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Am I correct in assuming that one can request jobs to be done by your bot here? I'm currently trying to orphan Image:Flag of Czech Republic.svg and replace it with Image:Flag of the Czech Republic, but the amount of pages it is used in (especially English, French, Spanish wikipedias) is enormous... ナイトスタリオン ✉ 20:01, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
I am asking for permision to run User:Chlewbot under a bot flag. It's primary goal is to check, add and fix interwikis originated at Spanish language Wikipedia.
Thank you.
— Carlos Th (talk) 21:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot flag for a manually assisted bot running on the English wikipedia to assist in fixing a variety of firearms, woodworking, and other pages with numerous redirects, and double redirects. Kaiserb 02:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run User:OrphanBot to orphan images in Category:Images with unknown source and Category:Images with unknown copyright status in preparation for deleting them. The bot would go through the categories, and for each image, it would replace the image tag with , to keep from breaking table layouts. It would then record on the image description page which articles it has removed the image from.
For images in articles in the main namespace, the Category namespace, and the Portal namespace, it would remove them. Images in articles in the User:, Talk:, User talk:, Template talk:, Image:, Image talk:, Category talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and Portal talk: namespaces would be ignored. Images in articles in the Wikipedia:, Template:, Help:, and Help talk: namespaces would be logged to the bot's talk page for human review, since they shouldn't have been there in the first place. -- Carnildo 09:11, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hmm. Can we tag these with a category? I go through runs asking people to delete images, and I generally start with Orphaned images advertising to prospective deleters that the probability of someone complaining about the deletion is fairly low... But that is only true for naturally orphaned images. Also be aware that if you do this to fair use images it is going to cause them, ultimately, to become targets under the fair use CSD. (course, they are already CSD so...). -- Gmaxwell 03:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Just an update, SB has made suggestions to a couple hundred people unsolicited without complaints, and to a few dozen who asked for recommendations. Overall feedback has been positive on its talk page. So, thanks to everyone who had thoughts on how to make it go in a way that would be acceptable. Per AllyUnion, I posted a request over on m:Toolserver to start the process of making this a freely-available tool, that still seems like a good idea, but haven't heard any response. Do I need to actively bug the people who manage it? -- ForteTuba 18:39, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm doing some research to try to help people find pages to edit -- in particular, stubs that they might be willing to contribute to. We're doing some information retrieval stuff on a dump of the database to come up with algorithms for predicting edits based on other edits, and eventually we'd like to see if we can help real humans find articles they'd like to work on.
I am considering writing
SuggestBot, a bot that selects a set of users, looks at their contribution history, picks a set (10-100, not sure yet) of stub pages they might be willing to edit, and posts that set of pages to the user's talk page. All processing except posting would happen on our lab's servers, using dumps of the Wikipedia database.
1. Whether the bot is manually assisted (run by a human) or automatically scheduled to run
2. The period, if any, we should expect it to run
3. What language or program it is running
4. The purpose of your bot
a. Why do you need it?
b. Is it important enough for the Wikipedia to allow your bot?
The slightly scary part to us is that we modify user talk pages. I'm not sure how people will react, and I'm looking for community guidance. NotificationBot alters talk pages, but at a user's request. I wonder whether/how much this would be perceived as spam.
-- ForteTuba 23:35, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I sincerely recommend that this be not a bot, and rather be a tool like Kate's contribution tool. We should have the ability to just simply load, based on a user's name, what pages we should attempt next. This provides it to anyone who wants to use it. You can even sign up for a m:Toolserver account to place your new script tool there, since the Toolserver has access to database dumps anyway. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:27, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
This bot has been adding category tags incorrectly, so I've blocked for 3 hours and notified the author. I'm going offline now, so I hope an admin can keep an eye out to see if the problem is A) fixed before the three hours is up, so that the bot can be restarted, or B) the block extended if the bot carries on after 3 hours with the same errors. Cheers! — Matt Crypto 01:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Mathbot is pasting messages in user's talk pages asking them to do more edit summaries. I find this very obnoxious. Wikipedia is supposed to improve by cooperation and peer review in the act of editing itself. The kind of eye-in-the-sky monitoring of this bot-function is IMHO quite contrary to that spirit. Also, I think there should be a very high burden of proof on bots who leave messages in user's talk pages. Bacchiad 17:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
I originally proposed CricketBot further up this page. It has now been running for over two weeks with no complaints, and positive feedback from WikiProject Cricket, so I've applied for a bot flag at m:Requests for bot status#en:User:CricketBot. Thank you. Stephen Turner ( Talk) 10:25, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I haven't run Pfft Bot much in a while, but have recently started using it again. It still has no bot flag. Anyway, I got a request from Natalinasmpf to upload ~300 (actually ) small Xiangqi related images. They are in PNG format. I'm told they're a total of around 3 megabytes, but I have not recieved the images yet. I have source and licensing information on them (gfdl-her). Additionally, I'm assuming upload.py in pywikipedia will do what I want? -- Phroziac . o º O ( mmmmm chocolate!) 03:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
By the way, I just noticed pywikipedia has a script to copy images to commons and put a NowCommons template on wikipedia. Any objections to me using that? -- Phroziac . o º O ( mmmmm chocolate!) 00:36, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I have made a new bot, well its not necessarily a bot as it is primarily designed for semi automatic editting, there are many features to come, but if anyone wants to see what it is like then I would really like some feedback, let me know if you want a copy. See User:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser for more details. Martin 21:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I have created DFBot. Right now it has only one task. Once an hour it reads WP:RFA and creates a summary in my userspace of open noms. Maybe it will do more in the future, but that's it for now. Dragons flight 09:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Martin has been kind enough to embed the date delinking regex as an option in AutoWikiBrowser. I have published its objectives and the actual regex in the hope that openness can lead to improvements. Please look at User_talk:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser and suggest improvements. Bobblewik 20:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I was fixing up some categories after a CFD when I found AutoWikiBrowser. I used it to quickly fix all the links to the categories. I found myself making ~8 edits per minute. Is that too many for a non-bot account to be making? The "Bots running without a flag" says I should be under 30-60 seconds per edit (granted it's not really a bot, but the effect is similar). Should I be using a separate account (eg. User:BrokenBot) with a flag to do such cleanups? Broken S 03:50, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Is this a guideline? A policy? A rule? What? How did it make it into the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines without a heading template? Stevage 14:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I have now added a {{policy}} template, I think you'll all agree that is correct. Martin 00:10, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Wybot is python bot by user:WonYong. it uses pywikipedia framework. it is manually used. period: 1 year or less. I can't not login frequently.
RefBot uses m:standardize_notes.py to process references and citations. It was developed in SEWilcoBot but has become specialized enough and there is enough demand for it that it has been separated to have its own identity. ( SEWilco 19:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC))
Object - Too many citation-based conflicts surrounding this user. -- Netoholic @ 12:41, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
See Adrian Buehlmann Bot. Manually assisted bot without flag (edits visible in recent changes). Replace template calls and update list of used templates of articles. Uses Python Wikipediabot Framework. Adrian Buehlmann 19:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like permission to use the above bot to aid in renames for WP:SFD in the same way as Mairibot, mentioned earlier.
It will use the following components of the pywikipediabot to accomplish this:
-- TheParanoidOne 14:00, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
This bot is using pywikipedia framework. I've been using this bot on :tr and :az. Mostly use for mass category creation etc. But also working as interwiki bot. My main reason for requesting to work on en is; in tr wikipedia there are interwikis for :en but mostly on :en for the same article there isn't :tr interwiki. I'll work the bot on :tr but use multi-login and when it finds :en doesn't link to :tr it will update the article on :en too. For my user name: Ugur Basak-- Ugur Basak Bot 21:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I have discovered WP:AWB (as have many others looking up this page) and would like to change all of the occurances of "Pokemon" to "Pokémon" - the correct spelling. "Pokemon" is never right. -- Cel e stianpower háblame 12:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Sadly, Martin has removed functionality under Windows 98 so I won't be able to use this. However, if Martin re-enables it - it would be nice to have this ready to start. -- Cel e stianpower háblame 12:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to request this, but I would like to have permission to run a robot which downloads random pages in small numbers (say 200 to max 1000 / rate of maybe four a minute maximum) from wikipedia for some statistical analysis. There are several reasons why I don't want to do this from a DBDump.
As far as I can see; the impact will be minimal since it's just normal page reads and quite slow is fine by me. In fact I've already been doing this manually to some extent, so it wouldn't make any real difference to end usage. Comments? Mozzerati 21:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to request permission to run my interwiki bot User:Vina-iwbot on English wiki. I will be running the latest version of pywikipedia bot (have been for over a year in Chinese wiki) under the new multi-login mode. English wiki is updated to create the backlink to Chinese pages.
Waiting for permission before starting trial run.
-- Vina 23:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
The bot is occasionally forgetting to sign in, and is making edits from User:71.241.248.89. See the history of changes to Pope Pius XII. It appears to be working otherwise. Robert McClenon 17:00, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I made {{ emergency-bot-shutoff}} for bot owners to put on their bots' user pages. This template leans more towards the fun side! :) -- Ixfd64 02:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting bot status (flag) for bot User:Sashato. This bot is active on sr: and hr: wikis. The only job will be adding interwiki links here on en: wiki. I use pywikipediabot for this interwiki job. I can speek English, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian language. Thank you — Stefanovic • 03:02 2-01-2006
I am requesting permission for the trial run of User:UBXBot a bot that will assist with the Wikiproject Userboxes task. Its primary tasks are touching pages and mass editing userbox template includes with permission of WP Userboxes. -- Grand Edgemaster Talk 00:07, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to request permission for a trial run for a Python Wikipediabot, 79 androids. It will be human-assisted only and will be used to help automate standardization of the usage of {{ Mlbplayer}} and other templates related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball players. android 79 03:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Used in Turkish Wikipedia (tr.wikipedia.org)
This bot is used to start stub articles with coordinate + location + external google maps links, it was running succesfully howeever the bot account is suspended infinetely by a bureucrat. I suppose that this action is illegal, and I want my right to use bot, editing only 1 article per minute. I accept my fault that was running an unapproved bot with 5 articles per minute speed, however an infinite suspension is a heavy punishment, because the bot was creating useful articles, not garbage. I request my bot to be activated to create articles again I promise not to use it too fast.
My account: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alperen My Bot account: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alperenbot
Thanks
I'm sorry, but this is the English Wikipedia. We have nothing to do with the approval or disapproval of what happens on the Turkish Wikipedia. Please go to m:Requests for bot status if you want anything done. -- AllyUnion (talk) 13:26, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Requesting permission (trial run). This assisted-bot will fix typos using Bluemoose's AutoWikiBrowser and possibly disambiguate pages. This bot will be manually run and each edit will be checked. Gflores Talk 04:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Approved for one week trial. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
The page User:U-571 says it's a bot but I didn't find it listed. What links here doesn't give a clue either. Anybody knows something about that? Who operates that? Adrian Buehlmann 16:56, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I am experimenting with using a script to generate summaries of ongoing AFDs. The work in progress can be seen at User:Dragons flight/AFD summary. Right now the only updates come when I am working on it and trying to perfect the analysis code, and I would appreciate feedback on what people think of the idea and what can be done to make it useful. Eventually, I'd intend to have it update automatically from the DFBot account. Dragons flight 07:59, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
It's been a month or so since I got approved for the trial.... well I've used it only a few times over the last month but it seems to work out as intended. Can I do 30 seconds in between edits instead of 60? -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 08:40, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
If you wish to exceed the 30 second limit and run at 10 second intervals, please apply for a bot flag. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
At the moment User:70.193.215.124 is making robot-like interlink edits, and getting a few wrong, but there is no information on what bot is running in the edit summary. The User page and talk page are empty, so I assume it's a user not-logged in. However is it good policy that robot edits can occur with insufficient information in the edit summary? - Wikibob 14:22, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
This is User:Zscout370 here, but under my bot account. What I want to do is use replace.py under this account to replace flag images, such as from Image:foo flag large.png to Image:Flag of Foo.svg. I have been doing this by hand for months now, but with the scope of the whole process of changing flag images, I believe that a bot should run the task. And, since I wish to use python, I have created my own bot account so that the python task can be used on this on, not on my main account. Is there is any suggestions or comments to make, you can ask them at User talk:Zscout370. Thank you. Zbot370 20:49, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
If all the pages that need changing are in a specific category you would enter the command:
python replace.py -cat:category_name -putthrottle:20
hit return then enter what to replace then what to replace it with. Or if you have the names of the articles that need changing in a txt file called abc.txt in the directory of the bot you could enter
python replace.py -file:abc.txt -putthrottle:20
Does this help? Martin 22:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I was, unfortunately, unable to get WP:AWB to run properly (see [8], [9]). Thus, I've downloaded the pywikipedia kit and would like permission to run a manually assisted bot for such operations as fixing ambiguous links, double redirects, wiki-syntax errors, etc. I hope to expand this to other tasks as I become more familiar with the programming language, but all edits will be manually reviewed. — FREAK OF NURxTURE ( TALK) 11:22, Jan. 11, 2006
Just to keep everyone here up to date, User:Crypticbot is now maintaining WP:TFD's daily subpages in much the same manner as AllyUnion's bots maintain AFD/CFD. The major difference is that, in order to keep from breaking the watchlist for TFD like it was for AFD and CFD ( see archived discussion), I'll be creating the daily subpages by a page move from Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Seed. Sorry about the lack of notification, but we didn't get any advance warning of the split on Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion, either. — Cryptic (talk) 01:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Using a new database analysis tool I just made I have identified ~7000 articles that contain <i> or <b> html markup, I would like to run my bot to convert this to standard wiki markup, using the pywikibot framework. I am aware that the html works over multiple lines but the wiki markup doesnt (as demonstrated here). thanks. Martin 22:03, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
<i>'Bots</i>
, because '''Bots''
would create Bots, which would be improperly formatted and also affect whatever text follows.On request I am going to change instances of Pokemon to Pokémon. Martin 23:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
As raised on WP:VPT, I've noticed the same bot running multiple instances. In this case, because of problems with the change from {{ See}} to {{ Further}}. For one thing, I never saw a discussion on using Further instead of See.
For Israel, they appear to be from Special:Contributions/205.196.208.21:
The latter edit broke the display at Zionism and Aliyah, through bad interactions with other common templates ({{ Main}} and {{ See also}} and {{ Israelis}}). Note the differences using "Older edit".
However, others show up in Special:Contributions/NetBot, see the range:
Is somebody running the same Bot simultaneously from an IP address? Is that permitted?
It is a bug with pywiki bots, I have found that roughly 1 in 1000 edits are performed logged out. Martin 13:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I have various spelling/grammar corrections I would like to make, as well as redirect and disambig repair (such as fixing all the redirects from Cambridge University to University of Cambridge), and stub sorting. Zscout370 helped set me up with this pywikipedia bot, and it appears to be working (made my first edit). — 0918 BRIAN • 2006-01-18 06:37
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Where do I go on the commons to request permission to use a bot? I have just under 500 images I wish to upload. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to run VandalCountBot as an automated bot that would run once an hour. I have already created an IRC script that logs the amount of vandalism in #wikipedia-en-vandalism, and the purpose of VandalCountBot would be to grab the vandal count information from my server (based on the hour) and place it in a table, as it can be seen here: [ [10]] (NOTE: The information in that table was manually entered.)
The bot wouldn't put any stress on the wikipedia server, as it would only be sending one POST request to the server every hour. The purpose of the bot would be to show trends of vandalism based on time of the day, day of the week, and even month of the year. I believe it will be a beneficial tool to the CVU to be aware of when the high vandalism times are. -- Lightdarkness 02:58, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, User:SundarBot is a bot based on pywikipedia that I'm using primarily for creating interwiki links for articles in Tamil wikipedia. I've been running this bot for sometime now. You can check it's contributions. -- Sundar \ talk \ contribs 12:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to use me Interwiki.py robot at EN.wikipedia. I have a multilogin robot, editing more than one wiki at the same time. See its Japanese edits. I will do a testrun of about 50 edits at EN.wiki and than wait for permission. Dutchy-Dick 14:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I have end my testrun with 33 edits I hope I can have A Bot Flag Dutchy-Dick 16:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Flag activated. Bye. meta:User:Paginazero. 21:56, 1 February 2006 (CET)
I am requesting the bot flag for tsca.bot on the English Wikipedia. The bot has been active on several projects since 2004 (at this point it has the flag on pl.wiki, csb.wiki, pl.wikt, pl.books, en.books, commons, nl.wikt, da.wiki, sv.wiki, cs.wiki, pl.source, it.wikt, de.wiki). My intention now is to add interwiki links to Polish articles to en: (I can read the languages the bot adds interwiki to). Any other activity will be undertaken only after a proper discussion and making sure the community is interested. tsca ✉ 12:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm confused about the different sections on this, especially WP:B#Bots running without a flag. I just want to do a one shot replace.py of a certian category that isn't that big, but has too many to be done manually. So do I need to request permission here for something that simple? I can do-- Commander Keane 07:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC) even like 5 minute throttle and at whatever off-peak time! It seems like this bot flag thing is for permanent bots. I just want to run this replace.py one time and probably never use it again. -- Chris 06:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
{{{param|default}}}
, then go assign a value to the parameter at each article afterward and you won't be throwing ugly curly braces into articles for even a few minutes. Note that the default can be whitespace/blank like this {{{param|}}}
. —
FREAK OF NURxTURE (
TALK) 07:44, Jan. 21, 2006
As an admin who has started doing a lot of category moves / etc at CFD, I'm thinking of making a separate account for the recat edits. As a first step, I've created User:Syrcatbot. I guess my first question is: is this a reasonable idea, or does nobody care that I will have a ton of recategorizations for User:Syrthiss?
Syrcatbot will still be me sitting there with AutoWikiBrowser, and will obviously not be tagged as Admin.
I'm still getting the hang of tagging cat moves for the other bots, but if that is what I should do for all my cat moves then I'm willing to stop doing recats by hand and leave it to the bots.
Thanks! -- Syrthiss 15:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic is running User:NetBot and modifying all instances of the {{ main article}} template, which was previously (TFD'd and?) redirected to {{ main}}. Has he asked for permission to do this or is just more disruption regarding conditional templates? — Omegatron 19:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I am doing a school assignment where I need to configure Heritrix web crawler to retrive pages from Wikipedia. I read Wikipedia:Bots and it says that I need to approval on Wikipedia:Bots talk. I am confused whether I need to get approval for the web crawler engine.
This is the information of the Bot:
The user page for my bot User:Xiaogiabot.
Please let me know if my web crawler can crawl a topic in Wikipedia.
Xiaogiabot 08:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC) User:Xiaogia
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(copied from User talk:AllyUnion.)
Am I correct in assuming that one can request jobs to be done by your bot here? I'm currently trying to orphan Image:Flag of Czech Republic.svg and replace it with Image:Flag of the Czech Republic, but the amount of pages it is used in (especially English, French, Spanish wikipedias) is enormous... ナイトスタリオン ✉ 20:01, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
I am asking for permision to run User:Chlewbot under a bot flag. It's primary goal is to check, add and fix interwikis originated at Spanish language Wikipedia.
Thank you.
— Carlos Th (talk) 21:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot flag for a manually assisted bot running on the English wikipedia to assist in fixing a variety of firearms, woodworking, and other pages with numerous redirects, and double redirects. Kaiserb 02:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run User:OrphanBot to orphan images in Category:Images with unknown source and Category:Images with unknown copyright status in preparation for deleting them. The bot would go through the categories, and for each image, it would replace the image tag with , to keep from breaking table layouts. It would then record on the image description page which articles it has removed the image from.
For images in articles in the main namespace, the Category namespace, and the Portal namespace, it would remove them. Images in articles in the User:, Talk:, User talk:, Template talk:, Image:, Image talk:, Category talk:, Wikipedia talk:, and Portal talk: namespaces would be ignored. Images in articles in the Wikipedia:, Template:, Help:, and Help talk: namespaces would be logged to the bot's talk page for human review, since they shouldn't have been there in the first place. -- Carnildo 09:11, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hmm. Can we tag these with a category? I go through runs asking people to delete images, and I generally start with Orphaned images advertising to prospective deleters that the probability of someone complaining about the deletion is fairly low... But that is only true for naturally orphaned images. Also be aware that if you do this to fair use images it is going to cause them, ultimately, to become targets under the fair use CSD. (course, they are already CSD so...). -- Gmaxwell 03:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Just an update, SB has made suggestions to a couple hundred people unsolicited without complaints, and to a few dozen who asked for recommendations. Overall feedback has been positive on its talk page. So, thanks to everyone who had thoughts on how to make it go in a way that would be acceptable. Per AllyUnion, I posted a request over on m:Toolserver to start the process of making this a freely-available tool, that still seems like a good idea, but haven't heard any response. Do I need to actively bug the people who manage it? -- ForteTuba 18:39, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm doing some research to try to help people find pages to edit -- in particular, stubs that they might be willing to contribute to. We're doing some information retrieval stuff on a dump of the database to come up with algorithms for predicting edits based on other edits, and eventually we'd like to see if we can help real humans find articles they'd like to work on.
I am considering writing
SuggestBot, a bot that selects a set of users, looks at their contribution history, picks a set (10-100, not sure yet) of stub pages they might be willing to edit, and posts that set of pages to the user's talk page. All processing except posting would happen on our lab's servers, using dumps of the Wikipedia database.
1. Whether the bot is manually assisted (run by a human) or automatically scheduled to run
2. The period, if any, we should expect it to run
3. What language or program it is running
4. The purpose of your bot
a. Why do you need it?
b. Is it important enough for the Wikipedia to allow your bot?
The slightly scary part to us is that we modify user talk pages. I'm not sure how people will react, and I'm looking for community guidance. NotificationBot alters talk pages, but at a user's request. I wonder whether/how much this would be perceived as spam.
-- ForteTuba 23:35, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I sincerely recommend that this be not a bot, and rather be a tool like Kate's contribution tool. We should have the ability to just simply load, based on a user's name, what pages we should attempt next. This provides it to anyone who wants to use it. You can even sign up for a m:Toolserver account to place your new script tool there, since the Toolserver has access to database dumps anyway. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:27, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
This bot has been adding category tags incorrectly, so I've blocked for 3 hours and notified the author. I'm going offline now, so I hope an admin can keep an eye out to see if the problem is A) fixed before the three hours is up, so that the bot can be restarted, or B) the block extended if the bot carries on after 3 hours with the same errors. Cheers! — Matt Crypto 01:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Mathbot is pasting messages in user's talk pages asking them to do more edit summaries. I find this very obnoxious. Wikipedia is supposed to improve by cooperation and peer review in the act of editing itself. The kind of eye-in-the-sky monitoring of this bot-function is IMHO quite contrary to that spirit. Also, I think there should be a very high burden of proof on bots who leave messages in user's talk pages. Bacchiad 17:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
I originally proposed CricketBot further up this page. It has now been running for over two weeks with no complaints, and positive feedback from WikiProject Cricket, so I've applied for a bot flag at m:Requests for bot status#en:User:CricketBot. Thank you. Stephen Turner ( Talk) 10:25, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I haven't run Pfft Bot much in a while, but have recently started using it again. It still has no bot flag. Anyway, I got a request from Natalinasmpf to upload ~300 (actually ) small Xiangqi related images. They are in PNG format. I'm told they're a total of around 3 megabytes, but I have not recieved the images yet. I have source and licensing information on them (gfdl-her). Additionally, I'm assuming upload.py in pywikipedia will do what I want? -- Phroziac . o º O ( mmmmm chocolate!) 03:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
By the way, I just noticed pywikipedia has a script to copy images to commons and put a NowCommons template on wikipedia. Any objections to me using that? -- Phroziac . o º O ( mmmmm chocolate!) 00:36, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I have made a new bot, well its not necessarily a bot as it is primarily designed for semi automatic editting, there are many features to come, but if anyone wants to see what it is like then I would really like some feedback, let me know if you want a copy. See User:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser for more details. Martin 21:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I have created DFBot. Right now it has only one task. Once an hour it reads WP:RFA and creates a summary in my userspace of open noms. Maybe it will do more in the future, but that's it for now. Dragons flight 09:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Martin has been kind enough to embed the date delinking regex as an option in AutoWikiBrowser. I have published its objectives and the actual regex in the hope that openness can lead to improvements. Please look at User_talk:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser and suggest improvements. Bobblewik 20:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I was fixing up some categories after a CFD when I found AutoWikiBrowser. I used it to quickly fix all the links to the categories. I found myself making ~8 edits per minute. Is that too many for a non-bot account to be making? The "Bots running without a flag" says I should be under 30-60 seconds per edit (granted it's not really a bot, but the effect is similar). Should I be using a separate account (eg. User:BrokenBot) with a flag to do such cleanups? Broken S 03:50, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Is this a guideline? A policy? A rule? What? How did it make it into the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines without a heading template? Stevage 14:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I have now added a {{policy}} template, I think you'll all agree that is correct. Martin 00:10, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Wybot is python bot by user:WonYong. it uses pywikipedia framework. it is manually used. period: 1 year or less. I can't not login frequently.
RefBot uses m:standardize_notes.py to process references and citations. It was developed in SEWilcoBot but has become specialized enough and there is enough demand for it that it has been separated to have its own identity. ( SEWilco 19:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC))
Object - Too many citation-based conflicts surrounding this user. -- Netoholic @ 12:41, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
See Adrian Buehlmann Bot. Manually assisted bot without flag (edits visible in recent changes). Replace template calls and update list of used templates of articles. Uses Python Wikipediabot Framework. Adrian Buehlmann 19:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I would like permission to use the above bot to aid in renames for WP:SFD in the same way as Mairibot, mentioned earlier.
It will use the following components of the pywikipediabot to accomplish this:
-- TheParanoidOne 14:00, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
This bot is using pywikipedia framework. I've been using this bot on :tr and :az. Mostly use for mass category creation etc. But also working as interwiki bot. My main reason for requesting to work on en is; in tr wikipedia there are interwikis for :en but mostly on :en for the same article there isn't :tr interwiki. I'll work the bot on :tr but use multi-login and when it finds :en doesn't link to :tr it will update the article on :en too. For my user name: Ugur Basak-- Ugur Basak Bot 21:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I have discovered WP:AWB (as have many others looking up this page) and would like to change all of the occurances of "Pokemon" to "Pokémon" - the correct spelling. "Pokemon" is never right. -- Cel e stianpower háblame 12:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Sadly, Martin has removed functionality under Windows 98 so I won't be able to use this. However, if Martin re-enables it - it would be nice to have this ready to start. -- Cel e stianpower háblame 12:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to request this, but I would like to have permission to run a robot which downloads random pages in small numbers (say 200 to max 1000 / rate of maybe four a minute maximum) from wikipedia for some statistical analysis. There are several reasons why I don't want to do this from a DBDump.
As far as I can see; the impact will be minimal since it's just normal page reads and quite slow is fine by me. In fact I've already been doing this manually to some extent, so it wouldn't make any real difference to end usage. Comments? Mozzerati 21:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to request permission to run my interwiki bot User:Vina-iwbot on English wiki. I will be running the latest version of pywikipedia bot (have been for over a year in Chinese wiki) under the new multi-login mode. English wiki is updated to create the backlink to Chinese pages.
Waiting for permission before starting trial run.
-- Vina 23:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
The bot is occasionally forgetting to sign in, and is making edits from User:71.241.248.89. See the history of changes to Pope Pius XII. It appears to be working otherwise. Robert McClenon 17:00, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I made {{ emergency-bot-shutoff}} for bot owners to put on their bots' user pages. This template leans more towards the fun side! :) -- Ixfd64 02:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting bot status (flag) for bot User:Sashato. This bot is active on sr: and hr: wikis. The only job will be adding interwiki links here on en: wiki. I use pywikipediabot for this interwiki job. I can speek English, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian language. Thank you — Stefanovic • 03:02 2-01-2006
I am requesting permission for the trial run of User:UBXBot a bot that will assist with the Wikiproject Userboxes task. Its primary tasks are touching pages and mass editing userbox template includes with permission of WP Userboxes. -- Grand Edgemaster Talk 00:07, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to request permission for a trial run for a Python Wikipediabot, 79 androids. It will be human-assisted only and will be used to help automate standardization of the usage of {{ Mlbplayer}} and other templates related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball players. android 79 03:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Used in Turkish Wikipedia (tr.wikipedia.org)
This bot is used to start stub articles with coordinate + location + external google maps links, it was running succesfully howeever the bot account is suspended infinetely by a bureucrat. I suppose that this action is illegal, and I want my right to use bot, editing only 1 article per minute. I accept my fault that was running an unapproved bot with 5 articles per minute speed, however an infinite suspension is a heavy punishment, because the bot was creating useful articles, not garbage. I request my bot to be activated to create articles again I promise not to use it too fast.
My account: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alperen My Bot account: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alperenbot
Thanks
I'm sorry, but this is the English Wikipedia. We have nothing to do with the approval or disapproval of what happens on the Turkish Wikipedia. Please go to m:Requests for bot status if you want anything done. -- AllyUnion (talk) 13:26, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Requesting permission (trial run). This assisted-bot will fix typos using Bluemoose's AutoWikiBrowser and possibly disambiguate pages. This bot will be manually run and each edit will be checked. Gflores Talk 04:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Approved for one week trial. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:47, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
The page User:U-571 says it's a bot but I didn't find it listed. What links here doesn't give a clue either. Anybody knows something about that? Who operates that? Adrian Buehlmann 16:56, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I am experimenting with using a script to generate summaries of ongoing AFDs. The work in progress can be seen at User:Dragons flight/AFD summary. Right now the only updates come when I am working on it and trying to perfect the analysis code, and I would appreciate feedback on what people think of the idea and what can be done to make it useful. Eventually, I'd intend to have it update automatically from the DFBot account. Dragons flight 07:59, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
It's been a month or so since I got approved for the trial.... well I've used it only a few times over the last month but it seems to work out as intended. Can I do 30 seconds in between edits instead of 60? -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 08:40, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
If you wish to exceed the 30 second limit and run at 10 second intervals, please apply for a bot flag. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
At the moment User:70.193.215.124 is making robot-like interlink edits, and getting a few wrong, but there is no information on what bot is running in the edit summary. The User page and talk page are empty, so I assume it's a user not-logged in. However is it good policy that robot edits can occur with insufficient information in the edit summary? - Wikibob 14:22, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
This is User:Zscout370 here, but under my bot account. What I want to do is use replace.py under this account to replace flag images, such as from Image:foo flag large.png to Image:Flag of Foo.svg. I have been doing this by hand for months now, but with the scope of the whole process of changing flag images, I believe that a bot should run the task. And, since I wish to use python, I have created my own bot account so that the python task can be used on this on, not on my main account. Is there is any suggestions or comments to make, you can ask them at User talk:Zscout370. Thank you. Zbot370 20:49, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
If all the pages that need changing are in a specific category you would enter the command:
python replace.py -cat:category_name -putthrottle:20
hit return then enter what to replace then what to replace it with. Or if you have the names of the articles that need changing in a txt file called abc.txt in the directory of the bot you could enter
python replace.py -file:abc.txt -putthrottle:20
Does this help? Martin 22:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I was, unfortunately, unable to get WP:AWB to run properly (see [8], [9]). Thus, I've downloaded the pywikipedia kit and would like permission to run a manually assisted bot for such operations as fixing ambiguous links, double redirects, wiki-syntax errors, etc. I hope to expand this to other tasks as I become more familiar with the programming language, but all edits will be manually reviewed. — FREAK OF NURxTURE ( TALK) 11:22, Jan. 11, 2006
Just to keep everyone here up to date, User:Crypticbot is now maintaining WP:TFD's daily subpages in much the same manner as AllyUnion's bots maintain AFD/CFD. The major difference is that, in order to keep from breaking the watchlist for TFD like it was for AFD and CFD ( see archived discussion), I'll be creating the daily subpages by a page move from Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Seed. Sorry about the lack of notification, but we didn't get any advance warning of the split on Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion, either. — Cryptic (talk) 01:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Using a new database analysis tool I just made I have identified ~7000 articles that contain <i> or <b> html markup, I would like to run my bot to convert this to standard wiki markup, using the pywikibot framework. I am aware that the html works over multiple lines but the wiki markup doesnt (as demonstrated here). thanks. Martin 22:03, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
<i>'Bots</i>
, because '''Bots''
would create Bots, which would be improperly formatted and also affect whatever text follows.On request I am going to change instances of Pokemon to Pokémon. Martin 23:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
As raised on WP:VPT, I've noticed the same bot running multiple instances. In this case, because of problems with the change from {{ See}} to {{ Further}}. For one thing, I never saw a discussion on using Further instead of See.
For Israel, they appear to be from Special:Contributions/205.196.208.21:
The latter edit broke the display at Zionism and Aliyah, through bad interactions with other common templates ({{ Main}} and {{ See also}} and {{ Israelis}}). Note the differences using "Older edit".
However, others show up in Special:Contributions/NetBot, see the range:
Is somebody running the same Bot simultaneously from an IP address? Is that permitted?
It is a bug with pywiki bots, I have found that roughly 1 in 1000 edits are performed logged out. Martin 13:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I have various spelling/grammar corrections I would like to make, as well as redirect and disambig repair (such as fixing all the redirects from Cambridge University to University of Cambridge), and stub sorting. Zscout370 helped set me up with this pywikipedia bot, and it appears to be working (made my first edit). — 0918 BRIAN • 2006-01-18 06:37
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Where do I go on the commons to request permission to use a bot? I have just under 500 images I wish to upload. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to run VandalCountBot as an automated bot that would run once an hour. I have already created an IRC script that logs the amount of vandalism in #wikipedia-en-vandalism, and the purpose of VandalCountBot would be to grab the vandal count information from my server (based on the hour) and place it in a table, as it can be seen here: [ [10]] (NOTE: The information in that table was manually entered.)
The bot wouldn't put any stress on the wikipedia server, as it would only be sending one POST request to the server every hour. The purpose of the bot would be to show trends of vandalism based on time of the day, day of the week, and even month of the year. I believe it will be a beneficial tool to the CVU to be aware of when the high vandalism times are. -- Lightdarkness 02:58, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, User:SundarBot is a bot based on pywikipedia that I'm using primarily for creating interwiki links for articles in Tamil wikipedia. I've been running this bot for sometime now. You can check it's contributions. -- Sundar \ talk \ contribs 12:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to use me Interwiki.py robot at EN.wikipedia. I have a multilogin robot, editing more than one wiki at the same time. See its Japanese edits. I will do a testrun of about 50 edits at EN.wiki and than wait for permission. Dutchy-Dick 14:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I have end my testrun with 33 edits I hope I can have A Bot Flag Dutchy-Dick 16:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Flag activated. Bye. meta:User:Paginazero. 21:56, 1 February 2006 (CET)
I am requesting the bot flag for tsca.bot on the English Wikipedia. The bot has been active on several projects since 2004 (at this point it has the flag on pl.wiki, csb.wiki, pl.wikt, pl.books, en.books, commons, nl.wikt, da.wiki, sv.wiki, cs.wiki, pl.source, it.wikt, de.wiki). My intention now is to add interwiki links to Polish articles to en: (I can read the languages the bot adds interwiki to). Any other activity will be undertaken only after a proper discussion and making sure the community is interested. tsca ✉ 12:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm confused about the different sections on this, especially WP:B#Bots running without a flag. I just want to do a one shot replace.py of a certian category that isn't that big, but has too many to be done manually. So do I need to request permission here for something that simple? I can do-- Commander Keane 07:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC) even like 5 minute throttle and at whatever off-peak time! It seems like this bot flag thing is for permanent bots. I just want to run this replace.py one time and probably never use it again. -- Chris 06:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
{{{param|default}}}
, then go assign a value to the parameter at each article afterward and you won't be throwing ugly curly braces into articles for even a few minutes. Note that the default can be whitespace/blank like this {{{param|}}}
. —
FREAK OF NURxTURE (
TALK) 07:44, Jan. 21, 2006
As an admin who has started doing a lot of category moves / etc at CFD, I'm thinking of making a separate account for the recat edits. As a first step, I've created User:Syrcatbot. I guess my first question is: is this a reasonable idea, or does nobody care that I will have a ton of recategorizations for User:Syrthiss?
Syrcatbot will still be me sitting there with AutoWikiBrowser, and will obviously not be tagged as Admin.
I'm still getting the hang of tagging cat moves for the other bots, but if that is what I should do for all my cat moves then I'm willing to stop doing recats by hand and leave it to the bots.
Thanks! -- Syrthiss 15:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic is running User:NetBot and modifying all instances of the {{ main article}} template, which was previously (TFD'd and?) redirected to {{ main}}. Has he asked for permission to do this or is just more disruption regarding conditional templates? — Omegatron 19:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I am doing a school assignment where I need to configure Heritrix web crawler to retrive pages from Wikipedia. I read Wikipedia:Bots and it says that I need to approval on Wikipedia:Bots talk. I am confused whether I need to get approval for the web crawler engine.
This is the information of the Bot:
The user page for my bot User:Xiaogiabot.
Please let me know if my web crawler can crawl a topic in Wikipedia.
Xiaogiabot 08:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC) User:Xiaogia