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Hi everyone,
I am a frequent editor of video game-related articles. I'm not really familiar with bots, so if this is a stupid question, my apologies. In the {{
Infobox video game}}, the |modes=
is for
single-player,
multiplayer, or both. Often other modes are introduced, like
multiplayer online game, or specifically mentioning "2 player". The |engine=
is intended for game engines with an established, independent article, and not for middleware, such as
Havok (see
Wolfenstein (2009 video game). Some games use an engine based upon the engine used in previous game and add a link to the game in the infobox (see
South Park; sometimes the word "modified" is added, which doesn't say anything on how it modified (see
Garry's Mod. Is there a way for a bot to systemically go through all of the
WP:VG articles and change these things accordingly?
soetermans.
↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 15:45, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
|modes=
will be pretty easy to do. |engines=
will be a little bit harder.
Such edit probably won't be hard to make, but determining, if the target article is about video game or video game engine - that will be a bit harder. So video game engine will have {{
Infobox Software}}, right? If target article doesn't have it, then remove it? Of course, we can give you a list of infobox parameter values for manual review, if it would suit you. --
Edgars2007 (
talk/
contribs) 16:58, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
|engine=
and |mode=
and places the articles in a maintenance category. That way, you would not need a bot. If you start a discussion at WP:VG or elsewhere, ping me and I can try to help with the template code. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:02, 11 July 2016 (UTC)Following this discussion, could anyone help set up a bot task that would
Thank you for your help
Anthere ( talk) 07:51, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Well, thank you anyway if you read me at least. I take it I will have to do it by hand. Oh well. Anthere ( talk) 17:54, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
How about a bot that looks for missing Commons category link in articles where such a Commons category exists with lots of images? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 04:44, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Could someone please update Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs? This should be done once in a while, ad it hasn't been done since March 2015. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:10, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Could someone please update Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs? This should be done once in a while, ad it hasn't been done since March 2015. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:10, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
the Library of Congress has refreshed their website, but the archiving is a problem. could we have a bot correct all the references & links to thomas to the congress.gov domain? Beatley ( talk)
here is a target list https://en.wikipedia.org/?target=http%3A%2F%2F*.thomas.loc.gov&title=Special%3ALinkSearch
Coding... trying my hand. ProgrammingGeek ( Page! • Talk! • Contribs!) 16:44, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
We have a whole lot of Google Cache links, unfortunately most of them dead (it seems, unlike the Internet Archive, Google Cache is only a temporary thing). It would be nice to have a bot convert these links to Wayback Machine links, like I manually did here. The Google cache links contain the URL information:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umS520jojVYJ:www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf+%22Joan+Krauskopf%22+%22Eighth+Circuit%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us
→
[1]
dead linkto a {{ Wayback}} link like
{{Wayback |url=http://www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf }}
→
Archive index at the
Wayback MachineI don't know how hard it would be for a bot to also fill the |date=
and |title=
parameters of {{
Wayback}}, but that would be optional anyways. Maybe it could if the raw Google Cache link above had [http... some title
to it. Anyhow, just fixing the dead Google Cache links would be a valuable service in itself.
Of course, the above mentioned usage of {{
Wayback}} goes for raw links like the one I fixed. If the Google Cache link was in a citation template's |archiveurl=
parameter, then the fix should be
|archiveurl=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umS520jojVYJ:www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf+%22Joan+Krauskopf%22+%22Eighth+Circuit%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us
to
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf
-- bender235 ( talk) 14:01, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Please can someone draw up a list of templates whose name begins Template:Cite
, but which do not themselves either wrap a template with such a name, or invoke a citation module?
For example:
I would therefore only expect to see the latter in the results.
The list could either be dumped to a user page, or preferably, a hidden tracking category, say Category:Citation templates without standard citation metadata, could be added to their documentation. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:16, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Gawker ( Gawker Media) has been driven into bankruptcy, and then bought out by Univision, which will be shutting it down next week. We've got a lot of articles that cite Gawker pages. Can someone send a bot through the database as a whole, looking for everything cited to Gawker, and then making sure that it's archived (archive.org, WebCite, etc)? DS ( talk) 19:23, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
When archived at Internet Archive, Univision has the option to block viewing at any time for the whole domain with a single line in robots.txt .. I don't know if Univision would do that but once Peter Theil learns the articles are still available online it seems likely he would put pressure on Univision. WebCite only checks robots.txt at the time of archival. Archive.is doesn't care about robots and is outside US law. Maybe I can generate a list of the Gawker URLs and trigger a save for WebCite and archive.is but I haven't done that in an automated fashion before so don't know if it will work. -- Green C 21:14, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
I know that the new archivebot has started working. But the backlog is enormous with dead links that needs to be archived. In its current paste it would never get close to catch up. I would atleast suggest that there were two archive bots working at the same time. For example the bot has made four edits today. To have any chance of catching up it would need to be active 24/7. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:01, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
If an article is renamed, should the wikilinks to that article, in other articles, be changed automatically by a bot to reflect the new article name. It might help users from edit the wikilinks by themselves, because articles get renamed every day. TheAmazingPeanuts ( talk) 09:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
I am trying to take on a new task of adding infoboxes to any page that doesn't have one. It would be great to have a bot that helps categorize these. At the moment I am working off of pages that link to {{ Infobox requested}}. The problem is that when people add an infobox to a page, they rarely remove that template from the talk page. So I see two things that this bot could do...
Just my thinking. -- Zackmann08 ( Talk to me/ What I been doing) 17:56, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
Anyone interested fixing this? See T100721 for more details in necessary. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:47, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
John of Reading OK this means, this task is not suitable for AWB neither. We need someone to create a list of pages then and see how many occurrences are there. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:17, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
I mean as a general fix. Any other suggestions are welcome but they should be tested before. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:34, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
My July 15 edit to
Module:Navbox (
diff) changed its outer container from a single cell layout <table>
to a <div>
. It was later reported that this broke navboxes such as
Old revision of Template:Events by month links/box that used |bodystyle=width:auto
to reduce the container's width to the width of its contents — this works with tables, but not divs.
I suspect there are at least a few other navboxes that do this. I'd like a list of Template namespace transclusions of {{
Navbox}}, {{
Navbox with collapsible groups}}, {{
Navbox with columns}}, and their redirects, that use either |bodystyle=width:auto
or |style=width:auto
, so I can fix them manually, but I'm not sure how to compile such a list myself. The regex would be tricky, for starters, since there may be spaces, newlines, and style declarations preceding width:auto.
Matt Fitzpatrick (
talk) 11:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
A lot of the millions of Google Books, Google News, etc. links on Wikipedia carry a non-English language option. For example (in Midrakh Oz) the link
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=iw&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
opens Google Books in Hebrew. Since this is the English Wikipedia, the link should instead be
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=en&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
which opens
Google Books in English. As
Sfan00 IMG (
talk ·
contribs) wrote back in 2014, we basically need a bot that looks for a link of the form *.google.*
, looks for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replaces it with &hl=en&
. --
bender235 (
talk) 16:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.co.il
? An insource search for insource:/books\.google\.co\.[a-tv-z]/
shows 7,000 pages linking to non-".uk" versions of Google Books. The search may need to be refined, but that looks like a first cut at finding target articles. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 16:38, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.[not com
, as a simple precautionary security measure. In some countries, particular
top-level domains may raise suspicion of authorities and ISPs (*.co.il
in some Arab countries, *.com.tw
in China, etc.), so transforming these to the generic books.google.com
might not be a bad idea.books.google.fr
or books.google.com
. --
bender235 (
talk) 17:22, 6 August 2016 (UTC)Would it be possible for a bot to check each of the redlinks within the subpages listed within Wikipedia:WikiProject Requested articles against draftspace and just create a list of which pages have drafts created for them? The pages that are blue are obviously created (or currently redirects) but if someone started a draft on it, it would be easier to remove it and link to the draft (which I'll review and do manually) and merge whatever content if any is listed there. I doubt it's a lot (if there's any) but it would helpful to know since some pages there have sources worth incorporating and working on. Basically, it would be (1) have a list of redlinks; (2) check if Draft:Redlink exists for each one and (3) if it exists, give me the page where you found it and the draftspace link. I suspect we'll have false positive as well but I think it'd be helpful. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:45, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
A lot of the millions of Google Books, Google News, etc. links on Wikipedia carry a non-English language option. For example (in Midrakh Oz) the link
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=iw&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
opens Google Books in Hebrew. Since this is the English Wikipedia, the link should instead be
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=en&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
which opens
Google Books in English. As
Sfan00 IMG (
talk ·
contribs) wrote back in 2014, we basically need a bot that looks for a link of the form *.google.*
, looks for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replaces it with &hl=en&
. --
bender235 (
talk) 16:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.co.il
? An insource search for insource:/books\.google\.co\.[a-tv-z]/
shows 7,000 pages linking to non-".uk" versions of Google Books. The search may need to be refined, but that looks like a first cut at finding target articles. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 16:38, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.[not com
, as a simple precautionary security measure. In some countries, particular
top-level domains may raise suspicion of authorities and ISPs (*.co.il
in some Arab countries, *.com.tw
in China, etc.), so transforming these to the generic books.google.com
might not be a bad idea.books.google.fr
or books.google.com
. --
bender235 (
talk) 17:22, 6 August 2016 (UTC)Would it be possible for a bot to check each of the redlinks within the subpages listed within Wikipedia:WikiProject Requested articles against draftspace and just create a list of which pages have drafts created for them? The pages that are blue are obviously created (or currently redirects) but if someone started a draft on it, it would be easier to remove it and link to the draft (which I'll review and do manually) and merge whatever content if any is listed there. I doubt it's a lot (if there's any) but it would helpful to know since some pages there have sources worth incorporating and working on. Basically, it would be (1) have a list of redlinks; (2) check if Draft:Redlink exists for each one and (3) if it exists, give me the page where you found it and the draftspace link. I suspect we'll have false positive as well but I think it'd be helpful. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:45, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
Need help with point 13 ("Replace usage of the moved project's banner with the parent/task force banner") at Converting existing projects to task forces for Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgrade→ Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia/Belgrade task force. The banner is at Template:WikiProject Belgrade.-- Zoupan 00:21, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to make the AWB bot automatic? I mean if I like to add categories to pages, I have to manually hit save for everypage. I think it would be better if it was auto for task like these. Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 15:54, 7 October 2016 (UTC)D
I was just saying that If i would like to add categories to pages using awb, it would be nice to auto that rather than sit there and manually hit "save". Would save a lot of time and much easier. What I am doing is requesting the ability added to awb (if possible by whoever made it lol)... Ok so i understand... this is possible but I would have to get the approval to get the bot to make automated edits...correct? Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 16:45, 7 October 2016 (UTC) ok ty inzi Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 16:49, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Sometimes a redirect has the same exact name as a subheading of the article the redirect points to.
Finding and sectionalizing redirects of this kind looks like something that could easily be automated using a bot.
For example, the redirect "Map design" leads to "Cartography", which has a subheading titled "Map design".
The redirect didn't lead to the section until I manually added "#Map design" to the redirect's target, making it a sectional redirect, like this:
#REDIRECT [[Cartography#Map design]]
Is making a bot that does this feasible and worthwhile?
What are the design considerations? The Transhumanist 12:12, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Rich Farmbrough and Cacycle: We need further comments. The Transhumanist 23:42, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
@ The Earwig, Enterprisey, KSFT, and PrimeHunter: Above we talked about fixing a redirect that points to a page that has a subheading that is the same as the title of the page being redirected.
Well, a similar situation is a redirect that does not match any subheadings in the target page, but for which we know should have a section. For example, History of domestication redirects to Domestication. But Domestication has no history section for History of domestication to point to. Should the bot discussed above be programmed to handle this type of situation too, and create empty sections? The resulting link in the redirect in this example would be Domestication#History. The availability of such sections may prompt editors to write about the history of the respective subjects. The Transhumanist 20:49, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to request that a bot adds the publisher in the |publisher=, section of the references in articles. I see articles everyday without the Publisher named. I think such a task would be beneficial for the project when people are searching for information and its publishers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
|work=
includes a link to a Wikipedia article. But it may be possible (and could be added to AWB's routine tasks) for a set of commons sources. Do you have some examples in mind?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 14:37, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to request that a bot adds the publisher in the |publisher=, section of the references in articles. I see articles everyday without the Publisher named. I think such a task would be beneficial for the project when people are searching for information and its publishers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
|work=
includes a link to a Wikipedia article. But it may be possible (and could be added to AWB's routine tasks) for a set of commons sources. Do you have some examples in mind?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 14:37, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Are there any bot operators willing to work on a multi-work bot task? If so, please see meta:Talk:KML files - Evad37 [ talk 04:06, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
I started
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling/Tour de France task force yesterday, and the scope includes all cyclists that have ridden the Tour. I have added the all other articles to the task force using AWB, but can a bot save me time and bother and added the 2,290 articles in
Category:Tour de France cyclists for me? What needs doing is |tdf=yes
needs adding to end of {{
WikiProject Cycling}}
({{
WP Cycling}}
).
Bald
Boris 23:03, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Done. Dat Guy Talk Contribs 19:29, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was a bot that would go around to the userpages of users who haven't been active after x amount of time and change their UserStatus subpage to away (and then to offline after some more time). That way users that forget to change it before going away or offline for a bit wouldn't be shown as being online when they aren't actually online. And of course, the bot would only do this to willing users who sign up for it (perhaps by adding a new parameter to the template that signals the bot?) Perhaps this is too social of a suggestion or not enough people use the template to warrant this kind of bot, but I thought I'd suggest it to see if anything comes of it. -- MorbidEntree - ( Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)(please reply using {{ping}}) 05:26, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
An adminbot should create a fully protected redirect from Draft:A to A for each article A (including disambiguation pages). If Draft:A already exists, then there are three cases to consider.
63.251.215.25 ( talk) 17:05, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Now that English Wikipedia is using UCA collation for categories ( phabricator:T136150), there are a large number of DEFAULTSORT keys that are no longer needed. For example, it is no longer necessary to have DEFAULTSORT keys for titles that begin with diacritics, like Über or Łódź. (Those will automatically sort under U and L now.) Someone should write a bot to remove a lot of these unneccessary DEFAULTSORT keys (for example, when the title is the same at the DEFAULTSORT key except for diacritics). Kaldari ( talk) 21:40, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Since the recent changes in the citation templates (see
Update to the live CS1 module weekend of 30–31 July 2016), the parameter access-date
now requires a day and no-longer accepts a "month-year" formatted date such as August 2016
and displays a
CS 1 error (Check date values in: |access-date=) error, as soon as the article has been edited.
access-date
or accessdate
from, for example, August 2016
to 1 August 2016
, by adding the first day of the month.date
contains a more recent date (e.g. 4 August 2016
) than the fixed accessdate parameter (i.e 1 August 2016
), the value in access-date would be older than that in date. Although accessing a cited source before its (publication) doesn't seem very sensible to me, there is (currently) no CS 1 error, so adjusting for "accessdate == date" is purely optional.1\s
in front of the outwritten month ("August"), maintaining the original spacing, i.e. a white space between "=" and the date-value.Adding a day to the accessdate parameter seems like a straight forward change to me. However if I am the only editor on wikipedia that used such date format, or if my request causes some kind of controversy, I'll prefer to do these changes manually. Thx for the effort, Rfassbind – talk 12:15, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
@ Jc3s5h I expected this kind of unhelpful comment, and that's why I was reluctant to post this request in the first place. It's depressing sometimes, yes, but that's the way wikipedia works. @ Jonesey95 yes that's a perfectly good fix. Rfassbind – talk 15:47, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
We can even check whether the link is still alive and put the current date. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:24, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
|access-date=
portion of the module update to have a further option yet. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 22:44, 4 August 2016 (UTC)|access-date=
parameters on the corresponding page (or whichever references Rfassbind confirms checking). As a further check, I'd only edit the "old" access-dates which match the corresponding month & year of the overall revision. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 00:06, 5 August 2016 (UTC)Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Images #6, it is not appropriate to refer in article text to images and elements as being on the "left" or "right" side of the page, since this information is inaccurate for mobile users and irrelevant for visually impaired users. We should have a bot make the following substitutions:
"the <picture|diagram|image|table|box|...> <to|at|on> [the] <left|right>"
→ "the adjacent <picture|diagram|image|table|box|...>"
Thoughts? — swpb T 19:00, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
I request an on-Wiki bot (way) to remind tasks. "Remind me in N days about "A" etc. Talk page message reminder or anything is okay. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:09, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Please tell me your views and opinion. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 18:31, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
{{u|ReminderBot}}
at the end of something, and the bot would be pinged and store the ping in a database. Later on, the bot could leave a message on my talkpage mentioning the original page I left the ping in.
Enterprisey (
talk!) (formerly
APerson) 04:10, 20 June 2016 (UTC)Per this RfC (see Help:Coordinates in infoboxes), could all articles using {{ Infobox park}} which are also in Category:Pages using deprecated coordinates format be run through with AWB (minor fixes turned on) with this regex (entire text, case-sensitive, other options default)? This should affect roughly 2,000 pages (with no visual changes, aside from the minor fixes).
Find:
*\| ?lat_d *= ?([\-0-9\. ]+)(\n? *\| ?lat_m *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?lat_s *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?lat_NS *= ?([NnSs]?) ?)?\n? *\| ?long_d *= ?([\-0-9\. ]+)(\n? *\| ?long_m *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?long_s *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?long_EW *= ?([EeWw]?) ?)?(\n? *\| ?region *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?dim *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?scale *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?source *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?format *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?display *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?coords_type *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?coords *= ?.*)?
(There's a space at the beginning.)
Replace:
| coords = {{subst:Infobox coord/sandbox | lat_d = $1 | lat_m = $3 | lat_s = $5 | lat_NS = $7 | long_d = $8 | long_m = $10 | long_s = $12 | long_EW = $14 | region = $16 | dim = $18 | scale = $20 | source = $22 | format = $24 | display = $26 | type = $28 }}
Thanks, Jc86035 ( talk • contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 15:22, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
|type=$28
? That parameter is not deprecated in Infobox park. ―
Mandruss
☎ 16:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
|type=
is the parameter in {{
Infobox coord/sandbox}} (substituted to create {{
Coord}}). The parameter |coords_type=
of Infobox park is put into it. I've done the replacement on 11 infoboxes (
example,
example), but without the rounding for latitude and longitude (which I have yet to test properly).
Jc86035 (
talk •
contribs) Use {{
re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 01:31, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
|area=
into account, but the vast majority of parks don't need that level of precision. I'll build it in at some point.
Jc86035 (
talk •
contribs) Use {{
re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 02:21, 1 September 2016 (UTC)|coords=
.
Jc86035 (
talk •
contribs) Use {{
re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 02:23, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Mandruss, Jonesey95, and Tagishsimon: Rounding removed; probably wouldn't work in retrospect. I've already tested this configuration, so it should work. Jc86035 ( talk • contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 10:28, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Jc86035: I can write something up for this. Using an AWB custom module will be more flexible than using the regex above. Since the template conversions will be similar, I would like to file one BRFA for all of the templates that need to be converted. For each infobox, I'll just need a map of the parameters into {{ subst:Infobox coord/sandbox}} if they differ from the above. (I don't need them all now, just when the template is ready.) — JJMC89 ( T· C) 10:21, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Could a bot replace all instances of these wrong redirects (where they are used in articles) with their targets? -- XXN, 10:20, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
Could a bot replace all instances of these wrong redirects (where they are used in articles) with their targets? Then I'll go to RFD with them. -- XXN, 21:04, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
-- XXN, 17:04, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi everyone,
I am a frequent editor of video game-related articles. I'm not really familiar with bots, so if this is a stupid question, my apologies. In the {{
Infobox video game}}, the |modes=
is for
single-player,
multiplayer, or both. Often other modes are introduced, like
multiplayer online game, or specifically mentioning "2 player". The |engine=
is intended for game engines with an established, independent article, and not for middleware, such as
Havok (see
Wolfenstein (2009 video game). Some games use an engine based upon the engine used in previous game and add a link to the game in the infobox (see
South Park; sometimes the word "modified" is added, which doesn't say anything on how it modified (see
Garry's Mod. Is there a way for a bot to systemically go through all of the
WP:VG articles and change these things accordingly?
soetermans.
↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 15:45, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
|modes=
will be pretty easy to do. |engines=
will be a little bit harder.
Such edit probably won't be hard to make, but determining, if the target article is about video game or video game engine - that will be a bit harder. So video game engine will have {{
Infobox Software}}, right? If target article doesn't have it, then remove it? Of course, we can give you a list of infobox parameter values for manual review, if it would suit you. --
Edgars2007 (
talk/
contribs) 16:58, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
|engine=
and |mode=
and places the articles in a maintenance category. That way, you would not need a bot. If you start a discussion at WP:VG or elsewhere, ping me and I can try to help with the template code. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:02, 11 July 2016 (UTC)Following this discussion, could anyone help set up a bot task that would
Thank you for your help
Anthere ( talk) 07:51, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
Well, thank you anyway if you read me at least. I take it I will have to do it by hand. Oh well. Anthere ( talk) 17:54, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
How about a bot that looks for missing Commons category link in articles where such a Commons category exists with lots of images? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 04:44, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Could someone please update Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs? This should be done once in a while, ad it hasn't been done since March 2015. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:10, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Could someone please update Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs? This should be done once in a while, ad it hasn't been done since March 2015. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:10, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
the Library of Congress has refreshed their website, but the archiving is a problem. could we have a bot correct all the references & links to thomas to the congress.gov domain? Beatley ( talk)
here is a target list https://en.wikipedia.org/?target=http%3A%2F%2F*.thomas.loc.gov&title=Special%3ALinkSearch
Coding... trying my hand. ProgrammingGeek ( Page! • Talk! • Contribs!) 16:44, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
We have a whole lot of Google Cache links, unfortunately most of them dead (it seems, unlike the Internet Archive, Google Cache is only a temporary thing). It would be nice to have a bot convert these links to Wayback Machine links, like I manually did here. The Google cache links contain the URL information:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umS520jojVYJ:www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf+%22Joan+Krauskopf%22+%22Eighth+Circuit%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us
→
[1]
dead linkto a {{ Wayback}} link like
{{Wayback |url=http://www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf }}
→
Archive index at the
Wayback MachineI don't know how hard it would be for a bot to also fill the |date=
and |title=
parameters of {{
Wayback}}, but that would be optional anyways. Maybe it could if the raw Google Cache link above had [http... some title
to it. Anyhow, just fixing the dead Google Cache links would be a valuable service in itself.
Of course, the above mentioned usage of {{
Wayback}} goes for raw links like the one I fixed. If the Google Cache link was in a citation template's |archiveurl=
parameter, then the fix should be
|archiveurl=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umS520jojVYJ:www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf+%22Joan+Krauskopf%22+%22Eighth+Circuit%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us
to
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.aals.org/profdev/women/clark.pdf
-- bender235 ( talk) 14:01, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Please can someone draw up a list of templates whose name begins Template:Cite
, but which do not themselves either wrap a template with such a name, or invoke a citation module?
For example:
I would therefore only expect to see the latter in the results.
The list could either be dumped to a user page, or preferably, a hidden tracking category, say Category:Citation templates without standard citation metadata, could be added to their documentation. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:16, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Gawker ( Gawker Media) has been driven into bankruptcy, and then bought out by Univision, which will be shutting it down next week. We've got a lot of articles that cite Gawker pages. Can someone send a bot through the database as a whole, looking for everything cited to Gawker, and then making sure that it's archived (archive.org, WebCite, etc)? DS ( talk) 19:23, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
When archived at Internet Archive, Univision has the option to block viewing at any time for the whole domain with a single line in robots.txt .. I don't know if Univision would do that but once Peter Theil learns the articles are still available online it seems likely he would put pressure on Univision. WebCite only checks robots.txt at the time of archival. Archive.is doesn't care about robots and is outside US law. Maybe I can generate a list of the Gawker URLs and trigger a save for WebCite and archive.is but I haven't done that in an automated fashion before so don't know if it will work. -- Green C 21:14, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
I know that the new archivebot has started working. But the backlog is enormous with dead links that needs to be archived. In its current paste it would never get close to catch up. I would atleast suggest that there were two archive bots working at the same time. For example the bot has made four edits today. To have any chance of catching up it would need to be active 24/7. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:01, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
If an article is renamed, should the wikilinks to that article, in other articles, be changed automatically by a bot to reflect the new article name. It might help users from edit the wikilinks by themselves, because articles get renamed every day. TheAmazingPeanuts ( talk) 09:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
I am trying to take on a new task of adding infoboxes to any page that doesn't have one. It would be great to have a bot that helps categorize these. At the moment I am working off of pages that link to {{ Infobox requested}}. The problem is that when people add an infobox to a page, they rarely remove that template from the talk page. So I see two things that this bot could do...
Just my thinking. -- Zackmann08 ( Talk to me/ What I been doing) 17:56, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
Anyone interested fixing this? See T100721 for more details in necessary. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:47, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
John of Reading OK this means, this task is not suitable for AWB neither. We need someone to create a list of pages then and see how many occurrences are there. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:17, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
I mean as a general fix. Any other suggestions are welcome but they should be tested before. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:34, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
My July 15 edit to
Module:Navbox (
diff) changed its outer container from a single cell layout <table>
to a <div>
. It was later reported that this broke navboxes such as
Old revision of Template:Events by month links/box that used |bodystyle=width:auto
to reduce the container's width to the width of its contents — this works with tables, but not divs.
I suspect there are at least a few other navboxes that do this. I'd like a list of Template namespace transclusions of {{
Navbox}}, {{
Navbox with collapsible groups}}, {{
Navbox with columns}}, and their redirects, that use either |bodystyle=width:auto
or |style=width:auto
, so I can fix them manually, but I'm not sure how to compile such a list myself. The regex would be tricky, for starters, since there may be spaces, newlines, and style declarations preceding width:auto.
Matt Fitzpatrick (
talk) 11:10, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
A lot of the millions of Google Books, Google News, etc. links on Wikipedia carry a non-English language option. For example (in Midrakh Oz) the link
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=iw&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
opens Google Books in Hebrew. Since this is the English Wikipedia, the link should instead be
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=en&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
which opens
Google Books in English. As
Sfan00 IMG (
talk ·
contribs) wrote back in 2014, we basically need a bot that looks for a link of the form *.google.*
, looks for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replaces it with &hl=en&
. --
bender235 (
talk) 16:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.co.il
? An insource search for insource:/books\.google\.co\.[a-tv-z]/
shows 7,000 pages linking to non-".uk" versions of Google Books. The search may need to be refined, but that looks like a first cut at finding target articles. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 16:38, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.[not com
, as a simple precautionary security measure. In some countries, particular
top-level domains may raise suspicion of authorities and ISPs (*.co.il
in some Arab countries, *.com.tw
in China, etc.), so transforming these to the generic books.google.com
might not be a bad idea.books.google.fr
or books.google.com
. --
bender235 (
talk) 17:22, 6 August 2016 (UTC)Would it be possible for a bot to check each of the redlinks within the subpages listed within Wikipedia:WikiProject Requested articles against draftspace and just create a list of which pages have drafts created for them? The pages that are blue are obviously created (or currently redirects) but if someone started a draft on it, it would be easier to remove it and link to the draft (which I'll review and do manually) and merge whatever content if any is listed there. I doubt it's a lot (if there's any) but it would helpful to know since some pages there have sources worth incorporating and working on. Basically, it would be (1) have a list of redlinks; (2) check if Draft:Redlink exists for each one and (3) if it exists, give me the page where you found it and the draftspace link. I suspect we'll have false positive as well but I think it'd be helpful. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:45, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
A lot of the millions of Google Books, Google News, etc. links on Wikipedia carry a non-English language option. For example (in Midrakh Oz) the link
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=iw&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
opens Google Books in Hebrew. Since this is the English Wikipedia, the link should instead be
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3-a0L0VACWYC&lpg=PP1&hl=en&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false
which opens
Google Books in English. As
Sfan00 IMG (
talk ·
contribs) wrote back in 2014, we basically need a bot that looks for a link of the form *.google.*
, looks for the regex &hl=((.)*)&
and replaces it with &hl=en&
. --
bender235 (
talk) 16:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.co.il
? An insource search for insource:/books\.google\.co\.[a-tv-z]/
shows 7,000 pages linking to non-".uk" versions of Google Books. The search may need to be refined, but that looks like a first cut at finding target articles. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 16:38, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
books.google.com
instead of books.google.[not com
, as a simple precautionary security measure. In some countries, particular
top-level domains may raise suspicion of authorities and ISPs (*.co.il
in some Arab countries, *.com.tw
in China, etc.), so transforming these to the generic books.google.com
might not be a bad idea.books.google.fr
or books.google.com
. --
bender235 (
talk) 17:22, 6 August 2016 (UTC)Would it be possible for a bot to check each of the redlinks within the subpages listed within Wikipedia:WikiProject Requested articles against draftspace and just create a list of which pages have drafts created for them? The pages that are blue are obviously created (or currently redirects) but if someone started a draft on it, it would be easier to remove it and link to the draft (which I'll review and do manually) and merge whatever content if any is listed there. I doubt it's a lot (if there's any) but it would helpful to know since some pages there have sources worth incorporating and working on. Basically, it would be (1) have a list of redlinks; (2) check if Draft:Redlink exists for each one and (3) if it exists, give me the page where you found it and the draftspace link. I suspect we'll have false positive as well but I think it'd be helpful. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:45, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
Need help with point 13 ("Replace usage of the moved project's banner with the parent/task force banner") at Converting existing projects to task forces for Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgrade→ Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia/Belgrade task force. The banner is at Template:WikiProject Belgrade.-- Zoupan 00:21, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to make the AWB bot automatic? I mean if I like to add categories to pages, I have to manually hit save for everypage. I think it would be better if it was auto for task like these. Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 15:54, 7 October 2016 (UTC)D
I was just saying that If i would like to add categories to pages using awb, it would be nice to auto that rather than sit there and manually hit "save". Would save a lot of time and much easier. What I am doing is requesting the ability added to awb (if possible by whoever made it lol)... Ok so i understand... this is possible but I would have to get the approval to get the bot to make automated edits...correct? Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 16:45, 7 October 2016 (UTC) ok ty inzi Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 16:49, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Sometimes a redirect has the same exact name as a subheading of the article the redirect points to.
Finding and sectionalizing redirects of this kind looks like something that could easily be automated using a bot.
For example, the redirect "Map design" leads to "Cartography", which has a subheading titled "Map design".
The redirect didn't lead to the section until I manually added "#Map design" to the redirect's target, making it a sectional redirect, like this:
#REDIRECT [[Cartography#Map design]]
Is making a bot that does this feasible and worthwhile?
What are the design considerations? The Transhumanist 12:12, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Rich Farmbrough and Cacycle: We need further comments. The Transhumanist 23:42, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
@ The Earwig, Enterprisey, KSFT, and PrimeHunter: Above we talked about fixing a redirect that points to a page that has a subheading that is the same as the title of the page being redirected.
Well, a similar situation is a redirect that does not match any subheadings in the target page, but for which we know should have a section. For example, History of domestication redirects to Domestication. But Domestication has no history section for History of domestication to point to. Should the bot discussed above be programmed to handle this type of situation too, and create empty sections? The resulting link in the redirect in this example would be Domestication#History. The availability of such sections may prompt editors to write about the history of the respective subjects. The Transhumanist 20:49, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to request that a bot adds the publisher in the |publisher=, section of the references in articles. I see articles everyday without the Publisher named. I think such a task would be beneficial for the project when people are searching for information and its publishers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
|work=
includes a link to a Wikipedia article. But it may be possible (and could be added to AWB's routine tasks) for a set of commons sources. Do you have some examples in mind?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 14:37, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Is it possible to request that a bot adds the publisher in the |publisher=, section of the references in articles. I see articles everyday without the Publisher named. I think such a task would be beneficial for the project when people are searching for information and its publishers.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
|work=
includes a link to a Wikipedia article. But it may be possible (and could be added to AWB's routine tasks) for a set of commons sources. Do you have some examples in mind?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits 14:37, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Are there any bot operators willing to work on a multi-work bot task? If so, please see meta:Talk:KML files - Evad37 [ talk 04:06, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
I started
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling/Tour de France task force yesterday, and the scope includes all cyclists that have ridden the Tour. I have added the all other articles to the task force using AWB, but can a bot save me time and bother and added the 2,290 articles in
Category:Tour de France cyclists for me? What needs doing is |tdf=yes
needs adding to end of {{
WikiProject Cycling}}
({{
WP Cycling}}
).
Bald
Boris 23:03, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Done. Dat Guy Talk Contribs 19:29, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was a bot that would go around to the userpages of users who haven't been active after x amount of time and change their UserStatus subpage to away (and then to offline after some more time). That way users that forget to change it before going away or offline for a bit wouldn't be shown as being online when they aren't actually online. And of course, the bot would only do this to willing users who sign up for it (perhaps by adding a new parameter to the template that signals the bot?) Perhaps this is too social of a suggestion or not enough people use the template to warrant this kind of bot, but I thought I'd suggest it to see if anything comes of it. -- MorbidEntree - ( Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)(please reply using {{ping}}) 05:26, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
An adminbot should create a fully protected redirect from Draft:A to A for each article A (including disambiguation pages). If Draft:A already exists, then there are three cases to consider.
63.251.215.25 ( talk) 17:05, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Now that English Wikipedia is using UCA collation for categories ( phabricator:T136150), there are a large number of DEFAULTSORT keys that are no longer needed. For example, it is no longer necessary to have DEFAULTSORT keys for titles that begin with diacritics, like Über or Łódź. (Those will automatically sort under U and L now.) Someone should write a bot to remove a lot of these unneccessary DEFAULTSORT keys (for example, when the title is the same at the DEFAULTSORT key except for diacritics). Kaldari ( talk) 21:40, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
Since the recent changes in the citation templates (see
Update to the live CS1 module weekend of 30–31 July 2016), the parameter access-date
now requires a day and no-longer accepts a "month-year" formatted date such as August 2016
and displays a
CS 1 error (Check date values in: |access-date=) error, as soon as the article has been edited.
access-date
or accessdate
from, for example, August 2016
to 1 August 2016
, by adding the first day of the month.date
contains a more recent date (e.g. 4 August 2016
) than the fixed accessdate parameter (i.e 1 August 2016
), the value in access-date would be older than that in date. Although accessing a cited source before its (publication) doesn't seem very sensible to me, there is (currently) no CS 1 error, so adjusting for "accessdate == date" is purely optional.1\s
in front of the outwritten month ("August"), maintaining the original spacing, i.e. a white space between "=" and the date-value.Adding a day to the accessdate parameter seems like a straight forward change to me. However if I am the only editor on wikipedia that used such date format, or if my request causes some kind of controversy, I'll prefer to do these changes manually. Thx for the effort, Rfassbind – talk 12:15, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
@ Jc3s5h I expected this kind of unhelpful comment, and that's why I was reluctant to post this request in the first place. It's depressing sometimes, yes, but that's the way wikipedia works. @ Jonesey95 yes that's a perfectly good fix. Rfassbind – talk 15:47, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
We can even check whether the link is still alive and put the current date. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:24, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
|access-date=
portion of the module update to have a further option yet. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 22:44, 4 August 2016 (UTC)|access-date=
parameters on the corresponding page (or whichever references Rfassbind confirms checking). As a further check, I'd only edit the "old" access-dates which match the corresponding month & year of the overall revision. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 00:06, 5 August 2016 (UTC)Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Images #6, it is not appropriate to refer in article text to images and elements as being on the "left" or "right" side of the page, since this information is inaccurate for mobile users and irrelevant for visually impaired users. We should have a bot make the following substitutions:
"the <picture|diagram|image|table|box|...> <to|at|on> [the] <left|right>"
→ "the adjacent <picture|diagram|image|table|box|...>"
Thoughts? — swpb T 19:00, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
I request an on-Wiki bot (way) to remind tasks. "Remind me in N days about "A" etc. Talk page message reminder or anything is okay. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:09, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Please tell me your views and opinion. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 18:31, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
{{u|ReminderBot}}
at the end of something, and the bot would be pinged and store the ping in a database. Later on, the bot could leave a message on my talkpage mentioning the original page I left the ping in.
Enterprisey (
talk!) (formerly
APerson) 04:10, 20 June 2016 (UTC)Per this RfC (see Help:Coordinates in infoboxes), could all articles using {{ Infobox park}} which are also in Category:Pages using deprecated coordinates format be run through with AWB (minor fixes turned on) with this regex (entire text, case-sensitive, other options default)? This should affect roughly 2,000 pages (with no visual changes, aside from the minor fixes).
Find:
*\| ?lat_d *= ?([\-0-9\. ]+)(\n? *\| ?lat_m *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?lat_s *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?lat_NS *= ?([NnSs]?) ?)?\n? *\| ?long_d *= ?([\-0-9\. ]+)(\n? *\| ?long_m *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?long_s *= ?([0-9\. ]*))?(\n? *\| ?long_EW *= ?([EeWw]?) ?)?(\n? *\| ?region *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?dim *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?scale *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?source *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?format *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?display *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?coords_type *= ?(.*) ?)?(\n? *\| ?coords *= ?.*)?
(There's a space at the beginning.)
Replace:
| coords = {{subst:Infobox coord/sandbox | lat_d = $1 | lat_m = $3 | lat_s = $5 | lat_NS = $7 | long_d = $8 | long_m = $10 | long_s = $12 | long_EW = $14 | region = $16 | dim = $18 | scale = $20 | source = $22 | format = $24 | display = $26 | type = $28 }}
Thanks, Jc86035 ( talk • contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 15:22, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
|type=$28
? That parameter is not deprecated in Infobox park. ―
Mandruss
☎ 16:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
|type=
is the parameter in {{
Infobox coord/sandbox}} (substituted to create {{
Coord}}). The parameter |coords_type=
of Infobox park is put into it. I've done the replacement on 11 infoboxes (
example,
example), but without the rounding for latitude and longitude (which I have yet to test properly).
Jc86035 (
talk •
contribs) Use {{
re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 01:31, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
|area=
into account, but the vast majority of parks don't need that level of precision. I'll build it in at some point.
Jc86035 (
talk •
contribs) Use {{
re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 02:21, 1 September 2016 (UTC)|coords=
.
Jc86035 (
talk •
contribs) Use {{
re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 02:23, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Mandruss, Jonesey95, and Tagishsimon: Rounding removed; probably wouldn't work in retrospect. I've already tested this configuration, so it should work. Jc86035 ( talk • contribs) Use {{ re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 10:28, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
@ Jc86035: I can write something up for this. Using an AWB custom module will be more flexible than using the regex above. Since the template conversions will be similar, I would like to file one BRFA for all of the templates that need to be converted. For each infobox, I'll just need a map of the parameters into {{ subst:Infobox coord/sandbox}} if they differ from the above. (I don't need them all now, just when the template is ready.) — JJMC89 ( T· C) 10:21, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Could a bot replace all instances of these wrong redirects (where they are used in articles) with their targets? -- XXN, 10:20, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
Could a bot replace all instances of these wrong redirects (where they are used in articles) with their targets? Then I'll go to RFD with them. -- XXN, 21:04, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
-- XXN, 17:04, 30 October 2016 (UTC)