Wikipedia:Bot requests

For the policy on bot requirements, see WP:BOTREQUIRE.

This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).

You can check the "Commonly Requested Bots" box above to see if a suitable bot already exists for the task you have in mind. If you have a question about a particular bot, contact the bot operator directly via their talk page or the bot's talk page. If a bot is acting improperly, follow the guidance outlined in WP:BOTISSUE. For broader issues and general discussion about bots, see the bot noticeboard.

Before making a request, please see the list of frequently denied bots, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Wikipedia community. If you are requesting that a template (such as a WikiProject banner) is added to all pages in a particular category, please be careful to check the category tree for any unwanted subcategories. It is best to give a complete list of categories that should be worked through individually, rather than one category to be analyzed recursively (see example difference).

Alternatives to bot requests

• WP:AWBREQ, for simple tasks that involve a handful of articles and/or only needs to be done once (e.g. adding a category to a few articles).
• WP:URLREQ, for tasks involving changing or updating URLs to prevent link rot (specialized bots deal with this).
• WP:USURPREQ, for reporting a domain be usurped eg. |url-status=usurped
• WP:SQLREQ, for tasks which might be solved with an SQL query (e.g. compiling a list of articles according to certain criteria).
• WP:TEMPREQ, to request a new template written in wiki code or Lua.
• WP:SCRIPTREQ, to request a new user script. Many useful scripts already exist, see Wikipedia:User scripts/List.
• WP:CITEBOTREQ, to request a new feature for WP:Citation bot, a user-initiated bot that fixes citations.

Note to bot operators: The {{BOTREQ}} template can be used to give common responses, and make it easier to keep track of the task's current status. If you complete a request, note that you did with {{BOTREQ|done}}, and archive the request after a few days (WP:1CA is useful here).

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#	Bot request	Status	💬	👥	🙋 Last editor	🕒 (UTC)	🤖 Last botop editor	🕒 (UTC)
1	"Was" in TV articles		7	5	Bunnypranav	2024-11-26 13:08	Bunnypranav	2024-11-26 13:08
2	altering certain tags on protected pages?		10	5	Primefac	2024-10-20 14:47	Primefac	2024-10-20 14:47
3	Request for Bot to Remove ARWU_NU Parameter from Articles Using Infobox US University Ranking Template		4	2	Primefac	2024-10-13 12:50	Primefac	2024-10-13 12:50
4	Removal of two external link templates per TfD result		6	4	Primefac	2024-10-14 13:48	Primefac	2024-10-14 13:48
5	Replace merged WikiProject template with parent project + parameter	Done	7	3	Primefac	2024-10-21 10:04	Primefac	2024-10-21 10:04
6	Bot Request to Add Vezina Trophy Winners Navbox to Relevant Player Pages		3	3	Primefac	2024-10-19 12:23	Primefac	2024-10-19 12:23
7	Replace standalone BLP templates	Done	7	3	MSGJ	2024-10-30 19:37	Tom.Reding	2024-10-29 16:04
8	Assess set index and WikiProject Lists based on category as lists		19	5	Mrfoogles	2024-11-06 16:17	Tom.Reding	2024-11-02 15:53
9	Request for WP:SCRIPTREQ		1	1	StefanSurrealsSummon	2024-11-08 18:27
10	LLM summary for laypersons to talk pages of overly technical articles?		10	7	Legoktm	2024-11-12 17:50	Legoktm	2024-11-12 17:50
11	Redirects with curly apostrophes		6	5	Pppery	2024-11-11 17:30	Primefac	2024-11-11 16:52
12	Bot for replacing/archiving 13,000 dead citations for New Zealand charts		3	2	Muhandes	2024-11-14 22:49	Muhandes	2024-11-14 22:49
13	Basketball biography infobox request		7	2	Dissident93	2024-11-18 21:04	Primefac	2024-11-17 20:44
14	Meanings of minor-planet names		1	1	Absolutiva	2024-11-18 16:20
15	Reference examination bot		4	3	Wiki king 100000	2024-11-25 17:00	Usernamekiran	2024-11-20 13:02
16	Replacing FastilyBot	BRFA filed	23	8	Primefac	2024-11-23 14:08	Primefac	2024-11-23 14:08
17	Deletion of navboxes at Category:Basketball Olympic squad navigational boxes by competition	Working	4	4	Geardona	2024-11-20 23:48	Qwerfjkl	2024-11-20 17:32
18	Tagging Category:Cinema of Belgium	BRFA filed	17	4	Bunnypranav	2024-11-26 12:59	Bunnypranav	2024-11-26 12:59
19	Bulk remove "link will display the full calendar" from articles about calendar years		6	5	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:31	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:31
20	Province over-capitalization		6	2	Dicklyon	2024-12-12 02:32	Primefac	2024-12-11 22:00
21	VPNGate		5	2	CFA	2024-12-08 03:31
22	Creation for nano bot	Not a good task for a bot.	3	3	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:30	Primefac	2024-12-09 16:30

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Cleanup needed in Category:Featured articles needing translation from <language>

Hello! The other day I was looking through Category:Featured articles needing translation from Chinese Wikipedia. This is a hidden category containing articles that have featured status on the Chinese Wikipedia. This is nifty because now we know we have a high quality article in Chinese that can be translated into English.

However, I noticed that a lot of these articles have had their featured status removed long ago (e.g. glove puppetry). Then I looked into other subcategories of Category:Featured articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias and found similar problems. For example, Nationalist Party of Castile and León is in the category Category:Featured articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia, even though the corresponding article in Spanish appears to have never been featured.

This looks like a problem a bot could fix without much trouble. Just go each subcategory of Category:Featured articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias, then for each article in that subcategory verify that it is indeed featured on the corresponding language's edition of Wikipedia, otherwise remove it from the category.

While we're at it, we could populate these categories by going through the list of featured articles in each language and adding each one to the appropriate category. This might be desirable because these categories are a bit sparse and many don't seem to be actively maintained. However this might be too big of a change to automate without consensus from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki or elsewhere.

I am relatively new to Wikipedia so sorry if this request is inappropriate! Flurmbo (talk) 21:45, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Doing... - @Flurmbo: - I think this is a great idea. I have started a discussion at the following projects Cleanup, Languages, and Categories. If this gains consensus I will be willing to complete the request. Kadane (talk) 18:32, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Also asked for comments at Wikiproject Intertranswiki. Kadane (talk) 18:40, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Bot to assist in uploading/linking spoken word audio files

I have an idea for a bot (well a piece of software actually) to assist in uploading/linking spoken word audio files.

In particular it would help with article title uploads. Eg short recordings, like "Scott Morrison" to be used in the Wikipedia article.

Workflow:

1. Display to the user an article title. Eg a random page or member of a category.
2. Record the user saying the title.
3. Name the recording (with the article title, language, accent)
4. Upload the recording to Commons (in ogg format).
5. If no other recording exists for the article, link the recording from a article page (perhaps a subpage like Scott Morrison/spoken - we can work out the details later).
6. Repeat step one.

If you need clarification let me know.

Does this software already exist, perhaps in other Wikimedia projects?

Potentially I could make the tool myself, but it would take a loooong time. If no one can assist could you point me in the right direction - I was thinking of using Python as the pywikibot would help with some of the tasks.

Thanks for your time, Commander Keane (talk) 08:22, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

• @Commander Keane: For clarification: you intend that such recordings only contain the title of the article, not a readout of the whole article, right?

That sounds feasible, but I am not sure it is easy (technically) to get the recording via browser. It is probably easier to have one user/client-side tool that (1) picks a list of article titles, (2) records the user saying them, (3) stores the whole thing with relevant metadata on the user's disk; and then to have another tool, either web/Wikipedia-based or client-side again, that (a) reads a directory on the user's disk, (b) uploads ogg files to Commons according to metadata or file naming conventions, (c) put relevant tags and links on article talk pages on en-wp. The first tool could be configured once to save user metadata (accent, preferred saving format, etc.) in every file. The second tool can also be made compatible with existing recordings, e.g. if someone names their files [article title]-title.ogg simple string matching can catch it, and made to upload more than title readouts (think [article title]-title.ogg, [article title]-lead.ogg and [article title]-fullarticle.ogg).

I have zero experience with audio files programming, but I can give a go at the first tool in Python, if nothing similar pops up. For the second tool, you will probably need some consensus first; since it uploads files and potentially writes to talk pages etc. it must go through approval processes (WP:BRFA on en-wp, I dunno what on Commons). There are also security issues, I think (we do not want a vandal to use the tool to upload a.ogg, b.ogg, ... z.ogg, aa.ogg, ... zzzzzz.ogg to Commons). Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 09:15, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

No surprise - it's c:COM:BRFA on commons Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:57, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

• Yes I am just thinking about recording the title of the article. I think you understand the concept well. Splitting it into two tools is interesting.--Commander Keane (talk) 09:38, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

• Update: I have created a tool that takes a list of articles, records and saves the audio to disk. The next steps need to be compleetd though.--Commander Keane (talk) 08:57, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Update GA section of Template:WPVG announcements

See my post at WT:Lua#Can Lua be used to parse a section of one page, change the contents and be transcluded on another page? for more details. Basically, the bot would take information from WP:GAN#VG, reformat it and add it to a new page that can be transcluded to {{WPVG announcements}} which is currently updated manually. @GamerPro64, TarkusAB, TheJoebro64, ProtoDrake, and Lee Vilenski: You are currently the main users doing those updates, do you think there is a problem to have a bot handle this in future? Regards SoWhy 10:02, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: Are you requesting a bot to update the entire template, or just the WP:GAN section? If just one section, why not have a bot update the entire thing? Kadane (talk) 14:45, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

The GAN part is the one that sees the most changes. It would probably make sense to update the other parts of the template via bot as well but I don't really know how they are updated at the moment. I'll cross-post this to WT:VG for more input. Regards SoWhy 15:12, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

I think I suggested this a while back but usually the procedure is to get local consensus first before requesting that someone write a bot. Could pull from WP:VG/AA too. Also, a bunch of the WPVG regulars like updating lists manually, fwiw. (not watching, please {{ping}}) czar 01:51, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Bot to fix capitalization of "Senator" in specific contexts

I'd like to request bot help to downcase "Senator" to "senator" (and the plural) in specific titles and links to those titles, as follows:

• move List of United States Senators from Alaska and all the other states; and fix all links to them.
• move U.S. Senator from Alaska and all the other states; and fix all links to this redirect.
• move United States Senator from Alaska and all the other states; and fix all links to this redirect.
• move Template:United States Senators from Alaska and all the other states; also fix in the title and name fields of the Navbox template in these.
• move Category:United States Senators from Alaska; and fix all links to these.

This came up at Talk:Dan_Sullivan_(American_senator)#Requested_move_8_September_2018 and I've started an RFC to see if there's any objection, at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RFC:_Capitalization_of_Senator. So far, nobody is claiming that senator or senators in these contexts is part of a proper name. Dicklyon (talk) 03:45, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

The problem is that the capitalization of “senator” depends on context, and bots are notoriously bad at determining context. This is something that should be done manually. Blueboar (talk) 11:40, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

If you look at the bot proposal above, you can see I'm only proposing very narrow specific contexts where the bot can easily get it right; 250 specific moves, and the links to them (not messing with any piped text of course). The rest would need to be done by hand, as you note. Dicklyon (talk) 16:13, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

There should be no need to "fix all links to" any redirects that may be created by a page move; this is WP:NOTBROKEN. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:01, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Presumably it would make sense to convert United States Senator from Alaska -> United States senator from Alaska because of how those words display on the page. If it's a piped link it wouldn't make sense to convert as you say it's not broken. -- GreenC 21:14, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Right, if it's a piped link, someone made an explicit choice about how it should appear, and we shouldn't have a bot mess with that. It's optional, unnecessary but harmless, to fix the part before the pipe, however. Dicklyon (talk) 03:37, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose for multiple different reasons. First, I'm not convinced that "United States Senator" is incorrect; though I agree that "American Senator" is incorrect. Pages such as List of United States Representatives from Nebraska would be equally wrong. For categories, any change should encompass all the subcategories of Category:United States Senators. Perhaps a "Members of the United States Senate" formulation would be better. There's also no point to use a bot to update links to redirects; several of these formulations are already redirects and all of them should remain as {{R from other capitalisation}} forever. Finally, a proposal to move articles should be a WP:RM; you can probably bundle all 50 states into a single proposal if the page titles are otherwise the same. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:45, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

  Can you explain your objections better? How can "United States Senator" be correct in the contexts mentioned? And are you objecting because I didn't go further correct other over-capitalization at the same time, like Representative? I'd be happy to add that on, but no need to do everything at once. As for links to redirects, there is absolutely a point. The redirect links usually appear in article text, over-capitalized; downcasing them corrects this very common style error in articles. Perhaps you didn't understand what corrections I meant; sorry if I was unclear. And yes I can easily generate the multiple-RM requests, but that seems like the wrong approach for such obviously uncontroversial corrections that have been discussed elsewhere; and even if the moves got done it would leave a ton of cleanup work for someone, where a bot would be a huge help. Dicklyon (talk) 03:23, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

  My concern is that in "Alabama senator", the word "Alabama" describes the person. In "United States Senator", "United States" describes the legislative body, not the person. Also, (U.S. senator) simply looks wrong to me. I doubt that consensus will agree with me on this point, so I'm not going to argue it in detail here. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:05, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

  I don't see the difference. There's an Alabama Senate (I presume) and a United States Senate. But senator is a title whether it's an Alabama senator or U.S. senator, and doesn't need a cap except when attached to an individual's name as MOS:JOBTITLES explains. Dicklyon (talk) 02:50, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

  @Power~enwiki: Let us know if you're still concerned. Let's not worry about your "simply looks wrong to me", but rather focus on Wikipedia guidelines such as MOS:CAPS and MOS:JOBTITLES. Dicklyon (talk) 03:37, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

  Oh, you're only referring to updating un-piped links in articles? I was thrown off by the use of the word "move". I guess that's fine, though I don't see the point of changing template names (and categories should go to CfD regardless; they already have bots for that). It's probably possible to do that with AWB fairly easily; I've never used that so you'll have to ask someone else. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:05, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

  OK, we can separately do the Categories at CfD when this is all settled. Dicklyon (talk) 02:50, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, List of United States Representatives from Nebraska is in fact equally wrong, and I would suggest moving those articles as well. Please also move List of United States Senators in the 111th Congress by seniority and similar; lots are linked at Lists of United States congress. Reywas92^Talk 18:52, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

  Thanks; I agree. Maybe you can help prepare a more comprehensive list or pattern for what to ask a bot to do. Dicklyon (talk) 01:39, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Revised plan: downcase Senator, Senators, Representative, Representative, in these contexts, when they exist (most of the added ones don't, but we can try):

• move List of United States Senators from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to them.
• move U.S. Senator from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move U.S. Senators from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move United States Senator from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move United States Senators from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move List of United States Representatives from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to them.
• move U.S. Representative from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move United States Representative from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move United States Representatives from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move U.S. Congressman from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move U.S. Congressmen from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move United States Congressman from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.
• move United States Congressmen from Alaska and all the other states; and update all links to this redirect.

And templates:

• move Template:United States Senators from Alaska and all the other states; also update in the title and name fields of the Navbox template in these.
• move Template:United States Representatives from Alaska and all the other states; also update in the title and name fields of the Navbox template in these.

The objection above by power~enwiki seems to have gone away, as he has not responded to pings about whether his concerned have been answered. Dicklyon (talk) 14:26, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Bot to update 'Needs infobox'

So I was browsing the WP Backlog and came across a number of categories regarding articles needing Infoboxes. For example, Category:Baseball articles needing infoboxes, Category:Baseball articles needing infoboxes, Category:BBC articles without infoboxes. Did a little clicking around and found that a number of these actually already have had Infoboxes added but the parameter on the talk page was never updated to reflect this. So, my thought was to create a bot that would do the following:

1. Take a list of categories that are of the basic format <article type> articles needing infobox
2. Routinely (weekly?) checks those pages for an infobox.
3. If the page contains an infobox, updates the |needs-infobox=yes on the talk page.

I'm happy to tackle creating this bot myself but wanted to discuss it first and see what others thought? --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:59, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Sounds like a great idea. Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request definitely looks in need of bot help. -- GreenC 00:39, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Sounds OK to me, Suggest start at Category:Wikipedia backlog, get the list and pick out the "needing infoboxes", "without infoboxes" "needing an infobox" (nothing like consistency...). Come back if you get stuck writing it. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:47, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones and GreenC: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ZackBot 10 --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:45, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

BBLd - Linkfix

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2F%2A.bbl-digital.de

instead of

http://bbl-digital.de/eintrag/$1/
http://www.bbl-digital.de/eintrag/$1/

it should be

https://bbld.de/$1

i.e. new domain, httpS, no "eintrag/" and no final "/". 78.55.121.98 (talk) 02:33, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

It doesn't seem to work with this test:

http://www.bbl-digital.de/eintrag/Adlerberg-Woldemar-Eduard-Ferdinand-v.-1791-1884/

https://bbld.de/Adlerberg-Woldemar-Eduard-Ferdinand-v.-1791-1884

-- GreenC 12:49, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

I was curious if this is a problem in huwiki. So I checked both your link and the huwiki list, tried several links and they all worked. There is an automatic redirect on that site to the correct address without eintrag and trailing /, so IMO it is not worth to change them unless somebody is bored. Not a big deal although. If some of them does not work, another problem may cause the trouble, that's why GreenC's test didn't work. Bináris (talk) 14:47, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't understand how an external link works on huwiki but doesn't work on enwiki. -- GreenC 16:11, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

I clicked on the uppermost link in this section and tried several links randonly, all worked. You may have found one problematic. Bináris (talk) 16:18, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Do these work? [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] .. for me only two of them work (near the end). They were not chosen randomly from the list, they are the first 8 (starting at line #14). -- GreenC 16:25, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Same for me. But the problem is not with the form of the link or the redirect. These are simply bad or broken links. Bináris (talk) 16:54, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Got it. Someone would need to manually find the correct links and update the pages. Only about 40 to check. -- GreenC 17:03, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

CAT:MISSFILE bot

Hi! In regards to CAT:MISSFILE, we have a significant issue which could be helped greatly by the creation of a few bots. For the past few weeks now, Sam Sailor and I have been patrolling the backlogged category (you can check our documentation of the backlog in Sam Sailor’s documentation log and Katniss’s documentation log.) In helping to lessen the backlog, we noticed a few patterns which could greatly reduce the back of the category if a bot were to preform the tedious manual tasks.

1. Often, users will attempt to change the name of a file in good faith to correct a perceived typo. There have also been several cases in which even experienced users will change certain incorrect punctuation in a file name. Of course, this causes the image names to link to files are not technically linked or uploaded on the project servers.
2. Another large issue is users adding file names to the articles before they are uploaded, and then often times, forgetting to upload them completely.
3. There are also a few issues with the current bots created for this category, User:CommonsDelinker and User:Filedelinkerbot. Even after they are removed from Commons, the bots are sometimes not performing their duties. There were several instances of files (and audio files) deleted from Commons back in July which were still present in the articles when we manually removed them in September.

As an experiment, neither of us patrolled CAT:MISSFILE for a period of 10 days, and the backlog already grew again to 681 articles in the short time that the category was not patrolled (for more information on this, you can read our talk page conversation). Though neither of us are particularly tech savvy (and thus wouldn't know the technical way to describe the commands that would be most efficient for the bots to perform), we believe that the creation of bots to perform these tasks would help to greatly reduce the backlog in that category. If anyone has any suggestions, thoughts, or ideas in regards to creating bots to efficiently completely these tasks, that would be great! Thanks! (Courtesy ping for KylieTastic, who may potentially be interested in this conversation even though she is currently on WikiBreak) Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 14:05, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

In terms of existing bots @Magnus Manske and Krd:.. Filedelinkerbot is running and CommonsDelinker is running. If they are not removing certain links report the errors as you find them. Also, maybe ask them to investigate new features like above; since they wrote bots designed for this sort of thing a good place to start. -- GreenC 15:57, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice, GreenC. I have invited them both to contribute to this discussion. To clarify, the issue goes beyond a few errors. In patrolling CAT:MISSFILE the past five months, I can safely say there have been hundreds of files over that period that are deleted but the bots are not catching them. The reason for creating this discussion (in addition to exploring the other two suggested features) was to hopefully come up with a solution less tedious than reporting every single file that the bots aren't catching, as it's clearly a lot. Thanks, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 18:32, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate the initiative, but I sadly don't have enough resources to check hundreds of files. Please advise if there is some pattern visible, or please report few examples for further investigation. Thank you. --Krd 18:59, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Krd, the only pattern I've noticed is that probably 99.9% of the files that aren't being deleted are ones that were deleted from Commons by Explicit, though I have no idea if that means anything or not. Regarding the other feature requests as well, would either of the issues above warrant creating new features on the existing bots (or new bots altogether)? In example, maybe a bot could detect users changing a filename in the mainspace without uploading it/changing the name of the file itself first, and revert those edits? Could a bot (either existing or new) also detect if users are adding images to the article mainspace that aren't uploaded (e.g. a file has never been uploaded to Wikipedia under that name before)? Hopefully I'm explaining myself okay, as I said this would be my first time making a bot request and thus I'm not sure if I'm explaining what's in my head right. Let me know if any clarification is needed, and I would be interested to get people's opinions on this! Best, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 13:01, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Regarding your feature request, I'd say this is definitely more that a simple task, more than a few additional lines of code, but a small new project which I definitely have no resources for, neither for the actual coding nor the later maintenance.

Regarding the actual problem, please choose one example (and if possible please keep it uncorrected until I was able to look). --Krd 14:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

User:KatnissEverdeen. Both ideas (#1 and #2) are technically feasible (IMO), and justifiable, but not simple, maybe even kind of hard. Assuming the two features were implemented, estimating in your experience, how many links do you think such a bot would be fixing on a weekly basis? Dozens, hundreds, thousands? -- GreenC 14:54, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Krd, this one wasn't deleted by Explicit, but here is one example. File:Fyodor_Petrovich_Tolstoy_2.jpg was deleted from Commons on September 24, 2018, but is still showing up as a missing (red-linked) file on List of Russian artists. This was found just by checking two articles at random, the second one being the example I outlined above, so I'm sure there are plenty more given I was able to find one so quickly. From patrolling that category, this is a pretty regular occurrence. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 19:08, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

@KatnissEverdeen: As far as I see, Filedelinkerbot currently works for files only that are deleted at Commons, but File:Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy 2.jpg was deleted locally at enwiki. I don't know why this isn't active, but think I can easily add that, although I'm not sure if additional discussion or approval is required. What do you think? --Krd 07:33, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Krd, I would say there has been enough discussion. I can't imagine why someone wouldn't agree with you doing it. It's probably worth saying though that there are some files that were actually deleted from Commons (don't have any examples at the moment, but I could probably find one if you need it) that are slipping under the radar of the bots. Most of the issue comes from enwiki files however. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 13:23, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm going to active it now, please block the bot if something goes wrong. And please report further examples, if there appear any in the future. --Krd 17:07, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

@Krd: You should probably file a BRFA for the "deleted at en.wp" part. I guess it will be approved quickly. --Izno (talk) 18:01, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Done. --Krd 06:08, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Krd! The bot seems to be working beautifully and has already reduced the backlog by several hundred files! I would say #3 of my list above is done! Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 13:34, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi GreenC, let's see, so in the two weeks (give or take a day) that the category hasn't been patrolled, the category is up to 706 not counting the 10 templates that are also in that category. So let's say roughly 700 in the category at the time of my reply. I would say from experience that about 75% of the pages in that category are there because of the three things I outlined above. So 75% of 700 would be 525 files in two weeks, divided by two for a single week would make ~263 a week. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 19:12, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Bots are terrible at evaluating context, and #1 and #2 are quite different. I think you will struggle with #1 unless you have a bot that is constantly running and uses "recent changes" to check if the file name has been altered and if the resulting file name is bad - otherwise you can end up with a page that could have several edits between the file change and the current version, and having a bot revert a much older edit won't be easy. I wonder if such a system could be added to ClueBot - ping @Cobi:. #2 is not a problem, however if you don't fix #1 then the bot will end up removing links when someone has changed the file name - one could wait a fixed time before doing that, so it it's not fixed in X days, then the link gets removed. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:14, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ronhjones, I really like your suggestion about adding a feature to ClueBot. Often, some of the file name changes are sneaky vandalism anyways, so it would make sense for ClueBot to have a feature which catches that. What would you (or anyone who wants to jump in) say is an appropriate amount of time to wait? A week, a few days, a few hours (as ClueBot seems to always catch vandalism right away)? Another suggestion, would it be possible to adding a warning when someone alters a file name that would pop up as they hit save? For example, "You are about to alter a file name. Changing a file name, even due to typos/grammatical errors, may cause the file name to break. Are you sure you want to do this?" It certainly wouldn't prevent all cases, but it would definitely cut down on the accidental file name changing issue. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 23:36, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

@KatnissEverdeen: Hopefully the cluebot operator will comment. Another option, which just occurred to me, is an edit filter - thus you could trap all the #1 with an edit filter (maybe warn and only allow respected editors to edit), then that makes it easy to attack the rest as just needing the image link removed. I'm no edit filter expert, why not suggest at Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested and see what happens? If you can get a quick stop/revert system to fix #1, then I would think a 1 day wait would do for #2, with say, the bot running once a day. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:01, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Good suggestion, Ronhjones! I'll suggest it, but since I'm definitely not an edit filter (or bot request!) expert, what would you say qualifies as a "respected user" in this case? Autoconfirmed? Someone with 100+ edits? Just asking to make sure I'm understanding correctly, as well as the fact that it's not just non-autoconfirmed users that are making this mistake. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 01:01, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

@KatnissEverdeen: I "think" the edit filter can accept/deny based on the user edit count. I would think autoconfirmed too low, would let in the determined vandals, 50-100 would be nice. Also they might be able to stop AWB edits - I saw a page you fixed where there was an AWB run fixing "fancy" quotes to normal quotes. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 01:06, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Ronhjones That "fancy" quote issue actually comes up more often than you'd think, in fact I've even seen many experienced users make the mistake. I've gone ahead and made the edit filter request here. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 01:32, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Kat, WP:Edit filter can't revert but they can log, warn or block edits. I see they are also only meant to be used for abusive edits, this may or may not be considered vandalism. Will see what they say. Ronhjones is right that #2 is more feasible than #1, though I think #1 is (theoretically) possible by monitoring EventStreams and comparing diffs, it's just would be a lot of work and resources to setup and run. --GreenC 12:46, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

GreenC I would say that the file name changes fall into three categories. 1) deliberate/blatant vandalism 2) sneaky vandalism, often changing one letter of a filename (i.e. if the file name was "Katniss," a user might vandalize it and change it the K to a C, "Catniss", etc.) 3) good-faith attempts, such as correcting punctuation or spelling, to 'correct' a file name (which breaks the file). I would argue that the first two categories would warrant an edit filter, and there's not really any harm in having the edit filter warn or stop edits in the third category seeing as it's usually a mistake anyways. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 14:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

I agree with GreenC, in that a bot for #1 can only be done by a continuously running one, monitoring the changes - not easy (and not for me - I only run RonBot from the PC). I commented on the edit filter page - deliberate/blatant vandalism does occur and I have often see many a nice portrait replaced with a large image of some sexual organ - admittedly they do get reverted fairly quickly, but not before half a dozen annoyed readers have posted an e-mail to OTRS! Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 15:29, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Regarding "There have also been several cases in which even experienced users will change certain incorrect punctuation in a file name.", what about a bot that does something like what User:DPL bot does, which is to notify users who introduce red linked file names.. Galobtter (pingó mió) 17:19, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Not sure how DPL bot 2 works and if the strategy would work here - ping the owner for comment @JaGa: Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Just to give people a heads up that may not be following this page, the edit filter request I made was denied due to technical limitations. Seeing as an edit filter isn't feasible, is there maybe another way we could have a warning pop up when someone hits save (before the page is offically updated)? Such as, "You are about to alter a file name, which if not properly linked will break the image. Are you sure you want to do this?" or something like that. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 18:58, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

@KatnissEverdeen: The only thing to stop a live change in it's tracks is an edit filter. MusikAnimal said We can to some extent detect changes to image link syntax, but unfortunately we can't detect if the image exists - which does not really help you too much - especially the "to some extent" part - if they could have detected all image link changes, at least that might have been useful to pop up a "you are changing an image link" message. I don't see any easy answer now. If we were to check if the link points to a deleted image, and if so remove it, then we are at risk of there being a deleted image that someone has coincidentally changed the file name to - the bot would not be able to work out that it was a bad name change, and not a unlinked deletion. One option is to just remove all image links that do not point to a current image, that I suspect would be rather controversial (but much easy to code!) and would certainly need some discussion and support before any approval. We could have a bot that just sends a message to the last editor to say that there is now a broken image link, and ask if they broke it - but if it's an IP or it's a vandal then it's probably a waste of time. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 01:17, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for replying, Ronhjones. From my experience, the majority of editors doing this are IPs who haven't necessarily familiarized themselves with the rules, so the bot sending people messages probably wouldn't help unless it is an experienced editor who has accidentally altered an image name. "One option is to just remove all image links that do not point to a current image" - I'm not sure I agree with this idea. I think, like you said, we would be at the risk of removing valid image links which vandals have altered. Is there a way for a bot to sense if the file name has been changed recently? Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 13:04, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

I think you mentioned that some experienced editors also break file links, so there would be some use to notifying experienced editors that they have broken the image right? Galobtter (pingó mió) 13:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

@KatnissEverdeen and Galobtter: I think Galobtter has a valid point, if we are only posting a simple standard template (to be written) to a user talk page, then there is no harm done. Even if said editor was not the culprit, since they have edited the page, they conceivably might have an interest in the subject and might fix it anyway. One could also duplicate the message on the article talk page - editors might have the page in their watch lists - OR, better still I think, a small template to the top of the article page like the cleanup tags - I could write a task for my bot to do all or some of that (and as it's an adminbot, page protection does not get in the way).

As for working out the change of link, that does really need a continuously running system like ClueBot or DPL bot 2 (owners were pinged but never answered), which can monitor the recent changes. To try to do that, say once a day, I think would be a nightmare of trying to compare revisions - easy for a human, difficult for a bot (and not for me, as my bot talks are PC based).Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 15:31, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

DPL Bot 2 doesn't check continuously but twice a day, seeing what new dab links are there and notifying users (See BRFA). I can see a similar system working for this category too. Galobtter (pingó mió) 15:36, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Given what we have tried/suggested so far, I would say creating a standard template to post to the user talk page and article talk page would definitely help with the issue, at least a little bit. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 15:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Coding... @KatnissEverdeen:I'll make something up. Of course, it does not stop their being another bot added later, if someone can work out a useful method. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:36, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones: Thanks in advance for creating a talk page template for this. I also patrol this category and a template would be very helpful! (Although an update to ClueBot also seems like a great idea for some of the image-related vandalism reversions.) - tucoxn\^talk 16:49, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

BRFA filed Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:37, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Ronhjones, I know you've withdrawn the BRFA, but I wonder if it would still be useful to tag the articles as having a broken image even with notifications of the editor who broke the file link, since in most cases a notification isn't sent (as the editor is an IP/non-autoconfirmed user)? Galobtter (pingó mió) 18:54, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Galobtter Ok, I'll trim down the code, undelete the template (handy being an admin :-) ), and un-withdraw. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:09, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

BRFA filed This is in regard to messaging users a la DPL Bot 2. Ping KatnissEverdeen Galobtter (pingó mió) 10:09, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

fix ping @Tucoxn and Sam Sailor: Galobtter (pingó mió) 10:10, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Wonderful, thank you both, Ron and Galobtter. Sam Sailor 10:16, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks everyone! Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 14:14, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Related to this conversation, please see this diff in the discussion for Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Filedelinkerbot 3. It's very interesting to note that ImageRemovalBot "went AWOL last month." It seems like that bot's operator has not been editing much recently. I bet all of this is linked to the recent increase in red-linked files we're seeing at CAT:MISSFILE. - tucoxn\^talk 15:21, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Hmm, that's very interesting and that's for letting us know Tucoxn. Is there anything we can do to get the bot back online, if the operator has left permanently? Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 16:08, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

On the subject of ImageRemovalBot, I'm not sure why it's not running. I'll give it a kick and see if that fixes it. --Carnildo (talk) 02:38, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Request for a list of article-space pages with the most Linter errors

[I was sent here from Wikipedia talk:Linter.]

While working on Linter table tag errors, I stumbled across Greek football clubs in European competitions, which had over 1,000 Linter errors, mostly missing end tags (crazy diff here!). I was able to fix them with a series of find-and-replace operations, so it wasn't too bad. Is there a way to find pages with many Linter errors? We could reduce our total count more quickly if we could knock out some of the worst offenders.

This is a request for a list of 1,000 pages with the most errors in article space, or a list/table of all article-space pages with 20 or more errors (and how many of each type of error exist on each page). Does anyone know how to create such a list? The list will need to be recreated periodically as gnomes work through it, fixing errors. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 11:57, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

I don't know what's involved, but wonder if User:Firefly would be interested in adding this to Firefly Tools? -- GreenC 13:06, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Jonesey95 Done! I realised this could be done through quarry, and after some fiddling around got Quarry:query/30386 working. I made into a table at User:Galobtter/Articles_by_Lint_Errors Galobtter (pingó mió) 19:09, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks Galobtter. Is this something that could be updated periodically, like once a week? I put it on my watchlist and will be working on the articles. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:42, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Jonesey95, Yes; I can manually run the query every week and that'll only take a few minutes work; but I'll also see if I can get User:Galobot on it :) Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:49, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

[r] → [ɾ] in IPA for Italian

In Italian the letter ⟨r⟩ – usually trilled as [r] – is systematically realised as a flap [ɾ] in certain positions, which I don't think is currently in our IPA entries. Specifically it occurs in any unstressed syllable with a vowel on either side, and in the onset of a mid-word syllable with secondary stress.

Formally: [r] → [ɾ] / [ˈVːɾV, (V/C)(ˌ) ɾV-, Vɾ-, -ɾ(ˈ)C-]

References

─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 12:50, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

This looks similar to the script made for Wikipedia:Bot_requests#[r]_→_[ɾ]_in_IPA_for_Spanish which might be applicable with some tweaks. But it would need a discussion somewhere, and an explanation what to do as I am not familiar with lexicographic/linguistic terminology (trilled, flap, unstressed syllable, onset of a mid-word syllable with secondary stress). Would also need to develop a search formula like this. @Nardog: -- GreenC 13:10, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Whoops, I summarised Canepari's analysis which is slightly at odds with the actual conclusion of the review. What I said earlier maybe would be how an Italian speaker hears it, but for our purposes I suppose that means the only confirmed standard realisation of [ɾ] is in the unstressed intervocalic position. So whenever there's an 'r' between any two vowels ('iueoɛɔa'), it should be replaced with an 'ɾ'. There may also be a syllable break '.' and/or vowel lengthening mark (':' or 'ː') between the 'r' and the previous vowel. This should narrow the search down to unstressed syllables automatically as the stress mark (' or ˈ ) would get between 'r' and the previous vowel.

I tried to make a search expression which seems to work but I wouldn't mind someone else checking my logic. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 14:39, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

44 results. Normally that is too small for a bot, but since the code is already done with a few tweaks, and it's so few cases I can run it if you want. -- GreenC 14:53, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Oh a lot more than 44. Something wrong with my offline script gave a wrong number. -- GreenC 15:32, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Yeah. I just realised this isn't Wiktionary. Anyway, I messed up the last search expression by putting in the stress marks so use this instead. Thanks. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 15:37, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

502. That's botable but not so many to require botrequest. Can we apply the same consensus from the Spanish to the Italian, do you foresee anyone would object? -- GreenC 16:11, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Well there was a bit of debate about it back in 2009 at Talk:Italian_phonology#flap_vs_trill but the source I gave is solid, and I doubt anyone would object. For the record, this independent blog post was what put me on to this in first place. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 16:37, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

You couldn't give me a hint on how to write a search expression for Wiktionary, could you? The only difference is that instead of an IPA-it template you have an IPA template with "lang=it" somewhere inside it. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 17:03, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

This maybe, it's a technique I've never used before. Will wait a day or two for comment on the bot. -- GreenC 21:02, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

There is no consensus for this. Please discuss it first at Help talk:IPA/Italian before changing existing transcriptions. Nardog (talk) 02:12, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

We are currently discussing this at Talk:Italian phonology#flap vs trill. イヴァンスクルージ九十八_（会話） 06:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Remove infobox image requests from WP templates when the article has an infobox image

This should not be too hard. Many WikiProjects like WP:VG use a cover=yes (or cover=y) switch in their WikiProject banner on an article's talk page to populate a request category (e.g. Category:Video game articles requesting identifying art). However, sometimes editors add a cover to the article and forget / don't know about the WP banner request, leaving the article in the category despite not needing an image anymore. I'd like to request a bot to check all articles in Category:Video game articles requesting identifying art and see if the infobox has an (existing) image defined. If so, the bot should remove the cover=yes (and of course ideally log the removal somewhere so we can check whether it made mistakes). That way, when trying to eliminate the backlog, editors won't have to load articles that were already fixed. This would be a manual bot, run every once in a while. Anyone feeling like coding something like that? Regards SoWhy 07:17, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

There are articles that have screenshots in the infobox - a valid existing image that will usually need to be retained and moved to another location in the prose - but the request for a cover is a genuine one. So this request is not as straight forward as if image present, remove cover required flag. A better solution would be to have a bot run that creates a list of articles that have an image and a request for a cover, users can then manually clear that list first. This means that the category will then be free of articles with images and requests, eliminating the need for a regular bot run. - X201 (talk) 09:27, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Articles with screenshots in the infobox are indeed a problem but how often will this actually be the case? Of course, the bot could instead compile a list of articles which contain an image but have cover=yes and someone can check them manually and then feed the list sans those false positives back into a bot/tool/AWB. I'd be happy to help check such a list if generated. Regards SoWhy 10:26, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm generating a list now. - X201 (talk) 13:26, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: Here you go. User:X201/Cover required but image present - X201 (talk) 14:28, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

@X201: Thanks! I'll go through it later and notify you when I'm done. Regards SoWhy 14:38, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Generating a list of a sub-set of articles using a specific template

Not sure if this is the right place, so sorry in advance if it isn't.

Would it be possible to get a list of all main-space articles (so no talk-, user-, template-pages, etc.) using Template:Infobox television episode or Template:Infobox Television episode that also have parenthesis in their title (basically I want all disambiguated articles using these templates)? --Gonnym (talk) 19:43, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

6k or so. May include some redirects--handling for redirects in search is optimized for readers rather than editors, so sometimes results aren't great. --Izno (talk) 20:41, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Izno! --Gonnym (talk) 21:16, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Here's a Quarry query to get the information. This includes all the redirects to Template:Infobox television episode], not just Template:Infobox Television episode, and specifically selects only titles that end with something looking like a disambiguator. Anomie⚔ 12:38, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Did not see this answer, thanks! --Gonnym (talk) 11:31, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Updating links from album articles to AllMusic

Hello! There are many articles about albums that have links to album reviews on the AllMusic website. It seems that some time ago, I'm not sure when, AllMusic changed their URLs. So now, a lot of the links to the AllMusic reviews are to obsolete URLs. It would be great if a bot could find these and change them to the current URLs. But, I'm not sure how hard or easy it would be for a bot to figure out the current URLs. (I've updated some of these manually, and I can generally find the current AllMusic page for an album review by doing a search for the album on the AllMusic site itself.) As a further complication, the references in some of the articles contain the URL for the AllMusic review itself, while others (for example this one) use the {{AllMusic}} template to generate the URL. I don't know how many articles include the outdated links, but I would think there have to be thousands of them. So, how does this sound so far? — Mudwater ^(Talk) 18:29, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Given this old and new link how would a bot determine r1701846 -> mw0000649874? Link to discussion Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums#AllMusic_links. -- GreenC 18:50, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

I haven't detected a pattern that can be used to convert programmatically from the old links to the new ones. If there isn't one, then the bot would have to use some kind of search to find the new links. And as I said, I'm not sure how hard or easy that would be to implement. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 19:40, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

This is difficult but one possible solution: checking the old URL at Wayback returns the redirected URL, thus resolving r1701846 -> mw0000649874 [9]. If they all have this I don't know. One could extract the new URL from the redirected Wayback URL. Probably need to go through 10 of 20 samples to see how many work and if the rule holds. If so it might be automated. -- GreenC 20:53, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Sounds like a promising line of inquiry! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 22:10, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

I'll take this on. Will be busy the next 2-3 weeks might make some progress, if not after that. Number of complications including archive URLs (can't modify a source URL if there is corresponding archive URL already in place), the AllMusic template and probably more than the "/album/" links. A bot probably won't get them all but will narrow the field. -- GreenC 15:00, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Thanks! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 00:15, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Mass move of election articles

The naming guideline for election articles was recently amended as a result of an RfC to move the year from the end to the start of the article title. As part of the proposal, I stated that if successful, I would request a bot run to move the thousands of articles affected.

As the RfC was closed in favour of the change, we now need a bot run to move the articles. I have prepared this offline in an Excel file and can also provide it in a txt file to the bot owner by email. If it needs to be on-wiki, I can create a few pages in my sandbox with a full list of the proposed moves. Cheers, Number 57 21:52, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

@Number 57: It's been a while (couple months since I've done bot work), but I'm interested. Just need a bit for some API research and some time to wrap my head around this. Also need to figure out how many articles would be affected and how to find them. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:03, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Found them, just need to figure out the "rules" for the bot to rename them by. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:05, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Prototyping looks good so far. Email sent as well Number 57. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 03:41, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: No need to find the articles – I've prepared a list of articles that should be changed and the new names (sorry, perhaps should have been clearer above about what I'd prepared offline). Sent by email. Cheers, Number 57 07:25, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

BRFA filed --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:13, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Categorize location related lists of userboxes

I created new category Category:Lists of location userboxes to better organize userboxes. I would like to change (and add where it's missing) all entries of

[[Category:Lists of userboxes|.*]] 

to

[[Category:Lists of location userboxes|{{subst:SUBPAGENAME}}]]

in all pages of following PrefixIndex searches:

1. Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Location
2. Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Travel
3. Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Life/Citizenship
4. Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Life/Origin
5. Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Life/Residence

—⁠andrybak (talk) 08:53, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Andrybak - Done- Since there were not many pages in your request (~400), I went ahead and ran the pages through AWB using my main account. You can review all the changes using [this link]. Regards. — fr ⁺ 17:48, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, f. Marking it as Y Done. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:40, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Creating redirects from values in a list of episodes article

Hello and thanks in advance for your time. Is it possible for a bot to take a list of list-articles, with articles such as List of House episodes, go to the episode section of an article from that list, and then get all values in the "title" column? Basically the name of each episode. If that is a yes, can the bot then check if an article at that name is present or not? Finally creating a redirect based on that article name. So for example:

1. Bot gets a list of articles;
2. It goes to the first article in the list - List of Arrow episodes;
3. Goes to the episode section - List of Arrow episodes#Episodes;
4. Goes over the episode list. At episode #2 gets the title "Honor Thy Father";
5. Checks if Honor Thy Father is an article;
6. If article (or redirect) present then create a redirect at "title (TV show)" (as: "Honor Thy Father (Arrow)"), if not then output to list as "title" (as: "Honor Thy Father").

My goal is to be able to create episode redirects fast and easy, so trying to figure out how best to do it, as manually this is taking me a very long time (there are a few more steps, but would like to know if the general idea is even possible). --Gonnym (talk) 08:01, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

More likely would be for the bot to look for the {{Episode list}} templates in the wikitext, rather than trying to scrape the HTML. But first you'd need a consensus at WP:VPR or the like establishing that the community actually wants all these redirects. Anomie⚔ 11:06, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Are you sure I need to get a consensus for something that seems to already have consensus? Category:Redirected episode articles lists over 13k redirects and redirected episodes have their own redirect template. --Gonnym (talk) 11:24, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Mass-creating of stuff by bots tends to be more controversial than humans doing it. Anomie⚔ 11:42, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

@Gonnym:It is part of the bot policy Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Mass_article_creation, unless it's just a few pages. {{Episode list}} is in 11923 articles. This could be many, many thousands of new redirects. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:49, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Bot request to undo page blanks

Hi! Since I’be been trying to undo and edit lots of Wikipedia pages using Twinkle, I was wondering if you could create a bot to review all of the recent changes or errors. Thanks! CashGreeter talk

@CashGreeter: Sounds like ClueBot NG, which already exists. Home Lander (talk) 15:56, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Then can I have a bot that undos page blanks, or can I be another greet bot? (Since there is greeter in my name) CashGreeter talk

Requesting bot to greet newcomers (OR...)

Hi! Can I have a bot that undos page blanks, or can I be another greet bot? (Since there is greeter in my name) CashGreeter talk

Requesting bot to greet newcomers

Hi! Can I have a bot to greet the newcomers of Wikipedia? In the past, with my other account, I’ve been trying to keep up with all of the newcomers, and greeting them, using Twinkle. I would like to request a (Since there is greeter in my name) CashGreeter talk