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: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	Automatic NOGALLERY keyword for categories containing non-free files (again)		18	8	LaundryPizza03	2024-07-11 20:57	Legoktm	2024-06-24 01:34
2	Can we have an AIV feed a bot posts on IRC?		8	3	Legoktm	2024-06-21 18:24	Legoktm	2024-06-21 18:24
3	Bot to update match reports to cite template	BRFA filed	14	5	Yoblyblob	2024-06-20 21:21	Mdann52	2024-06-20 21:11
4	Bot to mass tag California State University sports seasons	Doing...	5	4	Frostly	2024-06-10 17:05	Headbomb	2024-06-09 17:28
5	Clear Category:Unlinked Wikidata redirects		9	6	Wikiwerner	2024-07-13 14:04	DreamRimmer	2024-04-21 03:28
6	Fixing stub tag placement on new articles	Not a good task for a bot.	5	4	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10
7	Bot to change citations to list defined references	Not a good task for a bot.	3	2	Apoptheosis	2024-06-09 17:44	Headbomb	2024-06-09 16:56
8	Adding Facility IDs to AM/FM/LPFM station data	BRFA filed	11	3	Mdann52	2024-07-06 12:36	Mdann52	2024-07-06 12:36
9	Tagging women's basketball article talk pages with project tags	BRFA filed	11	4	Usernamekiran	2024-07-15 23:53	Usernamekiran	2024-07-15 23:53
10	Friendly support for Draft categories – feedback request	Redundant	2	2	Mdann52	2024-07-11 19:47	Mdann52	2024-07-11 19:47
11	Adding links to previous TFDs		7	4	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02
12	Bot that condenses identical references	Coding...	9	4	Acebulf	2024-06-19 03:07	Headbomb	2024-06-18 00:34
13	Convert external links within {{Music ratings}} to refs		2	2	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11
14	_Stat.gov.kg">Stat.kg ---> Stat.gov.kg		2	2	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21
15	Add constituency numbers to Indian assembly constituency boxes		3	2	C1MM	2024-06-25 03:59	Primefac	2024-06-25 00:27

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Press multi adder

I'd like to request a bot that would go through the news and discover when links are made to wikipedia articles and create a press multi on the talk page. Ideally, the bot would scrape google news and see which articles contain a wikipedia link. Does anyone support this?Smallman12q (talk) 20:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Any comments?Smallman12q (talk) 01:32, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Possible. I suppose it could be done and would be a decent idea, but I'm not going to do it. I already have one bot that's in trial, one whose case is open, and one that I'm coding right now. I'd do it, but I have too many things to handle right now. Sorry. The Earwig ^{(Talk | Contributions)} 01:40, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Well at least I know its possible now=D. Smallman12q (talk) 14:18, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

I like the idea-I'm going to have a look at it over the next 1/2/3 weeks! Anyone else welcome to help! dottydotdot (talk) 20:01, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Although, having had a quick look into it, it looks like that's already being done on some articles-For instance the Ted Kennedy article & the Maurice Jarre article talk pages, so probably not needed. dottydotdot (talk) 20:36, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean, "It's already being done on some articles?" This request is for a bot to scan Google News (or something) and find Wikipedia links, not for users to discover links themselves. Just because Ted Kennedy has a note on it about being linked to on MSNBC doesn't mean every link will be found. Am I correct? The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 20:44, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

(New indent)No I suppose-I think I just assumed, well I don't really know!(I was a bit rushed)! OK, I'll keep looking! dottydotdot (talk) 07:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm looking at Google News currently & it would appear that it is very rare for news organisations to link directly to a Wikipedia article-[1]. Any ideas on how best to find when news organisations are talking about a specific article/maybe I've missed something in Google news search etc.?! dottydotdot (talk) 11:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Google tends not to pick them up as the links are not explicit but rather as a hyperlink with a different set of text(I don't remember the term). For starters, have a look at Wikipedia in Guardian and wikipedia in New York Times. An example of an article containing wikilinks is example.Smallman12q (talk) 01:28, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Regardless, accessing Google News for links to Wikipedia via a bot would be a breach of their Terms of Service:

"You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services." — Google Terms of Service, Section 5.3

You'd have to do it manually, as Google does not issue API keys anymore. Another option is to try another news search engine, such as Yahoo News, that does give out API keys. I ran into the same problem with EarwigBot II (BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights), as did Coren with CorenSearchBot (BRFA · contribs · actions log · block log · flag log · user rights). I hope that helps! The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 02:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Newly listed GA articles

Would it be a good idea for us to have a bot take care of the mundane task of updating Wikipedia:Good articles/recent with the titles of recently passed GA noms? This seems like a simple task, and we already have bots to update the articlehistory and {{GA number}}. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 14:50, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Hm,, I'll have a play around with this one, but if anyone has any good ideas, let me know. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 16:29, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, nearly done (I'll file for it today at least). It'll grab new additions to WP:GA and then post. How often would you like it updated? - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 16:52, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, as often as possible would be good, but I suppose a few times a day would be nice. Thank you so much for this, I'm surprised no one has thought of this before! I've been getting nagged for not updating the "recent" list (I always forget), so now I don't have to worry about it!? Awesome. Thanks again. --ErgoSum|talk|trib 17:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I just noticed another issue. Adding newly passed articles to WP:GA is another human-editing task. Is there any way the bot can, lets say, scan for articles which have recently been assessed as GA-class, and then automatically add the article to both WP:GA and WP:Good articles/recent? It would have to take the category from the GA template in order to know which section to add the article to. --ErgoSum|talk|trib 17:47, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, I don't know about that (this one's WP:GA -> recent) but I've filed a BRFA for your original request. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 18:37, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok, well I appreciate your fast response. I suppose I can post another, separate request for the other issue? As long as the recent articles issue can be handled by a bot, that takes care of half the problem. --ErgoSum|talk|trib 22:24, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it's possible for the bot to automatically add articles to WP:GA. A human is required to place the article into appropriate topic. Bot auto-updating WP:Good articles/recent sounds good, but the turnaround rate of GA might cause the bot to change that page too often? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

If the proper subtopic tag were placed within the GA template, then all a bot would have to do is use this tag to place the article in the appropriate topic category. The only change necessary would be actually requiring editors to place a subtopic tag into the talk page before passing the GA nom. As far as the other issue of changing the recent articles page too often, is that really a problem? Especially since the turnaround rate for GAs is not that large, a quick check of the article history shows (during recent history) the new additions max out at 15-20 per day, and most days see far less. If the rate increases more than that, then I would suggest changing the recent listing to include more than 15 articles, which would solve the problem of recent articles being pushed off the page before they have a chance to be seen. --ErgoSum•talk•trib 14:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Speaking from experience, you'll be surprised to see the turnaround rate spikes whenever a backlog elimination drive takes place. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 23:46, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Good point, but a conversation about this subject is taking place over at Wikipedia talk:Good articles#/recent bot: an update, and we should probably continue this debate there. --ErgoSum•talk•trib 02:02, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Possible for bot to notify creator and contributors of AfD?

Can a bot notify the creator and contributors with x amount of edits of an AfD? This would be done by examining the wikipedia edit history of a page (or the below two webpages):

• web page history,
• wikisense contributors

If this is not possible, can a bot be made to notify the creator of an article of an AfD?

For example, the first editor on a page is found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot requests&dir=prev&action=history&limit=1

The list of today's afd's is found here: WP:AFDT

Ikip (talk) 00:14, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I think this used to be done by a bot, but it was stopped due to complaints. Xclamation point 00:46, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Do you have any other details? I can't find any bot resembling this at Wikipedia:Bots/Status. thanks. Ikip (talk) 05:43, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I found it: User:Jayden54Bot, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Jayden54Bot, User:Jayden54Bot/AFDNotify, opt out: User:Jayden54Bot/ignore.js it was disabled because the editor wanted to take a long wikivacation. I am not aware of any complaints about this bot which shut it down. I emailed the editor about this, hopefully he can give me the coding. Ikip (talk) 06:28, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

It appears like the editor doesn't want to give out coding for this (after repeated requests by other editors, he never gave it out)[2]

So is it possible is someone else would be able to make this? Ikip (talk) 07:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I'll try. Coding... Xclamation point 20:40, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I wish editors would simply publish their bot info. Ikip (talk) 00:21, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

(Bump) the editor was unable to do this request, can someone else? Ikip (talk) 18:11, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Is this related to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CSDCheckBot? – Quadell ^(talk) 12:57, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

no, never heard of it, that bot:

Notifies editors who have tagged a page for speedy deletion that was not deleted or was deleted for criteria differing from that for which they tagged it.

"Notifies editors who have tagged a page for speedy deletion", not the editors who created the page in the first place. could you make this quadell please? Ikip (talk) 08:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

If no-one else is working on this I might be able to in the near future. I've actually been running a similar bot on the Dutch Wikipedia for a few years now. Ikip, feel free to bug me if I forget about this. (Note: If anyone else wants to do this then be my guest. Please leave a message at my talk page though.) --Erwin (talk) 20:38, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Equally, I might have a look at it if there's been no progress in, say, three weeks' time, when my exams finish. [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 14:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

I checked the Editor's index, found this:

• User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that it has been submitted to AfD process

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:21, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you all! I will look into the existing User:BJBot. John, I see where you found this: Wikipedia:Editor's_index_to_Wikipedia. Ikip (talk) 19:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. The BJBot page doesn't seem to do this currently. This was added to the editor's index on Jan 2008.[3]

This notification feature was removed from the BJbot page in March 2008.[4] Ikip (talk) 20:23, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I've started work on this. --Erwin (talk) 21:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

How can I check if a user has already been notified of the AfD? For example, on the Dutch Wikipedia I check for a link to the page and for some notification templates. I'm not that familiar with this project though. So are there any templates you can use without substitution to notify users? --Erwin (talk) 22:07, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

The two standard templates used to warn people of AFD's are {{AFDNote}} and {{AFDWarningNew}}, but like all talk page messages they should both be substituted and both contain a link to the AFD discussion, so checking for that link should be all that's necessary.--Dycedarg ж 00:56, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. --Erwin (talk) 11:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

The bot's up for approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Erwin85Bot 8. --Erwin (talk) 11:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Prince Edward Island on French Wikipedia

Request of 14 May 2009, by : — Sniff (talk) 21:42, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Request :
List all pages of your category Prince Edward Island in subcategorys and show french articles with him (cf. Exemple) Also, count the number of English articles and French articles. If there are any questions, feel free. Thanks!

It's to translate your articles in French (or just to prepare a list for translators).

Exemple

[5]

Île-du-Prince-Édouard [[:en:Category:Prince Edward Island|]]

• fr:Île-du-Prince-Édouard [[:en:Prince Edward Island|]]
• fr:Provinces maritimes [[:en:Maritimes|]]

Catégorie: [[:en:Category:Sport in Prince Edward Island|]]

• [[]] [[:en:Prince Edward Island Rugby Union|]]

I'm guessing that adding ":fr" to the front of the links that (I think) are in the French language Wikipedia will make this request make more sense, and have done so. I also note that the words "English" are links here, though gray; that's somewhat disconcerting. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:14, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

This may be an unusual request, but I think it's a good idea. By achieving this exploit, it would be possible to complete all Wikipedia. If you think it is impractical for now, leave me a message and remove this request. Thanks, --Sniff (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

WP Films request (tags and redirects)

Is it possible for a bot to generate a list of all articles which are both

1. transcluding {{Film}} (or any redirects of this template) in their talk space, and also
2. redirects in their article space?

In other words, can a bot create a list of all redirects which are also tagged in their Talk space with a WP Films project banner?

Many thanks in advance, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 01:03, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's certainly possible using the m:toolserver. I'll have a play around with it and get back to you. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 11:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done This should be the list you're after. If you want, I can turn it into a report that updates itself every time you refresh the page. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 11:49, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks! Yes, would it be possible to have the updating report? Most gratefully, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 16:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Sure thing. Working on it. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 16:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I had to eat (apparently). It's at [6], though it is possible that there are bugs. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 18:01, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Bot to repair tables created before Aug 2008, for Accessibility

In Bugzilla:18829 we learn that

"Note: As of August 20, 2008 new tables created by using the Wikipedia table button include border="1" and so they do not have this problem."

however many created previous to that date lack border="1", and will barely readable when cut and pasted outside wikipedia, or by text browser users.

By writing and deploying this bot, you will help Wikipedia better fulfil its Wikipedia:Accessibility#Users_with_limited_CSS.2FJavaScript_support goals of Wikipedia:Accessibility#Tables.

The tables in question, those with class wikitable, are all expected to have borders on them, as that is what is in the stylesheet. So all the author needs to do is check for the class, wikitable, and then double check if there already is a border=... parameter. And then only if not, go ahead and add border="1". (There is no need to also check for "before Aug 2008", as that is not an exact check anyway, as people might have cloned the bad tables from elsewhere later.

Also tables without class wikitable do not have the problem (they look the same, borders or not, stylesheets or not.) so their border= choices should be respected and not tampered with.

Jidanni (talk) 14:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I would like to see a policy/propsal for this type of change over at Village Pump somewhere first before a change/task like this is undertaken. 203.25.140.97 (talk) 23:06, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

As near as I can tell, this only affects people copy & paste the text. If that is actually the case, then I think it would be a waste of resources to mass add border=1 to every wikitable that lack one. I also don't understand why it would only affect tables classed as wikitables - why wouldn't every table without border=1 be affected? --ThaddeusB (talk) 23:47, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

It also effects people using non graphical web browsers (lynx for example) and other possible portable devices in the future, that don't read the css files which is where we style everything these days. 203.25.140.97 (talk) 03:58, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

The chat on the bugzilla page seems to indicate this is not actually the case, although it is possible those people are mistaken. --ThaddeusB (talk) 04:01, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

From my reading of the chat, having border="1" does make a difference for some text browsers. Aside from saying specifically that lynx was not affected, they did not mention any specific browsers that this does in fact affect. Nor did they mention how prevalent said browsers are. I think we need more information on just how many users this is affecting and to what degree before we go making more than a 140,000 edits over this. (I did a rough search to come up with that number, and if anything it's overly conservative.) --Dycedarg ж 04:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

They (I) did too mention w3m there in bugzilla. But I'm am hoping you will at least sympathize with the more numerous "cut and paste from Wikipedia" cases, and see the need. Jidanni (talk) 02:40, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

An analysis of server logs was done a few months ago. The stats for browser are at [7]. Text browsers would be included in "non-mobile, other" which make up 0.40% of requests. Mr.Z-man 05:03, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Why not simply add this to AWB's general fixes? There doesn't appear to be any opposition to the addition in and of itself; it's merely that people don't seem to like the idea of a bot specifically doing it. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{(Dinoguy1000)} 05:28, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

While we are waiting, I have fixed Help:Table by hand. Jidanni (talk) 07:32, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

This request is for a bot to go through all 6,853,433 articles (or all 61,035,194 pages?) just to add "border=1" to every table with class wikitable? Even working from a database dump to avoid loading all those pages, this seems unnecessary. I second Dinoguy1000's suggestion: just have it added to AWB's general fixes. Anomie⚔ 12:07, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

URL change for Template:Amg movie & Template:Amg name

AMG has changed their url format. Because of this the link may soon no longer work. So can you search and change the two templates removing the 1: and 2:.

changing them from:

• {{Amg movie|1:##### |Name}} to {{Amg movie|##### |Name}}
• {{Amg name |2:##### |Name}} to {{Amg name |##### |Name}}

This would be a GREAT help for us. Thanks. -- Phoenix (talk) 04:31, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

This is not the best solution because the current template will not work with the new format. For a clean transition, I would suggest using a different template. I have set up {{AMG}} to handle all the AMG website links. So the required changes would be:

• {{Amg movie|1:##### |Title}} to {{AMG|movie|id=#####|label=Title}}
• {{Amg name |2:##### |Name}} to {{AMG|movie|id=#####|label=Name}}

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:22, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

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Its just a simple change. Once the bot is finished we just change the url... Its not that complicated. I am very proud of the template I created and how popular it has become. I would love for it to be continued. There are a few services that AMG does and is very well known for their music reviews. The amg name is similar to Template:IMDB name that is for actors. Can the quick change be created to fix these two templates? -- Phoenix (talk) 21:30, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm sure it can be done with the same name for the template... but I don't understand what the "1:" and "2:" are for. And how are the URLs changing? – Quadell ^(talk) 22:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-D The reason that I made the user input 1:###### or 2:###### before was due to the odd url eg. http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:###### I made it so it had to have the full number encase the numbers before the colon changed the whole template wouldn't be broken... It looks like I should have just hard coded it as http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:###### because the new URLs are http://www.allmovie.com/work/###### and http://www.allmovie.com/artist/##### respectively. -- Phoenix (talk) 01:02, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Currently the movie templates are used like {{Amg movie |1:356351 |Quantum of Solace}}, which creates the link http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:356351 which redirects to http://www.allmovie.com/work/356351. Luckily the link http://www.allmovie.com/work/1:356351 also pulls up the page just fine (at the moment), so if you change the template to link to http://www.allmovie.com/work/{{{1}}} it shouldn't break any links. Then someone (I can do it) could run AWB to remove 1: and 2: from the templates. – Quadell ^(talk) 01:26, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok Quadell the templates have been changed. You can run AWB whenever you wish. Please let us know when its done so that we can change the templates documentation :-) -- Phoenix (talk) 04:16, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done You can now change the documentation. – Quadell ^(talk) 18:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-) -- Phoenix (talk) 01:14, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Clerk to fiscal officer

All Ohio townships have a section (identical for virtually all townships statewide) detailing their form of government; see the Government section of Madison Township, Richland County, Ohio for an example. You'll see that "...There is also an elected township clerk, who serves a four-year term...Vacancies in the clerkship or on the board of trustees..." is part of this text. The state legislature recently changed the title of this type of official from "clerk" to "fiscal officer"; could someone write a bot to convert "clerk" to "fiscal officer" in these exact strings of text? A few townships have already been updated, but there are well over 1,000 that haven't been updated yet. Nyttend (talk) 01:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Wait, should "clerkship" be changed to "fiscal officership"? – Quadell ^(talk) 01:38, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

That's what has been done in the few that have been changed. If you think that there's a better way to change it, please do, but it would be helpful if you could also run something to change "fiscal officership" to the term that you're making it. Nyttend (talk) 18:29, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Also, if it's not too hard, could you add the following reference to these sections — <ref>[http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/503.24 §503.24], [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/505.01 §505.01], and [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/507.01 §507.01] of the [[Ohio Revised Code]]. Accessed [[2009-04-30]].</ref>? The only township that I know of that has this section cited is Blendon Township, Franklin County, Ohio. Nyttend (talk) 18:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done – Quadell ^(talk) 16:58, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

lojban bot

I'd like to request a bot for the Lojban wikipedia (English article on Lojban). The bot ought to do one or more of the following tasks:

• Search for words ended with a consonant within the titles of newly created articles and make some redirects and moves. For example, if the article "djeordj uacinton" is created do the following:
  • Move the article to "djeordj. uacinton." (with a "." after each word ending with a consonant)
  • Create the redirects "djeordj. uacinton", "djeordj uacinton." and "djeordj uacinton" (with and without the period)

• make all paragraphs in the articles start with "ni'o"
• make section titles start with "ni'oni'oni'o..." according to the level of the section, for example:
  • If the lowest section level is "====lowest====" make all section titles with that level (====) start with "ni'oni'o", those with (===) start with "ni'oni'oni'o, those with (==) start with "ni'oni'oni'oni'o and so on. For example:
    • For the folowing entry:

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I know it may not be the most apropiate thing to ask here for a bot for another wikipedia, but didn't find anywhere else to do so.--Homo logos (talk) 15:57, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I know only a little about Lojban, and I would feel uncomfortable making such large-scale changes to a 'pedia in a language I don't speak without pretty good evidence of consensus. Is this change discussed anywhere (in English)? If not, could you start a discussion somewhere (on Meta, maybe?) for other Lojban enthusiasts to weigh in? – Quadell ^(talk) 16:05, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

No such consensus exists to my knowledge. However, I think the best place to start such discussion would be the lojban mailing list. I'll start it and post the link here for you to read as soon as I feel some cosensus has been reached--Homo logos (talk) 16:38, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! – Quadell ^(talk) 18:20, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Tagging uncategorized pages

I propose a task for finding and tagging with the tag {{subst:dated|uncategorized}} pages without any categories. Beagel (talk) 19:14, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Like this? - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 19:23, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Exactly. Somehow never seen it operating. Beagel (talk) 19:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I could code this. --Chris 13:27, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

There are a number of bots that have been approved for this, but I am not sure if any are active. You might be interested in this Untagged Uncategorized Articles toolserver report. It is a "live" report vs. Special:UncategorizedPages. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:49, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

If you want I can run a bot like this. I'm running one at the Dutch Wikipedia, so I'd just need to exclude "inuse" from my database query and apply for approval. You would need to explain to me what is meant by inuse though. --Erwin (talk) 20:24, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

BRFA filed at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Erik9bot 8. Erik9 (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Need abot to modify some templates

I need a bot to go through the articles in Category:Mixed Drinks articles by quality and change any banner with the |focus=bar switch so that the banner will contain the |bar=yes switch.

eg {{WikiProject Mixed Drinks|focus=bar}} → {{WikiProject Mixed Drinks|bar=yes}}

The total number of articles is around three hundred (300) and about 30% have the |focus=bar switch

Thank you for your time, --Jeremy (blah blah) 02:31, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Possible. 100 changes? Looks like an easier job for someone with AutoWikiBrowser than a bot, but it certainly is doable both ways. Contact me if AutoWikiBrowser can't be used, and I'd be happy to make a bot for it. The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 03:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I'd love to do this using AWB, I even downloaded it but cannot figure out how to use it. --Jeremy (blah blah) 06:18, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi there, my bot Thehelpfulbot has been approved to do find/replace tasks like this one. I can do this task if you like, after my bot has finished running the task that it is currently on. The Helpful One 14:17, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, that would be greatly appreciated. --Jeremy (blah blah) 14:30, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

{{Doing}} - I ran a filter through the list, so it's going through all the talk pages in the Category - a total of 298. As you say there are only about 100 find/replaces to be done, it should go through the list and complete the task soon! :) The Helpful One 14:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done! Hmm, that was certainly odd, the bot went through the entire list but only made 6 find/replace edits. I think that this might mean that someone else might have already ran through the list? The Helpful One 15:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Or it simply could be an over-estimation (although unlikely). I didn't know that we approved bots for generic find/replace tasks— I thought we only approved them for specific find/replace tasks. Gee, if I had known about this with EarwigBot I's 3rd task... The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 15:18, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Could some one tag all of the articles under Category:Bartending with {{WPMIX|bar=yes}}? The reason this was the problem is that not all articles have the |bar= switch on them. --Jeremy (blah blah) 04:48, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Stub tagging for WP:Food

This is a large request and I would like to know if this can be done easily...

I would like to have a bot to go through the Category:Unassessed Food and drink articles and assess the stubs. The problem is there are 10,322 unassessed articles and I am afraid this would bog the system down.

Could this be done without disturbing the system?

--Jeremy (blah blah) 02:46, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Possible. If I remember correctly, this is something BetacommandBot used to do before it and its owner were indef-blocked. Like the above task, it doesn't look that hard. Probably a little more complex, but still very doable. The Earwig ^{(Talk | Editor review)} 03:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Easy, really. Besides assessing stubs as "stub", it's also trivial to assess redirects (if any) as "redirect" and disambiguation pages as "disambig". Slightly more complicated, but still easy, is to also copy the highest or lowest rating from any other projects' banners on the talk page. Several bots can do this; AnomieBOT is busy with another assessment run at the moment, but if no one else has done this by the time that's done then I can take care of it. Anomie⚔ 04:37, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, if that would not be a bother, it would be appreciated. --Jeremy (blah blah) 04:44, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Sambot has approval for exactly this kind of task. I'll do a few edits for you to check over first. [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 15:23, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

See what you think of these edits. [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 15:43, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Those are very good, most are dead on there were a couple that were rated as Start that could be a C. The difference I use is the amount of content in the article. I would say go ahead and do that for us.--Jeremy (blah blah) 00:59, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Doing... [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 18:16, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Y Done About 7,200 articles tagged; 3046 left untagged. [[Sam Korn]] ^(smoddy) 11:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Bot to regularly save data from Special:Statistics

As discussed here, it would be useful to see the evolution of the data from Special:Statistics. I'd like to request a bot regularly saving this data in Wikipedia space, so we can have regular data for each parameter, then create graphs, etc, with the exceptions of Founder, Stewards, Importers, Transwiki importers and Uploaders, as they are not changing or unused. The first eight parameters change more often, so they may need to be saved more often than others, say every day, while others maybe every week. Cenarium (talk) 13:42, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello, this is a pretty easy task and I'd be glad to do it. I just need to know how/where you want the data stored. The bot could generate some graphs as well. One possibility is to have a page with some stats graphs and a link to the raw data,which could be saved in a very simple (text) database so that anyone can download and analyze the data however they see fit. --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Licensing update bot

Okay, who wants to write and run a bot to retag 1.6 million files?  ;-)

See commons:Commons:License Migration Task Force. Dragons flight (talk) 22:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I replied here: commons:Commons talk:License Migration Task Force#Bot request. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:01, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Redirects/disambig from ticker symbols

Some ticker symbols (e.g. JAKK) do not link to the companies they represent. I'd like to see a bot that would ensure that every company that had an article and a ticker symbol had its article linked (either as a redirect or on a disambiguation page) from the ticker symbol. NeonMerlin 05:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Is there a list of these ticker symbols with the appropriate company articles somewhere? "Pages embedding certain templates (which?) in Category:Ticker symbol templates" would work as a list, if we could rely on any article about a publicly traded company using the appropriate template.

A bot could easily enough create the redirect if the page is non-existent (i.e. JAKK), and it could possibly append to the list for a dab page formatted as MMM (although that one is already there), but for a categorized dab like A (disambiguation) it would be hard for the bot to know where to add it (although that too is already there) and thus would probably have to just log them for human attention. Anomie⚔ 10:59, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

<ref> tags and punctuation/whitespace

Hi there, I often find myself obsessive-compulsively moving around <ref> tags because I believe they don't comply to what I think I once read are their usage guidelines.

So, if we denote our citation with "^[1]", I believe the following applies (please kindly point me to the written and agreed-upon guidelines because I can't find them any more)

1. Ref should go after punctuation

Wrong: Bla bla bla^[1].

Correct: Bla bla bla.^[1]

Wrong: Bla bla bla^[1], but also bla.

Correct: Bla bla bla,^[1] but also bla.

2. No whitespace between punctuation and ref, or between ref and ref.

Wrong: Bla bla bla. ^[1]

Correct: Bla bla bla.^[1]

Wrong: Bla bla bla.^{[1] [2]}

Correct: Bla bla bla.^[1][2]

Would this be something that could be done by a bot? Or does it fall into the "cosmetics" class, which I understand is not bottable? If this is possible and considered useful, please let me know. I could have a go and do it myself. Thank you. 114.150.83.231 (talk) _tags_and_punctuation/whitespace" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:49, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

No, a bot can't do this. There are too many corner cases to do this automatically. I have a script which works fairly well, but the edits need to be previewed because it screws up occasionally. Unfortunately, I think you would need an account to run a script. Gimmetrow 18:52, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Do you think that a bot could reliably remove spaces from in front of reference tags, but without changing punctuation? That would probably have far fewer false positives and it would also be super-easy to code. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 18:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

If an article already has a consistent style with spaces between punctuation and ref tag, then it should usually be left alone. I don't think a bot (ie, automatic) is a good idea here. I personally think it's better that editors use a script and take responsibility for checking the edits. Gimmetrow 19:06, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

"If an article already has a consistent style with spaces between punctuation and ref tag, then it should usually be left alone." - I actually disagree to this. This is an area where a consensus should be reached if there isn't one already, and all articles should stick to it, leaving WP as a whole looking more consistent and professional. 114.150.83.231 (talk) 19:11, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Could you please give me examples of the possible false positives you have in mind, so I can understand? Cheers. 114.150.83.231 (talk) _tags_and_punctuation/whitespace" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:59, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Some examples are given on the talk page of the script. Most situations I notice involve html comments and ellipses. It's also possible that line breaks can interfere. Gimmetrow 19:06, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to be thick, but where is the script you are referring to? 114.150.83.231 (talk) 19:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

[8] Gimmetrow 19:11, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I think at least automatically eating any whitespace to the left of any reference tag (item 2 above) should be fairly safe, no? 114.150.83.231 (talk) _tags_and_punctuation/whitespace" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Not if an article already has a consistent style with spaces between punctuation and ref tag. Gimmetrow 19:11, 28 May 2009 (UTC)