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Hi- Theo's Little Bot 19 used to update the adopt a user list marking inactive adopters as such but this doesn't seem to have run since June 2016. Could someone take over the task? The request for approval can be found here, my original request here and there's a link to the source code there too if that helps. Thanks, jcc ( tea and biscuits) 01:21, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I have been pinged by User:Mattythewhite, who was informed of this by User:Helper201 that there is a documentation that the unreliable source? tags should be outside the ref tags not in them.
There may be unreliable source? tags found on articles in the references section, so a bot should be used to change the following:-
<ref>Reference {{Unreliable source?|date= }}</ref> → <ref>Reference </ref>{{Unreliable source?|date= }}
so it looks something like this
[1] →
[2]
unreliable source?
Reference 1 does not abide to the documentation while ref 2 does. It is a difficult task to manually find all the articles with unreliable source? tags in the references sections.
Iggy (
Swan) 16:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
sps}}
. {{sps}}
should be inside the ref tags. It would then seem to me that rather than have a bot clean up the {{
Unreliable source?}}
tags, we should come up with consistent rules for their usage. –
Fredddie
™ 16:44, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
sps}}
explicitly states it should be used outside ref tags.
Nihlus 11:50, 14 January 2018 (UTC)please make bot for creating new categorys example people birth by day — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.75.62.30 ( talk) 07:08, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
no i want just birth by day not by day and year example i want november 15 birth not november 15 1994 birth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.22.3.31 ( talk) 05:10, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Where to make a discussion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.254.179.162 ( talk) 14:33, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
The bot BG19bot was very helpful but has not been working for more than 6 months. And the bots "owner" has not been on Wikipedia since August. is there a way to start it up again, or a similar bot can be created?. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:30, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Under circumstances not completelly investigated, BG19bot is at the moment inactive. I am willing to fill out a BRFA for all of its tasks. I will probably do in the nxt few days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:51, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
http://us-highways.com/ was previously used for a website called U.S. Highways: From US 1 to (US 830), a self-published site on the history of the United States Numbered Highway System. The creator of the website (Robert V. Droz) ran into some unrelated legal issues in his home state of Florida and let the site lapse. The domain name has been assumed by a commercial enterprise completely unrelated to the former site. As an SPS, the site should have never been used as a source in articles, but it was. Fredddie and I feel that it would be preferable to remove citations and links to the site at this time. Would some bot operator be amenable to replacing any citations to the site with {{ citation needed}} tags and removing any links in an external links section of the articles? Imzadi 1979 → 12:04, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Per discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Is "telenovela" a suitable disambiguator? and updated guideline at WP:NCTV, is it possible to get a bot to move all articles with the disambiguator "(telenovela)", "(COUNTRY telenovela)" or "(YEAR telenovela)" to "(TV series)", "(COUNTRY TV series)" and "(YEAR TV series)"? -- wooden superman 16:31, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
A consensus is emerging here that a bot to clear stale AIV reports would be desirable. Reports that have been open for more than 6-8 hours are usually considered declined by default. An edit summary along the lines of "listed for >6 hours without any admin willing to block" is appropriate. I see a couple main obstacles to this, and I was hoping this board could help with them.
Cheers, Tazerdadog ( talk) 23:42, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
I meant to note this here much earlier, but I wanted to add that in addition to archiving declined/stale reports, a bot adding a note about recently declined reports or users recently off a block might be helpful as well. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 02:20, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
I recently updated the infobox information in On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. As part of that update, I added an Alexa parameter to the infobox. It seems that the value of this parameter requires frequent updates. I just checked the Alexa link and found that the rank information in the infobox is no longer up-to-date. I think there are probably many more infoboxes with this parameter and regular bot runs to update those parameters seem like a good idea to me. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:49, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
|alexa=
is used 2,257 times in {{
Infobox website}}. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:41, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm looking to create a bot that can automatically use {{
AC notice}}~~~~ to inform users an article from a set of pages has been created. I noticed that I have a lot of redlinks in my Watchlist that I only have there to find out if a page is created eventually. If a bot could use
addtext.py to select an article it detects has changed after a refresh of a
a group of pages. If an article has been created, regardless of its contents (or lack thereof), uses it for 1=
and adds the parameter to the talk pages of users that have provided it with a request to notify them upon its creation. Does this make sense? I don't know, but I hope it does. Thank you anyways! ―
Matthew J. Long
-Talk-
☖ 22:03, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
I request to create lists by country "List of non-marine molluscs of COUNTRY" based on data from the http://www.iucnredlist.org/search website. It is very time consuming task, even if I can filter out freshwater / terrestrial / gastropods / bivalves of certain country at the IUCN website. If a Bot could make a list of species with the references, that would be great.
This is realizable (there onece existed a Polbot, that was able to create stubs like this [1] based on iucnredlist.org and there is possible to make various list based on the such as this one List of least concern molluscs).
Examples of the work in progress.
There are number of lists missing:
You can virtually make lists of non-marine molluscs for all countries (I will manually merge them with existing lists when needed).
It would be great, if you could at least sort those species into sections "Freshwater gastropods", "Land gastropods" and "Freshwater bivalves" (or make working lists of those three groups).
This task is suitable for non-marine molluscs. This task is not suitable for marine molluscs (that are placed in separate lists on Wikipedia), because there are not enough data for them on IUCN.
If you could pre-prepare such lists (in a User namespace), I would finish the task manually (I will sort species in systematic order, I will add families, I will update outdated info, I will generally check-out lists). Thanks. -- Snek01 ( talk) 21:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone use a bot to scan the drafts in Category:Abyssal temporary Russia cat and remove entries from the lists that are redlinks and redirects? Abyssal ( talk) 15:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Sounds good. Everything else look as you want it to? Tazerdadog ( talk) 22:15, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: I wrote a script that removes redlinked list entries. It's called User:The Transhumanist/RedlinksRemover.js.
It's designed specifically for cleaning up outlines and lists, and I noticed your drafts are in outline format, except for the little cross at the beginning of the entries.
The script keeps nipping off the ends of branches until it reaches one that shouldn't be pruned.
It won't strip out an entry that has descendants in the tree.
After it is done pruning redlinked ends from the tree, it goes back and delinks any redlinks that are leftover and red categories (this part comes from AlexTheWhovian's script).
It would work for your lists, if you removed the little crosses first. Then you could put them back in after the script was done. That's easy to do with WikEd.
If you didn't remove the crosses, it would just delink the links, because they aren't at the beginning of the entries, and so the script would consider them to be embedded links, rather than linked entries.
To use it, you install it, and it provides a menu item in the tools menu on the sidebar. When you are ready to remove the redlinked entries from a page, just click on "Remove red links", and it will process the current page you are on.
I hope you find this does the trick for you. — The Transhumanist 00:48, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
P.S.: I haven't added this to the user scripts list yet, because it hasn't undergone enough testing. Beware, it is alpha software. -TT
Hey folks, pursuant to this discussion, I'm curious to know if it would be possible to build a bot that would remove links to copyrighted material hosted in violation of the creator's copyright, such as YouTube. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:12, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
A consensus is forming at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation#Proposal to tag all disambiguation links to tag all remaining disambiguation links in Wikipedia with a {{ disambiguation needed}} tag. From our most recent count, about 16,454 disambiguation links remain. Around 5,500 of these are already tagged, leaving a little under 10,000 to tag. What is needed here is, first, to get a list of all links to disambiguation pages from mainspace pages that do not already have this tag; second, wait about ten days to see if any of those are short term links that will be fixed quickly; third, re-check that list to see what links from that initial list have been fixed; and fourth, have a bot tag all remaining disambiguation links. bd2412 T 21:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
WP:Article alerts recommends having a bot tag the talk pages of articles with relevant topical wikiproject banners so that the AA bot produces more meaningful results. This would also be useful for getting this barely active project rolling better; I'd been looking into manually going article to article doing this, but it looked to be a rather daunting task even with AWB, and I'm on a Mac, so I'd have to run AWB in a VM or something anyway.
Would start with Category:English languages and its subcats.
Various subcats of Category:Words are going to qualify but will probably have to be done manually (e.g. about 99% of the content of Category:Neologisms, Category:Slang, etc., are English, but a handful of articles in such categories are not and so should not be tagged as within the scope of this project. Similarly, the majority of articles under Category:Punctuation have a section on English and would get tagged, but in a few cases the English coverage has been split out into separate spinoff articles like Quotation marks in English which should get tagged while the main article on the mark would not. We'll probably want to exclude most literature-related categories, but would include Shakespeare (for having had a profound effect on English, in contributing more stock phrases than any other body of work besides the King James Bible). Category:Lexicographers and other such bios will also need manual tagging. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:09, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
All protocol relative links on Wikipedia should be converted to either http or https. As of June 2015, Wikipedia is 100% HTTPS only and because protocol relative links are relative to where they are hosted it will always render as HTTPS. This means any underlying website that doesn't support HTTPS will break. For example:
..the http version of this link works. The article American rotation shows it in action, the first three footnotes are broken because they use a protocol relative link to a HTTP only website. But Wikipedia is rendering the link as HTTPS.
More info at WP:PRURL and Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Protocol_relative_URLs. It's probably 10s of thousands of links broken. -- Green C 21:06, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
TLDR: This request explicitly bumps against COSMETICBOT, needs further consensus, and there might be a way to have "maintenance" resolve the issue. Hasteur ( talk) 12:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
{{
citation needed}}
tags, when all that was required was adding the characters "http:". —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 21:02, 3 October 2017 (UTC)Please look at this table: Lands_administrative_divisions_of_New_South_Wales#Table_of_counties
My goal is to add a column to this table that shows the approximate geographical coordinates of each county. Those county coordinates can be derived form the parish coordinates that are found in each county article, by taking the middle of each northernmost and southernmost / easternmost and westernmost parish coordinates. Is it possible to write a script or a bot to achieve this? -- Ratzer ( talk) 21:27, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Please review my Draft at Cpt. Alex Mason. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amason1930 ( talk • contribs) 23:16, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
I would like to request for a bot that could fill in the Publisher after use of the Refill tool such as |publisher=Aftonbladet. As many Swedish subject articles uses one or two of the few main newspaper sources that are available in Sweden I would like for the bot to fill in for the sources aftonbladet.se as Aftonbladet, expressen.se as Expressen, svd.se as Svenska Dagbladet, kvp.se as Kvällsposten and dn.se As Dagens Nyheter. If those could be filled in at Publisher it would help seversl thousands of articles. BabbaQ ( talk) 13:32, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
|newspaper=
and definitely not |publisher=
, which should instead be removed. --
NSH001 (
talk) 16:53, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
There is a template which takes an
IMDb page, I think, and an event name as parameters - e.g. {{
IMDb award|Venice_Film_Festival|Venice Film Festival}}
- but it creates broken links. Maybe it relied on some redirect on IMDb's side and they changed their format, I do not know. There is another template which uses a IMDb event code instead of a page name - e.g. {{
IMDb event|0000681|Venice Film Festival}}
, which creates a correct link. See both at work:
Is there any chance a bot could fix those? I guess it would need to search the IMDb to get the event codes, which I do not know if it is allowed... (both by us and them). Thanks. - Nabla ( talk) 17:23, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Pleas add this category to the articles related to the Children's literature portal, because I need it in arabic wikipedia. Thank you. أبو هشام ( talk) 12:10, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Can a bot be created to add the {{WikiProject Olympics}} to the talkpage of all the articles in the sub-cats of Category:Olympic competitors by country that don't already have their TP tagged? If the tag already exists, ignore it, and if it's not there already add it with stub class and low importance, unless the article is already tagged at a higher class than stub by another project. Now the 2018 Winter Olympics are over, it would be good to catch all those athletes who are missing the tag, along with countless others that have been created/updated too. Many thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 13:02, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
[\r\n][^\r\n]*?\b(archers|artists|athletes|(bi|tri|pent)athletes|bobsledders|boxers|canoeists|competitors|cricketers|curlers|cyclists|divers|equestrians|fencers|footballers|golfers|gymnasts|jumpers|lugers|managers|medall?ist stubs|medall?ists|Members of|Olympians|pilots|players|practitioners|racers|rowers|sailors|shooters|skaters|skiers|snowboarders|swimmers|weightlifters|wrestlers)\b[^\r\n]*
leaves only 173
Category:Olympic judoka of Japan-type cats,
Category:Olympic pelotaris by country,
Category:Olympic pelotaris of France,
Category:Olympic pelotaris of Spain, and
Category:1980 US Olympic ice hockey team. Since, as I just found out,
Judoka is one who practices
Judo, and pelotaris refers to
players of various court-sports (the pelotaris cats only contain people too), everything looks legit here.[\r\n][^\r\n]*?\b(olympics?|olympians)\b[^\r\n]*
leaves only
Category:Canoeists of the Republic of Macedonia, which only contains Olympic athletes.{{
WikiProject Biography}}
: one is that the importance rating varies between WikiProjects - a topic that is high-importance to one might be low importance to another; the other is that {{
WikiProject Biography}}
doesn't have importance ratings. Taking the class rating from {{
WikiProject Biography}}
should be fine though. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 16:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
doesn't have general importance ratings, but it does have workgroup-specific importance ratings, and these are described as priority ratings. For example, when |sports-work-group=yes
is set, then |sports-priority=
is recognised; but somebody who is |sports-work-group=yes
|sports-priority=low
for {{
WikiProject Biography}}
might rate |importance=mid
for {{
WikiProject Olympics}}
, see for example
Talk:Christopher Dean (don't forget to [show] the "WikiProject Biography / Sports and Games" row). So I still think that the importance shouldn't be copied. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:39, 9 March 2018 (UTC)ShareMan 15 ( talk · contribs) 17:43, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Very often, because of encoding issues, you have situations like é → é.
This is often due to copy-pasting, or bot insertions. It would be nice if a bot could find all corrupted equivalent of all special Latin characters (possibly others too), and then do a de-corruption pass e.g. [3]/ [4].
This might be best as a manual AWB run though.. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 13:41, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
./wikiget -a "insource:/<regexcommand>/"
--
Green
C 05:21, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
[0-9]
needs to be split to properly work: [0-4]
, [5-9]
. —
Dispenser 11:45, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
There are over 1200 cases of "title=BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002" that should be reduced to "title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002". Chris the speller yack 13:35, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
There are many instances where a link is piped to another link, but both parts of the link actually target the same article. For instance [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]]
(where the piping simply redirects back to the original link) or [[Lakewood Amphitheatre|Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood]]
(where both parts of the link are redirects to the same destination), or [[MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre|Live Nation Amphitheatre]]
(where the visible part of the link is a redirect to the piped part. These last two types occur particularly often with sports teams, which change their name with a change of hometown or sponsor, and venues, which change as they sell naming rights, and newspapers, as they merge. Normally a redirect will be set up to point the old name to the new one, but many well-meaning editors will nonetheless pipe the old name to the new one, thinking they're doing good (and then often the piping is not updated when the name changes yet again, so even the trivial efficiency benefit of bypassing a redirect is lost). This sort of piping has many failings (as described at
WP:NOTBROKEN and
WP:NOPIPE). Would it be possible to set up a bot that would detect and fix these sorts of unnecessary piping?
Colonies Chris (
talk) 20:00, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
it's a bad idea; I'm a bad person; and I shouldn't have come here at allDecidedly not. Your takeaway from this discussion should be that you should seek consensus for the task--because regardless of any of the other words said here, the task may still be valuable but it doesn't have an obvious consensus. It is normal for people to come here with not-obviously uncontroversial bot requests; when we receive such requests, we ask for consensus. This does two things: a) makes it very obvious to anyone inspecting the bot while it is running that they should not contest the edits without a similar consensus, and b) stops the task from getting to the WP:BRFA process, where the WP:BAG would request the same (because, as one BAGger above commented, this task does not look uncontroversial). -- Izno ( talk) 12:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
I support this task which will reduce WP:OVERLINKING. WP:AWB is a popular semi-automated tool that can help in doing this task. Many editors use AWB for similar tasks. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
I have another request for a bot to help tighten up our {{ Infobox anatomy}} series. Ping to Nihlus who helped out last time.
Request is to:
|MapCaption=
, and |ImageMap=
(which have been integrated into the "image" parameter)|NerveRoot=
, |PhysicalExam=
|BrainInfoType=
, |BrainInfoNumber=
, |NeuroLexID=
, |NeuroLex=
(now moved to Wikidata)|Code=
which I have gone through and checked, and duplicated other fields.I would be very grateful for this, it will significantly help tidy up both our articles and the infoboxes.-- Tom (LT) ( talk) 00:32, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
|MapCaption=
and |ImageMap=
removed or their values integrated elsewhere? If so, where? (Would MapCaption just have its value put in |Caption=
?) --
TheSandDoctor (
talk) 17:07, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
|NerveRoom=
-> |NerveRoot=
)). Like last time, once the bot runs I'll be able to remove the parameters, then I will manually go through all articles that have parameter problems and fix them. --
Tom (LT) (
talk) 21:57, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
|Code=
be removed from all of those templates or do you have a separate list of affected pages somewhere else?
Nihlus 11:25, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
|MapCaption=
, |ImageMap=
, |NerveRoot=
, |PhysicalExam=
|BrainInfoType=
, |BrainInfoNumber=
, |NeuroLexID=
, |NeuroLex=
and |Code=
|NerveRoot=
and |PhysicalExam=
from {{
Infobox anatomy}} (not from {{
Infobox muscle}}). Is my interpretation right? --
Was a bee (
talk) 21:17, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for this Was a bee. I consider this task Done. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 04:59, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Related to but more generic than #Fixing sort keys for biographies of Thai people above, I'm looking for a bot to make mass edits to {{DEFAULTSORT}} keys (or add them if they don't exist) for a pre-defined list of articles, i.e. Special:PermaLink/829542720. These are articles that may have previously been tagged with incorrect defaultsort keys. Optimally, the bot should also skip the edits if changes are made only in capitalisation. Edits which result in no changes would of course be skipped. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 08:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
As said, now explicitly, at Wikipedia talk:Categorization of people#Thai names, I'm opposing this bot operation. Since only two people commented there thus far (the OP and me), with a 50%/50% division of opinions, this needs more time for discussion, with let's hope a bit more input from other editors, before firing up a bot. The same goes for the #Fixing sort keys for biographies of Thai people BotReq proposal above, although that one might be more in line with current guidance (can't really get my head around it yet). -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 17:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Still something else, bot-assisted insertion of a {{ DEFAULTSORT}} value that is exactly equal to the article title of the page where it is inserted would be a WP:COSMETICBOT infringement, as far as I understand the applicable policy. -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 17:13, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I originally thought manually going through all those articles would be an unnecessary waste of time and effort. Seeing the difficulty I'm having in explaining the task, however, it has become clear that further discussions would actually waste more time and effort on everybody's part than just manually performing the edits. I have gone ahead and done so. Thanks to TheSandDoctor for the assistance, but this is now moot. Marking as Not done. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:26, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
There are a lot of New York Times URLs that begin with http[s]://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
or http[s]://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
. However, all this does is take people to the abstract page. If these Wikipedia readers aren't NYT members, they encounter a paywall, and if they are members, they are allowed to select a PDF/TimesMachine version to continue reading the article. Either way, they have to click at least one more time once they reach the abstract page.
Would it be practical to convert these to http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=
URLs? These PDF versions can be seen by everyone, even non-members, and is much easier to
verify. The hexadecimal string after the equals sign will remain the same before and after, but it does have to be an HTTP URL for these NY Times PDF links to work.
epicgenius (
talk) 22:01, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
gst/abstract
and converting to mem/archive
, as well as changing any select.
into query.
gst/abstract.html
to mem/archive/pdf
, select.
into query.
, and all HTTPS to HTTP. Yes, this will work for all articles. However,
KolbertBot is converting
http://nytimes.com URLs to
https://nytimes.com, so I will ping
Jon Kolbert for feedback.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9801E7DF1330E333A25755C0A96E9C94669ED7CF&legacy=true
(for instance) will work, but not
https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9801E7DF1330E333A25755C0A96E9C94669ED7CF&legacy=true
, which displays an empty frame.
epicgenius (
talk) 18:42, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=
in response. KolbertBot doesn't act on select.nytimes.com links. Is the desired outcome to have select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
and query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
changed to query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=
? That shouldn't be too hard to do with KolbertBot, I can create a new bot task to do this job.
Jon Kolbert (
talk) 00:46, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Please. — The Transhumanist 10:20, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
According to WP:NAMESORT (and expanded upon at WP:MOSTHAI), biographical articles about Thai people should be sorted like this:
{{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Forename}}
[[Category:International people]]
[[Category:Thai people|Forename Surname]]
However, this has very inconsistently been adhered to, with some articles specifying the Thai order in the DEFAULTSORT and some not following the Thai order at all.
Would it be plausible for a bot to help fix this? A possible process I have in mind is something along the lines of:
And, for the long term:
I realise this is pretty labour-intensive, but a more automated process would likely not be able to identify names which don't follow the Forename Surname format. I'd like to know that a bot was available for the task before attempting to review all the names. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:09, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Note on sorting: Thailand people are usually called by the first name, even telephone books are sorted by the first name. This of course also applies to the subcategories.. Could you point to the relevant passages in the guides you mentioned? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 17:44, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
andThai names have only contained a family name since 1915 and the name follows the western pattern of "Forename Surname". However, people in Thailand are known and addressed by their forename. In categories mostly containing articles about Thai people, Thai names should be sorted as they are written with the forename first. Thaksin Shinawatra is sorted [[Category:Thai people|Thaksin Shinawatra]].
-- Paul_012 ( talk) 19:21, 11 February 2018 (UTC)When categorizing biography articles, do not specify sort keys to sort by surname in Thai people categories. However, sorting by surname is still desirable for non-country-specific people categories, and this is done with the DEFAULTSORT magic word. A biography article for Given-name Surname should therefore be categorized like this:
{{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Given-name}}
[[Category:International people]]
[[Category:Thai people|Given-name Surname]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vejjajiva, Abhisit}} {{Thai name sort|Abhisit Vejjajiva}} [[Category:Prime Ministers of Thailand|Abhisit Vejjajiva]] etc. [[Category:People educated at Eton College]] etc.
Okay, TheSandDoctor, here's a newer summary of the task:
-- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:44, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
TheSandDoctor, Francis Schonken has requested that manual placement of the template be manually trialled on article pages first. Could you go ahead and move your sandbox version into the template space? Thanks. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 09:07, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
hi rsssf.com have many articles about soccer please make bot to added articles from rsssf.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 15:48, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
hi some articles on english wiktionary add links to Wikipedia german But there are also english Wikipedia example Berndorf link the Wikipedia german but english wiktionary must link to English Wikipedia thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 13:30, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
hi please make bot to adding years articles automaticly example make 1432 in iran or 528 in india thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
hi very articles don't described categorys example Selenophorus pedicularius described in 1829 but not any category — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 14:55, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
hi catalogueoflife.org have very articles about species animals planet and more this articles not in Wikipedia please make bot to adding this articles to Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 12:25, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
but in ceb.Wikipedia.org and sv.Wikipedia.org use catalogueoflife.org and adding very articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 14:37, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Does there exist bots able to detect and remove repetitive internal links in a Wikipedia article? Thanks! -- It's gonna be awesome!✎ Talk♬ 03:48, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I would appreciate if someone could please remove {{ Iw-ref}} from all article pages and add {{ translated page}}, with the same parameters, to the corresponding talk page. The Iw-ref template was deprecated quite a long time ago, but still remains on a lot of pages. Please note that there are a couple redirects to the template, {{ Translation/Ref}} and {{ Translation/ref}}. This should be a one time task, since once done, the old template can be deleted.
Thanks in advance, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 05:47, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
A huge number of articles have See Also links that are already linked from the bodies of the articles. Per MOS:NOTSEEALSO, these redundant links should be removed. If there are no non-redundant links in a See Also section, the entire See Also section should be removed. Kaldari ( talk) 21:51, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, is it possible to create or edit a current bot to help with Level 5 vital articles? My idea is that it will take all articles of top importance in a Wikiproject, check to see if they are already in the list, and if not, tag them as Level 5 vital articles and add them to the list. There are already bots controlling lists so this may be feasible. Please reply! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperTurboChampionshipEdition ( talk • contribs) 16:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm owner of Westmärker Wiki, a small Mediawiki which I copied from a predecessor.
I want to add "Dieser Artikel wurde am 21.04 2018 aus dem Hombruch-Wiki kopiert." to the bottom of each article and media page.
Is there any bot I can use and possibly a person who can run it there? Wschroedter ( talk) 11:24, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm the owner of Westmärker Wiki (a small Mediawiki) and I want to change certain categories.
I'm looking for a tool by which I can change several articles from a list or all articles of a category.
Any ideas or hints? Wschroedter ( talk) 11:29, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Could someone (@ Tokenzero:?) create this bot
You can tell if something is a journal or magazine by looking for the 'journal'/'magazine' string in the categories of the article, or the presence of {{ infobox journal}}/{{ infobox magazine}} on the page. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 23:56, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Headbomb: Coding... Basically done. Should they be categorized as {{ R from modification}}? There doesn't seem to be anything more relevant (except {{ R from railroad name with ampersand}}, curiously); examples I checked (both journal and general) are somehow almost always without any rcat. The first run on infobox-journals would create ~1500 redirects. Do you want to have it run once or eg. monthly? Minor remark: there is a chance it'll create a dumb redirect when the title is in another language, say Ora and labora, but I can't find any actual example and I don't think it's a significant problem anyway. Also, some would remove a serial comma when replacing ', and' with an ampersand, but some style guides advocate keeping the comma, so I would just keep it. Tokenzero ( talk) 20:32, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
The links to http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas ( 1453 links) and http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas ( 896 links) do not work anymore. The content is now available on http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas. Could a bot update those links?
Most pages should work after updating the domain. However, the alphabetical index ( http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-a.htm, http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-b.htm, ...) only contain empty pages. Fixing this is more complicated, but can be partially automated by matching article names and/or old link anchors with entries in http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/494-2017-a-z-all.htm. I fixed them on frwiki, so you can also try to take them from the French page when there is one.
Orlodrim ( talk) 21:51, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
We seem to have a large (three-figures, at least) number of external links to Who Was Who, formatted with an extraneous comma at the end of the URL, like the one I fixed in this edit. Can someone fix them all, please?
Better still would be to apply the {{ Who's Who}} template, like this, but I appreciate that may not be so straightforward. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
I went through part of Category:Country year navigational boxes, replacing {{ flagicon}} with {{ flagdeco}} to remove the double link and double alternative text — flagicon's alt attribute repeats the country name in nearby visible text. Example diff. I'd like to request a bot finish the rest of the category, making the same flagicon to flagdeco change. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 22:02, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I'm sure there's already a bot in existence for the task that I'm trying to do, but I'm new to using Wiki bots so I'm not sure which one I'm looking for or how to use it. Basically, I'm trying to automatically copy from a particular set of wiki pages all of the sentences that contain a particular word, then paste those sentences into a spreadsheet or word document so I can look it over manually.
The specific purpose is that I'm trying to find a list of plebeian tribunes of the Roman Republic, but a quick search around the internet doesn't furnish many promising results. There is a wiki page for a list of all types of tribunes here ( /info/en/?search=List_of_Roman_tribunes), but it looks like the author had only just started this article, since it's not very comprehensive (for example, there were supposed to be ten plebeian tribunes elected every year from 457 to about 48 BC). Obviously it would in all likelihood be impossible to furnish a complete list of every plebeian tribune given the enormous number of these office holders and the relative scarcity of primary sources we have from the time, but considering that only a small fraction of the tribunes were noteworthy enough to make it into the history books (many of whom have their own wiki pages already), I think it's possible to get a reasonably well-represented list by just trawling the existing wiki pages to see which articles are about people who served as plebeian tribunes. One particularly helpful place to start would be the Wikipedia page that lists all Roman gentes (family names, at /info/en/?search=List_of_Roman_gentes). Each family name on that list links to a page that lists all of the notable members of that family, along with a short description of their careers. So the bot would start on the page for gens Abronia, do a word search for "tribun" (so that it catches variations of the word like "tribune," "tribunate," or "tribuneship"), and find nothing. Then it would go to the next page for gens Aburia, search for "tribun" again, and copy the sentence that says "Marcus Aburius, as tribune of the plebs in 187 BC, opposed Marcus Fulvius Nobilior's request for a triumph, but was persuaded to withdraw his objection by his colleague, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus," paste that as a line in a word document or spreadsheet, continue searching for other occurrences of the phrase in the gens Aburia page until it's out of results, and then moves on to the page for gens Accia, and so forth.
Again, this probably won't furnish a comprehensive list of tribunes, but it'll at least give us a good start. Depending on how many results it returns, I might be able to just go through the resulting data and manually add each name, date of office, and link to the relevant tribune's wiki page as entries on the table at /info/en/?search=List_of_Roman_tribunes, so the bot would only need to read text from existing Wikipedia pages, and not need to write anything to them automatically. I appreciate any help or feedback that you can provide. Thanks! Dfault ( talk) 02:51, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Dfault
./wikiget -F "List of Roman gentes" > list
(manually edit list to remove any unwanted pages)awk '{print "./wikiget -w \"" $0 "\" -p | awk -v titl=\"" $0 "\" \x27{IGNORECASE=1; split($0,a,\".\"); for(b in a){if(a[b] ~ /tribun/) print titl \" : \" a[b]} }\x27" }' list | sh
Brilliant! Just ran it now, worked perfectly! Looks like there are about 750 results; I'll get to work formatting them now and let you know if I run into any trouble or have any updates. Thanks for your help! Dfault ( talk) 23:11, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Could anyone remove all lines beginning with two bullets from the commented-out list of articles? I'm trying to remove all the species entries listed under the genera. Abyssal ( talk) 12:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Can I request a bot to tag the articles that are in Category:Reality television series with "|reality-tv=yes|reality-tv-importance="(importance can be assessed manually afterwards). I have created a list of each individual category here after removing certain subcategories, mostly participant and container categories. Please let me know if you think that needs more refining. A lot of the articles already have WPTV but are just missing the Reality TV task force label, and some older articles don't have the project at all. So would need the bot to add the full WPTV+realitytv tag to any that are missing the project, and only add the task force parameter to those that are already under WPTV. WikiVirus C (talk) 16:30, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Coding...
Hi! I recently made a proposal at WP:VG regarding a "featured article of the day" premise. Please head to that page to add your expertise reading the automation nature of my proposal. We're discussing the validity of it too, but I think if I have the automation nature sorted it will be much easier to prove I will have a successful implementation. Essentially I want a bot to: -- Coin945 ( talk) 22:01, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by article count#Updating?. — The Transhumanist 10:18, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5, the list of Level 5 vital articles, is currently under construction, with editors adding articles to the list. Right now, article counts for each subpage and section are updated manually, which is quite inconvenient and often leads to human errors. I would like to request a bot to update the article counts in each section of each sublist (such as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Arts), the total article count at the top of each sublist, and the table listed on the main Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5 page. I think such a bot would ideally update the article counts once daily. feminist ( talk) 04:27, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
hi I find csv files do make bot to adding articles of csv files with csv loder in auto wiki browser this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 13:53, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to properly alphabetize Category:World Series-winning managers. It was saved from deletion, but now, for some reason, the category isn't in proper alphabetical order. I did get some help regarding the sort key, but to no avail. Perhaps a bot can kindly help me. Thank you. Mr. Brain ( talk)
Done
Hi all. I used to work on community Good Article reassessments area years ago and have recently returned. Old community reassessments are archived by User:VeblenBot. However Veblenbot has been inactive for a while now and the unarchived GARs are building up, Category:GAR/60 has 134 entries in it. Could someone please take over it or find another way to do the archiving. I found two relevant discussions at the Bot noticeboard ( Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 8#New operator needed for VeblenBot and PeerReviewBot and Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 10#User:VeblenBot) . I also tried Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Archiving community Good Article reassessments. It does not seem like a difficult task. Regards AIRcorn (talk) 23:40, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
@ TheSandDoctor: in case you want to expand the GA bot you are working on. Kees08 (Talk) 23:44, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
In articles like this one, I often find {{ unreferenced}} templates in sections that contain references. Is there a Wikipedia bot that can be configured to replace Template:Unreferenced with Template:Refimprove? Jarble ( talk) 03:01, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
For a similar bot action check Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 11. Yobot could do this as part of general tagging actions but it will need a new BRFA approved since this BRFA is not valid anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I tried importing Module:Location map to sawiki (latest code) but it has 1000s of dependencies. It is very difficult to import all associated countries / states / cities to sawiki manually. Can someone please help. Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 12:44, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Please look at this table: Lands_administrative_divisions_of_New_South_Wales#Table_of_counties
My goal is to add a column to this table that shows the approximate geographical coordinates of each county. Those county coordinates can be derived form the parish coordinates that are found in each county article, by taking the middle of each northernmost and southernmost / easternmost and westernmost parish coordinates. Is it possible to write a script or a bot to achieve this?
For illustration, I did the work for the first county in the list, Argyle County, manually. The table of parishes in this article shows that they range from 34°27'54" and 35°10'54" latitude south and 149°25'04" and 150°03'04" longitude east. The respective middle is 34°49'24" and 149°44'04", which I put in the first table entry of Lands administrative divisions of New South Wales and the info-box of Argyle County. -- Ratzer ( talk) 11:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Could someone already running a cleanup bot request permission to add a simple task, punctuation before cleanup tags?
Example, which judging by the date on the tag, had been there since 2015. Inline cleanup tags, e.g. {{
fact}} and {{
which}}, should go after punctuation, so {{cleanup tag|date=whenever}},
and {{cleanup tag|date=whenever}}.
are wrong. It's quite visible to the reader, and a bit jarring, so this isn't
WP:COSMETICBOT.
Nyttend (
talk) 12:59, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
AWB already fixes this. And it's also part of CHECKWIKI error 61. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:01, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I would propose that to help clear the 'articles without infoboxes' maintenance categories, a bot could go through these pages and see if an infobox has already been added to the page, then if it has, remove the |needs-infobox=y from the WikiProject banner templates.
This would allow editors who wanted to add infoboxes to articles that are in these categories not to have to sift through articles that already have infoboxes on them so that they can clear the backlog more quickly.
Thanks. Wpgbrown ( talk) 17:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Academic Journals|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Journal articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Anatomy|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Anatomy articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Archaeology|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Archaeology articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Architecture|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Architecture articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Astronomy|infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Astronomy articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Automobiles|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Automobile articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Awards and prizes|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Awards and prizes articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Bristol|ibox=needs}}
populates
Category:Bristol articles needing an infobox{{
WikiProject Derbyshire|ibox=needs}}
populates
Category:Derbyshire articles needing an infobox{{
WikiProject Derbyshire|ibox=yes}}
means that that article already has an infobox and doesn't need another. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:43, 3 April 2018 (UTC)There are cases where I have suggest an article should not have an infobox, but this typically means is there is no current infobox that would make the article better than having none. If a human editor can't deal with that, how will a bot do it? Furthermore, you can't have missed that we've just had a huge Arbcom case about conduct around infoboxes. I think if the bot stuck an infobox on Buckingham Palace, all hell would break loose and there would probably be an ANI thread requesting said bot be blocked. Sorry, bots should only work on uncontroversial and boring stuff, and this just isn't that. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:33, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
|needs-infobox=yes
(or equivalent) where this is no longer applicable. It's pure
WP:GNOMEing. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)I used to go this as part of my gnomish actions. I can do it agai using WP:AWB which is a powerful tool to make repeative actions and the tool resposnible for a large amount of edits in English Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:26, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I have a series of lists of prehistoric life articles that I need to condense. Can anyone use a bot to scan those articles for red links and remove the entries that contain them from the lists? Abyssal ( talk) 12:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
to |
Abyssal ( talk) 14:19, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I asked this years ago at User talk:Gimmetrow#Update the article history following Good article reassessments. Since I am back in this area I thought I would try again. I am not sure what bot updates article histories now so am posting this here instead of at an individuals page.
The {{ GAR/link}} template renders the following {{GAR/link|~~~~~|page=|GARpage=|status=}}. Status can be changed to kept, delisted or a number of other similar positions. An example of a delisted template is here and a kept one here. The issue is that any reassessment has been preceded by at least one assessment, so that template is not ideal. It really needs to be integrated into the {{ articlehistory}} template.
So far the only way to do that is manually.
[15] This requires finding the oldid, copying the reassessment page, dates and updating GA to DGA. It would be useful if a bot did this like it does for other similar article history processes. There is a complication however as a reassessment can be opened as a community reassessment or an individual one. As far as I can tell this will only affect the link parameter. Individual reassessments will link to a talk subpage Talk:Foo/GA?
, while community ones use a WP:GAR subpage Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Foo/?
. Foo being the name of the article and ? being the number of the reassessment.
For delisted articles, it would also be useful if the bot could change or remove the GA class from the wikiproject template (changing to C is probably the best, but since the difference is mostly arbitrary B would do). Another useful feature would be the removal of the {{ good article}} template from the article itself (it produces the green spot at the top of the page).
There are 2 280 delisted articles (I don't think this includes ones that were delisted and then later regained good or featured status so the true number may be higher), so this feature could save editors quite a bit of manual work. Thanks in advance. AIRcorn (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
@ TheSandDoctor: This would be a good addition to the GA bot once it is working properly. I did not do GARs before because it was a little daunting to close them (turns out it is not too bad, but pretty annoying still). Kees08 (Talk) 22:05, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
The consensus during a recent RFC was to remove succession boxes from song and album articles. Since these appear in over 4,200 song [16] and 2,000 album articles, [17] it seems that this may be a good job for a bot. — Ojorojo ( talk) 14:33, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone bulk undo the most recent edit by User:Dispenser tot he commented out list of articles? They were fine edits, but I need the previous state of the article to show up for the public and the information from those edits can be gotten later out of the article history. Abyssal ( talk) 20:30, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
The task is "simply"
|image=
or |cover=
. If it's not empty, go to the associated file, and tag it with {{
WikiProject Academic Journals}}|image_file=
and |logo=
. If it's not empty, go to the associated file(s), and tag it with {{
WikiProject Magazines}}I believe in both cases, the parameters may be simply the name of the file (e.g. File.svg
), or a full [[File/Image:....]]
thing.
The task would need to be run daily/weekly. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:31, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello There, I would like to send a MeetUp invitation to all active Wikipedians in New Orleans (particularly librarians)--here is our MeetUp page: Wikipedia:Meetup/New_Orleans/WomeninLibraryHistory Please let me know if I need to do anything else--thanks! RachelWex ( talk) 01:16, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello! WikiSpaces is closing on July 2018. It would be helpful having a list of all "subdomain.wikispaces.com" from external-links table in all Wikipedias (and sister projects too, why not). In WikiTeam we will try to preserve all these open-knowledge sites. Thanks. emijrp ( talk) 13:02, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
I asked for this over a year ago, and one bot op said they would do it... but they never did, so I’m asking again.
WP:RESTRICT is an incredibly bloated list of everyone who is currently sanctioned by arbcom or the community as well as those under “last chance” unblock conditions. In order to reduce the size of these lists and make them easier to navigate, it was decided that any sanction on a user who had been inactive or blocked for more than two years be moved to an archive. The sanction is still valid, just not displayed on the main page anymore, and can be moved back if the user returns to editing.
I did the initial archiving myself 14 months ago. It ranks as pretty much the most tedious thing I have ever done in nearly 11 years of contributing here. I would therefore like to again request that some bot or other be instructed to review listings there once a month or so and remove any fitting the criteria to the archive. If it could move back those that have returned to editing that would be amazing. We seem to be able to auto-generate such data for inactive admins so I am guessing (as someone who admittedly knows nothing at all about programming bots) that this should be fairly straightforward. Thanks for your time. Beeblebrox ( talk) 03:32, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
How are we doing on getting a bot together that detects improper use of non-free media (if not the actual removal from the articles)? That is, the use of non-free media on articles for which the file description page lacks a valid WP:FUR specific to that article - I've just found and removed this, 366 days after this image was added lacking a valid FUR for the article, contrary to WP:NFCCP#10c. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
JJMC89, could your bot task be modified to simply log these uses instead of removing them? Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 01:12, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
There is a historical link issue that needs sorting out for the article Sport of athletics.
Would it be possible to amend all piped links to Athletics (sport) (an old title and currently a redirect) to point directly to Sport of athletics? The old title is still ambiguous with Athletics (physical culture), which was the reason for the subsequent move. 99% of the incoming links are valid, as it's a non-natural title choice.
There is also a sub-sport distinction link issue with track and field. I've seen many links in the style [[track and field|athletics]] and [[track and field athletics|athletics]] – these piped links should also be piped to sport of athletics to remove the WP:EASTEREGG aspect. Similarly, links like [[sport of athletics|track and field]] should simply point to track and field. SFB 19:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
{{
Infobox Mandir}} and {{
Infobox Hindu temple}}, and maybe a couple of other related templates, have been merged into {{
Infobox religious building}}. As part of the conversion, the value of the |architecture=
parameter in the merged templates has been assigned a different meaning.
In the pre-merge templates, |architecture=
could take a value like "
Dravidian architecture". In {{
Infobox religious building}}, |architecture=
takes a value of "yes" to indicate that the infobox should have an Architecture section, and the actual architectural style is placed in |architecture_style=
.
In
Category:Pages using infobox religious building with unsupported parameters, templates with an unsupported value for |architecture=
are listed under the "Α" section heading (note that "Α" is a Greek letter that is listed after "Z" in the category listing).
I am looking for someone who would be willing to run through that section of the tracking category with AWB and replace this:
| architecture = [any value] |
with this:
| architecture = yes | architecture_style = [any value] |
The "[any value]" string should be preserved in each infobox. For example, | architecture =
Dravidian architecture |
would be changed to | architecture = yes | architecture_style =
Dravidian architecture |
This will have to be a supervised run, since there could be some strange stuff in the parameter values. It looks like there are about 1,000 pages to fix. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:04, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
|architecture=
as an alias of |architecture_style=
. A bot could replace |architecture=
with |architecture_style=
if the old parameter is to be deprecated, but it seems good to update the template before the bot, rather than after the bot.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 14:37, 19 May 2018 (UTC) Upon review the template, I think your original course of action is better and that my suggestion above isn't adequate for the current functionality. |architecture=yes
enables a whole section of the infobox. I still think it'd be good to have the section be displayed on whether its parameters are empty or present, but that's a different discussion entirely.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 14:41, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, suggesting that the Template:Friendly search suggestions be added by bot to every stub article talk page to aid the improvement of the articles, thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 20:53, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
Every stub article talk page- you're talking
I suggest, for example, that someone sort the items on this page Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs by page popularity, similar to how this page is sorted: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science/Popular_pages Instead of clicking through random obscure pages, a sorted table would allow people to prioritize pages that need attention the most. The example bot is found here User:Community_Tech_bot. Turbo pencil ( talk) 00:57, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Watches suspicious users because they might wreak havoc on the wiki. Bot reports back to the operator(s) so they know what the user is doing, just in case the user is committing vandalism, or anything else. Bot finds suspicious users by seeing if they vandalized (or as I mentioned before, anything else) past the 2nd warning. Manual bot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SandSsandwich ( talk • contribs) 08:19, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
Around 1300 pages linking to
Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/October2013 contain <center><big><big><big>'''''[[Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/October2013|Books and Bytes]]'''''</big>
after a misformatted issue 1 of a newsletter.
[18] I guess it looked OK before Remex but now it gives an annoying large font on the rest of the page. A few of the pages have been fixed with missing end tags. It happened again in issue 4 (only around 200 cases) linking to
Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/February2014 with <center><big><big><big>'''''[[Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/February2014|Books and Bytes]]'''''</big>
.
[19] None of the other issues have the error. The 200 issue 4 cases could be done with AWB but a bot would be nice for the 1300 issue 1 cases. Many of the issue 4 cases are on pages which also have issue 1 so a bot could fix both at the same time.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:36, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
wikiget -f -w <article name> | awk '{sub(/Books[ ]and[ ]Bytes[ ]*(\]){2}[ ]*(\x27){5}[ ]*[<][ ]*\/[ ]*big[ ]*[>][ ]*$/,"Books and Bytes]]\x27\x27\x27\x27\x27</big></big></big>",$0); print $0}' | wikiget -E <article name> -S "Fix missing </big> tags, per [[Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Missing_big_end_tags_in_Books_and_Bytes_newsletters|discussion]]" -P STDIN
Done -- Green C 15:21, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Request replacing existing instances of the URLs for Ontario Restructuring Maps in citations. While the old URLs work, the new maps employ a new URL nomenclature system at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) and have corrected format errors that make the new versions easier to read. The URLs should be replaced as follows:
Thanks. -- papageno ( talk) 23:41, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
Done Green C 16:38, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Here's one for Tokenzero ( talk · contribs)
OMICS Publishing Group is an insidious predatory open access publisher, which often deceptively names it journals (e.g. the junk Clinical Infectious Diseases: Open Access vs the legit Clinical Infectious Diseases). To help catch citations to its predatory journals with WP:JCW/TAR and Special:WhatLinksHere, redirects should be created. I have extracted the list of OMICS journals from its website, which I've put at User:Headbomb/OMICS. What should be done is take every of those entries and:
#REDIRECT[[OMICS Publishing Group]] [[Category:OMICS Publishing Group academic journals]]
{{Confused|text=[[Foobar: Open Access]], published by the OMICS Publishing Group}}
There likely will be some misfires, but I can easily clean them up afterwards. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 04:38, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
OK, Coding... Tokenzero ( talk) 13:34, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
Done The bot finished (2739 redirects and 21 hatnotes) and I did the few outliers by hand. Tokenzero ( talk) 09:55, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
Many portals lack human editors, and need automated support to avoid going stale.
Most portals have an introduction section with an excerpt from the lead of the root article corresponding to the portal. The content for that section is transcluded from a subpage entitled "Intro".
The problem is that the excerpts are static, and grow outdated over time. Some are many years out of date.
What is needed is a bot to periodically update subscribed portals, by refreshing the excerpts from the corresponding root article leads.
Each excerpt should end similar to this:
...except that the link should go to the corresponding root article, rather than aviation.
There are over 1500 portals, and so it would be quite tedious for a human editor to do this. Some portals are supported, while others aren't updated for years.
Portals are in turmoil, and so, this is needed sooner rather than later.
Of course, they need greater support than this. But, we've got to start somewhere. As the intros are at the tops of the portal pages, it seemed like the best place to start. — The Transhumanist 07:06, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
I find myself removing spaces around em dashes frequently. Per the MOS, "An em dash is always unspaced (that is, without a space on either side)".
Since this is such a black and white issue, a bot to automatically clean this up as it happens would be useful. Kees08 (Talk) 05:49, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Would it be possible to fill Category:Association footballers not categorized by position with the intersection of:
Some members of WP:FOOTY have been working on adding missing positions, this would be much appreciated in order see all players which are missing a position category. Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 04:36, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
@ Ronhjones: Alright, thanks! I think the issue is that there were two articles redirecting to the category mainspace. List of Eastleigh F.C. players was inadvertently categorised (missing a colon), and List of Australia national association football team players should have redirected to an already existing article. Now fixed. S.A. Julio ( talk) 16:38, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
BRFA filed
Ronhjones
(Talk) 19:53, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
Done Ronhjones (Talk) 00:50, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Hasteur ( talk · contribs) has retired, it would be good if someone could take over the bot, that would be nice
The code can be found at is at https://github.com/hasteur/g13bot_tools_new, with hasteur stipulating "All I ask is that the credit for the work remains."
@ Firefly: Hasteur posted this on your talk page, any interest in taking over? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 10:40, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, could you please give a bot an extra task of removing orphan tags from articles that have at least one incoming link from mainspace articles, lists and index pages but not disambig pages or redirects as per WP:Orphan. The category is Category:All orphaned articles but exclude Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009 as an admin is checking those. A rough estimate is there are at least 10,000 misplaced tags, thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 17:07, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Could someone help with doing the following to the pages in Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject?:
Oornery ( talk) 05:14, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
It's been four years since this project last had a tagging run and I'm looking to get Article Alerts to cover the many relevant articles that have not been tagged since. Anyone interested in doing a tagging run of the articles and categories under Category:Sport of athletics? SFB 19:03, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
|class=
of other WikiProjects, if available. Should I leave |importance=
blank, or use |importance=Low
? The idea being that if importance were > "Low", it probably would have been tagged as such by now. I can also do this for articles less than a certain size instead.|class=Stub
to all pages less than 1000, 2000, 3000, etc. bytes. Please take a look at that list of |class=
blank for those >= 2000 b. Let me know if there's any desired change to the above guidance. Can do the untagging after. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 13:16, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
A very common typo I see all the time is when end quotation marks are placed before a comma (like this: ",) or a period when at the end of a sentence (like this: ".), etc. The rule is that commas, periods, and question marks are placed inside quotation marks, like this: ."/,"/?"
I see these mistakes everywhere I go, and it seems that no one bothers to correct them. Perhaps there should be a bot that swaps the quotation marks and punctuation marks to the position that they should be in. Radioactive Pixie Dust ( talk) 05:36, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
With these templates successfully approved for merging, I am request a bot that will replace any WikiProject History of Photography templates with the WikiProject Photography template with the "history=yes" parameter.
If a page already has the WikiProject Photography template, the "history=yes" parameter should be added (if it's not there already). If the page already has the WikiProject Photography template with the "history=yes" parameter, then the WikiProject History of Photography template simply needs to be removed.
If there are differing quality ratings between these two templates, the rating given by the WikiProject Photography template should be applied. If WikiProject Photography template has not given a quality rating and the WikiProject History of Photography template has, the WikiProject Photography template should inherit the WikiProject History of Photography's quality rating. Qono ( talk) 23:07, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone create a bot to replace links matching the regex https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/.*\?docID=([0-9a-f]{32})
with https://apnews.com/$1
. There are about
2800 links to AP news hosted by Google and all the links are dead. I estimate about 20–30% of these links have the docId
tag and can be rewritten to link to AP's website. This doesn't always work, but it works often enough to make this worth the effort. You'll need to download the page first and check for absence of the string "The page you’re looking for doesn’t exist. Try searching for a topic." and the presence of a non-empty div of articleBody
class. You'll also have to flip the deadurl
tag to no
after replacement and avoid references that have already been archived. Some examples:
articleBody
class— Gazoth ( talk) 13:09, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
We developed a consensus a while back to tag all remaining disambiguation links in the project with a {{ dn}} tag. In order to avoid excessive tagging, the idea is to generate a list of all links, let it sit for a few weeks, then recheck it and tag everything that has still not been fixed after that interval. Any takers? bd2412 T 22:20, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Recently the links to the official websites of the municipalities of Colombia have been changed, e.g. Zipaquirá (old, dead) to Zipaquirá (new, live). The only difference I saw with checking some of the links is the removal of "index.shtml". I changed it manually for Zipaquirá, but there are 1200+ municipalities to be done, so best done by a bot. Thanks in advance! Tisquesusa ( talk) 17:04, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Can someone here please create a bot to take care of the abundance of encyclopedia abbreviations uzbek wikipedia? While some abbreviations are rather easy to figure out, other abbreviations may be challenging for unfamiliar or inexperienced readers. This task is incredibly tedious to do manually. Here are some of the most common abbreviations (or errors) and their needed replacements. Please take note of common Uzbek suffixes such as -lar, -i, -si, -da, ning, etc
and typos:
Please try not to change capitalization in the process.
If a bot could take care of these things, it would be absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much to anyone who can make a bot to take care of these. Thank you. If you have any questions about suffixes or anything like that, please don't hesitate to ping me.-- PlanespotterA320 ( talk) 23:50, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Will take this one. Can move to uzwiki. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 17:31, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
A consensus was reached at
Help talk:IPA/Spanish#About R to change all instances of r
that either occur at the end of a word or precede a consonant (i.e. any symbol except a
, e
, i
, o
, or u
) to ɾ
inside the first parameter of {{
IPA-es}}. There currently appear to be
about 1,190 articles in need of this change. Could someone help with this task with a bot?
Nardog (
talk) 19:24, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Hopefully a simple request. I would like a list of all pages that are tagged with {{ WikiProject Green Bay Packers}}, assessed as a stub, and assessed as low-importance listed out in a table ( Low-class stubs). The table would be two columns, one listing the article's name and the other the article size in bytes ( User:Gonzo fan2007/Stubs would be a fine place to put it). As long as the table is sortable, I don't care what order the articles are in the table. I am looking to review all of the WikiProject's stubs and reassess as start or C-class if necessary and would like to start by looking at the largest articles (and thus the most likely to no longer be a stub).
Let me know if there are any questions. Thank you for any assistance. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:50, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
hi in fr.Wikipedia.org a bot creat thousands articles about minor planets with good quality please creating this articles for English Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 11:22, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/845715301, PRehse moved WikiProject Articles for creation to the bottom and updated the class for WikiProject Video games from "Stub" to "Start". Then, in Special:Diff/845730267, I updated the class for WikiProject Articles for creation, and moved WikiProject Articles for creation back to the top. But then, in Special:Diff/845730984, PRehse decided to move WikiProject Articles for creation to the bottom again. For consistency, we should have a bot move all {{ WikiProject Articles for creation}} templates on talk pages to below other WikiProject templates. If the WikiProject templates are within {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, then {{ WikiProject Articles for creation}} will stay within the shell along with other WikiProject templates. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 16:44, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
This change should be fine per Wikipedia:Talk page layout. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:24, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
User:Legobot has stopped indexing talk pages and archives and User:HBC Archive Indexerbot is deactivated. I would like a replacement for that task. -- Tyw7 ( 🗣️ Talk to me • ✍️ Contributions) 20:06, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
I tried bringing this up on the noticeboard, but I got no response. I am now convinced that there is no bot (or maybe there used to be one but it no longer works) that automatically adds the appropriate template to a page that has been protected by an administrator. This means that the template has to be added manually, and many admins forget to do this. The bot would put the following things on the template:
These are all tasks that the protecting admin (or someone else who is able to edit the page) has to put in themselves. I think it would be perfectly possible for a bot to do this. If there is indeed a bot that is supposed to do this it should probably be fixed. funplussmart ( talk) 17:21, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
|expiry=
parameter on any prot template, it will be ignored. It is also not necessary to add a prot template to certain kinds of page, such as templates that have either {{
documentation}}
or {{
collapsible option}}
since those also autodetect the setting of edit protection, and add the padlock template where appropriate. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:03, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello this anonymous user is changing verified articles left and right. This is a vandalism
User:194.199.4.202 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heraldique21 ( talk • contribs) 16:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Many pages, such as the help desk, and all of the reference desks, have level 1 date headers for each day questions are asked. Scsbot automatically adds these headers at the beginning of each day. However, if no questions are asked a certain day, users have to manually remove the headers, which has to be done quite often for reference desks with less traffic. So I'm wondering, would it be possible to have a bot who removes these headers at the end of a day, if no questions were asked then?-- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 01:39, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
I would like a modification made to the Search facility. Simply, I would like the cursor to be placed after the text of the first instance of the search. The reason for this is that it would make editing much quicker in that you don't have to search for the text (which is highlighted) and then place the cursor after it to make an update. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ralph23 ( talk • contribs) 02:44, 11 August 2018 (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 70 | ← | Archive 74 | Archive 75 | Archive 76 | Archive 77 | Archive 78 | → | Archive 80 |
Hi- Theo's Little Bot 19 used to update the adopt a user list marking inactive adopters as such but this doesn't seem to have run since June 2016. Could someone take over the task? The request for approval can be found here, my original request here and there's a link to the source code there too if that helps. Thanks, jcc ( tea and biscuits) 01:21, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I have been pinged by User:Mattythewhite, who was informed of this by User:Helper201 that there is a documentation that the unreliable source? tags should be outside the ref tags not in them.
There may be unreliable source? tags found on articles in the references section, so a bot should be used to change the following:-
<ref>Reference {{Unreliable source?|date= }}</ref> → <ref>Reference </ref>{{Unreliable source?|date= }}
so it looks something like this
[1] →
[2]
unreliable source?
Reference 1 does not abide to the documentation while ref 2 does. It is a difficult task to manually find all the articles with unreliable source? tags in the references sections.
Iggy (
Swan) 16:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
sps}}
. {{sps}}
should be inside the ref tags. It would then seem to me that rather than have a bot clean up the {{
Unreliable source?}}
tags, we should come up with consistent rules for their usage. –
Fredddie
™ 16:44, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
sps}}
explicitly states it should be used outside ref tags.
Nihlus 11:50, 14 January 2018 (UTC)please make bot for creating new categorys example people birth by day — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.75.62.30 ( talk) 07:08, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
no i want just birth by day not by day and year example i want november 15 birth not november 15 1994 birth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.22.3.31 ( talk) 05:10, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Where to make a discussion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.254.179.162 ( talk) 14:33, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
The bot BG19bot was very helpful but has not been working for more than 6 months. And the bots "owner" has not been on Wikipedia since August. is there a way to start it up again, or a similar bot can be created?. BabbaQ ( talk) 23:30, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
Under circumstances not completelly investigated, BG19bot is at the moment inactive. I am willing to fill out a BRFA for all of its tasks. I will probably do in the nxt few days. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:51, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
http://us-highways.com/ was previously used for a website called U.S. Highways: From US 1 to (US 830), a self-published site on the history of the United States Numbered Highway System. The creator of the website (Robert V. Droz) ran into some unrelated legal issues in his home state of Florida and let the site lapse. The domain name has been assumed by a commercial enterprise completely unrelated to the former site. As an SPS, the site should have never been used as a source in articles, but it was. Fredddie and I feel that it would be preferable to remove citations and links to the site at this time. Would some bot operator be amenable to replacing any citations to the site with {{ citation needed}} tags and removing any links in an external links section of the articles? Imzadi 1979 → 12:04, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Per discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Is "telenovela" a suitable disambiguator? and updated guideline at WP:NCTV, is it possible to get a bot to move all articles with the disambiguator "(telenovela)", "(COUNTRY telenovela)" or "(YEAR telenovela)" to "(TV series)", "(COUNTRY TV series)" and "(YEAR TV series)"? -- wooden superman 16:31, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
A consensus is emerging here that a bot to clear stale AIV reports would be desirable. Reports that have been open for more than 6-8 hours are usually considered declined by default. An edit summary along the lines of "listed for >6 hours without any admin willing to block" is appropriate. I see a couple main obstacles to this, and I was hoping this board could help with them.
Cheers, Tazerdadog ( talk) 23:42, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
I meant to note this here much earlier, but I wanted to add that in addition to archiving declined/stale reports, a bot adding a note about recently declined reports or users recently off a block might be helpful as well. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 02:20, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
I recently updated the infobox information in On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. As part of that update, I added an Alexa parameter to the infobox. It seems that the value of this parameter requires frequent updates. I just checked the Alexa link and found that the rank information in the infobox is no longer up-to-date. I think there are probably many more infoboxes with this parameter and regular bot runs to update those parameters seem like a good idea to me. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:49, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
|alexa=
is used 2,257 times in {{
Infobox website}}. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:41, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm looking to create a bot that can automatically use {{
AC notice}}~~~~ to inform users an article from a set of pages has been created. I noticed that I have a lot of redlinks in my Watchlist that I only have there to find out if a page is created eventually. If a bot could use
addtext.py to select an article it detects has changed after a refresh of a
a group of pages. If an article has been created, regardless of its contents (or lack thereof), uses it for 1=
and adds the parameter to the talk pages of users that have provided it with a request to notify them upon its creation. Does this make sense? I don't know, but I hope it does. Thank you anyways! ―
Matthew J. Long
-Talk-
☖ 22:03, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
I request to create lists by country "List of non-marine molluscs of COUNTRY" based on data from the http://www.iucnredlist.org/search website. It is very time consuming task, even if I can filter out freshwater / terrestrial / gastropods / bivalves of certain country at the IUCN website. If a Bot could make a list of species with the references, that would be great.
This is realizable (there onece existed a Polbot, that was able to create stubs like this [1] based on iucnredlist.org and there is possible to make various list based on the such as this one List of least concern molluscs).
Examples of the work in progress.
There are number of lists missing:
You can virtually make lists of non-marine molluscs for all countries (I will manually merge them with existing lists when needed).
It would be great, if you could at least sort those species into sections "Freshwater gastropods", "Land gastropods" and "Freshwater bivalves" (or make working lists of those three groups).
This task is suitable for non-marine molluscs. This task is not suitable for marine molluscs (that are placed in separate lists on Wikipedia), because there are not enough data for them on IUCN.
If you could pre-prepare such lists (in a User namespace), I would finish the task manually (I will sort species in systematic order, I will add families, I will update outdated info, I will generally check-out lists). Thanks. -- Snek01 ( talk) 21:11, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone use a bot to scan the drafts in Category:Abyssal temporary Russia cat and remove entries from the lists that are redlinks and redirects? Abyssal ( talk) 15:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Sounds good. Everything else look as you want it to? Tazerdadog ( talk) 22:15, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Abyssal: I wrote a script that removes redlinked list entries. It's called User:The Transhumanist/RedlinksRemover.js.
It's designed specifically for cleaning up outlines and lists, and I noticed your drafts are in outline format, except for the little cross at the beginning of the entries.
The script keeps nipping off the ends of branches until it reaches one that shouldn't be pruned.
It won't strip out an entry that has descendants in the tree.
After it is done pruning redlinked ends from the tree, it goes back and delinks any redlinks that are leftover and red categories (this part comes from AlexTheWhovian's script).
It would work for your lists, if you removed the little crosses first. Then you could put them back in after the script was done. That's easy to do with WikEd.
If you didn't remove the crosses, it would just delink the links, because they aren't at the beginning of the entries, and so the script would consider them to be embedded links, rather than linked entries.
To use it, you install it, and it provides a menu item in the tools menu on the sidebar. When you are ready to remove the redlinked entries from a page, just click on "Remove red links", and it will process the current page you are on.
I hope you find this does the trick for you. — The Transhumanist 00:48, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
P.S.: I haven't added this to the user scripts list yet, because it hasn't undergone enough testing. Beware, it is alpha software. -TT
Hey folks, pursuant to this discussion, I'm curious to know if it would be possible to build a bot that would remove links to copyrighted material hosted in violation of the creator's copyright, such as YouTube. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:12, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
A consensus is forming at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation#Proposal to tag all disambiguation links to tag all remaining disambiguation links in Wikipedia with a {{ disambiguation needed}} tag. From our most recent count, about 16,454 disambiguation links remain. Around 5,500 of these are already tagged, leaving a little under 10,000 to tag. What is needed here is, first, to get a list of all links to disambiguation pages from mainspace pages that do not already have this tag; second, wait about ten days to see if any of those are short term links that will be fixed quickly; third, re-check that list to see what links from that initial list have been fixed; and fourth, have a bot tag all remaining disambiguation links. bd2412 T 21:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
WP:Article alerts recommends having a bot tag the talk pages of articles with relevant topical wikiproject banners so that the AA bot produces more meaningful results. This would also be useful for getting this barely active project rolling better; I'd been looking into manually going article to article doing this, but it looked to be a rather daunting task even with AWB, and I'm on a Mac, so I'd have to run AWB in a VM or something anyway.
Would start with Category:English languages and its subcats.
Various subcats of Category:Words are going to qualify but will probably have to be done manually (e.g. about 99% of the content of Category:Neologisms, Category:Slang, etc., are English, but a handful of articles in such categories are not and so should not be tagged as within the scope of this project. Similarly, the majority of articles under Category:Punctuation have a section on English and would get tagged, but in a few cases the English coverage has been split out into separate spinoff articles like Quotation marks in English which should get tagged while the main article on the mark would not. We'll probably want to exclude most literature-related categories, but would include Shakespeare (for having had a profound effect on English, in contributing more stock phrases than any other body of work besides the King James Bible). Category:Lexicographers and other such bios will also need manual tagging. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:09, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
All protocol relative links on Wikipedia should be converted to either http or https. As of June 2015, Wikipedia is 100% HTTPS only and because protocol relative links are relative to where they are hosted it will always render as HTTPS. This means any underlying website that doesn't support HTTPS will break. For example:
..the http version of this link works. The article American rotation shows it in action, the first three footnotes are broken because they use a protocol relative link to a HTTP only website. But Wikipedia is rendering the link as HTTPS.
More info at WP:PRURL and Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Protocol_relative_URLs. It's probably 10s of thousands of links broken. -- Green C 21:06, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
TLDR: This request explicitly bumps against COSMETICBOT, needs further consensus, and there might be a way to have "maintenance" resolve the issue. Hasteur ( talk) 12:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
{{
citation needed}}
tags, when all that was required was adding the characters "http:". —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 21:02, 3 October 2017 (UTC)Please look at this table: Lands_administrative_divisions_of_New_South_Wales#Table_of_counties
My goal is to add a column to this table that shows the approximate geographical coordinates of each county. Those county coordinates can be derived form the parish coordinates that are found in each county article, by taking the middle of each northernmost and southernmost / easternmost and westernmost parish coordinates. Is it possible to write a script or a bot to achieve this? -- Ratzer ( talk) 21:27, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Please review my Draft at Cpt. Alex Mason. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amason1930 ( talk • contribs) 23:16, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
I would like to request for a bot that could fill in the Publisher after use of the Refill tool such as |publisher=Aftonbladet. As many Swedish subject articles uses one or two of the few main newspaper sources that are available in Sweden I would like for the bot to fill in for the sources aftonbladet.se as Aftonbladet, expressen.se as Expressen, svd.se as Svenska Dagbladet, kvp.se as Kvällsposten and dn.se As Dagens Nyheter. If those could be filled in at Publisher it would help seversl thousands of articles. BabbaQ ( talk) 13:32, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
|newspaper=
and definitely not |publisher=
, which should instead be removed. --
NSH001 (
talk) 16:53, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
There is a template which takes an
IMDb page, I think, and an event name as parameters - e.g. {{
IMDb award|Venice_Film_Festival|Venice Film Festival}}
- but it creates broken links. Maybe it relied on some redirect on IMDb's side and they changed their format, I do not know. There is another template which uses a IMDb event code instead of a page name - e.g. {{
IMDb event|0000681|Venice Film Festival}}
, which creates a correct link. See both at work:
Is there any chance a bot could fix those? I guess it would need to search the IMDb to get the event codes, which I do not know if it is allowed... (both by us and them). Thanks. - Nabla ( talk) 17:23, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Pleas add this category to the articles related to the Children's literature portal, because I need it in arabic wikipedia. Thank you. أبو هشام ( talk) 12:10, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Can a bot be created to add the {{WikiProject Olympics}} to the talkpage of all the articles in the sub-cats of Category:Olympic competitors by country that don't already have their TP tagged? If the tag already exists, ignore it, and if it's not there already add it with stub class and low importance, unless the article is already tagged at a higher class than stub by another project. Now the 2018 Winter Olympics are over, it would be good to catch all those athletes who are missing the tag, along with countless others that have been created/updated too. Many thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 13:02, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
[\r\n][^\r\n]*?\b(archers|artists|athletes|(bi|tri|pent)athletes|bobsledders|boxers|canoeists|competitors|cricketers|curlers|cyclists|divers|equestrians|fencers|footballers|golfers|gymnasts|jumpers|lugers|managers|medall?ist stubs|medall?ists|Members of|Olympians|pilots|players|practitioners|racers|rowers|sailors|shooters|skaters|skiers|snowboarders|swimmers|weightlifters|wrestlers)\b[^\r\n]*
leaves only 173
Category:Olympic judoka of Japan-type cats,
Category:Olympic pelotaris by country,
Category:Olympic pelotaris of France,
Category:Olympic pelotaris of Spain, and
Category:1980 US Olympic ice hockey team. Since, as I just found out,
Judoka is one who practices
Judo, and pelotaris refers to
players of various court-sports (the pelotaris cats only contain people too), everything looks legit here.[\r\n][^\r\n]*?\b(olympics?|olympians)\b[^\r\n]*
leaves only
Category:Canoeists of the Republic of Macedonia, which only contains Olympic athletes.{{
WikiProject Biography}}
: one is that the importance rating varies between WikiProjects - a topic that is high-importance to one might be low importance to another; the other is that {{
WikiProject Biography}}
doesn't have importance ratings. Taking the class rating from {{
WikiProject Biography}}
should be fine though. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 16:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
doesn't have general importance ratings, but it does have workgroup-specific importance ratings, and these are described as priority ratings. For example, when |sports-work-group=yes
is set, then |sports-priority=
is recognised; but somebody who is |sports-work-group=yes
|sports-priority=low
for {{
WikiProject Biography}}
might rate |importance=mid
for {{
WikiProject Olympics}}
, see for example
Talk:Christopher Dean (don't forget to [show] the "WikiProject Biography / Sports and Games" row). So I still think that the importance shouldn't be copied. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:39, 9 March 2018 (UTC)ShareMan 15 ( talk · contribs) 17:43, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Very often, because of encoding issues, you have situations like é → é.
This is often due to copy-pasting, or bot insertions. It would be nice if a bot could find all corrupted equivalent of all special Latin characters (possibly others too), and then do a de-corruption pass e.g. [3]/ [4].
This might be best as a manual AWB run though.. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 13:41, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
./wikiget -a "insource:/<regexcommand>/"
--
Green
C 05:21, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
[0-9]
needs to be split to properly work: [0-4]
, [5-9]
. —
Dispenser 11:45, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
There are over 1200 cases of "title=BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002" that should be reduced to "title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002". Chris the speller yack 13:35, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
There are many instances where a link is piped to another link, but both parts of the link actually target the same article. For instance [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]]
(where the piping simply redirects back to the original link) or [[Lakewood Amphitheatre|Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood]]
(where both parts of the link are redirects to the same destination), or [[MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre|Live Nation Amphitheatre]]
(where the visible part of the link is a redirect to the piped part. These last two types occur particularly often with sports teams, which change their name with a change of hometown or sponsor, and venues, which change as they sell naming rights, and newspapers, as they merge. Normally a redirect will be set up to point the old name to the new one, but many well-meaning editors will nonetheless pipe the old name to the new one, thinking they're doing good (and then often the piping is not updated when the name changes yet again, so even the trivial efficiency benefit of bypassing a redirect is lost). This sort of piping has many failings (as described at
WP:NOTBROKEN and
WP:NOPIPE). Would it be possible to set up a bot that would detect and fix these sorts of unnecessary piping?
Colonies Chris (
talk) 20:00, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
it's a bad idea; I'm a bad person; and I shouldn't have come here at allDecidedly not. Your takeaway from this discussion should be that you should seek consensus for the task--because regardless of any of the other words said here, the task may still be valuable but it doesn't have an obvious consensus. It is normal for people to come here with not-obviously uncontroversial bot requests; when we receive such requests, we ask for consensus. This does two things: a) makes it very obvious to anyone inspecting the bot while it is running that they should not contest the edits without a similar consensus, and b) stops the task from getting to the WP:BRFA process, where the WP:BAG would request the same (because, as one BAGger above commented, this task does not look uncontroversial). -- Izno ( talk) 12:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
I support this task which will reduce WP:OVERLINKING. WP:AWB is a popular semi-automated tool that can help in doing this task. Many editors use AWB for similar tasks. -- Magioladitis ( talk)
I have another request for a bot to help tighten up our {{ Infobox anatomy}} series. Ping to Nihlus who helped out last time.
Request is to:
|MapCaption=
, and |ImageMap=
(which have been integrated into the "image" parameter)|NerveRoot=
, |PhysicalExam=
|BrainInfoType=
, |BrainInfoNumber=
, |NeuroLexID=
, |NeuroLex=
(now moved to Wikidata)|Code=
which I have gone through and checked, and duplicated other fields.I would be very grateful for this, it will significantly help tidy up both our articles and the infoboxes.-- Tom (LT) ( talk) 00:32, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
|MapCaption=
and |ImageMap=
removed or their values integrated elsewhere? If so, where? (Would MapCaption just have its value put in |Caption=
?) --
TheSandDoctor (
talk) 17:07, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
|NerveRoom=
-> |NerveRoot=
)). Like last time, once the bot runs I'll be able to remove the parameters, then I will manually go through all articles that have parameter problems and fix them. --
Tom (LT) (
talk) 21:57, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
|Code=
be removed from all of those templates or do you have a separate list of affected pages somewhere else?
Nihlus 11:25, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
|MapCaption=
, |ImageMap=
, |NerveRoot=
, |PhysicalExam=
|BrainInfoType=
, |BrainInfoNumber=
, |NeuroLexID=
, |NeuroLex=
and |Code=
|NerveRoot=
and |PhysicalExam=
from {{
Infobox anatomy}} (not from {{
Infobox muscle}}). Is my interpretation right? --
Was a bee (
talk) 21:17, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for this Was a bee. I consider this task Done. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 04:59, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Related to but more generic than #Fixing sort keys for biographies of Thai people above, I'm looking for a bot to make mass edits to {{DEFAULTSORT}} keys (or add them if they don't exist) for a pre-defined list of articles, i.e. Special:PermaLink/829542720. These are articles that may have previously been tagged with incorrect defaultsort keys. Optimally, the bot should also skip the edits if changes are made only in capitalisation. Edits which result in no changes would of course be skipped. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 08:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
As said, now explicitly, at Wikipedia talk:Categorization of people#Thai names, I'm opposing this bot operation. Since only two people commented there thus far (the OP and me), with a 50%/50% division of opinions, this needs more time for discussion, with let's hope a bit more input from other editors, before firing up a bot. The same goes for the #Fixing sort keys for biographies of Thai people BotReq proposal above, although that one might be more in line with current guidance (can't really get my head around it yet). -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 17:00, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Still something else, bot-assisted insertion of a {{ DEFAULTSORT}} value that is exactly equal to the article title of the page where it is inserted would be a WP:COSMETICBOT infringement, as far as I understand the applicable policy. -- Francis Schonken ( talk) 17:13, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I originally thought manually going through all those articles would be an unnecessary waste of time and effort. Seeing the difficulty I'm having in explaining the task, however, it has become clear that further discussions would actually waste more time and effort on everybody's part than just manually performing the edits. I have gone ahead and done so. Thanks to TheSandDoctor for the assistance, but this is now moot. Marking as Not done. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:26, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
There are a lot of New York Times URLs that begin with http[s]://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
or http[s]://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
. However, all this does is take people to the abstract page. If these Wikipedia readers aren't NYT members, they encounter a paywall, and if they are members, they are allowed to select a PDF/TimesMachine version to continue reading the article. Either way, they have to click at least one more time once they reach the abstract page.
Would it be practical to convert these to http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=
URLs? These PDF versions can be seen by everyone, even non-members, and is much easier to
verify. The hexadecimal string after the equals sign will remain the same before and after, but it does have to be an HTTP URL for these NY Times PDF links to work.
epicgenius (
talk) 22:01, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
gst/abstract
and converting to mem/archive
, as well as changing any select.
into query.
gst/abstract.html
to mem/archive/pdf
, select.
into query.
, and all HTTPS to HTTP. Yes, this will work for all articles. However,
KolbertBot is converting
http://nytimes.com URLs to
https://nytimes.com, so I will ping
Jon Kolbert for feedback.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9801E7DF1330E333A25755C0A96E9C94669ED7CF&legacy=true
(for instance) will work, but not
https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9801E7DF1330E333A25755C0A96E9C94669ED7CF&legacy=true
, which displays an empty frame.
epicgenius (
talk) 18:42, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=
in response. KolbertBot doesn't act on select.nytimes.com links. Is the desired outcome to have select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
and query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
changed to query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=
? That shouldn't be too hard to do with KolbertBot, I can create a new bot task to do this job.
Jon Kolbert (
talk) 00:46, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Please. — The Transhumanist 10:20, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
According to WP:NAMESORT (and expanded upon at WP:MOSTHAI), biographical articles about Thai people should be sorted like this:
{{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Forename}}
[[Category:International people]]
[[Category:Thai people|Forename Surname]]
However, this has very inconsistently been adhered to, with some articles specifying the Thai order in the DEFAULTSORT and some not following the Thai order at all.
Would it be plausible for a bot to help fix this? A possible process I have in mind is something along the lines of:
And, for the long term:
I realise this is pretty labour-intensive, but a more automated process would likely not be able to identify names which don't follow the Forename Surname format. I'd like to know that a bot was available for the task before attempting to review all the names. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:09, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Note on sorting: Thailand people are usually called by the first name, even telephone books are sorted by the first name. This of course also applies to the subcategories.. Could you point to the relevant passages in the guides you mentioned? ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 17:44, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
andThai names have only contained a family name since 1915 and the name follows the western pattern of "Forename Surname". However, people in Thailand are known and addressed by their forename. In categories mostly containing articles about Thai people, Thai names should be sorted as they are written with the forename first. Thaksin Shinawatra is sorted [[Category:Thai people|Thaksin Shinawatra]].
-- Paul_012 ( talk) 19:21, 11 February 2018 (UTC)When categorizing biography articles, do not specify sort keys to sort by surname in Thai people categories. However, sorting by surname is still desirable for non-country-specific people categories, and this is done with the DEFAULTSORT magic word. A biography article for Given-name Surname should therefore be categorized like this:
{{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Given-name}}
[[Category:International people]]
[[Category:Thai people|Given-name Surname]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vejjajiva, Abhisit}} {{Thai name sort|Abhisit Vejjajiva}} [[Category:Prime Ministers of Thailand|Abhisit Vejjajiva]] etc. [[Category:People educated at Eton College]] etc.
Okay, TheSandDoctor, here's a newer summary of the task:
-- Paul_012 ( talk) 10:44, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
TheSandDoctor, Francis Schonken has requested that manual placement of the template be manually trialled on article pages first. Could you go ahead and move your sandbox version into the template space? Thanks. -- Paul_012 ( talk) 09:07, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
hi rsssf.com have many articles about soccer please make bot to added articles from rsssf.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 15:48, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
hi some articles on english wiktionary add links to Wikipedia german But there are also english Wikipedia example Berndorf link the Wikipedia german but english wiktionary must link to English Wikipedia thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 13:30, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
hi please make bot to adding years articles automaticly example make 1432 in iran or 528 in india thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 17:57, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
hi very articles don't described categorys example Selenophorus pedicularius described in 1829 but not any category — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 14:55, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
hi catalogueoflife.org have very articles about species animals planet and more this articles not in Wikipedia please make bot to adding this articles to Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 12:25, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
but in ceb.Wikipedia.org and sv.Wikipedia.org use catalogueoflife.org and adding very articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 14:37, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Does there exist bots able to detect and remove repetitive internal links in a Wikipedia article? Thanks! -- It's gonna be awesome!✎ Talk♬ 03:48, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I would appreciate if someone could please remove {{ Iw-ref}} from all article pages and add {{ translated page}}, with the same parameters, to the corresponding talk page. The Iw-ref template was deprecated quite a long time ago, but still remains on a lot of pages. Please note that there are a couple redirects to the template, {{ Translation/Ref}} and {{ Translation/ref}}. This should be a one time task, since once done, the old template can be deleted.
Thanks in advance, Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 05:47, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
A huge number of articles have See Also links that are already linked from the bodies of the articles. Per MOS:NOTSEEALSO, these redundant links should be removed. If there are no non-redundant links in a See Also section, the entire See Also section should be removed. Kaldari ( talk) 21:51, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, is it possible to create or edit a current bot to help with Level 5 vital articles? My idea is that it will take all articles of top importance in a Wikiproject, check to see if they are already in the list, and if not, tag them as Level 5 vital articles and add them to the list. There are already bots controlling lists so this may be feasible. Please reply! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperTurboChampionshipEdition ( talk • contribs) 16:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm owner of Westmärker Wiki, a small Mediawiki which I copied from a predecessor.
I want to add "Dieser Artikel wurde am 21.04 2018 aus dem Hombruch-Wiki kopiert." to the bottom of each article and media page.
Is there any bot I can use and possibly a person who can run it there? Wschroedter ( talk) 11:24, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm the owner of Westmärker Wiki (a small Mediawiki) and I want to change certain categories.
I'm looking for a tool by which I can change several articles from a list or all articles of a category.
Any ideas or hints? Wschroedter ( talk) 11:29, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Could someone (@ Tokenzero:?) create this bot
You can tell if something is a journal or magazine by looking for the 'journal'/'magazine' string in the categories of the article, or the presence of {{ infobox journal}}/{{ infobox magazine}} on the page. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 23:56, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Headbomb: Coding... Basically done. Should they be categorized as {{ R from modification}}? There doesn't seem to be anything more relevant (except {{ R from railroad name with ampersand}}, curiously); examples I checked (both journal and general) are somehow almost always without any rcat. The first run on infobox-journals would create ~1500 redirects. Do you want to have it run once or eg. monthly? Minor remark: there is a chance it'll create a dumb redirect when the title is in another language, say Ora and labora, but I can't find any actual example and I don't think it's a significant problem anyway. Also, some would remove a serial comma when replacing ', and' with an ampersand, but some style guides advocate keeping the comma, so I would just keep it. Tokenzero ( talk) 20:32, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi,
The links to http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas ( 1453 links) and http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas ( 896 links) do not work anymore. The content is now available on http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas. Could a bot update those links?
Most pages should work after updating the domain. However, the alphabetical index ( http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-a.htm, http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-b.htm, ...) only contain empty pages. Fixing this is more complicated, but can be partially automated by matching article names and/or old link anchors with entries in http://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/494-2017-a-z-all.htm. I fixed them on frwiki, so you can also try to take them from the French page when there is one.
Orlodrim ( talk) 21:51, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
We seem to have a large (three-figures, at least) number of external links to Who Was Who, formatted with an extraneous comma at the end of the URL, like the one I fixed in this edit. Can someone fix them all, please?
Better still would be to apply the {{ Who's Who}} template, like this, but I appreciate that may not be so straightforward. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
I went through part of Category:Country year navigational boxes, replacing {{ flagicon}} with {{ flagdeco}} to remove the double link and double alternative text — flagicon's alt attribute repeats the country name in nearby visible text. Example diff. I'd like to request a bot finish the rest of the category, making the same flagicon to flagdeco change. Matt Fitzpatrick ( talk) 22:02, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I'm sure there's already a bot in existence for the task that I'm trying to do, but I'm new to using Wiki bots so I'm not sure which one I'm looking for or how to use it. Basically, I'm trying to automatically copy from a particular set of wiki pages all of the sentences that contain a particular word, then paste those sentences into a spreadsheet or word document so I can look it over manually.
The specific purpose is that I'm trying to find a list of plebeian tribunes of the Roman Republic, but a quick search around the internet doesn't furnish many promising results. There is a wiki page for a list of all types of tribunes here ( /info/en/?search=List_of_Roman_tribunes), but it looks like the author had only just started this article, since it's not very comprehensive (for example, there were supposed to be ten plebeian tribunes elected every year from 457 to about 48 BC). Obviously it would in all likelihood be impossible to furnish a complete list of every plebeian tribune given the enormous number of these office holders and the relative scarcity of primary sources we have from the time, but considering that only a small fraction of the tribunes were noteworthy enough to make it into the history books (many of whom have their own wiki pages already), I think it's possible to get a reasonably well-represented list by just trawling the existing wiki pages to see which articles are about people who served as plebeian tribunes. One particularly helpful place to start would be the Wikipedia page that lists all Roman gentes (family names, at /info/en/?search=List_of_Roman_gentes). Each family name on that list links to a page that lists all of the notable members of that family, along with a short description of their careers. So the bot would start on the page for gens Abronia, do a word search for "tribun" (so that it catches variations of the word like "tribune," "tribunate," or "tribuneship"), and find nothing. Then it would go to the next page for gens Aburia, search for "tribun" again, and copy the sentence that says "Marcus Aburius, as tribune of the plebs in 187 BC, opposed Marcus Fulvius Nobilior's request for a triumph, but was persuaded to withdraw his objection by his colleague, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus," paste that as a line in a word document or spreadsheet, continue searching for other occurrences of the phrase in the gens Aburia page until it's out of results, and then moves on to the page for gens Accia, and so forth.
Again, this probably won't furnish a comprehensive list of tribunes, but it'll at least give us a good start. Depending on how many results it returns, I might be able to just go through the resulting data and manually add each name, date of office, and link to the relevant tribune's wiki page as entries on the table at /info/en/?search=List_of_Roman_tribunes, so the bot would only need to read text from existing Wikipedia pages, and not need to write anything to them automatically. I appreciate any help or feedback that you can provide. Thanks! Dfault ( talk) 02:51, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Dfault
./wikiget -F "List of Roman gentes" > list
(manually edit list to remove any unwanted pages)awk '{print "./wikiget -w \"" $0 "\" -p | awk -v titl=\"" $0 "\" \x27{IGNORECASE=1; split($0,a,\".\"); for(b in a){if(a[b] ~ /tribun/) print titl \" : \" a[b]} }\x27" }' list | sh
Brilliant! Just ran it now, worked perfectly! Looks like there are about 750 results; I'll get to work formatting them now and let you know if I run into any trouble or have any updates. Thanks for your help! Dfault ( talk) 23:11, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Could anyone remove all lines beginning with two bullets from the commented-out list of articles? I'm trying to remove all the species entries listed under the genera. Abyssal ( talk) 12:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Can I request a bot to tag the articles that are in Category:Reality television series with "|reality-tv=yes|reality-tv-importance="(importance can be assessed manually afterwards). I have created a list of each individual category here after removing certain subcategories, mostly participant and container categories. Please let me know if you think that needs more refining. A lot of the articles already have WPTV but are just missing the Reality TV task force label, and some older articles don't have the project at all. So would need the bot to add the full WPTV+realitytv tag to any that are missing the project, and only add the task force parameter to those that are already under WPTV. WikiVirus C (talk) 16:30, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Coding...
Hi! I recently made a proposal at WP:VG regarding a "featured article of the day" premise. Please head to that page to add your expertise reading the automation nature of my proposal. We're discussing the validity of it too, but I think if I have the automation nature sorted it will be much easier to prove I will have a successful implementation. Essentially I want a bot to: -- Coin945 ( talk) 22:01, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by article count#Updating?. — The Transhumanist 10:18, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5, the list of Level 5 vital articles, is currently under construction, with editors adding articles to the list. Right now, article counts for each subpage and section are updated manually, which is quite inconvenient and often leads to human errors. I would like to request a bot to update the article counts in each section of each sublist (such as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Arts), the total article count at the top of each sublist, and the table listed on the main Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5 page. I think such a bot would ideally update the article counts once daily. feminist ( talk) 04:27, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
hi I find csv files do make bot to adding articles of csv files with csv loder in auto wiki browser this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 13:53, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to properly alphabetize Category:World Series-winning managers. It was saved from deletion, but now, for some reason, the category isn't in proper alphabetical order. I did get some help regarding the sort key, but to no avail. Perhaps a bot can kindly help me. Thank you. Mr. Brain ( talk)
Done
Hi all. I used to work on community Good Article reassessments area years ago and have recently returned. Old community reassessments are archived by User:VeblenBot. However Veblenbot has been inactive for a while now and the unarchived GARs are building up, Category:GAR/60 has 134 entries in it. Could someone please take over it or find another way to do the archiving. I found two relevant discussions at the Bot noticeboard ( Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 8#New operator needed for VeblenBot and PeerReviewBot and Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 10#User:VeblenBot) . I also tried Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Archiving community Good Article reassessments. It does not seem like a difficult task. Regards AIRcorn (talk) 23:40, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
@ TheSandDoctor: in case you want to expand the GA bot you are working on. Kees08 (Talk) 23:44, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
In articles like this one, I often find {{ unreferenced}} templates in sections that contain references. Is there a Wikipedia bot that can be configured to replace Template:Unreferenced with Template:Refimprove? Jarble ( talk) 03:01, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
For a similar bot action check Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 11. Yobot could do this as part of general tagging actions but it will need a new BRFA approved since this BRFA is not valid anymore. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I tried importing Module:Location map to sawiki (latest code) but it has 1000s of dependencies. It is very difficult to import all associated countries / states / cities to sawiki manually. Can someone please help. Capankajsmilyo ( talk) 12:44, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Please look at this table: Lands_administrative_divisions_of_New_South_Wales#Table_of_counties
My goal is to add a column to this table that shows the approximate geographical coordinates of each county. Those county coordinates can be derived form the parish coordinates that are found in each county article, by taking the middle of each northernmost and southernmost / easternmost and westernmost parish coordinates. Is it possible to write a script or a bot to achieve this?
For illustration, I did the work for the first county in the list, Argyle County, manually. The table of parishes in this article shows that they range from 34°27'54" and 35°10'54" latitude south and 149°25'04" and 150°03'04" longitude east. The respective middle is 34°49'24" and 149°44'04", which I put in the first table entry of Lands administrative divisions of New South Wales and the info-box of Argyle County. -- Ratzer ( talk) 11:35, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Could someone already running a cleanup bot request permission to add a simple task, punctuation before cleanup tags?
Example, which judging by the date on the tag, had been there since 2015. Inline cleanup tags, e.g. {{
fact}} and {{
which}}, should go after punctuation, so {{cleanup tag|date=whenever}},
and {{cleanup tag|date=whenever}}.
are wrong. It's quite visible to the reader, and a bit jarring, so this isn't
WP:COSMETICBOT.
Nyttend (
talk) 12:59, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
AWB already fixes this. And it's also part of CHECKWIKI error 61. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 15:01, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I would propose that to help clear the 'articles without infoboxes' maintenance categories, a bot could go through these pages and see if an infobox has already been added to the page, then if it has, remove the |needs-infobox=y from the WikiProject banner templates.
This would allow editors who wanted to add infoboxes to articles that are in these categories not to have to sift through articles that already have infoboxes on them so that they can clear the backlog more quickly.
Thanks. Wpgbrown ( talk) 17:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Academic Journals|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Journal articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Anatomy|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Anatomy articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Archaeology|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Archaeology articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Architecture|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Architecture articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Astronomy|infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Astronomy articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Automobiles|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Automobile articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Awards and prizes|needs-infobox=yes}}
populates
Category:Awards and prizes articles needing infoboxes{{
WikiProject Bristol|ibox=needs}}
populates
Category:Bristol articles needing an infobox{{
WikiProject Derbyshire|ibox=needs}}
populates
Category:Derbyshire articles needing an infobox{{
WikiProject Derbyshire|ibox=yes}}
means that that article already has an infobox and doesn't need another. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:43, 3 April 2018 (UTC)There are cases where I have suggest an article should not have an infobox, but this typically means is there is no current infobox that would make the article better than having none. If a human editor can't deal with that, how will a bot do it? Furthermore, you can't have missed that we've just had a huge Arbcom case about conduct around infoboxes. I think if the bot stuck an infobox on Buckingham Palace, all hell would break loose and there would probably be an ANI thread requesting said bot be blocked. Sorry, bots should only work on uncontroversial and boring stuff, and this just isn't that. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:33, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
|needs-infobox=yes
(or equivalent) where this is no longer applicable. It's pure
WP:GNOMEing. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)I used to go this as part of my gnomish actions. I can do it agai using WP:AWB which is a powerful tool to make repeative actions and the tool resposnible for a large amount of edits in English Wikipedia. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:26, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I have a series of lists of prehistoric life articles that I need to condense. Can anyone use a bot to scan those articles for red links and remove the entries that contain them from the lists? Abyssal ( talk) 12:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
to |
Abyssal ( talk) 14:19, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I asked this years ago at User talk:Gimmetrow#Update the article history following Good article reassessments. Since I am back in this area I thought I would try again. I am not sure what bot updates article histories now so am posting this here instead of at an individuals page.
The {{ GAR/link}} template renders the following {{GAR/link|~~~~~|page=|GARpage=|status=}}. Status can be changed to kept, delisted or a number of other similar positions. An example of a delisted template is here and a kept one here. The issue is that any reassessment has been preceded by at least one assessment, so that template is not ideal. It really needs to be integrated into the {{ articlehistory}} template.
So far the only way to do that is manually.
[15] This requires finding the oldid, copying the reassessment page, dates and updating GA to DGA. It would be useful if a bot did this like it does for other similar article history processes. There is a complication however as a reassessment can be opened as a community reassessment or an individual one. As far as I can tell this will only affect the link parameter. Individual reassessments will link to a talk subpage Talk:Foo/GA?
, while community ones use a WP:GAR subpage Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Foo/?
. Foo being the name of the article and ? being the number of the reassessment.
For delisted articles, it would also be useful if the bot could change or remove the GA class from the wikiproject template (changing to C is probably the best, but since the difference is mostly arbitrary B would do). Another useful feature would be the removal of the {{ good article}} template from the article itself (it produces the green spot at the top of the page).
There are 2 280 delisted articles (I don't think this includes ones that were delisted and then later regained good or featured status so the true number may be higher), so this feature could save editors quite a bit of manual work. Thanks in advance. AIRcorn (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
@ TheSandDoctor: This would be a good addition to the GA bot once it is working properly. I did not do GARs before because it was a little daunting to close them (turns out it is not too bad, but pretty annoying still). Kees08 (Talk) 22:05, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
The consensus during a recent RFC was to remove succession boxes from song and album articles. Since these appear in over 4,200 song [16] and 2,000 album articles, [17] it seems that this may be a good job for a bot. — Ojorojo ( talk) 14:33, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone bulk undo the most recent edit by User:Dispenser tot he commented out list of articles? They were fine edits, but I need the previous state of the article to show up for the public and the information from those edits can be gotten later out of the article history. Abyssal ( talk) 20:30, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
The task is "simply"
|image=
or |cover=
. If it's not empty, go to the associated file, and tag it with {{
WikiProject Academic Journals}}|image_file=
and |logo=
. If it's not empty, go to the associated file(s), and tag it with {{
WikiProject Magazines}}I believe in both cases, the parameters may be simply the name of the file (e.g. File.svg
), or a full [[File/Image:....]]
thing.
The task would need to be run daily/weekly. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 14:31, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello There, I would like to send a MeetUp invitation to all active Wikipedians in New Orleans (particularly librarians)--here is our MeetUp page: Wikipedia:Meetup/New_Orleans/WomeninLibraryHistory Please let me know if I need to do anything else--thanks! RachelWex ( talk) 01:16, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello! WikiSpaces is closing on July 2018. It would be helpful having a list of all "subdomain.wikispaces.com" from external-links table in all Wikipedias (and sister projects too, why not). In WikiTeam we will try to preserve all these open-knowledge sites. Thanks. emijrp ( talk) 13:02, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
I asked for this over a year ago, and one bot op said they would do it... but they never did, so I’m asking again.
WP:RESTRICT is an incredibly bloated list of everyone who is currently sanctioned by arbcom or the community as well as those under “last chance” unblock conditions. In order to reduce the size of these lists and make them easier to navigate, it was decided that any sanction on a user who had been inactive or blocked for more than two years be moved to an archive. The sanction is still valid, just not displayed on the main page anymore, and can be moved back if the user returns to editing.
I did the initial archiving myself 14 months ago. It ranks as pretty much the most tedious thing I have ever done in nearly 11 years of contributing here. I would therefore like to again request that some bot or other be instructed to review listings there once a month or so and remove any fitting the criteria to the archive. If it could move back those that have returned to editing that would be amazing. We seem to be able to auto-generate such data for inactive admins so I am guessing (as someone who admittedly knows nothing at all about programming bots) that this should be fairly straightforward. Thanks for your time. Beeblebrox ( talk) 03:32, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
How are we doing on getting a bot together that detects improper use of non-free media (if not the actual removal from the articles)? That is, the use of non-free media on articles for which the file description page lacks a valid WP:FUR specific to that article - I've just found and removed this, 366 days after this image was added lacking a valid FUR for the article, contrary to WP:NFCCP#10c. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 19:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
JJMC89, could your bot task be modified to simply log these uses instead of removing them? Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 01:12, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
There is a historical link issue that needs sorting out for the article Sport of athletics.
Would it be possible to amend all piped links to Athletics (sport) (an old title and currently a redirect) to point directly to Sport of athletics? The old title is still ambiguous with Athletics (physical culture), which was the reason for the subsequent move. 99% of the incoming links are valid, as it's a non-natural title choice.
There is also a sub-sport distinction link issue with track and field. I've seen many links in the style [[track and field|athletics]] and [[track and field athletics|athletics]] – these piped links should also be piped to sport of athletics to remove the WP:EASTEREGG aspect. Similarly, links like [[sport of athletics|track and field]] should simply point to track and field. SFB 19:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
{{
Infobox Mandir}} and {{
Infobox Hindu temple}}, and maybe a couple of other related templates, have been merged into {{
Infobox religious building}}. As part of the conversion, the value of the |architecture=
parameter in the merged templates has been assigned a different meaning.
In the pre-merge templates, |architecture=
could take a value like "
Dravidian architecture". In {{
Infobox religious building}}, |architecture=
takes a value of "yes" to indicate that the infobox should have an Architecture section, and the actual architectural style is placed in |architecture_style=
.
In
Category:Pages using infobox religious building with unsupported parameters, templates with an unsupported value for |architecture=
are listed under the "Α" section heading (note that "Α" is a Greek letter that is listed after "Z" in the category listing).
I am looking for someone who would be willing to run through that section of the tracking category with AWB and replace this:
| architecture = [any value] |
with this:
| architecture = yes | architecture_style = [any value] |
The "[any value]" string should be preserved in each infobox. For example, | architecture =
Dravidian architecture |
would be changed to | architecture = yes | architecture_style =
Dravidian architecture |
This will have to be a supervised run, since there could be some strange stuff in the parameter values. It looks like there are about 1,000 pages to fix. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:04, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
|architecture=
as an alias of |architecture_style=
. A bot could replace |architecture=
with |architecture_style=
if the old parameter is to be deprecated, but it seems good to update the template before the bot, rather than after the bot.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 14:37, 19 May 2018 (UTC) Upon review the template, I think your original course of action is better and that my suggestion above isn't adequate for the current functionality. |architecture=yes
enables a whole section of the infobox. I still think it'd be good to have the section be displayed on whether its parameters are empty or present, but that's a different discussion entirely.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b} 14:41, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi, suggesting that the Template:Friendly search suggestions be added by bot to every stub article talk page to aid the improvement of the articles, thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 20:53, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
Every stub article talk page- you're talking
I suggest, for example, that someone sort the items on this page Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs by page popularity, similar to how this page is sorted: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science/Popular_pages Instead of clicking through random obscure pages, a sorted table would allow people to prioritize pages that need attention the most. The example bot is found here User:Community_Tech_bot. Turbo pencil ( talk) 00:57, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Watches suspicious users because they might wreak havoc on the wiki. Bot reports back to the operator(s) so they know what the user is doing, just in case the user is committing vandalism, or anything else. Bot finds suspicious users by seeing if they vandalized (or as I mentioned before, anything else) past the 2nd warning. Manual bot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SandSsandwich ( talk • contribs) 08:19, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
Around 1300 pages linking to
Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/October2013 contain <center><big><big><big>'''''[[Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/October2013|Books and Bytes]]'''''</big>
after a misformatted issue 1 of a newsletter.
[18] I guess it looked OK before Remex but now it gives an annoying large font on the rest of the page. A few of the pages have been fixed with missing end tags. It happened again in issue 4 (only around 200 cases) linking to
Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/February2014 with <center><big><big><big>'''''[[Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/February2014|Books and Bytes]]'''''</big>
.
[19] None of the other issues have the error. The 200 issue 4 cases could be done with AWB but a bot would be nice for the 1300 issue 1 cases. Many of the issue 4 cases are on pages which also have issue 1 so a bot could fix both at the same time.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:36, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
wikiget -f -w <article name> | awk '{sub(/Books[ ]and[ ]Bytes[ ]*(\]){2}[ ]*(\x27){5}[ ]*[<][ ]*\/[ ]*big[ ]*[>][ ]*$/,"Books and Bytes]]\x27\x27\x27\x27\x27</big></big></big>",$0); print $0}' | wikiget -E <article name> -S "Fix missing </big> tags, per [[Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Missing_big_end_tags_in_Books_and_Bytes_newsletters|discussion]]" -P STDIN
Done -- Green C 15:21, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Request replacing existing instances of the URLs for Ontario Restructuring Maps in citations. While the old URLs work, the new maps employ a new URL nomenclature system at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Ontario) and have corrected format errors that make the new versions easier to read. The URLs should be replaced as follows:
Thanks. -- papageno ( talk) 23:41, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
Done Green C 16:38, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Here's one for Tokenzero ( talk · contribs)
OMICS Publishing Group is an insidious predatory open access publisher, which often deceptively names it journals (e.g. the junk Clinical Infectious Diseases: Open Access vs the legit Clinical Infectious Diseases). To help catch citations to its predatory journals with WP:JCW/TAR and Special:WhatLinksHere, redirects should be created. I have extracted the list of OMICS journals from its website, which I've put at User:Headbomb/OMICS. What should be done is take every of those entries and:
#REDIRECT[[OMICS Publishing Group]] [[Category:OMICS Publishing Group academic journals]]
{{Confused|text=[[Foobar: Open Access]], published by the OMICS Publishing Group}}
There likely will be some misfires, but I can easily clean them up afterwards. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 04:38, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
OK, Coding... Tokenzero ( talk) 13:34, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
Done The bot finished (2739 redirects and 21 hatnotes) and I did the few outliers by hand. Tokenzero ( talk) 09:55, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
Many portals lack human editors, and need automated support to avoid going stale.
Most portals have an introduction section with an excerpt from the lead of the root article corresponding to the portal. The content for that section is transcluded from a subpage entitled "Intro".
The problem is that the excerpts are static, and grow outdated over time. Some are many years out of date.
What is needed is a bot to periodically update subscribed portals, by refreshing the excerpts from the corresponding root article leads.
Each excerpt should end similar to this:
...except that the link should go to the corresponding root article, rather than aviation.
There are over 1500 portals, and so it would be quite tedious for a human editor to do this. Some portals are supported, while others aren't updated for years.
Portals are in turmoil, and so, this is needed sooner rather than later.
Of course, they need greater support than this. But, we've got to start somewhere. As the intros are at the tops of the portal pages, it seemed like the best place to start. — The Transhumanist 07:06, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
I find myself removing spaces around em dashes frequently. Per the MOS, "An em dash is always unspaced (that is, without a space on either side)".
Since this is such a black and white issue, a bot to automatically clean this up as it happens would be useful. Kees08 (Talk) 05:49, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Would it be possible to fill Category:Association footballers not categorized by position with the intersection of:
Some members of WP:FOOTY have been working on adding missing positions, this would be much appreciated in order see all players which are missing a position category. Thanks, S.A. Julio ( talk) 04:36, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
@ Ronhjones: Alright, thanks! I think the issue is that there were two articles redirecting to the category mainspace. List of Eastleigh F.C. players was inadvertently categorised (missing a colon), and List of Australia national association football team players should have redirected to an already existing article. Now fixed. S.A. Julio ( talk) 16:38, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
BRFA filed
Ronhjones
(Talk) 19:53, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
Done Ronhjones (Talk) 00:50, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Hasteur ( talk · contribs) has retired, it would be good if someone could take over the bot, that would be nice
The code can be found at is at https://github.com/hasteur/g13bot_tools_new, with hasteur stipulating "All I ask is that the credit for the work remains."
@ Firefly: Hasteur posted this on your talk page, any interest in taking over? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 10:40, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, could you please give a bot an extra task of removing orphan tags from articles that have at least one incoming link from mainspace articles, lists and index pages but not disambig pages or redirects as per WP:Orphan. The category is Category:All orphaned articles but exclude Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009 as an admin is checking those. A rough estimate is there are at least 10,000 misplaced tags, thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 17:07, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
Could someone help with doing the following to the pages in Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject?:
Oornery ( talk) 05:14, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
It's been four years since this project last had a tagging run and I'm looking to get Article Alerts to cover the many relevant articles that have not been tagged since. Anyone interested in doing a tagging run of the articles and categories under Category:Sport of athletics? SFB 19:03, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
|class=
of other WikiProjects, if available. Should I leave |importance=
blank, or use |importance=Low
? The idea being that if importance were > "Low", it probably would have been tagged as such by now. I can also do this for articles less than a certain size instead.|class=Stub
to all pages less than 1000, 2000, 3000, etc. bytes. Please take a look at that list of |class=
blank for those >= 2000 b. Let me know if there's any desired change to the above guidance. Can do the untagging after. ~
Tom.Reding (
talk ⋅
dgaf) 13:16, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
A very common typo I see all the time is when end quotation marks are placed before a comma (like this: ",) or a period when at the end of a sentence (like this: ".), etc. The rule is that commas, periods, and question marks are placed inside quotation marks, like this: ."/,"/?"
I see these mistakes everywhere I go, and it seems that no one bothers to correct them. Perhaps there should be a bot that swaps the quotation marks and punctuation marks to the position that they should be in. Radioactive Pixie Dust ( talk) 05:36, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
With these templates successfully approved for merging, I am request a bot that will replace any WikiProject History of Photography templates with the WikiProject Photography template with the "history=yes" parameter.
If a page already has the WikiProject Photography template, the "history=yes" parameter should be added (if it's not there already). If the page already has the WikiProject Photography template with the "history=yes" parameter, then the WikiProject History of Photography template simply needs to be removed.
If there are differing quality ratings between these two templates, the rating given by the WikiProject Photography template should be applied. If WikiProject Photography template has not given a quality rating and the WikiProject History of Photography template has, the WikiProject Photography template should inherit the WikiProject History of Photography's quality rating. Qono ( talk) 23:07, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Can anyone create a bot to replace links matching the regex https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/.*\?docID=([0-9a-f]{32})
with https://apnews.com/$1
. There are about
2800 links to AP news hosted by Google and all the links are dead. I estimate about 20–30% of these links have the docId
tag and can be rewritten to link to AP's website. This doesn't always work, but it works often enough to make this worth the effort. You'll need to download the page first and check for absence of the string "The page you’re looking for doesn’t exist. Try searching for a topic." and the presence of a non-empty div of articleBody
class. You'll also have to flip the deadurl
tag to no
after replacement and avoid references that have already been archived. Some examples:
articleBody
class— Gazoth ( talk) 13:09, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
We developed a consensus a while back to tag all remaining disambiguation links in the project with a {{ dn}} tag. In order to avoid excessive tagging, the idea is to generate a list of all links, let it sit for a few weeks, then recheck it and tag everything that has still not been fixed after that interval. Any takers? bd2412 T 22:20, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Recently the links to the official websites of the municipalities of Colombia have been changed, e.g. Zipaquirá (old, dead) to Zipaquirá (new, live). The only difference I saw with checking some of the links is the removal of "index.shtml". I changed it manually for Zipaquirá, but there are 1200+ municipalities to be done, so best done by a bot. Thanks in advance! Tisquesusa ( talk) 17:04, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Can someone here please create a bot to take care of the abundance of encyclopedia abbreviations uzbek wikipedia? While some abbreviations are rather easy to figure out, other abbreviations may be challenging for unfamiliar or inexperienced readers. This task is incredibly tedious to do manually. Here are some of the most common abbreviations (or errors) and their needed replacements. Please take note of common Uzbek suffixes such as -lar, -i, -si, -da, ning, etc
and typos:
Please try not to change capitalization in the process.
If a bot could take care of these things, it would be absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much to anyone who can make a bot to take care of these. Thank you. If you have any questions about suffixes or anything like that, please don't hesitate to ping me.-- PlanespotterA320 ( talk) 23:50, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Will take this one. Can move to uzwiki. -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 17:31, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
A consensus was reached at
Help talk:IPA/Spanish#About R to change all instances of r
that either occur at the end of a word or precede a consonant (i.e. any symbol except a
, e
, i
, o
, or u
) to ɾ
inside the first parameter of {{
IPA-es}}. There currently appear to be
about 1,190 articles in need of this change. Could someone help with this task with a bot?
Nardog (
talk) 19:24, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Hopefully a simple request. I would like a list of all pages that are tagged with {{ WikiProject Green Bay Packers}}, assessed as a stub, and assessed as low-importance listed out in a table ( Low-class stubs). The table would be two columns, one listing the article's name and the other the article size in bytes ( User:Gonzo fan2007/Stubs would be a fine place to put it). As long as the table is sortable, I don't care what order the articles are in the table. I am looking to review all of the WikiProject's stubs and reassess as start or C-class if necessary and would like to start by looking at the largest articles (and thus the most likely to no longer be a stub).
Let me know if there are any questions. Thank you for any assistance. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:50, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
hi in fr.Wikipedia.org a bot creat thousands articles about minor planets with good quality please creating this articles for English Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amirh123 ( talk • contribs) 11:22, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/845715301, PRehse moved WikiProject Articles for creation to the bottom and updated the class for WikiProject Video games from "Stub" to "Start". Then, in Special:Diff/845730267, I updated the class for WikiProject Articles for creation, and moved WikiProject Articles for creation back to the top. But then, in Special:Diff/845730984, PRehse decided to move WikiProject Articles for creation to the bottom again. For consistency, we should have a bot move all {{ WikiProject Articles for creation}} templates on talk pages to below other WikiProject templates. If the WikiProject templates are within {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, then {{ WikiProject Articles for creation}} will stay within the shell along with other WikiProject templates. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 16:44, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
This change should be fine per Wikipedia:Talk page layout. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:24, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
User:Legobot has stopped indexing talk pages and archives and User:HBC Archive Indexerbot is deactivated. I would like a replacement for that task. -- Tyw7 ( 🗣️ Talk to me • ✍️ Contributions) 20:06, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
I tried bringing this up on the noticeboard, but I got no response. I am now convinced that there is no bot (or maybe there used to be one but it no longer works) that automatically adds the appropriate template to a page that has been protected by an administrator. This means that the template has to be added manually, and many admins forget to do this. The bot would put the following things on the template:
These are all tasks that the protecting admin (or someone else who is able to edit the page) has to put in themselves. I think it would be perfectly possible for a bot to do this. If there is indeed a bot that is supposed to do this it should probably be fixed. funplussmart ( talk) 17:21, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
|expiry=
parameter on any prot template, it will be ignored. It is also not necessary to add a prot template to certain kinds of page, such as templates that have either {{
documentation}}
or {{
collapsible option}}
since those also autodetect the setting of edit protection, and add the padlock template where appropriate. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 08:03, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello this anonymous user is changing verified articles left and right. This is a vandalism
User:194.199.4.202 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heraldique21 ( talk • contribs) 16:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Many pages, such as the help desk, and all of the reference desks, have level 1 date headers for each day questions are asked. Scsbot automatically adds these headers at the beginning of each day. However, if no questions are asked a certain day, users have to manually remove the headers, which has to be done quite often for reference desks with less traffic. So I'm wondering, would it be possible to have a bot who removes these headers at the end of a day, if no questions were asked then?-- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 01:39, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
I would like a modification made to the Search facility. Simply, I would like the cursor to be placed after the text of the first instance of the search. The reason for this is that it would make editing much quicker in that you don't have to search for the text (which is highlighted) and then place the cursor after it to make an update. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ralph23 ( talk • contribs) 02:44, 11 August 2018 (UTC)