? L.tak ( talk) 22:04, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of articles on Wikipedia containing blogs as sources. The job of the bot will be to tag specific sections containing such unreliable sources with appropriate tag. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 18:11, 1 September 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)Please could someone do this:
For example, for the existing Category:20th-century war artists, I just created:
Other examples matching the above pattern would include:
This might usefully be added to a list of monthly cleanup tasks, for new articles and categories matching the above pattern. Note the overlap with #Redirects to lists, from the things they are lists of, above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
The bot would monitor recent changes and look for people adding username mentions to existing posts but not not changing the timestamp. It would then ping the new mention user, giving them a diff of where their username was added in an ineffective ping attempt. Opt-out capable for both the mentioner and the mentioned. – xeno talk 10:07, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Any help is appreciated with diffusing Category:Userboxes, which was tagged as a container cat, possibly with operations such as considering moving pages in the 'User' namespace to the Category:Userbox user templates subcategory. -- Slivicon ( talk) 09:36, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I am currently looking to clean up a series of confusing and unnecessary redirects created for non-notable hockey players. We've already grabbed the low hanging fruit ( Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 September 1#NHL team draft pick redirects), but many of these spurious redirects will also fall into a series of articles that numbers about 4000+ pages. Impossible to do by hand. What I would like to request is a list of all redirects pointing to any article in Category:National Hockey League team seasons and it's children, and any article in Category:Ice hockey trophies and awards and it's children. Either as a CSV or as a list in a table on a user subpage. (this may be huge, incidentally.) I will then review and deal with the redirects I believe should be deleted or modified myself. Thanks! Reso lute 13:24, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
A bot that removes super category from articles. I mean that article has a category a and b. Category b is a subcategory of a. Then it should remove a from categories of that article. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo 13:52, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
{{allincluded|bridges in New York City|bridges}}
which produces: For convenience, all bridges in New York City should be included in this category. This includes all bridges that can also be found in the subcategories. |
suggestion is as stated in the section header. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 21:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
<references>
). --
Izno (
talk) 02:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
There is no consensus to replace with the tag. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:58, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Not done per above. Avic ennasis @ 22:18, 29 Elul 5775 / 22:18, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
It'd be nice if a bot automatically moved Template:Expand Japanese tags incorrectly placed on the talk page to the article page. – czar 06:51, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
Illinois (album) was moved to Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album), to disambiguate from the newer article Illinois (Brett Eldredge album). Please fix the links to Illinois (album) to point them to Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album). Then I can redirect Illinois (album) to Illinois (disambiguation)#Media and entertainment. Jujutacular ( talk) 00:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
As of June 4, 2015 The LiederNet Archive has migrated from http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ to http://www.lieder.net/lieder/ – Up till now they maintain "soft" redirects for each of their previous pages, but as there are quite a few links to this website in Wikipedia, could a bot assist in replacing the string "www.recmusic.org/lieder" by "www.lieder.net/lieder" wherever the former string appears in wikicode text on the site? Examples:
Tx! -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 19:20, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 August 21#Template:NNDB, Template:NNDB with 1,165 transclusions needs to be orphaned. Most of the time it's used as an external link, but some of its transclusions are contained within references. I suggest that the latter group be left to humans to deal with. Alakzi ( talk) 16:40, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Back in the 2000s, I went on a rampage of blanking or deleting thousands of old IP talk pages because the messages on them were stale. A consensus of the community later developed that these pages should generally be templated, so that the record of the IP activity remains visible in the edit history. Last month I went back and templated all of the pages I had previously deleted or blanked for deletion, in order to restore their edit history accordingly. For the time being, these show up as pages templated to indicate in edit history, but with no underlying edit history visible to most editors. I am now in the much slower process of restoring those edit histories. Is it possible for a bot to restore the edit histories for this set of 2,585 pages? Cheers! bd2412 T 17:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL, templates should only be transcluded onto articles which are linked from the template. Currently {{ Ballet}} is transcluded on 1400+ articles. Please could a bot remove from all other articles. We had a similar situation recently with #Template:Aviation lists. -- Rob Sinden ( talk) 09:48, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to make a request now for a "Music bot", to help expand the list at Wikipedia:Sound/list. This list is very helpful for finding music at Wikimedia Commons for insertion into Wikipedia articles. This bot would:
Of course, the bot could perform this task for any letter of the alphabet other than "A", or even for a combination of letters like "Ba" (as in Bach). This bot would be very useful for identifying music that is sitting around at Commons needing to be inserted into Wikipedia articles. Thanks very much. Incidentally, please note that I have already done this tedious task for the letter "A" by hand, but the rest of the alphabet needs to be done too, and AWB is not enough to do the job. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 01:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is something that needs to be done, but it feels like the right thing to do: We used to have a Wikiproject WP:SLR, which has become defunct as it served its stated purpose. I think this means that the template {{ WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation}} should be removed from article talk pages. — Sebastian 22:56, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Can someone make a list of which of the thousands of Template:cite isbn subpages are orphaned. Category:ISBN templates only shows 209 pages so if the bot could add the non-orphaned (or all I don't care) to that category, that would be a double fix. Template:cite isbn used to work (still does) by literally transulating a page from a subpage. However, a consensus formed to deprecate its use. While its use may have been deprecated, there's possibly dozens if not hundreds of orphaned pages and it seems like listing them by hand isn't favored. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:01, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Remark: Obviously, all subpages are orphan. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:03, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
The cite isbn templates are already orphan. No deletion process has been decided. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:58, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
I've started to probe through Category:Surnames and Category:Given names and I've noticed that there are a bunch of disambiguation pages in those categories. That is erroneous because disambiguation pages should be tagged with Category:Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists, for example. I would like to sort that out, but going through almost 60,000 pages is impossible to do by hand. Therefore, I'd like to have a list of all pages in Category:Surnames and Category:Given names that either are disambiguations or are redirects to disambiguation pages. Once it's compiled, it'd be great if it could be posted in my userspace. Once I have that list, I'll go through it manually because there are a few different ways to solve the problem and I'd like to do general clean-up to them as well. Thanks! -- Tavix ( talk) 03:51, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Similar to Template:Cite isbn, can a bot orphan and deprecate the cite hdl subpages? At the start, a listing like User:Ricky81682/cite of the orphaned ones would be helpful. Thanks! -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 23:16, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi all. I've just started advertising a survey of UK editors about how to improve wikimeets, see e.g. [4]. I've just been pointed to Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom, where there are many thousands of user pages, so I've seriously underestimated the relevant community here. Would anyone be able to run a bot to post notices on the talk pages of users in this category, using the message I linked to above (also at User:Mike Peel/Wikimeet survey request), before the end of the survey on the 30th September? Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 19:00, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Can some bot replace the BDFutbol links to its templates? Template:BDFutbol/ Template:BDFutbol manager? This edit is a representation of what should be done. BDFutbol hasn't changed his links since the creation of the website, so I think this will not be a problem after all. Thank you, MYS 77 ✉ 03:53, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
The article currently at Sprint (running) was formerly, until 2010, at Sprint (race). The latter remains a redirect to the running article, although the idea of a "sprint race" is no more aligned with the running article than it is with either Sprint (cycling) or Sprint car racing (the original purpose for the move). All incoming links (over 1000) refer to the running concept, but "sprint (race)" should be orphaned as ambiguous. Would it be possible to do a bot-run to amend all links to "sprint (race)" to "sprint (running)" instead? SFB 21:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
I see this all over Wikipedia, all the time, especially in the opening sentences of articles about (Jewish) Israeli people. The article will start "X person (born Y date) is an
Israeli so-and-so ..."—with the word "Israeli" linking to the article
Israeli Jews. This rather pervasive practice is at the very least
WP:EASTEREGG linking and, in my opinion, frankly racist. It's as if white American people had their articles opening "X person (born Y date) is an
American so-and-so ...", with a link to
White American under the word "American". I have removed at least a couple dozen of these usages by hand as I've come across them over the last month or so, but since the number of them seems to be so high (and people with a certain agenda seem to re-add these links occasionally), I think a bot would be advisable to change the wikicode [[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
to just Israeli
, without a link. I have no experience in these things so I am listing this here. Any assistance would be appreciated. Cheers, —
Cliftonian
(talk) 09:49, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
We've had the discussion open there for a week, and I've just closed the RFC there (I apologise for holding it here originally). Consensus seems to me to be indecisive on whether to put no link, a link to the country Israel, or a link to Israelis, but everyone who commented seems to agree with my original point that linking "Israeli" to "Israeli Jews" is unacceptable. I'd therefore like to re-submit my request for a bot to help remove the links. If anyone could help I'd appreciate it very much. Cheers, — Cliftonian (talk) 06:33, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
[[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
and replacing it with [[Israel]]i
?
Relentlessly (
talk) 19:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
and replacing it with Israeli
. If you could make something replicating this I would appreciate it very much. Thanks and have a great week. Cheers, —
Cliftonian
(talk) 20:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
[[Israeli Jews|Israeli]]
construction. —
Cliftonian
(talk) 20:08, 4 October 2015 (UTC)