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Are there any existing bots that convert manually typed data to use {{
Convert}}
, like distance, temperature, among others?
-- DaxServer (
talk) 11:46, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)(?: |\s)?km(?!<sup>|2)(?:\s\(\d+(?:\.\d+)?\smi\))?
would be replaced with {{convert|$1|km|abbr=on}}
(\d+(?:.\d+)?)(?: |\s)?°C(?:\s\(\d+(?:\.\d+)? °F\))
would be replaced with {{convert|$1|C}}
(\d+(?:.\d+)?)(?: |\s)?millimetres(?:\s\(\d+(?:\.\d+)? in\))?
would be replaced with {{convert|$1|mm|abbr=on}}
abbr=on
because when I edit the articles [manually], I choose to go abbreviated. I ran only on Indian places and thus the regex is developed for km->mi and C->F and not the opposite. I don't know how to build AWB modules, but can develop a Pywikibot script and file for a supervised BRFA (already have two pending).
-- DaxServer (
talk) 16:43, 20 August 2021 (UTC)I have fixed
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule/Preload so that it does not incorrectly show the year 2019 again. Also, the image from
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2014/8 and earlier subpages (which forgot to be included at
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2014/9) is now back. Finally, I have used "titleparts" to allow for re-substitution onto past weekly subpages. So now, someone (perhaps, a bot) needs to fix all past weekly subpages of
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement by re-substituting the "preload" template, i.e. replacing the entire text of the page with {{subst:Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule/Preload}}
.
The bot MusikBot is the one who is currently creating the weekly subpages. So, if this needs to be done by a bot, then the best choice for the bot would be MusikBot.
This will fix the following problems:
GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 02:12, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
{{subst:Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule/Preload}}
, I suspect they could easily be fixed using
AWB. —
MusikAnimal
talk 15:43, 1 September 2021 (UTC)A fairly common phenomenon occurs where a page is deleted, then all the redirects to it are deleted per WP:G8, then the page is recreated but the redirects to it are lost. Could we get a bot that looks at recently recreated pages and restores the incoming redirects to them? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 07:12, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
#REDIRECT
? That would lose legitimate pre-deletion content though, is that ok? Should there be a time limit, e.g. if the redirects were deleted 10 years ago should they still be undeleted? Is there any discussion elsewhere of the problem, particularly from admins who normally handle this sort of undeletion manually?
Anomie
⚔ 12:02, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
A related point: I have seen articles overwritten by a redirect to an unrelated target at AfD, as a way to make the article disappear per G8 when the target gets deleted. I occasionally check manually for new cases. (Current results are all good-faith false positives.) The bot proposed above might end up collecting the information required to automate that check. Certes ( talk) 12:26, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
This would be a difficult bot to code, but one that I think would have a big impact if it could be created.
It's regrettably common for editors to create a biography page, not realizing that it already exists at a different title (such as with a middle initial or middle name). Likewise, it's common as a reader to search for a person and end up at the results page because you used/didn't use a middle initial, whereas the page did the opposite. These issues could be remedied if we did a better job creating redirects. For a Robert Quincy Smith, all of the following are possibilities:
If he goes by "Bob", that adds another whole set. It would be awesome to have a bot that could help create these redirects. However, there are two pitfalls I see: (1) Human names are quite complex and can sometimes be difficult to automatically parse. (2) When multiple people share a name, some terms may need to get pointed at a disambiguation page instead. To address these things, the bot could (at least initially) limit itself to clear instances, where pages have Wikidata name information, sort name data, and bolding that all lines up, and there are no other pages with similar names that might conflict.
Would anyone be interested in taking on this challenge, or is it just too difficult to be even partially feasible? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 17:43, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
At the idea lab a while back, I floated the idea of identifying inspiration articles for a given page, GAs or FAs on similar topics that could serve as inspiration for helping get that page to a higher level, and got some positive feedback. Following some additional discussion on Discord the other day, I've created {{ Inspiration page}}. I'd like bot (or maybe tool) help for two things:
Let me know if this sounds feasible! {{u| Sdkb}} talk 03:12, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
I would like a bot that maintains the vital people here just like there is one for vital articles. I would like the bot's tasks to be the same as vital articles here and would like to make sure there are no duplicates in the vital people. Pinging Kanashimi, the bot operator for vital articles, if they could do the same thing for vital people. Interstellarity ( talk) 20:29, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I think it would be a good idea for a bot to add grooming of Wikipedia:Growth Team features/Mentor list to a periodic (perhaps hourly) job. That page is integrated with growth features and is fragile to specific wikitext layout. — xaosflux Talk 09:53, 21 September 2021 (UTC) Initial requirements:
---------
identifier is in place---------
identifier on the page* [[User:Username]]|ddd
Optional features:
Open for comments. — xaosflux Talk 09:53, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
*
, the username, and the pipe, etc. It looks like the regex already ignores the spacing
[3]. The horizontal rule ---------
also shouldn't matter. The code simply looks for links to user pages in the parser output
[4] to collect the list of mentors. Bearing that in mind, I think at minimum we'd only need the bot for validating the mentor intro text (length and absence of markup), the optional alphabetical sorting, and perhaps removal of inactive editors. I believe invalid usernames simply get ignored, so it might be better to leave them in place so maintainers of the mentor list page can fix them.The flag template for the afghan flag was changed a few days back to reflect one that is being currently used. Due to this change, all the previous pages (particularly the sports pages between 2013-21) are now also showing the current flag instead of the one which was being used at that point of time.
A bot which tracks content by date/year so as to replace with , since the latter is the one which was being used at that point in time. Please ping for a reply.-- Anbans 585 ( talk) 18:28, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
@ GoingBatty: Great. Can you please do the same on {{ fb}}, {{ fbw}}, {{ futsal}}, {{ fsw}}, {{ beachsoccer}}, {{ fsu}}, {{ fbu}}, {{ fbwu}}, where a number would already be there after fbu, fsu and fbwu (example 17), and 2013 would have to be appended after that, for the same time period.-- Anbans 585 ( talk) 13:26, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
@ GoingBatty: Thanks again. Some more please, found this as I was reviewing the pages. {{ fb-rt}}, in short '-rt' appended to all the ones I mentioned in the previous one. Another example {{ fsu-rt}}.-- Anbans 585 ( talk) 16:03, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
@
Anbans 585: I'm also adding years to {{
flag|Afghanistan}}
, and converting {{
AFG}}
to {{
flag|Afghanistan|2013}}
when needed.
GoingBatty (
talk) 14:03, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
I've noticed that sometimes some articles, categories, and templates have no related WikiProject banners for the subject of the related articles, categories, and templates talk pages. If possible, I would like a bot that can create essentially a database report of all articles, categories, and templates talk pages that don't have the project banners. As part of the report, it can list all uncreated talk pages to differentiate. This would save me and other editors a lot of time in helping organize relevant pages for their respective projects. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 19:47, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
I forgot to add if the report also includes empty categories, then it should differentiate that by listing those categories as empty on a separate list or section. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 14:41, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
A related idea I have is that a bot like this can create suggestions for talk pages of articles, categories, and templates for certain project banners that may be missing from the talk page. I've noticed throughout Wikipedia where the relevant project banner isn't there until I add it. Can save a lot of time with a list to improve and help improve the WikiProjects objectives. It should also include taskforces of the overall project as it is hard to sometimes know what taskforces are part of the project. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 19:10, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
For a long time this task was handled by SineBot, which has been down for 2 months. Negative effects of this have been visible throughout discussion namespaces. The operator Slakr has not made any edits since last October. There is no indication that SineBot will be operational soon. Is someone else willing to take over this task? ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ ( talk) 15:27, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
This is probably going to be quite challenging, but putting out the idea nevertheless – it would be great to have a bot that corrects indent characters used in talk page discussions. For example,
Comment. – Editor A ::Comment. – Editor B
^this would make the bot comes along and remove the extra indent (::
--> :
)
*Comment – Editor A ::Comment. – Editor B
^this would make the bot come along and replace ::
with :*
*:
to comply with
MOS:INDENTMIX.
This should be restricted to comments being posted from now on and not be done for historical discussions. – SD0001 ( talk) 16:13, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
*:
. Second, I feel like this would have huge context issues; we would have to find pretty much all of the expected exceptions (such as multiple replies to a single comment with varying indents). That being said, I suppose it could work.
Primefac (
talk) 16:19, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
:Comment 1 ::Reply to line 1 (2) :::Reply to line 2 (3) ::::Reply to line 3 (4) ::Reply to line 1 (5) :::Reply to line 5 (6)
:::::Reply to line 4 (7)
*Simple example 2
to :Simple example 2
(Doesn't seem required per
MOS:INDENTMIX – though I could be mistaken here). In general, I think it would be better to have a conservative bot that fixes only what's necessary rather than re-format everything. –
SD0001 (
talk) 15:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
*Simple example 2
is considered to be part of the same list as ::Hello
, since only blank lines separate the two lines. The bot first removes the blank lines, then enforces consistent indentation style which results in *Simple example 2
becoming :Simple example 2
. Then ::Hello
is changed to :Hello
.* Comment. [signature]
:: Reply. [signature]
:
instead of repeating the previous indentation.Also note that this markup would break:*: {|
| Text.
|}
:: {|
| Text.
|}
<pre>...</pre>
tags and even tags as such. There is a lot of markup in templates that doesn't stand being moved to a new line, like tables (navboxes, for example, or quotation templates). People can also use <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>
like this, despite it is OK with newlines inside of it. <gallery>...</gallery>
is sometimes used this way too. I believe doing the same for all tags and templates would be the safest solution here.
Jack who built the house (
talk) 09:38, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
**:
(which doesn't show a bullet) to :**
(which shows a bullet). So shouldn't it have been :*:
? –
SD0001 (
talk) 11:47, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Line A
and Line B
be consecutive lines. If lvl(Line B) > lvl(Line A)
, then the first lvl(Line A)
characters of Line B
are replaced with the first lvl(Line A)
characters of Line A
. If lvl(Line B) <= lvl(Line A)
, then the indentation characters of Line B
are replaced with the indentation characters of the closest previous line with the same indentation level.:
and *
.
Winston (
talk) 00:50, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
I would like a bot to notify users listed at Wikipedia:Administrators without tools/Endorsers whenever a user talk page is published with {{ subst:GetMop}} in place. This is to give an opportunity, to those who have signed the page, to endorse the original posting with their own encouragement. Past usage of this template has shown that secondary endorsements increase the likelihood of positive results. If the bot could run this task once a day, the objective can be afhieved (twice a day would be better). Thank you for considering this request. Best regards.-- John Cline ( talk) 00:47, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
{{GetMop}}
, for example, {{GetMop|notice}}
could be used. Or I could create a sub template at {{
GetMop/Notice}}. Let me know what you think is best. Thank you again. Sincerely.--
John Cline (
talk) 01:36, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
{{#ifeq: {{FULLPAGENAMEE}} | User_talk:{{ROOTPAGENAMEE}} |yes|no}}
returns yes for the new user talk page being added. Another issue that may arise involves formating the user name and discussion links to append through parameter 1. Assuming the possibility of something standard, like: "
John Cline (
talk) at
There is a mop reserved in your name", and because the section link will always be the same title, that format would be too long to keep the entry on one line for almost every username used. To preempt, I wanted to suggest possibly using the following format: "
John Cline (
talk) at
this discussion" or something similar. Keeping the entry on one line is important because the centered text looks bad when only a few words fall off the end. See [[User:John Cline/sandbox|my sandbox for a visualization. Thank you.--
John Cline (
talk) 03:28, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Closure requests wants the requests in
chronological order and the {{
Initiated}}
with full timestamp instead of just dmy (
[5]
[6]). Some miss the initiated template
[7]. Could a bot takeover for these tasks? — DaxServer (
talk to
me) 13:41, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
This is now my fourth time trying to get the necessary feedback. This is a request I made on the talk page of the Database reports page, and on Request a query, but it hasn't been answered anywhere. It is part of the overall proposal discussion I have started on the WikiProject Templates talk page to create an Unused Templates Task Force to deal with the backlog of unused templates.
I've requested four reports per the original discussion and I'm going to relist them here:
I would like the report to run for at least two months as the task force is currently in an idea stage. When the reports are going to expire, if possible I would like to be notified of when it will happen. I need four reports from the Unused Templates database:
1) All unused templates that are not stubs or redirects.
2) All stub templates listed as unused. According to one of the users on the talk page discussion, there are either exactly or about 1,000 stub templates.
3) All redirects listed as unused. According to one of the users on the talk page discussion, there are either exactly or about 69,000 redirects.
4) Templates that were created and/or edited in the last year and the present year. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 22:53, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi WikiCleanerMan and Jonesey95. Thank you both for your efforts in cleaning out unused templates. I took a look at Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates/Configuration and I remembered that we basically already tried to accommodate all of these requests previously. We sort non-redirects first, then redirects, then stubs within the report. We also include metadata about each unused template, including last edit date and number of unique authors. I'm not really sure what else is needed here currently. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 22:45, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Jonesey has created a subpage dealing with just the non-stub and non-redirect templates. Really it now stands at 6,800 templates. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 03:15, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
This request can be closed thanks to Jonesey95 who was able to create the filtered report I was looking for. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 18:56, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Wondering if there is a grammar bot or a spelling bot for clear mistakes? I can't seem to find one. Also WP:List of bots doesn't seem to show what the bots do. Thanks much, Facts707 ( talk) 09:16, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I think this would be helpful, as this is perennial. Thoughts? (Or is there a bot already?) — DaxServer ( talk) 07:04, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
hi please creat a bot to creat species articles from gbif.org many species articles not in enwiki Amirh123 ( talk) 14:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
not just gbif irmng.org eol.org and many sources I think creat articles in wikidata items to Wikipedia has many source Amirh123 ( talk) 17:53, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Migrate archive URLs from WebCite to the Wayback Machine I would like to request the following bot/script task:
My understanding is that this essentially leads to the following presentation of the task:
Main citation link works | Wayback Machine archive exists | Task to perform |
---|---|---|
Yes | Yes | Replace WebCite archive link with Wayback Machine archive link |
No | Yes | Replace WebCite link with Wayback Machine archive link |
Yes | No | Submit original link to the Wayback Machine to create a new snapshot of it, replace WebCite archive link with Wayback Machine archive link |
No | No | Submit WebCite link to the Wayback Machine to create a new snapshot of it, replace WebCite link with Wayback Machine link |
One thing that needs to be taken into account in this task is the potential problem of content drift mentioned by User:GreenC at WP:VPR. I believe this may be an issue especially in the first two cases, i.e., Yes Yes and No Yes. I have to admit that I do not know if/how a bot/script could handle this. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 13:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
There's a bug with Mobile Web + VisualEditor that causes certain formats of numbers in articles to erroneously have tel: links attached to it. See diffs [8] [9] for examples. We have 1169 ( hist · log) to log these, and there was a discussion to move it to warn at EFN, but the possibility of having a bot just fix them after the error is introduced seemed less bitey and less likely to cause good contributions to be abandoned -- see Wikipedia:Edit_filter_noticeboard#Moving_1169_to_warn. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 16:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
The default protocols should all be safe to click on (no evil side effects), and removing a protocol from the list will cause URLs using those protocols to become unrecognized in many places throughout the software. In particular, removing ' http://' or other common protocols will probably break huge amounts of stuff.– SD0001 ( talk) 08:57, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
I ask if a bot can replace the old links " http://gutenberg.beic.it" with " https://gutenberg.beic.it" because "http" no longer works with that site. Thanks.-- Spinoziano (BEIC) ( talk) 10:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
Recently, only on two articles, there was a Notes section but no notes actually referenced within the article. It's really useless to have a notes section and not have any notes within the article. I've seen it on the Bombing of the Vatican and Mark Meadows articles. I removed the empty sections myself. A bot list can help reduce what articles have this issue. There's no point in having a notes section if there are no notes. Those two articles might have had notes prior to my edits, but became redundant as they were most likely removed or changed to an article or some other form of reference. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 16:13, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
Please can someone add {{ authority control}} to all articles in Category:All articles using infobox lighthouse. I think about half have already been done by User:Tom.Reding using AWB. We are planning to migrate the identifiers from the infobox to the authority control template. Thanks. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
I would like to request that CewBot should add template for inclusion at talk pages of articles included in Challenges other than WPEUR10k for Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge, which is the only Challenge project with its own bot template today. For example today there is no template to add to the talk pages of articles included in Wikipedia:The 2500 Challenge (Nordic) which specifies this particular challenge project, I do think that if such a template was created and CewBot was given the task to add it to the talk pages of the articles included in the Nordic Challenge it would benefit the project.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 02:47, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a bug of the Phabricator which breaks the references of an article when the user edited it with the Visual Editor, cf. Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#VisualEditor_duplicating_named_citations. I think a bot should be patroling to try to fix those broken references, as I think otherwise some of those references broken by this bug may continue to exist in many articles. Veverve ( talk) 01:47, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Is there any bot that replace old wikitext to new wikitext (e.g. Infobox species to Speciesbox)? Also, i want this bot to add image parameters and automatically add images from Commons to the speciesbox. Leomk ( Don't shout here, Shout here!) 03:02, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
add[ing] image parameters and automatically add[ing] images from Commonsdoes not seem automatable because a bot cannot decide what the most appropriate image is. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:03, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
At this discussion, we've realized that the automatic TFA semi-protection trial that was approved by the community in this discussion closed two months ago has not yet taken place. Could anyone with an admin-bot help facilitate it? The BRFA will looks similar to this one. Cheers, {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:58, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Done
{{
Proud USA}} is a userbox that was created in the wrong place and was moved a year ago, leaving a malformed userbox on 200+ user pages. Each of its 245 transclusions needs to be replaced with its replacement,
User:Folksong/Userboxes/Proud American. A friendly editor with AWB privileges should be able to take care of this one pretty easily. Thanks in advance! –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 19:10, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
{{Babel |browser:Mozilla_Firefox| }}.
―
Qwerfjkl
talk 22:06, 10 December 2021 (UTC){{Babel |:Mkdw/Mozilla Firefox| }}
→ Wikipedia:Babel | ||
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Search user languages |
I've had an idea for a bot. IMvHO, there is a need for an "AFD notification bot". Such a bot would deliver a neutrally worded notification to all Wikiprojects associated with articles nominated for deletion. The intent of this proposed bot is to get more participation at AfD discussions. Mjroots ( talk) 19:29, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
(\[\[File:Stop x nuvola.svg\|40px\|left\|alt=\|link=\]\]Your account has been '''\[\[WP:Blocking policy#Indefinite blocks\|blocked indefinitely\]\]''' from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for \[\[WP:Spam\|advertising or promotion\]\], which is \[\[WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion\|contrary\]\] to the \[\[WP:Five pillars\|purpose of Wikipedia\]\], and your username indicates that the account represents a business.*web site, which is against the \[\[WP:UN\|username policy\]\].) \<\/p\>
Replace that with $1. Tested in the wiki editor search and replace. Probably about 26000 pages affected, but a part may be variations not caught by the above. The closing P-tag's opening friend was abducted in 2018 by L235 and the closing tag befell the same fate just now. (thx!) — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 02:57, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Silly me, another 15000+.
(\[\[File:Stop x nuvola\.svg\|40px\|left\|alt=\|link=\]\]There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for \[\[WP:Spam\|advertising or promotion\]\], which is \[\[WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion\|contrary\]\] to the \[\[WP:Five pillars\|purpose of Wikipedia\]\], and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against.*Because of those problems, the account has been.*from editing\..*) \<\/p\>
Should do the trick. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 03:09, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to replace the talkpage banners for Wikipedia:WikiProject Meteorology with Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather so the meteorology project can finish merging into weather? Noah Talk 12:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
I sometimes find {{ empty section}} tags in sections that are not empty, such as this one. Is there a bot that can replace these tags with {{ expand section}}? Jarble ( talk) 22:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
@ Jarble, Jonesey95, and Usernamekiran: BRFA filed, and shared my suggestions at the AWB feature request. GoingBatty ( talk) 00:43, 13 November 2021 (UTC) @ Jarble, Jonesey95, and Usernamekiran: I posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Removing some empty sections via bot to determine if there is consensus for this work do be done by bot. GoingBatty ( talk) 16:17, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
CleanupWorklistBot is a treasure, generating cleanup work lists based on WikiProject topic across all maintenance categories. This makes it easy for WikiProjects to run maintenance cleanup drives except for the fact that CleanupWorklistBot's stats have to be manually imported on-wiki to visualize/incentivize progress. That problem could be solved if there was a bot that converted CWB's CSV data to .tab format and uploaded to Commons after it runs each week. The result would be compatible with {{ Graph:Lines}} for display on-wiki (see similar example to the right). I reached out to CWB's maintainer but he was only interested in generating graphs within his external tool, not importing the data for on-wiki manipulation. Would someone be able or interested in helping with this? czar 06:18, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I presume this has been requested previously, but is there any reason why a bot couldn't categorise redirects? I think at least {{ R to diacritic}}/{{ R from diacritic}} could be done, maybe {{ R to section}} and {{ R to anchor}}. Some more can also probably be used, but I can't think of them. ― Qwerfjkl talk 22:01, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
I think we need a census bot for the US census, to allow for automated updates every 10 years, for all the census designated places in the US that are also in Wikipedia. I have no idea how to go about making any of that happen, but it is definitely something to consider doing, and while we're at it, we can figure out how to use reliable external sources for other population data that is periodically revised by the authoritative source that a bot can then go about and update the data in WP. Hires an editor ( talk) 02:23, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Proposal: Create a bot that allows editors to request being reminded at a specific date on their talk page, possibly with a link to the diff of their request (to remind them what the request was about).
Possible users:
Alternative/additional implementations:
~ ToBeFree ( talk) 13:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Ping: Tamzin, El C. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 13:36, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
:)
Of course, if this does catch someone's fancy now, please go ahead. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they) 14:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)There are around 1000 sub-modules of Module:Adjacent stations which aren't categorized and should be added to Category:Rail transport succession modules (inside the Sandbox other template so only the module itself will be in the category). Could someone help me with a bot? Gonnym ( talk) 10:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
tags, yes?
Primefac (
talk) 10:46, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Is it possible for someone to run through Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons (bot-assessed) and get all files with .svg extension and place the results at User:Minorax/MTC/Bot? -- Minorax«¦ talk¦» 14:28, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
This is a serious problem on Wikipedia. It was literally everywhere back in the infancy of Wikipedia, so it's not surprising that they are still there. We seriously need a bot to remove them. -- 2A01:36D:1200:4D41:D9E6:E7D4:9D38:6C3C ( talk) 11:27, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska was deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination). However, its WikiProject banner {{ WikiProject Republika Srpska}} needs to be removed from all talk pages so it can also be deleted. The template is transcluded nearly 1,200 times. ✗ plicit 12:55, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
While I'm here, I also just found Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska/Invite. This invitation is trancluded on user talk pages, but should be substituted instead. ✗ plicit 13:04, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
I very often come across situations like the one I just did at Vanessa C. Tyson, where the middle name (Catherine) is given right in bold at the start of the article but the redirect from Vanessa Catherine Tyson has not been created. Sometimes there are other variations of this situation, such as if the redirect from Vanessa Tyson hadn't been created, or if the page was located at "Vanessa Tyson" but the redirect from "Vanessa C. Tyson" wasn't created. I don't expect a bot to be able to fix all of these, as in some cases there could be disambiguation concerns, but for many many situations, it should be possible for the bot to determine that only one notable person has a name and create redirects accordingly. Could we do that, and have it tag with {{ r from short name}} and {{ r from long name}} as needed? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:31, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
So with some generous help from Cryptic at the query request page, we now have a list of articles of people located at titles with a middle initial, but for whom there is no redirect from the title without an initial and for whom no one else shares their first and last name. See sample of results at this list. I'm struggling to find a way to go through that list to create the redirects with AWB, though—I'd need to start from the list of redlinks without the initial to create them, and doing that loses the information on what the middle initial is. So I'm thinking this might have to be done some other way. Would anyone who can code be interested in taking this up? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 00:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Template:Sports links fetches and displays external links from Wikidata, which is very useful. However, it is underutilized: there are many sportspeople who have external links attached to their Wikidata items, but not the sports links template on their article, so readers are missing out on these links. E.g., George Simond has numerous IDs attached to his Wikidata item that weren't shown on his article until I added the template [12]. Likewise, there are many articles that have one or more site-specific external link templates in their external links sections, but more external links attached to their Wikidata items that would be shown if Template:Sports links was used instead. E.g., Gavorielle Marcu had one external link via Template:ATP on his page [13], but now has 3 after I replaced it with the sports links template [14].
The request is thus to have a bot that generates a list of all articles whose Wikidata items have one or more external IDs fetched by Template:Sports links, and then a) adds an "External links" section (if nonexistent) + Template:Sports links to articles without it, and b) replaces all the site-specific external link templates with Template:Sports links once their data has been imported to Wikidata. Sod25k ( talk) 14:39, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
indiscriminately add[ing] external linksin your book? Sod25k ( talk) 23:35, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
We generally have sortname redirects such that, e.g., Lincoln, Abraham redirects to Abraham Lincoln. These are categorized with a template like {{R from sort name|L|A}}, which automatically shorts the redirects into categories for sort names starting with "L", and sort names for articles starting with "A".
There are two issues.
First, there is a set of categories for ambiguous sort names, such as Johnson, Bob, redirecting to the disambiguation page Bob Johnson, which would be categorized with the template {{R from ambiguous sort name|J|B}}. Sometimes editors leave out the "ambiguous", or the character of the target page changes so that it was once a specific person, but is now a disambiguation page (or vice versa). It would be useful to have a bot parse the set of sortname redirects to add or remove "ambiguous" as needed.
Second, sometimes the sortkeys get mixed up (i.e., if an editor were to accidentally put {{R from sort name|A|L}} on Lincoln, Abraham). It would be useful to have a bot fix these as well. BD2412 T 21:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Putting aside philosophical questions of how sortname redirects should be categorized, I'd really rather not have to hand-fix the ambiguous ones, but I can do so if nothing is forthcoming from this request. BD2412 T 04:54, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
__DISAMBIG__
magic word in the wikitext to determine if it's a disambiguation page.
Tol (
talk |
contribs) @ 00:35, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
BD2412: My bot has just checked and found these problematic redirects:
They all are due to either quotation marks / apostrophes or numbers. I can check for quotation marks at the beginning and remove them, but how should numbers be dealt with? Tol ( talk | contribs) @ 02:44, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
A bot should null edit all monthly subpages of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log so that their lists of transcluded pages under "Page properties" on the "action=info" page and "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page ( help):" on the "action=edit" page are up-to-date and include other pages (including the daily subpages) besides Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/Header. This should be a one-time run. Once the one-time run is done, the same bot should then start null editing the previous month's deletion review subpage at the beginning of every new month. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 01:41, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
A bot which reminds users about WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND on their talk page when the user uses the words "Battle", "Fight", or "War" in the WP namespace. It does not revert edits or have any administrative powers, as doing so with any edit containing "Battle", "Fight", or "War" would stop Wikipedia Namespace discussions about articles about actual battles or wars. A sample of a potential reminder can be found here.
This process can be opted out of by any user, as it could get annoying after a while. ☢️Plutonical☢️ ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵘⁿᶦᶜᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿˢ 00:09, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
As autopatrol
has been removed from +sysop
, I'd like to propose a bot that automatically marks pages as patrolled when a sysop/CU/clerk marks a user as a sock. If feasible, patrol SPI cases, RfD, MfD, etc. after they're closed. --
Minorax«¦
talk¦» 05:21, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
I wish there was a robot that could take all redirect page contains #REDIRECT[[Wikipedia:
or with similar code then add {{
R to project namespace}} to these pages.--
Q28 (
talk) 06:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
There are a large number of items on Wikidata which aren't notable enough to have a Wikipedia article in their own right, but are notable enough to be given a redirect here. Normally, I'd just do this from the Wikidata side, but the Mediawiki software treats redirect pages on other Wikis as their target when doing sitelinks. However, if a page is made into a redirect page after being connected to a Wikidata item, the Wikidata item will retain the original sitelink. This means that the current approved method for linking pre-existing redirect pages is a 3-stage process of (1) editing out the redirect on the target Wiki, (2) adding the sitelink to the Wikidata item, then (3) restoring the redirect. This is obviously very tedious.
The testbed I had in mind for this was the currently existing 6,400 redirect pages for each private use character in the Unicode block "Private Use Area" (e.g. , , etc.). They all redirect to Private Use Areas, and I imagine see almost no use. I'd also update them with Template:Wikidata redirect. I can see this having future application in certain lists, for example. -- Theknightwho ( talk) 06:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 19:12, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
page_title
or page_prefixedtitle
in a filter, i.e. pseudo-code:if (page_prefixedtitle == "Requested articles") { //regex for links }
Filters are applied to all edits. Problematic changes that apply to a single page are likely not suitable for an edit filter. Page protection may be more appropriate in such cases.). If we start doing requests for some pages we'll have no good reason to stop doing them for others, and it'll only get us closer to the limits. I think a bot to revert edits is more desirable for a use case like this. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 19:29, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 19:42, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
This didn't get any response here on this page before getting archived the first time around. Hopefully someone notices? RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 04:08, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
if this is in category:X AND in category:Y then warn/block
?
Dirk Beetstra
T
C 05:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)We need some sort of bot to update the adopters list at WP:ADOPT. Theo's Little Bot used to do this but the bot operator has gone inactive and the bot itself has been deactivated. — GMX (on the go!) 17:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Requesting template value conversion from string to numeric. Cleanup is a little over 11k pages for Template:C-SPAN uses where the value is a string when it needs to use the numeric ID to prevent link rot.
I made a similar request on the link rot bot request page, but I'm unsure this is applicable due to not being a link, but a template value. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 19:11, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
I suppose this is more asking for help with a bot task over requesting a bot be written, but I've started a thread at WT:AWB/Tasks that could use some input from botops (if AWB module coding is your thing). Feel free to remove this if it's too far out-of-scope. Primefac ( talk) 21:00, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
I have a JWB settings file with robust replace patterns to fix over-capitalization in nearly 17,000 tennis articles (tested on nearly 1000 already). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis#Cleanup edits and User:Dicklyon/Tennis cleanup JWB JSON. Who has a bot that's good for such? Dicklyon ( talk) 04:45, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
I would like to save time by editing trying to figure out what pages have Commons, Wikiquote, or other WikiProject categories/pages. And if they're not linked on the said articles, it would save time instead of trying to figure out manually, for instance, by going through which images are on Commons and if a category exists for the subject.
The same would go for article talk pages instead of trying to figure out by adding the annual readership template using the preview function of changes.
I'd prefer the bot to show these two requests in a list format. Thanks. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 20:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Many months ago, we deprecated certain parameters in Template:Infobox lighthouse - a list is below. I am wondering whether a bot could go around and remove these parameters from the template call? It would clear out Category:Pages using infobox lighthouse with deprecated parameters and also stop encouraging editors to use these parameters. Thank you — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:44, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
@ Primefac: I see you've started. Could you remove admiralty as well? [16] Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:24, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Moved from AWB tasks. I'd like for someone to convert all U.S. county presidential election results from wikitable markup (such as at Rockland County, New York) into template form using {{ PresHead}}, {{ PresRow}}, and {{ PresFoot}} (such as at Cook County, Illinois). There is currently a Reward Board entry for this task, and anyone who does it will be given an appropriate barnstar.
This doesn't seem too difficult prima facie, and might not even require a bot, just some regex and AWB; I've tried regex to the effect of replacing:
{{Hidden begin|titlestyle=background:#ccccff|title=Presidential election results}} {| align="center" border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |+ '''Presidential election results'''X |- bgcolor=lightgrey ! Year ! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] ! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ! [[Third Party (United States)|Third parties]] |-
with
{{PresHead|place={{{subst:PAGENAME}}}|whig=y|source1=X}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->
Things might be tricky with varying numbers of sources, but the code of {{
PresHead}} is probably such that multiple sources can be concatenated in the |source1=
parameter even if that's not technically good practice. Ditto for replacing
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/W}}|'''[[United States presidential election in S, Y|Y]]''' | style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|48.6% ''R'' | style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''50.3%''' ''D'' | style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.1% ''T'' |-
with
{{PresRow|Y|W|R|D|T|S}}
And similar, with the table cap, for {{ PresFoot}}. There are, of course, some snags that this could hit. Rockland County's example above includes an example of referencing a specific row, which is a big no-no for {{ PresRow}} (all references need to be at the table head), as well whether the links are to 2020 United States presidential election in New York or United States presidential election in New York, 2020 (for example), and a human AWB operator would have to look out for such cases. The particularly coding-inclined could also write a method/function in AWB to deal with such things. In any event, I feel that this is certainly non-trivial but ultimately doable by my technical superiors. – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 16:50, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
|whig=
has to be "yes" written out in full, not "y", though this can easily be changed in the source code if that's against best template practices. Otherwise the test looks good. I think the vast majority of US county pages still need to be done, so sift through
Category:Counties of the United States by state's categories. –
John M Wolfson (
talk •
contribs) 00:41, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello!
Some non-free files are used in multiple articles. Each use demands a seperate fair use rationale (FUR) on the file page. Sometimes a file is removed or replaced in an article, however the now redundant FUR is still there unless someone removes it, such as Special:Diff/1069179564. I propose that a bot remove all redundant FURs from file pages since they take up a lot of space on often quite small file pages. This request ought to be a continious such that when a FUR becomes redundant in the future, the bot will notice this and remove it. I don't have any data on it but I estimate that it probably will be 1-5 edits per month, except for in the beginning since there to my knowledge hasn't been a bot doing this before. Jonteemil ( talk) 13:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
|Article=
parameter is missing or invalid.
Certes (
talk) 15:56, 2 February 2022 (UTC)See WP:VPPR#Preserve at Wikidata?. As I said there, there doesn't have to be any bureaucracy for this one - just jump in and start coding. It's a nice self-contained task for beginner bot operators or anyone who wants to get into bots, as well. Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:47, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
A bot should convert all old "Portal:Current events/Year Month Day" pages to use the "Current events" template instead of the "Current events header" template. For example, here's what would be done to Portal:Current events/2016 March 9:
{{Current events header|2016|03|9}} <!-- All news items below this line -->
would be replaced with
{{Current events|year=2016|month=03|day=9|content= <!-- All news items below this line -->
and
<!-- All news items above this line -->|}
would be replaced with
<!-- All news items above this line -->}}
.
This is apparently being done by 203.128.83.115, but I told them to stop. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 14:56, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 17:00, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
I have started a Draft:List of United States federal judges who died in office (roughly as a parallel to List of United States Congress members who died in office), but it has immediately become apparent to me that there is a substantial proportion of building such a list that could more easily be automated. Since every article on a federal judge should indicate both their date of death and the date of the end of their active service, I am hoping that a bot could pluck out those items of information, along with the other items with which I would like to populate the table (date and place of birth, appointing President, jurisdiction, date of initiation of service, place of death, and successor). BD2412 T 21:16, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
{{wikidata|property||page=Page|P123}}
(edit adds an edit link){{subst:wikidata|property|page=Page|P123}}
―
Qwerfjkl
talk 22:43, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
[[]]
where wikidata didn't have a value (and the property was linkworthy). ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 14:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Not done
WP:FAC periodically runs into post-expand include size problems (PEIS), where the expanded included templates exceed the limit. The biggest culprit is {{
tq}}, which, if used to quote a 400 character sentence, costs 1600 bytes in a FAC because the FAC itself is transcluded into WP:FAC. The instructions at FAC have been changed to say "don't use tq" but of course some editors don't notice this and still use it.
I've created {{
tq top}} and {{
tq bottom}}, which have the same effect as {{
tq}} used with just the text parameter, and go at the start and end of the text. That is, This is an example using tq
and This is an example using tq top and tq bottom should look identically formatted. The latter is much cheaper in PEIS.
Would someone be able to create a bot that periodically looks for any page transcluded onto WP:FAC and substitutes {{
tq top}} and {{
tq bottom}} for any uses of Example text
? If the use of {{
tq}} has any of the other parameters (very rare) it could be skipped. The bot shouldn't run against any page not transcluded onto WP:FAC.
Mike Christie (
talk -
contribs -
library) 03:54, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
{{
tq|This is an example using tq}}
- 176{{tq top}} This is an example using tq {{tq bottom}}
- 73{{
#invoke:Sandbox/Gonnym/TQ|main|This is an example using tq}}
- 107
Gonnym (
talk) 13:21, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
{{
talk quote inline/sandbox|This is an example using tq}}
bumps it to 206, making it not viable at all and worse than the template version.
Gonnym (
talk) 06:03, 18 February 2022 (UTC)The {{ tq top}} and {{ tq bottom}} proposed templates are in a sense nothing to do with {{ tq}}; I might just as well have named them {{ fac quote top}} and {{ fac quote bottom}}, for example. Yes, fixing {{ tq}} so it costs less would help, but the point here was to not use tq, but instead use something cheaper. There's no need for tq's parameters; in my note above I pointed out that any use of tq with parameters should not be substituted. If we can't fix tq, and the goal here is to use a different template such as the ones proposed, what is the objection to Hawkeye7 running his bot to make the substitution? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 13:31, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
{{ Wikidata redirect}} should be placed with correct Qid into all redirects which are linked to Wikidata elemenens. Also {{ Wikidata redirect}} should be removed from all redirects which are now not linked to Wikidata elemenens. Also list of such redirects with Qids whould be usefull to check was redirect removed correctly or not. -- Heanor ( talk) 15:24, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
I think that a bot that would update stats relating to social media type websites would be helpful. This has been requested before, but the other attempts have never come to fruition. I'd like to make this bot myself, but would like clarify what would be the best way to execute this idea.
Bots that have been requested in the past have changed the page directly, and others have had criticisms. One question is, where would this info be updated / changed? You could change values on all pages that the related infoboxes, but this would only be on the english wikipedia. You could use wikidata, but there aren't very standardized properties for different statistics based on different accounts. Someone commenting on request for approval for "YTStatsBot" suggested using tabular data at commons, but I don't know how common it is for this to be used with bots.
So, thoughts? Should I try doing something with wikidata, use tabular data, or just update the pages directly. Thanks for your consideration, ― Levi_OP Talk 00:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Would all youtube infoboxes need to be updated to use wikidata instead of just user input parameters?Yes. I think there's a pywikibot script for moving infobox parameters to wikidata. ― Qwerfjkl talk 17:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
|subscribers=
and |views=
in the infobox to call {{
WikidataIB}} or whatever it is that calls up specific values.|subscribers=
and |views=
parameters. ―
Levi_OP
Talk 18:48, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
|data30=
(which is "Total views") to be equal to {{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue....}}
, pointing at whatever P value the YouTube Total Views counter is stored in, then it doesn't matter what the user puts into |views=
on any given article, because the infobox isn't looking for user-generated "views" values.
Primefac (
talk) 19:07, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Seems like wikidata:Q50825725#P8687 is what you're looking for. After looking at some of the other properties commonly used to represent youtube channels, wikidata:Q50825725#P2397 seems like a much better option than wikidata:Q50825725#P8687. While "Social media followers" has the subscribers for multiple channels, it doesn't include views, and also shows other accounts like twitter pages. "YouTube channel ID" seems like a much better option because it displays subscriber count as well as view count, and supports multiple channels. ― Levi_OP Talk 19:25, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
While I was going through the requests for edits to (semi-)protected pages, and specifically looking at the request on Talk: C.S. Lewis, I noticed that there are a lot of pages that were protected a long time ago (in the case of C.S. Lewis, nearly 10 years) for edit warring or vandalism and then forgotten about. In many cases, this does more harm than good since--as most "anonymous" edits are constructive and the edit request process can create a backlog--pages should not be protected unless disruption would presently be a) very likely or b) very serious. However, because failure to protect a page can have serious consequences in these situations, editors are ordinarily expected to defer to the judgment of the original protecting admin. Therefore, to balance these interests, I propose that a bot be used to examine indef-protected pages periodically--say, once a year. The bot would:
The bot would not be tasked with unprotecting any pages on its own. Nor should it necessarily prompt review of all indef-protected pages--there are some that definitely need to stay protected indefinitely, such as the site disclaimers, and so those could be marked in such a way to exclude the bot to avoid wasting everyone's time. But in other cases, the bot could prevent pages from being protected that really don't have to be. ChromaNebula (talk) 02:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Alternately, we could have a bot that makes a list of those pages. (How many times have you seen someone say this?) – AssumeGoodWraith ( talk | contribs) 12:18, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
For some reason a great amount of talk pages have been added the following code: Please select the <code><span style="color:#0645AD;">New section</span></code> tab above to post your comments below.
(
[17]) and seems to have been mostly done by one editor (haven't checked them all of course). Aside from the fact that it looks out of place with the other talk page banners, using a hardcoded name for the section (which can change at some point) and a color scheme that makes the "New section" text look like a link is bad. As I doubt there was consensus for this, as if there was it would have probably be done by a template, or even directly via one of the talk page banner templates and not manually spammed, this should be removed.
Gonnym (
talk) 12:01, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Hey, is there a bot that can clear
Category:Metacritic ID same as Wikidata (17) please? It would involve changing {{
metacritic film|run-this-town}}
to {{
metacritic film}}
for example
Indagate (
talk) 16:47, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
The template is {{ Infobox artist discography}}. Deprecated parameters from the 2010 and 2015 template updates, which are no longer used:
Solidest ( talk) 12:34, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
I'd like to summit a bot request for the removal of a stand alone (no context) WP:RSUW statement..."Before 1945 the area was part of Germany."...from around 3,000 [18] Poland related stub articles covering small villages and rural communities (one example: [19]). I've raised the issue on the Wikipedia:Help desk to see what the best approach might be and after careful consideration, taking into account input from other editors, the short length of the articles in question (which appear only as stubs), and similar articles for other countries relating to rural communities, the simplest approach would be to remove this undue weight statement, while keeping another statement currently in place "For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania." this simple approach allows for the reader to access the history of the region presented in full context, and without placing undue weight on just one period of the region's long history (as the region changed hands between Duchy of Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Denmark, Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Prussia, German Reich, Republic of Poland). -- E-960 ( talk) 09:33, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
"...There are many thousands of villages in the world that are located in places that have been part of different countries over the last few centuries. Should we be repeating the history in every one of them, even when no source has been provided about the particular village in question, and admonishing people who remove such content? Of course not: that belongs in articles about the wider region that has changed hands, rather than in each one of the village articles."and user Black Kite
"To be fair, the edit removed does suggest that the area had always been German before 1945, which is of course misleading..."and user Rsjaffe
"This should be a brief article about a small village. Couldn't there be a statement that refers to the history of pomerania or western pomerania and just states that the village has been part of many different countries over its history?". I think my bot request addresses those suggestions, by removing the out of context statement and having the link to the history of the region. -- E-960 ( talk) 19:53, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
There' discussion arose about what's to do while emptying "last" field while "first" field is filled, as such action pops up an template:cite error at page view mode and continue filling Category:CS1 errors: missing name (that already have ~500 pages now). In view of that problem for totally emptying above mentioned category I propose to fill corresponding "cite" template empty "last" field (where "first" field is filled), which is the reason of such error, with "-" sign, that clearly helps by not adding article to category of errorous articles while displaying all existing "first" field text at page view mode instead of popping up the error and, that way, clearing errorous articles itself. Who can make it? 85.238.106.27 ( talk) 10:57, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
|first=
and placed in |last=
field.
Keith D (
talk) 20:59, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
This is, in general, a bad task for a bot, unless very specific patterns can be reliable identified. It is however, a much better task for WP:AWB-based semi-automated editing. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 21:29, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
As there's many misunderstandings, I propose to delete from "last" field of template "cite" within articles symbols By (287) and - (158), that obviously can be done automatically and will make happy user:Jonesey95, who make excessive and some way destructive actions to do the same. Who can do it? 195.138.94.101 ( talk) 16:00, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Bot to be created replaceing Bangalore with Bengaluru please 2600:8805:AA06:9100:38AA:2FB9:1FFB:18E2 ( talk) 10:32, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, would someone be able to run this? John of Reading helpfully directed me here. ― Qwerfjkl talk 20:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Change all usage of File:Phliber rib.png to File:Phliber rib.svg. ~240 pages. -- Minorax«¦ talk¦» 02:00, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Current discussion is here: Template talk:Album ratings#Module for checking for unknown parameters. Consensus is here.
In short, the Album of the Year site was disallowed to be used in {{ Album ratings}} and was removed from the code. There are still ~670 parameters with ratings and links to this site. It's mostly the "AOTY" parameter, but somewhere it was converted into custom parameter of site aggregators. So here's a list of how it's currently filled:
Solidest ( talk) 07:31, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
In this template, {{ Infobox saint}}, there is a data line called attributes. How can I get a bot go to every instance where this template is used and pull this information? I'd to get a table made with the page name where the template is, and the attribute. Like this:
Saint | Attributes |
---|---|
John Bosco | cassock, biretta |
Additionally, can I have the results placed here:
Talk:Saint symbolism/Archive 2? Thanks. --
evrik (
talk) 19:06, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
{{Template parameter value|PAGE|Infobox saint|1|attributes}}
I am Santali Wikipedia contributors. I saying that page protected access give me then I can save the any vandalism person on Santali Wikipedia and Article. ᱫᱚᱞᱚᱱ ᱯᱨᱳᱵᱟᱥ ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
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Archive 80 | Archive 81 | Archive 82 | Archive 83 | Archive 84 | Archive 85 | Archive 86 |
Are there any existing bots that convert manually typed data to use {{
Convert}}
, like distance, temperature, among others?
-- DaxServer (
talk) 11:46, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)(?: |\s)?km(?!<sup>|2)(?:\s\(\d+(?:\.\d+)?\smi\))?
would be replaced with {{convert|$1|km|abbr=on}}
(\d+(?:.\d+)?)(?: |\s)?°C(?:\s\(\d+(?:\.\d+)? °F\))
would be replaced with {{convert|$1|C}}
(\d+(?:.\d+)?)(?: |\s)?millimetres(?:\s\(\d+(?:\.\d+)? in\))?
would be replaced with {{convert|$1|mm|abbr=on}}
abbr=on
because when I edit the articles [manually], I choose to go abbreviated. I ran only on Indian places and thus the regex is developed for km->mi and C->F and not the opposite. I don't know how to build AWB modules, but can develop a Pywikibot script and file for a supervised BRFA (already have two pending).
-- DaxServer (
talk) 16:43, 20 August 2021 (UTC)I have fixed
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule/Preload so that it does not incorrectly show the year 2019 again. Also, the image from
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2014/8 and earlier subpages (which forgot to be included at
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2014/9) is now back. Finally, I have used "titleparts" to allow for re-substitution onto past weekly subpages. So now, someone (perhaps, a bot) needs to fix all past weekly subpages of
Wikipedia:Articles for improvement by re-substituting the "preload" template, i.e. replacing the entire text of the page with {{subst:Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule/Preload}}
.
The bot MusikBot is the one who is currently creating the weekly subpages. So, if this needs to be done by a bot, then the best choice for the bot would be MusikBot.
This will fix the following problems:
GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 02:12, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
{{subst:Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule/Preload}}
, I suspect they could easily be fixed using
AWB. —
MusikAnimal
talk 15:43, 1 September 2021 (UTC)A fairly common phenomenon occurs where a page is deleted, then all the redirects to it are deleted per WP:G8, then the page is recreated but the redirects to it are lost. Could we get a bot that looks at recently recreated pages and restores the incoming redirects to them? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 07:12, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
#REDIRECT
? That would lose legitimate pre-deletion content though, is that ok? Should there be a time limit, e.g. if the redirects were deleted 10 years ago should they still be undeleted? Is there any discussion elsewhere of the problem, particularly from admins who normally handle this sort of undeletion manually?
Anomie
⚔ 12:02, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
A related point: I have seen articles overwritten by a redirect to an unrelated target at AfD, as a way to make the article disappear per G8 when the target gets deleted. I occasionally check manually for new cases. (Current results are all good-faith false positives.) The bot proposed above might end up collecting the information required to automate that check. Certes ( talk) 12:26, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
This would be a difficult bot to code, but one that I think would have a big impact if it could be created.
It's regrettably common for editors to create a biography page, not realizing that it already exists at a different title (such as with a middle initial or middle name). Likewise, it's common as a reader to search for a person and end up at the results page because you used/didn't use a middle initial, whereas the page did the opposite. These issues could be remedied if we did a better job creating redirects. For a Robert Quincy Smith, all of the following are possibilities:
If he goes by "Bob", that adds another whole set. It would be awesome to have a bot that could help create these redirects. However, there are two pitfalls I see: (1) Human names are quite complex and can sometimes be difficult to automatically parse. (2) When multiple people share a name, some terms may need to get pointed at a disambiguation page instead. To address these things, the bot could (at least initially) limit itself to clear instances, where pages have Wikidata name information, sort name data, and bolding that all lines up, and there are no other pages with similar names that might conflict.
Would anyone be interested in taking on this challenge, or is it just too difficult to be even partially feasible? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 17:43, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
At the idea lab a while back, I floated the idea of identifying inspiration articles for a given page, GAs or FAs on similar topics that could serve as inspiration for helping get that page to a higher level, and got some positive feedback. Following some additional discussion on Discord the other day, I've created {{ Inspiration page}}. I'd like bot (or maybe tool) help for two things:
Let me know if this sounds feasible! {{u| Sdkb}} talk 03:12, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
I would like a bot that maintains the vital people here just like there is one for vital articles. I would like the bot's tasks to be the same as vital articles here and would like to make sure there are no duplicates in the vital people. Pinging Kanashimi, the bot operator for vital articles, if they could do the same thing for vital people. Interstellarity ( talk) 20:29, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I think it would be a good idea for a bot to add grooming of Wikipedia:Growth Team features/Mentor list to a periodic (perhaps hourly) job. That page is integrated with growth features and is fragile to specific wikitext layout. — xaosflux Talk 09:53, 21 September 2021 (UTC) Initial requirements:
---------
identifier is in place---------
identifier on the page* [[User:Username]]|ddd
Optional features:
Open for comments. — xaosflux Talk 09:53, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
*
, the username, and the pipe, etc. It looks like the regex already ignores the spacing
[3]. The horizontal rule ---------
also shouldn't matter. The code simply looks for links to user pages in the parser output
[4] to collect the list of mentors. Bearing that in mind, I think at minimum we'd only need the bot for validating the mentor intro text (length and absence of markup), the optional alphabetical sorting, and perhaps removal of inactive editors. I believe invalid usernames simply get ignored, so it might be better to leave them in place so maintainers of the mentor list page can fix them.The flag template for the afghan flag was changed a few days back to reflect one that is being currently used. Due to this change, all the previous pages (particularly the sports pages between 2013-21) are now also showing the current flag instead of the one which was being used at that point of time.
A bot which tracks content by date/year so as to replace with , since the latter is the one which was being used at that point in time. Please ping for a reply.-- Anbans 585 ( talk) 18:28, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
@ GoingBatty: Great. Can you please do the same on {{ fb}}, {{ fbw}}, {{ futsal}}, {{ fsw}}, {{ beachsoccer}}, {{ fsu}}, {{ fbu}}, {{ fbwu}}, where a number would already be there after fbu, fsu and fbwu (example 17), and 2013 would have to be appended after that, for the same time period.-- Anbans 585 ( talk) 13:26, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
@ GoingBatty: Thanks again. Some more please, found this as I was reviewing the pages. {{ fb-rt}}, in short '-rt' appended to all the ones I mentioned in the previous one. Another example {{ fsu-rt}}.-- Anbans 585 ( talk) 16:03, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
@
Anbans 585: I'm also adding years to {{
flag|Afghanistan}}
, and converting {{
AFG}}
to {{
flag|Afghanistan|2013}}
when needed.
GoingBatty (
talk) 14:03, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
I've noticed that sometimes some articles, categories, and templates have no related WikiProject banners for the subject of the related articles, categories, and templates talk pages. If possible, I would like a bot that can create essentially a database report of all articles, categories, and templates talk pages that don't have the project banners. As part of the report, it can list all uncreated talk pages to differentiate. This would save me and other editors a lot of time in helping organize relevant pages for their respective projects. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 19:47, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
I forgot to add if the report also includes empty categories, then it should differentiate that by listing those categories as empty on a separate list or section. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 14:41, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
A related idea I have is that a bot like this can create suggestions for talk pages of articles, categories, and templates for certain project banners that may be missing from the talk page. I've noticed throughout Wikipedia where the relevant project banner isn't there until I add it. Can save a lot of time with a list to improve and help improve the WikiProjects objectives. It should also include taskforces of the overall project as it is hard to sometimes know what taskforces are part of the project. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 19:10, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
For a long time this task was handled by SineBot, which has been down for 2 months. Negative effects of this have been visible throughout discussion namespaces. The operator Slakr has not made any edits since last October. There is no indication that SineBot will be operational soon. Is someone else willing to take over this task? ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ ( talk) 15:27, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
This is probably going to be quite challenging, but putting out the idea nevertheless – it would be great to have a bot that corrects indent characters used in talk page discussions. For example,
Comment. – Editor A ::Comment. – Editor B
^this would make the bot comes along and remove the extra indent (::
--> :
)
*Comment – Editor A ::Comment. – Editor B
^this would make the bot come along and replace ::
with :*
*:
to comply with
MOS:INDENTMIX.
This should be restricted to comments being posted from now on and not be done for historical discussions. – SD0001 ( talk) 16:13, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
*:
. Second, I feel like this would have huge context issues; we would have to find pretty much all of the expected exceptions (such as multiple replies to a single comment with varying indents). That being said, I suppose it could work.
Primefac (
talk) 16:19, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
:Comment 1 ::Reply to line 1 (2) :::Reply to line 2 (3) ::::Reply to line 3 (4) ::Reply to line 1 (5) :::Reply to line 5 (6)
:::::Reply to line 4 (7)
*Simple example 2
to :Simple example 2
(Doesn't seem required per
MOS:INDENTMIX – though I could be mistaken here). In general, I think it would be better to have a conservative bot that fixes only what's necessary rather than re-format everything. –
SD0001 (
talk) 15:25, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
*Simple example 2
is considered to be part of the same list as ::Hello
, since only blank lines separate the two lines. The bot first removes the blank lines, then enforces consistent indentation style which results in *Simple example 2
becoming :Simple example 2
. Then ::Hello
is changed to :Hello
.* Comment. [signature]
:: Reply. [signature]
:
instead of repeating the previous indentation.Also note that this markup would break:*: {|
| Text.
|}
:: {|
| Text.
|}
<pre>...</pre>
tags and even tags as such. There is a lot of markup in templates that doesn't stand being moved to a new line, like tables (navboxes, for example, or quotation templates). People can also use <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>
like this, despite it is OK with newlines inside of it. <gallery>...</gallery>
is sometimes used this way too. I believe doing the same for all tags and templates would be the safest solution here.
Jack who built the house (
talk) 09:38, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
**:
(which doesn't show a bullet) to :**
(which shows a bullet). So shouldn't it have been :*:
? –
SD0001 (
talk) 11:47, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Line A
and Line B
be consecutive lines. If lvl(Line B) > lvl(Line A)
, then the first lvl(Line A)
characters of Line B
are replaced with the first lvl(Line A)
characters of Line A
. If lvl(Line B) <= lvl(Line A)
, then the indentation characters of Line B
are replaced with the indentation characters of the closest previous line with the same indentation level.:
and *
.
Winston (
talk) 00:50, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
I would like a bot to notify users listed at Wikipedia:Administrators without tools/Endorsers whenever a user talk page is published with {{ subst:GetMop}} in place. This is to give an opportunity, to those who have signed the page, to endorse the original posting with their own encouragement. Past usage of this template has shown that secondary endorsements increase the likelihood of positive results. If the bot could run this task once a day, the objective can be afhieved (twice a day would be better). Thank you for considering this request. Best regards.-- John Cline ( talk) 00:47, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
{{GetMop}}
, for example, {{GetMop|notice}}
could be used. Or I could create a sub template at {{
GetMop/Notice}}. Let me know what you think is best. Thank you again. Sincerely.--
John Cline (
talk) 01:36, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
{{#ifeq: {{FULLPAGENAMEE}} | User_talk:{{ROOTPAGENAMEE}} |yes|no}}
returns yes for the new user talk page being added. Another issue that may arise involves formating the user name and discussion links to append through parameter 1. Assuming the possibility of something standard, like: "
John Cline (
talk) at
There is a mop reserved in your name", and because the section link will always be the same title, that format would be too long to keep the entry on one line for almost every username used. To preempt, I wanted to suggest possibly using the following format: "
John Cline (
talk) at
this discussion" or something similar. Keeping the entry on one line is important because the centered text looks bad when only a few words fall off the end. See [[User:John Cline/sandbox|my sandbox for a visualization. Thank you.--
John Cline (
talk) 03:28, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Closure requests wants the requests in
chronological order and the {{
Initiated}}
with full timestamp instead of just dmy (
[5]
[6]). Some miss the initiated template
[7]. Could a bot takeover for these tasks? — DaxServer (
talk to
me) 13:41, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
This is now my fourth time trying to get the necessary feedback. This is a request I made on the talk page of the Database reports page, and on Request a query, but it hasn't been answered anywhere. It is part of the overall proposal discussion I have started on the WikiProject Templates talk page to create an Unused Templates Task Force to deal with the backlog of unused templates.
I've requested four reports per the original discussion and I'm going to relist them here:
I would like the report to run for at least two months as the task force is currently in an idea stage. When the reports are going to expire, if possible I would like to be notified of when it will happen. I need four reports from the Unused Templates database:
1) All unused templates that are not stubs or redirects.
2) All stub templates listed as unused. According to one of the users on the talk page discussion, there are either exactly or about 1,000 stub templates.
3) All redirects listed as unused. According to one of the users on the talk page discussion, there are either exactly or about 69,000 redirects.
4) Templates that were created and/or edited in the last year and the present year. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 22:53, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi WikiCleanerMan and Jonesey95. Thank you both for your efforts in cleaning out unused templates. I took a look at Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates/Configuration and I remembered that we basically already tried to accommodate all of these requests previously. We sort non-redirects first, then redirects, then stubs within the report. We also include metadata about each unused template, including last edit date and number of unique authors. I'm not really sure what else is needed here currently. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 22:45, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Jonesey has created a subpage dealing with just the non-stub and non-redirect templates. Really it now stands at 6,800 templates. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 03:15, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
This request can be closed thanks to Jonesey95 who was able to create the filtered report I was looking for. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 18:56, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Wondering if there is a grammar bot or a spelling bot for clear mistakes? I can't seem to find one. Also WP:List of bots doesn't seem to show what the bots do. Thanks much, Facts707 ( talk) 09:16, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
I think this would be helpful, as this is perennial. Thoughts? (Or is there a bot already?) — DaxServer ( talk) 07:04, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
hi please creat a bot to creat species articles from gbif.org many species articles not in enwiki Amirh123 ( talk) 14:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
not just gbif irmng.org eol.org and many sources I think creat articles in wikidata items to Wikipedia has many source Amirh123 ( talk) 17:53, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Migrate archive URLs from WebCite to the Wayback Machine I would like to request the following bot/script task:
My understanding is that this essentially leads to the following presentation of the task:
Main citation link works | Wayback Machine archive exists | Task to perform |
---|---|---|
Yes | Yes | Replace WebCite archive link with Wayback Machine archive link |
No | Yes | Replace WebCite link with Wayback Machine archive link |
Yes | No | Submit original link to the Wayback Machine to create a new snapshot of it, replace WebCite archive link with Wayback Machine archive link |
No | No | Submit WebCite link to the Wayback Machine to create a new snapshot of it, replace WebCite link with Wayback Machine link |
One thing that needs to be taken into account in this task is the potential problem of content drift mentioned by User:GreenC at WP:VPR. I believe this may be an issue especially in the first two cases, i.e., Yes Yes and No Yes. I have to admit that I do not know if/how a bot/script could handle this. Toshio Yamaguchi ( talk) 13:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
There's a bug with Mobile Web + VisualEditor that causes certain formats of numbers in articles to erroneously have tel: links attached to it. See diffs [8] [9] for examples. We have 1169 ( hist · log) to log these, and there was a discussion to move it to warn at EFN, but the possibility of having a bot just fix them after the error is introduced seemed less bitey and less likely to cause good contributions to be abandoned -- see Wikipedia:Edit_filter_noticeboard#Moving_1169_to_warn. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 16:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
The default protocols should all be safe to click on (no evil side effects), and removing a protocol from the list will cause URLs using those protocols to become unrecognized in many places throughout the software. In particular, removing ' http://' or other common protocols will probably break huge amounts of stuff.– SD0001 ( talk) 08:57, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
I ask if a bot can replace the old links " http://gutenberg.beic.it" with " https://gutenberg.beic.it" because "http" no longer works with that site. Thanks.-- Spinoziano (BEIC) ( talk) 10:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
Recently, only on two articles, there was a Notes section but no notes actually referenced within the article. It's really useless to have a notes section and not have any notes within the article. I've seen it on the Bombing of the Vatican and Mark Meadows articles. I removed the empty sections myself. A bot list can help reduce what articles have this issue. There's no point in having a notes section if there are no notes. Those two articles might have had notes prior to my edits, but became redundant as they were most likely removed or changed to an article or some other form of reference. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 16:13, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
Please can someone add {{ authority control}} to all articles in Category:All articles using infobox lighthouse. I think about half have already been done by User:Tom.Reding using AWB. We are planning to migrate the identifiers from the infobox to the authority control template. Thanks. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
I would like to request that CewBot should add template for inclusion at talk pages of articles included in Challenges other than WPEUR10k for Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge, which is the only Challenge project with its own bot template today. For example today there is no template to add to the talk pages of articles included in Wikipedia:The 2500 Challenge (Nordic) which specifies this particular challenge project, I do think that if such a template was created and CewBot was given the task to add it to the talk pages of the articles included in the Nordic Challenge it would benefit the project.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 02:47, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
There is currently a bug of the Phabricator which breaks the references of an article when the user edited it with the Visual Editor, cf. Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#VisualEditor_duplicating_named_citations. I think a bot should be patroling to try to fix those broken references, as I think otherwise some of those references broken by this bug may continue to exist in many articles. Veverve ( talk) 01:47, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
Is there any bot that replace old wikitext to new wikitext (e.g. Infobox species to Speciesbox)? Also, i want this bot to add image parameters and automatically add images from Commons to the speciesbox. Leomk ( Don't shout here, Shout here!) 03:02, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
add[ing] image parameters and automatically add[ing] images from Commonsdoes not seem automatable because a bot cannot decide what the most appropriate image is. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:03, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
At this discussion, we've realized that the automatic TFA semi-protection trial that was approved by the community in this discussion closed two months ago has not yet taken place. Could anyone with an admin-bot help facilitate it? The BRFA will looks similar to this one. Cheers, {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:58, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Done
{{
Proud USA}} is a userbox that was created in the wrong place and was moved a year ago, leaving a malformed userbox on 200+ user pages. Each of its 245 transclusions needs to be replaced with its replacement,
User:Folksong/Userboxes/Proud American. A friendly editor with AWB privileges should be able to take care of this one pretty easily. Thanks in advance! –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 19:10, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
{{Babel |browser:Mozilla_Firefox| }}.
―
Qwerfjkl
talk 22:06, 10 December 2021 (UTC){{Babel |:Mkdw/Mozilla Firefox| }}
→ Wikipedia:Babel | ||
---|---|---|
| ||
Search user languages |
I've had an idea for a bot. IMvHO, there is a need for an "AFD notification bot". Such a bot would deliver a neutrally worded notification to all Wikiprojects associated with articles nominated for deletion. The intent of this proposed bot is to get more participation at AfD discussions. Mjroots ( talk) 19:29, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
(\[\[File:Stop x nuvola.svg\|40px\|left\|alt=\|link=\]\]Your account has been '''\[\[WP:Blocking policy#Indefinite blocks\|blocked indefinitely\]\]''' from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for \[\[WP:Spam\|advertising or promotion\]\], which is \[\[WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion\|contrary\]\] to the \[\[WP:Five pillars\|purpose of Wikipedia\]\], and your username indicates that the account represents a business.*web site, which is against the \[\[WP:UN\|username policy\]\].) \<\/p\>
Replace that with $1. Tested in the wiki editor search and replace. Probably about 26000 pages affected, but a part may be variations not caught by the above. The closing P-tag's opening friend was abducted in 2018 by L235 and the closing tag befell the same fate just now. (thx!) — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 02:57, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Silly me, another 15000+.
(\[\[File:Stop x nuvola\.svg\|40px\|left\|alt=\|link=\]\]There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for \[\[WP:Spam\|advertising or promotion\]\], which is \[\[WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion\|contrary\]\] to the \[\[WP:Five pillars\|purpose of Wikipedia\]\], and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against.*Because of those problems, the account has been.*from editing\..*) \<\/p\>
Should do the trick. — Alexis Jazz ( talk or ping me) 03:09, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to replace the talkpage banners for Wikipedia:WikiProject Meteorology with Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather so the meteorology project can finish merging into weather? Noah Talk 12:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
I sometimes find {{ empty section}} tags in sections that are not empty, such as this one. Is there a bot that can replace these tags with {{ expand section}}? Jarble ( talk) 22:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
@ Jarble, Jonesey95, and Usernamekiran: BRFA filed, and shared my suggestions at the AWB feature request. GoingBatty ( talk) 00:43, 13 November 2021 (UTC) @ Jarble, Jonesey95, and Usernamekiran: I posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Removing some empty sections via bot to determine if there is consensus for this work do be done by bot. GoingBatty ( talk) 16:17, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
CleanupWorklistBot is a treasure, generating cleanup work lists based on WikiProject topic across all maintenance categories. This makes it easy for WikiProjects to run maintenance cleanup drives except for the fact that CleanupWorklistBot's stats have to be manually imported on-wiki to visualize/incentivize progress. That problem could be solved if there was a bot that converted CWB's CSV data to .tab format and uploaded to Commons after it runs each week. The result would be compatible with {{ Graph:Lines}} for display on-wiki (see similar example to the right). I reached out to CWB's maintainer but he was only interested in generating graphs within his external tool, not importing the data for on-wiki manipulation. Would someone be able or interested in helping with this? czar 06:18, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I presume this has been requested previously, but is there any reason why a bot couldn't categorise redirects? I think at least {{ R to diacritic}}/{{ R from diacritic}} could be done, maybe {{ R to section}} and {{ R to anchor}}. Some more can also probably be used, but I can't think of them. ― Qwerfjkl talk 22:01, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
I think we need a census bot for the US census, to allow for automated updates every 10 years, for all the census designated places in the US that are also in Wikipedia. I have no idea how to go about making any of that happen, but it is definitely something to consider doing, and while we're at it, we can figure out how to use reliable external sources for other population data that is periodically revised by the authoritative source that a bot can then go about and update the data in WP. Hires an editor ( talk) 02:23, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Proposal: Create a bot that allows editors to request being reminded at a specific date on their talk page, possibly with a link to the diff of their request (to remind them what the request was about).
Possible users:
Alternative/additional implementations:
~ ToBeFree ( talk) 13:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Ping: Tamzin, El C. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 13:36, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
:)
Of course, if this does catch someone's fancy now, please go ahead. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they) 14:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)There are around 1000 sub-modules of Module:Adjacent stations which aren't categorized and should be added to Category:Rail transport succession modules (inside the Sandbox other template so only the module itself will be in the category). Could someone help me with a bot? Gonnym ( talk) 10:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
<includeonly>...</includeonly>
tags, yes?
Primefac (
talk) 10:46, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Is it possible for someone to run through Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons (bot-assessed) and get all files with .svg extension and place the results at User:Minorax/MTC/Bot? -- Minorax«¦ talk¦» 14:28, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
This is a serious problem on Wikipedia. It was literally everywhere back in the infancy of Wikipedia, so it's not surprising that they are still there. We seriously need a bot to remove them. -- 2A01:36D:1200:4D41:D9E6:E7D4:9D38:6C3C ( talk) 11:27, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska was deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination). However, its WikiProject banner {{ WikiProject Republika Srpska}} needs to be removed from all talk pages so it can also be deleted. The template is transcluded nearly 1,200 times. ✗ plicit 12:55, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
While I'm here, I also just found Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska/Invite. This invitation is trancluded on user talk pages, but should be substituted instead. ✗ plicit 13:04, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
I very often come across situations like the one I just did at Vanessa C. Tyson, where the middle name (Catherine) is given right in bold at the start of the article but the redirect from Vanessa Catherine Tyson has not been created. Sometimes there are other variations of this situation, such as if the redirect from Vanessa Tyson hadn't been created, or if the page was located at "Vanessa Tyson" but the redirect from "Vanessa C. Tyson" wasn't created. I don't expect a bot to be able to fix all of these, as in some cases there could be disambiguation concerns, but for many many situations, it should be possible for the bot to determine that only one notable person has a name and create redirects accordingly. Could we do that, and have it tag with {{ r from short name}} and {{ r from long name}} as needed? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:31, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
So with some generous help from Cryptic at the query request page, we now have a list of articles of people located at titles with a middle initial, but for whom there is no redirect from the title without an initial and for whom no one else shares their first and last name. See sample of results at this list. I'm struggling to find a way to go through that list to create the redirects with AWB, though—I'd need to start from the list of redlinks without the initial to create them, and doing that loses the information on what the middle initial is. So I'm thinking this might have to be done some other way. Would anyone who can code be interested in taking this up? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 00:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Template:Sports links fetches and displays external links from Wikidata, which is very useful. However, it is underutilized: there are many sportspeople who have external links attached to their Wikidata items, but not the sports links template on their article, so readers are missing out on these links. E.g., George Simond has numerous IDs attached to his Wikidata item that weren't shown on his article until I added the template [12]. Likewise, there are many articles that have one or more site-specific external link templates in their external links sections, but more external links attached to their Wikidata items that would be shown if Template:Sports links was used instead. E.g., Gavorielle Marcu had one external link via Template:ATP on his page [13], but now has 3 after I replaced it with the sports links template [14].
The request is thus to have a bot that generates a list of all articles whose Wikidata items have one or more external IDs fetched by Template:Sports links, and then a) adds an "External links" section (if nonexistent) + Template:Sports links to articles without it, and b) replaces all the site-specific external link templates with Template:Sports links once their data has been imported to Wikidata. Sod25k ( talk) 14:39, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
indiscriminately add[ing] external linksin your book? Sod25k ( talk) 23:35, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
We generally have sortname redirects such that, e.g., Lincoln, Abraham redirects to Abraham Lincoln. These are categorized with a template like {{R from sort name|L|A}}, which automatically shorts the redirects into categories for sort names starting with "L", and sort names for articles starting with "A".
There are two issues.
First, there is a set of categories for ambiguous sort names, such as Johnson, Bob, redirecting to the disambiguation page Bob Johnson, which would be categorized with the template {{R from ambiguous sort name|J|B}}. Sometimes editors leave out the "ambiguous", or the character of the target page changes so that it was once a specific person, but is now a disambiguation page (or vice versa). It would be useful to have a bot parse the set of sortname redirects to add or remove "ambiguous" as needed.
Second, sometimes the sortkeys get mixed up (i.e., if an editor were to accidentally put {{R from sort name|A|L}} on Lincoln, Abraham). It would be useful to have a bot fix these as well. BD2412 T 21:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Putting aside philosophical questions of how sortname redirects should be categorized, I'd really rather not have to hand-fix the ambiguous ones, but I can do so if nothing is forthcoming from this request. BD2412 T 04:54, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
__DISAMBIG__
magic word in the wikitext to determine if it's a disambiguation page.
Tol (
talk |
contribs) @ 00:35, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
BD2412: My bot has just checked and found these problematic redirects:
They all are due to either quotation marks / apostrophes or numbers. I can check for quotation marks at the beginning and remove them, but how should numbers be dealt with? Tol ( talk | contribs) @ 02:44, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
A bot should null edit all monthly subpages of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log so that their lists of transcluded pages under "Page properties" on the "action=info" page and "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page ( help):" on the "action=edit" page are up-to-date and include other pages (including the daily subpages) besides Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/Header. This should be a one-time run. Once the one-time run is done, the same bot should then start null editing the previous month's deletion review subpage at the beginning of every new month. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 01:41, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
A bot which reminds users about WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND on their talk page when the user uses the words "Battle", "Fight", or "War" in the WP namespace. It does not revert edits or have any administrative powers, as doing so with any edit containing "Battle", "Fight", or "War" would stop Wikipedia Namespace discussions about articles about actual battles or wars. A sample of a potential reminder can be found here.
This process can be opted out of by any user, as it could get annoying after a while. ☢️Plutonical☢️ ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵘⁿᶦᶜᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿˢ 00:09, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
As autopatrol
has been removed from +sysop
, I'd like to propose a bot that automatically marks pages as patrolled when a sysop/CU/clerk marks a user as a sock. If feasible, patrol SPI cases, RfD, MfD, etc. after they're closed. --
Minorax«¦
talk¦» 05:21, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
I wish there was a robot that could take all redirect page contains #REDIRECT[[Wikipedia:
or with similar code then add {{
R to project namespace}} to these pages.--
Q28 (
talk) 06:44, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
There are a large number of items on Wikidata which aren't notable enough to have a Wikipedia article in their own right, but are notable enough to be given a redirect here. Normally, I'd just do this from the Wikidata side, but the Mediawiki software treats redirect pages on other Wikis as their target when doing sitelinks. However, if a page is made into a redirect page after being connected to a Wikidata item, the Wikidata item will retain the original sitelink. This means that the current approved method for linking pre-existing redirect pages is a 3-stage process of (1) editing out the redirect on the target Wiki, (2) adding the sitelink to the Wikidata item, then (3) restoring the redirect. This is obviously very tedious.
The testbed I had in mind for this was the currently existing 6,400 redirect pages for each private use character in the Unicode block "Private Use Area" (e.g. , , etc.). They all redirect to Private Use Areas, and I imagine see almost no use. I'd also update them with Template:Wikidata redirect. I can see this having future application in certain lists, for example. -- Theknightwho ( talk) 06:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 19:12, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
page_title
or page_prefixedtitle
in a filter, i.e. pseudo-code:if (page_prefixedtitle == "Requested articles") { //regex for links }
Filters are applied to all edits. Problematic changes that apply to a single page are likely not suitable for an edit filter. Page protection may be more appropriate in such cases.). If we start doing requests for some pages we'll have no good reason to stop doing them for others, and it'll only get us closer to the limits. I think a bot to revert edits is more desirable for a use case like this. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 19:29, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 19:42, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
This didn't get any response here on this page before getting archived the first time around. Hopefully someone notices? RandomCanadian ( talk / contribs) 04:08, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
if this is in category:X AND in category:Y then warn/block
?
Dirk Beetstra
T
C 05:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)We need some sort of bot to update the adopters list at WP:ADOPT. Theo's Little Bot used to do this but the bot operator has gone inactive and the bot itself has been deactivated. — GMX (on the go!) 17:49, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Requesting template value conversion from string to numeric. Cleanup is a little over 11k pages for Template:C-SPAN uses where the value is a string when it needs to use the numeric ID to prevent link rot.
I made a similar request on the link rot bot request page, but I'm unsure this is applicable due to not being a link, but a template value. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? ( talk) 19:11, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
I suppose this is more asking for help with a bot task over requesting a bot be written, but I've started a thread at WT:AWB/Tasks that could use some input from botops (if AWB module coding is your thing). Feel free to remove this if it's too far out-of-scope. Primefac ( talk) 21:00, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
I have a JWB settings file with robust replace patterns to fix over-capitalization in nearly 17,000 tennis articles (tested on nearly 1000 already). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis#Cleanup edits and User:Dicklyon/Tennis cleanup JWB JSON. Who has a bot that's good for such? Dicklyon ( talk) 04:45, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
I would like to save time by editing trying to figure out what pages have Commons, Wikiquote, or other WikiProject categories/pages. And if they're not linked on the said articles, it would save time instead of trying to figure out manually, for instance, by going through which images are on Commons and if a category exists for the subject.
The same would go for article talk pages instead of trying to figure out by adding the annual readership template using the preview function of changes.
I'd prefer the bot to show these two requests in a list format. Thanks. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 20:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Many months ago, we deprecated certain parameters in Template:Infobox lighthouse - a list is below. I am wondering whether a bot could go around and remove these parameters from the template call? It would clear out Category:Pages using infobox lighthouse with deprecated parameters and also stop encouraging editors to use these parameters. Thank you — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:44, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
@ Primefac: I see you've started. Could you remove admiralty as well? [16] Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:24, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Moved from AWB tasks. I'd like for someone to convert all U.S. county presidential election results from wikitable markup (such as at Rockland County, New York) into template form using {{ PresHead}}, {{ PresRow}}, and {{ PresFoot}} (such as at Cook County, Illinois). There is currently a Reward Board entry for this task, and anyone who does it will be given an appropriate barnstar.
This doesn't seem too difficult prima facie, and might not even require a bot, just some regex and AWB; I've tried regex to the effect of replacing:
{{Hidden begin|titlestyle=background:#ccccff|title=Presidential election results}} {| align="center" border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="float:right; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |+ '''Presidential election results'''X |- bgcolor=lightgrey ! Year ! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] ! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ! [[Third Party (United States)|Third parties]] |-
with
{{PresHead|place={{{subst:PAGENAME}}}|whig=y|source1=X}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->
Things might be tricky with varying numbers of sources, but the code of {{
PresHead}} is probably such that multiple sources can be concatenated in the |source1=
parameter even if that's not technically good practice. Ditto for replacing
| style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/W}}|'''[[United States presidential election in S, Y|Y]]''' | style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|48.6% ''R'' | style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''50.3%''' ''D'' | style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.1% ''T'' |-
with
{{PresRow|Y|W|R|D|T|S}}
And similar, with the table cap, for {{ PresFoot}}. There are, of course, some snags that this could hit. Rockland County's example above includes an example of referencing a specific row, which is a big no-no for {{ PresRow}} (all references need to be at the table head), as well whether the links are to 2020 United States presidential election in New York or United States presidential election in New York, 2020 (for example), and a human AWB operator would have to look out for such cases. The particularly coding-inclined could also write a method/function in AWB to deal with such things. In any event, I feel that this is certainly non-trivial but ultimately doable by my technical superiors. – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 16:50, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
|whig=
has to be "yes" written out in full, not "y", though this can easily be changed in the source code if that's against best template practices. Otherwise the test looks good. I think the vast majority of US county pages still need to be done, so sift through
Category:Counties of the United States by state's categories. –
John M Wolfson (
talk •
contribs) 00:41, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello!
Some non-free files are used in multiple articles. Each use demands a seperate fair use rationale (FUR) on the file page. Sometimes a file is removed or replaced in an article, however the now redundant FUR is still there unless someone removes it, such as Special:Diff/1069179564. I propose that a bot remove all redundant FURs from file pages since they take up a lot of space on often quite small file pages. This request ought to be a continious such that when a FUR becomes redundant in the future, the bot will notice this and remove it. I don't have any data on it but I estimate that it probably will be 1-5 edits per month, except for in the beginning since there to my knowledge hasn't been a bot doing this before. Jonteemil ( talk) 13:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
|Article=
parameter is missing or invalid.
Certes (
talk) 15:56, 2 February 2022 (UTC)See WP:VPPR#Preserve at Wikidata?. As I said there, there doesn't have to be any bureaucracy for this one - just jump in and start coding. It's a nice self-contained task for beginner bot operators or anyone who wants to get into bots, as well. Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:47, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
A bot should convert all old "Portal:Current events/Year Month Day" pages to use the "Current events" template instead of the "Current events header" template. For example, here's what would be done to Portal:Current events/2016 March 9:
{{Current events header|2016|03|9}} <!-- All news items below this line -->
would be replaced with
{{Current events|year=2016|month=03|day=9|content= <!-- All news items below this line -->
and
<!-- All news items above this line -->|}
would be replaced with
<!-- All news items above this line -->}}
.
This is apparently being done by 203.128.83.115, but I told them to stop. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 14:56, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 17:00, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
I have started a Draft:List of United States federal judges who died in office (roughly as a parallel to List of United States Congress members who died in office), but it has immediately become apparent to me that there is a substantial proportion of building such a list that could more easily be automated. Since every article on a federal judge should indicate both their date of death and the date of the end of their active service, I am hoping that a bot could pluck out those items of information, along with the other items with which I would like to populate the table (date and place of birth, appointing President, jurisdiction, date of initiation of service, place of death, and successor). BD2412 T 21:16, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
{{wikidata|property||page=Page|P123}}
(edit adds an edit link){{subst:wikidata|property|page=Page|P123}}
―
Qwerfjkl
talk 22:43, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
[[]]
where wikidata didn't have a value (and the property was linkworthy). ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 14:52, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Not done
WP:FAC periodically runs into post-expand include size problems (PEIS), where the expanded included templates exceed the limit. The biggest culprit is {{
tq}}, which, if used to quote a 400 character sentence, costs 1600 bytes in a FAC because the FAC itself is transcluded into WP:FAC. The instructions at FAC have been changed to say "don't use tq" but of course some editors don't notice this and still use it.
I've created {{
tq top}} and {{
tq bottom}}, which have the same effect as {{
tq}} used with just the text parameter, and go at the start and end of the text. That is, This is an example using tq
and This is an example using tq top and tq bottom should look identically formatted. The latter is much cheaper in PEIS.
Would someone be able to create a bot that periodically looks for any page transcluded onto WP:FAC and substitutes {{
tq top}} and {{
tq bottom}} for any uses of Example text
? If the use of {{
tq}} has any of the other parameters (very rare) it could be skipped. The bot shouldn't run against any page not transcluded onto WP:FAC.
Mike Christie (
talk -
contribs -
library) 03:54, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
{{
tq|This is an example using tq}}
- 176{{tq top}} This is an example using tq {{tq bottom}}
- 73{{
#invoke:Sandbox/Gonnym/TQ|main|This is an example using tq}}
- 107
Gonnym (
talk) 13:21, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
{{
talk quote inline/sandbox|This is an example using tq}}
bumps it to 206, making it not viable at all and worse than the template version.
Gonnym (
talk) 06:03, 18 February 2022 (UTC)The {{ tq top}} and {{ tq bottom}} proposed templates are in a sense nothing to do with {{ tq}}; I might just as well have named them {{ fac quote top}} and {{ fac quote bottom}}, for example. Yes, fixing {{ tq}} so it costs less would help, but the point here was to not use tq, but instead use something cheaper. There's no need for tq's parameters; in my note above I pointed out that any use of tq with parameters should not be substituted. If we can't fix tq, and the goal here is to use a different template such as the ones proposed, what is the objection to Hawkeye7 running his bot to make the substitution? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 13:31, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
{{ Wikidata redirect}} should be placed with correct Qid into all redirects which are linked to Wikidata elemenens. Also {{ Wikidata redirect}} should be removed from all redirects which are now not linked to Wikidata elemenens. Also list of such redirects with Qids whould be usefull to check was redirect removed correctly or not. -- Heanor ( talk) 15:24, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
I think that a bot that would update stats relating to social media type websites would be helpful. This has been requested before, but the other attempts have never come to fruition. I'd like to make this bot myself, but would like clarify what would be the best way to execute this idea.
Bots that have been requested in the past have changed the page directly, and others have had criticisms. One question is, where would this info be updated / changed? You could change values on all pages that the related infoboxes, but this would only be on the english wikipedia. You could use wikidata, but there aren't very standardized properties for different statistics based on different accounts. Someone commenting on request for approval for "YTStatsBot" suggested using tabular data at commons, but I don't know how common it is for this to be used with bots.
So, thoughts? Should I try doing something with wikidata, use tabular data, or just update the pages directly. Thanks for your consideration, ― Levi_OP Talk 00:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Would all youtube infoboxes need to be updated to use wikidata instead of just user input parameters?Yes. I think there's a pywikibot script for moving infobox parameters to wikidata. ― Qwerfjkl talk 17:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
|subscribers=
and |views=
in the infobox to call {{
WikidataIB}} or whatever it is that calls up specific values.|subscribers=
and |views=
parameters. ―
Levi_OP
Talk 18:48, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
|data30=
(which is "Total views") to be equal to {{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue....}}
, pointing at whatever P value the YouTube Total Views counter is stored in, then it doesn't matter what the user puts into |views=
on any given article, because the infobox isn't looking for user-generated "views" values.
Primefac (
talk) 19:07, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Seems like wikidata:Q50825725#P8687 is what you're looking for. After looking at some of the other properties commonly used to represent youtube channels, wikidata:Q50825725#P2397 seems like a much better option than wikidata:Q50825725#P8687. While "Social media followers" has the subscribers for multiple channels, it doesn't include views, and also shows other accounts like twitter pages. "YouTube channel ID" seems like a much better option because it displays subscriber count as well as view count, and supports multiple channels. ― Levi_OP Talk 19:25, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
While I was going through the requests for edits to (semi-)protected pages, and specifically looking at the request on Talk: C.S. Lewis, I noticed that there are a lot of pages that were protected a long time ago (in the case of C.S. Lewis, nearly 10 years) for edit warring or vandalism and then forgotten about. In many cases, this does more harm than good since--as most "anonymous" edits are constructive and the edit request process can create a backlog--pages should not be protected unless disruption would presently be a) very likely or b) very serious. However, because failure to protect a page can have serious consequences in these situations, editors are ordinarily expected to defer to the judgment of the original protecting admin. Therefore, to balance these interests, I propose that a bot be used to examine indef-protected pages periodically--say, once a year. The bot would:
The bot would not be tasked with unprotecting any pages on its own. Nor should it necessarily prompt review of all indef-protected pages--there are some that definitely need to stay protected indefinitely, such as the site disclaimers, and so those could be marked in such a way to exclude the bot to avoid wasting everyone's time. But in other cases, the bot could prevent pages from being protected that really don't have to be. ChromaNebula (talk) 02:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Alternately, we could have a bot that makes a list of those pages. (How many times have you seen someone say this?) – AssumeGoodWraith ( talk | contribs) 12:18, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
For some reason a great amount of talk pages have been added the following code: Please select the <code><span style="color:#0645AD;">New section</span></code> tab above to post your comments below.
(
[17]) and seems to have been mostly done by one editor (haven't checked them all of course). Aside from the fact that it looks out of place with the other talk page banners, using a hardcoded name for the section (which can change at some point) and a color scheme that makes the "New section" text look like a link is bad. As I doubt there was consensus for this, as if there was it would have probably be done by a template, or even directly via one of the talk page banner templates and not manually spammed, this should be removed.
Gonnym (
talk) 12:01, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Hey, is there a bot that can clear
Category:Metacritic ID same as Wikidata (17) please? It would involve changing {{
metacritic film|run-this-town}}
to {{
metacritic film}}
for example
Indagate (
talk) 16:47, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
The template is {{ Infobox artist discography}}. Deprecated parameters from the 2010 and 2015 template updates, which are no longer used:
Solidest ( talk) 12:34, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
I'd like to summit a bot request for the removal of a stand alone (no context) WP:RSUW statement..."Before 1945 the area was part of Germany."...from around 3,000 [18] Poland related stub articles covering small villages and rural communities (one example: [19]). I've raised the issue on the Wikipedia:Help desk to see what the best approach might be and after careful consideration, taking into account input from other editors, the short length of the articles in question (which appear only as stubs), and similar articles for other countries relating to rural communities, the simplest approach would be to remove this undue weight statement, while keeping another statement currently in place "For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania." this simple approach allows for the reader to access the history of the region presented in full context, and without placing undue weight on just one period of the region's long history (as the region changed hands between Duchy of Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Denmark, Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Sweden, Kingdom of Prussia, German Reich, Republic of Poland). -- E-960 ( talk) 09:33, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
"...There are many thousands of villages in the world that are located in places that have been part of different countries over the last few centuries. Should we be repeating the history in every one of them, even when no source has been provided about the particular village in question, and admonishing people who remove such content? Of course not: that belongs in articles about the wider region that has changed hands, rather than in each one of the village articles."and user Black Kite
"To be fair, the edit removed does suggest that the area had always been German before 1945, which is of course misleading..."and user Rsjaffe
"This should be a brief article about a small village. Couldn't there be a statement that refers to the history of pomerania or western pomerania and just states that the village has been part of many different countries over its history?". I think my bot request addresses those suggestions, by removing the out of context statement and having the link to the history of the region. -- E-960 ( talk) 19:53, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
There' discussion arose about what's to do while emptying "last" field while "first" field is filled, as such action pops up an template:cite error at page view mode and continue filling Category:CS1 errors: missing name (that already have ~500 pages now). In view of that problem for totally emptying above mentioned category I propose to fill corresponding "cite" template empty "last" field (where "first" field is filled), which is the reason of such error, with "-" sign, that clearly helps by not adding article to category of errorous articles while displaying all existing "first" field text at page view mode instead of popping up the error and, that way, clearing errorous articles itself. Who can make it? 85.238.106.27 ( talk) 10:57, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
|first=
and placed in |last=
field.
Keith D (
talk) 20:59, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
This is, in general, a bad task for a bot, unless very specific patterns can be reliable identified. It is however, a much better task for WP:AWB-based semi-automated editing. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 21:29, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
As there's many misunderstandings, I propose to delete from "last" field of template "cite" within articles symbols By (287) and - (158), that obviously can be done automatically and will make happy user:Jonesey95, who make excessive and some way destructive actions to do the same. Who can do it? 195.138.94.101 ( talk) 16:00, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Bot to be created replaceing Bangalore with Bengaluru please 2600:8805:AA06:9100:38AA:2FB9:1FFB:18E2 ( talk) 10:32, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, would someone be able to run this? John of Reading helpfully directed me here. ― Qwerfjkl talk 20:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Change all usage of File:Phliber rib.png to File:Phliber rib.svg. ~240 pages. -- Minorax«¦ talk¦» 02:00, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Current discussion is here: Template talk:Album ratings#Module for checking for unknown parameters. Consensus is here.
In short, the Album of the Year site was disallowed to be used in {{ Album ratings}} and was removed from the code. There are still ~670 parameters with ratings and links to this site. It's mostly the "AOTY" parameter, but somewhere it was converted into custom parameter of site aggregators. So here's a list of how it's currently filled:
Solidest ( talk) 07:31, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
In this template, {{ Infobox saint}}, there is a data line called attributes. How can I get a bot go to every instance where this template is used and pull this information? I'd to get a table made with the page name where the template is, and the attribute. Like this:
Saint | Attributes |
---|---|
John Bosco | cassock, biretta |
Additionally, can I have the results placed here:
Talk:Saint symbolism/Archive 2? Thanks. --
evrik (
talk) 19:06, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
{{Template parameter value|PAGE|Infobox saint|1|attributes}}
I am Santali Wikipedia contributors. I saying that page protected access give me then I can save the any vandalism person on Santali Wikipedia and Article. ᱫᱚᱞᱚᱱ ᱯᱨᱳᱵᱟᱥ ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)