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Bot Name | Status | Created | Last editor | Date/Time | Last BAG editor | Date/Time |
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Dušan Kreheľ (bot) VIII ( T| C| B| F) | Open | 2024-04-07, 05:50:30 | Dušan Kreheľ | 2024-04-07, 05:56:34 | Never edited by BAG | n/a |
BsoykaBot 3 ( T| C| B| F) | Open: BAG assistance requested! | 2024-03-23, 02:53:45 | Bagumba | 2024-04-04, 03:13:29 | Never edited by BAG | n/a |
Dušan Kreheľ (bot) VII ( T| C| B| F) | Open | 2024-02-16, 09:24:40 | Dušan Kreheľ | 2024-03-10, 11:40:20 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2024-02-20, 13:13:05 |
BattyBot 81 ( T| C| B| F) | On hold | 2024-02-07, 14:12:49 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2024-02-15, 12:09:35 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2024-02-15, 12:09:35 |
CopyPatrolBot ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2024-02-19, 02:42:32 | Primefac | 2024-03-13, 12:42:03 | Primefac | 2024-03-13, 12:42:03 |
SDZeroBot 13 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2024-03-10, 20:00:57 | Sohom Datta | 2024-04-07, 15:55:57 | Primefac | 2024-03-10, 20:57:26 |
StradBot 2 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2024-02-17, 03:20:39 | SD0001 | 2024-02-17, 05:58:51 | SD0001 | 2024-02-17, 05:58:51 |
PearBOT 14 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial: User response needed! | 2023-12-28, 20:06:39 | Primefac | 2024-02-18, 20:11:21 | Primefac | 2024-02-18, 20:11:21 |
CapsuleBot 2 ( T| C| B| F) | Extended trial | 2023-06-14, 00:14:29 | Capsulecap | 2024-01-20, 02:36:30 | Primefac | 2024-01-15, 07:40:39 |
AussieBot 1 ( T| C| B| F) | Extended trial: User response needed! | 2023-03-22, 01:57:36 | Hawkeye7 | 2024-02-18, 23:33:13 | Primefac | 2024-02-18, 20:10:45 |
DoggoBot 10 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2023-03-02, 02:55:00 | Frostly | 2024-02-21, 22:41:18 | Primefac | 2024-01-15, 07:40:49 |
PrimeBOT 39 ( T| C| B| F) | On hold | 2023-05-11, 12:48:50 | Primefac | 2023-09-22, 10:51:59 | Headbomb | 2023-07-02, 17:38:58 |
Operator: Dušan Kreheľ ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 05:50, Sunday, April 7, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Update of the statistical office link in the section "External links" for all Slovak municipalities
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Semi-automatic
Programming language(s): Wikimate, custom code
Source code available: own code: no
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): One time.
Estimated number of pages affected: less than 3000 pages
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Function details:
Operator: Bsoyka ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:53, Saturday, March 23, 2024 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot)
Source code available: bsoyka/wikipedia-bot on GitHub
Function overview: Corrects capitalization of "NFL draft" in wikilinks within articles
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Capitalization of NFL draft article titles, User talk:Bagumba § JWB followups, Wikipedia:Bot requests § NFL Draft move downcasing cleanup
Edit period(s): Initial daily batched edits followed by weekly runs
Estimated number of pages affected: ~22,000 46,000 initially
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: This script searches for pages linking to "[year] NFL Draft" and "List of [players] in the NFL Draft" pages, which are all now redirects using "NFL draft" (note capitalization) per
this RfC and related discussions. The script then corrects the capitalization of these links, including within wikilinks, {{
Main}}
templates, {{
See also}}
templates, and {{
Further}}
templates. (It does not make any cosmetic-only edits, such as only changing [[2024 NFL Draft|2024]]
to [[2024 NFL draft|2024]]
.) I initially found 46,276 pages that link to one or more of these redirects and would likely be edited by this task initially. I plan to do an initial run with this list, editing 1,000 pages daily until the list is exhausted. (I'm open to other number suggestions—I just don't want to flood watchlists and whatnot too quickly.) Finally, here's
an example diff in my sandbox.
@ Bsoyka: I also ran across some instances inside {{ further}} [1]— Bagumba ( talk) 03:16, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
The script then corrects the capitalization of these links, including within wikilinks
: To be clear, would [[2024 NFL Draft|NFL Draft]]
become [[2024 NFL draft|NFL draft]]
too?—
Bagumba (
talk) 03:23, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
As the well-attended RfC confirmed that "NFL Draft" should be lowercase in titles and prose, changing the "NFL Draft" redirect links and any piped text in articles seems to be a well-defined, low-risk task that is non-cosmetic. As someone doing this semi-manually on JWB, I hope this bot can be approved for this high-volume task.— Bagumba ( talk) 03:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Maybe faster is better. If there's no adverse reaction after a few days at 1000 per day, I'd suggest cranking up to 3000 per day, to get it done in a little over 2 weeks. Dicklyon ( talk) 10:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Since it's been a week: A user has requested the attention of a member of the
Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{
t|BAG assistance needed}}
.
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 13:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Operator: Dušan Kreheľ ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 09:24, Friday, February 16, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Area, population and population density update of Infobox settlement in Slovak settlements.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Semi-automatic
Programming language(s): Wikimate, own code
Source code available:
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Requests for approval/Dušan Kreheľ (bot): I, V, VI.
Edit period(s): Standard one time per year.
Estimated number of pages affected: up to 3000.
Namespace(s): Mainspace.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No.
Function details:
Key | Value format |
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population_total | POPULATION |
population_density_km2 | auto |
population_as_of | {{Tooltip|YEAR|YEAR-12-31}} |
population_density_sq_mi | |
population_footnotes | <ref>{{cite web |url=POPULATION_URL |title=POPULATION_TITLE |author=POPULATION_COPYRIGHT |date= |website=COPYRIGHT_URL |publisher= |access-date=ACCES_DATE}}</ref> |
area_total_km2 | AREA |
area_total_sq_mi | |
area_note | ({{Tooltip|YEAR|YEAR-06-31/YEAR-07-01}}) |
area_footnotes | <ref>{{cite web |url=AREA_URL |title=AREA_TITLE |author=AREA_COPYRIGHT |date= |website=COPYRIGHT_URL |publisher= |access-date=ACCES_DATE}}</ref> |
Pairing of statistical data with parties is performed on the basis of: Wikidata and STUN/LUA codes.
<ins>...</ins>
tags and an unclosed <p>
tag in the original post here (I have correct both in this edit), as well as misspelling of "ACCES_DATE" and the proposal to use the YYYY-MM-DD format in articles where another date format may be preferred. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:27, 17 February 2024 (UTC)Operator: GoingBatty ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 14:12, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Replace {{
coord missing}}
with {{
coord|source:wikidata|display=title}}
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser
Source code available: AWB
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Using coordinates on Wikidata
Edit period(s): Monthly
Estimated number of pages affected: 20,661
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details:
Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata contains 20,166 articles tagged with {{
coord missing}}
, but they all have coordinates available on Wikidata. This bot would replace {{
coord missing}}
with {{
coord|source:wikidata|display=title}}
which will fetch the coordinates from Wikidata (e.g.
this edit). This bot will also run
AWB's general fixes. Thank you for your consideration.
This might be a dumb question, but if every page indicating that it is missing coords is already on Wikipedia, why do we have this template? Why not just make it a wrapper/redirect to {{ coord}}? I know that MSGJ asked for this, and I trust their judgment, but this seems like a lot of work if it's that trivial of an issue. Primefac ( talk) 14:26, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
I'd be happy to support this, with one proviso, that the {{
coord}} template be changed so that transclusion from Wikidata was gated via a "source=wikidata" parameter, so that it was clear on the enwiki side why the edit was made, and where the coordinates were being pulled from. So {{
coord missing|Name of region}}
would become {{
coord|source=wikidata|display=title}}
. —
The Anome (
talk) 17:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
{{
coord|display=title}}
to an article that doesn't have coordinates on Wikidata, it blows up in an uninformative and mystifying way. Having this extra parameter might let the error message be improved, and also let such erroneous articles be put in a tracking category. From my viewpoint as a maintainer of the {{ coord missing}} ecosystem, the more tracking metadata we have, the better. I'm committed to a long-term transition to Wikidata as the master source of geodata, but it's going to be a long process, and the more we can smooth the transition by having backward and forward compatibility during the transition process, the better. — The Anome ( talk) 17:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
{{
coord|source:wikidata|display=title}}
(e.g.
this edit). (Note that |source=wikidata
generates an error.)
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
source:wikidata
seems unhelpful for populating a tracking category (if desired) — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 21:38, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
source:wikidata
to source=wikidata
, then click "Show preview", and you'll see a message at the top right of the article next to the coordinates which states Coordinates: Parameter: "source=" should be "source:".
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
On hold. pending fix to the {{ coord}} template (assuming that's the consensus here). Please deactivate the template/ping when the issue is resolved. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 12:05, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Operator: JJMC89 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:39, Monday, February 19, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Report potential copyright issues from CopyPatrol to PageTriage
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: copypatrol-backend on GitHub
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Feedback about changes to CopyPatrol was solicited at m:Special:PermaLink/25725587#New backend coming soon.
Active period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: n/a
Namespace(s): Main/Article, Draft
Exclusion compliant: n/a
Copyright violation bot: Yes (required for trial)
Function details: This is a replacement for EranBot (
BRFA 3) to report potential copyright issues found in articles and drafts from
CopyPatrol to
PageTriage (shown in
Special:NewPagesFeed). When a report is added to CopyPatrol, check if the page is in PageTriage (action=pagetriagelist
). If so, report the revision (action=pagetriagetagcopyvio
). The bot does not edit.
Notes:
eranbot
account on Toolforge and will be able to stop/restart it as needed. —
MusikAnimal
talk 15:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)copyviobot
in advance of getting TCA access to cut down on any wait or downtime. (We're coming up on the Grid Engine shutdown soon.) —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 23:33, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Operator: SD0001 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 20:00, Sunday, March 10, 2024 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): TypeScript on Node.js
Source code available: GitHub
Function overview: Check remote pages for new edits and raises edit request for the corresponding local page
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Partly in MediaWiki talk:Common.js#Class-triggered gadgets
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Very few - depends on config
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Based on the configuration at User:SDZeroBot/Gadgets-sync-config.json, the bot checks each remote page for new edits, and raises an edit request to the corresponding local page.
This is intended to allow locally hosting a copy of gadgets from other wikis. Hosting locally significantly improves performance due to ResourceLoader minification and caching. It's also somewhat better from a security standpoint as local interface admins can audit changes before syncing them.
Doing a one-time copy without a setup to track upstream edits generally doesn't work. It results in unmaintained forks which miss out on bug fixes and new features added in the upstream.
Approved for trial (5 edits or 30 days, whichever happens first). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I feel like a trial here is mostly going to be a proof of concept, but a very useful one if it behaves as intended, so it's not a high edit count (i.e. the time delay is mainly so it doesn't last forever). Primefac ( talk) 20:57, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Operator: Mr. Stradivarius ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 03:19, Saturday, February 17, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Automatically populate sandboxes for modules listing disambiguation templates, set index templates or soft redirect templates; and if necessary issue edit requests to update the main modules.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot framework)
Source code available: https://github.com/mrstradivarius/dabtemplates
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template talk:Pagetype#Detecting pages with Template:Wiktionary redirect and other soft redirects ( permalink)
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: 5
Namespace(s): Module, module talk, template talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: This is an expansion of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/StradBot (task 1). Task 1 was for updating a disambiguation template list for Module:Disambiguation; this task expands this to two more use cases: updating a list of set index pages for Module:Pagetype, and updating a list of soft redirects, also for Module:Pagetype.
The bot uses the following algorithm. This has not changed since task 1.
-cat
option). Non-templates are ignored, as are templates in the bot's exclusion list (the -exclude
option). It then retrieves redirects for all of these templates.-data-page-sandbox
option). Saving is skipped if the module's content would not change. You can see sample output from the bot
here.-data-page
option), then the bot adds an edit request to update the main module to the relevant talk page (the -data-talk-page
option). There is a sample edit request
here.The bot will be used to update the following modules:
# | Use case | Option | Value | Notes |
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1 | Update disambiguation templates for Module:Disambiguation. | -data-page-sandbox
|
Module:Disambiguation/templates/sandbox | Already approved in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/StradBot. |
-data-page
|
Module:Disambiguation/templates | |||
-data-talk-page
|
Module talk:Disambiguation | |||
-cat
|
Category:Disambiguation message boxes | |||
-exclude
|
Template:Dmbox | |||
2 | Update set index templates for Module:Pagetype. | -data-page-sandbox
|
Module:Pagetype/setindex/sandbox | |
-data-page
|
Module:Pagetype/setindex | |||
-data-talk-page
|
Template talk:Pagetype | |||
-cat
|
Category:Set index article templates | |||
-exclude
|
Template:Dmbox | |||
3 | Update soft redirect templates for Module:Pagetype. | -data-page-sandbox
|
Module:Pagetype/softredirect/sandbox | |
-data-page
|
Module:Pagetype/softredirect | |||
-data-talk-page
|
Template talk:Pagetype | |||
-cat
|
Category:Templates for soft redirects | |||
-exclude
|
Template:Resolve category redirect |
Operator: Trialpears ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 20:06, Thursday, December 28, 2023 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): Pywikibot
Source code available: Dictionary generator, Box adder, Continuous editing and Huge dictionary
Function overview: Adds {{ Other TfDs}} boxes with links to all previous TfD discussions concerning a nominated template.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion#Automatically listing old discussions
Edit period(s): Checks the daily TfD subpage once an hour for new discussions, actually edits a few times a week. Also a large one time addition for all past discussion.
Estimated number of pages affected: Maybe 2000-2500 when applying boxes to discussions retroactively (one time only). When in continuous use maybe a dozen a week.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: The bot consists of 3 parts. One script that goes through all Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log subpages and scrapes what templates were discussed (linked in {{ Tfd links}}), the result and the link to the discussion. This information is added to a 14 MB python dictionary. Relists are ignored. Part two goes through all the same pages and adds an {{ Other TfDs}} box if one of the templates has been discussed some other time (either previously or later) as determined by the dictionary. There are up to ~3000 discussions out of ~56,000 that could get such a box, but the real number will be less due to identical mass noms and templates nominated more than twice being double counted. The third script would check the TfD subpage of the day for new discussions each hour and adds them to the dictionary. If any discussion needs a box it adds one there and updates previous discussions to include a link to the new one. This script isn't written yet, but will mostly consist of parts from the other two scripts. These user pages have a small number of successful test edits: 1, 2, and 3.
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I want this to be run in two separate batches. One batch will be "50 edits or 14 days, whichever comes first" and will only deal with new nominations. The second batch will be 25 edits to historical log pages to see proof of concept. Ideally if you could run them that way so the contributions are easier to split, that would be great. Feel free to start with the second batch first since it's not time-dependent. Primefac ( talk) 19:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Operator: Capsulecap ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 00:14, Wednesday, June 14, 2023 ( UTC)
Function overview: This task checks the Top 25 Report page frequently to see if the current report has updated. If it was updated, then it will go through all pages in the new report and add or update the Template:Top 25 Report template on their talk pages.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: No, but if necessary I can upload it
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Top 25 report
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: 25 pages/week
Namespace(s): Talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Function details: This task first checks the page Wikipedia:Top 25 Report to see if the transcluded link was modified. (This should mean that the report was updated.) If it has, then it uses the first revision of the transcluded page, which is always a basic list, to get a list of article talk pages to modify. It then goes through each talk page, updating the Template:Top 25 Report template if it exists and adding it if not. As for exclusion compliance, I have not added that feature in yet.
The Top 25 report is updated weekly. Why does this task need to run twice a day? Primefac ( talk) 09:08, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Approved for trial (1 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I'm trying to wrap my head around what's this bot supposed to do exactly, so I'm going to approve it for a one-time run of 1 day. This should give me (and perhaps others) a better idea of what this is about. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:34, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Approved for extended trial (25 edits or 7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. One week's worth, or 25 edits, whichever you need. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:16, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
{{ Operator assistance needed}} It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac ( talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
ranks
attribute, as is seen in the
5 most recent bot edits, all of which are to my test pages. I've also created support for converting preexisting top25 templates of the alternate form into regular form top 25s, and made it so top 25 report templates longer than 800 bytes are collapsed. I will test the bot once the report is switched to the current week, which should be on Saturday or Sunday.
Capsulecap (
talk •
contribs) 01:34, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Operator: Hawkeye7 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 01:57, Wednesday, March 22, 2023 ( UTC)
Function overview: Mark unassessed stub articles as stubs
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Source code available: Not yet
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 84#Stub assessments with ORES
Edit period(s): daily
Estimated number of pages affected: < 100 per day
Namespace(s): Talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Go through Category:Unassessed articles (only deals with articles already tagged as belonging to a project). If an unassessed article is rated as a stub by ORES, tag the article as a stub. Example
There is no set size at which an article stops being a stub.EpicPupper ( talk) 23:04, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ Operator assistance needed}} It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac ( talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Operator: EpicPupper ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:55, Thursday, March 2, 2023 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Source code available:
Function overview: Replace AMP links in citations
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): BOTREQ, Village Pump
Edit period(s): Weekly
Estimated number of pages affected: Unknown, estimated to be in the range of hundreds of thousands
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Using the AmputatorBot API, replaces AMP links with canonical equivalents. This task runs on all pages with citation templates which have URL parameters (e.g. {{ cite news}}, {{ cite web}}, etc).
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac ( talk) 10:27, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ Operator assistance needed}} It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac ( talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Operator: Primefac ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 12:48, Thursday, May 11, 2023 ( UTC)
Function overview: Convert template use following update
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Source code available: WP:AWB
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates § Request for a template
Edit period(s): OTR
Estimated number of pages affected:
Namespace(s): 783
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: {{
Wikisource author}} recently was updated to allow for a |lang=
parameter to link directly to non-English versions of wikisource for an author. A similar template, {{
Wikisourcelang}}, links to a generic search on said language wiki for said author. This task will change {{
Wikisourcelang|<lang>|otherstuff}}
into a {{
Wikisource author|lang=<lang>|otherstuff}}
call.
de
do not use an "author" prefix (see e.g.
Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel and his corresponding page on
de Wikisource), but I can't figure out which languages it holds to. I am not necessarily seeing a specific pattern between what languages do and do not. My thoughts are of two possibilities - run this task only for languages where the proposed change has the intended effect, or just scrap this BRFA and do these changes manually.
Primefac (
talk) 12:52, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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Dušan Kreheľ (bot) VIII ( T| C| B| F) | Open | 2024-04-07, 05:50:30 | Dušan Kreheľ | 2024-04-07, 05:56:34 | Never edited by BAG | n/a |
BsoykaBot 3 ( T| C| B| F) | Open: BAG assistance requested! | 2024-03-23, 02:53:45 | Bagumba | 2024-04-04, 03:13:29 | Never edited by BAG | n/a |
Dušan Kreheľ (bot) VII ( T| C| B| F) | Open | 2024-02-16, 09:24:40 | Dušan Kreheľ | 2024-03-10, 11:40:20 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2024-02-20, 13:13:05 |
BattyBot 81 ( T| C| B| F) | On hold | 2024-02-07, 14:12:49 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2024-02-15, 12:09:35 | ProcrastinatingReader | 2024-02-15, 12:09:35 |
CopyPatrolBot ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2024-02-19, 02:42:32 | Primefac | 2024-03-13, 12:42:03 | Primefac | 2024-03-13, 12:42:03 |
SDZeroBot 13 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2024-03-10, 20:00:57 | Sohom Datta | 2024-04-07, 15:55:57 | Primefac | 2024-03-10, 20:57:26 |
StradBot 2 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2024-02-17, 03:20:39 | SD0001 | 2024-02-17, 05:58:51 | SD0001 | 2024-02-17, 05:58:51 |
PearBOT 14 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial: User response needed! | 2023-12-28, 20:06:39 | Primefac | 2024-02-18, 20:11:21 | Primefac | 2024-02-18, 20:11:21 |
CapsuleBot 2 ( T| C| B| F) | Extended trial | 2023-06-14, 00:14:29 | Capsulecap | 2024-01-20, 02:36:30 | Primefac | 2024-01-15, 07:40:39 |
AussieBot 1 ( T| C| B| F) | Extended trial: User response needed! | 2023-03-22, 01:57:36 | Hawkeye7 | 2024-02-18, 23:33:13 | Primefac | 2024-02-18, 20:10:45 |
DoggoBot 10 ( T| C| B| F) | In trial | 2023-03-02, 02:55:00 | Frostly | 2024-02-21, 22:41:18 | Primefac | 2024-01-15, 07:40:49 |
PrimeBOT 39 ( T| C| B| F) | On hold | 2023-05-11, 12:48:50 | Primefac | 2023-09-22, 10:51:59 | Headbomb | 2023-07-02, 17:38:58 |
Operator: Dušan Kreheľ ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 05:50, Sunday, April 7, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Update of the statistical office link in the section "External links" for all Slovak municipalities
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Semi-automatic
Programming language(s): Wikimate, custom code
Source code available: own code: no
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): One time.
Estimated number of pages affected: less than 3000 pages
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Function details:
Operator: Bsoyka ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:53, Saturday, March 23, 2024 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot)
Source code available: bsoyka/wikipedia-bot on GitHub
Function overview: Corrects capitalization of "NFL draft" in wikilinks within articles
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Capitalization of NFL draft article titles, User talk:Bagumba § JWB followups, Wikipedia:Bot requests § NFL Draft move downcasing cleanup
Edit period(s): Initial daily batched edits followed by weekly runs
Estimated number of pages affected: ~22,000 46,000 initially
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: This script searches for pages linking to "[year] NFL Draft" and "List of [players] in the NFL Draft" pages, which are all now redirects using "NFL draft" (note capitalization) per
this RfC and related discussions. The script then corrects the capitalization of these links, including within wikilinks, {{
Main}}
templates, {{
See also}}
templates, and {{
Further}}
templates. (It does not make any cosmetic-only edits, such as only changing [[2024 NFL Draft|2024]]
to [[2024 NFL draft|2024]]
.) I initially found 46,276 pages that link to one or more of these redirects and would likely be edited by this task initially. I plan to do an initial run with this list, editing 1,000 pages daily until the list is exhausted. (I'm open to other number suggestions—I just don't want to flood watchlists and whatnot too quickly.) Finally, here's
an example diff in my sandbox.
@ Bsoyka: I also ran across some instances inside {{ further}} [1]— Bagumba ( talk) 03:16, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
The script then corrects the capitalization of these links, including within wikilinks
: To be clear, would [[2024 NFL Draft|NFL Draft]]
become [[2024 NFL draft|NFL draft]]
too?—
Bagumba (
talk) 03:23, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
As the well-attended RfC confirmed that "NFL Draft" should be lowercase in titles and prose, changing the "NFL Draft" redirect links and any piped text in articles seems to be a well-defined, low-risk task that is non-cosmetic. As someone doing this semi-manually on JWB, I hope this bot can be approved for this high-volume task.— Bagumba ( talk) 03:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Maybe faster is better. If there's no adverse reaction after a few days at 1000 per day, I'd suggest cranking up to 3000 per day, to get it done in a little over 2 weeks. Dicklyon ( talk) 10:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Since it's been a week: A user has requested the attention of a member of the
Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{
t|BAG assistance needed}}
.
Bsoyka (
t •
c •
g) 13:56, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Operator: Dušan Kreheľ ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 09:24, Friday, February 16, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Area, population and population density update of Infobox settlement in Slovak settlements.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Semi-automatic
Programming language(s): Wikimate, own code
Source code available:
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Requests for approval/Dušan Kreheľ (bot): I, V, VI.
Edit period(s): Standard one time per year.
Estimated number of pages affected: up to 3000.
Namespace(s): Mainspace.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No.
Function details:
Key | Value format |
---|---|
population_total | POPULATION |
population_density_km2 | auto |
population_as_of | {{Tooltip|YEAR|YEAR-12-31}} |
population_density_sq_mi | |
population_footnotes | <ref>{{cite web |url=POPULATION_URL |title=POPULATION_TITLE |author=POPULATION_COPYRIGHT |date= |website=COPYRIGHT_URL |publisher= |access-date=ACCES_DATE}}</ref> |
area_total_km2 | AREA |
area_total_sq_mi | |
area_note | ({{Tooltip|YEAR|YEAR-06-31/YEAR-07-01}}) |
area_footnotes | <ref>{{cite web |url=AREA_URL |title=AREA_TITLE |author=AREA_COPYRIGHT |date= |website=COPYRIGHT_URL |publisher= |access-date=ACCES_DATE}}</ref> |
Pairing of statistical data with parties is performed on the basis of: Wikidata and STUN/LUA codes.
<ins>...</ins>
tags and an unclosed <p>
tag in the original post here (I have correct both in this edit), as well as misspelling of "ACCES_DATE" and the proposal to use the YYYY-MM-DD format in articles where another date format may be preferred. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:27, 17 February 2024 (UTC)Operator: GoingBatty ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 14:12, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Replace {{
coord missing}}
with {{
coord|source:wikidata|display=title}}
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser
Source code available: AWB
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Using coordinates on Wikidata
Edit period(s): Monthly
Estimated number of pages affected: 20,661
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details:
Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata contains 20,166 articles tagged with {{
coord missing}}
, but they all have coordinates available on Wikidata. This bot would replace {{
coord missing}}
with {{
coord|source:wikidata|display=title}}
which will fetch the coordinates from Wikidata (e.g.
this edit). This bot will also run
AWB's general fixes. Thank you for your consideration.
This might be a dumb question, but if every page indicating that it is missing coords is already on Wikipedia, why do we have this template? Why not just make it a wrapper/redirect to {{ coord}}? I know that MSGJ asked for this, and I trust their judgment, but this seems like a lot of work if it's that trivial of an issue. Primefac ( talk) 14:26, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
I'd be happy to support this, with one proviso, that the {{
coord}} template be changed so that transclusion from Wikidata was gated via a "source=wikidata" parameter, so that it was clear on the enwiki side why the edit was made, and where the coordinates were being pulled from. So {{
coord missing|Name of region}}
would become {{
coord|source=wikidata|display=title}}
. —
The Anome (
talk) 17:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
{{
coord|display=title}}
to an article that doesn't have coordinates on Wikidata, it blows up in an uninformative and mystifying way. Having this extra parameter might let the error message be improved, and also let such erroneous articles be put in a tracking category. From my viewpoint as a maintainer of the {{ coord missing}} ecosystem, the more tracking metadata we have, the better. I'm committed to a long-term transition to Wikidata as the master source of geodata, but it's going to be a long process, and the more we can smooth the transition by having backward and forward compatibility during the transition process, the better. — The Anome ( talk) 17:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
{{
coord|source:wikidata|display=title}}
(e.g.
this edit). (Note that |source=wikidata
generates an error.)
GoingBatty (
talk) 19:44, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
source:wikidata
seems unhelpful for populating a tracking category (if desired) — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 21:38, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
source:wikidata
to source=wikidata
, then click "Show preview", and you'll see a message at the top right of the article next to the coordinates which states Coordinates: Parameter: "source=" should be "source:".
GoingBatty (
talk) 22:30, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
On hold. pending fix to the {{ coord}} template (assuming that's the consensus here). Please deactivate the template/ping when the issue is resolved. ProcrastinatingReader ( talk) 12:05, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Operator: JJMC89 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:39, Monday, February 19, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Report potential copyright issues from CopyPatrol to PageTriage
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: copypatrol-backend on GitHub
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Feedback about changes to CopyPatrol was solicited at m:Special:PermaLink/25725587#New backend coming soon.
Active period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: n/a
Namespace(s): Main/Article, Draft
Exclusion compliant: n/a
Copyright violation bot: Yes (required for trial)
Function details: This is a replacement for EranBot (
BRFA 3) to report potential copyright issues found in articles and drafts from
CopyPatrol to
PageTriage (shown in
Special:NewPagesFeed). When a report is added to CopyPatrol, check if the page is in PageTriage (action=pagetriagelist
). If so, report the revision (action=pagetriagetagcopyvio
). The bot does not edit.
Notes:
eranbot
account on Toolforge and will be able to stop/restart it as needed. —
MusikAnimal
talk 15:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)copyviobot
in advance of getting TCA access to cut down on any wait or downtime. (We're coming up on the Grid Engine shutdown soon.) —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 23:33, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Operator: SD0001 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 20:00, Sunday, March 10, 2024 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): TypeScript on Node.js
Source code available: GitHub
Function overview: Check remote pages for new edits and raises edit request for the corresponding local page
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Partly in MediaWiki talk:Common.js#Class-triggered gadgets
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Very few - depends on config
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Based on the configuration at User:SDZeroBot/Gadgets-sync-config.json, the bot checks each remote page for new edits, and raises an edit request to the corresponding local page.
This is intended to allow locally hosting a copy of gadgets from other wikis. Hosting locally significantly improves performance due to ResourceLoader minification and caching. It's also somewhat better from a security standpoint as local interface admins can audit changes before syncing them.
Doing a one-time copy without a setup to track upstream edits generally doesn't work. It results in unmaintained forks which miss out on bug fixes and new features added in the upstream.
Approved for trial (5 edits or 30 days, whichever happens first). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I feel like a trial here is mostly going to be a proof of concept, but a very useful one if it behaves as intended, so it's not a high edit count (i.e. the time delay is mainly so it doesn't last forever). Primefac ( talk) 20:57, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Operator: Mr. Stradivarius ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 03:19, Saturday, February 17, 2024 ( UTC)
Function overview: Automatically populate sandboxes for modules listing disambiguation templates, set index templates or soft redirect templates; and if necessary issue edit requests to update the main modules.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot framework)
Source code available: https://github.com/mrstradivarius/dabtemplates
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template talk:Pagetype#Detecting pages with Template:Wiktionary redirect and other soft redirects ( permalink)
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: 5
Namespace(s): Module, module talk, template talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: This is an expansion of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/StradBot (task 1). Task 1 was for updating a disambiguation template list for Module:Disambiguation; this task expands this to two more use cases: updating a list of set index pages for Module:Pagetype, and updating a list of soft redirects, also for Module:Pagetype.
The bot uses the following algorithm. This has not changed since task 1.
-cat
option). Non-templates are ignored, as are templates in the bot's exclusion list (the -exclude
option). It then retrieves redirects for all of these templates.-data-page-sandbox
option). Saving is skipped if the module's content would not change. You can see sample output from the bot
here.-data-page
option), then the bot adds an edit request to update the main module to the relevant talk page (the -data-talk-page
option). There is a sample edit request
here.The bot will be used to update the following modules:
# | Use case | Option | Value | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Update disambiguation templates for Module:Disambiguation. | -data-page-sandbox
|
Module:Disambiguation/templates/sandbox | Already approved in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/StradBot. |
-data-page
|
Module:Disambiguation/templates | |||
-data-talk-page
|
Module talk:Disambiguation | |||
-cat
|
Category:Disambiguation message boxes | |||
-exclude
|
Template:Dmbox | |||
2 | Update set index templates for Module:Pagetype. | -data-page-sandbox
|
Module:Pagetype/setindex/sandbox | |
-data-page
|
Module:Pagetype/setindex | |||
-data-talk-page
|
Template talk:Pagetype | |||
-cat
|
Category:Set index article templates | |||
-exclude
|
Template:Dmbox | |||
3 | Update soft redirect templates for Module:Pagetype. | -data-page-sandbox
|
Module:Pagetype/softredirect/sandbox | |
-data-page
|
Module:Pagetype/softredirect | |||
-data-talk-page
|
Template talk:Pagetype | |||
-cat
|
Category:Templates for soft redirects | |||
-exclude
|
Template:Resolve category redirect |
Operator: Trialpears ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 20:06, Thursday, December 28, 2023 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): Pywikibot
Source code available: Dictionary generator, Box adder, Continuous editing and Huge dictionary
Function overview: Adds {{ Other TfDs}} boxes with links to all previous TfD discussions concerning a nominated template.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion#Automatically listing old discussions
Edit period(s): Checks the daily TfD subpage once an hour for new discussions, actually edits a few times a week. Also a large one time addition for all past discussion.
Estimated number of pages affected: Maybe 2000-2500 when applying boxes to discussions retroactively (one time only). When in continuous use maybe a dozen a week.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: The bot consists of 3 parts. One script that goes through all Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log subpages and scrapes what templates were discussed (linked in {{ Tfd links}}), the result and the link to the discussion. This information is added to a 14 MB python dictionary. Relists are ignored. Part two goes through all the same pages and adds an {{ Other TfDs}} box if one of the templates has been discussed some other time (either previously or later) as determined by the dictionary. There are up to ~3000 discussions out of ~56,000 that could get such a box, but the real number will be less due to identical mass noms and templates nominated more than twice being double counted. The third script would check the TfD subpage of the day for new discussions each hour and adds them to the dictionary. If any discussion needs a box it adds one there and updates previous discussions to include a link to the new one. This script isn't written yet, but will mostly consist of parts from the other two scripts. These user pages have a small number of successful test edits: 1, 2, and 3.
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I want this to be run in two separate batches. One batch will be "50 edits or 14 days, whichever comes first" and will only deal with new nominations. The second batch will be 25 edits to historical log pages to see proof of concept. Ideally if you could run them that way so the contributions are easier to split, that would be great. Feel free to start with the second batch first since it's not time-dependent. Primefac ( talk) 19:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Operator: Capsulecap ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 00:14, Wednesday, June 14, 2023 ( UTC)
Function overview: This task checks the Top 25 Report page frequently to see if the current report has updated. If it was updated, then it will go through all pages in the new report and add or update the Template:Top 25 Report template on their talk pages.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: No, but if necessary I can upload it
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Top 25 report
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: 25 pages/week
Namespace(s): Talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Function details: This task first checks the page Wikipedia:Top 25 Report to see if the transcluded link was modified. (This should mean that the report was updated.) If it has, then it uses the first revision of the transcluded page, which is always a basic list, to get a list of article talk pages to modify. It then goes through each talk page, updating the Template:Top 25 Report template if it exists and adding it if not. As for exclusion compliance, I have not added that feature in yet.
The Top 25 report is updated weekly. Why does this task need to run twice a day? Primefac ( talk) 09:08, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Approved for trial (1 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I'm trying to wrap my head around what's this bot supposed to do exactly, so I'm going to approve it for a one-time run of 1 day. This should give me (and perhaps others) a better idea of what this is about. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:34, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Approved for extended trial (25 edits or 7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. One week's worth, or 25 edits, whichever you need. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:16, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
{{ Operator assistance needed}} It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac ( talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
ranks
attribute, as is seen in the
5 most recent bot edits, all of which are to my test pages. I've also created support for converting preexisting top25 templates of the alternate form into regular form top 25s, and made it so top 25 report templates longer than 800 bytes are collapsed. I will test the bot once the report is switched to the current week, which should be on Saturday or Sunday.
Capsulecap (
talk •
contribs) 01:34, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Operator: Hawkeye7 ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 01:57, Wednesday, March 22, 2023 ( UTC)
Function overview: Mark unassessed stub articles as stubs
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Source code available: Not yet
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 84#Stub assessments with ORES
Edit period(s): daily
Estimated number of pages affected: < 100 per day
Namespace(s): Talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Go through Category:Unassessed articles (only deals with articles already tagged as belonging to a project). If an unassessed article is rated as a stub by ORES, tag the article as a stub. Example
There is no set size at which an article stops being a stub.EpicPupper ( talk) 23:04, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ Operator assistance needed}} It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac ( talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Operator: EpicPupper ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:55, Thursday, March 2, 2023 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Source code available:
Function overview: Replace AMP links in citations
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): BOTREQ, Village Pump
Edit period(s): Weekly
Estimated number of pages affected: Unknown, estimated to be in the range of hundreds of thousands
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Using the AmputatorBot API, replaces AMP links with canonical equivalents. This task runs on all pages with citation templates which have URL parameters (e.g. {{ cite news}}, {{ cite web}}, etc).
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac ( talk) 10:27, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
{{ Operator assistance needed}} It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac ( talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Operator: Primefac ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 12:48, Thursday, May 11, 2023 ( UTC)
Function overview: Convert template use following update
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Source code available: WP:AWB
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates § Request for a template
Edit period(s): OTR
Estimated number of pages affected:
Namespace(s): 783
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: {{
Wikisource author}} recently was updated to allow for a |lang=
parameter to link directly to non-English versions of wikisource for an author. A similar template, {{
Wikisourcelang}}, links to a generic search on said language wiki for said author. This task will change {{
Wikisourcelang|<lang>|otherstuff}}
into a {{
Wikisource author|lang=<lang>|otherstuff}}
call.
de
do not use an "author" prefix (see e.g.
Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel and his corresponding page on
de Wikisource), but I can't figure out which languages it holds to. I am not necessarily seeing a specific pattern between what languages do and do not. My thoughts are of two possibilities - run this task only for languages where the proposed change has the intended effect, or just scrap this BRFA and do these changes manually.
Primefac (
talk) 12:52, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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