Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 12

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Adding Type field to "Extra tracklisting" template

{{Extra tracklisting}} has recently been changed so it employs a Type field, so you can designate a background colour to the template, exactly like {{Infobox album}}. The problem is now this leaves many articles using the template without the type field there, and the background being in peachpuff colour. Now from what I've seen, this has shocked and confused editors, as they are unaware of the change to the template, and they dont know what to do. All of these templates are automatically put into Category:Non-standard Extra tracklisting templates. I need a bot to go through that category and just simply add the type field. An example from New Year's Day (song):
Before:

{{Extra tracklisting
|Album = [[War (album)|War]]
|prev_track     = "[[Seconds (song)|Seconds]]"
|prev_no        = 2
|this_track     = "'''New Year's Day'''"
|track_no       = 3
|next_track     = "[[Like a Song...]]"
|next_no        = 4
}}

After:

{{Extra tracklisting
|Album = [[War (album)|War]]
|Type           = <!-- Add appropriate Type and colour code here -->
|prev_track     = "[[Seconds (song)|Seconds]]"
|prev_no        = 2
|this_track     = "'''New Year's Day'''"
|track_no       = 3
|next_track     = "[[Like a Song...]]"
|next_no        = 4
}}

This would probably clear up much confusion with the numerous song articles with this problem. Thank you, and contact me with any questions or comments. -- Reaper X 23:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Introduction reset bot?

Hi, I think we need a bot to reset Wikipedia:Introduction to a clean state, every 15 minutes. It appears that EssjayBot used to handle this, but is (obviously) no longer active (Wikipedia talk:Introduction#How about a bot?).

(2 notes: The main discussion page for the intro is at Template talk:Please leave this line alone. And, I'll point Trödel towards this thread too, as I think he's the most knowledgable admin concerning the intro's history, and might have better info/suggestions.) --Quiddity 21:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Ask AllyUnion to have Sandbot do it. Very simple extension of Sandbot's current code. It already resets the main sandbox automatically every 12 hours and resets the intro page on request, so combining the two functions and having the intro page be reset automatically should be trivial. —METS501 (talk) 05:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Sandbot has done it in the past but it still was vandalised for some time. The best solution was when AntiVandalBot was monitoring it and if any change was made to the Introduction that deleted the first two lines, they were restored in seconds instead of minutes. I am not sure why that bot stopped monitoring the page. More later --Trödel 12:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, AllyUnion is not as active as was before. His UserPage announces:

I am currently on a Wiki Leave of Absence, and may not check on the Wikipedia for long periods of time. I am best reachable by email should you need my attention. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

and he has made 7 edits in 2007. --Trödel 14:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

U.S. County Cleanup

A while ago, a bot was created that added {{infoboxneeded}} to several U.S. County articles (need to use {{Infobox U.S. County}}). Somewhere during the bot's work, a user commented that the infoboxneeded banner need to be on the TALK page and not the article itself. Recently there has been some discussion about this, and is is quite clear that we get results when the banner is placed ON THE ARTICLE, and not on THE TALK PAGE. As an example, see any South Dakota county. Spink County, South Dakota, for example, had the infoboxneeded banner placed on the talk page on February 23 by the bot. Nothing happened. I put the infoboxneeded banner on the article itself on March 8, and on March 18 someone had updated the article to use the infobox. Now it is March 29 and you can see that the "infoboxneeded" banner was STILL on top of the talk page, quite unnecessarily.

My request for a bot is to help cleanup the US County articles. The bot needs to:

1. Remove the Infoboxneeded banner from the talk page if it exists
2. If the article has the correct infobox ({{Infobox U.S. County}}), nothing more needs to happen.
3. If the article already has an "infoboxneeded" banner, nothing more needs to happen.
4. If the article does not have the correct infobox, or if it has no infobox at all, add the infoboxneeded banner requesting the {{Infobox U.S. County}}) template to the top of the article.

Please let me know if you can help. Right now there are several articles that unnecessarily have "infoboxneeded" on the talk page even though the article is using the correct infobox. Thank you. /Timneu22 12:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

That would have been my bot :). can you point me to that discussion where the opinion was changed? this is a simple request and I should be able to do this fairly quickly. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Discussion on Template talk:Infoboxneeded, however it's not the biggest discusison. The real point is that you can see that articles with infoboxneeded on the article itself get edited; articles with the banner on the talk page do not. (See articles where Betacommandbot added to the talk page, then I added to the article itself, and then the article got updated, but infoboxneeded still appears on the talk page because no one ever looks there!) /Timneu22 21:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you point to the other conversations? just because we might agree doesn't mean that we can override consensus and place it on the article. As a Bot Op we have to follow community consensus even if we disagree with it. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know where else to point you. This seems like a no-brainer to me. It's all about improving wikipedia. WP:Bold... I don't see how it is useful to wait around to have others agree that this helps improve articles; I also don't see where it has been stated that infoboxneeded should be on talk pages. Even if it did say that, again I cite that we improve articles by placing it on the article itself. Looking at all the current articles that now have an infobox yet still have infoboxneeded on the talk page is evidence that the talk page is the wrong place for this template. This is not one or two articles — I personally went through a few states and added infoboxneeded to the articles, and you can see the results are far better than using it on talk pages. If nothing else, a bot needs to remove infoboxneeded from talk pages where the article now includes the appropriate infobox, but I suggest moving the notice to the article because this clearly gets results. Timneu22 00:14, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:BOLD and WP:IAR dont apply to bots. Please get consensus to place the tag on the artilce and Id be glad to do it. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 00:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Can you at least remove infoboxneeded from U.S. County Talk Pages when the articles already have the correct infobox? It certainly makes no sense to have these pages tagged when the appropriate work has already been done to the article. Additionally, as for concensus, it seems that the best policy is just to wait and see if the page gets any more edits. Is there another way to attract users to the talk page and discuss concensus? /Timneu22 14:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I can do that, A suggestion drop a note on the WP:VP and see what the opinion is. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

So far, WP:VP has one editor who agrees: the banner should be on the article. Not much of a concensus. Anyway, did you get the cleanup part of the bot running? Thanks again — Timneu22 00:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Tagging articles about places, but with no coordinates

There's a new, template, {{LocateMe|April 2007}} (for example), for the talk pages (or main pages?) of articles which are about places, but have no coordinates. We need a bot to run through all the articles which fit the former category (perhaps by category, or by use of info boxes) and determine which have no coordinates (not sure how - perhaps by looking for a link to http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php ?), then apply the tag to the talk page. Any offers, please? A trial run, to determine the best method and the numbers involved, might be good idea. Andy Mabbett 23:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Andy! Do you have a set of categories in mind for this project that you can pull together on a user-page? And what coordinates would you be looking for — {{Coor dms}} and the like? Can you come up with a preliminary list of either templates that show the coordinates you're interested in or links like the geohack one you mentioned? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 00:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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I'm working on this but I have some concerns. For instance, Category:Visitor attractions looks a likely candidate, as do all of its child-categories, such as Category:Visitor attractions; and, in turn, it's child category, Category:Miniature parks - then we see that the later includes Category:30" Railways & Modelling and thus articles which are clearly not about places.

It seems to me that there are several options:

1. Proceed anyway, with a note in the template, or on the talk page or edit summary, to apologise for any possible mistake, and invite revert (my mean more bad than good edits; cause bad-will, have the baby thrown out with the bath water)
2. Change pages which include on of a list of appropriate info boxes (but that misses articles about places, but having no infobox)
3. Manually list all the individual categories to check (but that's far too long-winded)
4. Automatically build a list of possible categories, then manually edit it (ditto, but less so)
5. Start from, for example, [:Category:Visitor attractions]], but only include sub-categories with the string "visitor attractions" in their names. (May fall down if "Visitor attractions in Anytown" is sub-divided into, say "Museums in Anytown" and "Theme parks in Anytown"

The latter seems to me to be the best of these options. Has anyone come across similar issues elsewhere? Or know of an alternative solution?

Andy Mabbett 18:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

You've run in to exactly the issue we have with bots running through categories and their subcats. In my experience (and others chime in if you have suggestions), the best thing to do is #4. You can start with something like

FYI, that's "<categorytree>Visitor attractions</categorytree>"

When I was doing this, I started with that, hit the "+" next to every one and followed down through until the cat didn't make sense - I used the guideline that if the category wasn't at least 80% accurate, I didn't include it. And try not to duplicate, but don't worry about that too much. Then I selected the text (the code doesn't expand, so select it on the web page) and copy/pasted it into a text document, where I cleaned up duplicates and such.

It's work, but the alternative is a ton of messages from irked users that the bot is running amok. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 19:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. That doesn't seem very "automatic"! If there's no way to get the machines to do more, might we be able to work in it in stages? Andy Mabbett 20:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Certainly! I don't like to run the bot on more than 50 cats in a run anyway, so that's fine. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:12, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, Here's a Pathfinder. Note that "Theatre in London" is to be omitted, but two of its children included. Please let me know if the format is OK for you (or whether you can let me have a copy of the bot, for Windows XP, preconfigured, into which I can drop such lists). Please log the number of sites checked an the number of those tagged. Thank you. Andy Mabbett 08:53, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Also, we could run against some lists, such as anything matching "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*_postcode_area" on [[1]]. Andy Mabbett

See also Wikipedia-DE's "maybe checker"Andy Mabbett 09:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry; I missed your "And what coordinates would you be looking for" - I think the GeoHack link covers everything. I don't know of any coordinate templates which don't put it on the page. Andy Mabbett 20:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

At maybe-checker you can also filters some areas over categories.

A good way, for searching in a special area is Catscan Berlin Example. Unfortunaly the english language is not uptodate on Toolserver. de:Benutzer:Kolossos 09:51, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I second that, with the maybechecker there is no point in cluttering the article with LocateMe templates. --Dschwen 15:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Let's take this to the bot's current project page. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 15:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Automobiles newsletter bot

A bot similar to Ralbot (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) for delivering news to members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles could be useful for members, this could also be used for Wikipedia:WikiProject Law Enforcement too. --SunStar Net ^talk 17:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Easy. I'll look at the first and post a request in a few hours, and I'll look at the second - are you associated with both projects to a degree that you can request the bots and give the final word on what to send? If so, I can set up the bots, I already have a pending request and I'll just add the other bots if needed. ST47Talk 18:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Another fair use bot request

This may have already been suggested, so let me apologize in advance if it has (I searched through 5 pages of the archive). Would it be possible to create a bot that looks at the fair use images and checks for rationale? Fair use images uploaded after 2006-05-04 must have rationale. I've notice d that many new FU images are beginning to use the {{Fair use rationale}} template. Basically, the bot would go through fair use categories, determine the upload date, then search the image description page for either the above template or any header with the word "Rationale" (or phrase "Fair use rationale"). If rationale is found, it moves on (or should we create a category for verified FU rationale images?). If it does not, then it tags the image with {{nrd}} and notifies the uploader with {{Missing rationale}}. Thoughts?↔NMajdan•talk 21:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Request from CFD/W

To complete some outstanding work at WP:CFD/W, I'd like to request botomatic help with the following large, one-off task. The work required is pretty simple but there are around 12500 pages to be processed.

Using a supplied list of pages (all in talkspace) the bot would create pages which did not exist with the content {{1911}} *or* add {{1911}} to an existing page near the top where the other templates are. The should be placed at the top of the page if it does not contain {{skiptotoctalk}}. If it does contain {{skiptotoctalk}} it should be placed immediately following that (on the same line or a new line, whichever is easier).

There's no particular urgency here. I wouldn't be ready to start around mid-April as I need to have all the necessary template changes prepared in advance and thoroughly tested. Can anyone help out? There are many smaller categories which can be used to test the proposed solution. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Sounds simple i could do it. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 21:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer! I'll be in touch when I've got all the template stuff sorted and had a chance to things manually. Cheers, Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Sherlock Bot

I cannot find a bot that specifically does this simple task: find articles that contain choice words. The bot would be useful to WikiProjects in that one could find articles pertaining to their project. It could simply search periodically for a list of words and display new results to a user who can then check each article for relavance. By the way, I am specifically looking for a bot to work on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stagecraft. I appreciate ay input into this bot, thanks, --Wforlines 22:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

this might be doable. but I'd use google search. care to generate a list of words? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:05, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

After more thinking, I'd like to add some other stuff to the bot. The ability to prioritize some words over the other so that higher priorities come up first in the results list, and are notated by priority. Further more, a page can be excluded from the results because it has already been looked over and posted with a Project banner, the page is a Wikipedia page (such as guidelines, rules, etc), or if the page is a userpage/template/bot page, etc. So I made it quite a bit more complex... --Wforlines 22:29, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

A) I can limit it to the mainspace. B.) I can have an exclude list. C)priority could be an issue. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Scan specific categories for Unsourced Statement or Cleanup Tags

The various cleanup tags create global categories that are too large to be useful to editors of specific areas. For instance, editors interested in classical music will have a hard time sifting through Category:Articles with unsourced statements since February 2007 for places where they can help out. Is there some way to recursively scan down a classical music specific category like Category:Compositions by composer, search for and tweak the maintenance tags so that they either switch to (or also create) a classical music version of that maintenance category? This seems like a logical request for any specific field of wikipedia, has it been asked before? Thanks in advance. DavidRF 04:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

If you have or can get AutoWikiBrowser, you can just load a list of articles in category A, a list of articles in category B, and use the list comparer to come up with a list of articles in both categories. You don't even have to be approved for this to work as it doesn't involve editing. If you don't have it, I'm sure anyone who has it would be able to help you. If you want I could dump a list of the articles in both of the categories you mentioned to a subpage. This is a much easier approach than the thousands of edits necessary to add all the articles needing maintenance in Wikipedia to new category-specific maintenance categories, let alone convincing people to use them in the future.--Dycedarg ж 04:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

A couple WikiProjects have started something like this. Take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies/to do full list and Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/To-do list. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 04:38, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Those are exactly the types of lists that I'm looking to make. The trouble is that classical music is a fairly large area with hundreds of categories. I'm playing with the AutoWikiBrowser right now. Its pretty cool, but it doesn't look like there is a way to recursively list pages in all child categories. Take a look at the Category:Compositions by composer above. Is there anyway to burrow down and get a long list of all the pages that are descended from that top-level category? I'm just getting a list of items that belong explicitly to the top-level category. Thanks again for all of your help. DavidRF 05:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow. That's the least recursive category tree I've seen on wikipedia - especially since it has 462 cats!!!

So would this be a one-time run? Because I can definitely do this - from that top level cat recursive - I think it only goes three deep. Review all articles for any of the cleanup templates. Let me know if it's going to be periodic or a one-shot and I'll give it a go tomorrow. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 06:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

A periodic run would be great, but if that's too difficult, a one-shot run would be a good start as well. We'd like the list posted on some child page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music. The exact name doesn't matter. "Full To Do List" or "Pages with maintenance tags". That would be amazing. Let me know if you need any more information. Thanks. DavidRF 06:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I could set a bot up on the toolserver and have it run say once a week, if your interested. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 12:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, BC :) SatyrBot already runs automaticelly for the other two WikiProjects, so this is just an addition to that. If I add many more wikiprojects to its scope, I may take you up on that, though! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The results are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/To-do list and Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Small to-do list. The bot will update that list weekly on Wednesday nights. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 18:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

This is great. I can't thank you enough. I noticed that the "unsourced statements" tag is not being checked. Only the "lacking sources" tag. (See Symphony No. 88 (Haydn) which missed the list). Could that tag be added for the next time? Thanks again! DavidRF 20:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Question/Request-Common Mistakes

Is there a bot for common mistakes? It is a long time since most were checked, so I think a bot (if nonexistent) should be created. The WikiWhippet (deeds) 09:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)(09:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC))

What kind of mistakes? Many are corrected with AutoWikiBrowser's general fixes and typo-fixing capabilities. —METS501 (talk) 03:28, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

"Stub of the Day"

I'm not sure if I'm posting this request in the correct place, if not can you direct me to the correct forum.

I would like a program/template/(bot?) that will generate a link to a random stub-article in a prescribed category.

The idea is to place a simple template in a user's homepage. That simple template will then generated a box with a link to a random stub e.g.

Hopefully the template dropped into the user's homepage should be simple and tweakable e.g.:

{{Stub-of-the-Day|[Category:Chem-stubs]}} <-- this is just by way of illustrative example.

The category that I'm specifically interested in is chemistry stubs, but I hope that other editors might like the idea and use the program/(bot?) in their user homepage for other stub-categories e.g. stubs in the category "1960s music groups" - hence the requirement that the template/bot is easily tweakable to a specific category.

Finally - (if at all possible!) I'd quite like the stub to be fixed for 24 hr period (e.g. midnight to midnight GMT), i.e. to be a stub-of-the-day, that way a person coming back to the user-page will see the same stub and will be more likely to act to add information to de-stub the article!

I think this program/template/bot? would be a great tool and motivation to improving stub articles!!!

If the above make sense, and you can do it, want to do it, then that would be wonderful thanks! -- Quantockgoblin 22:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

Generating a random stub would not be hard but identifying said category would be hard to program Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I think without a category option then it is just a link to another random article. I have a strong background in chemistry and so would like stubs to be suggested in my field of interest. I know I could go to the chem-stub list every day and pick an article - but where is the fun in that! I guess if a general bot can't be made, could a specific bot be made if I fix the category?

However if a general & tweakable bot could be made I think many people would be interested not just me!!!! The creator would be showered in glory!!!! Thanks -- Quantockgoblin 22:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Well if you can find a template genius to give us a hand I think I can get the bot to work. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Sadly, that is not me ... any idea how we might find one? Do I dare ask what sort of information you might need? -- Quantockgoblin 22:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

What sort of template work would this need? Sounds like you just need a template with a little text and a link to an article. Couldn't the bot simply change the link in the template? Gimmetrow 22:43, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I see the number of requested categories growing very fast. It would far simpler to code a bot to simpley output data to a subpage of its userpace with the categor's name as the subpage. that way users can use a template with parser functions to select the proper page. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

To my mind I pleased to see that the conversation has escaped my understanding - keep it up, maybe there is a solution in there somewhere, again thanks for your efforts -- Quantockgoblin 22:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

It sounds like you want the template to be roughly something like

<includeonly>Stub of the day is [[:{{ThisTemplate/{{{Category}}}}}]]</includeonly>

and there would be article names at Template:ThisTemplate/Category for some set of categories that would get updated daily by a bot? Gimmetrow 23:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Basically Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

If the bot is going to be working with a specific list of categories, couldn't it generate an entire template based on a switch function, with the appropriate page for each potential option? Is it better to create 100 tiny subpages, or to use a switch with 100 options? Gimmetrow 23:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I dont know templates that well that is why I asked for a template maker :) . I just make bots Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:43, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I can make templates :) My inclination is to avoid zillions of tiny subpages - but this would mean the bot would generate the entire template and replace it daily.

Stub of the day = {{#switch:{{{1}}}|Chem|chem=[[Some article]]|Math|math=[[Some other article]]|improper category}}

This would be used as {{Stub-of-day|Chem}} or {{Stub-of-day|math}}. Invalid categories would fall through to the default text. Or something like that. Gimmetrow 23:52, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I love the high-tech banter - does this mean we are getting somewhere? Or is this so above my head that you have already come to a conclusion, and I just haven't realised yet !! :) -- Quantockgoblin 00:11, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

You chaps given up on me ... maybe your still thinking???????? Did I mention the Gory?! -- Quantockgoblin 19:45, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Im coding Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 00:02, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Quantockgoblin 16:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

can I get a list of cats that I should start with? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm doing a straw poll on the Chemisty Project to see what cats are of most interest. If you need just one cat for testing, I'm sure {{organic-compound-stub}} - organic compounds will be in the list of cats of most interest. If it no big deal then I guess Category:Chemistry_stubs is the 'umbrella stub', but people might want further refinement so as to be able to select a sub-category(s) from the 'umbrella cat' list. Hope the above makes sense - will report back soon, again many thanks -- Quantockgoblin 09:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I have a working bot (I think) check out User:Betacommand/Sandbox and have a template person fix it for us. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 21:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Betacommand - I had a look at the link mentioned above, but only saw "{{Stub-of-the-day =" on the screen, although if I go to edit the sandbox I see "1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate" nested in the middle of the template ... is this in effect the "stub" ... I presume somehting isn't quite right yet, or just as likely if not more so ... I haven't done something that I need to?!? Looking forward to seeing it in action -- cheers Quantockgoblin 23:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

{{User:Betacommand/Sandbox|Chem}} produces

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====================Image:Roberto Orozco Melo.GIF==================== commons image name : Image:Roberto Orozco Melo.GIF ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : d3ee1e83e6430d56dac320ddb8bbd3db commons MD5  : d3ee1e83e6430d56dac320ddb8bbd3db NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:ACDF oblique annotated.png==================== commons image name : Image:ACDF oblique annotated english.png ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : ea769f15d2c0ee15c9d9d1ba2d47483c commons MD5  : ea769f15d2c0ee15c9d9d1ba2d47483c NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Kibitsu Shrine3.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Kibutsu Shrine, Okayama, surounding forest.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : c5db17210249d4ae6ae5f3557b88feb2 commons MD5  : c5db17210249d4ae6ae5f3557b88feb2 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Ottoman flag alternative.svg==================== commons image name : Image:Ottoman Flag.svg################################################################################ PROBLEM DETECTED WITH EN/COMMONS VERSIONS en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 5ea77232221899278f0f16724355a642 commons MD5  : 95a5915f6f6be200268f3e27561366ce **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Japanese chin 6 months old.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Japanese chin 6 months old.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : f5d8d982021e44d01a58918ae4b80ac6 commons MD5  : f5d8d982021e44d01a58918ae4b80ac6 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Veer Towers Model June07 CityCenter SFS.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:July-June07-CityCenter-SFS Veer-Sobella Towers Model.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : bdc169201a1f3958a489eaca2e245e3c commons MD5  : bdc169201a1f3958a489eaca2e245e3c NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:EuphoniumAndTuba wb.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:EuphoniumAndTuba wb.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : a0cc70978f890f64bb4ef4f502cf1658 commons MD5  : a0cc70978f890f64bb4ef4f502cf1658 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Strategy.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Strategy.JPG ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 6dfbab8a1431336cda2bb76620545b07 commons MD5  : 6dfbab8a1431336cda2bb76620545b07 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Njbridge.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Nanjing yangtze bridge.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 5f4f2e1565834ff41152c852e35a741c commons MD5  : 5f4f2e1565834ff41152c852e35a741c NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Nasa Patti LaBelle Pays Tribute to the Columbia's Crew.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Patti LaBelle.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : cfac9334d7cadef62c87be435136e92b commons MD5  : cfac9334d7cadef62c87be435136e92b NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Safod schematic.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:San Andreas Fault SAFOD Project.jpg IMAGE USAGE San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth replaced no issues **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Tuolsleng2.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Tuolsleng2c.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 89dc6a9473cf975359bd22defa248ccc commons MD5  : 89dc6a9473cf975359bd22defa248ccc NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:30 045.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Boykin 30 045.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 commons MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:30 045.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Boykin spaniel.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 commons MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Safod schematic.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:San Andreas Fault SAFOD Project.jpg IMAGE USAGE **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Tuolsleng2.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Tuolsleng2c.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 89dc6a9473cf975359bd22defa248ccc commons MD5  : 89dc6a9473cf975359bd22defa248ccc NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:30 045.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Boykin 30 045.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 commons MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:30 045.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Boykin spaniel.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 commons MD5  : 444e8ab40fff3cf74497ae2da8321356 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Wikinews-logo-51px.png==================== commons image name : Image:Wikinews-logo-51px.png ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 9e7b2912f423649a13d54b6521925618 commons MD5  : 9e7b2912f423649a13d54b6521925618 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : False c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : True non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Odessa museum expo 16.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Odessa museum expo 16.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 370debbb6bcae7712dbf5cef9801eb9b commons MD5  : 370debbb6bcae7712dbf5cef9801eb9b NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Baikonur seal.png==================== commons image name : Image:Baikonur seal.pngIMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:JAMeissonnierTable.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:JAMeissonnierTable.jpgIMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Mike Cooley 1.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Mike Cooley 1.JPGIMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Wiglaf locations.gif==================== commons image name : Image:Wiglaf locations incl. Offa's Dyke.gif IMAGE USAGE Wiglaf of Mercia replaced no issues **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Lu roundel westminster.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:London Underground Symbol.jpg$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ local file with commons image name exists SKIPPING **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Dancing with Santos.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Fuji Rock, Dancing with Santos.jpg IMAGE USAGE **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:DSCF0144.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:HMS Caroline 1914.jpg IMAGE USAGE C class cruiser replaced no issues HMS Caroline (1914) replaced no issues **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Dancing with Santos.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Fuji Rock, Dancing with Santos.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 00e0f07a9426f0d012778e5130d39cc6 commons MD5  : 00e0f07a9426f0d012778e5130d39cc6 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:DSCF0144.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:HMS Caroline 1914.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 85e71c84779f970a2ba89c0162efd785 commons MD5  : 85e71c84779f970a2ba89c0162efd785 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Budgerigar Norway -01.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Budgerigar Norway -01.jpg IMAGE USAGE Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Napoleon-study.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg IMAGE USAGE Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Le thai to str.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Le thai to street hanoi.jpg IMAGE USAGE Hanoi replaced no issues Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Krishna Balarama.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Krishna Balarama12.jpg ################################################################################ PROBLEM DETECTED WITH EN/COMMONS VERSIONS en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 1c502b355b639d47c3ab58ed33ad4fce commons MD5  : 6d6484ef2e39e08f71b9aa6ed0b1b9bd **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:6wulfenite14.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:6wulfenite14.jpg IMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:SPring-8 2007 12img pano.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:SPring-8 2007 12img pano.jpg IMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:The unit.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:The unit.JPG IMAGE USAGE Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Chinese rocket part in transfer.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Chinese rocket part in transfer.jpg IMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Hexahedron3.GIF==================== commons image name : Image:Hexahedron3.GIF IMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Law-of-cosines-circle-2-cropped.png==================== commons image name : Image:Law-of-cosines-circle-2-cropped.png IMAGE HAS SAME NAME AS COMMONS TAGGED **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Nepenthes edwardsiana distribution.png==================== commons image name : Image:Nepenthes villosa distribution.png IMAGE USAGE Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Nepenthes x kinabaluensis distribution.png==================== commons image name : Image:Nepenthes villosa distribution.png IMAGE USAGE Nepenthes × kinabaluensis replaced no issues Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:CAMap-doton-Penngrove.png==================== commons image name : Image:CAMap-doton-Cotati.png IMAGE USAGE Penngrove, California replaced no issues Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Cook Islands map.gif==================== commons image name : Image:Cook-Islands-map.gif IMAGE USAGE Cook Islands replaced no issues Geography of the Cook Islands replaced no issues Manuae (Cook Islands) replaced no issues Mitiaro replaced no issues Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Cha110913.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Sol Cha-110913-773444 Jupiter.jpg IMAGE USAGE Definition of planet replaced no issues Cha 110913-773444 replaced no issues Sub-brown dwarf replaced no issues Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Xavier Alejandro.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Xavier Alejandro.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 291ebd86794c7d002950c00c012b008e commons MD5  : 291ebd86794c7d002950c00c012b008e NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:TheKosovoMaiden.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:TheKosovoMaiden.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 651981699815e760f529fcb56dc9b078 commons MD5  : 651981699815e760f529fcb56dc9b078 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:HP 49g+.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:HPIM2605.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : e06ae1764275e67a174a429c9e5bbf00 commons MD5  : e06ae1764275e67a174a429c9e5bbf00 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Hickmans potentilla tony morosco.jpeg==================== commons image name : Image:Hickmans potentilla tony morosco.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 9d30d29fe52e8f7c2db4e339e4e5f690 commons MD5  : 9d30d29fe52e8f7c2db4e339e4e5f690 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Tesco.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Tesco1.jpg ################################################################################ PROBLEM DETECTED WITH EN/COMMONS VERSIONS en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : b9410c2d96a8a5927be1b6d57d187183 commons MD5  : b757cc598397b74ac9074369c6d3e77b **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Elmar lohk - vabaduse väljak 10 - pilt 2.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Elmar Lohk - EEKS building Tallinn.JPG ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 02dc9b170b82dfdb41b056c480ae66dc commons MD5  : 02dc9b170b82dfdb41b056c480ae66dc NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Arvin.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Arvin.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 3e6ea88aa6833283c595b71fcca9e3c2 commons MD5  : 3e6ea88aa6833283c595b71fcca9e3c2 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:StMarysChurchBrownseaIsland.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Brownsea Island 5.jpg IMAGE USAGE Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:JessicaBoone.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Jessica Boone.JPG ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 8b12c5f7839d0bca97b2c67292b9d4d6 commons MD5  : 8b12c5f7839d0bca97b2c67292b9d4d6 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:St Johns Bridge.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:St. Johns Bridge.JPG ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 738fd19d23e61a8cfee63c4faf6148b2 commons MD5  : 738fd19d23e61a8cfee63c4faf6148b2 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Guillaume Apollinaire 1914.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Guillaume Apollinaire 1914.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 4efab3a8ad12311b9e73dea0cbde2a5c commons MD5  : 4efab3a8ad12311b9e73dea0cbde2a5c NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:JeanaYeager.jpeg==================== commons image name : Image:JeanaYeager.jpg IMAGE USAGE Image successfully orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:E xanti ies.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Euphorbia xanti.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 034165356ad6e444df16913c2db9b7ca commons MD5  : 034165356ad6e444df16913c2db9b7ca NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Abbey Falls.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Abbey Falls Full Flow.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : c452dcb8564cb8274f03e80126946b12 commons MD5  : c452dcb8564cb8274f03e80126946b12 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Dennis Wiki.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Dennis Stratton.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 4fa2190990f4de6cdc44ab08d9763458 commons MD5  : 4fa2190990f4de6cdc44ab08d9763458 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Maitreya Temple.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Mongolia Dashichoiling 02.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 506f7ab624646e563f29efb5541fb2c1 commons MD5  : 506f7ab624646e563f29efb5541fb2c1 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : False non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Biehl.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Biehl.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : 51b5cc4efa8771732c62576ee218e194 commons MD5  : 51b5cc4efa8771732c62576ee218e194 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Nadia Rivers.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:Nadia Rivers.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : b69576ab40a6a6c88f3d9aa4bf20613e commons MD5  : b69576ab40a6a6c88f3d9aa4bf20613e NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Windstorm 08 jan 2005 1200Z.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Windstorm 08 jan 2005 1200Z.JPG ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True commons page exists: True en MD5  : e0b1c0a64dc32fceeae2cc5d1f83fa89 commons MD5  : e0b1c0a64dc32fceeae2cc5d1f83fa89 NoCommons  : False NowCommons  : True c-uploaded  : False NowCommonsBot  : True non-free  : False non free  : False **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Arras france 1919.jpg==================== commons image name : Image:ArrasFrance.February1919.ws.jpg IMAGE USAGE Arras replaced no issues Image was not completely orphaned **************************************************************************************************** ====================Image:Beasmanikant.JPG==================== commons image name : Image:Beasmanikant.jpg ################################################################################ TEMPLATE FOUND SKIPPING en page exists  : True 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Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Aside from making sure "default" is spelled right, it looks OK. (That's why no link shows on the page itself.) Gimmetrow 04:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey it looks really good ...!!! What do I/we need to do next. Is it more or less ready to go and will this thing live in your sandbox forever, or will it get set-up else where? Would you like me to place the current link on the chemistry web group for testing? ... and btw, you chaps are great!!! -- Many thanks! Quantockgoblin 10:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Ill file a BRFA later and once that is approved Ill move the template into the template namespace. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 12:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello Chaps - can I ask at what time does 'the stub of the day' refresh itself? -- Thanks Quantockgoblin 07:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I discovered a bug that breaks it, ill fix that later. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 11:42, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Dear Betacommand ^{(talk can you please tell me what the new template to "stub of the day" is ... at the moment I have text from 20000 league under the sea !!!!!!! Quantockgoblin 18:42, 9 April 2007 (UTC)}

^{ISBN-10 ->ISBN-13}

^{Changing all ISBN-10s to ISBN-13s (per International Standard Book Number and http://www.bisg.org/pi/index.html) seems like an obvious and necessary thing to do. It might also, if there's no dissent (wishful thinking?), give the opportunity to standrardise the formatting, so that only one of these (or another other) styles:}

• ^{978-81-7525-766-5}
• ^{9788175257665}
• ^{978 81 7525 766 5}

^{(et al) is used. Andy Mabbett 19:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)}

^{I'd be willing to code a bot for that, if I can figure out exactly how to convert them :-) Also, according to the official site, it's 5 groups separate by hyphens, so your first example would be correct. —METS501 (talk) 19:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)}

^{Thank you. Andy Mabbett 19:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)}

^{From an external website:}

1. ^{Drop the check digit (the last digit) from your existing ISBN-10.}
2. ^{Add the prefix “978” to the beginning of your 9-digit number.}
3. ^{Recalculate your check digit using the modulus 10 check digit routine.}

^{I can get the bot to do this perfectly, but the problem is placing the hyphens. How should they be placed? It's seemingly random. —METS501 (talk) 19:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)}

^{pywikipedia has a bot already coded for this. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 23:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)}

Conversion. I don't think you will quickly get a consensus for converting all ISBN-10s to ISBN-13s. (SmackBot started doing that in December, 2006 but was persuaded to stop). Consider these reasons for us not to convert:

• There is no mandate from isbn.org for all *users* of ISBNs to convert to ISBN-13. Contrast this with the requirements on the publishers and book dealers that kicked in on 1 January 2007. They must handle ISBN-13s correctly and need to print *at least* an ISBN-13 on each newly-issued book. Nothing rules out issuing *both* an ISBN-13 and an ISBN-10 for the same book, and many publishers do that. ISBN-10s will continue to circulate and be recognized as valid.

• The reference lists of Wikipedia articles are full of older books that were originally issued with ISBN-10s and have no official requirement to change, and probably no practical benefit either.

Hyphenation. Since hyphenation of ISBNs depends on the set of publisher codes that are currently in use, to hyphenate an ISBN correctly requires either a very big set of regular expressions, such as the set used by SmackBot, or an official conversion site like the one at http://www.isbn.org/converterpub.asp. Since Rich Farmbrough's SmackBot has been making regular passes through Wikipedia to hyphenate newly-added ISBNs, I don't see the immediate need for another bot to do this. EdJohnston 00:39, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

OK, fair enough. No new bot :-) —METS501 (talk) 05:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

A citation is supposed to refer to the copy of a source which is being used. The ISBN for that book should be used, whichever ISBN that particular copy happens to have. Conversion could be done by tools which help one find copies of books, but should the citation which was made by the person holding the book be changed? (SEWilco 04:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC))

Find Wikipedians by similarity, based on userboxes

I think there should be a program that finds Wikipedians by similarity, according to their userboxes. It doesn't even need to be a bot, some general script would probably be better. This should be quite easy to do using the "What links here" links of the userboxes etc. An ideal output would be a list of "10 most similar users with user NN" or something similar. A fancier way of displaying the results would be a 2d map similar to what the Kartoo search engine outputs! Coming to think of it, maybe User:SuggestBot could be modified to suggest other Wikipedians? --ZeroOne (talk | @) 22:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

That sounds like a fascinating project. If no one objects to it or thinks it unviable, I'll do a little research and get started. Madman bum and angel 01:49, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I personally don't think this is an encyclopaedic project (more like a social networking addition), but it does have some community value and in any case it'll be fun to code. I've thought of an approach and I'll file a request if you're still interested. Leave an answer on my user talk page, please. Madman bum and angel 17:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation Bot

I am in the process of developing a bot that will take the name of the article and add the pronunciation to the article. I was wondering if there is a bot like that and if not is there somebody that can help me. I think it is a great idea and I would love to implement it. Jdchamp31 19:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Now that would really be one genius bot. I can't imagine one could be made with enough accuracy, but we'll see. —METS501 (talk) 18:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I assume that it will retrieve the proper pronunciation from http://www.m-w.com/ or a similar website? If so, I would check the Terms of Use for the website you use to make sure automated requests are not disallowed. I think you'll find they are, in most cases. Madman bum and angel 18:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I will look into it but this is a foreseeable option I think. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jdchamp31 (talk • contribs) 18:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Does m-w use IPA? ^demon^{[omg plz]} 18:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Protection bot?

I know that this is a long shot because of the bot needing admin status, but would it be possible to make a bot that goes through the Protected Deleted Pages Category and move those to the new cascading protection pages? The Placebo Effect 20:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Adding Type field to "Extra tracklisting" template

{{Extra tracklisting}} has recently been changed so it employs a Type field, so you can designate a background colour to the template, exactly like {{Infobox album}}. The problem is now this leaves many articles using the template without the type field there, and the background being in peachpuff colour. Now from what I've seen, this has shocked and confused editors, as they are unaware of the change to the template, and they dont know what to do. All of these templates are automatically put into Category:Non-standard Extra tracklisting templates. I need a bot to go through that category and just simply add the type field. An example from New Year's Day (song):
Before:

{{Extra tracklisting
|Album = [[War (album)|War]]
|prev_track     = "[[Seconds (song)|Seconds]]"
|prev_no        = 2
|this_track     = "'''New Year's Day'''"
|track_no       = 3
|next_track     = "[[Like a Song...]]"
|next_no        = 4
}}

After:

{{Extra tracklisting
|Album = [[War (album)|War]]
|Type           = <!-- Add appropriate Type and colour code here -->
|prev_track     = "[[Seconds (song)|Seconds]]"
|prev_no        = 2
|this_track     = "'''New Year's Day'''"
|track_no       = 3
|next_track     = "[[Like a Song...]]"
|next_no        = 4
}}

This would probably clear up much confusion with the numerous song articles with this problem. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could attend to this, I don't think it is a difficult task. Thank you. -- Reaper X 15:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Status Bot

I was wondering if it would be possible to create a bot that would automatically switch between three pre-determined user status templates based on a syntax of: Day of Week and UTC time templates should change, and which template should be used. Not sure if this is possible. Let me know if more info is needed. Thanks. Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 16:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I think what you're saying can be done with m:parserfunctions. You mean that, for example, between 3 PM and 9 PM every day except Sunday display one thing, the rest of the day display another thing, and on Sunday's all day display something else? —METS501 (talk) 18:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Basically yes, one day have {{User:Cascadia/Userboxes/day-week}} display on certain days between X AM and Y PM. {{User:Cascadia/Userboxes/sleep}} display every day between Y PM and X AM, and on my weekends, display {{User:Cascadia/Userboxes/day-weekend}} during normal day hours. If this can be done using parser functions without a bot, then I'm up for that. Lot less red tape. I'll read through the parser functions to see what combination would be best. Just a question though, would I then be able to combine the templates into one, or would they have to remain separate? Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 18:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

You could probably do it either way, separate or together. If you want, I can write the code for you; just leave me the hours that you want the different things to display and what you want to be displayed during those hours. —METS501 (talk) 19:27, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Great! I'm good at HTML and webdesign, but some of these other items I haven't had the time to sit down and learn yet. Thank you very much!
{{User:Cascadia/Userboxes/day-week}}; 6 AM - 7 PM Fri-Tues
{{User:Cascadia/Userboxes/day-weekend}}; 6 AM - 7 PM Wed - Thurs
{{User:Cascadia/Userboxes/sleep}}; 7 PM - 6 AM all days

Again thank you! Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 19:34, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Er, just realized that I am UTC -7, and I didn't provide that info. Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 18:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Vandalism Study Research Bot

Hi, I was hoping someone here would be willing to work with the Vandalism studies project on our second study. We would basically need a bot to aid us collect data for our second study. Let me know if anyone would be interested in helping out. Remember 03:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I would be happy to assist. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 14:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Redlink image bot

I'm not sure if there is a bot out there that already does this, but it would be great if there was a bot that removes links to images that don't exist. This would come in handy when dealing with those pesky image backlogs that require orphanage of the image, so all admins have to do is delete the image and the bot comes in behind and cleans up the residual redlinks. I have no programming experience whatsoever, and I don't think AWB has the capacity to do things like this, so would be very thankful if somebody could answer this request. // PTO 20:58, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I checked Wikipedia:Registered bots. There does not seem to be any kind of redlink removing bot. Maybe if there was a bot designed to remove redlinks (not the text just the [[ ]] part) in general from the mainspace (article space). Image redlink removal would be included. The only kind of redlink to not be removed could be category links (user and user talk links would not be needed since it would only be for mainspace and I don't believe discussions take place in mainspace. How else can redlinks to non existing redlinks leading to the user and user talk name spaces appear in article namespace?). Maybe I can try to make it. Funpika 21:38, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I think it would be a bad idea to remove redlinks to other articles (as that was one of the original motivations that Wikipedia wanted to use to attract editors), but dead categories would be fine. // PTO 23:17, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Reference formatting bot

I would like to request a bot that formats existing footnotes to the standards set in Wikipedia:Footnotes#Where_to_place_ref_tags.

Specifically, I see the following errors frequently and I would like to correct them:

• Footnotes are wonderful^[1]. --> Footnotes are wonderful.^[1] (ref tag before punctuation)
• Footnotes are wonderful. ^[1] --> Footnotes are wonderful.^[1] (unnecessary space between punctuation and ref tag)
• Footnotes are wonderful.^{[1] [2]} --> Footnotes are wonderful.^[1][2] (unnecessary spaces between successive ref tags)

Does a bot like this already exist?

WatchAndObserve 01:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

AWB's general fixes does this. —METS501 (talk) 02:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Foreign relations

I already started to add banners for this project, but would it be possible for a bot to add {{WikiProject Foreign relations}} to all articles in Category:International relations? As I already said, a small percentage of these articles have the tag affixed to their talk page, so is there a way to check for them before placing the banner?--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 02:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah you want to tag sub categories also? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please. That also includes subcategories of the subcategories, if you know what I mean. ;) Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 02:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Ill generate a list of categories for you to review. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

See User:Betacommand/To be fixed for a list of subcats. remove the ones that dont apply, let me know when your done. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 03:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Signature bot

I'm considering a slight username change and I was wondering if anyone had a bot that could exchange my old signature, to one with my name change in? SinceI started here, I've only had 2 different signatures so it's not like there's loads of different signatures togo through. My only concern is there's probably around 3,000 edits that the bot would needto make. I've considereda re-direct from myold userpage to my new one, but I'd prefer if it was set in stone. Cheers Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 18:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

For what it's worth, you could do this easily in WP:AWB. That said, I think that the established precedent is to redirect (protected) your userpage and avoid clogging up recent changes with switching your signature. I've seen a few people doing that, but it's generally frowned upon. alphachimp 18:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I was considering AWB, would have been nice to have something automated to do it with though, oh well, I guess I'll settle for a protected redirect Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 18:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

If you get the task approved on WP:BRFA (I'm sure they won't), I can have Alphachimpbot do it. It'd be extremely easy. alphachimp 18:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Georgia

Could a bot add {{WikiProject GeorgiaUS}} to the talk pages of all the links in these articles: List of cities in Georgia, USA and List of towns and villages in Georgia (U.S. state) Akubhai 12:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

SatyrBot can do that for you. Please see User:SatyrBot/Current project for a couple questions. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Cycling

Hi. Could someone please tag all articles, categories and templates that fall under Category:Cycling and it's child categories with {{cycling project}}, and automatically assess all stub articles with class=stub and all non-articles with class=NA? Thanks, Severo^TC 23:41, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Wasn't this done back in February? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 00:57, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but there are more pages now, and assessment has started and I'd appreciate the bots ability to automatically assess loads of articles based on stub templates. Regards, Severo^TC 07:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Is it just the "Cycling" category and one level deep? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 15:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

All articles and cats should fall under the Project's span :). Severo^TC 18:42, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

You would be surprised... If I start with the category Cycling->Utility cycling->Green Vehicles->Fuel cell vehicles... You can see it would get sticky if the bot tagged Type 212 submarine with the cycling banner :) I've created a list of categories from the category tree that starts with Category:Cycling - please review User:SatyrBot/Cycling and remove the categories that don't belong. Then I can run the bot to tag articles if they don't already have the tag. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 19:23, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Welcoming bot

Could someone create a bot for automatically welcoming new users when they create a new account? ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 02:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

That might have been suggested before...you'll have to check the archives. However, I think that such a bot would make the system even more impersonal.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 02:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

That's correct. A welcoming bot is be very easy to implement, but unnecessary. The whole point of welcoming somebody is to build connections between users. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:09, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, couldn´t it be like the official welcome or something of the sort? It would really help all new users get started... ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 02:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Users are getting started by being welcome by other users. :) Sometimes that takes a while, but I bet that any user which has made say 20 edits will be noticed and welcomed by somebody. Also, I would doubt that people are going to be helped so much by the welcome template right away. Anyway, on the whole, I think a user would be better off waiting a bit and being welcomed by a real person, than being welcomed immediately by a bot. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:54, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, but couldn´t we instead use the Smiling bot mechanism (see section right below) but , intead of handing a smiley, make it hand a welcome to a random user which has got no posts on the talk page? ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 19:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

No - A random user is easy to get, a random user who happens to have no messages is not. Use one of the fancy JS scripts that works on the newusers log? ST47Talk 19:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

OK. ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 20:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Change ordinal º to degree ° and remove space between ° and C or F

I read an article where the masculine ordinal sign Âº (&ordm;) was used some places instead of the degree sign Â° (&deg;), and there was also some inconsistent usage of space between the degree sign and the scale denominator (C or F). I edited that article, but looking at a few related articles I realized that my contribution was just a drop in the ocean. Could a robot please change incorrect use of ordinal Âº to degree Â° and also remove inappropriate space between ° and C or F?

Change	To		Change	To
ºC	°C or °C		ºF	°F or °F
º C			º F
º C			º F
ºC			ºF
º C			º F
º C			º F
° C			° F
° C			° F
° C			° F
° C			° F

Unless the search can be constrained to solitary capital C's and F's, the change from ordinal Âº to degree Â° should be monitored while the robot is running. The removal of space between ° and C or F, however, is straightforward. On the other hand, space between numerals and degree sign is optional and, also considering geometric angles, should not be robot'ed. --Eddi (Talk) 01:39, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Send this over to WT:AWB they can take care of this. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Will do. --Eddi (Talk) 01:48, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Bot

Can someone please develop a bot for me. I would love to have a bot as this would allow me to help contribute to Wikipedia and as well as that the more bots we have, the more pages we can edit. The more the merrier! --pizza1512 09:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you specify what the bot would do? Funpika 22:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Could I have a bot which removes repetition of internal links, i.e. when a word comes up more than once, it would not be linked more than once. Um.. I'm not sure if this is clear. Let me give an example... take the first paragraph of...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was the predominant figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His reputation and genius have inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. While primarily known today as a composer, he was also a celebrated pianist and conductor, and an accomplished violinist.

The word composer is linked more than once and would be removed by the bot to only link the first 'composer':

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was the predominant figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His reputation and genius have inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. While primarily known today as a composer, he was also a celebrated pianist and conductor, and an accomplished violinist.

I hope you understand what I mean. --pizza1512 10:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

The burden of proof is on the bot-maker to demonstrate that the bot:

1. is harmless
2. is useful
3. is not a server hog
4. has been approved
5. abides by all guidelines, policies and common practices

I don't see how this is useful, and it may actually be counter-productive. ST47Talk 10:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, the reason why I asked for a bot with that requirement is that it only processes articles that requires cleanups. I just tried to clean up a whole article full of links, and it took a very long time. Having a bot that does that, would allow clean ups to be made more easily and so the articles can be rewritten more easily. I'm only trying to help. --pizza1512 19:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I think you need to specify exactly what types of clean ups you would like to do. WatchAndObserve 20:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

It would be the removal of repetitive links in a document then. I would like the bot to look through articles that require clean ups and it would remove those unnecessary addition links.

As well as that, could I have a bot that automatically create information boxes for biographies of people or would that be a bit ambitious? --pizza1512 21:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Is the problem that your first idea is hoping to correct really that big of a problem though? I agree that there are articles with entirely too many repeated links, but are there enough of them to justify the bot searching through the thousands of clean-up articles looking for them? As for the second bot: Could you elaborate a bit? What information would the bot use to generate these infoboxes?--Dycedarg ж 05:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, I think it is a problem that needs to be solve. Many editors use up too much time, editing these 'clean up' articles. However, by creating a bot that removes these, it would allow articles to be rewritten and back up to the true quality of Wikipedia. I really do think that there are enough links to justify the bot searching through them. The other day I had to delete over 20 links in an clean up article - and boy it took me a lot of time...

As for the info boxes, the bot could I suppose detect a few key words that are related to them. As well as that, because most professions are marked as categories on Wikipedia, it could create a userbox using that knowledge also. --pizza1512 08:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello is there anyone there who can help? --pizza1512 ^{Talk Autograph} 18:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

BirthdayBot

Hello, As I am a constant active member of the Birthday Committee, I would like to run and manage a bot that is run once each day to read the special calendar entries for the day and post a random template on the user's talk page. It has been discussed in the past with support from other members and I would like to take this further. If a kind Wikipedian out there would be willing to construct such a bot for me, I would be very grateful. Many thanks, Extranet ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 11:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll have a look. ST47Talk 11:55, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it works - if you run a linux machine, I can send you the source? ST47Talk 13:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest Finder Bot

Someone should make a bot that searches articles for IP addresses that made many major edits to closely related articles(in the same category, or linked) in a short period of time with out making many other major edits and add it to a watch list for someone else to check, because I noticed that people(2 out of 2 so far) who probably work for a company related to the subject tend to never make any other edits other than a couple huge edits to the article. The bot could also have a list of categories that have a conflict of interest often(e.g. List of United States companies, or Category:United States presidential candidates), and therefore check those more often. I could maybe make the bot because I have some programming skill but not with internet stuff. 80.109.79.136 13:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk to User:Beetstra, he has a similar bot at the moment. ST47Talk 13:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

What bot? 80.109.79.136 14:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

User:COIBot. ST47Talk 14:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict) That sounds like a nice idea, but I am not sure on how to implement this.

First, I am running a COIBot. Primary tasks at the moment are to match username with links (domains) added or match username with page edited. Reports are, atm, going to m:User:COIBot/COIReports (per day). COIBot has black-/white- and monitor lists, which give it the capability to either link users/IPs to certain data, to whitelist certain users on certain pages/links (some usernames have accidental overlap with the edits) and to monitor link-additions (handy when spammers use many IPs or sock-accounts). COIBot is still under development, though it is working quite well. I am waiting for a toolserv account, and will then also do a BRFA on this wiki to make it report here.

A second tool we have is a link-watcher, which alerts us of users adding many links. That alerts us to have a look into these edits.

I don't see (yet) how to create an algorithm for your proposal. Catching COIs on basis of editing patterns is going to be difficult. E.g. in mainspace my main interest is chemistry, and I edit all through chemistry mainspace. If I would have a COI that would not be noticed because of the broadness of the edits. On the other hand, a Madonna fan who only edits the page Madonna and her albums would not have a COI, but a very select editing pattern, which might give a false positive. Also new editors tend to make a lot of small edits without using preview (heh, even I do that), which again would be diffcult to catch.

So the problem here is that almost every wikipedia-editor has a focus on a certain set of articles, and most will make edits within a certain set of categories relating to their favourite subject. That pattern is the same as a company/IP that wants to promote their own interest.

If you have any ideas on how to do this, and we could have a look how far that would lie within the scope of COIBots capabilities. For more information, you can reach us on IRC (where also the edit-feeds can be found), talk-channel irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia-spam-t or via the normal wikipedia channels (talkpages, email). Hope this helps, have a nice day. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 14:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I think it's very simple to do, all it does is look at major edits per day, major edits being something like 3 words changed or more, and finds a spike e.g. 1, 0, 5, 0, 1 and 1, then it looks at the 5 articles and finds out how closely related they are and finds out how closely related those articles compared to the other edits i.e. 1, 0, 0, 1 and 1(that, I hope, gets rid of the article focus thing) and comes up with a score(based on how closely related the articles are, those articles compared to the other days edits(edit size, etc.), and the size of the edits, i.e. the bigger edit the more suspicious) and adds it to the list for someone else to check. 80.109.79.136 15:20, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

PS: It should at least add people who, as their very first edits, make 3+ major edits in related articles to a list. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/83.132.128.252 80.109.79.136 15:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

PPS: I just got myself an account I'm now Jeffrey.Kleykamp 15:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict)I see. I think this lies outside the scope of COIBot, completely different algorithm (though this may be a plan for a COIBot2). I am still afraid of a relative large number of false-positives with this, but that remains to be seen, and maybe can be tweaked when the bot is running (IPs making major edits may also be experienced users who are not logged in at that moment, or who are on a different IP every time and hence have more edits than expected). I'll let this idea mature a bit first. Please inform us when you start programming it! See you around! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I thought about this idea a bit, and it seems like a bot would have to:

• Find a source of IPs
  • Load contribs for each
    • Sort by date
    • Calculate mean, standard deviation, and determine the days with are more than X standard deviations above mean
      • Compare article titles using COIBot's algorithm
      • Report to IRC
  • Load next IP

ST47Talk 16:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I just tried to create simple stuff code in C# to see my skills with web pages and bots and it was way to complicated and I failed. Is there a website with some sample bot code written in C# or Java or even a bot tutorial because I learn fast but I need help with a start. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 17:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think so, but I can give you a sample of a framework written in Perl - perlwikipedia - or post a link to your code and someone can look over it. ST47Talk 17:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't like the idea of comparing article titles using COIBot's algorithm (I don't really no what it does), I think it would be better but more complicated and slower to find out how far one must travel in the categories to find the other article, and I don't understand what you mean by "Calculate mean, standard deviation, and determine the days with are more than X standard deviations above mean" Jeffrey.Kleykamp 18:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

IntelliBot

Would it be possible to create a bot which would be able to perform calculations and approve of calculus on recent changes/new pages?, and then further explain what the calculus is intending to get across. This might help people who are doing maths, and are unable to see why the calculation may be the solution to their question. Just a thought. Doesn't matter if it doesnt 'come alive'. Radio_Orange (talk • contribs) 18:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC).

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, can we have an example? ST47Talk 18:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Simplest COI bot

I was thinking and I found out a very simple algorithm for finding conflicts of interest, all the bot has to do is search through the contributions of the current IP and look at each change(number characters different) to an article(counting multiple changes in a row as one) and compare it to the average change per article to all articles excluding the current selection, and depending how much different these two numbers are it adds it to a list of suspicion, i.e. the higher the difference the more suspicious and higher on the list, it also has to have a minimum change level so it doesn't catch people who just got into wikipedia and made their first edit(e.g. added a space). This wouldn't find people who make multiple changes to articles related to a subject and it might catch some people who didn't do anything wrong but it should only add those people to a list for someone else to look at so there isn't much damage to be done. Someone else has to make this bot because I can't. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 18:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that would work too well. What if someone is just interested in an article/subject, but doesn't necessarily have a COI with it? ^demon^{[omg plz]} 18:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

That's why it looks at the average change to all other articles edited because it is unlikely that a person will only make huge edits to a single article related to a subject that they just like on a website that they know little about(i.e. they must have made more edits) so if the changes are small or medium then they are probably just fans but I'm talking about catching people who make huge changes to a single article without ever making any other significant edits, but I do see your point. PS: did this make sense to you because I'm writing funny today and I'm too lazy to check my work. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 19:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Smiling Bot

Could somebody make me a bot that helps in handing out random smiley awards? Now, it would work in the following way:

1. You go to the bot´s userpage.
2. You click on an image of a button (say a green button).
3. The bot detects your username by detecting which user clicked the button and automatically enters a random user page and inserts a random smiley, with your detected signature.

Idea: Maby, once clicking the buttom and detecting your username, it could automatically enter special:random, go to the page history and send a smiley tothe first user on the list. Or it could, once the button is clicked and the username detected, travel to special:listusers and select a random user from there.

With this bot, handing out random smiley awards would be a lot less tediouse and users who wish to do so would lose a lot less time.

♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 19:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

The burden of proof is on the bot-maker to demonstrate that the bot:

1. is harmless
2. is useful
3. is not a server hog
4. has been approved
5. abides by all guidelines, policies and common practices

What's the point? We don't need a bot that picks random users, use Recent Changes and do it yourself. ST47Talk 19:15, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

It would be even faster with this bot; extremely fast... Which is somethig good... ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 19:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

But we have the same problem as above - a bot smiling at people - yes, it can sign your name, but the history would still say it would be from the bot...also, it'd have to be on toolserv and involve a <form>, as you can't put CGI scripts on your userpage...by the way, your signature is disgustingly long, can you shorten it a bit? ST47Talk 19:32, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

How about if we add automatic/bot-styled code to the users who wish to hand in smileys in this fast way, instead of using a seperate bot? I think this would certainly fix the problem... ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 20:50, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't see how this will help us write an encyclopedia. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 19:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Users hand in smiley awards through bots, the users who recieve those get cheered up and start contributing more. ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 20:46, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

But it's a BOT! I'd say, look, a little metal box has been programmed to like me, big deal. ST47Talk 20:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

You don´t seem to understand. The bot is a semi-automatic one which aids users who wish to send random smileys by enabling them to hand them faster. The user orders the bot to make a task faster, but the bot does that because the users orders him to do so, not because he is programmed to like that user and be friendly. ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 21:16, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

However, the bot is making the actual edit? 24.0.52.44 21:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

If not, then I think you just want some javascript that will select a random user, load their talk, and make a new section. 24.0.52.44 21:45, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmmmmmm... I suppose so... But, could that java-script also automatically define the section name as Random Smiley Award and the text as {{subst:User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward1}} ~~~~? ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 21:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

You do realize that randomly selecting a user to give this award to is as likely to turn up vandals, spammers, banned users, and users that made three edits and left as it is to turn up good contributers? How is this helpful?--Dycedarg ж 22:44, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Since the Smileys are given out at random, it may sometimes happen that one is mistakenly given to an editor of bad reputation. This should not be seen as an endorsement of such a person, but merely a mistake. Besides, perhaps the sight of a Yellow Smiley on their page may inspire efforts at self-reform. Alternately, for a genuinely Evil Editor the sight of a Yellow Smiley spreading warmth and good cheer might serve as a just punishment, like well-wishers wishing a Merry Christmas to grumpy Ebenezer Scrooge. ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 23:45, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't have any good knowledge of JS files, but your proposal might be able to be written on your monobook. A bot wouldn't be needed.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 01:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

(outdent) If this gets approved (which I don't see happening), I would want a way to opt out...I don't want my name to be in the drawing for random talkpage spam. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 03:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Ok, so this isn´t the right place to ask; so, where can I ask for such js files for my monobook? ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 20:28, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I can give you one that will put a tab at the top of user talk pages that will post such a template and your signature with one click. You'd still have to manually navigate to a user talk page first though. If you want something that selects a user and posts the template all in one go, I think the place to ask is WP:US#Open requests, though I have absolutely no idea how expedient a response you would get.--Dycedarg ж 20:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Newest bot

I guess I'm in a bot creating mood because I have another idea, how about a bot that looks at the editing patterns of the edit that got people warned/banned and compares it to normal people to find people that are most likely to be vandalizing. The different patterns that it can look at is words/characters/phrases added, words/characters/phrases deleted, words/characters/phrases replaced, time between edits, size of edits, etc.

PS: In a sort of unrelated bot idea create a base bot that takes the commands of other programs written in any code as a sort of interface to Wikipedia so that people have to spend less time writing code for the bots. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 13:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

For the first one we have several such tools. for the second one we have several bot frameworks for that. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 17:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Could I have an example for each, please? Jeffrey.Kleykamp 19:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

AfD bot

I was looking through AfD, and I noticed that there were quite a few deletion debates with Wikipedia:Articles+for+deletion instead of WIkipedia:Articles_for_deletion. This would surely be easy to sort out using a bot; if anyone is interested then I think it would be a good idea. -- Casmith_789 (talk) 15:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Does that even matter? I'm not entirely sure, but I think MediaWiki recognizes them both as one and the same. Jayden54 16:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

The misnamed debates (which are treated separately by MediaWiki) were caused by an error in {{subst:afd}}, which has now been fixed. Sorting them out would probably be a one-time run of an existing bot or AWB, rather than with a dedicated bot (if they haven't been fixed by dedicated editors by hand yet). --ais523 15:53, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

BOT1029

Can I get an archiving bot called BOT1029? --B1029TALK

what needs archiving? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:52, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia links

There's a lot of unnecessary links to uncyclopedia found in the external links section of random articles (search for uncyclopedia.org/wiki) that need to be removed. The easiest solution that comes to mind would be to get a bot to remove them all, then revert the ones where the links were relevant (I'm assuming that this is the case) manually. -Obli (Talk)^? 23:22, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

That's not a great idea, I'd recommend using WP:AWB to do it manually, but a blind kill-all policy is not the way to do this. Talk to a few of the people on irc (irc.freenode.net, channel #wikipedia-spam-t) about getting some help and opinions. ST47Talk 00:44, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Bot for fix typos and reverting vandalism

Could somebody make me a bot for fix typos and reverting vandalism? Because I'm still wasting my time and my Internet connection is too slow. Jigs41793 ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 23:53, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

We don't do typo bots because of the chance that they might "fix" something they shouldn't, but you can use WP:AWB to do it manually but faster. As for an antivandalism bot, we have one, but even that can't catch everything. ST47Talk 00:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Script vandalism attempt

Hi. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Odd_.22script.22_edit. I'm requesting a bot runs checks for these type of script vandalism attempts... assuming none already does. --Dweller 10:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Anyone? --Dweller 09:05, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me a bit like using the army to beat a paper dragon - it's a one-time attack, it doesn't even work, I don't think it's worth it. ST47Talk 10:27, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, it's not a true security threat. "<script" should probably be added to some of the anti-vandal bots' regex lists though. --Selket ^Talk 16:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Selket, how can you agree that "I don't think it's worth it", but then also agree that it "should probably be added to some of the anti-vandal bots' regex lists"? --Dweller 16:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree that it is not a security threat and not necessary to create a bot for this specific purpose. However, I think anything containting <script is likely to be vandalism and the bots that already scan recent changes for certain phrases likely to be vandalism should look for this one as well. This is because edits containing it are likely to be vandalism, not because it is a special case, different from normal vandalism. --Selket ^Talk 17:27, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

GA candidates count

Would it be possible to have a bot that organizes/sorts/counts GA candidates? This hasn't been discussed extensively at GA; it just came up as an idea and I thought I'd ask if it were feasible. It would read the GA candidates page and count the number of nominees in each category, figuring out if they were on hold or under review.

Possible outputs would include:

• A count of total GA noms outstanding, including those held or under review
• An exception list, showing GA holds over 7 days, GAs out of sequence in the lists, GAs under review more than 7 days, noms > 1 month
• A list showing nominator names and the number of noms, for anyone with > 1 nom
• A list of categories with totals for each category -- e.g. "Military History: 12 noms"
• A similar list showing untouched noms -- e.g. subtracting ones which were on hold or under review
• A list of suggested categories for the backlog template to mention

I guess a subpage of the candidates page would be the place to put it. Historical data could be saved; might be interesting to look at trends.

As I said, these are just ideas. I'll post a note at the GAC talk page and ask people to comment here. Mike Christie (talk) 15:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

This bot would be quite nice. Really helpful managing the backlog over there. IvoShandor 09:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind taking on this project. I have a bot running, currently, that updates the statistics for the Category:Cleanup by month page, and while the operation is a bit different, it is essentially the same concept. I can't vouch for how long it would take (of course I have to code it, and then get it approved at WP:B/RFA), but if you decide you would like such a bot, I'd be up for it. —Daniel Vandersluis^(talk) 18:52, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Daniel. I have created a subpage for this project at User:Mike Christie/GACbot; please add any additional comments there or at the talk page. Mike Christie (talk) 14:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:WPChi Bot

I am wondering how long it might take to develop a bot to add {{ChicagoWikiProject}} to the talk pages of articles that have any Chicago related categories once I have a list of categories and whether the same bot could add class=stub for any article with a stub on the article page. This will help me to get WP:WPChi up and running. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 06:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

SatyrBot can do exactly that. Just did the same for Georgia (US state). Reply on the bot's current project talk page with where the category list is, and I can get started today. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup category

A bot could quickly fix this category. User consensus has shown that infoboxneeded does indeed go on the article and not the talk page. Could a bot be set up to move the offending template from TALK onto the article itself? (Only add the template to the article if the article does not have an infobox already.) Thank you Timneu22 01:32, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Moved Sections

Sections regarding my wikiproject tagging have been moved to: User:Betacommand/Bot Tasks further discussion should be there. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 23:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Succession boxes

The following request was posted on my talk page. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to accept bot requests at the moment (running on a laptop, and have jobs queued up). Please note that I've not read the request thoroughly, whether or not it's feasible or allowable is up to you folks to decide. --kingboyk 23:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Governors of California, New York, etc need a S-off after Start-box (where they have one) because they are political offices. However I have been going through British Colonial Governors of e.g. Nova Scotia, Hong Kong, Newfoundland, Victoria, Queensland, Bermuda and find a large number are shown as S-off although they should in fact be S-gov. If I and others add the appropriate categories here, I wonder if your bot could adjust them from s-off to s-gov ?? It will be tedious because many will be correct and many will be missing succession boxes altogether.

• Category:Governors-General of Australia all OK
• Category:Governors-General of the Bahamas
• Category:Governors-General of Barbados
• Category:Governors of Barbados
• Category:Governors of Bombay
• Category:Governors General of Canada
• Category:Governors of the Falkland Islands
• Category:Governors-General of Fiji
• Category:Governors of Hong Kong
• Category:Governors-General of India
• Category:Governors of Jamaica
• Category:Governors-General of Mauritius
• Category:Lieutenant Governors of New Brunswick
• Category:Colonial Governors of New Jersey
• Category:Governors of New South Wales
• Category:Governors-General of New Zealand
• Category:Lieutenant Governors of Ontario
• Category:Governors-General of Pakistan
• Category:Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward Island
• Category:Governors of Queensland
• Category:Governors-General of Sierra Leone
• Category:Governors-General of South Africa
• Category:Governors of South Australia
• Category:Governors-General of Trinidad and Tobago
• Category:Governors of Victoria
• Category:Governors of Western Australia

- Kittybrewster (talk) 20:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you explain a little better and show a few diffs please? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:57, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure. By way of example - [2] But many governors were governors of several places and that leads on to additional lists I have not yet found which should be included above. - Kittybrewster (talk) 15:10, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

this is a very simple task ill get started on this PDQ. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 15:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

{{Wikihermitalert}}

I am requesting that there be a bot that updates the vandalism levels in {{Wikihermitalert}}, {{Wdefcon}}, and all administrative vandalism templates. On Wikihermit, I am requesting that the bot update the template every hour on the hour and periodically update Wdefcon. It would be extremely tedious to look through all of the vandalism factors manually, and that is why I am making this bot request. ~ Magnus animum _{(aka Steptrip)} 00:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I would recommend holding off on this until the WP:TFD is completed. Naconkantari 02:35, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

If this does go forward, what sorts of factors would you want included? (I can probably throw something together regarding average amount of AIV reports over the last 50 edits, but I'm at a loss for any other factors) ST47Talk 02:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I would do factors such as:

• number of AIV reports
• number of CSD requests
• number of edit summaries reading "revert, rv, or rvv"--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 02:53, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

True, didn't think of CSD. I can also have it use IRC to get the revert stats/total edits. ST47Talk 02:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

automatically add speedy deletion tags to common nonsense articles

After spending a few hours reverting vandal edits this morning, I noticed that there many of the articles usually speedy deleted tend to be about the same. Alot of them tend to consist of nonsense about some non-notable person (occasionally in the form of a personal attack) or a non-notable band. There are also a few occasional cases of companies spamming with a page about themselves. Most of these pages tend to have no links anywhere. So I think there should be a bot to find new articles without any links or with only external links and stick or that don't make much sense and stick speedy deletes on them. I apologize if such a bot already exists (its so obvious that you'd think somebody would have thought of it before), but I just figured I'd suggest it because it could reduce the amount of nonsense articles created. Life, Liberty, Property 14:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

It is rather hard for a computer to read an article and determine if it doesn't "make much sense." How would you write the list of rules that the bot would follow when evaluating a new article? --Selket ^Talk 15:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Something along those lines has already been proposed to, and is being considered by, the Bot Approvals Group. Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Eskimospy Bot. --kingboyk 15:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Dead link dating

The template {{dead link}} need a bot that goes around monthly to add date parameter (similar to {{fact}}. —Dispenser 23:19, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

USer:SmackBot is doing this (as with Fact), but it has some technical difficulties ATM .Rich Farmbrough, 12:58 27 April 2007 (GMT).

WikiProject Biography newsletter delivery

WikiProject Biography would like to have our newsletter delivered, if a bot op would be so kind. Please note, it's not quite ready yet: I'm thinking tommorow, or later tonight after the all-clear has been given.

• The default message:

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007

The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. <sign>

• Distribution: All people listed as active at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Members (> 300)

• Exceptions: Some folks listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Outreach#Delivery_options want the newsletter transcluded ({{Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Outreach/Newsletter/Issue 004}} and one person doesn't want delivery at all.

Thanks in advance. --kingboyk 20:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Me or ST47 can take care of that. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks mate, that would be much appreciated. :) --kingboyk 22:19, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Good to go, thank you. --kingboyk 22:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC) Y Done --kingboyk 13:39, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Remove all categories from Articles for Creation

Despite instructions asking them not to, new users often include categories in their submissions to Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Because all submissions from a single day are located on one page, it is the daily archives (e.g., Wikipedia:Articles for creation/2007-04-17) that end-up in categories alongside mainspace articles. It would be very nice to have a bot go the AfC archives and linkify every category. Something like:

[[Category:Living people|Smith, John]] → [[:Category:Living people]]

I did this manually from about Jan-June last year, and it wasn't much fun. What we have now is about 300 pages, plus one new one every day, that needs this treatment. ×Meegs 19:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

This could be done with AWB, though I can't think of any way to remove the sortkey like that. As these are all archived pages (except for the today's page) does it really matter that much how they look after the category is turned to a link (ie. would [[:Category:Living people|Smith, John]] which would look like Smith, John be fine)? Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 22:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, I agree that removing the sort key is not important at all. I am not a Windows user, and still an AWB user's help with this task. ×Meegs 00:04, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Listing all subcategories of a parent

At WT:UCFD there is an attempt to restructure all user categories and identify conventions, so it would be really helpful if there is a list of all subcategories of Category:Wikipedians. Indented bulleted list, or a series of lists, or any coherent format that shows the hierarchy is fine. I made this request to User:PockBot, but he is busy and yet he has offered to provide similar source code for anyone who would like to do this. –Pomte 08:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Running now, I have my own code :) Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 14:15, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I haven't forgotten I'm working on it. that category tree is a mess. (indefinite loops, and all the pages being categorized under the same title due to a userbox) Im attempting to straighten that out. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 00:16, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for dealing with this. There should be an overhaul to remove all userboxes from categories or make all userboxes provide a parameter for the transcluding page to not be categorized, but I don't think that's very important. At least there shouldn't be any cases of two categories under each other. This isn't urgent by any means; take your time. –Pomte 08:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind. I just found mw:Extension:CategoryTree, which does the job. –Pomte 08:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Autotagging

Is it possible to request a bot for {{ChicagoWikiProject}} that would

1. add template to the class parameter for {{ChicagoWikiProject}} items in template space
2. add cat to the class parameter for {{ChicagoWikiProject}} tems in category space
3. add dab to the class parameter for {{ChicagoWikiProject}} articles with {{disamb}} or {{hndis}} tags
4. add GA or FA to to the class parameter of {{ChicagoWikiProject}} articles if any other template has such a parameter value on the talk page.
5. add needs-photo= yes to the {{ChicagoWikiProject}} template if no image is on the article page. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 22:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Ill look into getting this done. Please copy it to User:Betacommand/Bot Tasks and remove it from here. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 00:13, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

1. I forgot to add stub to the class parameter if a stub tag is present on the article page. Is this also doable by the same bot? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 21:38, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Remove Metaweb.com links

This may be too narrow a category of bot, but I could not find an extant bot that deletes links based on the domain name. In particular there are a number of pages that link to Neal Stephenson's [[3]] Metaweb wiki which appears to be offline (and has been for some time now). Metaweb.com now points to freebase.com, an online database project (but not a wiki). I started deleting some of these, but thought that a bot might be a better resource. Thanks. Rapscallion 02:54, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Bot to change links

I require a bot to change all wikilinks (in the article namespace) which currently link to Alfa Romeo (Formula One) to link to Alfa Romeo in Formula One instead. Note that I can't just make Alfa Romeo (Formula One) a redirect to Alfa Romeo in Formula One because that would create double-redirects. Thanks. DH85868993 08:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Why would it create double redirects? You have to just fix the redirects. We don't send out bots to fix working links unless there's a very good reason for it. --kingboyk 16:59, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

It would create double-redirects because Alfa Romeo in Formula One is itself a redirect. And I was loath to fix the potential double-redirects manually because there would be about 500 of them. However, since I made the bot request there has been a proposal to change Alfa Romeo in Formula One from a redirect to a proper article, so the problem may soon solve itself. -- DH85868993 23:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

No, you wouldn't have to change the 500 links, just change the other redirect too :) Redirects are editable, perhaps you didn't know that?

The proposal to make a new article was mine actually, I hope you like it! I think that an F1 team of Alfa's pedigree is important enough, and wide enough, to be in a seperate article. --kingboyk 23:11, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The F1 information has now been transferred to Alfa Romeo in Formula One, and Alfa Romeo (Formula One) updated to point there. Thanks for your help. DH85868993 02:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Y Done --kingboyk 13:39, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Grammer bot

I am asking for some help to make a grammer bot for wiki java or visual basic pefered thanks Staffwaterboy 16:54, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:DEFCON

A bot named DefconBot would be awesome. It could/would automatically update the defcon system according to the number of reports on WP:AIV. Direct questions to my talk page. Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť^{Talk to me} or _{learn something new!} 05:04, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Wasn't there another topic about this not too long ago? Can we have some specific criteria for different levels? ST47Talk 12:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

There's been discussion about the overall wisdom of the defcon template at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Feeding_Trolls_via_defcon_Template and continuing at Template talk:Vandalism information. --kingboyk 13:15, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

mcrBot

Hi! I'm interesting in running a bot that would deliver the WP:MCR newsletter monthly, but I'm absolutely horrible at programming. If anyone would like to help, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mcr616 (talk • contribs) 22:50, 28 April 2007 (UTC).

Add BadJPEG to Logos

For each image in Category:Logos, if image type is JPEG or GIF, add Template:BadJPEG or Template:BadGIF. There are 33400 total logos, many of them are JPEGs or GIFs. Surely none of them should be. Vagary 10:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Index of all topics at WP:AN, WP:ANI, and other noticeboards

One thing I've noticed (and correct me if I'm wrong here) is that when looking up old topics in the Administrators Noticeboard, the Incidents noticeboard, and such, is that I have to go poking through a bunch of pages until I find the message I'm trying to reference. I think it would be helpful if we had an alphabetical list of topics created and maintained by a bot, as an index would help out when finding old topics. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 19:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I think this is a great idea. It probably shouldn't be limited just to those pages. Any archived page should be able to opt-in. --Selket ^Talk 20:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

What exactly is a "topic" - the title of a section [often uninformative, unfortunately]; keywords [who decides?]; an article or username? I'm not opposed to the idea, but I'd like to get a better sense of how a bot would be used to implement it. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

To me, it's the title of the section. And regarding other pages, I wasn't thinking about that at the time, but it sounds great, as well. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 12:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Eagle 101 has a tool I think might be modifiable [4] which can be hosted on the Toolserv —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Betacommand (talk • contribs) 21:12, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

If you're looking for usernames for bots, I've had User:NwwaewBot and User:NicksBot registered, in case I ever did a bot, and if people want, I'll "donate" those usernames for the bot. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 12:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

If someone will write (or convert the tool above) the bot out for me, I'll apply for toolserver access and run it there (or co-run it with the bot writer, if they wish). Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 21:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

eagle has one up, check is toolserv page. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Lists

Could someone make a bot that not only attaches Template:WPLISTS to the talk pages of all articles that start with List of or Timeline of, but also looks through new pages and tags any new pages that are created with those begginings? The Placebo Effect 19:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I could. I'll try to get something created for this when I get some time in a few days. --Android Mouse 20:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the template in more detail I find it says, "This template should not be placed on article talk pages.", when placed on a talk page. Is this a mistake? I don't understand. --Android Mouse 22:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

XfD bot

Right now, after creating a deletion discussion page (for AfD and MfD), users have to add it manually to the log page, creating an extra step. Could a bot be made that watches for new pages with the Articles for deletion or Miscellany for deletion prefixes and automatically adds them to the current day's log page? Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 23:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Columbia University Template added to all Columbia University articles

I would like {{WikiProject Columbia University}} added to the tops of talkpages of all articles in Category:Columbia University, excepting those which already have the tag. I've done a couple hundred using AWB, but it is getting too tedious and I'm getting carpal tunnel. I will continue tagging these on my own but please let me know on my talk page if this is a possibility. Thanks, --Valley2city^₪‽ 00:07, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

ISO 639 redirects

Could someone let a bot mass create redirects? From all pages that use Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_Language and have the value iso3 set to a single three letter code, a redirect would be nice to have as follows

• title: "ISO 639:-iso3 code-"
• content: #redirect[[-article name-]]{{R from ISO 639}}.

Examples:

• ISO 639:eng [5]
• ISO 639:spa [6]
• ISO 639:dan

The proposal was made at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Languages#R_from_ISO_639_.2F_missig_articles

Existing redirects can be seen at Category:Redirects from ISO 639.

This would help the WikiProject Languages in finding missing articles, i.e. languages that have an ISO 639-3 code but no article in Wikipedia. The redirects would also help code lookup and linking from outside. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:42, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

If anyone actually does this, I'd suggest adding a sort key so all 7589 redirects (we currently don't have that many language articles) aren't listed under "I" in the category. Even without actually adding the redirects it wouldn't be extraordinarily difficult to produce a list of missing articles. If no one takes you up on adding the redirects, let me know if you'd like a list. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:58, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Could sorting be done in the template? I.e. can the template read the part after "ISO 639:" ? Then we would be more flexible. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:21, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Templates can add category sort keys, but since the m:StringFunctions extension is not installed here I don't think there's a way to parse a string like "ISO 639:xxx" to get just the xxx part. It could be added as a parameter to the template. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:18, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

It can be added as a parameter to the template and then passed to the category call. --Selket ^Talk 15:14, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I have the category sorting working through the template now, feel free to help migrate them. #redirect [[English language]] {{R from ISO 639}} becomes #redirect [[English language]] {{R from ISO 639|ENG}} --Selket ^Talk 15:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Cool! Looks really better now. Could it be changed from uppercase to lowercase? AAA to aaa, ENG to eng? The spec says it must be lowercase, thus it would be nicer to use the official writing in the templates. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

It shouldn't matter much since the sort key is never actually shown anywhere, but to prevent 'ENG' and 'eng' from being sorted differently I added a forced lowercase to the category statement. The user can input the parameter as 'ENG', 'eng', or even 'eNg' and it'll always be sorted on 'eng' now. --CBD 11:21, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm working on a page that will look like List of ISO 639-3 codes with each code linked to the appropriate article (blue link if the article exists, red if not), with the code bolded if the template in the article specifies the code. The page should be up sometime tomorrow. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:30, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Articles by code. I'll bring this up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages as well. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:EA

WP:EA was recently retargeted after an rfd discussion. Could someone with a bot change the current incoming links to point to Wikipedia:Esperanza? --- RockMFR 22:18, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I was under the impression that a bot was fired up and ready to go? I'm asking Martinp23 (BAG) now if he knows... --kingboyk 22:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

User:SatyrTN was, I think, interested in doing this task earlier, though I may be mistaken. I'm sure that there's a post on a bot talk page about it. Anyway, if SatyrTN is no longer able to do the run, feel free to note here, and I'll probably be able to take care of it with MartinBotIII. Martinp23 22:31, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

here it is :) Martinp23 22:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Due to RL interfering, and that I'd have to go through BAG to get approval to edit anything other than talk-space, please go ahead if you want to do the change. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 02:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

You'd have to get an approval, but that would be rubberstamped now that you have explicit community approval.

That said, if RL has intruded, fair enough :) --kingboyk 13:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

The RfD proceeded on the basis that we had a bot standing by to do the work, therefore somebody ought to be doing this sharpish. I'll have a word with Martin to see if he would oblige. --kingboyk 16:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done by me (and User:MartinBotIII :)) Martinp23 18:59, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Updating parameters specified by templates using Template:Navbox generic

{{Navbox generic}}'s code currently carries a fair number of "legacy" parameter names in order to handle older templates' specifications, so, as {{Navbox generic}} is a heavily-used template, perhaps it might be worth sending a bot to update all those older templates...?  Specifically:

Some of the other navigational metatemplates also carry legacy names, but not as many as {{Navbox generic}}. If the templates using {{Navbox generic}} with legacy names can be updated as above, I could add the other navigational templates and legacy names below...?  Thanks, David Kernow (talk) 12:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

can I get a few diffs of what you want done? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 14:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Can't recall the most recent examples I've passed by, but here's the beginning of a list of candidates:

Hope that gives you the idea – thanks for your interest!  David (talk) 01:28, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
PS Here's a recent example of the same but with a {{Navigation}} rather than a {{Navbox generic}}-based template: [7]

Are these parameter names going to be a bit more permanent? Maybe best to wait until you've settled all the little tweaks like top/bottom -> above/below. –Pomte 17:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Category Cleanup

Please address the Talk pages with misplaced main page templates category. The request is simple:

• Remove infoboxneeded from talk pages
• Add the infoboxneeded tag to the article (with the same parameter(s) as the tag before it was removed from the talk page), only if the article doesn't have an infobox

This is a repeated request. Timneu22 00:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

What would the bot do if the infoboxneeded tag is used incorrectly and doesn't state which infobox is missing? Simply remove it from the talk page or should it copy it as-is? I'd be willing to write a bot for this --Android Mouse 02:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

My guess is that it should add the infoboxneeded tag but without specifying which infobox. If you'd like, I can update the infoboxneeded template to show "no infobox specified" if the argument isn't present. If it is easier, you could probably just remove it from the talk page but not put it on the article. Timneu22 17:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I'll just have it copy it without any arguements. I went ahead and added a request for approval. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to create the bot first or not. The Create a bot page leads me to believe I am supposed to create the request before beginning development. --Android Mouse 18:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

bot to find unsourced articles redux: flag just the very easy cases

In February 2007, Sefringle asked for a bot to flag articles as unreferenced. It wasn't clear how the bot would determine if an article is unreferenced. Many articles, particularly stubs and articles that should be marked as stubs, have zero references. A bot that ran once a month or so and flagged any article with zero external links that was more than a few days old with {{unreferenced|date=DATE|linkcount=0}} or something similar then alerted the original author would prove useful. This might require developing a special tag or template, perhaps {{noreferencesrequired}} to flag articles that by their very nature do not require references, such as deliberately empty biographical stubs like this one. Davidwr 23:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Image replacement

Replace all instances of Image:Crystal 128 ksmiletris.png with Image:Crystal Clear app ksmiletris.png (as shown here), the first one was deleted from the Commons for being a duplicate and I'm reasonably confident it was a duplicate of the latter one [8][9]. The image was commonly used in Welcome messages. I know it's not exactly high priority but it's better to not have red links everywhere. --WikiSlasher 10:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Limited-IP-address-range semi-protect bot

Internet Censorship has a problem with a DSL user adding a contentious link. The result is an edit war. This user keeps changing IP addresses. I'm sure this isn't the first time this has happened. I propose a generic bot that can block-by-reverting any range of IP addresses from anonymously editing any page that is on the bot's watch-list or that has this bot's "watch me" tag. A tag might look like {{blockanonymousedits|iprange=1.2/16|date=4 May 2007|expires=14 May 2007|text="http://"|comment=roaming user repeatedly posting controversial links resulting in edit war}}. The "text=" is if the block is intended to keep the user from posting particular text. In this case, the user is blocked from posting http:// web links. See Talk:Internet_censorship#Proposed bot to auto-revert anonymous edits that post the disputed link and the sections immediately above for a discussion of the problem in Internet Censorship. Davidwr 14:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

If the IPs are the problem semi-protection can word, if the link is the problem the the link blacklist may be an option. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

We do not want to block all anonymous users unless absolutely necessary. Semi-protection is specifically recommended against if the goal is to silence a particular anonymous user or anonymous users in general. In this case, that's exactly the goal: To keep him from posting a controversial link until the controversy is settled. I can't speak for other editors but I do not want to stop him from making edits that are actually useful. Blacklisting may be an option in this particular case, I'll discuss it on Talk:Internet_censorship. The generic problem remains. The [Wikimedia spam blacklist] is not what we want. The link in question may belong on other Wikipedia pages and may eventually belong on this page after the discussion and debate is over. Davidwr 14:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Such a bot is effectively and edit warring bot(reverting, as bots cannot block unless they pass WP:RfA, which is unlikely), so I think a rather large consensus that it is needed would have to be found before such a bot could be implemented. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Good point. As an alternative, Wikipedia should impliment a way to semi-protect pages against changes to links. This is probably better done in the main software rather than through a bot. Another alternative is to have the bot described above only monitor pages that have been added to the watch list by an administrator, much in the same way that semi-protection requires administrator action. Along those lines, if administrator approval will be required anyway, the page-edit software should prevent the edit in the first place. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Davidwr (talk • contribs) 14:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

User:Shadowbot might be what your looking for. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 20:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. The author of Shadowbot added the needed functionality for this one-off case. Davidwr 23:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Tchaikovsky navbox

Could a bot add the navbox {{Template:Tchaikovsky concertos}} and {{Template:Tchaikovsky symphonies}} to all the relevant pages each navbox links to.

Thanks Centy 11:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I just did this by hand. Took me five minutes. DavidRF 14:17, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

External link fixes

The wrestling website www.obessedwithwrestling.com (which is used in many articles, both for PPV results and wrestler profiles) has changed their name and URL to www.onlineworldofwrestling.com, is there a bot that could fix all the links to the site? There are hundreds of articles that reference the site and it could be pretty tedious for the editors at WP:PW to have to check for every article that might use it and correct it. TJ Spyke 01:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I'll go ahead and run this task. Let me write up a bot request. Its a simple find and replace correct? —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 02:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I've already been approved to run, this should be done shortly. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 02:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done task is finished :), check User:Gnome (Bot)'s contribs about 15 minutes before I posted this post to see what it did. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 04:03, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Looking for bot operator to help with template replacement

Hi. I hope this is the right location for such a query. I am looking for a bot operator who can help me replace over 400 {{WikiProjectNotice|Palestine}} with the new {{WikiProject Palestine}}. It is a simple search and replace that is limited to the set of pages that link directly to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Palestine, for example this list of pages. Is this something that a bot operator can help me with? If anyone can help and has the time to help, please reply on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Palestine. Thanks for your time. --70.51.232.124 20:22, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm putting MetsBot to work :-) —METS501 (talk) 22:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Much thanks! I started to do it by hand, and then noticed the bot going at it.  :-) --70.51.232.124 23:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Wasteful run isn't it? Just redirect the template and let the names coexist? Or am I missing something? --kingboyk 22:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Could I have used a redirect? The problem is the original template was a generic one with a parameter, while the new one is specific to the Palestine project. I think that a redirect to the WikiProject Palestine would have negatively affected every other project that is still using the general WikiProjectNotice. I could be wrong though. --70.51.232.124 23:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think you could redirect it, because it was a generic template with parameter. --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's go Yankees!) 23:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Exactly. Template:WikiProject Palestine is specific and customizable, while the other one was a general template with a parameter. The bot is done, by the way. —METS501 (talk) 00:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah I see. /me didn't look close enough. --kingboyk 00:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Shadowbot3 error

The latest Shadowbot3 run had some problems. Big ones. Namely, the code that was designed to stop the bot from archiving if the talkpage is protected malfunctioned and caused the bot to delete the sections from the main talkpage, but not move them to the archive. I'm hoping that someone could write up a quick script to go through its contribs and revert the damage. I'm extremely pressed for time right now and can't write it myself. Shadow1 (talk) 01:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll do it with TW. --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's go Yankees!) 01:18, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I just rolled back all its contributions with admin rollback, except for three that couldn't be rolled back. I hope those ones fix themselves... Grandmasterka 01:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

All...then what did I just rollback? :) --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's go Yankees!) 01:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I just did the last 50, anyway. See its last 500 contributions. Grandmasterka 01:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! FYI, the latest run started at 00:25, 7 May 2007 (UTC), and lasted a mere 19 minutes until 00:44.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 01:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Quick question, is it functioning correctly now? Ryan Postlethwaite 02:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm...I was just attacked by a user for for reverting his page for him. :) --TeckWiz is now R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's go Yankees!) 02:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is fixed now. I was making a lot of modifications to Perlwikipedia that day and forgot that Shadowbot3 uses the bleeding-edge version. I'm really, really grateful to you guys for cleaning up the damage. Shadow1 (talk) 18:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Correcting Maplinks for Upazilas of Bangladesh

The Government of Bangladesh has recently changed its web address from [www.bangladeshgov.org] to [www.bangladesh.gov.bd]. As a result maplinks to 300+ articles on Upazilas of Bangladesh have now become dead-links. Could someone please help to write a bot to find all pages that use "Infobox of upazilas" and replace www.bangladeshgov.org with www.bangladesh.gov.bd in the maplink section?-Arman Aziz 08:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm pending bot approval, and then I will get to this task. I'll also update the statistics to point to [10], as the new domain doesn't seem to have the data. —METS501 (talk) 23:17, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

All done. —METS501 (talk) 18:04, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! You are really fantastic!-Arman Aziz 00:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Portuguese vs. Portugese

There are many articles using the word Portugese instead of Portuguese. Portugese is wrong wording.Page Up 12:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I can only find a couple. Do you have a list? —METS501 (talk) 18:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, I found quite a few. I'm doing this manually with WP:AWB now. —METS501 (talk) 18:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done. 133 edits made. —METS501 (talk) 19:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Daily creation of a new date section at WP:RM

At Wikipedia:Requested moves, it would be helpful to have a bot add ==[[{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]] [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]]==, or however you want to format it, near the top of the Other proposals section, right under the {{notice}} box. If possible, the HTML comment <!-- Please place new requests at the TOP of the list --> should be moved up as well. This process has been done manually so far with no problems, but there has been concern about process, so it would mean one less instruction for the page. –Pomte 06:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll go program this bot now, thats very easy to do in a bot. I presume that you want this to run daily at 0:00 UTC? —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 05:06, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot is finished being programmed, and has successful trials in my sandbox, I'm just waiting on someone to show me where it was agreed upon that a bot is the best way. After that I'll post a quick BRFA. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 05:28, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done bot is approved, see here. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 06:26, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Notify article creators of speedy-delete tags

When a page is tagged with one of the speedy-delete templates (the db series) A bot could notify the creator of the article tha this has occurred. there are already templates for doing such notifications (such as {{nn-warn}}), and many editors add them manually, but many do not. Ideally the bot would add the proper template based on the version of db template used on the article, and would delay say 5-10 minutes to allow the editor to add a tag manually. I can go into more details on spacs and how to make this easy for a bot when and if anyone is interested in providing such a bot. i understand that a bot is now performing a similar function for AfD nominations. DES ^(talk) 15:04, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Let me think about the logistics of this and now best to get a working bot. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 19:33, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I have an idea how this could be done and would be interested in writing a bot unless Betacommand intends to. --Android Mouse 20:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Im thinking this out and thinking of bugs and other bad things to avoid and account for before programing but please share your ideas. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 04:48, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

My idea is to have the bot log which articles it has already created notifications for or which already have notifications, to save bandwidth. It would then periodically run a query to find all pages in the Canidates for Speedy deletion category and would filter out articles which aren't in the bots log. All the remaining articles not in the log, the bot would look up the earliest revision for and then load the raw text of the creator's talkpage. If it parses through and finds a notification about the article's status then it will log the article as completed and move on to the next article. If not, it would append the template to the talk page, log it and move on to the next article. Some sample queries are:

1. First loading the articles for speedy deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php?what=category&cptitle=Candidates%20for%20speedy%20deletion&cplimit=500&noprofile&cpnamespace=0
2. Second, finding a specific article's earliest revision, possibly making multiple requests to get to the earliest: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php?what=revisions&titles=Pacific%20Northwest%20Portal&rvlimit=200&noprofile
3. Third, loading the lastest raw text of the creator's talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php?what=revisions&titles=User_talk:168.99.197.188&rvlimit=1&rvcontent&noprofile

The bot's log could probably be purged every few days or so, since articles are usually deleted by this time or their speedy deletion templates removed. Any suggestions? I couldn't find a way to locate the creator of an article except to look up the revisions, and the MediaWiki Query Interface seems to list revisions from newest to oldest, forcing the bot to possibly request multiple pages to find the earliest. --Android Mouse 20:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Would it be possible for the bot to check if the user has already been notified? Unless this bot is very well publicized, most users who do issue notifications will still continue to do so; repeated warnings could be a bit of a problem. Warning templates generally include <!-- Template:warning name --> in the wikitext, possibly the bot could recognize that, plus the article name, and the date the warning was issued (in case of recreation). If it detects an other warnings for other pages, perhaps it could issue a {{uw-create}} warning instead of the basic speedy notifications. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 01:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, when it loads the latest raw text of the user talk page it would scan for any such warnings and perhaps it might scan for simply the username of the person that nominated it for speedy delition and the article name in close succession, incase a custom message was added instead of a template. --Android Mouse 06:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to go ahead and start developing this bot. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm listening. --Android Mouse 05:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot finished, waiting for approval. --Android Mouse 20:32, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I have severe concerns regarding this bot. I question whether we should be using a bot for what editors and admins should be doing and I doubt that the bot can do it as well. I fear that people will get lazy and count on the bot which in many cases is going to be a bad thing. Specifically:

1. This is going to confuse new users. They are going to get a message from Android Mouse Bot 2 and assume that's who nominated it for deletion.
2. Sometimes, I will intentionally not use the page name in warning messages. This is usually the case with attack pages in which the title is part of the attack. In those case, I would use {{attackpg-warn}} without a page name. In obvious bad faith creations like this, the editor will know the name of the page and there is no reason to repeat the attack on the user's talk page.
3. Speedy deletion templates are frequently misapplied. An example is Railfan window. This article was tagged as db-nonsense on the talk page. An admin removed the template as not applicable and left a note[11] on the creator's talk page saying that the he removed the tag, but suggested the author improve it (it's not speediable, but it's questionable whether it would survive AFD in it's current state). The nominator than added the db-nonsense tag to the article and this bot dropped[12] a warning on the creator's talk page. I removed the speedy tag as non-applicable. There is no way this editor should have been given a patent nonsense warning.
4. Why in the world would it be notifying people of a db-author[13] request? They already know as they added the tag. And then, the message used gives the standard words about using hangon and not removing the speedy template. This is even more inappropriate. If they added the tag, they can remove it.
5. I also think using this for {{db|custom reason}} begs for confusions. In this message, the bot is talking about notability and the deletion reason has nothing to do with the subject matter. It is an incorrect speedy where someone thought the page should be deleted after a merge.

I don't believe this bot can do an adequate job of replacing the admin. The admin can handle cases that are not a simple drop a warning on the user's talk page; this bot cannot.

If people feel we need this bot, then it should not be using the standard warning templates. It should be using a more generic, non-biting message that includes who nominated the article and the reason. -- JLaTondre 18:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

For the time being I have shut the bot down. Also, this bot has now been approved.

1. The templates the bot uses can be modified to notify the user the bot didn't nominate it for speedy deletion.
2. For this template I can have the bot not use the article name.
3. I can change it to use another template which is less condescending and notify it is just a bot, and that the nomination may not be valid.
4. This can be easily fixed.
5. Can also be fixed.

--Android Mouse 18:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I know it's been approved. That doesn't mean issues weren't overlooked which need resolving. If you fix these it would make me much more comfortable. I'm still concerned about the potential for other cases beyond these five. That is why I made placed the message on WP:AN per my note to you. I hoping with more eyes than those paying attention to the bot pages, any other issues will be identified and resolved before they impact a user. It's possible no one will think of any, but more input doesn't hurt. -- JLaTondre 19:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree mentioning the article name with attack pages can be a really bad idea, unless the user's talk page is also going to be deleted. A quick look through my deletion log should give some examples. However not using the article's name may confuse a user as to which article has been deleted. It needs to be recognised that attack articles are often labelled as nonsense, vandalism, and even A7. Redirects, user pages, vandalism, talk pages, histmerges, and author requests also do not usually require notice. Copyvios should have a special notice, and sometimes with spam articles - we don't necessarily want to tell the author it's been deleted. Has the bot given any thought to checking for the validity of G4's? How will the bot work when someone tries to speedy delete France? -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:12, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

In order to avoid two discussions on this I think comments should now be posted on the administrator's noticeboard entry. --Android Mouse 21:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

• I believe the message should be clear on the point that such notifications are a matter of courtesy rather than mandatory. Some people are already confused on that point. >Radiant< 15:27, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Image replacement

Replace all instances of Image:Crystal 128 ksmiletris.png with Image:Crystal Clear app ksmiletris.png (as shown here), the first one was deleted from the Commons for being a duplicate and I'm reasonably confident it was a duplicate of the latter one [14][15]. The image was commonly used in Welcome messages. I know it's not exactly high priority but it's better to not have red links everywhere. --WikiSlasher 10:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC) (Copied from archive --WikiSlasher 07:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC))

Will do as soon as I get approval (which I'm about to request) Martinp23 10:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done (almost) by MartinBotIII - feel free to make a request directly to me if it needs again doing in future. Martinp23 20:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Or me if Martin's not around :-) —METS501 (talk) 11:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Or, for that matter, anyone else with approval for the task :) Martinp23 17:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll be sure to, thanks --WikiSlasher 06:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Automatically adding persondata from German articles

The Wikipedia:Persondata project is adding persondata to all biographical articles. However, 150k have already been added on the German Wikipedia (where persondata started), while only ~8k have been added to English Wikipedia articles. A bot which could grab the template from the German bio, and do a rough translation and place it on the English bio would be immensely helpful. (One script now used by humans that may be of help in designing this bot is located at User talk:Dr pda/persondata.js ) I believe that translating dates and locations should be easy,, while the name and brief description parts would be harder. So, in summary, I envision this bot making a list of bios without Wikipedia:Persondata, finding the corresponding German article via the interwiki link, and then doing a rough translation on some of the fields, then placing that Persondata into the English article. A list of articles which the bot has changed could be scanned by human editors for any errors (or to add names, short descriptions). If you have any questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks! --Rajah 03:07, 17 May 2007 (UTC) Alternatively, Extracting/transforming/loading the persondata using these perl scripts could get the job done. --Rajah 04:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Dead end pages: clearing redlinks

This bot User:Jayden54/WPDead Source.js needs a new home, as apparently Jayden54 is taking a wikibreak. It needs to be run once or twice a week to clear redlinks from the dead-end pages project. Any takers? Salad Days 00:37, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I will (Cocoaguy ここがいい _contribs^talk) 21:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

if you still need someone to house it, i will--Iamzemasterraf 19:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

The first person to get it running will be the winner! Note that WP:DEAD was split apart recently, and I believe the line "$lists = array('Wikipedia:Dead-end_pages/A-K', 'Wikipedia:Dead-end_pages/L-Z',);" will need to be changed to reflect the new pages. Thanks for your offer to help! Salad Days 21:52, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

User:ACBot

this bot would be used to help some of the wikiprojects im in, if it was approved (esp. WikiProject UK Trains) i'd use it to help me on my pages too.

i cant build it, which is why im asking you thanks ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 18:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

What functions do you need for your WikiProjects? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, templates on talk pages mostly. The ones that say 'this is part of wikiproject ....' Thanks! ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 05:58, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Leave me a message on User talk:SatyrBot and I'll be glad to help. Let me know what wikiproject template you want to use and what categories you want tagged. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Can I have a bot developed for me though, so i can do this and other stuff? ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 15:25, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

imdb template

I would love some automatic way to change all uses of {{imdb}} to {{imdb name}}. The former currently redirects to the latter, but we would like to be able to create an {{imdb}} template that covers all the sub-templates (imdb name, title, company, and episode, learn more) but without having to make sure it's backwards compatible with {{imdb name}}. The first step is to replace {{imdb}} with {{imdb name}}, next, is to put a deprecated message on the {{imdb}} template for a few weeks/months, while working on a does-everything template to replace it.

Here are the list of pages that use it. I just did a cursory glance and found a few pages where films are using it incorrectly, those should be fixed soon —Fitch 18:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I can do this no problem with my bot, but has there been discussion as to whether this should be done? —METS501 (talk) 02:40, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Massive Classical Music Job

This is a massive bot job, so I'm not expecting this to happen too soon! Anyway, WP:CM finally have a project banner and hopefully if everything's been categorised correctly, all articles covered by our Wikiproject should be in Category:Compositions by composer. However, there's a lot there and also operas are included which WP:CM does not cover.

So could a bot add {{Template:Classical}} to the talk pages of all those articles in Category:Compositions by composer and its subcategories, except for the Category:Operas by composer category, or any opera subcategories that do not already have a project banner for any other WikiProject (ie. not already covered by another WikiProject).

Thanks.

Centy 21:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

If you can compile a full list of categories to be run, SatyrBot can do this. Please only include categories where most if not all the articles should be tagged, so as to minimize "over-tagging". Take a look at WikiProject Spain's list (scroll down - there are two sections) they put together for this same sort of project. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 22:14, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Happily, it appears SatyrBot has already produced a list of categories. Because of a recent reorganisation, everything in the first section needs tagging. As long as you just tag pages in the category (I've included all subcategories) we shouldn't get any duplication . The second section is a category I've already done by hand. The third are two anomalous categories, where every page in them is in some other category and so are not needed. For this section could the bot remove every page from these two categories and then I'll put the categories up for deletion. The fourth section are all those bot generated categories out of our WP's scope. Centy 01:59, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. Please see the bots project page for one more question and a couple comments. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 03:29, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Firo Bot Request

the Firo bot must be created but only by me or other people who like fire dragons like Firo and will cheak wikipedia for any signs of anything that is bad on Wikipedia. By --Zardragon 23:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand, could you be more specific on what task you are requesting a bot to do? --Android Mouse 23:09, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 May 9#Pokémon header templates

These need substing if the TfD closes that way (and it most likely will) - I'd apply for my bot to subst them all, but I feel two applications in a week for one bot is too eager. Will ^{(is it can be time for messages now plz?)} 03:22, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Let's wait until the week is up first :-) —METS501 (talk) 03:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I can do it, when it closes, provided it closes as delete. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 19:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done ^demon^{[omg plz]} 17:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

New bot: removing dead image links

Could someone write a bot that would monitor the image deletion log and remove links to dead images in articles. Perhaps this could be an opt-in service for admins - if they put their name on a list then a bot will monitor their image deletions and remove the dead links that arise in articles (and the admin could use a stopword in the deletion summary if they didn't want the bot to work its magic, eg 'NOBOT'). The bot wouldn't need to montior the deletion log live, it could do daily checks maybe. Anyone up for this bot task?--Commander Keane 05:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Its possible, and can be done by connecting to IRC and watching the feed there. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 05:30, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I was trying to work on a way to implement just this very idea a few weeks back, but you can't sort Special:Log by namespace, so I was having issues trying to get a good feed of what to work on. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 19:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

You're right, the only way to do this would be to regex it out. If I have some spare time, I'll write (the regex) and post it here. The bot idea sounds pretty good, I've been thinking about writing something like this too. Tim.bounceback^{(review me! | talk | contribs | ubxen)} 21:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

As have I :) - AWB has some, if you want to take a look at it. It's important to take both galleries into account, and the fact that Wikilinks may appear in images call code, so the extra [[ and ]] will need to be accounted for in the regex. Martinp23 21:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, here's the regex I have so far... doesn't support wikilinks in the image call code, and it hasn't been tested as I haven't had access to a maching with Perl, but here it is:

s/(\[\[|<gallery>)\s*($image)\s*(\]\]|<\/gallery>)//g. Tim.bounceback^{(review me! | talk | contribs | ubxen)} 15:26, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Frequently cited authors statistics

An interesting statistic would be which author is cited most in Wikipedia articles. This could be done offline, not increasing server load. It could analyse the following things:

• The fields 'last', 'first', 'author' and 'coauthor' in everything beginning with "{{cit" and ending with "}}". (Using cit instead of cite means all {{citation}} templates are counted as well.)
• Anything between "{{Har**|" and the next "|".This will analyse the plethora of Harvard citation templates starting with Har and all using the first field for the last name of the author.
• I am not familiar with {{Note}}, {{Ref}}, {{Note label}} and {{Ref label}}, but they are probably not that different.
• The first and second word after a <ref> tag that does not contain any of the above templates.
• The above covers most methods of citing sources in Wikipedia.

Analysis of external links would probably not be useful, as the US court cases website, ISBN lookup and sites like that would top the list. Besides, I remember that this has been done before, though I cannot remember where I read it.

I have a feeling that L. Ron Hubbard will end up on top.

--User:Krator (t c) 11:51, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

No one? :( --User:Krator (t c) 20:48, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

A bot for creating subcategories of categories in Category:Images requiring maintenance

Could somoene write a bot that created subcategories by date of many of the subcategories of Category:Images requiring maintenance? Sometimes, someone will not notice that today's category is missing, and therefore, no one gets around to taking care of them, especially for categories like Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons because they cannot be handled until after they age for a certain number of days. Jesse Viviano 14:45, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I've asked Tizio, whose bot already creates daily subcategories of Category:Proposed deletion. —METS501 (talk) 14:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Ok; so far I got the following:

Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons as of $D|Template:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons subcategory starter
Category:Images with unknown copyright status as of $D|Template:Images with unknown copyright status subcategory starter
Category:Images with unknown source as of $D|Template:Images with unknown sources subcategory starter

Please let me know which other cats need creation (and which template holds the starter text). Tizio 13:34, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Using the format given, you need to add the following:

Category:Images needing editor assistance at upload as of $D|Template:Images needing editor assistance at upload subcategory starter
Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons as of $D|Template:Images on Wikimedia Commons subcategory starter
Category:Images with no copyright tag as of $D|Template:Images with no copyright tag subcategory starter
Category:Images with no fair use rationale as of $D|Template:Images with no fair use rationale subcat starter
Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons as of $D|Template:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons subcategory starter
Category:Orphaned fairuse images as of $D|Template:Orphan fair use subcat starter

There is also Category:Replaceable fair use to be decided after $D, but you need to add 7 days to the date, and its starter is Template:Replaceable fair use Images subcategory starter. By the way, a good name for your bot might be WineBot because older wines are often considered better than newer wines in many cases, which is similar on how we are required to let the categories to age before handling them. You could make a joke for the emergency shutoff button, stating that administrators should block it if it is malfunctioning or acting drunk. Jesse Viviano 22:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot to create stubs for US Supreme Court cases

Many articles have broken links to Supreme Court cases. For example, Presbyterian Church (USA) links to Jones v. Wolf. Many if not all US Supreme Court cases are listed on Category:Lists_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases. I would like to see bot create a stub article for all missing cases that includes a link to the appropriate List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume NNN page and a link to the FindLaw link that's included in that page. See User:Davidwr/sandbox_SupremeCourt for a more fleshed-out proposal. davidwr ^09f9(talk) 20:43, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Before anyone undertakes this task, are you sure there is a consensus to support this? An article that only states 'So and so is a supreme court case' I could very easily see being nominated for speedy deletion. This begs the question, are all of the supreme court cases notable enough for their own articles? --Android Mouse 05:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

The vast majority are not, however, there needs to be some way to link each mention of the case to its FindLaw text or some other equivalent. The ussc template provides this. Perhaps an alternative wold be to find each article that mentions a supreme court decision, flag it for human review, then use a human-assisted bot to insert the ussc template if one does not already exist. Human assistance is needed in case the article has a different way of citing the case. davidwr ^09f9(talk) 13:36, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

As someone who has worked on hundreds of U.S. Supreme Court cases, created the first 90 volumes of Supreme Court case lists, and actually created Template:SCOTUSCase and Template:SCOTUSCases, I have a few comments. First, this absolutely must involve the participants of WikiProject SCOTUS cases. Second, there are over 30,000 Supreme Court cases, and while I would love to see all of them on Wikipedia one day, they can't just suddenly flood Category:Lists of United States Supreme Court cases. Third, FindLaw only goes from volume 150 to present, and the most recent cases (in volumes 545, etc.) still aren't directly linkable under their proper volume number. This plan needs serious consideration and planning before it is implemented (if ever). Cheers. --MZMcBride 03:46, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Internal link rot bot

Currently, if you link to, say, a discussion on the Village Pump, your link becomes a dead end when the Pump is archived. It would be infinitely better if, on every archive, a bot went around replacing such links with URL hardlinks to the latest version in the Village Pump's history.

This could even be done retroactively by determining when the link was first created, and then linking to the appropriate history page for that date. I could see this extended to any talk page that gets regularly archived, interwiki links, etc. — Omegatron 01:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

A few questions I have:

1. How would the bot determine dead links? Most people link to VP discussions in the format: [[Wikipedia:Village Pump (proposals/policies/etc..)#Discussion]]. After it is archived, the link still remains technically valid. How would the bot be able to tell the difference? If it scanned the current revision of the VP and searched for that heading it could turn up false positives as it is possible for a new section with that same title to be created after the old one has been archived.
2. How would it find all the links pointing to the VP? Is there a way to bring up a list of all the pages currently linking to it? I know this is possible for image usage but I'm not currently aware this can or can't be done for article links.

--Android Mouse 02:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I think with your second point you're looking for Special:Whatlinkshere/PAGENAME, which is available in the toolbox of each article. —METS501 (talk) 02:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, how did I not see that :-0 --Android Mouse 02:44, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

As for the first point, if it ran often enough, a false positive would be unlikely, I would be more worried about if the name of the heading was changed during the discussion. One other problem though, how would the bot know whether or not the discussion the user linked to is in progress or not? Discussions are archived based on the last edit date. Some are archived days after they are started, others may be debated for weeks. If an anchor (#) is used, it could check to see if that heading still exists, but if it isn't, the bot woud not know if the discussion the user was refering to still exists. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 03:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

1: The links would be detected based on the section anchor and the fact that the relevant section had become archived. You wouldn't redirect [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)]]; you'd only redirect things like [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Discussion]] when the Discussion section was archived.

For retroactive use, it would have to determine when the link to the pump was originally created by going through the page's history (or by guessing which nearby timestamp goes with the link?)

It's not trivial to implement the retroactive part, but not impossible, either. — Omegatron 14:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

So, say you made a link on your talk page on March 2 that pointed to an ongoing discussion at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Discussion]]. The discussion died off in April, at which point the section was archived, and the link becomes a dead end (which makes it very difficult for future readers to follow what you were talking about).

In June, when the bot is implemented, it looks through the What links here for the Pump (probably maintains an internal index or something for efficiency), and finds your talk page. If your link contains a section anchor, it then scans backwards through your talk page history (probably a database dump to avoid loading down the servers?) until it finds a revision (from March 1) in which that link didn't exist.

It then looks at the March 2 history entry for the pump page that you linked to and sees if such a section existed at the time. If it did, it then navigates forward in time through the pump's history (or just the automated archival events) until it finds a revision in which that section no longer exists. It then edits the original link (keeping the section anchor) to point to the pump's history revision right before that section was archived. — Omegatron 14:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I could see that working out. But I'm not sure how practical using a database dump would be. You'd have to periodically download a multigigabyte file with every single revision for every namespace. You would only be using a small fraction of that data and would have to redownload it again once those links had been updated. I think it would ultimatly end up using more bandwidth using that method. --Android Mouse 16:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Just a hunch. I don't know the implementation details. Just explaining how the bot would mimic what we do by hand to fix an old link. — Omegatron 17:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, ok. How often do you think such a bot would need to be run? Or more precisely how often does Werdnabot scan the page for old sections? I wouldn't mind writing the bot, based on the details you described above. Unless someone else would like to, or unless anyone has any other suggestions on how this might be done. --Android Mouse 21:37, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

That would be great. I think Werdnabot's dead, actually, and shadowbot has taken over, but the pump still says "This talk page is automatically archived by Werdnabot. Any sections older than 7 days are automatically archived to Wikipedia:Village pump (news)/Archive."

I don't know if we'd want to "run it" every few days, or just leave it on continuously watching the pump for archivals. I think this would make sense being expanded to other places besides the pump, so you might want to keep a more general application in mind while you write it? — Omegatron 13:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll try to keep it as general as possible, as I can see it helpful with other pages such as WP:AN. I'm going to wait about three days until I start writing incase anyone else has any more ideas/suggestions. --Android Mouse 18:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Implemented as User:Android Mouse Bot 4 — Omegatron 00:49, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Banner

Could a bot tag articles in Category:Idol television series and its subcategories with {{WikiProject Idol series}}? Thanks. Tennis DyNamiTe 20:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

On a side note, how does putting 5043278 wikiproject banners on a talk page make the articles better? — Omegatron 21:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Omegatron, that's been argued to death. Take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject reform.

To your question, Tennis, SatyrBot can do this, if you don't mind waiting two days - I'm finishing up another project similar to yours. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 21:27, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

state leaders by year

Could a bot please add Template:State leaders 20th century to all the articles linked on it? Then also other similar templates could be created for all the other years listed at State leaders by year and added to those articles by bot too. Just because its nice being able to go straight to similar years with these articles, not just next and previous. --Astrokey44 11:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Speedy I8 helper bot

I have an idea for a bot that will help the with the deletion of images that have bin moved to commons and are in the category Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons and Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons (I8). There is a constant backlog in these categories and a bot that helped checking the images before deletion would save some time for the administrators. The bot should check the six criterias that has to be fulfilled to speedy delete the images and leave a note on the image description page saying which criterias that is fulfilled and which are not.

The criterias for speedy deletion when an image are moved to commons are:

• The entry on commons actually exists
  • This is rather easy for a bot to check
• The entry has proper source and copyright information on the commons page
  • May be harder but it will be possible, and if the bot cant confirm this it can just say so, and the deleting admin can check for himself.
• The file names are the same (if not remember to redirect all image links)
  • I am not sure that the bot should to this, but it could leave an note at the image description page if this has to be done.
• The file was properly uploaded (preserving GFDL required history of revisions)
  • This is possible and if the bot cant confirm this it could leave a note.
• The file was properly added to an article or category in commons
  • This is not hard for a bot to check, and it could also say which categories and articles it has bin added to. It has to avoid categories that is automatically included by the license templates, but I believe it would be possible .
• The files on Wikipedia and Commons are bit-for-bit copies.
  • Easier for a bot to do than a human.

I am no bot writer, but I hope there is someone who has an idea on how to do it. It would save a lot of time for the administrators working on these categories. Rettetast 15:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I was just thinking about this the other day. I have no clue to begin how to write all of this, but if someone wanted to write it, I would be more than willing to host it, as those categories are *very* commonly backlogged. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 15:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Project support Bot

I'd like to request a bot that will scan files tagged as being under the auspices of a specific project generating a list of those which are currently undergoing Afd.

This is because many pages belonging to a project that I am a member are no longer being watched by active members and several have been deleted without active members receiving sufficient notice to review or improve these pages. Content tis being deleted rather than improved.

perfectblue 18:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

SatyrBot currently performs a function like this for WP:CARIBBEAN, WP:CM, and WP:LGBT. It produces two lists - examples are: Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/To-do list and Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Small to-do list. Let me know if you want me to add your project to its scans. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

'Hello World' Bot

A traditional part of every introduction to a programming language is Hello World but many articles featured in this list are missing it. I think it would be a nice feature to add to each article. I propose the creation of a bot which lists all of the articles which are missing this as well as those which appear to have it in some form or another so that each can be updated with its own 'Hello World' code in a standardised way. Of course this sort of programme is unsuitable for some languages, but the section can simply be a standard 'this isn't appropriate' message instead of actual code. After the lists have been generated then I'll go through and find the nessacary code and edit the pages myself.

I'm all for writing this bot myself (in fact, I realy want to - please don't someone else!) I'm just trying to make sure this is something everyone agrees will be of benefit. PeteMarsh 16:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand, will the bot be making any edits to wikipedia or is it just going to print out a list of articles that don't have a hello world example? If it won't be making any edits then you don't need the community's approval, just make sure there is a reasonable delay between page requests. --Android Mouse 19:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I hadn't imagined it making any edits - but this sounds alright to go ahead with? PeteMarsh 20:19, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, you only need approval if it will be editing. --Android Mouse 20:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Looking into this futher it seems that not every programming language page has a 'Infobox programming language' I would request that my bot also be allowed to edit these pages to include these. Edits could be restricted to something like 1 a minute, maybe even two minutes; there would be little server stress. PeteMarsh 21:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Czechia -> Czech Republic

• Task: replace all instances of "Czechia" with "Czech Republic", except on pages "Czech Republic" and "Names of the Czech Republic".
• Reasoning: When Czechoslovakia split in 1993, the foreign ministry of the Czech Republic tried to spread their name in English as "Czechia". This is in line with current usage in most Germanic and Slavic languages, including German, where Tschechien is still being used. It is fairly common for non-native speakers to edit Wikipedia, and mention "Czechia", so the bot should run, maybe once a month or so. See Names of the Czech Republic for more info. samwaltz 03:03, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Have you made sure there is a consensus to support this? From what I read in the articles you linked to is that it isn't in common usage in English, but does this mean it should be corrected? --Android Mouse 03:17, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll toss up a RFC on Names. samwaltz 03:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

External Links -> Incline Citation Bot

• In many wikipedia articles, there are external links after a sentence which is used in a number formating (so the external link has no extra info attached to it); example [16].

• Would it be possible for a bot to remove "[" replacing with "<ref>" and remove "]" replacing with "</ref>"?

• After that the bot would search if there is <references/> in the article.

• If it cannot find it, the bot would make a new sub-section "==References==" and place "<references/>" below that.

• The bot would have to make a list from the last dump of all the mainspace articles, and perform the operations (hopefully it will get over within one week).

• Example Nonvolatile_BIOS_memory

--Paracit 23:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

In my view, end of section references are preferable when there is a textual description of the reference. For a pure html link, the reference section just obscures matters, requiring an extra click-through. However, putting raw links into a reference section might encourage people to change them to proper citations. That's a testable proposition, and if it's true this would be a good idea. Derex 00:12, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Some editors might consider it controversial to change an inline link to a cite.php reference. Even if it encourages adding full citation info, some will view this as a short term detriment, by making the link one step removed. Gimmetrow 01:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It is possible to create such a bot and not very complicated actually. But I share the concerns mentioned above. Maybe you should see if you can reach a consensus in a discussion on this question at WP:CITE and/or WP:EL. Perhaps this has already been decided on and you can provide a link to it? I'd be interested in helping with the bot / programming it, if there's such a common agreement. I suggest continuing to talk about a bot when we are sure your suggested changes are supported by the community. — Ocolon 08:33, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I've run across other articles where an editor has manually (I assume) converted embedded links to references/footnotes, without adding anything else. I suppose that encourages editors to work the references to improve them; I'm not sure (because I didn't systematically follow up over the months) that anyone actually did.

As far as starting a discussion, I also support that before a bot is written and approval for it requested. I note that WP:EL is the wrong place, however; that policy has to do with the "External links" section, which isn't an issue here (except that the bot should be programmed to stay out of that section). In addition to) WP:CITE, it's worth noting the proposed change at Wikipedia:Embedded citations (which isn't a policy or guideline) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I would almost suggest to just be bold, and manually do a few articles and see the reactions. Do the links get improved? Do you end up just annoying people? etc. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 04:03, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Check this out so many external links converted to inline citations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clinical_depression&diff=118654983&oldid=118576074

--Parker007 21:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the Clinical depression article *did* benefit from converting the external links to inline citations. A problem that this conversion did not address is that the reference sections contain a lot of raw link text that ought to be replaced by useful 'metadata' in the form of authors, titles and complete names of publications. (Each raw link could be replaced by a citation template, and the link itself could be filled into the 'url' field, so the citation would be clickable). Someone could go through manually and fix that. Another more general problem is that this article seems to be overwhelmed by its excessive references. Wikipedia is not a directory or a bibliography. Not sure what your tool could do about that, but it might suggest to us that manual fixup can do things that a bot cannot. EdJohnston 16:43, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

• • Request for consensus is filed --Paracit 06:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

CVU2.svg -> CVU.svg

Hello, We need someone's great bot to go to each article/user page/template that uses the recently moved Image:CVU2.svg to change it to Image:CVU.svg as it was transferred to Commons for use there. Many thanks, Extranet ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 06:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Almost all of these were transcluded with the template {{User CVU1-en}}, which has been fixed. In fact, I only see a few archives that point to the CVU2 page. --Selket ^Talk 07:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Template renaming

We're thinking of renaming a highly transcluded template at WP:COMICS and we wondered if that was something that a bot might be able to handle? Hiding Talk 23:46, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, a bot could rename uses of the template, but it would seem unnecessary when a redirect would work. Is there a serious problem with the name such that the old one must not remain? Gimmetrow 23:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I guess not. We've got an infobox, {{superherobox}}, that pretty much applies to any comic character now, so we wanted to rename it Template:Comics character. I'm not sure that there are any issues, I'll raise it at the discussion. Thanks for the reply. Hiding Talk 13:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Just go ahead and rename it. Moving the page will leave a redirect from the old name and all existing transclusions of the template will work properly. (If any double redirects are created, just fix them) – Gurch 21:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot seems to add only one of the required commas in dates

I have never done anything about bots before, so I hope this is reasonable. Presently, a bot (or something) seems to add only one of the required commas in dates. I can't find it in the list of bots. For example, if someone adds the date: March 28, 1948 a bot or something adds a comma after 28, but not after 1948. Yes, it did it right then! I didn't type that comma, and it's still not in the revision box where I am typing now. Unless 1948 ends the sentence, of course, another comma is needed after the year. The fix is needed even if there are no brackets, like this: March 28 1948 That time, no comma was automatically put in. So I see it only works for bracketed dates, so far. I have fixed hundreds of examples of that error by hand, but there are probably about 6 or 12 million more to be done in the English version of Wikipedia. I am sorry, but I don't have enough time. A very similar problem is about equally widespread in locations. For example: He was born in Pasadena, California on Easter Sunday. That needs another comma after California, of course. About 6 or 12 million of those errors, too. Another bot needed? Can I request that, too? Korky Day 12:58, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

That's not actually a bot. That's a part of the Wikimedia software. Whether you type [[March 28]] [[1948]] or [[28 March]] [[1948]] (or other date formats), the software will display the date in your preferred date format (which you can set under "preferences" -- click the "my preferences" link at the very top right on any Wikipedia page). The default preferred date format (for the U.S.) is Month xx, yyyy (with a comma).

So why not add the extra comma? Well that's actually a grammar issue, and some sentences shouldn't have that comma. For instance, in the sentence "June 7, 1999, is my birthday.", that second comma is needed. But in the sentence "I saw her on June 1, 1999." there shouldn't be a comma. Since almost nobody ever follows that grammar rule anyway, I guess the developers decided it wasn't too important to fix. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 15:28, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Quadell. There are also rare instances where no punctuation follows because it's not a full date. Consider "On March 28, 1948 people registered to vote." 1948 could be the number of people or it could be the year in which on that date an unspecified number of people registered. So it's not something a bot can be programmed to determine. But that example proves that having it correct is indeed important.

Your estimate of "almost nobody" does not match my viewing. About half the instances I see are correct. But maybe in the type of articles you read it's different.

I think a bot is justified because there are millions of errors and the exceptions few.

Solution? A bot that adds a comma whenever there is not another punctuation mark there. It would ignore instances within direct quotes. But also maybe tag it with something like "verification requested that a year precedes this comma". Then if no one changes it for a couple of weeks, the tag is automatically deleted. If someone says it is not a year, then the bot would ignore it from then on. Korky Day 01:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Article size bot?

Is there a way to create a bot which will:

1. Monitor a list of articles and their sizes on a sub-page, and
2. Update the sizes of those articles on a semi-regular basis?

I ask because Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/dinosaur articles by size was created to show users which articles need the most attention and expansion. It was originally updated manually using CatScan, but that tool stopped working April 11th of last year. Since that time, we've updated the page manually, but it's grown considerably and it's time-consuming to use pop-ups to hover over each link to get the article size. A bot, even if it was run just once a week, would save us hours of work. Firsfron of Ronchester 06:22, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I could create a bot for this. Although which articles would you like it to post sizes for? The ones that are already listed here or a specific category of articles? --Android Mouse 06:47, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, either way would be fine! Category:Dinosaurs would be fine to work off of, but that category includes Category:Fictional dinosaurs, which we don't want included in the results. If there was a way to tell the bot to ignore articles in a "fictional dinosaurs" category, that would work. Or we could just compile a list for the bot to work off of...? Thank you very much for your interest. Firsfron of Ronchester 06:53, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

That sounds good. I'll have it get articles from the Category:Dinosaurs, excluding the fictional dinosaurs subcategory, so no one will have to deal with maintaining and updating a list of what it would need to scan. I'll likely have time to write this bot sometime tomorrow, if not it should be finished within two to three days. --Android Mouse 07:05, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Very cool. Thank you, Android Mouse. I look forward to it! :) Firsfron of Ronchester 07:13, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

The bot is now written and waiting for approval. I should note that there are many categories and articles that might not directly relate to the Dinosaur wikiproject. I found that Category:Birds is a nested subcategory of the Dinosaur category, along with Category:Jurassic Park. Excluding Category:Birds, Category:Jurassic Park, and Category:Fictional dinosaurs, there are just over 3,000 articles. There may be more unrelated categories that I didn't see. Tell me if you'd like any other categories ommited. --Android Mouse 21:43, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter bot

At WikiProject Iceland, we’re looking for a way to automatically distribute our monthly newsletter to our growing membership base. We need the following:

1. To be able to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Iceland/Outreach/Newsletter {{{CURRENTMONTH}}} {{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}} Max Naylor 09:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC) (or whatever the correct ParserFunctions are for current month and year);
2. On the first of every month;
3. Only to users who have not unsubscribed to the newsletter;
4. On the provision that the newsletter has been created;
5. At the bottom of a user’s talk page.

Should something like this be possible and deployable over different WikiProjects? Max Naylor 09:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

If there is a list of the people that need to receive the newsletter, I could possibly do it using AWB. E ^talk 09:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Here is a list of members, and here is a list of those who do not wish to receive the newsletter. Max Naylor 10:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll request bot approval now and see if that goes through, then I can start the process. Also, where is the newsletter you want distributed? E ^talk 11:15, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Here is the current edition Wikipedia:WikiProject Iceland/Outreach/Newsletter June 2007, but as you can see, the month and the year will need to be variables in the bot. Hope this helps. Max Naylor 12:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

CIA Link update

I just updated a link in the article Poland. Obviously a URL changed ... can someone start a bot replacing something like https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/pl.html with https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/pl.html Thanks.

Also see: Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_8#Create_a_bot_to_update_CIA_World_Factbook_links

I'm currently in the process of doing this. E ^talk 10:14, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

It's just about to finish the process. All countries listed at list of countries has been changed to the new link. Alphachimpbot is currently editing every page that contains the old link. E ^talk 11:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Trivia tagging

I think it'd be a good idea to have a bot that tags ==Trivia==, ===Trivia===, and ====Trivia==== with the {{trivia}} template. There's so many articles that use a trivia section, and in particular, just about every episode of the Simpsons has one. They're also quite common on articles about bands / singers. Needless to say, it would take far too long to tag these articles by hand. I'd quite like to be able to operate this bot myself, but I understand if it's easier to just add it as a function to an existing bot. Cheers, -Panser Born- (talk) 18:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

The problem is, how would the bot find articles with a trivia section? The only way I can think of is to scan through the raw text of thousands of pages, which is obviously infeasable and impractical. If wikipedia had a decent search feature it would make the process much more easier. Anyone else have any ideas? --Android Mouse 00:52, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, to begin with, would it be possible for the bot to check all the pages in all the subcategories of this category? I'd say about 90% of the pages in there have an unmarked trivia section (apart from seasons 15 – 18, which I've already tagged manually). Outside of that, I'm not really sure. -Panser Born- (talk) 08:16, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Just addressing the specific question (I haven't considered whether this is a good idea or not) it would probably be best if it searched a copy of the database dump? Otherwise it would have to spider the site which isn't a good use of server resources. --kingboyk 12:12, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

So it's possible to do this without using server resources? Surely accessing the database dump would use resources as well? -Panser Born- (talk) 20:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

If it were restricted to the Simpsons category you posted above it would probably be ok to have it check each page individually for triia sections. If that is what you want done I wouldn't mind taking on the task. --Android Mouse 23:31, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

That'd be great, thanks for your help. =) -Panser Born- (talk) 12:48, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot written waiting for approval --Android Mouse 08:53, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Approved, all needed articles in this category have been tagged. I'm downloading the most recent database dump and will eventually modify the bot to scan untagged articles from that. --Android Mouse 23:21, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Awesome, you've been a great help. =) I look forward to seeing the database dump version when you get around to it. Thanks again, -Panser Born- (talk) 00:39, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

What about some articles that have maybe only a line or two of interesting trivia, versus some articles that have pop culture references that occupy more than half the page? How does the bot choose which page to tag? Blueshirts 19:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Interesting question. What I could have it do is check the size of each section. If the article has a trivia or pop culture section larger than so many bytes (and is also untagged) then it would add the tag, else it would move on without editing. The question is, what size should be the defining factor if a tag is added or not? I think if it is over 512 bytes it should get a tag. For reference, my current response is 431 bytes. --Android Mouse 16:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. Even though I think 512 byte is sorta small compared to the trivia section of articles like Progeria, it's best to add the tag "early" so users would think twice about adding more extraneous info to the section. Blueshirts

I've been doing some of this using AWB. I searched the database dump for ==Trivia==, and tagging articles that still have ==Trivia== and dont have the template. I wasn't sure if all articles should be tagged, or just those with large trivia sections. Lately I've been doing those with over 4 bullets (tested with regex). -- pb30<talk> 03:38, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if it clear if all trivia sections should be tagged or just the large ones. My bot has been tagging only the ones with sections larger than 512 bytes. I was going to have it decide on the number of bullets, but some trivia sections aren't in bullet format, rather a poorly thrown together paragraph. --Android Mouse 19:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah thats one downside of just looking at bullets, but it was the only way I thought of. And I think a trivia section in paragraphs looks nicer than bullets, but both should be tagged if they are too long, -- pb30<talk> 21:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia-Wiktionary Co-op bot

How about a bot that looks at words frequently used in Wikipedia's articles and suggests those words for the Wiktionary if they aren't there already? Jeffrey.Kleykamp 13:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

• Wiktionary editors have long since created to-do lists from Wikipedia article titles and worked through them. There have been at least two such projects, to my recollection. Wiktionary editors need no help from Wikipedia in this regard. I am also confident that should you raise the subject at the Beer Parlour, Wiktionary editors will inform you that they don't trust Wikipedia articles to be free from mis-spellings. ☺ Uncle G 15:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Mis-spelled words get used infrequently and therefore won't be on the top of the list, however, words like "and" and "the" get used very often and would therefore be on the top of the list, that is, if they weren't in Wiktionary already. Also, I didn't intend to use Wikipedia titles, instead I wish to use the actual words inside the articles (whether they are related to the article or not), and the words would be taken off the list as soon as they are in Wiktionary (or the word gets blacklisted as a true mis-spelling), so it still seems like a good idea. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 16:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Common misspellings may well satisfy the criteria for inclusion anyway. -- Coffee2theorems 18:18, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Are you planning on working from the XML dump of the 'pedia? An overall frequency list would be good (I think this has been done at some point?); then removing everything in the en.wikt using that XML dump, and producing the remaining list?

The results can be added to the wikt as sup-pages of wikt:Wiktionary:Frequency lists, as we have from the entire Project Gutenberg corpus. (And this isn't technically a bot on either project.) You will be surprised at how mis-spellings rise to the top of such lists, once the 150,000 or so most frequent words are taken out. Robert Ullmann 18:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

To be quite honest, I'm not planning on doing anything because I'm not at all good at doing programs that use the Internet (other programs are fine), it was a suggestion for someone else to do, and basically proving that I shouldn't do anything is that I don't know what the XML dump is.

And, with all due respect, your abbreviations where a bit complicated to decipher so I will, I think, repeat the exact basic algorithm:

1. Create a list of words from the Wikipedia articles
2. Check and delete words that are on the blacklist
3. Check and delete words that are already in Wiktionary
4. Sort the list based on frequency
5. Present list

It can even check for words on the list that get changed often to a more frequent word and count them as a misspelling, e.g. the sentence says "Cheese is a soild food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals." (that's a direct quote, with one misspelling, from our article on cheese) then two days later it notices that solid is written "solid" and it's therefore likely that "soild" is a misspelling. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 18:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

In Wikipedia:Types_of_bots, it says that for database miner bots (like this one) it might be preferable to download a database dump and run the bot on it's own server, is that the XML dump? And where do I download the XML dump? But that all doesn't matter because I'm not doing the programming anyway, sorry, Jeffrey.Kleykamp 19:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

The XML dumps are at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070402/ (the most recent dump as of today). You say you don't know about doing programs "that use the internet" - well, that's no problem, as the XML file is a (in case of en:wiki: *huge*) text file with some extra markup which just looks like html tags - that is, a lot of <foo>bar</foo>. \Mike(z) 21:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Before spending too much time on this, is there any evidence that Wiktionary is

1. missing any words used in Wikipedia (to any significant extent).
2. that the words that are defined in Wiktionary actually include an adequate definition of the particular meaning requireed for the actual usage in Wikipedia.

--121.209.184.120 04:18, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

First thing's first, 4.1 GB is a lot to download for my internet connection, it would take 10+ hours (revised estimate: 5+ hours). Also, any words that get used often in Wikipedia are worthy of being in a dictionary (even a common misspelling), and point two of the paragraph above I don't really understand, I think however that the point is irrelevant because I just want a list of words as suggestions for Wiktionary and ordered from most common word that is not in the Wiktionary to least common. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 12:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Is anyone planning on making this bot or what, 'cause I ain't plannin' on doin' nothin'... Jeffrey.Kleykamp 17:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I thought about this bot and think it would be a good idea if someone made this bot and run it once a month, because it would also help with words in different languages (who's Wiktionaries aren't as near completion), especially rare or constructed languages (Klingon for example), also it would be good in the future as people from a specific language adopt new words, also about the fear of many incorrectly spelled words being on the list all you have to do is take two versions of Wikipedia and compare the two and delete any words that changed significantly in the amount of times used (so if the word "chese" went from 77 uses to 58, i.e. 25% less, then delete it, because, technically, the 77 original uses are mostly corrected by Wikipedians on the second version and the 58 uses are new misspellings, whereas the correctly spelled words are going to stay, unless someone saw it fit to delete them as they are unfit in that context or add new ones as part of an improvement to the article, and therefore the uses won't change either), please note however that the change in uses doesn't have to go down, it just needs to change by a high enough percentage.

I also think it would be nice if people would add there name to the following list if they think it would be a good idea to make this bot:

In favor

• Jeffrey.Kleykamp 17:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Not in favor

Substitution of template s-ptd

I am requesting, on behalf of WikiProject Succession Box Standardization, the substitution of all instances of Template:S-ptd in articles with Template:S-tul, in preparation to the former's eventual deletion. Their function is more or less identical and s-ptd has been superseded by s-tul in our project's succession box template system; the former's page now redirects to the latter. The substitution is a simple one: {{s-ptd|title=...}} is to be converted to {{s-tul|title=...}} in all succession boxes. See Template:S-start/doc for more information. Waltham, The Duke of 15:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

The task is simple, but why does it need to be done? What's wrong with the redirect? —METS501 (talk) 19:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

The redirect serves as a deterrent against the use of the template in new succession boxes. However, the old code is still part of many old boxes, something which we believe complicates our template system, especially since we do not give any instructions about it but some users (especially the newer ones) might fall on it. We just want to get rid of a piece of useless code, rid Wikipedia of a spare template, and remove any sources of confusion for Wikipedia's less experienced contributors. Waltham, The Duke of 09:28, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

All done. —METS501 (talk) 19:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much. We shall initiate the procedures for its deletion soon. Waltham, The Duke of 09:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

xxxx in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The pages 1802 in the United Kingdom to 1926 in the United Kingdom refer to the United Kingdom where they should refer to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The following changes need to be made to each page

1. Replace United Kingdom with United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in both first line and in nav box on right.
2. Change width of nav box to 450
3. Move to xxxx in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, keeping redirect.
4. Redirect xxxx in the UK (such as 1801 in the UK) to the new page (eliminating double redirect)

I have done all thse task manually on 1801 in the United Kingdom.

I have done tasks 1 and 2 manually on 1802 in the United Kingdom to 1806 in the United Kingdom.

LukeSurl ^{t c} 15:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Reconsider

Please reconsider all of Wikipedia-Wiktionary Co-op bot, I say this because people seem to only read what's on the bottom of the page. Thanks, Jeffrey.Kleykamp 21:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Proposal: BLP Bot

I don't have the specific diff here, but we recently had an incident where a comment remained in a BLP article for over 5 days accusing the subject of being a "paedophile". I think we can stop this from happening. This bot idea relatively simple, but I don't have the technical expertise to implement it (someone proposed it on the admin IRC channel).

• The bot would generate a list of articles in Category:Living people on a daily or twice daily basis.
• The bot would search these articles for specific terms (probably through a regular expression) that are unlikely to appear unless someone has libeled the subject. Examples include: pedophile, paedophile, rapist, etc. Basically, it'd look for any terms that probably should not be in a BLP article. I'd suggest creating an admin-only page to edit the expressions the bot looks for.
• The bot would generate a list of biographies containing these words. Obviously, some biographies, such as those of known sex offenders, would need to be placed on some sort of whitelist. I suspect, however, that the level of work involved in generating that list wouldn't be too high.

I imagine that there are technical hurdles I'm missing, but I really think a solution like this would be in order. Although I don't have the programming expertise to create such a bot, I'd be happy to assist in whatever way I could. alphachimp 07:36, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, Category:Living people contains several hundred thousand articles... so if you wanted to do it daily I have a feeling the bot would have to be requesting pages pretty much non-stop, and even that might not be enough; won't harm the servers, they get tens of thousands of requests a second, but it might harm the bandwidth of whoever tries to run the bot :) Also, there are thousands of biographies not in Category:Living people, and by definition they would tend to be the more obscure, less-watched ones to which libel could be introduced without detection – Gurch 16:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm 103 2/3% interested in this, as it's totally my bag. However, it seems more practical to simply index Category:Living people (LP) once a day, then sit the bot on RC with a high limit (500) and refresh every 'x' minutes, depending on edit influx/site volume, checking for any edits to LP pages, adding diff content to a priority queue (i.e. anon users get priority), and finally running the diffs against badword lists, which is made even more particularly easy given the fact that the diffs highlight the changes for you :P. I personally would see that as the best possible scenario, both with regard to WP's server resources and the bot maintainer's server resources. I would probably argue, though, that a dynamically-updatable mask list available to simply "all admins" would be a bad idea, especially considering the amount of mental effort that goes into designing *good* badword lists that don't conflict with pre-existing badwords or cause a slew of false positives (e.g., while it might make sense to most people to badword /.*ass.*hole.*/i, it's pretty easy to see that that could cause a whole bunch of false positives). Trial period should probably have the bot simply add suspect edits to its user page every hour or so, so that it's easy to verify the accuracy of the bot's detection. Once it's live, it might even make more sense to simply not force the bot to revert anything at all by default, and simply let vandalism patrol admins manually (or automagically) check the bot's "I think this might be bad" list, then let them decide to manually add auto-reverting of commonly-vandalized LP entries and/or category members. Thoughts? --koder 19:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorting

Any there any bots that can sort things into alphabetical order? Possibly sort Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. Simply south 13:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Looks alphabetical to me.. --ST47Talk 13:43, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Block-notification bot

There is always inconsistency and problems in admins notifying editors they have blocked. Many (including me) have not issued notifications many a times, because generally-experienced editors have an idea why they are blocked (they know how to access their block log) and what they can do about it. However, to have complete consistency, proper courtesy and full information at a time when a block is issued, I request that a bot be commissioned to deliver a notification message to the blocked editor that:

1. Carries the reason for blocking (as given by the admin in the block summary)
2. Gives the exact block duration
3. Describes the option of using (and not abusing) the {{unblock}} request
4. Describes the option of e-mailing another administrator
5. Gives a general courtesy message asking them not to repeat behavior/editing that hurts Wikipedia and other contributors.

Such an automated bot can act on each blocking that is logged; a minor delay is obviously acceptable. We can also instruct the bot to give messages customized for the different blocking reasons that are given as pull-down options for the blocking admin. Rama's arrow (just a sexy boy) 16:08, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Are the comments on Special:Ipblocklist always in the same format of, (time length of block, what is blocked) (reason)? --Android Mouse 16:48, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

You would probably be better off using the block log (accessible through the API) as it won't have autoblocks. The API results are pretty straightforward to parse also. -- JLaTondre 17:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Some comments:

1. I do not recommend this for indefinite blocks. There are specifically cases (usually username block related) when WP:DENY makes sense.
2. Also, most of this information is already in the block message. Is there a specific reason to duplicate it on the talk page? Our block templates do not contain all those. I don't see a bot would need to leave anything more than the standard templates.
3. I'm worried this will cause more confusion. As can be seen at Android Mouse's talk page, despite the message his speedy delete notification bot leaves, people continue to believe he is the one who either nominated their article or deleted it. If this task is picked up by a bot, the message needs to very clear or people will make the same mistake.

Thanks. -- JLaTondre 17:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree with JLaTondre about indefinite blocks (except those on offensive/inappropriate usernames). However, there is a specific need to have this special notification as all admins are obligated to properly inform blocked users of the reasons, durations and options. As for possible confusion as to who did the blocking, the bot could easily include the name of the blocking admin (if it can replicate the block summary, it can include the blocking admin) and a link to the list of administrators. Rama's arrow (just a sexy boy) 21:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

If the user doesn't know how to access their block log, it doesn't matter. They will see the blocking reason and the expiration date when they try to edit. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 21:12, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

The blocking reason and expiration shows up when a blocked user tries to edit. The only real purpose to talk page block notices is to elaborate on the block reason (less important now that we have templated block notices) or to let other admins know that an account is blocked without looking at the block log (less important - to me - since we got the HBC AIV helperbots.) Some admins value this notification much more than others, and it would be the main purpose of this bot, in my opinion. I don't personally see it as important, since it just takes a second to look at the block log, but others do. Grandmasterka 21:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Date unwikilinking

There is a very large group of people who take every opportunity to wikilink dates. According to WP:CONTEXT, there is consensus among editors that dates should not be linked unless there is a specific reason that the link will help the reader to understand the article.

How often will a link to a date actually help someone understand the article? Maybe it's just me, but I see a wikilink as an offer for more information, and trying to read through a bunch of wikilinked dates is damned distracting.

I would like to see a bot simply remove all wikilinks to dates. In all articles with more than three such links. James S. 17:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:CONTEXT#Dates says Dates when they contain a day, month, and year — 25 March 2004 — or day and month — February 10 — should be linked for date preference formatting.? --ST47Talk 17:47, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, a bot simply removing links indiscriminately would not be good. You even said: "unless there is a specific reason that the link will help the reader to understand the article." Bots are usually pretty dumb. If you tell it to remove links that don't have day, month, and year, it will remove all such links, relevant or not. For example, if a specific holiday occurs on the same date each year, (like christmas) the article should have the date wikilinked. Also, removing all wikilinks to dates will leave thousands of date, month, and year artices orphaned. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 18:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I predict many angry complaints on the bot operator's talk page, if this is ever implemented. --Android Mouse 18:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we can go about this a different way. Educate editors. The first time an editor wikilinks a date, the bot can put a note on his User page reminding him of precedent. It won't undo the past but it will help the future. davidwr ^09f9(talk) 21:40, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Substing {{unsigned}} templates

The "Usage" section of Template:Unsigned specifies that the template should be substed. However, in many cases it is not. At present:

Template:Unsigned has 35,000+ transclusions;

Template:Unsigned2 has ca. 5,000 transclusions;

Template:Unsigned3 has ca. 200 transclusions;

Template:UnsignedIP has ca. 1,500 transclusions; and

Template:Undated has ca. 75 transclusions. Note: This template may not need to be substed.

I think an existing bot could handle this, but I'm not certain which is the best one to ask – off the top of my head, I can think of Bluebot. Also, there's still the question of whether it should be done. Is it worth substing each one of those transclusions? Which is better performance-wise ... 40-45 thousand bot edits or an equal number of transclusions? Are there perhaps other factors that I've not considered? ... If this is a worthwhile task, I will place a request on an operator's talk page. For now, I'm just asking for some input. Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 23:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't see why it would be worth the hassle to make all the substitutions. Is there any specific reason why that template should be substed in the first place? --Android Mouse 00:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Not that I know of ... . I just saw that a template that was supposed to be substed often wasn't. Maybe it's supposed to be substed in order to prevent server stress? For instance, HagermanBot alone has about 100 thousand edits, most of which are substitutions of the above templates. -- Black Falcon ^(Talk) 02:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't think non-substituted templates would cause that much server stress since the servers have an advanced caching system set up. Although I wouldn't know for sure, since the little things can really add up. --Android Mouse 03:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I believe part of the reason for substing is so that the templates don't strain the server since not substing them means that each time you go to the page, you have to load at least 2 different pages. Also, my bot, which currently does substing, could do this task. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I can do this...do we have a consensus to do so? ^demon^{[omg plz]} 00:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Template substitution

Per Wikipedia:Template namespace ("not masquerading as article content"), can someone subst {{wc}}, {{ec}}, {{ec2}} and {{fc}} in any article in which they appear? Thanks 81.104.175.145 00:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I can do it with my bot, but do we have consensus do to this? ^demon^{[omg plz]} 19:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes. "Per Wikipedia:Template namespace ("not masquerading as article content")", and the usage note on {{fc}} itself, if you'd bothered checking. 81.104.175.145 16:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done. Made 225 edits total across all 4 templates. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 00:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Related templates: {{afc}} {{lfc}} {{efs}} {{fseason}}. 81.104.175.145 14:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done, 41 edits. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 15:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Ta muchly. 81.104.175.145 16:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

A bot of Gardens in Czech Republic

We have a database that is full of more than 800 entries on gardens in the Czech Republic. We would like to post this information on wikipedia so that information can be viewed and also improved. In addition as we gather more information and add it to the database, we are hoping that this information will be transferred as well. From what I understand so far, the best way to transfer the information from the database to wikipedia is via a bot. However, I have no experience in this and am hoping we can get some help!

--Stromek 11:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Could you be more specific please? What type of information are you planning to transfer? --Android Mouse 19:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

What format is the database in? Lmc169 21:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, I can write you a perl script that can save the data, but we need to know how it's stored. --ST47Talk 21:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Why wouldn't this go into the Czech Wikipedia rather than the English one?

Also, as I read the request, the plan would be for a subsequent updates to the database to result in updates to the Wikipedia article. The only way to accomplish that without overwriting the contributions of other editors is if the article is vary structured (think, for example, of infoboxes), which is pretty much antithetical to what Wikipedia is about. So I don't think updates via bot makes any sense at all.

(And did anyone mention notability - 800 gardens?) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Adding field to infoboxes

Can someone with a bot or with AWB or some such tool, please go through Category:Playboy Playmates and its subcats to add a caption field to the {{Infobox Playboy Playmate}} template? It should go right below the "image-name" field. Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 22:56, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

references bot requested

Can someone create a references bot that would tag articles without footnotes with {{unreferenced}}, and would replace external links listed as sources (for example [http:www.example.com] with ^[1]. It would also replace the <references/> with {{Reflist}}--Sefringle 04:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Couple problems with this. {{unreferenced}} is for articles with no sources, just because an article does not have inline cites does not mean it is unreferenced. {{citation style}} would be preferred. Also, unless the external link is already used like a footnote, how would the bot know where to put it? Also, I belive there has been discussions on replacing <references/> with {{Reflist}}. Many people are against it, usually advocating using {{Reflist}} only in articles with a lot of footnotes. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 16:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

This could also present an issue when dealing with stubs. If a stub is 2-3 sentences long and there's only one reference (or, more commonly, an external link), noting that the article lacks in-text citations seems unnecessary. Of course, the bot could be programmed to ignore articles below a certain length, or any articles tagged with a stub template. Also, though I prefer the use of {{reflist}}, I too remember some opposition to its use. See, for instance, the template's talk page; there may be discussion elsewhere that I'm not aware of. -- Black Falcon ^(Talk) 17:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Protection and expiration tags

I've noticed, on Joel Hayward, for instance, that protection expires on June 10th of this year, with a tag which states as much: {{pp-semi-protected|expiry=June 10, 2007|reason=of libel/[[WP:BLP|BLP]] concerns}}. Perhaps we could have a bot to remove protection tags when they no longer apply. The Evil Spartan 20:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't remember which, but a bot already does this. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 20:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I think its User:DomBot Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 20:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

"Did you mean ...?" redirect-, disambiguation-, and otheruses-warning bot

Any thoughts on a bot that detected new links to disambiguation pages, redirected pages, or links to pages with an otheruses template and put an "Are you sure you meant to do that?" notice on the user's talk page? This would educate users and cut down on links like Supreme Court, many of which should be Supreme Court of the United States.

Even better if the bot would look for a reply that contained some special content, like {{fixbadlink}} and fix it automatically.

The latter may not be worth the effort but the former is certainly worthwhile and very low-risk as it doesn't change any articles.

Of course any such bot would have to respect an "I know what I'm doing" notice on the User's main or talk page so as not to bother experienced editors. davidwr ^09f9(talk) 22:04, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

There is absolutely no reason to go around fixing redirects though. See this section of the redirect guideline, the dabs or links that go to the wrong target should be addressed but not the redirects. IvoShandor 15:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Caps fixing - articles and links

Could someone do the following replacements (per WP:MOSTM and WP:MOSCL) please?

• 'bmi' -> 'BMI'
• 'bmibaby' -> 'BMI Baby'
• 'bmi regional' -> 'BMI Regional'
• 'wagn' -> 'WAGN'

81.104.175.145 22:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

On what articles? --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Any that contain them. 81.104.175.145 23:17, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Anyone? 81.104.175.145 04:08, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

postion

Task: replace all instances of "postion" with "position" (retaining existing capitalisation). I can't imagine any circumstance where "postion" would be correct. Currently there are about 200 instances. (Well, I did a Search for "postion" and it said there were 765 results but it only displayed 200) and I don't fancy fixing them all manually. Also, please advise if there's a simple way I can/could have done this task myself, e.g. if there is some existing "general purpose word substitution bot" which I could have just configured and executed myself. Thanks. DH85868993

You can do this yourself with WP:AWB if you run windows :) --ST47Talk 10:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. The problem with automatic spell checking though, even if it's just simple search and replace work as it is in this case, is that there are bound to be false positives. Even misspellings that look like nobody would possibly ever use them on purpose will invariably generate false positives and, usually, there will be a handful in a batch of 500 or so edits. That's why those edits should always be reviewed by a human. It's mundane work that will most likely go completely unnoticed but it's important. -- Seed 2.0 11:02, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh well, looks like you did it yourself. -- Seed 2.0 11:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Community noticeboard linking bot

Threads on WP:AN, WP:ANI, WP:CN and probably other similar boards are frequently linked to from other pages, e.g. block reviews on the relevant user talk pages. However, these links go stale rather fast as the board thread is archived. This is regrettable, as such threads often contain important procedural discussions.

I propose a (probably dedicated) bot that would periodically go through the most recent archives of these boards, search for links pointing to sections in them and update these. E.g., the bot would change WP:ANI#Foo or Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Foo to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive251#Foo. Sandstein 05:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm actually working on such a bot, as suggested here. I didn't expect it me to take as long, but I'm easily distracted :-$ --Android Mouse 05:14, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot approved and now running. --Android Mouse 02:48, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Sandstein 15:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Data gathering bot on Unused Images

See User:Mecu/OrphanImages. I would like a bot to automate the task of gathering the data. Once a day (preferably in the low-usage hours) it would go to Special:Unusedimages perhaps by using the link at the bottom of the data page and figure out how many unused images there are. It can go up and down by 500, with probably starting with the number from yesterday. If there aren't that many images, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Unusedimages&limit=500&offset=200000 ) it will get a message saying so and it will know to decrease by 500. If there are more than 500 images, it will say 500 images and also have a "Next 500" link. When it's at the limit, it display "there are 234" images for which it could then add to the offset number to get the number of orphaned images. (this is how I've been doing it manually.)

I've been doing this manually (with another user stepping in when I was slacking), but would still much prefer an automated bot to do this. Updating the chart would be a bonus, but not required immediately. Getting the data recorded is more important to me for now, and generating the pretty chart could come later, perhaps by a separate bot if needed. MECU≈talk 16:40, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Accepted --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 18:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Good news, I wrote something that will work. Bad news: there's an "if" in that statement... if the bug I uncovered in the Special:Unusedimages page is fixed... --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 23:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

What bug? I might be able to get a dev to work on it. MECU≈talk 16:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Bug #10153. It's alright, though... I switched the method I was using from counting the images to reading the header at top (which will be another small bug report later... it reports the right number instead of the number selected as a limit, but the wording is wrong). So, in conclusion... it works. How often do you need it run and where do you want the results? --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 16:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! Once a day, preferably at the same time each day. You can just report the results and append them onto the end of the table that's going at User:Mecu/OrphanImages. Start ASAP. I don't care what time of day it runs, so in the off-peak hours is fine. Thanks again! MECU≈talk 17:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done 16:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Dating trivia tags

Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup and Template talk:Trivia, {{trivia}} was modified to allow articles to be categorised by month (see diff) by adding a date paramter to the template. There are currently thousands of articles in Category:Articles with large trivia sections that contain a tag without a date parameter. The last count, on May 23, was 3122 articles; this has probably increased substantially due to recent tagging by a bot. So, would a bot please add a date parameter (|date=Month Year) to all transclusions of {{trivia}} and {{toomuchtrivia}}? It would be nice if the bot could add the month and year that the article was tagged (that way articles that have been tagged for many months could be fixed first) but, if that is not possible, noting the month and year of the bot's edit should work also. Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 21:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I've added a feature request for WP:AWB which auto-adds the date to other cleanup tags. Also User:SmackBot auto-dates other templates, could probably do {{trivia}} as well -- pb30<talk> 22:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the AWB feature request. Since this is a recurrent task, I'll notify Rich Farmbrough to see if this is something that SmackBot would take on. I didn't notify him initially as the bot was not operating the last time I checked, on May 29 ... but it seems to be up now. Cheers, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 22:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, SB took a four day break while I was visiting my father. It has now taken this on. Rich Farmbrough, 15:56 4 June 2007 (GMT).

Dead image-link bot

This is just about that old thread back in this archive. I was going to post that regex for scraping the images (and removing them), but never got around to doing so. Anyway, here's a better version that can account for wiki-links in the image call code. Once again, it hasn't been tested, so if someone could fix it if I screwed up somewhere, that would be great :-): s/(\[\[|<gallery>)\s*($image)\s*(|.*(\[\[.*\]\].*)*)?(\]\]|<\/gallery>)//g. Tim^V.B._{{critic & speak}} 15:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Invitation delivery

Could someone deliver Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia 4/invite to this list of people Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/Philadelphia meet-up invite list? Thanks! --evrik ^(talk) 13:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Any chance you can figure out the TBD info first? --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 15:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks to the bot operator that took care of this! --evrik ^(talk) 15:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done manually by some other user... --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 17:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair Use on User pages

Hey, I have a reasonably simple bot request, I would write it myself (It is incredibly simple), but my bot framework I am using (jwbf for java, if anyone knows any better ones tell me) has some MAJOR bugs regarding categories, and it can't fetch subcategories.

The idea is to parse Category:Fair_use_images and its subcategories, and reading the list of pages the images are used on and seeing if they are used on any User namespace pages. If so, it removes them and warns the user in question. It's a task I know many users do, and it would probably free up a lot of time.

Note that I am new to images, and I believe that image policy agrees with this idea, however if not please correct me.

Thanks! Matt - TheFearow 08:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

It's my understanding that Eagle 101's Gnome bot already does this and I think BetacommandBot still processes ORFU'd images. --Seed 2.0 08:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Please end the tyranny of &nbsp;

Dear Bot People: Please replace "word&nbsp;word[&nbsp;word...]" with "{{nowrap|word word[ word...]}}" because editing wikitext with &nbsp;'s in between words is hard and discouraging to the newcomers. Thank you. 75.18.212.28 15:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Winbot is already doing unicodification work (and Curpsbot-unicodify used to). In addition to that, many users are unicodifying articles they're cleaning up or otherwise working on with AWB. Having said that, if you don't mind waiting a couple of weeks, I could grab the latest DD and make a list. After that, the next step would be to see if there's consensus to convert NBSPs and the like which, frankly, might be a problem. I suspect false positives might be a another issue, in which case those edits would have to be supervised. But, yeah, it might be worth looking into. I'm a bit busy right now but please feel free to remind me in a couple of weeks. As an aside, you might want to read WP:ACCOUNT to make it easier for others to contact you (see this). --Seed 2.0 16:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Is converting &nbsp; to {{nowrap}} related to unicodification? How is a "false positive" even possible with this? 75.35.110.164 12:48, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

To tell you the truth, I think I misread your request (sorry). I thought that was just an example of the work you wanted done. Yeah, the nowrap stuff is way more trivial than general unicodification. Hmm, tables might still be a problem since "&nbsp;" is often used as a placeholder. Tell you what, remind me in two weeks to look into it and I'll see what I can do (unless somebody else wants to take this on, of course). -- Seed 2.0 16:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Another case where &nbsp; can't be replaced with {{nowrap}} is wide spaces created using multiple consecutive &nbsp; and/or normal spaces (like     this). This is also probably most likely to occur in tables and such, or perhaps in inline program code where spaces should not be collapsed but <pre> cannot be used. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Good point. How about: (A: space or newline)(B: 1 or more nonspace)&nbsp;(C: 1 or more nonspace)(D: space or newline) -- is there any situation where that could not be converted to (A){{nowrap|(B) (C)}}(D)? 75.35.110.164 02:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Fix Double redirects

Hi, I want fix Double redirects by my BOT. I do test , Plaese see. Thanks--OsamaK 09:58, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

WP:BRFA --ST47Talk 10:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OsamaKBOT. I am starting now--OsamaK 19:21, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm under the impression that your bot was only approved for interwiki work. If you want to fix double redirects, you need to get approval for that as well. --Seed 2.0 08:31, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Calander bot

While there are already enough anti-vandal bots, there's one type of vandalism/tests that they don't really detect - pages such as 2007, 2006, 2005 ... 1990 are usually frequent targets of anonymous/new users that feel self-important enough to add their own birthday. Usually, this results in a redlink or no link within these pages.

Basically, my proposal is to have a bot that erases unlinked entries. It's something that I would like to write, though. --Sigma 7 00:06, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

In that case, please request approval here first. Before you do, I would suggest that you red WP:RED, if you haven't already done so. Frankly, I'm a bit skeptical if this is an appropriate task for a bot but this is probably a more appropriate place to go over that in detail. -- Seed 2.0 08:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

For the birth & death sections of calendar articles, red links are purposefully excluded. There are HTML comments stating do not add non-Wikipedia entries. For other sections, it is more problematic. -- JLaTondre 13:25, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

It shouldn't be to hard to get a a copy of MartinBot's Source Code and adjust it for this job, if you need any help I'll try and help I'm ok with perl and python and it won't be like your writing all the code, most of it's done all ready. --Lwarf ^Talk! 12:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

TSM Fairuse Bot

I've recently requested approval of User:TSM Fairuse Bot and it was approved for fifty edits. Its task would be to remove fair user images from userpages, user talk pages and any user sub-pages, I am going to request approval for it to run using Auto-Wiki-Browser and possible written in Perl, I would like some help building its source code so it can run using AWB — I'm completely inexperienced with bot source code and would like some help to build it up. Thanks in advance! --The Sunshine Man 11:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

It is best to request the task here and let somebody else who can code the bot implement and run the idea. I would, though, be willing to setup an svn system for you and some partial collaborative work. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 03:51, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Renaming all links to Project Apollo to Apollo program since page move

The article (which was formerly a featured article candidate) Apollo program was recently renamed from Project Apollo. Please could, if possible, a bot go through and replace all links that link to Project Apollo to Apollo program. This is the list of over 500 articles which link to Special:Whatlinkshere/Project Apollo. Basically, I want to make all pages link directly to Apollo program rather than a redirect. You may think this unnecessary, that's okay. Thanks anyway (I've been at it all morning). --J. Atkins (talk | contribs) 12:03, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Generally, changing a link to point directly at an article rather than at the redirect is something we don't approve bots to do. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 12:39, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Uh, what he said. ;) Please see WP:R. Thank you. -- Seed 2.0 12:41, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I should have looked at the redirect policy first, sorry. Thanks for clarifying it. --J. Atkins (talk | contribs) 16:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Declined

WelcomeBot

Yes! I know this is something that is frequently denied! But R has an idea:  :)

A bot is set to run on an account without the word "bot" in it. It will place a welcome template on new user's talk page (I like {{WelcomeMenu}}). Now, everyone always says "it's doesn't have the feeling to it if you're welcomed by a bot". This is why the name wouldn't include "bot" and the account could be shared (ahh...a violation of account policy :) ) by several trusted users/admins who would answer questions left on the bot's talk page (since it would be welcoming every user, it would probably receive a lot of messages.) Like I said... just a proposal. May sound a little crazy. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:07, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I like the idea of a welcoming bot, but I think the only way to get around the obvious impersonal problem is for the bot to sign the welcome from a user (the user could be changed with each welcome taken from a list of users that wish for the bot to sign their name). I think this could alleviate most of the problems that are associated with a WelcomeBot. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:17, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Wow Ryan...I never thought of that. That's a great idea! Maybe I'll find someone who's programmed a denied welcome bot before and ask them if they can do that. Then submit a BRFA. I think ST47 has written one. I've asked him if he could do something like you've suggested. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:20, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

That'd be interesting. perhaps users could 'sign up' and for every welcome, one of their signatures could be used at random? I'll pull the code out of where ever it is and try to hack something, we could do, say, if a user edits and has a blank User talk, they get welcomed, but it would need to be people who edited and have no warnings...someone should post to the VP. --ST47Talk 23:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Maybe the list should be kept offline? --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that's probably wise. Two processes would be the way to go, one to get the list of users and another to screen them, first for contribs, then for a user talk page.

So it would only welcome users who have made an edit? And I've linked to this at the pumps proposal's page. --R ^ParlateContribs_@

(Let's Go Yankees!) 23:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, a blank talk, with contribs would be best, but maybe it should be kept to users that have registered within the past week/month (not sure how feesable that is)? VP might be a good idea for this one. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:44, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, it'd be accounts that had just registered. The IRC end would look for new accounts and make a list, and then once it hits 500, output the oldest 100. --ST47Talk 23:50, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Please, please, don't welcome vandals, trolls, impersonators, blockable usernames, spammers or sockpuppets, especially for their contributions. It really cheapens genuine welcomes. For this reason I think it is a bad idea, but whatever. Thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:52, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, it wouldn't leave a message if the page exists, so if it has a vandalism warning, it won't be welcomed. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:57, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

It's also the vandals without warnings who shouldn't be welcomed. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:58, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

(2ec)Well, if this goes forward, it'd welcome users who had edited but had no warnings, and I added the delay to ensure that if they had vandalized, there would have been time to warn. --ST47Talk 23:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

If we wanted a name without "bot", User:Welcomer is available. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 00:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like an interesting idea... Tim^V.B._{{critic & speak}} 15:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

You really should not welcome people at random, but rather should look through their contributions and give advice as needed. A bot cannot do that. ^(H) 00:04, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Most people just place a welcome template, H. Which is what the bot would be doing. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 00:06, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

H: Noone does that, this bot would be no different. --ST47Talk 00:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Exactly. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 00:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Support, I like this idea of a special bot. As R said before, User:Welcomer is available and that would fit perfectly with the template chosen. Let me know about the progress of this :) Extranet is now E ^talk 00:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I do precisely that. I would hope many editors do. If you don't look through contributions you could be leaving an utterly inappropriate message. Why else would all the specialized welcome messages exist if not for people welcoming individually based upon context?

See also bugzilla:9213: New-messages bar not coming up and/or getting stuck up for anons. --Quiddity 01:47, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

If you used the signature of or maybe as second signature (i.e. User:welcomer & User:jeepday {<-- me}) where the second user was not only a volunteer on the welcome committee but was also actively editing currently. That way they are getting a welcome from someone who is actually currently online. I think I would also welcome IP's with message tailored to them talking about the benefits of signing up. There is nothing wrong with dropping a welcome message on the talk page of a new vandal, lets them know they are not working in the dark. (I sometimes drop a {{welcome}} instead of a "test tag" on IP's) Jeepday (talk) 13:57, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

How would we determine who is online? I could make an IRC channel where people - who already signed up with their sig and IRC name - could sign in and out? --ST47Talk 14:56, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome them by hand thanks. This has been denied many many times, and the idea of having it deliver on behalf of people has been discussed as well. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 15:48, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

How about something like User:SuggestBot. Users opt-in, and then receive a small list of some new users with blank talk and some contribs. A user can then make sure the contribs are helpful and post whatever welcome message is best. -- pb30<talk> 16:08, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

• Given the huge amount of sockpuppets, test accounts, vandal accounts and other junk, I'm not at all sure it's worth the effort to "welcome" all those. >Radiant< 12:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
  • But there's plenty of new people that come here to write an encyclopedia. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 22:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Yes, but I think it's better, when you see some useful edits by an account with no talk page yet, to give them a manual and personal "hello", than to have this automated by some program. >Radiant< 09:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
      • Just like humans do, the bot will welcome with a premade template. I've seen very fwe new users who've actually received a custom message. Also, as said above, it will sign with a users signature. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 11:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
        • Support many users seem overwhelmed when they first join Wikipedia and a bot would be a great way to make sure anyone who joins knows where to go to for help. Blackjack48  ♠ â™£ 15:17, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
          • There's a convenient "Help" link in the left menu. If that can't provide resources as well the welcome message, then it should be improved. –Pomte 08:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

A welcome from a bot is no different that a custom account creation message. I oppose welcoming people without examining their contributions to see if they should be welcomed. ^(H) 15:20, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

As said above, if it's a vandal, it will probably have warnings. If it has warnings, the page exists. If the page exists, it won't welcome them. (There is an amount of time between the account creation and the welcome). --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 21:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I have done mass welcoming manually, using blank pages as a list, that is not the case. Many of the blank talk pages I was going to welcome did indeed have vandalism only histories. Other had made simple mistakes like not understanding our inclusion criteria. My point is that dropping a welcome and leaving was not enough, I had to examine the contributions and act accordingly. ^(H) 02:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

So how about this: A user signs up to receive a handful of users to welcome, delivered by a bot. The bot looks at new users who have been a member for X amount of time, have X amount of edits, and have a blank talk page. This way users can look at the contribs, pick the correct template, and post it. -- pb30<talk> 03:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Being welcomed by a bot (actually all the communication with WP automatons) could be quite a turnoff for people. Look at the bot informing people about their pictures proposed for delete - either people ignore it, get upset or take it as already made decision of some power controling the robots. I can't remeber if I ever saw the desired response for this message on IfD. Pavel Vozenilek 20:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree. And what about when they find out it was just some bot made to look like a person? "You deceived me!" Better for humans or other sentient beings (now no-one can accuse me of systemic bias :D) to give the welcome message. It's more personal and shows our wiki-community feel. In a nutshell, what it means is if welcomes are given out automatically, then the welcomes are useless, because there isn't actually anyone there that's welcoming them. --WikiSlasher 13:05, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

This maybe late, but Wikiquotes has a welcome bot. ~ Wikihermit _(HermesBot) 02:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Manitoba Stub Tagging Bot

I have hundreds of stubs, tagged with a few Manitoba related templates, in a couple categories, which are going to take me a REALLY REALLY long time to tag, if possible, could a Bot be created, (temporarily), to automatically add the Project banner, and assess as stub class on the article talk page? This would make my job a lot easier. The bot does not need to run for a very long time, and doesn't need to do it quickly, just faster than me, which is pretty slow. Thanks, GrooveDog 22:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

my bot can do this, can you expand on what you want though? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 22:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject which I founded, "Wikipedia:WikiProject Manitoba", is in need of a bot that can go and tag all stub talk pages with the {{WPMAN}} template. The stub name is {{Manitoba-stub}}, and there are a couple types of Manitoba related stubs.

The fact is, all that tagging will take forever, and I was wondering if a bot could do it for me. :) GrooveDog 02:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

define and there are a couple types of Manitoba related stubs otherwise it sounds clear cut. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 03:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I would need your bot to tag the talk pages of all articles that include the {{Manitoba-stub}}, {{Manitoba-road-stub}}, {{Manitoba-geo-stub}}, and {{Manitoba-politician-stub}} templates. It would tag those talk pages with {{WPMAN|class=stub}} template, so that I don't have to, because there are many many many stubs in those categories. GrooveDog 12:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

ok give me a few days. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 15:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Currently running myself. --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 17:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done Work will finish tonight.. (tagging one page per minute). --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} 19:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Is there a some pywikipedia code to do this? :: maelgwn :: talk 02:24, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Bot that removes deleted images from articles

Could we have a bot go through the deletion log and remove deleted images from articles? There are hundreds of images that are deleted each day, and the admins don't have the capacity to remove them. The bot should probably mention the admin who deleted the image and the reason from the deletion log so that questions is directed correctly and not to the bot operator (ref.). Rettetast 17:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Instead of deleting or delinking the images, I would recommend replacing them. A simple placeholder image, like eg. Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg should do the trick. That way, the layout of the article's doesn't get screwed up (well, hopefully). --Seed 2.0 18:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Maybe, but it has to be a general image since there a number of reasons why images are deleted. I forgot one thing the bot should do. It should ignore images withe deletion summary that includes "I8" which means that the image has moved to commons, and it should also check if there is an image at commons with the same name and ignore it if it exists. Rettetast 18:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

You could do it with AWB, but it would take a while. --Wikihermit ^{(Talk • HermesBot)} 23:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I wanted to make this bot, but I never found a way to sort the logs by namespace. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 23:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

In AWB? Make List from: then add the log. It doesn't work for AWB because the image is already deleted. If you wanted to do this with AWB, you would have to manually add the deleted image under More. I don't think there is a simpler way with AWB. Maybe you could check with Betacommand, Rettetast. Wikihermit ^{(Talk • HermesBot)} 00:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I knew I couldn't do it with AWB, but IIRC, you can't sort the logs by namespace. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 13:54, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

AzaToth has just added a great feature to TW, that does just this for up to 500 images at a time. --R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!)

Don't User:CommonsDelinker and User:OrphanBot already do much of this? How big is the problem with images that aren't caught by either bot (yes, I know that there are some images that don't fit into the remit of either)? --ais523 17:23, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I.e. - e.g. bot

How about a bot that finds all examples of "i.e." and "e.g." and lists them (and the sentence they're used in), I also mean any variations of the terms, e.g. "i.e", "ie". The reason is because most people don't know how to properly use them, i.e. they write "e.g." when they meant "i.e." and vice-versa, see e.g. vs. i.e..

Also note that I managed to use both terms in my sentence, isn't that nice ;-) Jeffrey.Kleykamp 23:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Type i.e. in the search box, but then press "search" not go, and voilà you have a list with the sentence they are used in. Jackaranga 08:03, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

But that doesn't really give you a list, e.g. for "e.g." it gives you "E G Martin", "E G Marshall", "E. G. Coffman", etc. which has nothing to do with exempli gratia, what I want is a list like this:

• "(e.g., choosing the anti-tank gunner to combat enemy armored vehicles)" article: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
• [Next quote here] article [Next article here]

A bot couldn't determine the difference between the two. :: maelgwn :: talk 00:12, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

A bot could tell the difference because there are spaces between the E and G, also the words are capitalized and the titles of articles, I only want the text inside the article and it would look for these exact spellings: "e.g.", "e.g", "eg", "eg.", and the exact same thing with E capitalized because it might be used in the beginning of the sentence. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 09:56, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki link conversion

Somebody should make a bot that changes [external links] to other Wikimedia sites into interwiki links. This fumbles external link counts, and misleads people into thinking they are going out somewhere else. This, that and the other 10:59, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I'll take this one on. I've already started thinking about handling similar cases for internal links (ex. Main Page vs Main Page). This would be similar. I've seen a number of variations in how people format these (ex. Main Page[17]) that will need to be taken into account. It will take me a couple of days to put it all together. I will submit a bot request in awhile unless someone sees a problem with this. -- JLaTondre 13:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Its almost possible with AWB. The only problem I'm having is adding the second ] to the end of the link. See [18]. --Wikihermit ^{(Talk • HermesBot)} 00:01, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done HermesBot is now approved to do this. ~ Wikihermit _(HermesBot) 04:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. This, that and the other 08:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

External links in the references sections should be left alone though I think. --WikiSlasher 07:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't make much difference, does it [19]? It still links to the same page, and I can't find anything in the MOS, so I'll leave it unless someone shows a problem. ~ Wikihermit _(HermesBot) 15:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, the formatting of the link would be different. It would show as a Wikimedia-project link, rather than a fully external link. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 15:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

It's a minor issue, but if you're making a reference in an article to a Wikimedia project (like in the article Wikipedia) and you go "printable version" and print it, normally it would have the URL there in brackets next to it, e.g. "List of policies and guidelines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines) . English Wikipedia. Retrieved on 2007-01-31." So someone could jump straight to the reference without going to Wikipedia, then typing it in the box. Also, this way you won't risk making a bad link in any number of our mirrors. It might not matter that much though. --WikiSlasher 11:02, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Diplomatic missions by country

Within the articles in this category I would like all instances of the words "High Commission" and "Consulate General" to be spelt capitalised and without a hyphen separating the words. Kransky 10:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Probably not a good bot request. AWB... This, that and the other 10:43, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

:Note: The category was tagged as {{db-author}} so I guess we can consider this request withdrawn. -- Seed 2.0 10:46, 12 June 2007 (UTC) Link in the request has been changed. --Seed 2.0 10:48, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Can you provide a complete list of instances? :: maelgwn :: talk 07:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Comment Moving

WikiProject Biography Comment MovingIn a recent change of our template, we have removed a message asking you to leave comments on your assessment in a /Comments subpage. However, we would like the comments to still be found. We need a bot to go through Category:Biography_articles_with_comments and visit every articles /Comments subpage. Then the bot should add the comments to the respective article's talk page under a section called: WikiProject Biography Assessment Comments. Then the bot should blank the /Comments subpage and put the page in Category:Biography articles with a comments subpage that needs deletion

N Not done – MadmanBot did a trial run at 2 edits/minute and discovered a few things:

1. The number of talk pages in Category:Biography articles with comments is declining rapidly -- it seems transclusions of the new template no longer include that category, so talk pages are removed from it as soon as MediaWiki realizes there's no reason for them to be there anymore. The category is therefore now useless until the category is added back to the template and the bot waits about a day for it to be repopulated.
2. Those comments subpages are used by several entities such as the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team. The bot would have to check Whatlinkshere and subst: each reference to the comments. While this is possible, it may be more advantageous to keep things the way they are for now, as WP 1.0 is a very important project. Talk it over with your fellow editors and get back to me.

Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:23, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I didn't expect this problem.

(moved from my talk page)

The only solution I can really see is that we have that line of code in there and have the category be: Category:Biography articles with comments. Then we would have to go through and move any of our comments to the main talk page, manually. If our comments are the only thing on the page then we can list it for deletion. Does this sound good to you? --Psychless 04:46, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

You can do that. A bot wouldn't be involved in any way, then? The bot can easily copy all comments to the talk page. It has no way of determining, however, if those comments are only those of WikiProject Biography. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

OK. You didn't expect this problem, which is fine. But please, before trying something else and coming up against another problem, please revert back to the status quo, and try a longer discussion, involving more people, before making changes like this. At the moment, this looks like a reaction against people asking for comments during the assessment drive, and that is a bad motivation to change things like this. Carcharoth 10:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Per responses here and on Template talk:WPBiography, this is clearly no longer an uncontroversial task. The Psychless doubtless had good intentions, but it would seem that the drawbacks of modifying the current Comments structure greatly outweigh any benefits that there might be. WPBiography cannot remove (or have removed) these subpages without verifying that the only comments on each page are theirs, and that the subpages are not transcluded by any other pages. As such, this is not a job for a bot.

Declined — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 12:12, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Auto-add "This section is linked from ..."

WP:MOS#Section management indicates that those who link to sections should add an editor's note next to the linked-to section, as a notice to future editors (in case they, for instance, change the section heading). This is easy to forget to do and also seems that it would be very easy to automate. --Iknowyourider 16:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. I assume it would be easiest and most efficent for a bot to scan a database dump for this to find unnoted sections. Before I write this, are there any other suggestions on what the bot should avoid or look out for? I'll begin creating it in about 2 or so days if I this recieves no respones or input. --Android Mouse 17:12, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Gathering data on DEFAULTSORT, listas and Category pipe-sorting in biographical articles

This bot request page is interesting. Apologies if this sort of request is the wrong sort of request, but I wondered if the following data gathering processes are best done with a bot or other ways, or if the processes are even possible?

• (1) Scrape a transclusion list from "what links here" for {{WPBiography}} (warning: this is large list of nearly 400,000 articles). This will be a list of talk pages of biographical articles, with the talk pages to be examined, along with the associated articles, in the next step. If possible, exclude from this list the pages that have "non-bio=yes" in the WPBiography template.
• (2) Run down the list and examine the talk pages and associated articles to determine the following:
  • (a) Examine the talk page to see if the WPBiography template has a "listas=" parameter (excluding cases where 'listas' is there but blank). If it does, extract and list the listas parameter.
  • (b) Examine the talk page to see if it has a DEFAULTSORT magic word on the page. If it does, extract and list the sort value being used. If it doesn't, note this as well.
  • (c) Examine the article page to see if it has a DEFAULTSORT magic word on the page. If it does, extract and list the sort value being used. If it doesn't, note this as well.
  • (d) Examine the article page to see if category pipe-sorting is being used. (Should be anything after a "|" in the category tags). If so, extract and list the sort values being used (there may often be more than one sort being used). If no pipe-sorting is being used (sometimes the pipe-sort character is there with nothing after it), note this as well.

The aim of this is to try and get a handle on pipe-sorting, DEFAULTSORTing, listas, and sort them out, but for biographical articles only. These are the ones that most urgently need this to be sorted out, and the vast majority will simply be a switch from "NAMES SURNAME" to "SURNAME, NAMES". The next step would be getting humans to pore over this data and decide what to do next. The ultimate aim is to have categories involving people properly pipe-sorted so that they can be reliably browsed.

• • (e) As a bonus, could the bot-generated list also state whether the article contains Wikipedia:Persondata data, and extract that as well, as this often contains relevant information on how the article should be listed in a list or category?

Some relevant links: {{WPBiography}}, Wikipedia:Category#Category sorting, Wikipedia:Category#Setting a default sort key and Wikipedia:Persondata. Note also {{DEFAULTSORT}}, as many people use the template pipe character (|) instead of the magic word colon (:).

So, is a bot the best way to get this data, or do I need to persuade someone to do lots of datamining on a database dump (I wouldn't really know how to handle or process a database dump)? Carcharoth 16:25, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Long discussion moved to User:Polbot/ideas/defaultsort

• Phew! I think moving this somewhere else to thrash out the details might be an idea! Carcharoth 13:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• • I moved much of this to User:Polbot/ideas/defaultsort. I'll write up a request for bot approval today or tomorrow. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 13:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Carcharoth 14:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Volleyball tagging

Would it be possible for a bot to tag the talk pages of everything in Category:Volleyball and its subcats with {{WPVolleyball}}? A tedious task, but one which would aid the startup of this new project. Cheers --Pak21 21:09, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

ill start preping for this and should have some data for you to review. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 00:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

A request for the bot operator... for convenience's sake, could the bot please add the template to any existing {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}, if one exists? It's actually quite easy to do with a preg_replace. If one doesn't yet exist but should after the addition of {{WPVolleyball}}, the page will be automatically identified and a helper from the {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} cleanup task force will get to it. It's difficult to have a bot create the {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} correctly. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Please look these cats over and remove any that shouldn't be tagged. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

All pages in the Volleyball cat tree should be tagged. I'm unfamiliar with bots so I ask the question, Can pages that already included the template be ignored, or will there be duplicate templates on an articles talk space? BrianZ^(talk) 14:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

After struggling with encoding for a bit, I manager to generate this list. Betacommand probably has a "do stuff with all pages in this category" sort of program (which is possibly why he proposed the tagging by category), but if a simple list is needed, I made one. Gracenotes^T § 16:28, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:2006 in volleyball
Category:2007 in volleyball
Category:American volleyball administrators
Category:American volleyball coaches
Category:American volleyball competitions
Category:American volleyball players
Category:Argentine volleyball coaches
Category:Argentine volleyball players
Category:Australian volleyball players
Category:Austrian volleyball clubs
Category:Azerbaijani volleyball clubs
Category:Beach Volleyball World Championships
Category:Beach volleyball
Category:Beach volleyball at the Olympics
Category:Beach volleyball competitions
Category:Beach volleyball players
Category:Belarusian volleyball coaches
Category:Belarusian volleyball players
Category:Belgian volleyball clubs
Category:Belgian volleyball players
Category:Brazilian volleyball players
Category:Bulgarian volleyball players
Category:Canadian volleyball coaches
Category:Canadian volleyball players
Category:Catalan volleyball players
Category:Chinese volleyball coaches
Category:Chinese volleyball players
Category:College volleyball venues
Category:Cuban volleyball players
Category:Cypriot volleyball clubs
Category:Danish volleyball coaches
Category:Danish volleyball players
Category:Dominican Republic volleyball players
Category:Dutch volleyball clubs
Category:Dutch volleyball players
Category:Fictional volleyball players
Category:Filipino volleyball competitions
Category:Finnish volleyball players
Category:French volleyball clubs
Category:French volleyball players
Category:German volleyball clubs
Category:German volleyball players
Category:Greek volleyball clubs
Category:Greek volleyball players
Category:Indian volleyball players
Category:Indoor arenas in Cyprus
Category:Israeli volleyball players
Category:Italian volleyball clubs
Category:Italian volleyball coaches
Category:Italian volleyball players
Category:Japanese volleyball players
Category:Japanese volleyball teams
Category:Kenyan volleyball players
Category:LSU Lady Tigers volleyball coaches
Category:Mexican volleyball players
Category:Montenegrin volleyball clubs
Category:National volleyball teams
Category:Norwegian volleyball players
Category:Olympic beach volleyball players
Category:Olympic volleyball players
Category:Olympic volleyball players by country
Category:Olympic volleyball players by year
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Argentina
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Australia
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Brazil
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Canada
Category:Olympic volleyball players of China
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Cuba
Category:Olympic volleyball players of France
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Germany
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Greece
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Italy
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Japan
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Kenya
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Norway
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Poland
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Russia
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Serbia and Montenegro
Category:Olympic volleyball players of South Korea
Category:Olympic volleyball players of Tunisia
Category:Olympic volleyball players of the Dominican Republic
Category:Olympic volleyball players of the Netherlands
Category:Olympic volleyball players of the Soviet Union
Category:Olympic volleyball players of the United States
Category:Pan American Volleyball Championships
Category:Peruvian volleyball players
Category:Polish volleyball clubs
Category:Polish volleyball players
Category:Portuguese Volleyball competitions
Category:Portuguese volleyball teams
Category:Puerto Rican volleyball players
Category:Russian volleyball clubs
Category:Russian volleyball players
Category:Serbian volleyball players
Category:South Korean volleyball players
Category:Soviet Union volleyball players
Category:Spanish volleyball clubs
Category:Spanish volleyball players
Category:Swedish volleyball clubs
Category:Swiss volleyball clubs
Category:Swiss volleyball players
Category:Taiwanese volleyball players
Category:Tunisian volleyball players
Category:Turkish volleyball clubs
Category:Turkish volleyball players
Category:United States volleyball clubs
Category:Volleyball World Championship
Category:Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball at the Olympics
Category:Volleyball biography stubs
Category:Volleyball by country
Category:Volleyball clubs
Category:Volleyball coaches
Category:Volleyball competitions
Category:Volleyball in Argentina
Category:Volleyball in Austria
Category:Volleyball in Azerbaijan
Category:Volleyball in Belgium
Category:Volleyball in Croatia
Category:Volleyball in Cyprus
Category:Volleyball in France
Category:Volleyball in Germany
Category:Volleyball in Greece
Category:Volleyball in Italy
Category:Volleyball in Japan
Category:Volleyball in Montenegro
Category:Volleyball in Poland
Category:Volleyball in Portugal
Category:Volleyball in Russia
Category:Volleyball in Spain
Category:Volleyball in Sweden
Category:Volleyball in Switzerland
Category:Volleyball in Taiwan
Category:Volleyball in Turkey
Category:Volleyball in the Netherlands
Category:Volleyball in the Philippines
Category:Volleyball in the United States
Category:Volleyball organisations
Category:Volleyball players
Category:Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Volleyball players by country
Category:Volleyball venues
Category:Volleyball video games
Category:Women's volleyball
Category:Years in volleyball

Gr, I had written a recursive algorithm while offline that made a list of every single page in Category:Volleyball and all subcategories to a given depth (in this case, no limit). It works, but Betacommand made the list first, so use his; perhaps I shall made use of my function at a later date. Gracenotes^T § 01:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Category Earthquakes listing

Well, you could apply that algorithm to Category:Earthquakes and update the list I've linked to there... :-) (by update, I mean generate the list, remove duplicates, alphabetize, dump the list on the category page, save, edit and remove, and then date and link to the new list by using a static link to the old page version). I call this flattening a category, so that you can access a list of all the items in a set of subcategories without using the CatTree (which doesn't alphabetize). One day, the software will do this for us. If it does already, someone tell me, please! Carcharoth 01:46, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

done Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 02:10, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:1906 San Francisco earthquake
Category:1960 earthquakes
Category:1993 earthquakes
Category:2001 earthquakes
Category:2002 earthquakes
Category:2003 earthquakes
Category:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Category:2004 earthquakes
Category:2005 Kashmir earthquake
Category:2005 earthquakes
Category:2006 earthquakes
Category:2007 earthquakes
Category:Earthquake articles needing a picture
Category:Earthquakes by century
Category:Earthquakes by continent
Category:Earthquakes by country
Category:Earthquakes in Afghanistan
Category:Earthquakes in Africa
Category:Earthquakes in Argentina
Category:Earthquakes in Armenia
Category:Earthquakes in Australia
Category:Earthquakes in Azerbaijan
Category:Earthquakes in Belgium
Category:Earthquakes in California
Category:Earthquakes in Canada
Category:Earthquakes in Chile
Category:Earthquakes in China
Category:Earthquakes in Colombia
Category:Earthquakes in Eritrea
Category:Earthquakes in Europe
Category:Earthquakes in France
Category:Earthquakes in Greece
Category:Earthquakes in India
Category:Earthquakes in Indonesia
Category:Earthquakes in Iran
Category:Earthquakes in Italy
Category:Earthquakes in Jamaica
Category:Earthquakes in Japan
Category:Earthquakes in Laos
Category:Earthquakes in Mendoza Province
Category:Earthquakes in Mexico
Category:Earthquakes in Montana
Category:Earthquakes in Morocco
Category:Earthquakes in New Zealand
Category:Earthquakes in Pakistan
Category:Earthquakes in Papua New Guinea
Category:Earthquakes in Peru
Category:Earthquakes in Portugal
Category:Earthquakes in Romania
Category:Earthquakes in Russia
Category:Earthquakes in Spain
Category:Earthquakes in Switzerland
Category:Earthquakes in Syria
Category:Earthquakes in Taiwan
Category:Earthquakes in Turkey
Category:Earthquakes in Venezuela
Category:Earthquakes in the 12th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 13th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 14th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 16th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 17th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 18th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 19th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 20th century
Category:Earthquakes in the 21st century
Category:Earthquakes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:Earthquakes in the Philippines
Category:Earthquakes in the United Kingdom
Category:Earthquakes in the United States
Category:Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake by country
Category:Megathrust earthquakes

Um, thanks, but that is the categories. I wanted a list of the articles in all those categories. See the example here. Carcharoth 02:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Yay, done! I had initially coded something in JavaScript, but that was too easy (and rather inefficient, given the latitude of laziness in the language), so I made a function in Java. The results are at User:Gracenotes/Sandbox (hopefully the formatting is okay), indiscriminate of namespace. Gracenotes^T § 03:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

It appears as though your list has 150 items; mine, 247. Gracenotes^T § 03:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I think the category structure must have changed, with some big new categories getting tied into the pre-existing structure. Either that, or someone's been writing lots of articles! :-) Carcharoth 03:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem! And I got to practice with the Java collections framework :) Gracenotes^T § 04:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Vandalism Bot

I've noticed some articles getting vandalised quite a few times. This is an article that I have found to be vadalised:Inca Empire. I think we would need more bots to revert vandalism to the previous article prior to the vandalism. Its annoying how every now and then I find a article has been vandalised. I would make the bot myself, but I don't know how. ☺Efansay^(talk)/_{Contributions}☺ 10:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

If you had read the bold message at the top, you'd have seen "There are also quite a few "frequently denied requests", for various reasons, such as ... an anti-vandalism bot, as several already exist." There are a few antivandalism bots already running. ST47 10:45, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

If you're interested, you may also want to look into what you can do to help. There are various tools that, if used responsibly, can help make finding and reverting vandalism a lot easier. --Seed 2.0 10:52, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Well I've found some articles that have not been reverted by Anti-vandilism bots, so I end up fixing them myself. I just thought we could use more, or have each bot go through a section of all the articles in Wikipedia. ☺Efansay^(talk)/_{Contributions}☺ 10:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

There's a certain limit to what anti-vandalism bots can catch. We'll always require human RC patrollers to go through and inspect edits manually. Shadow1 (talk) 11:31, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

And when anti-vandalism bots catch vandalism, they usually catch them so messily, I wish they didn't try to catch any at all. Gracenotes^T § 16:06, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Now now :o -- Tawker 04:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

date format link bot

The "06-14" part of the date 2007-06-14 for example is linked correctly to the article June 14. But sometimes only year and month are relevant or known (like in Comparison of media players). At the moment the 2007-06 leads to nowhere, even if it obvious means June 2007. So I think we need a bot who leads this ISO 8601 date to it's corresponding article.--87.167.202.224 18:22, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

So you want a bot to replace 2007-06 with June 2007? ~ Wikihermit 23:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

No, a bot who links 2007-06 to June 2007, not replace --87.167.233.106 17:28, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

How many years back should it go? ST47 22:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

For the Comparison of media players at least till 1992, but i think more would be better.--87.167.249.160 15:47, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Task approval for creating redirects from all pages of format YYYY-MM to Month YYYY requested, where 1990 <= YYYY < 2008. ST47 15:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Temp. Signing Bot

Is there anyway possible to make a temporary signing bot in absence of Hagermanbot? Miranda 22:19, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

If we can get the code that HagermanBot is running from Hagerman then I would be able to run it. E ^talk 22:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Rugby league template replacements

I would like a bot to replace this template {{RugbyleagueWikiproject}} with {{WikiProject Rugby league|class=|importance=}}. (Ignore the links, just replace the templates)

This is because are replacing an old template with a new one on talk pages. It is a tedious job and are about 500 articles with this template.

It needs to replace not add. There is a category in which the talk pages with those pages are added to which is Category:WikiProject Rugby league template replacements

Thanks ^Special_Windler 12:14, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I'll run my bot and do it. ~ Wikihermit 15:37, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done ~ Wikihermit 16:17, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Rugby league tabbing

As part of WikiProject Rugby league, we need to tag all rugby league related articles with {{WikiProject Rugby league|class=|importance=}}. So alot of talk pages need to be tagged with that template.

Bassically all articles in this category (below) and all of its sub categories, and then it sub categories (so on) their talk pages need to be added.

Category:Rugby league

Or as a drop down <categorytree>Rugby league</categorytree>

But I don't want talk pages which already have that tag to have it replaced, because they are assessed and don't need replacing. The category Category:WikiProject Rugby league template pages has all the articles that do not need a templete added to that page. SpecialWindler_TALK 23:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

please look over this list of categories and let me know if any need removed. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:1908 in rugby league
Category:1909 in rugby league
Category:1910 in rugby league
Category:1911 in rugby league
Category:1912 in rugby league
Category:1913 in rugby league
Category:1914 in rugby league
Category:1915 in rugby league
Category:1916 in rugby league
Category:1917 in rugby league
Category:1918 in rugby league
Category:1919 in rugby league
Category:1920 in rugby league
Category:1921 in rugby league
Category:1922 in rugby league
Category:1923 in rugby league
Category:1924 in rugby league
Category:1925 in rugby league
Category:1926 in rugby league
Category:1927 in rugby league
Category:1928 in rugby league
Category:1929 in rugby league
Category:1930 in rugby league
Category:1931 in rugby league
Category:1932 in rugby league
Category:1935 in rugby league
Category:1936 in rugby league
Category:1937 in rugby league
Category:1938 in rugby league
Category:1939 in rugby league
Category:1945 in rugby league
Category:1946 in rugby league
Category:1947 in rugby league
Category:1948 in rugby league
Category:1949 in rugby league
Category:1950 in rugby league
Category:1951 in rugby league
Category:1952 in rugby league
Category:1953 in rugby league
Category:1954 in rugby league
Category:1955 in rugby league
Category:1956 in rugby league
Category:1957 in rugby league
Category:1958 in rugby league
Category:1959 in rugby league
Category:1960 in rugby league
Category:1961 in rugby league
Category:1962 in rugby league
Category:1963 in rugby league
Category:1964 in rugby league
Category:1965 in rugby league
Category:1966 in rugby league
Category:1967 in rugby league
Category:1968 in rugby league
Category:1969 in rugby league
Category:1970 in rugby league
Category:1971 in rugby league
Category:1972 in rugby league
Category:1973 in rugby league
Category:1974 in rugby league
Category:1975 in rugby league
Category:1977 in rugby league
Category:1978 in rugby league
Category:1979 in rugby league
Category:1980 in rugby league
Category:1981 in rugby league
Category:1982 in rugby league
Category:1983 in rugby league
Category:1984 in rugby league
Category:1985 in rugby league
Category:1986 in rugby league
Category:1987 in rugby league
Category:1988 in rugby league
Category:1989 in rugby league
Category:1990 in rugby league
Category:1991 in rugby league
Category:1992 in rugby league
Category:1993 in rugby league
Category:1994 in rugby league
Category:1995 in rugby league
Category:1996 in rugby league
Category:1997 in rugby league
Category:1998 in rugby league
Category:1999 in rugby league
Category:2000 in rugby league
Category:2001 in rugby league
Category:2002 in rugby league
Category:2003 in rugby league
Category:2004 in rugby league
Category:2005 in rugby league
Category:2006 in rugby league
Category:2007 in rugby league
Category:2008 in rugby league
Category:2009 in rugby league
Category:Adelaide Rams rugby league players
Category:Amateur rugby league
Category:American rugby league teams
Category:Auckland rugby league clubs
Category:Australasian rugby league players
Category:Australian national rugby league team captain
Category:Australian rugby league biography stubs
Category:Australian rugby league competitions
Category:Australian rugby league logos
Category:Australian rugby league players
Category:Australian rugby league teams
Category:Australian rugby union biography stubs
Category:Balmain Tigers rugby league players
Category:Bradford A.F.C.
Category:Bradford A.F.C. managers
Category:Bradford A.F.C. players
Category:Bradford Bulls
Category:Bradford Bulls players
Category:Bradford Rugby Club players
Category:Brisbane Broncos
Category:Brisbane Broncos rugby league players
Category:British rugby league competitions
Category:British rugby league players
Category:British rugby league players by club
Category:British rugby league teams
Category:Canadian rugby league players
Category:Canberra Raiders rugby league players
Category:Canterbury Bulldogs players
Category:Continuous Call Team
Category:Cronulla Sharks rugby league players
Category:Defunct Rugby League venues
Category:Doping cases in rugby league
Category:Dual code rugby internationals
Category:English rugby league players
Category:European Nations Cup
Category:European rugby league competitions
Category:European rugby league players
Category:French rugby league competitions
Category:French rugby league players
Category:French rugby league teams
Category:Gold Coast Giants/Seagulls/Chargers rugby league players
Category:Gold Coast Titans
Category:Gold Coast Titans players
Category:Gold Coast Titans rugby league players
Category:History of rugby league
Category:Hunter Mariners rugby league players
Category:Illawarra Steelers rugby league players
Category:Inductees of the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
Category:International rugby league teams
Category:Irish rugby league players
Category:Irish rugby union biography stubs
Category:Maltese rugby league players
Category:Manly Sea Eagles rugby league players
Category:Melbourne Storm rugby league players
Category:National Rugby League
Category:National Rugby League referees
Category:New Zealand Warriors
Category:New Zealand rugby league biography stubs
Category:New Zealand rugby league coaches
Category:New Zealand rugby league players
Category:New Zealand rugby league teams
Category:New Zealand rugby union biography stubs
Category:Newcastle Knights rugby league players
Category:Newtown Jets rugby league players
Category:North Queensland Cowboys rugby league players
Category:North Sydney Bears rugby league players
Category:Oceanian rugby league competitions
Category:PNG Rugby league logos
Category:Papua New Guinean rugby league players
Category:Parramatta Eels rugby league players
Category:Penrith Panthers rugby league players
Category:Rugby League State of Origin
Category:Rugby League Tri-Nations
Category:Rugby League World Cup
Category:Rugby League in Ireland
Category:Rugby biography stubs
Category:Rugby league biography stubs
Category:Rugby league coaches
Category:Rugby league commentators
Category:Rugby league competitions
Category:Rugby league governing bodies
Category:Rugby league images
Category:Rugby league in Australia
Category:Rugby league in England
Category:Rugby league in Europe
Category:Rugby league in France
Category:Rugby league in Italy
Category:Rugby league in New Zealand
Category:Rugby league in Oceania
Category:Rugby league in Papua New Guinea
Category:Rugby league in Russia
Category:Rugby league in Scotland
Category:Rugby league in South Africa
Category:Rugby league in Wales
Category:Rugby league in the United Kingdom
Category:Rugby league international tournaments
Category:Rugby league lists
Category:Rugby league logos
Category:Rugby league players
Category:Rugby league referees
Category:Rugby league stadiums
Category:Rugby league stadiums in Australia
Category:Rugby league stadiums in France
Category:Rugby league stadiums in New Zealand
Category:Rugby league stadiums in the United Kingdom
Category:Rugby league stubs
Category:Rugby league teams
Category:Rugby league terminology
Category:Rugby league trophies and awards
Category:Rugby union biography stubs
Category:Russian rugby league players
Category:Russian rugby league teams
Category:Samoan rugby league players
Category:Scottish rugby league players
Category:South African rugby league players
Category:South Queensland Crushers rugby league players
Category:South Sydney Rabbitohs
Category:South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league players
Category:St. George Dragons rugby league players
Category:St. George Illawarra Dragons rugby league players
Category:Sydney Roosters
Category:Sydney Roosters players
Category:Tongan rugby league players
Category:USA Rugby league logos
Category:United Kingdom rugby league biography stubs
Category:United Kingdom rugby union biography stubs
Category:Wakefield Trinity Wildcats rugby league players
Category:Welsh rugby league players
Category:Western Reds rugby league players
Category:Western Suburbs Magpies rugby league players
Category:Wests Tigers rugby league players
Category:Wigan Warriors players
Category:Women's rugby league
Category:Years in rugby league

none of the categories need to be removed, except Category:Rugby league needs to be added

but just a question, does he bot overide previous talk pages which already have the template?

If they do, there is a category that has the articles which already have the template on it.

SpecialWindler_TALK 02:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 05:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Automatic Stub placing

I don't know if you can do it (WikiProject Biography) can seem to do it. But can you get a bot to automattically assess an article as stub by it's category.

What I want is that a bot adds {{WikiProject Rugby league|class=stub|importance=|auto=yes}} to all the talk pages in the following categories.

Category:Rugby league stubs Category:Rugby league biography stubs Category:New Zealand rugby league biography stubs Category:Australian rugby league biography stubs Category:United Kingdom rugby league biography stubs

But I don't know if a bot can do that, but it seems to do it (as I said) for WPP:BIO. And I don't want the bot to override an article's tag if there is one already there. But alot of the articles in the categories (above) don't even have a tag.

SpecialWindler_TALK 22:14, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Ill look into this. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:50, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 05:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

My Mistake

I know it clearly says "please look over this list of categories and let me know if any need removed" but it seems there a couple of categories that I missed and were tagged.

• Category:New Zealand rugby union biography stubs
• Category:Australian rugby union biography stubs
• Category:Irish rugby union biography stubs
• Category:Rugby union biography stubs
• Category:United Kingdom rugby union biography stubs

If a bot can remove the {{WikiProject Rugby league|class=|importance=}} from those talk pages, it would be much appreciated. Otherwise I will have to start manually removing them as it is my mistake.

Sorry. SpecialWindler_TALK 03:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

/me stabs. (Joke for creating this mess) and goes to fix. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 03:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't follow (still sorry for trouble) SpecialWindler_TALK 03:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

and Category:Rugby biography stubs (very very very very sorry) and thanks for doing this, it must be frustrating. SpecialWindler_TALK 03:20, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Y Done Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 05:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned image bot

Perhaps someone could create a bot to mark orphaned images. The idea is this: obviously, there are currently a lot of orphaned images: but if this bot could mark any new uploads which, after a few weeks, are still orphaned, it would greatly help in cleaning up the nonsense. On image patrol you'd be shocked how many high-res pd-self images are uploaded, and never used. The Evil Spartan 23:16, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

How would the bot find orphaned images? I can't think of any efficient way to do this that doesn't involve being a server hog. Anyone have any ideas? But isn't there already a bot or two that does this? --Android Mouse 00:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

What I was thinking was the bot would, at least for now, only look at the new contributions list, and a few weeks later, go and check the what links here button. That really shouldn't be a problem for server hogging. In any case, Betacommand's bot is somehow managing to pull off something similar, though that's even looking at the old images. The Evil Spartan 00:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I run the bot that checks for orphaned fair use images, and it is running now. I have several checking methods for detecting orphans. what images were you thinking about targeting and why? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 01:38, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Mostly I was going for the "picture of me and my bf (he's so cute!)" type of image, that just happens to be 11MB. I'm exaggerating, but the fact is that a lot of people upload an image of themselves that they intend to use for personal use (user page), but never get around to doing so - meanwhile these images are totally useless elsewhere. These images are server hogs, and could probably use to go through ifd. The Evil Spartan 02:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

At this point that shit storm isnt worth it. It will make a lot of users mad, and waste server resources, The server space isnt an issue they will stay on the servers either way, and the work the bot would do checking 3 million images... Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 05:51, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

WatchlistBot on wikibreak - need a bot to generate a project watchlist

Is there a bot available that can re-generate Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Watchall? There have been a good deal of article renames recently, and thus, they have fallen off the watchlist. Thanks. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 17:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Done, let me know if you need it updated again. ST47 19:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that was quick! Muchos gracias! Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 20:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject James Bond

Per my disscussion above in the section entitled "WikiProject Rugby league tagging", can the tagging be done with the same with Category:James Bond. SpecialWindler talk 06:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Tagging in progress by User:STBot. ST47 13:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

285 pages found, 48 tagged (8 new pages), 236 ignored (236 already tagged). See User:STBot/Logs. ST47 14:03, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Archive link bot

I think we need a bot to find all links to sections of pages which are being archived (such as WP:AN), and fix the links once the section has been archived. This will make it easier to follow a talk which is related to such sections. Od Mishehu 07:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 12#Internal link rot bot for some previous discussion on this idea. -- JLaTondre 11:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I remember approving this a few weeks ago, are you sure it doesn't exist? ST47 13:30, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 4 I believe this is it -- pb30<talk> 13:59, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's it. It stopped editing a few days ago [20], because I broke the code while I was working on it. Unfourtunately I won't have much spare time for the next few days so won't be able to fix it until around Thursday. --Android Mouse 18:29, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

RFC bot

I would like to request automation for work I presently do manually. The various subpages of WP:RFC excluding the one about user conduct all basically follow the format "bullet point - description - link to some talk page - timestamp". The idea is to automatically remove all such paragraphs older than a month; running this once per week is plenty. This seems similar to talk page archival bots (except that there doesn't need to be an archive here). >Radiant< 15:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Substitute for HagermanBot

Seeing how HagermanBot hasn't edited for a month, does anyone else think that it is useful and a substitute should be created (much like MartinBot substituted AntiVandalBot)? I really don't know how to code a bot, which is why I bring it up here. Hanoi Girl 19:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

The source was never released? Also, has anyone attempted to contact Hagerman through email or other means? --Android Mouse 19:57, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I will try to contact him via email. E ^talk 20:39, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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