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This page is for AWB'ers who can't find anything to put it to use on, or who would like to help others with this powerful tool.

Below are tasks for which a page-autoloader with various capabilities would be especially useful. That is, the people posting these tasks need the help of AWB'ers! If you have AWB, please lend a hand. Note that Link Ninja may also be useful for completing the tasks on this list (see WP:OTS#Tabs and tabbing).

Please note that Wikipedia:Bot requests sometimes has one-time tasks which can be done easily using AWB. Similarly, issues at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual#Multiple merge targets can also usually be handled with AWB.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia.

Undo some category 'copying'?

Could AWB be used to undo some category 'copying' and would anyone be willing to do it? (please ping if the answer is no, and/or if possible can we advise User:Störm on another way to proceed?) --kingboyk (talk) 21:31, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Kingboyk: You could actually just use Cat-a-lot again removing the category through his contribs. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:17, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: Nice idea. I don't suppose you'd be willing to take on the job would you? I'm really busy right now. --kingboyk (talk) 21:19, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@Kingboyk: Are you talking about removing the category from all pages it was added to by the user at that time, no matter if the categorisation was correct? 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 10:26, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: If done by a human then ideally only the incorrect additions would be removed. That would certainly be the best outcome. However in the link above User:Störm agrees it is better for all to be reverted rather than none and gave permission for that to be done wholesale by a bot. If there is any doubt about what User:Störm wants done or has "authorised" it is better negotiated with User:Störm than with me. The only "authority" I have is User:Störm's message. --kingboyk (talk) 13:24, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I've asked Störm to pop over and give explicit permission for all the edits to be undone, or to otherwise state what they want done. --kingboyk (talk) 13:28, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I will not mind if you remove them (even if some are correct). Thanks for the effort. Störm (talk) 13:35, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

 Done I will do this tomorrow, if there are no objections. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 17:53, 28 March 2020 (UTC).

Tagging categories for CfD

Would anyone be willing to tag all categories listed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_21#Medical_outbreaks_by_country? I have done the first category manually. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:34, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

​ Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 23:51, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Rcat correction

Recently, I've created a couple hundred redirects of the form “KY [number]” and “Road [number] (Kentucky)” to the corresponding lists. Unfortunately, I tagged both kinds as R from abbreviation, although the second one is not. Could somebody please remove it from that categories? Thanks in advance and sorry for causing this problem. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:05, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Concretely, the list is [1]. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

​ Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 18:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Letter change (diacritic)

The articles listed here User:Ark25/B need to have the string "Timiş County" changed into "Timiș County" (from S-cedilla to S-comma). Thanks. —  Ark25  (talk) 22:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I can do this at noon, if there are no objections. I wonder, though, about derived names such as Auto Timişoara, Timişul Şag... All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 08:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC).

@Rich Farmbrough: Yes, everywhere the "Timiş" substring appears it should be replaced with "Timiș". Thank you. —  Ark25  (talk) 23:08, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

more

In the articles listed here, replace:

• "Argeş County" with "Argeș County"
• "Maramureş County" with "Maramureș County"

Thanks in advance. —  Ark25  (talk) 20:39, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

I have made a start, but some of those are in filenames. ϢereSpielChequers 14:18, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

@WereSpielChequers: That's why it's an AWB task and not one for a bot. You should also make sure there are no wrong Ts with cedilla instead of Ts with comma (or other Ss with cedilla) if it is a link. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 14:22, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Ah fiddly. Though presumably changing one redlink to another is OK, e.g. Gorani, Argeș County. ϢereSpielChequers 14:59, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, in this case, the link is correct anyway. However, if an article with the correct letters is created, the creator would normally not create redirects from all possible misspellings. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 15:33, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! If possible, please parse the list again and replace "Mureş County" with "Mureș County". Thank you! —  Ark25  (talk) 21:48, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

In this list, change "Bucureşti" with "București", if possible (not in file names, not in URLs, ofc). Thanks. —  Ark25  (talk) 22:33, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

In this one, change "Timisoara" with "Timișoara". —  Ark25  (talk) 22:40, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Middle-earth redirects to sections

In all redirects from Category:Middle-earth redirects to sections where the categorisation is made through [[Category:Middle-earth redirects to sections]], replace that with the template {{R ME to section}}. This includes adding the redirect category shell where appropriate. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:25, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Tagging categories for CfD (2)

Would someone be willing to tag the categories listed at Wikipedia_talk:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_April_18? I have already tagged the first category, Category:Media by continent. It is quite likely that some categories appear twice in the list, but I presume that this does not harm. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:43, 18 April 2020 (UTC)