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There seems to be no automated process to remove {{ citation needed}} tags which are occasionally left on an article after a reference is added to the same statement; a recent example of this instance is [1]. I don't know how to gauge the frequency of this problem, as the search tool parses the regex incorrectly, but it is obvious that the citation needed tag should be removed after a reference is added. A draft regex for the operation is given below; I'm not sure yet how to handle {{ citation needed span}} wrappers containing references.
Regex | Replacement text |
---|---|
</ref>\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n)( *\|.*?)?\}\} |
</ref> |
\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n)( *\|.*?)?\}\}<ref(.*?)> |
<ref$3> |
\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n) span\|([^<\|]+)(\|.*?)?\}\}<ref(.*?)> |
$2<ref$4> |
– LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 20:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n) span ?\|([^\}]+\<ref[^\}]+)\}\}
→ $1
? ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 21:41, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
$2
in this case, since $1
matches the first set of parentheses, namely the template name. This is acceptable if the final statement is referenced, although I'm not sure how to handle cases where a cn span tag has a in the middle and ends with unreferenced text. Do you think this regex would work acceptably as well? –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 21:45, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
\{\{Template.*?\}\}
type regexes. I've found that they over-match and have subtle false positives. I prefer the following pattern: \{\{Template[^\}]*\}\}
. Ditto for ref tags. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 22:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
/\{\{(([^\{\}]|\{[^\{]|\}[^\}]|\{\{(([^\{\}]|\{[^\{|\}[^\}])*)\}\})*)\}\}/
somewhat safer as it also catches {{tq|LOOK! } A SINGLE CURLY BRACKET!}}
and {{x|{{xy}}}}
correctly. — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 17:01, 8 May 2022 (UTC)<ref>
tag always implies that citation is not still needed for some or all content or that the reference added actually supports the material in question. A silly counterexample: Sky is blue.{{citation needed}}<ref>Note: On Earth only.</ref>
You would likely need to show a low false positive rate for this task first. —
HELLKNOWZ ∣
TALK 10:16, 8 May 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)
I would oppose doing this; it is pointless and redundant at best and negates any consensus established at the CfD discussion at worst. Wikipedia:Soft deletion (failed proposal) for articles failed, so its backdoor equivalent for categories should fail as well. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:38, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
I had the idea of automatically archiving Twinkle-generated logs for deletion nominations (XfD, PROD, CSD), which can become very long for users who frequently initiate deletion processes, so that only the more recent months appear in the main log. My XfD log was over 160 KB until I set up my own archival system using ClueBot III ( talk · contribs), and we can use that as a template. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 19:55, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The most recent mass message sent to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/List contains a syntax error, specifically missing closing bold formatting on this line:
* New: '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/231|LGBTQ+ women]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/232|Greenland and the Faroes]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/233|Women in music]]
That line should read:
* New: '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/231|LGBTQ+ women]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/232|Greenland and the Faroes]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/233|Women in music]]'''
Messages were apparently delivered to about 1,200 user talk pages listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/A-F, Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/G-N, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/O-Z.
If there is a bot operator who could tidy this up, that would be helpful. Note that this may be viewed by some as a cosmetic edit, but the problem is a WP:Linter error that will need to be cleaned up at some point, so it will be better if a bot does it. Pinging the message sender, Megalibrarygirl, as an FYI; no action is needed from the message sender. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:55, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
I know this might sound crazy, but I've been thinking of a bot task where a bot would check for IPs that are not currently blocked with templates such as Template:Anonblock and Template:School block on their talk pages and then remove them. This is because it might confuse an IP user to be told that their IP is blocked even though they're not blocked, and the template is in present tense (ex. "your school, library, or educational institution's IP address is blocked") and it would be weird for that to be on an IP which is not currently blocked wizzito | say hello! 23:42, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
As much as we preach against it, climbing up the ranking in a list remains a strong motivator for many Wikipedians. WP:WBGAN and WP:WBFAN list out Wikipedians by their number of good articles or featured articles, but I think it might be a better measure of impact (albeit still an imperfect one) to instead list out Wikipedians by the cumulative annual views of all their GAs or FAs. Would anyone be interested in coding a bot to maintain such lists? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:58, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
s54328__goodarticles_p
database on toolforge (table name: nominators2
) containing the article–nominator mapping, which is updated in real-time. Then to update WBGAN everyday, it simply
queries this table. This has been running for more than a year now and has been quite stable. –
SD0001 (
talk) 20:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC)usbktop
with yytop
.usbk
with yy
.usbkbottom
with yyend
.Although {{=}} is now a magic word, many pages are still listed as transcluding the template in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:=. A bot should null edit all those pages to get the transclusion count at https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=%3D#bottom all the way down to zero. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 01:41, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello. There is a problem in pages using template:DukeOrtho. The first letter should be written in lowercase, not the uppercase. example Can anybody fix this by bot? LR0725 ( talk) 07:26, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hello!
Please substitute these int: messages. They belong on Commons, on English Wikipedia only English is needed :). Jonteemil ( talk) 23:37, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Category:Year lists by country has some entries without many things listed on them. Some of those have categories that show a lot of things that could be moved to those list though. Check the year in the category, post the article linked there to the proper list article. If only one link per year exist, then list them by decade instead. For instance I noticed Category:2015 in Brunei had things that weren't in the article 2015 in Brunei so added them. There could be red links in the main article of List of years in Brunei which have things listed in a category that has the name of that year and the name of the country. Dream Focus 16:31, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Closing a GAR discussion is quite a bit of faff, so I hope on of the magicians technical editors could help us out. A bot would have to do the following:
I think the FACBot is already doing something very similar for featured articles. For a community assessment, this bot could be triggered when the discussion is closed (and {{ GAR/current}} on the reassessment page is changed to {{ GAR/result}}). For individual assessments the most logical trigger would be the removal of the {{GAR/link}} from the article talk page. In that case, the bot would start from #2. Pinging @ Aircorn, who is doing a lot of this maintenance. Femke ( talk) 07:27, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
{{GA}}
into {{Article history}}
. Can you provide a link to 1 recent individual assessment closure and 1 recent community assessment closure for me to review? Also, are you open to having a limited list of people who can summon the bot for security reasons, or does it need to be summonable by anyone? –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 21:46, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello Femkemilene. Quick status report, I'm about halfway done writing this. Code. Feel free to start saving up GARs for me to close. Couple questions. 1) Do you want this included in GANReviewTool, or as a separate user script? 2) Do you want this to apply a colored {{ Atop}} like in this diff? – Novem Linguae ( talk) 23:52, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
User warnings are not allowed on the user sandbox because new users could be afraid they did something wrong or got banned. These could be removed by a bot. It could detect for the text of a substituted template: for example, if it saw the following or similar:
Hello, I'm Interstatefive. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks.
it would revert. After the bot reverts 3 warnings by the same user in 10 minutes it could send a message to the user stating to go to WP:UWSB to test user warnings. interstatefive ( talk) - just another roadgeek 17:34, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
The 2013 wikidata RFC closed with an extremely strong consensus that it is not appropriate to use wikidata in article text on the English wikipedia. A few editors (notably @ Exec8: and @ HueMan1:), who were presumably unaware of this, have been performing edits where they have been replacing random words in the first paragraph of various Philippine city articles with wikidata templates, typical diffs [2] [3]. Such edits are contrary to the outcome of the RFC and make what should be plain text unnecessarily difficult to edit. I am therefore requesting a one time bot run which will substitute any inappropriate uses of the {{ PH wikidata}} template, i.e. those found in article text, rather than infoboxes. 192.76.8.78 ( talk) 10:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Wiki search (text) -> hastemplate:"PH wikidata"
[4] as the search, and find/replace {{PH wikidata|name}} -> {{subst:PH wikidata|name}}
(and of course the other common parameters) works just fine if we want to indiscriminately replace all of these. If we want to skip infoboxes, this task becomes harder and may require a bot. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 19:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
(?<! *\|.*)\{\{PH wikidata
→ {{subst:PH wikidata
. (For the list I just used What transcludes here.)
Qwerfjkl
talk 20:31, 25 May 2022 (UTC)(?<!\n *\|.+)\{\{PH wikidata
works better. ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 13:38, 26 May 2022 (UTC)Recently ran into an editor who decided to be clever and redirect their User page and User talk page to Main Page. Unlike most pages which give an indicator when you've arrived via a redirect that you can click on to get back to the source page, apparently this does not generate such an indicator. With that scenario in mind, a bot that monitors edits to User and User talk pages (not subpages, just the main ones that would conceivably be linked from the MediaWiki UI for contacting a user) for attempts to redirect to Main Page (I'm not aware of any other page that suppresses the redirect indicator, if such a page exists, redirects for those pages would also make sense). What the bot does upon finding such an edit really depends on how much consensus you think we need for it: could log it to a specific bot subpage that interested editors/admins could watchlist and address as they happen, or, if it wouldn't be deemed too controversial, the bot could simply remove the redirect (and perhaps still log it somewhere) and leave a note on their talk page as to why it was undone. — Locke Cole • t • c 01:39, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
presumably it would run indefinitelyOr at least until a software change in MediaWiki can happen to make such an edit impossible to save. I'm not familiar with the APIs available, but presumably if there were a way to hook into recent changes and filter by namespace to User/User talk, you could look for a redirect to Main Page being created (it might be worth looking into whether any other pages exhibit this suppression of (Redirected from ...) and prohibiting those too) and go from there fairly easily. — Locke Cole • t • c 17:42, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
contentSub
is hidden for
Main Page and no other pages with code in
MediaWiki:Vector.css and
MediaWiki:Monobook.css. contentSub
contains other things than "Redirected from" and was probably hidden due to other things. If we wanted to, I think we could add CSS to display "Redirected from" while still hiding the other things. If we display "Redirected from" then it will be displayed for redirects from all namespaces.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:42, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
|first_run=
has been removed from
Template:Infobox television after
this discussion. There are ~13k pages at
Category:Pages using infobox television with unknown parameters with the parameter. Would really help if someone with a bot could remove all instances of these. Thank you!
Gonnym (
talk) 05:27, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
A few weeks ago per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Archive 79#Should "films by country" categories remain all-inclusive?, WikiProject Film reached a consensus to deprecate its former practice of deeming the base "[Country] films" categories to be "all-inclusive" (i.e. directly including all films from that country even if they were already otherwise subcategorized for genre or other characteristics.) However, some of the involved categories literally have thousands of articles, and there are nearly 200 country categories cross-referenced with a few dozen genre categories to deal with — so needless to say, we'd prefer to get as much of it as possible done by bot instead of editors having to manually go through over 100,000 films one at a time.
The important complications here are that there may be some films lurking in the base "Country films" categories which have not been fully subcategorized by genre at all yet, and some country-genre intersections may still be missing entirely — so the request would be for a bot to go through the Country-Genre intersection categories (e.g. Category:American documentary films, Category:British drama films, Category:Canadian short films, etc.) to remove "Country films" from films that are already subcategorized, but the bot should not be turned loose directly on "Country films" categories themselves, so that any unsubcategorized stragglers don't get stranded from the tree. Human editors can look after whatever cleanup is still necessary after a bot's done the grunt work, but we'd prefer to automate as much of the grunt work as possible first. Bearcat ( talk) 15:52, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
/\[\[[Cc]ategory:(...) films\]\]\n?/gi
(with nothing) then I could do it. ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 22:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
[[Category:[country] films]]
from the relevant pages. ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 18:50, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
This query shows articles with WikiProject categories. This bot request is to remove the WikiProject categories from the articles, and add the WikiProject to the article's talk page if it's not already there. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:18, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
After 2020, the US Census released a new population count for the United States. Many cities have their own Wikipedia articles that have sections which goes into detail about their pop. counts. Though, many articles about them that many still haven't been updated, even 2 years after the 2020 Census. I believe it is not humanly possible to update all the articles with old data, even if you did, it would likely be almost time for the 2030 Census counts. I propose a bot that would update information in likely three sections in each article which needs updating. first is the top introduction which usually say "as of the 2010 Census, the population was X." Second would be the Infobox which usually has a section that talks about population. third would be the historical population box which is usually very neglected by editors. The bot would update each section to the current Census counts, fill in gaps in the historical population section (I would bet some articles don't even have 2010 counts), and possibly update yearly estimates carried about by the Census. This website seems to have all the information that would be needed for the bot to run, an example https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/swaincountynorthcarolina. I would like opinions about this idea and see if anyone is willing to help create a bot as I do not know a lot of coding. Thank you for your time! DiscoA340 ( talk) 21:24, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
I noticed that temporary sanctions tend to linger on
Wikipedia:Editing restrictions. Entries can be automatically removed if the rightmost column contains only a date which has passed; dates in the tables are always in yyyy-mm-dd
format. This will apply to all subpages of EDR, including archives, except that permission from Arbcom will be needed to auto-handle the Arbcom-imposed sanction lists. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 12:14, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Many of the stubs in the categories Category:Kenya geography stubs, and its six subcategories, are unsourced (some existences unverifiable) with no evidence of notability ( WP:GEOLAND etc.). These should be uncontroversially (consensus exists through previous AFD) redirected to their 'parent' article. For example, Gatanga, Kenya sits within Category:Central Province, Kenya geography stubs, and should redirect to Central Province, Kenya. Is there a bot with the ability to do this with relative ease? MIDI ( talk) 22:31, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
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All these links need to be changed from Loring Park to Loring Park, Minneapolis CTF83! 18:20, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Lots and lots and lots of hidden text, there are articles where some issue has led an editor to hide a block of text in the article (perhaps pending discussion of whether it is overly detailed or supported by sources or the like, or perhaps for technical reasons). Some examples include this edit, which hid a citation that apparently was not working at the time, and thereafter remained in the wikitext for nine years, and this edit, which put an entire paragraph in hidden text, where it remained for five years.
This is obviously bad editing, given that putting content into hidden text (particularly without indicating this in an edit summary or on the talk page) merely ends up polluting the Wikitext without resolving the asserted issue.
What is needed is a bot to suss out instances of relatively large blocks of longstanding hidden text and create a project-space list indicating:
As noted in the Village Pump discussion, there are some relatively short bits of hidden text that routinely go into certain templates to indicate what shoudl go there. I think a safe cutoff would be 50 characters, with any block of text longer than that being listed. Note that we do want to capture deleted images that have been hidden, but it is probably best to list those separately. BD2412 T 18:33, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
/<!--.{50,}?-->/gs
I don't have time to do it myself, but just wanted to throw the idea out there. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 21:03, 28 May 2022 (UTC)When the template {{Internet Archive film}} was created, the parameter for specifying the title of a film was called "name", and many articles (e.g. this) use this syntax: {{Internet Archive film | id= ID | name= TITLE }} Since this edit in the template, the expected parameter is "title" instead of "name", and the expected syntax is {{Internet Archive film | id= ID | title= TITLE }} Any use of the parameter "name" is ignored, making the name of the link default to the article title for any use of the old syntax.
After that, the template {{Internet Archive short film}} must be updated to conform to the syntax of {{Internet Archive film}}. You are welcome to do it, otherwise, ping me and I'll do it. -- Bensin ( talk) 22:22, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Many users add references to discussions on talk pages, and they all clump together on the bottom of the talk page if the editor doesn't known about the {{ Reflist-talk}}. It seems to be a fairly simple task. I have checked the other bots, and there is SteveBot, which adds {{ reflist}} to the bottom of articles. AdrianHObradors ( talk) 18:15, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Edit: Seems I broke the table up there putting a link to the template on the title, sorry! Removed, hope that fixes it AdrianHObradors ( talk) 19:43, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
checking all talk pages, does it mean all talk pages? Or just the ones edited since the last time it executed? -- AdrianHObradors ( talk) 18:40, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
I noticed that enwiki is frequently outdated for Austrian mayors. A few examples:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altach /info/en/?search=Altach
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_(Vorarlberg) /info/en/?search=Klaus,_Vorarlberg
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koblach /info/en/?search=Koblach
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiningen_(Vorarlberg) /info/en/?search=Meiningen,_Austria
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satteins /info/en/?search=Satteins
Would it be possible to create a bot that extracts the "Bürgermeister" value on dewiki, compares it to the "Mayor" one on enwiki and updates the latter when they are different? The rationale is that articles like these are typically updated more frequently in their original language than the English counterpart. I don't have any bot/programming experience, but I'd try to help in any form that I can, provided a bot like this is even possible/permitted. Christian Steyphen ( talk) 17:39, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references.
I am active in the SVG project, converting raster graphics into scalable vector graphics (mainly coat of arms). The new images have a better quality but I always need to replace all occurrences of the old image in all articles, templates and in all language wikis by hand which sometimes takes longer than creating the new .svg image. Is there a bot or an opportunity to create a little helper which takes the old image from Commons as an Input and replaces it on all sites in all MediaWiki occurrences (Wikipedia (all languages), Wikidata,...) with a new image path? This can also be helpful if companies, products, non-profits or brands change/update there logos - same procedure. Maxwxyz ( talk) 16:49, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
I'd like to request a bot that would add a {{ Talkback}} template at an IP talk page in response to a formatted request left at a Help forum like WP:Tea house, WP:Help desk, or WP:Reference desk by an experienced user responding to an IP's question.
Use case
At various help forums, experienced volunteer editors drop by to answer user questions, a good proportion of whom are anonymous users. Pings won't work with an IP user, so a {{ talkback}} template is needed. A quick scan of those help venues and following the IP talk links (or noticing that they are red) shows that most responders don't bother adding the {{ tb}}; it's just a bit too tedious. So, the IP never gets notified, and may never see the response(s) from the helpful editor(s) who responded to their question.
Possible UX
I think it could work in different ways, but what I envision is this: let's say I am responding to an IP question at the Tea house. (See here for a real example.) Somewhere in my response to the IP question, I'd add this to my message:
{{IP needs talkback |IPuser |PAGENAME |SECTION |MYuserID }}
(or maybe just use REVISIONUSERID and drop last param)This would trigger the bot that a talkback message is needed for this IP's talk page.
Possible design
As to how it would work, maybe the template could add the page to subpages of tracking category Category:IP needs talkback somehow encoding the info needed for the bot. Maybe via subpages like */IPuser/PAGENAME/SECTION or something? Anyway, the bot would pick up the info needed, and then add this at the IPuser talk page:
== You have feedback at PAGENAME ==
{{talkback|PAGENAME|SECTION|ts=MYuserID ~~~~~}}
<!--Placed by TB-bot-->
thus notifying IPuser of the discussion that has reponses, and where to find it. I think there may be other ways to do it, but this was the first thing that came to mind, probably because I'm familiar with tracking categories with subcategories generated by templates. As a template writer, I could contribute to that part of the task, if adopted.
Benefits
It would be relatively easy for Help forum responders to add a template at the same time as their response, and I think they would start doing it, and more IPs would be notified and find out the answers to their questions.
Possible issues
Alternatives
Perhaps a more ambitious bot wouldn't need any kind of trigger at all, but could scan a configurable list of Help forums, looking for questions placed by anon users that have responses, and directly place the talkback at the IP talk page, if there wasn't one there already. Not sure if that's too difficult to be practical.
Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 04:41, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Listed at: WT:Help desk, WT:Reference desk, WT:Teahouse. Mathglot ( talk) 05:14, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Additional hybrid alternative possibility: we do add the template to the response, but no categorization happens; the template contains a token or unique string or something (maybe just its own name) that attracts the bot's scanner, and all the information required by the bot to place a {{ tb}} is right there. Mathglot ( talk) 05:54, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
The following templates redirect to {{ Infobox ice hockey team}}:
Nearly 90% of the transclusions to {{ Infobox ice hockey team}} are indirect, so was hoping someone could automate a bot to update the pages using these templates to eliminate the indirect template calls. – Aidan721 ( talk) 20:02, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
A lot of our calendar-year articles contain the line "(link will display the full calendar)". (Random pick: start at 786 and go up from there.) This, of course, looks ridiculous in print. I've started to replace this with {{ Unprintworthy inline|(link will display the full calendar)}} but it's going to take months to do so. Having a bot do it would seem a better idea... but does that run foul of the "no cosmetic changes" anti-bot rule? This is my first brush with Bot Requests, so please be gentle! — Trey Maturin has spoken 16:15, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
(link will display the full calendar)with
{{Unprintworthy inline|(link will display the full calendar)}}while we wait for other action. — Trey Maturin has spoken 18:21, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Greetings. Template:Infobox bibliographic database instructs users to wrap URLs in {{ url}}. Unfortunately, most instantiations use bare URLs: search, another search. Template:url assists browsers such as Chrome in breaking a long URL thus preventing the infobox width from growing too large ( example). Could a bot help in fixing this issue, please? Thank you! (Edit: background discussion: Template_talk:URL#Long_URL_in_infobox.) fgnievinski ( talk) 14:19, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
{{#if:{{str find|{{{website}}}|{{((}}url}}|{{{website}}}|{{url|{{{website}}}}}}}
Is it possible to run through files that are in both Category:Self-published work and Category:All free media for the "Author" e.g. or "Copyright holder" e.g. tag in the file's EXIF? -- Minorax«¦ talk¦» 09:19, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
# [[:FILENAME]]
. --
Minorax«¦
talk¦» 09:54, 6 August 2022 (UTC)In short, a new bot to update User:Amalthea/RfX/RfA count; the prior bot is no longer running. There is a module running, but it has caused some technical issues in the past ( Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_197#Loading_Watchlist_very_slow. Running twice an hour would be sufficient. — xaosflux Talk 09:49, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure which bot I need to be requesting, but I would like I would like to request alerts for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Lethwei#Article Alerts about Lethwei related articles if possible.
The same things as the kickboxing task force, see here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Martial arts/Kickboxing task force#Article Alerts
Thank you! Lethweimaster ( talk) 20:51, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Please discussion this matter.I want to bot on Santali Wikipedia because Don't have a bot on Santali Wikipedia ᱵᱤᱨᱢᱚᱞ ( talk) ᱵᱤᱨᱢᱚᱞ ( talk) 02:48, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
Please substitute "unicode 14" in "unicode 15" 5.91.185.198 ( talk) 11:34, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
Background: A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#Why_not_just_abolish_RMT? found some consensus for a revised implementation of the technical move request process. The idea is that instead of requesting uncontroversial moves at a centralized page, editors would post the request at the talk page of the article to be moved, similar to edit requests. The benefits would include better visibility to page watchers, smoother conversion of contested requests into full RM discussions, intuitiveness for new editors by reducing the diversity of procedural stuff to learn, and archiving.
As part of this idea, it was suggested that a bot-maintained page similar to User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable (in addition to a category) would be useful for watchers and people looking to perform the moves.
Basic features would be a table of the pages to be moved, the desired destinations, and the time of the request. Also desirable would be an indicator of whether performing the move would require an admin, or if lesser permissions would suffice (usually page mover). Whether a technical move needs an admin is currently listed manually, so automatic detection is not exactly a requirement for the bot, but nice to have. Automatic detection would just be checking for protection, basically (see the help page).
Would you be interested in implementing this? Or alternatively, you can also comment at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#Why_not_just_abolish_RMT? if you agree/disagree this is a good idea in the first place. Adumbrativus ( talk) 00:22, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
During the cleanup of the Iran geostubs by User:Carlossuarez46, I have noticed many disambiguation pages, such as Chah-e Qorban, link only to pages that are likely to be deleted imminently. I recently tagged Chah-e Pahn for speedy deletion per G14 because the only remaining entry is Chah-e Pahn, Bushehr (itself also at PROD).
Based on the contents of these disambiguation pages, I can propose an automated test for possible G14 candidates:
The reasoning, based on the observations of the Iran geostub templates, is that any necessary disambiguation page will have at least two valid bluelinks, and there no good reason why an entry in a disambiguation page should be placed inside of a template. (The {{ dab}} template itself, and several templates in dab pages such as {{ lang-fa}} in the Iran geostub dabs, contain bluelinks which are irrelevant to the entries.) "See also" is not included, as any WP:PTM judgment requires a human reviewer. As such, there may be false negatives noticeable by a human (e.g. if the sole entry has two bluelinks), but there should be no false positives on properly formed dab pages.
The other condition, redirects ending in "(disambiguation)" which do not go to dab pages, is also straightforward to automate.
In this case, the bot procedure would be to place a G14 tag on pages which pass the aforementioned test. It should not delete these pages immediately, since the title may occasionally be a plausible redirect, and malformed dab pages may produce a false positive. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 02:22, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
disambiguation pages that disambiguate zero extant Wikipedia pages, but there is no rush to do this while the article's fate is still uncertain. Otherwise, as Pam points out,
If a disambiguation page links to only one article and does not end in (disambiguation), it should be changed to a redirect, not deleted. Again, it would be sensible to wait for the article to be deleted or saved before bothering to do this. The short interval when the target article's future is in doubt is the one time when we can't sensibly delete or edit the dab, either manually or automatically. Something useful may come out of this idea but the details don't yet have the consensus needed to become a bot request. Certes ( talk) 10:23, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Around 250K articles—at least!—have refs that aren't "bare", strictly speaking, but could use with some expanding. There's a template for that, of course, but it's barely used. — Guarapiranga ☎ 00:01, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
{{
cite book}}
. I'd write a bot picking off low hanging fruit of well formatted free-form cites if you wanted to help with the regex. There are various
Citation#Styles and each style probably has variations. Some will be more common than others don't need them all. --
Green
C 05:18, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello,
Looking for a bot op who can hit about ~120k pages so that plainrowheaders
can be TemplateStyled (see
MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do#description and specific section
MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do#Plainrowheaders).
I'd be looking for the basic version of this change. I'd do it myself but I think with that many pages and the fact I don't have a separate machine or anything like that to keep running, that it would take a while for me to do it.
There are a couple functions:
plainrowheaders
from table start lines ({| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
and similar) where scope="row"
(or similar) doesn't appear on the page. That's something approximately equal to
these 36k pages.
plainrowheaders
from table start lines where scope="row"
also does not appear in the table of interest. I have no idea how to get a scope for this task.plainrowheaders
when it appears in a table without wikitable
in the same class declaration, or outside a table class declaration entirely but inside a table still (not a template, which may have a valid use for naming the class in its instantiation). Another "I have no idea how many of these cases there are".{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
to {{plain row headers}}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
I am currently considering changing the class name in the TemplateStyles before doing this to plain-row-headers
which will more cleanly delineate the name and which will make it much more fullproof to track removals should someone create {{
plainrowheaders}} as a redirect later (even with the "don't do this" note in the template documentation).
Such a bot would not edit in other namespaces (yet, perhaps as an extension to the task with a very specific scope of pages), and it would only touch this "limited" set of pages. Any others would also be for a later extension.
Questions/concerns welcome. Izno ( talk) 03:39, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
plain-row-headers
also since that prevents future users from doing unfortunate things. A couple more adjustments then:
plainrowheaders
to plain-row-headers
?{{plain row headers}}
and not {{Plain row headers}}
. Not a requirement for me.!scope="row"{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|1|chartid=4125a|refname="RPMTop100"}}
in which the lack of a pipe in the page markup (it is supplied by the following template) has caused me to fall back to using a regexp to detect the scope. It will clearly be better to treat a table as using the plainrowheaders if there us any doubt. I guess the real solution would be to expand the templates in the table markup.
William Avery (
talk) 22:56, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
It will clearly be better to treat a table as using the plainrowheaders if there us any doubt.Yes, this is true, but I'm not sure it's necessary. The regex is trivial (
scope\s*=\s*"?\s*row(:?group)?\s*"?
I think, though you could even just stop after seeing row
so scope\s*=\s*"?\s*row
), so long as you can bound what you're searching to the table's scope. IDK if that's doable with pywikibot or if it's giving you something significantly more structured.
Izno (
talk) 01:35, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|1|chartid=4125a|rowheader=true|refname="RPMTop100"}}
. I initially wondered if you were expecting to put calls to {{
Plain row headers}} inside such row-emitting templates, but in any case, the "plain-row-headers" class will need to be in the table's class attribute, so I need to know about what's going on in the template. As the code stands I try the following in succession:
{|
. I think the inverse operation, removal, should act only on the same "plain tables". Cases of {{
episode list}} which also use {|
should be few and far between given the use instructions (namely that headers should be inside {{
Episode table}}), but I suppose it's possible they exist. Most other table row templates work similarly with a matching table heading template. The reason why is to eventually add either {{
plain row headers}} or {{
plain row headers/styles.css}} directly to the header template and save including it where it isn't needed in the direct wikitext.The task is to add missing {{ WikiProject Music/Music genres task force}} template to talk pages to a set of articles, built after wikidata. The set of articles itself based on wikidata query of item that have an English article + instance of = music genre (Q188451) / song type (Q107356781) / type of musical work/composition (Q107487333) / audio content genre (Q108676140). It's a pretty neat selection here (relatively), as I've been working through these items for a few years now, trying to keep them in order, exporting infobox values, correcting scheme, making division between forms/genres/types, etc.
It would be nice if new templates could adopt the quality/class parameters of other project templates, but if anything other bots with related tasks are likely to do this after.
I would appreciate if it would be possible to do such a task. The next step I'm planning is to add a parameter about the missing infoboxes for selected articles with p31 = music genre (minus some specific articles). Solidest ( talk) 09:50, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
&
which caused the bug noticed above):
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=22536092 .
Solidest (
talk) 09:21, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
The next step I wanted to do with these banners is to add the |needs-infobox=yes
parameter to the appropriate articles, which would place them in
Category:Music genre articles without infoboxes.
The list is ready, and I've compiled it this way:
Overall, the selection is looks good and I think 95% of the things on the list are worth having an infobox. While the rest are 5% can be debatable and those who find it unnecessary can remove this parameter later.
So this work also needs bot actions or at least the auto-mode rights for AWB. Is it possible to do this as part of the same BRFA or will it require a new one?
P.S. There are still about 100 articles with banners where the parameter should be set manually, as they are designed slightly differently on wikidata. I'll probably do that as well if the core set gets approved and processed. Solidest ( talk) 16:13, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Example cite from Carowinds:
Contains |url=
https://d3knbu6191stae.cloudfront.net/binaries/content/assets/ca-en-us/blogs/2017carowindsparkmap.pdf
|work=d3knbu6191stae.cloudfront.net
cloudfront.net is Amazon AWS hosting ie. Amazon CloudFront. The work is not CloudFront which is merely a backend "cloud" hosting company where the PDF is stored.
Each CloudFront customer has an ID. In this case d3knbu6191stae maps to either the parent company
Cedar Fair (
https://www.cedarfair.com/ ) or the amusement park
Carowinds (
https://www.carowinds.com ) - probably the later. Another example is d1wqtxts1xzle7 which maps to academia.edu although in that case the work will be a journal title and the cite should have |via=
Academia.edu
An enterprising bot coder could extract all the cloudfront.net IDs and create a map of what the actual work is, somehow. This map could be used by various tools to maintain citations such as User:Citation bot, User:BrownHairedGirl, Reflinks, WP:WAYBACKMEDIC, etc.. Green C 21:18, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
Subdomain | ~# links | Comment |
---|---|---|
d25d2506sfb94s | 2090 | YouGov poll results. I can detect no domain with a meaningful name that uses these files. |
dt9guucc6nuua | 1142 | IAAF athletics results. Appear to also be published under media.aws.iaaf.org, which would be a reasonable change to make to citations, but that's only an initial impression and needs checking. See https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/67369 |
d1wqtxts1xzle7 | 636 | From the way they are cited, These are academic documents. Currently firewalled. |
d2o2figo6ddd0g | 511 | A variety of US college athletics results, apparently from diverse sources. |
Requested at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers#Discussion (Marking AFDd pages as reviewed). New page patrollers would like a way to see recent AFDs created by new page patrollers. I'm thinking a bot that updates a log page somewhere (maybe in the bot's userspace, or a subpage of WP:DELSORT). NPPs create a lot of AFDs, so this page would need a way to keep its size reasonable. I'd suggest having the bot count how many entries are on the page, and once it's above a certain number (50? 100? 200?), remove the oldest one every time it adds a new one. For algorithm, maybe have the bot run on a cron job every (1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours?), run an SQL query to see recent AFD pages created by NPPs, and go from there. Would do myself but I'm a little busy this month. Thanks in advance. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 23:15, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
You know what to do :) Emptywords ( talk) 14:55, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
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Can an ADMIN advise if there's a bot for edit history cleanup and if so who to contact to request it process a pages history as I am not admin and got blocked twice for trying to do it manually.
Not getting anywhere with oversight or privacy who just revdel everything.
Personal information and copyright infringement have been deleted from the article and the edits rev deleted which is basically the entire history going back to the page creation in 2002, apart from all the vandalism.
The article is a good article (it is now anyway), a biography of a living person, but the edit history has lost its context and is a total mess. There were a few copyright issues and some of the earlier references no longer exist, actual dates of birth, and the real name of a family member were also revdeleted.
I would like to restore the edit history which has been almost entirely revdeleted. over 1000 edits since 2002 and some harmless, and not so harmless vandalism not revdeleted.
The only way to do so would be to remove copyright infringing statements, and dates of birth from every revdeleted page of the edit history, maybe after 6 months of inactivity, allowing the edits to be restored, either deleting or archiving the original for admin eyes only. The vandalism could then be dealt with using revdelete as intended.
Can anyone point me in the right direction its undermining the page to the point a deletion discussion is inevitable which is really not necessary. 86.142.231.35 ( talk) 16:05, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
Following discussion at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Public Art § Conversion into task force, WikiProject Public Art is being converted into a task force of WikiProject Visual arts, and its London task force is becoming a public art task force of WikiProject London. Accordingly, {{
WikiProject Visual arts}} and {{
WikiProject London}} have both been given public_art
parameters.
I'm requesting a bot to replace instances of {{
WikiProject Public Art}} (and also the redirect {{
WikiProject Public art}} with different capitalisation) with instances of {{
WikiProject Visual arts}} containing public_art=yes
– except for instances of the WPPA template containing the London
parameter, which the bot would need to change to instances of {{
WikiProject London}} containing public_art=yes
.
Ham II (
talk) 09:46, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
We have a recurring issue at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion (WP:RFU) where an editor, once denied (or perhaps feeling ignored), will file a new request later on the same page. It was suggested to me that other request pages (particlarly WP:RFPP) have bot maintainers that flag duplicate requests. Something like that would also be helpful at WP:RFU. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:44, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
I manually added this template to a redirect page today, but I'm surprised that it wasn't already added by a bot. Is there a bot that can be programmed to do this? Jarble ( talk) 21:51, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
This bot is a anti-vandal bot, designed to:
mean commentsare. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:45, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
BernsteinBot has been retired. Unlike Tom Brady, it will not be returning to active service. Some of us really rely on its database reports, in my case, it's nightly report of Empty Categories. I'm not sure how complicated it would be for an existing bot to take over some of its duties. I'm hoping that there can be a smooth transition. Thank you, bot experts. Liz Read! Talk! 01:15, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
A lot of pages for local things in Wikipedia are longer then the English version.
For example take the page for Autopista AP-2 vs the Spanish version, Autopista Zaragoza-Medeteranio. The Spanish version is quite a bit longer and more detailed.
My proposal is that when a page has a larger class in another language then Englsh, then the template {{Expand x|y|z}} is added to the English page. For example, a influential Spanish city like Sevile has a star in Spanish (Español) but not English (Inglés), which is some way shorter.
The bot will check any page in any language and compare the size to English. If English is bigger or within 100 bytes, then the template is not added. If the English article is shorter AND has a lower rating, the expand class is added, with x being the language, y being the foreign title, and z being the date.
This bot could really help with article expansion and making English Wikipedia more detailed, but I must mention this could be a COI violation as I am considering a freelance translation job and "50 articles translated into English from a Spanish encyclopaedia to help benefit the global community" does seem like a nice thing to add to my (currently almost-empty) CV.
My suggested plan of development goes like this to help ease creation:
56independent/notacoworcat Talk 16:47, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Most of the chemicals on there can be found on Pubchem, and since pubchem uses a fairly consistent naming scheme for their pages, maybe a bot could be made to go through and cite?
I'm not entirely sure how bots work, or if citation bots are allowed, or if this is at all possible, but if this could work, it would save a lot of effort citing it. It's not a very important page, though.
If anyone makes this, thanks! Balnibarbarian ( talk) 21:33, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
In many cases, uppercase three-letter acronyms ("TLAs") are disambiguation pages, and the lowercase form is always a good redirect. See ABC and abc, for example. Could a bot help create more lowercase redirects? Two sets of pages in projectspace have links to every possible TLA combination, both uppercase and lowercase. See Wikipedia:TLAs from EAA to HZZ for example, and {{ Wikipedia TLAs}} for all links. The bot could use these pages in this process:
When the TLA is an article (e.g. BBC) or a redirect to an article (e.g. AVV) or a redirect to a differently titled disambiguation page (e.g. ARM), the situation is more complicated, so the bot should not create lowercase redirects for those titles. 120.21.41.202 ( talk) 21:58, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
When administrators place block notices on user talk pages, they mostly come with a coloured background but I have noticed the colour has gone for notices earlier than a certain date. I think that is because <div class="user-block" style="min-height: 40px"> does not work and should be changed to <div class="user-block" style="padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #a9a9a9; background-color: #ffefd5; min-height: 40px"> to restore the original display of the messages posted at the time of when they were announced. See [7] for the disappeared colour background, [8] which features the coloured background and User:Iggy the Swan/sandbox for the different results where I know what to do. Thanks - Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 21:53, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
I started this discussion about how there seem to be about 600 hand-done versions of this template onwiki. See background at that page. I have no idea what kinds of sharp edges there might be to this, or how much regularity there is for the issue, but I can't imagine that a bot will do worse to convert these than doing all 600 by hand. Izno ( talk) 01:48, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
{{ tracking category}} now automatically embeds {{ possibly empty category}}. If a bot could go through all pages with both {{ tracking category}} (and its redirects) and {{ possibly empty category}} (and its redirects) directly on them, and remove {{ possibly empty category}} (and its redirects), like so. that would be peachy. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 04:13, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
User:Mike Christie/GA subpages that should be moved is a list of GA subpages and the page they should be moved to. The target page was found by going to the talk page that is the parent of the GA subpage, and following the redirect. There's a discussion of this here. Is there a bot that can do these moves? A redirect should be left behind in every case. Thanks. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 22:25, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
I do this sort of edit over and over again. It does not seem complicated to code. It would involve finding talk pages with OTD templates, checking whether {{ Article history}} already exists (it doesn't always), fixing the inconsistent date and oldid format, and appending the OTD info to the end of the articlehistory.
Separately, once/if that is done, perhaps Anomie could be enticed to change the way Anomiebot handles dates and oldids, as it is inconsistent with the broader application of all items in Articlehistory. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:49, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Hey everyone! I am looking to organize a Michigan-based Wikipedia event, perhaps around 3 days, where we could all meet around a certain theme or themes. Let me know what you think? I am mostly active within the cultural and music-based worlds of Wikipedia, so that is my expertise. This is the first time I am trying to organize something like this so please if anyone has any advice or would like to help me I am all ears. I am posting this notice on the Ann Arbor and Michigan pages as well. JohnDVandevert ( talk) 03:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Currently, there are over 8,000 audio sample files uploaded to Wikipedia, which mostly includes song snippets: Category:Wikipedia non-free audio samples. Of those audio samples, many of them contain subtitles. Just for now, I'll use this page as an example: File:Green Day - Holiday.ogg
If you click on the "TimedText" tab, you will come to this webpage: TimedText:Green Day - Holiday.ogg.en.srt, which includes the subtitles created by a community member. And to monitor which audio files contain one of these samples, a subtitles template is placed on the file's page, which will add that file to this category: Category:Wikipedia files with subtitles. It also helps people like me who help add subtitles quickly check to see if they already exist for that file.
However, not every file with subtitles contains this template, which stifles the template's usefulness quite a lot. Fortunately, adding this template seems like in a one-time run-through seems like it can be automated quite easily:
(1) Check if the page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimedText:[file name].en.srt
exists
(2) If the page returns "There are currently no subtitles in English for this video, you can edit this page to add them," then the bot should move on to the next file
(3) Otherwise, the bot should go back to the file page, create a new line at the top (typically above the "Summary" section), and insert the Subtitles template with en
as the first parameter and [file name].en.srt
as the second
I'm not too good with coding though, and I'm not sure how, and if, such an operation can be done. If anyone could lend me a hand with this, that would be much appreciated :) -- Leafy46 ( talk) 20:19, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
es
)? —
Qwerfjkl
talk 17:40, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Would it be feasible to make about 500 changes of the following type?
{{Lighthouse identifiers | qid2=Q123455 | qid3=Q23456}}
{{Authority control | additional=Q123455,Q23456}}
I started using separate parameters for these and now I realise that a comma-separated list is more user-friendly. Parameters from qid2 up to qid5 are possible. Note that Template:Lighthouse identifiers is a redirect to Template:Authority control so we are bypassing a redirect at the same time. Thanks for any help. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, after a (very) brief discussion on
WT:NZLAW, I'm just requesting if someone is able to automate an edit that goes through all of the talk pages of article's in the categories below (and their subcategories) to edit their
Template:WikiProject New Zealand banner to add the law = yes
parameter. An example of a correctly tagged law task-force page is
Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General. In doing this, there may be duplicates across the categories (and/or their subcategories), also a few of these articles will also already have the law = yes
parameter set. So you may also have to account for this (ideally this would include tagging articles without the WPNZ banner with that banner and the law parameters, so we don't miss any).
This is to help mark all of articles that are relevant to the law task-force ( WP:NZLAW) which is in the process of establishment and getting started after a (far longer) conversation on WT:NZ.
Category:Statutes of New Zealand, Category:Supreme Court of New Zealand cases, Category:Court of Appeal of New Zealand cases, Category:High Court of New Zealand cases, Category:District Court of New Zealand judges, Category:High Court of New Zealand judges, Category:Court of Appeal of New Zealand judges, and Category:Supreme Court of New Zealand judges.
Thank you all, I appreciate it. Carolina2k22 • (talk) • (edits) 08:08, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
law-importance=
then the article will be added to
Category:Unknown-importance New Zealand law articles which will allow project members to go through and assign importance to these entries.-
gadfium 08:24, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
law = yes
and law-importance =
?Could someone please send a bot through
Category:Unknown-importance medicine articles and mark every article that is also in
Category:WikiProject Biography articles (or any subcat, or that otherwise gives you any reason at all to suspect that the article is primarily about a person) with |importance=Low|society=yes
for me? This would probably involve several hundred edits.
Most articles that get tagged with {{
WPMED}} are people or organizations (e.g., hospitals, medical schools, health charities, businesses) that we just don't care about. All of these should be tagged as |importance=Low|society=yes
. The biographies are just the ones I'm sure that a bot could find. If you have ideas about how to find the rest, I'd love to hear them.
Also, if you happen to have an
mw:ORES-aware bot, then I'd love to have it tag all the stubs as |class=Stub
as well. I have checked enough (thousands of) ORES scores for stubs to know that it is extremely reliable for that rating, and we do see a lot of stubs.
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 22:49, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
about how to find the restORES might work similarly for these as well. — Qwerfjkl talk 05:36, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
|importance=
. We never did convert it to |priority
(good idea, but maybe not worth flooding the watchlists, and the template does not treat them as exact aliases).
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 06:21, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
I was pointed here from the Village pump as a good place to ask.
Currently we have 409 articles using "PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions" as the title of a reference rather than the actual title of the article being referenced. Is there any tool that can convert the title or a BOT created to perform this task? As an example [9] that I have done manually. Keith D ( talk) 09:53, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
|website=www.pressreader.com
should be changed to |via=pressreader.com
also. The titles are not in the HTML which makes getting titles via bot very hard.
AManWithNoPlan (
talk) 01:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
looking for a translation bot for work on the luganda Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.75.189.46 ( talk) 07:01, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
79.185.136.221 ( talk) 19:57, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Wikipedia:Articles with the most references updates are done manually and majority of entries are severely outdated. It would be great if a bot could regularly handle the updates. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 23:41, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
Coding... Almost done, but needs some finalising work. —usernamekiran (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Done Involved projects/editors notified. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:00, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if this is the right place to request this but here goes. In 2022, the 910 area code gained a concurrent code of 472. Could a bot do a one time edit to add this new code to the |area_code=
parameter in
Template:Infobox settlement for each settlement article within the region. Thanks and have a good day!
DiscoA340 (
talk) 22:38, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
insource:/\| *area_code *= *910/
gives 11 pages. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 18:26, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
insource:/\| *area_codes? *= *\[\[ *Area code 910/
gives us another 203 articles.
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:31, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
I am request a bot to:
137a ( talk • edits) 18:49, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
taken from archive, got no responses last time
Here are some possible tasks for a bot:
137a ( talk • edits) 18:49, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
The code is avaliable here, though it may not work. The code is mostly written in PHP. — Qwerfjkl talk 11:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
I've noticed that there are widespread problems with compliance to MOS:BIOCAPS for grape cultivars and wine varietals. For instance, the MOS requires "Pinor Noir" to always be capitalized, but it is frequently written "Pinot noir" in Wikipedia. It would be helpful if someone could create a bot to properly capitalize grape varietal names per MOS. This would require taking something like List of grape varieties and checking that the names there don't conflict with non-grape terms. QuintinK ( talk) 15:11, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
WP:WPWX is in need of a bot that can rewrite track map images using the new colors that were approved in a recent RfC. The bot would have to be able to utilize the track maker found here. These images are generated using input code that is run through the track maker software. Noah Talk 19:35, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
Category | Old Scheme | New Scheme |
---|---|---|
Tropical Depression/Disturbance | ||
Tropical Storm | ||
Category 1 | ||
Category 2 | ||
Category 3 | ||
Category 4 | ||
Category 5 |
Can a bot please replace all instances of {{
br list}} with {{
br entries}}? I'm looking to have this redirect deleted as the target of both redirects, {{
br separated entries}}, is designed for use in infoboxes to replace the use of <br />
in a delimited collection of entries; so, therefore, it is not a list template. Much obliged, ‑‑
Neveselbert (
talk ·
contribs ·
email) 20:48, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
There was a fairly clear consensus in the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 202#Accelerated Mobile Pages links that "amp" links are a bad thing, and should be done away with. Can a bot be written that tests links to insure that a version with the ".amp" or ",amp" or "/amp" component removed will work, and if so, remove that component? BD2412 T 23:40, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
amp.example.com/(.*) → example.com/$1
, because each site is free to choose its own URL semantics. It's even possible that some sites can't be unpicked (raw page at /raw/87293410.html; AMP at /amp/1934872.html) or don't work without AMP at all.
Certes (
talk) 12:42, 5 January 2023 (UTC)I started making these changes, but there is too many for non-bot edits. In addition, in the citations, it might be worth removing the link to the Internet archive and removing the parameter with the status of a dead link.
Starting point:
([^/])http:\/\/(?:www\.)?itsanhonour\.gov\.au\/honours\/\w+\/.+?aus_award_id=([0-9]+)[&\w=]+
$1https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/$2
Nux ( talk) 20:21, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Can someone go through
Category:All free media and find files only used in userspace but doesn't have {{
Userspace file}} or {{
Esoteric file}}. Place the results at
User:Minorax/upf using * [[:FILENAME.EXT]]
--
Minorax«¦
talk¦» 09:31, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, magic makers:
I would like a bot that assesses/rates articles as being stubs. This could be a one-time, large run, or perhaps after it's happened once, you'd like to do a smaller clean-up run once every 4–12 months. See more information and ➤links to potentially helpful code at User talk:The Earwig#WPMED.
Wikipedia:Content assessment#Statistics says that we have more than 420,000 articles that are tagged as being with the scope of one or more WikiProjects but don't have any quality assessment. It's likely that 50–60% of these are obvious stubs. The
mw:ORES ratings for stubs are very reliable (some false negatives – which wouldn't be touched under this proposal – but no false positives). If we could get a bot to mark already tagged but unassessed articles as |class=Stub
, this could save editors thousands of hours.
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 00:06, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
|auto=
parameter to mark assessments made by bots was in the original design of that template. I don't mind seeking the approval of anyone you want, but I'm not sure whom you think might object, and getting approval from the "wrong" people won't forestall any problems that you foresee.
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 02:52, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
I have beem advised to report when i requested to replace templates or values if they contain non english numerals. I am using wpcleaner to fix checkwiki errors. To my surprise, many kannada wikipedia content creators diligently added cs1/2 templates for references. With Cite button you can create references, but there is a catch. You need to manually enter all parameters. Alas, very few read them. All kind of syntax errors are unintentionally created. The issue is with "cite button" of visual editor and lack of reftoolbar on source editing. Interface admin responded positively for my demand of upgrade of them. Future date format errors might disappear. Now, the use of kannada numerals can be discouraged. Now, what happens to old errors. I request to create a bot for all indo-aryan and dravidian language wikipedias or wikis which use basic cite button which automatically [1] fixes date format either by replacing whole template data or comment it out. [2] comment out if non latin digits are used in templates. These are the 2 primary issues found by me on kannada wikipedia. రుద్రుడు ( talk) 09:34, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
local_date_names_from_mediawiki
to true
(already done at
line 575). What has not been done at kn.wiki is local digit definition. That is accomplished by replacing the indexes in the ['local_digits']
table (
line 598) with the appropriate Kannada digits (as strings). Try that before committing to a bot.{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} I'm wondering if there's a possibility to create list(s) of articles tagged with "infobox needed" while including "{{Infobox..." in the article? So the unnecessary tags can be removed. Myself mostly interested in 1. Football 2. Sports 3. Bios. - Pelmeen10 ( talk) 22:17, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, namely this page: “Category:School articles without infoboxes” with almost 5,000 entries needs review. Perhaps a bot that can check the main article page for an infobox, and if so, make the necessary adjustments to the talk page. I undid two manually and a bot master can check my contributions for an example. Twillisjr ( talk) 14:38, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Wikipedia's Antisemitism article includes a reference to the correct (non-hyphenated) spelling of the word ( footnote [a]), but other articles use the non-standard hyphen (e.g., this one).
This is not simply a cosmetic or even grammatical change, it has to do with the actual meaning of the term (see here and here).
In addition to the most widely used and adopted definition of antisemitism, from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), cited in the Wikipedia article, here are some other references to the importance of NO hyphen in the term, from experts and leaders in the field:
Nevet Basker ( talk) 20:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
"confirmed anti-Semite"in the Adolf Hitler article, which if a direct quote shouldn't be changed. Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 20:16, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism. We generally do not do site-wide spelling enforcement on valid word variants unless there is an English Wikipedia guideline saying how a word with multiple variants should be spelled. This would typically be set via a tedious and energy-wasting RFC. Consistency within articles and topic areas is fine, but nobody should go around changing one variant to another. The OP should drop this particular stick. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 21:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello Wikipedians,
I have seen a lot of unused fields in various templates from all over Wikipedia. Can there be a bot to remove the unused fields in templates?
This is but a suggestion and I am not sure whether it is necessary or not. But anyway, thank you. I'm Here to Help You ( talk) 08:06, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Good afternoon. Is it possible to create a bot for MOS:CAPTIONS? I have corrected many pages by applying this rule, but with almost 7 million pages it's literally impossible to do them all, so I make this proposal. JackkBrown ( talk) 14:36, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
{{
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
I recently redid the {{
USRD}}
banner and now there are about 4000 pages (mostly redirects) tagged that have an invalid state. I've done quite a few with JWB, but it's tedious.
\|state=(NY|FL)-CRTF
becomes
|state=$1|type=CR
Some pages may already have the |type=CR
, but I don't suspect it will be many. –
Fredddie
™ 01:59, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hi all,
Following 1234qwer1234qwer4 suggestion, I'd like to request a bot for unpiping unnecessarily piped links (i.e.: [[xyz|xyz]]). As per WP:NOPIPE, these pipes, besides unnecessary, can create problems, because it's very easy to edit the text without editing the link. The bot command should be conservative, i.e., unpipe only exact matches, because there are a few cases where what looks like unnecessary piping is actually useful.
Thanks in advance. Cheers. Rkieferbaum ( talk) 18:56, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello. I was wondering if there was a bot that could clear out Category:Track listings that use the collapsed parameter. Per Template:Track listing, there was agreement to remove the |collapsed= parameter in 2014. There's currently over 13,000 usages. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 20:14, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot that does the following: 1. " http://www." or "http://" turn into " https://www." or "https://" for all URLs in every pages. 2. "https://" is the most favourable URL outcome, second would be " https://www." or "http://", so that " http://www." at last. 161.81.115.230 ( talk) 11:30, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now... (asked elsewhere before, maybe here will be more relevant...) ~ Lofty abyss 05:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
There are tons of instances like Zu Feng#Film (last column, for the year 2008) where someone has put a citation in a cell in the table directly before rather than after the cited text (usually with no space after the citation). In the cited article, this is done correctly in later cells in the same column. These should be found and holisitically reversed, and I think this is a job for a bot. I am specifically looking at instances where the reference is the first piece of content of the cell itself, so they should be easy to find. BD2412 T 14:07, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
(\|\| *)(\<ref.*?\<\/ref\>) *(\w+)(\n\|-)
and found 36 examples.
GoingBatty (
talk) 15:25, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
This is likely not the right place, but I have no idea where else to report it since the bot operator hasn't edited in a year.
I posted a short bug description on Jayron32's talk page
here. To summarize: multiple discussions were closed with a single {{
hat}}
, and sigmabot misplaced the hat when archiving. This is a minor corner case, not worth an "emergency stop", but worth fixing if possible.
If it can't be fixed, we might want to make note of it in Template:Hidden archive top/doc to recommend not hatting multiple discussions at once? DFlhb ( talk) 07:26, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
As of today, Fort Bragg has been renamed to Fort Liberty. There seems to be a lot of pages with the old name in them, which could mean some pages would be missed if they were all updated manually. If someone could use AWB or a bot to update the name on these pages, I would greatly appreciative it. Thank you for your time and have a great day! DiscoA340 ( talk) 01:26, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi everyone! The page Help:CS1 errors#Most common errors shows a few categories that are quite large. I am requesting a bot operator to write a bot that delivers user talk page messages similar to JaGa's DPL bot whenever a registered editor adds an article to one of the most common CS1 error categories. The bot could use the watchlist to see which user added which article to which category, and then add a new section on the user's talk page detailing what the error means and how to fix it, with text similar to what is posted at Help:CS1 errors. Per the conversation at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 87#Bot to notify users when they add CS1 errors, ReferenceBot used to do this many years ago. Legoktm has archived the code, and A930913 has declared all their code on Labs as CC-BY-SA. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:11, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
|title=
." —
Qwerfjkl
talk 20:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
{{#switch}}
statement could provide some guidance.{{#switch:}}
statement to prove a corresponding help message.{{{cat}}}
parameter, which a switch statement can use to provide the info. I'll probably use |cat=Category:CS1 errors: bare URLCategory:CS1 errors: missing title
when both are present, as those don't need separate error messages. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 16:54, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 80 | ← | Archive 82 | Archive 83 | Archive 84 | Archive 85 | Archive 86 |
There seems to be no automated process to remove {{ citation needed}} tags which are occasionally left on an article after a reference is added to the same statement; a recent example of this instance is [1]. I don't know how to gauge the frequency of this problem, as the search tool parses the regex incorrectly, but it is obvious that the citation needed tag should be removed after a reference is added. A draft regex for the operation is given below; I'm not sure yet how to handle {{ citation needed span}} wrappers containing references.
Regex | Replacement text |
---|---|
</ref>\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n)( *\|.*?)?\}\} |
</ref> |
\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n)( *\|.*?)?\}\}<ref(.*?)> |
<ref$3> |
\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n) span\|([^<\|]+)(\|.*?)?\}\}<ref(.*?)> |
$2<ref$4> |
– LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 20:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
\{\{([Cc]itation needed|[Cc]n) span ?\|([^\}]+\<ref[^\}]+)\}\}
→ $1
? ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 21:41, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
$2
in this case, since $1
matches the first set of parentheses, namely the template name. This is acceptable if the final statement is referenced, although I'm not sure how to handle cases where a cn span tag has a in the middle and ends with unreferenced text. Do you think this regex would work acceptably as well? –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 21:45, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
\{\{Template.*?\}\}
type regexes. I've found that they over-match and have subtle false positives. I prefer the following pattern: \{\{Template[^\}]*\}\}
. Ditto for ref tags. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 22:58, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
/\{\{(([^\{\}]|\{[^\{]|\}[^\}]|\{\{(([^\{\}]|\{[^\{|\}[^\}])*)\}\})*)\}\}/
somewhat safer as it also catches {{tq|LOOK! } A SINGLE CURLY BRACKET!}}
and {{x|{{xy}}}}
correctly. — Alexis Jazz (
talk or ping me) 17:01, 8 May 2022 (UTC)<ref>
tag always implies that citation is not still needed for some or all content or that the reference added actually supports the material in question. A silly counterexample: Sky is blue.{{citation needed}}<ref>Note: On Earth only.</ref>
You would likely need to show a low false positive rate for this task first. —
HELLKNOWZ ∣
TALK 10:16, 8 May 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)
I would oppose doing this; it is pointless and redundant at best and negates any consensus established at the CfD discussion at worst. Wikipedia:Soft deletion (failed proposal) for articles failed, so its backdoor equivalent for categories should fail as well. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:38, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
I had the idea of automatically archiving Twinkle-generated logs for deletion nominations (XfD, PROD, CSD), which can become very long for users who frequently initiate deletion processes, so that only the more recent months appear in the main log. My XfD log was over 160 KB until I set up my own archival system using ClueBot III ( talk · contribs), and we can use that as a template. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 19:55, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The most recent mass message sent to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/List contains a syntax error, specifically missing closing bold formatting on this line:
* New: '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/231|LGBTQ+ women]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/232|Greenland and the Faroes]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/233|Women in music]]
That line should read:
* New: '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/231|LGBTQ+ women]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/232|Greenland and the Faroes]] '''|''' [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/233|Women in music]]'''
Messages were apparently delivered to about 1,200 user talk pages listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/A-F, Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/G-N, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Outreach/O-Z.
If there is a bot operator who could tidy this up, that would be helpful. Note that this may be viewed by some as a cosmetic edit, but the problem is a WP:Linter error that will need to be cleaned up at some point, so it will be better if a bot does it. Pinging the message sender, Megalibrarygirl, as an FYI; no action is needed from the message sender. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 16:55, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
I know this might sound crazy, but I've been thinking of a bot task where a bot would check for IPs that are not currently blocked with templates such as Template:Anonblock and Template:School block on their talk pages and then remove them. This is because it might confuse an IP user to be told that their IP is blocked even though they're not blocked, and the template is in present tense (ex. "your school, library, or educational institution's IP address is blocked") and it would be weird for that to be on an IP which is not currently blocked wizzito | say hello! 23:42, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
As much as we preach against it, climbing up the ranking in a list remains a strong motivator for many Wikipedians. WP:WBGAN and WP:WBFAN list out Wikipedians by their number of good articles or featured articles, but I think it might be a better measure of impact (albeit still an imperfect one) to instead list out Wikipedians by the cumulative annual views of all their GAs or FAs. Would anyone be interested in coding a bot to maintain such lists? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:58, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
s54328__goodarticles_p
database on toolforge (table name: nominators2
) containing the article–nominator mapping, which is updated in real-time. Then to update WBGAN everyday, it simply
queries this table. This has been running for more than a year now and has been quite stable. –
SD0001 (
talk) 20:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC)usbktop
with yytop
.usbk
with yy
.usbkbottom
with yyend
.Although {{=}} is now a magic word, many pages are still listed as transcluding the template in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:=. A bot should null edit all those pages to get the transclusion count at https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=%3D#bottom all the way down to zero. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 01:41, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello. There is a problem in pages using template:DukeOrtho. The first letter should be written in lowercase, not the uppercase. example Can anybody fix this by bot? LR0725 ( talk) 07:26, 12 June 2022 (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.
Hello!
Please substitute these int: messages. They belong on Commons, on English Wikipedia only English is needed :). Jonteemil ( talk) 23:37, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
Category:Year lists by country has some entries without many things listed on them. Some of those have categories that show a lot of things that could be moved to those list though. Check the year in the category, post the article linked there to the proper list article. If only one link per year exist, then list them by decade instead. For instance I noticed Category:2015 in Brunei had things that weren't in the article 2015 in Brunei so added them. There could be red links in the main article of List of years in Brunei which have things listed in a category that has the name of that year and the name of the country. Dream Focus 16:31, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Closing a GAR discussion is quite a bit of faff, so I hope on of the magicians technical editors could help us out. A bot would have to do the following:
I think the FACBot is already doing something very similar for featured articles. For a community assessment, this bot could be triggered when the discussion is closed (and {{ GAR/current}} on the reassessment page is changed to {{ GAR/result}}). For individual assessments the most logical trigger would be the removal of the {{GAR/link}} from the article talk page. In that case, the bot would start from #2. Pinging @ Aircorn, who is doing a lot of this maintenance. Femke ( talk) 07:27, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
{{GA}}
into {{Article history}}
. Can you provide a link to 1 recent individual assessment closure and 1 recent community assessment closure for me to review? Also, are you open to having a limited list of people who can summon the bot for security reasons, or does it need to be summonable by anyone? –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 21:46, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello Femkemilene. Quick status report, I'm about halfway done writing this. Code. Feel free to start saving up GARs for me to close. Couple questions. 1) Do you want this included in GANReviewTool, or as a separate user script? 2) Do you want this to apply a colored {{ Atop}} like in this diff? – Novem Linguae ( talk) 23:52, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
User warnings are not allowed on the user sandbox because new users could be afraid they did something wrong or got banned. These could be removed by a bot. It could detect for the text of a substituted template: for example, if it saw the following or similar:
Hello, I'm Interstatefive. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks.
it would revert. After the bot reverts 3 warnings by the same user in 10 minutes it could send a message to the user stating to go to WP:UWSB to test user warnings. interstatefive ( talk) - just another roadgeek 17:34, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
The 2013 wikidata RFC closed with an extremely strong consensus that it is not appropriate to use wikidata in article text on the English wikipedia. A few editors (notably @ Exec8: and @ HueMan1:), who were presumably unaware of this, have been performing edits where they have been replacing random words in the first paragraph of various Philippine city articles with wikidata templates, typical diffs [2] [3]. Such edits are contrary to the outcome of the RFC and make what should be plain text unnecessarily difficult to edit. I am therefore requesting a one time bot run which will substitute any inappropriate uses of the {{ PH wikidata}} template, i.e. those found in article text, rather than infoboxes. 192.76.8.78 ( talk) 10:15, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Wiki search (text) -> hastemplate:"PH wikidata"
[4] as the search, and find/replace {{PH wikidata|name}} -> {{subst:PH wikidata|name}}
(and of course the other common parameters) works just fine if we want to indiscriminately replace all of these. If we want to skip infoboxes, this task becomes harder and may require a bot. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 19:53, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
(?<! *\|.*)\{\{PH wikidata
→ {{subst:PH wikidata
. (For the list I just used What transcludes here.)
Qwerfjkl
talk 20:31, 25 May 2022 (UTC)(?<!\n *\|.+)\{\{PH wikidata
works better. ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 13:38, 26 May 2022 (UTC)Recently ran into an editor who decided to be clever and redirect their User page and User talk page to Main Page. Unlike most pages which give an indicator when you've arrived via a redirect that you can click on to get back to the source page, apparently this does not generate such an indicator. With that scenario in mind, a bot that monitors edits to User and User talk pages (not subpages, just the main ones that would conceivably be linked from the MediaWiki UI for contacting a user) for attempts to redirect to Main Page (I'm not aware of any other page that suppresses the redirect indicator, if such a page exists, redirects for those pages would also make sense). What the bot does upon finding such an edit really depends on how much consensus you think we need for it: could log it to a specific bot subpage that interested editors/admins could watchlist and address as they happen, or, if it wouldn't be deemed too controversial, the bot could simply remove the redirect (and perhaps still log it somewhere) and leave a note on their talk page as to why it was undone. — Locke Cole • t • c 01:39, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
presumably it would run indefinitelyOr at least until a software change in MediaWiki can happen to make such an edit impossible to save. I'm not familiar with the APIs available, but presumably if there were a way to hook into recent changes and filter by namespace to User/User talk, you could look for a redirect to Main Page being created (it might be worth looking into whether any other pages exhibit this suppression of (Redirected from ...) and prohibiting those too) and go from there fairly easily. — Locke Cole • t • c 17:42, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
contentSub
is hidden for
Main Page and no other pages with code in
MediaWiki:Vector.css and
MediaWiki:Monobook.css. contentSub
contains other things than "Redirected from" and was probably hidden due to other things. If we wanted to, I think we could add CSS to display "Redirected from" while still hiding the other things. If we display "Redirected from" then it will be displayed for redirects from all namespaces.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 21:42, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
|first_run=
has been removed from
Template:Infobox television after
this discussion. There are ~13k pages at
Category:Pages using infobox television with unknown parameters with the parameter. Would really help if someone with a bot could remove all instances of these. Thank you!
Gonnym (
talk) 05:27, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
A few weeks ago per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Archive 79#Should "films by country" categories remain all-inclusive?, WikiProject Film reached a consensus to deprecate its former practice of deeming the base "[Country] films" categories to be "all-inclusive" (i.e. directly including all films from that country even if they were already otherwise subcategorized for genre or other characteristics.) However, some of the involved categories literally have thousands of articles, and there are nearly 200 country categories cross-referenced with a few dozen genre categories to deal with — so needless to say, we'd prefer to get as much of it as possible done by bot instead of editors having to manually go through over 100,000 films one at a time.
The important complications here are that there may be some films lurking in the base "Country films" categories which have not been fully subcategorized by genre at all yet, and some country-genre intersections may still be missing entirely — so the request would be for a bot to go through the Country-Genre intersection categories (e.g. Category:American documentary films, Category:British drama films, Category:Canadian short films, etc.) to remove "Country films" from films that are already subcategorized, but the bot should not be turned loose directly on "Country films" categories themselves, so that any unsubcategorized stragglers don't get stranded from the tree. Human editors can look after whatever cleanup is still necessary after a bot's done the grunt work, but we'd prefer to automate as much of the grunt work as possible first. Bearcat ( talk) 15:52, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
/\[\[[Cc]ategory:(...) films\]\]\n?/gi
(with nothing) then I could do it. ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 22:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
[[Category:[country] films]]
from the relevant pages. ―
Qwerfjkl
talk 18:50, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
This query shows articles with WikiProject categories. This bot request is to remove the WikiProject categories from the articles, and add the WikiProject to the article's talk page if it's not already there. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:18, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
After 2020, the US Census released a new population count for the United States. Many cities have their own Wikipedia articles that have sections which goes into detail about their pop. counts. Though, many articles about them that many still haven't been updated, even 2 years after the 2020 Census. I believe it is not humanly possible to update all the articles with old data, even if you did, it would likely be almost time for the 2030 Census counts. I propose a bot that would update information in likely three sections in each article which needs updating. first is the top introduction which usually say "as of the 2010 Census, the population was X." Second would be the Infobox which usually has a section that talks about population. third would be the historical population box which is usually very neglected by editors. The bot would update each section to the current Census counts, fill in gaps in the historical population section (I would bet some articles don't even have 2010 counts), and possibly update yearly estimates carried about by the Census. This website seems to have all the information that would be needed for the bot to run, an example https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/swaincountynorthcarolina. I would like opinions about this idea and see if anyone is willing to help create a bot as I do not know a lot of coding. Thank you for your time! DiscoA340 ( talk) 21:24, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
I noticed that temporary sanctions tend to linger on
Wikipedia:Editing restrictions. Entries can be automatically removed if the rightmost column contains only a date which has passed; dates in the tables are always in yyyy-mm-dd
format. This will apply to all subpages of EDR, including archives, except that permission from Arbcom will be needed to auto-handle the Arbcom-imposed sanction lists. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 12:14, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Many of the stubs in the categories Category:Kenya geography stubs, and its six subcategories, are unsourced (some existences unverifiable) with no evidence of notability ( WP:GEOLAND etc.). These should be uncontroversially (consensus exists through previous AFD) redirected to their 'parent' article. For example, Gatanga, Kenya sits within Category:Central Province, Kenya geography stubs, and should redirect to Central Province, Kenya. Is there a bot with the ability to do this with relative ease? MIDI ( talk) 22:31, 29 June 2022 (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.
All these links need to be changed from Loring Park to Loring Park, Minneapolis CTF83! 18:20, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Lots and lots and lots of hidden text, there are articles where some issue has led an editor to hide a block of text in the article (perhaps pending discussion of whether it is overly detailed or supported by sources or the like, or perhaps for technical reasons). Some examples include this edit, which hid a citation that apparently was not working at the time, and thereafter remained in the wikitext for nine years, and this edit, which put an entire paragraph in hidden text, where it remained for five years.
This is obviously bad editing, given that putting content into hidden text (particularly without indicating this in an edit summary or on the talk page) merely ends up polluting the Wikitext without resolving the asserted issue.
What is needed is a bot to suss out instances of relatively large blocks of longstanding hidden text and create a project-space list indicating:
As noted in the Village Pump discussion, there are some relatively short bits of hidden text that routinely go into certain templates to indicate what shoudl go there. I think a safe cutoff would be 50 characters, with any block of text longer than that being listed. Note that we do want to capture deleted images that have been hidden, but it is probably best to list those separately. BD2412 T 18:33, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
/<!--.{50,}?-->/gs
I don't have time to do it myself, but just wanted to throw the idea out there. –
Novem Linguae (
talk) 21:03, 28 May 2022 (UTC)When the template {{Internet Archive film}} was created, the parameter for specifying the title of a film was called "name", and many articles (e.g. this) use this syntax: {{Internet Archive film | id= ID | name= TITLE }} Since this edit in the template, the expected parameter is "title" instead of "name", and the expected syntax is {{Internet Archive film | id= ID | title= TITLE }} Any use of the parameter "name" is ignored, making the name of the link default to the article title for any use of the old syntax.
After that, the template {{Internet Archive short film}} must be updated to conform to the syntax of {{Internet Archive film}}. You are welcome to do it, otherwise, ping me and I'll do it. -- Bensin ( talk) 22:22, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Many users add references to discussions on talk pages, and they all clump together on the bottom of the talk page if the editor doesn't known about the {{ Reflist-talk}}. It seems to be a fairly simple task. I have checked the other bots, and there is SteveBot, which adds {{ reflist}} to the bottom of articles. AdrianHObradors ( talk) 18:15, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Edit: Seems I broke the table up there putting a link to the template on the title, sorry! Removed, hope that fixes it AdrianHObradors ( talk) 19:43, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
checking all talk pages, does it mean all talk pages? Or just the ones edited since the last time it executed? -- AdrianHObradors ( talk) 18:40, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
I noticed that enwiki is frequently outdated for Austrian mayors. A few examples:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altach /info/en/?search=Altach
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_(Vorarlberg) /info/en/?search=Klaus,_Vorarlberg
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koblach /info/en/?search=Koblach
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiningen_(Vorarlberg) /info/en/?search=Meiningen,_Austria
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satteins /info/en/?search=Satteins
Would it be possible to create a bot that extracts the "Bürgermeister" value on dewiki, compares it to the "Mayor" one on enwiki and updates the latter when they are different? The rationale is that articles like these are typically updated more frequently in their original language than the English counterpart. I don't have any bot/programming experience, but I'd try to help in any form that I can, provided a bot like this is even possible/permitted. Christian Steyphen ( talk) 17:39, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references.
I am active in the SVG project, converting raster graphics into scalable vector graphics (mainly coat of arms). The new images have a better quality but I always need to replace all occurrences of the old image in all articles, templates and in all language wikis by hand which sometimes takes longer than creating the new .svg image. Is there a bot or an opportunity to create a little helper which takes the old image from Commons as an Input and replaces it on all sites in all MediaWiki occurrences (Wikipedia (all languages), Wikidata,...) with a new image path? This can also be helpful if companies, products, non-profits or brands change/update there logos - same procedure. Maxwxyz ( talk) 16:49, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
I'd like to request a bot that would add a {{ Talkback}} template at an IP talk page in response to a formatted request left at a Help forum like WP:Tea house, WP:Help desk, or WP:Reference desk by an experienced user responding to an IP's question.
Use case
At various help forums, experienced volunteer editors drop by to answer user questions, a good proportion of whom are anonymous users. Pings won't work with an IP user, so a {{ talkback}} template is needed. A quick scan of those help venues and following the IP talk links (or noticing that they are red) shows that most responders don't bother adding the {{ tb}}; it's just a bit too tedious. So, the IP never gets notified, and may never see the response(s) from the helpful editor(s) who responded to their question.
Possible UX
I think it could work in different ways, but what I envision is this: let's say I am responding to an IP question at the Tea house. (See here for a real example.) Somewhere in my response to the IP question, I'd add this to my message:
{{IP needs talkback |IPuser |PAGENAME |SECTION |MYuserID }}
(or maybe just use REVISIONUSERID and drop last param)This would trigger the bot that a talkback message is needed for this IP's talk page.
Possible design
As to how it would work, maybe the template could add the page to subpages of tracking category Category:IP needs talkback somehow encoding the info needed for the bot. Maybe via subpages like */IPuser/PAGENAME/SECTION or something? Anyway, the bot would pick up the info needed, and then add this at the IPuser talk page:
== You have feedback at PAGENAME ==
{{talkback|PAGENAME|SECTION|ts=MYuserID ~~~~~}}
<!--Placed by TB-bot-->
thus notifying IPuser of the discussion that has reponses, and where to find it. I think there may be other ways to do it, but this was the first thing that came to mind, probably because I'm familiar with tracking categories with subcategories generated by templates. As a template writer, I could contribute to that part of the task, if adopted.
Benefits
It would be relatively easy for Help forum responders to add a template at the same time as their response, and I think they would start doing it, and more IPs would be notified and find out the answers to their questions.
Possible issues
Alternatives
Perhaps a more ambitious bot wouldn't need any kind of trigger at all, but could scan a configurable list of Help forums, looking for questions placed by anon users that have responses, and directly place the talkback at the IP talk page, if there wasn't one there already. Not sure if that's too difficult to be practical.
Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 04:41, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Listed at: WT:Help desk, WT:Reference desk, WT:Teahouse. Mathglot ( talk) 05:14, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Additional hybrid alternative possibility: we do add the template to the response, but no categorization happens; the template contains a token or unique string or something (maybe just its own name) that attracts the bot's scanner, and all the information required by the bot to place a {{ tb}} is right there. Mathglot ( talk) 05:54, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
The following templates redirect to {{ Infobox ice hockey team}}:
Nearly 90% of the transclusions to {{ Infobox ice hockey team}} are indirect, so was hoping someone could automate a bot to update the pages using these templates to eliminate the indirect template calls. – Aidan721 ( talk) 20:02, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
A lot of our calendar-year articles contain the line "(link will display the full calendar)". (Random pick: start at 786 and go up from there.) This, of course, looks ridiculous in print. I've started to replace this with {{ Unprintworthy inline|(link will display the full calendar)}} but it's going to take months to do so. Having a bot do it would seem a better idea... but does that run foul of the "no cosmetic changes" anti-bot rule? This is my first brush with Bot Requests, so please be gentle! — Trey Maturin has spoken 16:15, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
(link will display the full calendar)with
{{Unprintworthy inline|(link will display the full calendar)}}while we wait for other action. — Trey Maturin has spoken 18:21, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Greetings. Template:Infobox bibliographic database instructs users to wrap URLs in {{ url}}. Unfortunately, most instantiations use bare URLs: search, another search. Template:url assists browsers such as Chrome in breaking a long URL thus preventing the infobox width from growing too large ( example). Could a bot help in fixing this issue, please? Thank you! (Edit: background discussion: Template_talk:URL#Long_URL_in_infobox.) fgnievinski ( talk) 14:19, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
{{#if:{{str find|{{{website}}}|{{((}}url}}|{{{website}}}|{{url|{{{website}}}}}}}
Is it possible to run through files that are in both Category:Self-published work and Category:All free media for the "Author" e.g. or "Copyright holder" e.g. tag in the file's EXIF? -- Minorax«¦ talk¦» 09:19, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
# [[:FILENAME]]
. --
Minorax«¦
talk¦» 09:54, 6 August 2022 (UTC)In short, a new bot to update User:Amalthea/RfX/RfA count; the prior bot is no longer running. There is a module running, but it has caused some technical issues in the past ( Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_197#Loading_Watchlist_very_slow. Running twice an hour would be sufficient. — xaosflux Talk 09:49, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure which bot I need to be requesting, but I would like I would like to request alerts for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Lethwei#Article Alerts about Lethwei related articles if possible.
The same things as the kickboxing task force, see here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Martial arts/Kickboxing task force#Article Alerts
Thank you! Lethweimaster ( talk) 20:51, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Please discussion this matter.I want to bot on Santali Wikipedia because Don't have a bot on Santali Wikipedia ᱵᱤᱨᱢᱚᱞ ( talk) ᱵᱤᱨᱢᱚᱞ ( talk) 02:48, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
Please substitute "unicode 14" in "unicode 15" 5.91.185.198 ( talk) 11:34, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
Background: A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#Why_not_just_abolish_RMT? found some consensus for a revised implementation of the technical move request process. The idea is that instead of requesting uncontroversial moves at a centralized page, editors would post the request at the talk page of the article to be moved, similar to edit requests. The benefits would include better visibility to page watchers, smoother conversion of contested requests into full RM discussions, intuitiveness for new editors by reducing the diversity of procedural stuff to learn, and archiving.
As part of this idea, it was suggested that a bot-maintained page similar to User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable (in addition to a category) would be useful for watchers and people looking to perform the moves.
Basic features would be a table of the pages to be moved, the desired destinations, and the time of the request. Also desirable would be an indicator of whether performing the move would require an admin, or if lesser permissions would suffice (usually page mover). Whether a technical move needs an admin is currently listed manually, so automatic detection is not exactly a requirement for the bot, but nice to have. Automatic detection would just be checking for protection, basically (see the help page).
Would you be interested in implementing this? Or alternatively, you can also comment at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#Why_not_just_abolish_RMT? if you agree/disagree this is a good idea in the first place. Adumbrativus ( talk) 00:22, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
During the cleanup of the Iran geostubs by User:Carlossuarez46, I have noticed many disambiguation pages, such as Chah-e Qorban, link only to pages that are likely to be deleted imminently. I recently tagged Chah-e Pahn for speedy deletion per G14 because the only remaining entry is Chah-e Pahn, Bushehr (itself also at PROD).
Based on the contents of these disambiguation pages, I can propose an automated test for possible G14 candidates:
The reasoning, based on the observations of the Iran geostub templates, is that any necessary disambiguation page will have at least two valid bluelinks, and there no good reason why an entry in a disambiguation page should be placed inside of a template. (The {{ dab}} template itself, and several templates in dab pages such as {{ lang-fa}} in the Iran geostub dabs, contain bluelinks which are irrelevant to the entries.) "See also" is not included, as any WP:PTM judgment requires a human reviewer. As such, there may be false negatives noticeable by a human (e.g. if the sole entry has two bluelinks), but there should be no false positives on properly formed dab pages.
The other condition, redirects ending in "(disambiguation)" which do not go to dab pages, is also straightforward to automate.
In this case, the bot procedure would be to place a G14 tag on pages which pass the aforementioned test. It should not delete these pages immediately, since the title may occasionally be a plausible redirect, and malformed dab pages may produce a false positive. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 02:22, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
disambiguation pages that disambiguate zero extant Wikipedia pages, but there is no rush to do this while the article's fate is still uncertain. Otherwise, as Pam points out,
If a disambiguation page links to only one article and does not end in (disambiguation), it should be changed to a redirect, not deleted. Again, it would be sensible to wait for the article to be deleted or saved before bothering to do this. The short interval when the target article's future is in doubt is the one time when we can't sensibly delete or edit the dab, either manually or automatically. Something useful may come out of this idea but the details don't yet have the consensus needed to become a bot request. Certes ( talk) 10:23, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Around 250K articles—at least!—have refs that aren't "bare", strictly speaking, but could use with some expanding. There's a template for that, of course, but it's barely used. — Guarapiranga ☎ 00:01, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
{{
cite book}}
. I'd write a bot picking off low hanging fruit of well formatted free-form cites if you wanted to help with the regex. There are various
Citation#Styles and each style probably has variations. Some will be more common than others don't need them all. --
Green
C 05:18, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello,
Looking for a bot op who can hit about ~120k pages so that plainrowheaders
can be TemplateStyled (see
MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do#description and specific section
MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do#Plainrowheaders).
I'd be looking for the basic version of this change. I'd do it myself but I think with that many pages and the fact I don't have a separate machine or anything like that to keep running, that it would take a while for me to do it.
There are a couple functions:
plainrowheaders
from table start lines ({| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
and similar) where scope="row"
(or similar) doesn't appear on the page. That's something approximately equal to
these 36k pages.
plainrowheaders
from table start lines where scope="row"
also does not appear in the table of interest. I have no idea how to get a scope for this task.plainrowheaders
when it appears in a table without wikitable
in the same class declaration, or outside a table class declaration entirely but inside a table still (not a template, which may have a valid use for naming the class in its instantiation). Another "I have no idea how many of these cases there are".{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
to {{plain row headers}}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
I am currently considering changing the class name in the TemplateStyles before doing this to plain-row-headers
which will more cleanly delineate the name and which will make it much more fullproof to track removals should someone create {{
plainrowheaders}} as a redirect later (even with the "don't do this" note in the template documentation).
Such a bot would not edit in other namespaces (yet, perhaps as an extension to the task with a very specific scope of pages), and it would only touch this "limited" set of pages. Any others would also be for a later extension.
Questions/concerns welcome. Izno ( talk) 03:39, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
plain-row-headers
also since that prevents future users from doing unfortunate things. A couple more adjustments then:
plainrowheaders
to plain-row-headers
?{{plain row headers}}
and not {{Plain row headers}}
. Not a requirement for me.!scope="row"{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|1|chartid=4125a|refname="RPMTop100"}}
in which the lack of a pipe in the page markup (it is supplied by the following template) has caused me to fall back to using a regexp to detect the scope. It will clearly be better to treat a table as using the plainrowheaders if there us any doubt. I guess the real solution would be to expand the templates in the table markup.
William Avery (
talk) 22:56, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
It will clearly be better to treat a table as using the plainrowheaders if there us any doubt.Yes, this is true, but I'm not sure it's necessary. The regex is trivial (
scope\s*=\s*"?\s*row(:?group)?\s*"?
I think, though you could even just stop after seeing row
so scope\s*=\s*"?\s*row
), so long as you can bound what you're searching to the table's scope. IDK if that's doable with pywikibot or if it's giving you something significantly more structured.
Izno (
talk) 01:35, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|1|chartid=4125a|rowheader=true|refname="RPMTop100"}}
. I initially wondered if you were expecting to put calls to {{
Plain row headers}} inside such row-emitting templates, but in any case, the "plain-row-headers" class will need to be in the table's class attribute, so I need to know about what's going on in the template. As the code stands I try the following in succession:
{|
. I think the inverse operation, removal, should act only on the same "plain tables". Cases of {{
episode list}} which also use {|
should be few and far between given the use instructions (namely that headers should be inside {{
Episode table}}), but I suppose it's possible they exist. Most other table row templates work similarly with a matching table heading template. The reason why is to eventually add either {{
plain row headers}} or {{
plain row headers/styles.css}} directly to the header template and save including it where it isn't needed in the direct wikitext.The task is to add missing {{ WikiProject Music/Music genres task force}} template to talk pages to a set of articles, built after wikidata. The set of articles itself based on wikidata query of item that have an English article + instance of = music genre (Q188451) / song type (Q107356781) / type of musical work/composition (Q107487333) / audio content genre (Q108676140). It's a pretty neat selection here (relatively), as I've been working through these items for a few years now, trying to keep them in order, exporting infobox values, correcting scheme, making division between forms/genres/types, etc.
It would be nice if new templates could adopt the quality/class parameters of other project templates, but if anything other bots with related tasks are likely to do this after.
I would appreciate if it would be possible to do such a task. The next step I'm planning is to add a parameter about the missing infoboxes for selected articles with p31 = music genre (minus some specific articles). Solidest ( talk) 09:50, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
&
which caused the bug noticed above):
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=22536092 .
Solidest (
talk) 09:21, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
The next step I wanted to do with these banners is to add the |needs-infobox=yes
parameter to the appropriate articles, which would place them in
Category:Music genre articles without infoboxes.
The list is ready, and I've compiled it this way:
Overall, the selection is looks good and I think 95% of the things on the list are worth having an infobox. While the rest are 5% can be debatable and those who find it unnecessary can remove this parameter later.
So this work also needs bot actions or at least the auto-mode rights for AWB. Is it possible to do this as part of the same BRFA or will it require a new one?
P.S. There are still about 100 articles with banners where the parameter should be set manually, as they are designed slightly differently on wikidata. I'll probably do that as well if the core set gets approved and processed. Solidest ( talk) 16:13, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Example cite from Carowinds:
Contains |url=
https://d3knbu6191stae.cloudfront.net/binaries/content/assets/ca-en-us/blogs/2017carowindsparkmap.pdf
|work=d3knbu6191stae.cloudfront.net
cloudfront.net is Amazon AWS hosting ie. Amazon CloudFront. The work is not CloudFront which is merely a backend "cloud" hosting company where the PDF is stored.
Each CloudFront customer has an ID. In this case d3knbu6191stae maps to either the parent company
Cedar Fair (
https://www.cedarfair.com/ ) or the amusement park
Carowinds (
https://www.carowinds.com ) - probably the later. Another example is d1wqtxts1xzle7 which maps to academia.edu although in that case the work will be a journal title and the cite should have |via=
Academia.edu
An enterprising bot coder could extract all the cloudfront.net IDs and create a map of what the actual work is, somehow. This map could be used by various tools to maintain citations such as User:Citation bot, User:BrownHairedGirl, Reflinks, WP:WAYBACKMEDIC, etc.. Green C 21:18, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
Subdomain | ~# links | Comment |
---|---|---|
d25d2506sfb94s | 2090 | YouGov poll results. I can detect no domain with a meaningful name that uses these files. |
dt9guucc6nuua | 1142 | IAAF athletics results. Appear to also be published under media.aws.iaaf.org, which would be a reasonable change to make to citations, but that's only an initial impression and needs checking. See https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/67369 |
d1wqtxts1xzle7 | 636 | From the way they are cited, These are academic documents. Currently firewalled. |
d2o2figo6ddd0g | 511 | A variety of US college athletics results, apparently from diverse sources. |
Requested at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers#Discussion (Marking AFDd pages as reviewed). New page patrollers would like a way to see recent AFDs created by new page patrollers. I'm thinking a bot that updates a log page somewhere (maybe in the bot's userspace, or a subpage of WP:DELSORT). NPPs create a lot of AFDs, so this page would need a way to keep its size reasonable. I'd suggest having the bot count how many entries are on the page, and once it's above a certain number (50? 100? 200?), remove the oldest one every time it adds a new one. For algorithm, maybe have the bot run on a cron job every (1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours?), run an SQL query to see recent AFD pages created by NPPs, and go from there. Would do myself but I'm a little busy this month. Thanks in advance. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 23:15, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
You know what to do :) Emptywords ( talk) 14:55, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
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Can an ADMIN advise if there's a bot for edit history cleanup and if so who to contact to request it process a pages history as I am not admin and got blocked twice for trying to do it manually.
Not getting anywhere with oversight or privacy who just revdel everything.
Personal information and copyright infringement have been deleted from the article and the edits rev deleted which is basically the entire history going back to the page creation in 2002, apart from all the vandalism.
The article is a good article (it is now anyway), a biography of a living person, but the edit history has lost its context and is a total mess. There were a few copyright issues and some of the earlier references no longer exist, actual dates of birth, and the real name of a family member were also revdeleted.
I would like to restore the edit history which has been almost entirely revdeleted. over 1000 edits since 2002 and some harmless, and not so harmless vandalism not revdeleted.
The only way to do so would be to remove copyright infringing statements, and dates of birth from every revdeleted page of the edit history, maybe after 6 months of inactivity, allowing the edits to be restored, either deleting or archiving the original for admin eyes only. The vandalism could then be dealt with using revdelete as intended.
Can anyone point me in the right direction its undermining the page to the point a deletion discussion is inevitable which is really not necessary. 86.142.231.35 ( talk) 16:05, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
Following discussion at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Public Art § Conversion into task force, WikiProject Public Art is being converted into a task force of WikiProject Visual arts, and its London task force is becoming a public art task force of WikiProject London. Accordingly, {{
WikiProject Visual arts}} and {{
WikiProject London}} have both been given public_art
parameters.
I'm requesting a bot to replace instances of {{
WikiProject Public Art}} (and also the redirect {{
WikiProject Public art}} with different capitalisation) with instances of {{
WikiProject Visual arts}} containing public_art=yes
– except for instances of the WPPA template containing the London
parameter, which the bot would need to change to instances of {{
WikiProject London}} containing public_art=yes
.
Ham II (
talk) 09:46, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
We have a recurring issue at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion (WP:RFU) where an editor, once denied (or perhaps feeling ignored), will file a new request later on the same page. It was suggested to me that other request pages (particlarly WP:RFPP) have bot maintainers that flag duplicate requests. Something like that would also be helpful at WP:RFU. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:44, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
I manually added this template to a redirect page today, but I'm surprised that it wasn't already added by a bot. Is there a bot that can be programmed to do this? Jarble ( talk) 21:51, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
This bot is a anti-vandal bot, designed to:
mean commentsare. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:45, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
BernsteinBot has been retired. Unlike Tom Brady, it will not be returning to active service. Some of us really rely on its database reports, in my case, it's nightly report of Empty Categories. I'm not sure how complicated it would be for an existing bot to take over some of its duties. I'm hoping that there can be a smooth transition. Thank you, bot experts. Liz Read! Talk! 01:15, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
A lot of pages for local things in Wikipedia are longer then the English version.
For example take the page for Autopista AP-2 vs the Spanish version, Autopista Zaragoza-Medeteranio. The Spanish version is quite a bit longer and more detailed.
My proposal is that when a page has a larger class in another language then Englsh, then the template {{Expand x|y|z}} is added to the English page. For example, a influential Spanish city like Sevile has a star in Spanish (Español) but not English (Inglés), which is some way shorter.
The bot will check any page in any language and compare the size to English. If English is bigger or within 100 bytes, then the template is not added. If the English article is shorter AND has a lower rating, the expand class is added, with x being the language, y being the foreign title, and z being the date.
This bot could really help with article expansion and making English Wikipedia more detailed, but I must mention this could be a COI violation as I am considering a freelance translation job and "50 articles translated into English from a Spanish encyclopaedia to help benefit the global community" does seem like a nice thing to add to my (currently almost-empty) CV.
My suggested plan of development goes like this to help ease creation:
56independent/notacoworcat Talk 16:47, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Most of the chemicals on there can be found on Pubchem, and since pubchem uses a fairly consistent naming scheme for their pages, maybe a bot could be made to go through and cite?
I'm not entirely sure how bots work, or if citation bots are allowed, or if this is at all possible, but if this could work, it would save a lot of effort citing it. It's not a very important page, though.
If anyone makes this, thanks! Balnibarbarian ( talk) 21:33, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
In many cases, uppercase three-letter acronyms ("TLAs") are disambiguation pages, and the lowercase form is always a good redirect. See ABC and abc, for example. Could a bot help create more lowercase redirects? Two sets of pages in projectspace have links to every possible TLA combination, both uppercase and lowercase. See Wikipedia:TLAs from EAA to HZZ for example, and {{ Wikipedia TLAs}} for all links. The bot could use these pages in this process:
When the TLA is an article (e.g. BBC) or a redirect to an article (e.g. AVV) or a redirect to a differently titled disambiguation page (e.g. ARM), the situation is more complicated, so the bot should not create lowercase redirects for those titles. 120.21.41.202 ( talk) 21:58, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
When administrators place block notices on user talk pages, they mostly come with a coloured background but I have noticed the colour has gone for notices earlier than a certain date. I think that is because <div class="user-block" style="min-height: 40px"> does not work and should be changed to <div class="user-block" style="padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #a9a9a9; background-color: #ffefd5; min-height: 40px"> to restore the original display of the messages posted at the time of when they were announced. See [7] for the disappeared colour background, [8] which features the coloured background and User:Iggy the Swan/sandbox for the different results where I know what to do. Thanks - Iggy ( Swan) ( Contribs) 21:53, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
I started this discussion about how there seem to be about 600 hand-done versions of this template onwiki. See background at that page. I have no idea what kinds of sharp edges there might be to this, or how much regularity there is for the issue, but I can't imagine that a bot will do worse to convert these than doing all 600 by hand. Izno ( talk) 01:48, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
{{ tracking category}} now automatically embeds {{ possibly empty category}}. If a bot could go through all pages with both {{ tracking category}} (and its redirects) and {{ possibly empty category}} (and its redirects) directly on them, and remove {{ possibly empty category}} (and its redirects), like so. that would be peachy. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 04:13, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
User:Mike Christie/GA subpages that should be moved is a list of GA subpages and the page they should be moved to. The target page was found by going to the talk page that is the parent of the GA subpage, and following the redirect. There's a discussion of this here. Is there a bot that can do these moves? A redirect should be left behind in every case. Thanks. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 22:25, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
I do this sort of edit over and over again. It does not seem complicated to code. It would involve finding talk pages with OTD templates, checking whether {{ Article history}} already exists (it doesn't always), fixing the inconsistent date and oldid format, and appending the OTD info to the end of the articlehistory.
Separately, once/if that is done, perhaps Anomie could be enticed to change the way Anomiebot handles dates and oldids, as it is inconsistent with the broader application of all items in Articlehistory. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:49, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Hey everyone! I am looking to organize a Michigan-based Wikipedia event, perhaps around 3 days, where we could all meet around a certain theme or themes. Let me know what you think? I am mostly active within the cultural and music-based worlds of Wikipedia, so that is my expertise. This is the first time I am trying to organize something like this so please if anyone has any advice or would like to help me I am all ears. I am posting this notice on the Ann Arbor and Michigan pages as well. JohnDVandevert ( talk) 03:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Currently, there are over 8,000 audio sample files uploaded to Wikipedia, which mostly includes song snippets: Category:Wikipedia non-free audio samples. Of those audio samples, many of them contain subtitles. Just for now, I'll use this page as an example: File:Green Day - Holiday.ogg
If you click on the "TimedText" tab, you will come to this webpage: TimedText:Green Day - Holiday.ogg.en.srt, which includes the subtitles created by a community member. And to monitor which audio files contain one of these samples, a subtitles template is placed on the file's page, which will add that file to this category: Category:Wikipedia files with subtitles. It also helps people like me who help add subtitles quickly check to see if they already exist for that file.
However, not every file with subtitles contains this template, which stifles the template's usefulness quite a lot. Fortunately, adding this template seems like in a one-time run-through seems like it can be automated quite easily:
(1) Check if the page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimedText:[file name].en.srt
exists
(2) If the page returns "There are currently no subtitles in English for this video, you can edit this page to add them," then the bot should move on to the next file
(3) Otherwise, the bot should go back to the file page, create a new line at the top (typically above the "Summary" section), and insert the Subtitles template with en
as the first parameter and [file name].en.srt
as the second
I'm not too good with coding though, and I'm not sure how, and if, such an operation can be done. If anyone could lend me a hand with this, that would be much appreciated :) -- Leafy46 ( talk) 20:19, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
es
)? —
Qwerfjkl
talk 17:40, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Would it be feasible to make about 500 changes of the following type?
{{Lighthouse identifiers | qid2=Q123455 | qid3=Q23456}}
{{Authority control | additional=Q123455,Q23456}}
I started using separate parameters for these and now I realise that a comma-separated list is more user-friendly. Parameters from qid2 up to qid5 are possible. Note that Template:Lighthouse identifiers is a redirect to Template:Authority control so we are bypassing a redirect at the same time. Thanks for any help. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, after a (very) brief discussion on
WT:NZLAW, I'm just requesting if someone is able to automate an edit that goes through all of the talk pages of article's in the categories below (and their subcategories) to edit their
Template:WikiProject New Zealand banner to add the law = yes
parameter. An example of a correctly tagged law task-force page is
Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General. In doing this, there may be duplicates across the categories (and/or their subcategories), also a few of these articles will also already have the law = yes
parameter set. So you may also have to account for this (ideally this would include tagging articles without the WPNZ banner with that banner and the law parameters, so we don't miss any).
This is to help mark all of articles that are relevant to the law task-force ( WP:NZLAW) which is in the process of establishment and getting started after a (far longer) conversation on WT:NZ.
Category:Statutes of New Zealand, Category:Supreme Court of New Zealand cases, Category:Court of Appeal of New Zealand cases, Category:High Court of New Zealand cases, Category:District Court of New Zealand judges, Category:High Court of New Zealand judges, Category:Court of Appeal of New Zealand judges, and Category:Supreme Court of New Zealand judges.
Thank you all, I appreciate it. Carolina2k22 • (talk) • (edits) 08:08, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
law-importance=
then the article will be added to
Category:Unknown-importance New Zealand law articles which will allow project members to go through and assign importance to these entries.-
gadfium 08:24, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
law = yes
and law-importance =
?Could someone please send a bot through
Category:Unknown-importance medicine articles and mark every article that is also in
Category:WikiProject Biography articles (or any subcat, or that otherwise gives you any reason at all to suspect that the article is primarily about a person) with |importance=Low|society=yes
for me? This would probably involve several hundred edits.
Most articles that get tagged with {{
WPMED}} are people or organizations (e.g., hospitals, medical schools, health charities, businesses) that we just don't care about. All of these should be tagged as |importance=Low|society=yes
. The biographies are just the ones I'm sure that a bot could find. If you have ideas about how to find the rest, I'd love to hear them.
Also, if you happen to have an
mw:ORES-aware bot, then I'd love to have it tag all the stubs as |class=Stub
as well. I have checked enough (thousands of) ORES scores for stubs to know that it is extremely reliable for that rating, and we do see a lot of stubs.
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 22:49, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
about how to find the restORES might work similarly for these as well. — Qwerfjkl talk 05:36, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
|importance=
. We never did convert it to |priority
(good idea, but maybe not worth flooding the watchlists, and the template does not treat them as exact aliases).
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 06:21, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
I was pointed here from the Village pump as a good place to ask.
Currently we have 409 articles using "PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions" as the title of a reference rather than the actual title of the article being referenced. Is there any tool that can convert the title or a BOT created to perform this task? As an example [9] that I have done manually. Keith D ( talk) 09:53, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
|website=www.pressreader.com
should be changed to |via=pressreader.com
also. The titles are not in the HTML which makes getting titles via bot very hard.
AManWithNoPlan (
talk) 01:28, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
looking for a translation bot for work on the luganda Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.75.189.46 ( talk) 07:01, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
79.185.136.221 ( talk) 19:57, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Wikipedia:Articles with the most references updates are done manually and majority of entries are severely outdated. It would be great if a bot could regularly handle the updates. Sanglahi86 ( talk) 23:41, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
Coding... Almost done, but needs some finalising work. —usernamekiran (talk) 09:12, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Done Involved projects/editors notified. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:00, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if this is the right place to request this but here goes. In 2022, the 910 area code gained a concurrent code of 472. Could a bot do a one time edit to add this new code to the |area_code=
parameter in
Template:Infobox settlement for each settlement article within the region. Thanks and have a good day!
DiscoA340 (
talk) 22:38, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
insource:/\| *area_code *= *910/
gives 11 pages. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 18:26, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
insource:/\| *area_codes? *= *\[\[ *Area code 910/
gives us another 203 articles.
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:31, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
I am request a bot to:
137a ( talk • edits) 18:49, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
taken from archive, got no responses last time
Here are some possible tasks for a bot:
137a ( talk • edits) 18:49, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
The code is avaliable here, though it may not work. The code is mostly written in PHP. — Qwerfjkl talk 11:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
I've noticed that there are widespread problems with compliance to MOS:BIOCAPS for grape cultivars and wine varietals. For instance, the MOS requires "Pinor Noir" to always be capitalized, but it is frequently written "Pinot noir" in Wikipedia. It would be helpful if someone could create a bot to properly capitalize grape varietal names per MOS. This would require taking something like List of grape varieties and checking that the names there don't conflict with non-grape terms. QuintinK ( talk) 15:11, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
WP:WPWX is in need of a bot that can rewrite track map images using the new colors that were approved in a recent RfC. The bot would have to be able to utilize the track maker found here. These images are generated using input code that is run through the track maker software. Noah Talk 19:35, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
Category | Old Scheme | New Scheme |
---|---|---|
Tropical Depression/Disturbance | ||
Tropical Storm | ||
Category 1 | ||
Category 2 | ||
Category 3 | ||
Category 4 | ||
Category 5 |
Can a bot please replace all instances of {{
br list}} with {{
br entries}}? I'm looking to have this redirect deleted as the target of both redirects, {{
br separated entries}}, is designed for use in infoboxes to replace the use of <br />
in a delimited collection of entries; so, therefore, it is not a list template. Much obliged, ‑‑
Neveselbert (
talk ·
contribs ·
email) 20:48, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
There was a fairly clear consensus in the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 202#Accelerated Mobile Pages links that "amp" links are a bad thing, and should be done away with. Can a bot be written that tests links to insure that a version with the ".amp" or ",amp" or "/amp" component removed will work, and if so, remove that component? BD2412 T 23:40, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
amp.example.com/(.*) → example.com/$1
, because each site is free to choose its own URL semantics. It's even possible that some sites can't be unpicked (raw page at /raw/87293410.html; AMP at /amp/1934872.html) or don't work without AMP at all.
Certes (
talk) 12:42, 5 January 2023 (UTC)I started making these changes, but there is too many for non-bot edits. In addition, in the citations, it might be worth removing the link to the Internet archive and removing the parameter with the status of a dead link.
Starting point:
([^/])http:\/\/(?:www\.)?itsanhonour\.gov\.au\/honours\/\w+\/.+?aus_award_id=([0-9]+)[&\w=]+
$1https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/$2
Nux ( talk) 20:21, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Can someone go through
Category:All free media and find files only used in userspace but doesn't have {{
Userspace file}} or {{
Esoteric file}}. Place the results at
User:Minorax/upf using * [[:FILENAME.EXT]]
--
Minorax«¦
talk¦» 09:31, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, magic makers:
I would like a bot that assesses/rates articles as being stubs. This could be a one-time, large run, or perhaps after it's happened once, you'd like to do a smaller clean-up run once every 4–12 months. See more information and ➤links to potentially helpful code at User talk:The Earwig#WPMED.
Wikipedia:Content assessment#Statistics says that we have more than 420,000 articles that are tagged as being with the scope of one or more WikiProjects but don't have any quality assessment. It's likely that 50–60% of these are obvious stubs. The
mw:ORES ratings for stubs are very reliable (some false negatives – which wouldn't be touched under this proposal – but no false positives). If we could get a bot to mark already tagged but unassessed articles as |class=Stub
, this could save editors thousands of hours.
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 00:06, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
|auto=
parameter to mark assessments made by bots was in the original design of that template. I don't mind seeking the approval of anyone you want, but I'm not sure whom you think might object, and getting approval from the "wrong" people won't forestall any problems that you foresee.
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 02:52, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
I have beem advised to report when i requested to replace templates or values if they contain non english numerals. I am using wpcleaner to fix checkwiki errors. To my surprise, many kannada wikipedia content creators diligently added cs1/2 templates for references. With Cite button you can create references, but there is a catch. You need to manually enter all parameters. Alas, very few read them. All kind of syntax errors are unintentionally created. The issue is with "cite button" of visual editor and lack of reftoolbar on source editing. Interface admin responded positively for my demand of upgrade of them. Future date format errors might disappear. Now, the use of kannada numerals can be discouraged. Now, what happens to old errors. I request to create a bot for all indo-aryan and dravidian language wikipedias or wikis which use basic cite button which automatically [1] fixes date format either by replacing whole template data or comment it out. [2] comment out if non latin digits are used in templates. These are the 2 primary issues found by me on kannada wikipedia. రుద్రుడు ( talk) 09:34, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
local_date_names_from_mediawiki
to true
(already done at
line 575). What has not been done at kn.wiki is local digit definition. That is accomplished by replacing the indexes in the ['local_digits']
table (
line 598) with the appropriate Kannada digits (as strings). Try that before committing to a bot.{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} I'm wondering if there's a possibility to create list(s) of articles tagged with "infobox needed" while including "{{Infobox..." in the article? So the unnecessary tags can be removed. Myself mostly interested in 1. Football 2. Sports 3. Bios. - Pelmeen10 ( talk) 22:17, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, namely this page: “Category:School articles without infoboxes” with almost 5,000 entries needs review. Perhaps a bot that can check the main article page for an infobox, and if so, make the necessary adjustments to the talk page. I undid two manually and a bot master can check my contributions for an example. Twillisjr ( talk) 14:38, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Wikipedia's Antisemitism article includes a reference to the correct (non-hyphenated) spelling of the word ( footnote [a]), but other articles use the non-standard hyphen (e.g., this one).
This is not simply a cosmetic or even grammatical change, it has to do with the actual meaning of the term (see here and here).
In addition to the most widely used and adopted definition of antisemitism, from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), cited in the Wikipedia article, here are some other references to the importance of NO hyphen in the term, from experts and leaders in the field:
Nevet Basker ( talk) 20:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
"confirmed anti-Semite"in the Adolf Hitler article, which if a direct quote shouldn't be changed. Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 20:16, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism. We generally do not do site-wide spelling enforcement on valid word variants unless there is an English Wikipedia guideline saying how a word with multiple variants should be spelled. This would typically be set via a tedious and energy-wasting RFC. Consistency within articles and topic areas is fine, but nobody should go around changing one variant to another. The OP should drop this particular stick. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 21:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello Wikipedians,
I have seen a lot of unused fields in various templates from all over Wikipedia. Can there be a bot to remove the unused fields in templates?
This is but a suggestion and I am not sure whether it is necessary or not. But anyway, thank you. I'm Here to Help You ( talk) 08:06, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Good afternoon. Is it possible to create a bot for MOS:CAPTIONS? I have corrected many pages by applying this rule, but with almost 7 million pages it's literally impossible to do them all, so I make this proposal. JackkBrown ( talk) 14:36, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
{{
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
I recently redid the {{
USRD}}
banner and now there are about 4000 pages (mostly redirects) tagged that have an invalid state. I've done quite a few with JWB, but it's tedious.
\|state=(NY|FL)-CRTF
becomes
|state=$1|type=CR
Some pages may already have the |type=CR
, but I don't suspect it will be many. –
Fredddie
™ 01:59, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hi all,
Following 1234qwer1234qwer4 suggestion, I'd like to request a bot for unpiping unnecessarily piped links (i.e.: [[xyz|xyz]]). As per WP:NOPIPE, these pipes, besides unnecessary, can create problems, because it's very easy to edit the text without editing the link. The bot command should be conservative, i.e., unpipe only exact matches, because there are a few cases where what looks like unnecessary piping is actually useful.
Thanks in advance. Cheers. Rkieferbaum ( talk) 18:56, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}} Hello. I was wondering if there was a bot that could clear out Category:Track listings that use the collapsed parameter. Per Template:Track listing, there was agreement to remove the |collapsed= parameter in 2014. There's currently over 13,000 usages. Thanks! MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 20:14, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
I would like to have a bot that does the following: 1. " http://www." or "http://" turn into " https://www." or "https://" for all URLs in every pages. 2. "https://" is the most favourable URL outcome, second would be " https://www." or "http://", so that " http://www." at last. 161.81.115.230 ( talk) 11:30, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
I used to have one but then the toolserver changed and somehow an account isn't easy to come by, now... (asked elsewhere before, maybe here will be more relevant...) ~ Lofty abyss 05:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
There are tons of instances like Zu Feng#Film (last column, for the year 2008) where someone has put a citation in a cell in the table directly before rather than after the cited text (usually with no space after the citation). In the cited article, this is done correctly in later cells in the same column. These should be found and holisitically reversed, and I think this is a job for a bot. I am specifically looking at instances where the reference is the first piece of content of the cell itself, so they should be easy to find. BD2412 T 14:07, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
(\|\| *)(\<ref.*?\<\/ref\>) *(\w+)(\n\|-)
and found 36 examples.
GoingBatty (
talk) 15:25, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
This is likely not the right place, but I have no idea where else to report it since the bot operator hasn't edited in a year.
I posted a short bug description on Jayron32's talk page
here. To summarize: multiple discussions were closed with a single {{
hat}}
, and sigmabot misplaced the hat when archiving. This is a minor corner case, not worth an "emergency stop", but worth fixing if possible.
If it can't be fixed, we might want to make note of it in Template:Hidden archive top/doc to recommend not hatting multiple discussions at once? DFlhb ( talk) 07:26, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
As of today, Fort Bragg has been renamed to Fort Liberty. There seems to be a lot of pages with the old name in them, which could mean some pages would be missed if they were all updated manually. If someone could use AWB or a bot to update the name on these pages, I would greatly appreciative it. Thank you for your time and have a great day! DiscoA340 ( talk) 01:26, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi everyone! The page Help:CS1 errors#Most common errors shows a few categories that are quite large. I am requesting a bot operator to write a bot that delivers user talk page messages similar to JaGa's DPL bot whenever a registered editor adds an article to one of the most common CS1 error categories. The bot could use the watchlist to see which user added which article to which category, and then add a new section on the user's talk page detailing what the error means and how to fix it, with text similar to what is posted at Help:CS1 errors. Per the conversation at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 87#Bot to notify users when they add CS1 errors, ReferenceBot used to do this many years ago. Legoktm has archived the code, and A930913 has declared all their code on Labs as CC-BY-SA. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:11, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
|title=
." —
Qwerfjkl
talk 20:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
{{#switch}}
statement could provide some guidance.{{#switch:}}
statement to prove a corresponding help message.{{{cat}}}
parameter, which a switch statement can use to provide the info. I'll probably use |cat=Category:CS1 errors: bare URLCategory:CS1 errors: missing title
when both are present, as those don't need separate error messages. —
Qwerfjkl
talk 16:54, 1 March 2023 (UTC)