Wikipedia:Bot requests

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There are a number of common requests which are regularly denied, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Wikipedia community. Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots for a list of such requests, and ensure that your idea is not among them.

If you are requesting that a bot be used to add a WikiProject banner to the talkpages of all articles in a particular category or its subcategories, please be very 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. Compare the difference between a recursive list and a properly vetted one.

Project tagging bot

The people who have tagged articles in WP:CHIBOTCATS with {{WikiProject Chicago}} have mostly gone inactive, except for one admin who no longer tags. Are there any bots that tag by category? If not we need a new one.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

I just got approval for one. What are you trying to do? Do you just want to tag as WPChicago or was that just an Example? --Kumioko (talk) 14:58, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes we need all the new articles in the cats listed at WP:CHIBOTCATS (but not their subcats) tagged with {{WikiProject Chicago}}. Auto rating unrated pages would be good. I.e., if a majority of other tags have a class=x, then fill that class in for Chicago.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:06, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

I have a request sitting with DodoBot - User_talk:DodoBot/Requests#WP:UKROADS - if you'd like to steal that one away and do it, I'd be much obliged. All details there, but you could come back to me - if you feel like doing it - should you need to know more. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:04, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok. I am currently going through some for WPUS and Oklahoma asked for a couple hundred too so after that I'll start working with these unless someone grabs them first. IN the Chicago one may I suggest also adding WikiProject Illinois if its not there already. --Kumioko (talk) 18:59, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for UKRoads. --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:13, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Just so you know, my bot, Hazard-Bot, is approved for such tasks.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  23:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

If you'd like to steal UK Roads, I'm sure no-one would object. I'd just be fascinated to see it done ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:50, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Please do Hazard. Got another 65000 in the que before I can do it. --Kumioko (talk) 00:07, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I started, but not sure if I will do them all at once. I'll finish at a later time if so.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  00:41, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘So is Chicago in somebody's queue now?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:30, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Hazard-SJ (talk · contribs), can you handle this for me?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:17, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Are you watching here? I will ping your page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:08, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I should be able to help with it in the next few days. Got a couple others in the hopper at the moment. --Kumioko (talk) 04:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry about the delay. I've started the UKROADS more than once and left it to run, but it seems an error prevented it from continuing. I believe I should make a page for these kinds of requests so it is easier to follow? I will continue working on UKROADS. If Chicago isn't done when I'm done, I'll attempt it too.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  06:12, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Any estimate on when you will be done with UKROADS?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:06, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:26, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Sorry for the late reply. I did some more, but I was having some problems, hence this. I'll get back to it ASAP, hopefully. As for Chicago, that would be a longer hold.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  03:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

I can probably do some on Chicago but I'm not sure my bot is authorized yet to do that type of task. I can do WikiProject Banner replacement but I think I need to request a separate one for tagging new articles to a project. Its a pretty straightforward request with plenty of precadent though so it should be pretty quick. --Kumioko (talk) 04:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Chicago tagging task

I submitted a BRFA to allow my bot to do this type of task but before I get started I got a couple questions about this one.

1. Can I remove the red linked categories from the above page so it doesn't conflict?
   • Yes.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
2. Does the project support all types of content classes (i.e. Category, template redirect, etc.)? If not which ones does it support.
   • Not really sure.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
3. Are you just looking for me to add the Chicago banner or do you want me to do assessment as well? If you do want me to do some assessment what projects do you want me to inherit the class from? --Kumioko (talk) 17:46, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
   • In the past I believe we inherited by majority. Can you do that? Just make sure not to automatically do subcategories.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I have to admit I don't know how to inherit by majority. I'm afraid that programming is above my level. What do you mean by not to automatically do subcategories? --Kumioko (talk) 17:45, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

The list at WP:CHIBOTCATS includes the categories that are associated with WP:CHICAGO. Some of the subcategories of those categories include things that are far afield from the project. I will wait for Hazard-SJ (talk · contribs).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

No problem. --Kumioko (talk) 04:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Me sees.  Hazard-SJ  ㋡  07:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

What is the latest?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Any update?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

How about a Me dos?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:39, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

I could help eventually but my bot is still awaiting the authorization to tag an article and even then it will be a bit limited. It can easily add the chicago banner but doing the assessments is a bit of a different story. As I mentioned above it can inherit the class from another project but my programmer skillz aren't enough to look for what class is most used. I usually just pick another project (usually one I have some faith in the class being correct like MILHIST, USRoads, NRHP and a few others) run through that and then pick the next one. Once I have gone through the more trustworthy ones then I can use the less reliable ones (like Biography for example). --Kumioko (talk) 20:02, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

I am waiting for some reply from Hazard-SJ (talk · contribs). I am under the impression that he may be able to do more of what I want.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:35, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Deprecated {{pron-en}}

Deprecated template {{pron-en}} is no longer used in mainspace. However, there are still ca. 350 transclusions in portal space. Could you convert these to {{IPA-en}}, which is still supported? The conversion is simple: if there is only one parameter, add 'pronounced' to the beginning and a pipe at the end:

{{pron-en|ABC}} → pronounced {{IPA-en|ABC|}}

(The pipe prevents the default behaviour of IPA-en.)

If there is a 2nd parameter, double the pipe between them:

{{pron-en|ABC|En-ABC.ogg}} → pronounced {{IPA-en|ABC||En-ABC.ogg}}

If you could drop me a line if/when this is done, I'll clean up any remainders and mark the template as deprecated.

Thanks! — kwami (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Looks fairly easy and non-controversial. I'll probably do this in a semi-automated fashion very shortly. — madman 00:27, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Yeah, these were all converted in main space months ago. I've cleaned up everything else apart from user space, talk, and archives. — kwami (talk) 02:21, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

On hold – My apologies for taking so long to find this out, but I actually don't have access to my bot account at the moment until my toolserver account is restored, and I'm not comfortable making semi-automated edits under my primary account. Can another bot operator pick this up? (If not, I should get the account restored within a couple days.) — madman 03:01, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

It seems pretty straightforward I can probably do it with mine if its ok with everyone. --Kumioko (talk) 03:04, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Ok I did a few edits and got a couple comments so I have a followup question.

Should I be changing these templates on Archived talk pages or should I skip those? --Kumioko (talk) 14:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

I won't speak for the original requester, but generally changing archived talk pages is frowned upon unless it contributes to the archive's quality (e.g. changing WP:AN/I links to the relevant archive, &c.) I can't say without looking at context, but it appears the original request was only for the portal namespace and it'd probably be best to restrict it to that without more community input in a BRFA or the like. — madman 15:15, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. I'll start with that and go from there. Just FYI for all there are a lot of transclusions on User and User talk pages as well. --Kumioko (talk) 16:44, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Incidentally, I now have access to my bot account, so if Kwamikagami needs anything more than that or if you need any help, I'm now available. — madman 13:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

That would be great. I stopped his bot because it wasn't overriding the default behavior of the new template per the above. (I didn't revert the edits he did make, however. There were 43 of them.) — kwami (talk) 03:54, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

changing mid vowels in {{IPA-sh}}

Also, I received a request some time ago to convert our IPA key for Serbocroatian to use the letters e and o instead of ɛ and ɔ, which would match our phonology article (they are also more accessible to readers). The transclusions are inconsistent; maybe half follow the key, half the phonology article. We'd need to convert all instances of ɛ and ɔ in transclusions of the {{IPA-sh}} template to e and o, and also to get rid of the up & down tacks under any of those four letters (or any other letters). (The tacks are these: [̞̝] in case it's easier for you to clip & paste.)

AWB at least has a hard time with diacritics, so you may need to convert e and o plus circumflex or caron to hard-coded ê ô ě ǒ.

Getting rid of the tie bars [͡] would also be nice, since they're distracting and not used in the key (they're found on t and d: t͡ d͡ ), and a lot of the articles use v (or v̞) for ʋ. — kwami (talk) 07:15, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

There are some other inconsistencies, but they're not so numerous, so I can take care of them. — kwami (talk) 06:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

I can fulfill the original request; it's non-controversial and an example of what's normally done when a template is deprecated. Can you link me to more consensus (the request, discussion, etc.) on changing the IPA within the template? Also, I'm not using AWB, so I don't anticipate problems with diacritics, though I will have to read up on normalization and such to run this if the changes have consensus. Thanks, — madman 16:21, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Here,Wikipedia_talk:IPA_for_Serbo-Croatian#Mid_or_open-mid.3F but there's very little comment. A remark that e and o are more accessible, and what are used in our phonology article. — kwami (talk) 07:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Forgive me, I don't know much about IPA, but I don't think the proposed changes would only affect Serbo-Croatian articles and thus the scope of the discussion's a little narrow... if it's all right with you, I'd like to proceed by just processing the templates according to your initial request, just changing the name and how the parameters are passed. If you actually want content changes, I think that would be something we'd have to discuss in a BRFA or at the Village Pump, because I'm not completely sure they'd be non-controversial. I can give you a list of pron-en templates with whatever characters you'd like, though, so you or the appropriate WikiProjects could review them. — madman 22:03, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have opened a 2nd request. The Serbo-Croatian change has nothing to do with pron-en, and it does affect only Serbo-Croatian. — kwami (talk) 13:43, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot about this briefly. Coding... — madman 02:04, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done – [1] [2] — madman 03:36, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I've informed the last remaining user of that template. — kwami (talk) 08:51, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Add 'FideID' parameter to chess infobox

Hello all!

Due to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chess#Automatic updated FIDE rating in infobox (by bot) there are some changes in how the FIDE rating is handeled in Template:Infobox chess biography now and thus it would be very useful if a bot could give some assist here. There are about 1000 pages out there using that template.

The task would be to look at all those pages (assuming they are chess player articles) and search the template:fide extract the value there, add it to the Template:Infobox chess biography as parameter 'FideID' and remove the ranking number from parameter 'rating'. So for example consider Anatoly Karpov:

We have

{{fide|id=4100026}}

there, so extract '4100026' and check the ranking (in chess infobox)

|rating = 2617 <br /><small>(No. 177 on the July 2011 FIDE ratings list)</small>

to be >= 2400 then change it to

|rating =  <br /><small>(No. 177 on the July 2011 FIDE ratings list)</small>

and add

|FideID = 4100026

to the infobox. In order to finish remove the

{{fide|id=4100026}}

template. If this template was not present or the ranking < 2400 do nothing to the article.

One question open is if in the end the template:fide has to be removed from the page also, but I will work on answering this. And there might be a minimal ranking (e.g. 2400) needed also.

If some bot operator is intressted in solving this task that would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 11:49, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

No-one liking this one? ;)) Greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 16:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Text modified in order to be up-to-date. Is there a issue with this request in general, or just everybody beeing busy at the moment? Thanks and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 13:33, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Would this be a continuous or one-time task? — madman 01:59, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Just a one-time task in order to switch to the new system (which uses another bot - DrTrigonBot - to automatically update the data and so on - but this is implemented already). Greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 10:15, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

I may look at doing this this weekend. Why should the number in the ranking parameter be removed? (And the linebreak kept?) — madman 19:57, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

The number in the ranking parameter should be removed because of when using 'FideID' the ranking number from Template:Elo rating are used (for more info look at Template:Infobox chess biography). The linebreak is still there to give the final user full control over the appearance of the output, since I do not know if every infobox uses a linebreak at that point, thus remove the number only and keep the rest (and linebreak is no number... ;) Thanks a lot for your time and effort! Greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 22:42, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm going to be conducting training for the next few days so I may not be able to code this for a bit, but be assured I haven't forgotten about it. :) — madman 15:40, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the info - looking forward to hear from you... Greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 11:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

The massive switch in {{Elo rating}} is extremely expensive to render. It is in many ways better to update the individual articles. Rich Farmbrough, 01:56, 9 February 2012 (UTC).

Coding... — madman 04:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

@madman: Thanks a lot!! I am curious on the result... So long... :)

@Farmbrough: This a very intresting point to consider - in fact I copied that 'big switch' from dewiki where some articles use templates like this already. The question is; how expensive it actually is since I assume the mw software to cache the result...? The other way around (instead of one big template to use a lot of small ones) seems tedious to maintain since then we would have hundreds of templates (or articles) to change when one URL source (or something other) changes. I am very intressted in finding better (or even the best) solution here - so if you have any alternative concepts please share your knowledge! Thanks for the hint and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 09:47, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Tim Starling has recently commented on this, re: #switch basically being used to implement databases or key/value pairs. There's currently no upper limit on the number of switch cases you can have, but in the future an upper limit of 2000 may be set, so you should be aware of that. The issue when rendering is not the time it takes to parse (it's still very fast), but the amount of memory used, which can sometimes send the servers into swap on larger/more prevalent templates. For this particular template, I'd defer to Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance for the moment. You are correct, DrTrigon, that the pages at least are cached (until they're edited, at which point they have to be re-rendered). In the future, Lua will be a better alternative for templates like this. — madman 14:43, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Here's a test edit, DrTrigon. Looks like the code works perfectly; if that looks right to you, I'll continue. Cheers! — madman 19:59, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Indeed - it looks like the code works perfectly... it looks right to me! This are very good news! In my opinion this job can be done - maybe it is worth to wait another day to give other the time to add their opinions too...?! Again: Thanks a lot madman!!!

Regarding the huge '#switch'; I was not aware that MW wants to switch to Lua for template programming... Thanks for that hint (since this will become important for me ;) - despite the fact that I do not know Lua it sounds promising to me! ;) Greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 12:24, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Scan My Book

Are there any bots that could scan my book for any errors? Allen (talk) 02:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Just for clarification, what kind of errors? ~Feedintm^Parley 23:17, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Any kind of formatting errors, spelling, link accuracy, etc.

Allen (talk) 23:44, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't think there are any bots like that. What you list will have unavoidable false positives, so no approved bot is doing it. For your examples, most modern browsers support spell checking, you can install User:Anomie/linkclassifier to see common link issues, and User:Cacycle/wikEd could solve some formatting issues, or at least make them more obvious. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:01, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Doing... - I'll run the articles through AWB's general fixes and typo checking. GoingBatty (talk) 01:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done --GoingBatty (talk) 22:05, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Bot needed to make a list

Needed: A bot to make a list of articles on Category:Minor Planets that look like this one, 25001 Pacheco, in the following ways.

Here, “exactly like 25001 Pacheco” means that articles consist of:

1. No more than the following text: "(Article title) is a main belt asteroid discovered on (date) by (name(s)) at (place)." No more text than that. It might have less. For example, it might not include the date, name, or place, but it no more.
2. The only section break will be “External links”.
3. The only external link is “*http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov.....JPL Small-Body Database…...”
4. It will also include this Template:Infobox planet, a planet infobox template.
5. Next, it will have an empty reflist.
6. There will probably be more, but nothing that would establish notablity and therefore matters. There may be a minor planets navigator and a minor planets footer; a “DEFAULTSORT”; several categories such as "Main Belt astroids", "Discoveries by (name)", and “Astronomical objects discovered in (Year); a "beltasteroid-stub" designation; and maybe a number of links to other language wikipedia articles, the same name in different alphabets. None of this matters, again, as these things to not establish notablity.

Basically, we need a bot to make a list of all these articles that are just like this example: 25001 Pacheco. We need this list in order to move on to the next step very carefully. Later, more bots may be needed, but we're taking this one careful doable step at a time. Chrisrus (talk) 06:07, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Looking at this. Anomie⚔ 19:16, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok. I expanded the request slightly to include pages with "an inner-belt asteroid", "an outer-belt asteroid", "a main-belt asteroid", "a Jupiter Trojan", and so on, to include "Its provisional designation was whatever.", and also considered any other empty sections to be unindicative of notability. The final list is at User:Anomie/Asteroid list.

Many of the remaining articles just contain an additional sentence along the lines of "It was named after Joe Bloggs", which may or may not barely scrape the bottom of the "notability" barrel for some few of them. Or further variations of the text, e.g. "(Article title) is an asteroid. It was discovered on (date). It was discovered by (name) at (place).". I've placed a second list at User:Anomie/Asteroid list 2 of all the number-named asteroids sorted by the size of the wikitext after the templates and some of the other junk are removed. Anomie⚔ 00:18, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Excellent. I hope that didn't take too much time out of your day. I'll start a new section to discuss the next step, but first: thank you for all your efforts thus far. I will now start a new section about the following step, below. 03:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Do you have a datasource to pull the information about minor planets? — Ganeshk (talk) 19:26, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Right now, we're not looking for information about the minor planets from off Wikipedia. We are just looking for a reliable list of articles that for sure don't have enough information to establish notablity within them as they stand, and therefore cannot meet WP:NASTRO. Chrisrus (talk) 20:01, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Got it. — Ganeshk (talk) 20:05, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Bot needed to tag the list

Needed: A bot to tag each article on User:Anomie/Asteroid list thusly"{{Notability|Astro}}". Chrisrus (talk) 03:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

I was going to file a BRFA for this, but it looks like User:Avicennasis has already started this. Since this is a dated template, it would be better to add {{Notability|Astro|date=February 2012}}. GoingBatty (talk) 21:50, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Thought I had replied here, but I guess I just previewed and never saved. Doing... ^Avic_ennasis @ 02:22, 13 Shevat 5772 / 02:22, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done ^Avic_ennasis @ 03:56, 15 Shevat 5772 / 03:56, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Bot needed to perform "good faith effort to establish notablity"

Needed: A bot to automate the "good faith effort to establish notablity" referred to in WP:NASTRO. For example, if I copy and paste into the Google Scholar search box, in quotes, the name of the first article on User:Anomie/Asteroid list, (196297) 2003 FA, it returns "no hits" from any of the WP:RSes that it searches. Not one. It is my hope that this will fulfill NASTRO's "good faith effort", but we may need to find the proper database that Ganeshk seemed to be referring to above. If not, it's at least a good start. At this point, however, my question to you is this: Is it possible, practicable, very difficult, or problematic to create a bot that will find out which if any of these do not return exactly zero results on a Google Scholar search? Chrisrus (talk) 03:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Bot to alphabetise WP:BADIMAGE

Would it be possible for a bot to keep the bad image list in alphabetical order of image title (ignoring the word "the")? It makes it easier to find image names if they are in alphabetical order, and this will stop human users having to worry about it. It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 00:02, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

That would be trivial to code, but it would require an adminbot. →Στc. 02:18, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, not an expert with these things – is that bad? It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 12:56, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

User:AWBCPBot already keeps the AWB checkpage alphabetical, among other things. I suppose I could get a rename for it and have it cover this as well. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 14:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 15:41, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Quick text replacment

I'm not sure if I'm requesting this at the right place -- if not just point me to the proper channels.

In short, I'd need to have all instances of "{{Wikipedia-Books|Mario titles}}" be replaced by "{{Wikipedia books|Mario franchise video games|Mario video games}}", to produce the box seen to the right.

There should be between 100 and 150 articles with the template. Salvidrim! 03:10, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Doing... ^Avic_ennasis @ 08:31, 13 Shevat 5772 / 08:31, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done ^Avic_ennasis @ 09:18, 13 Shevat 5772 / 09:18, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

"Abandoned articles"

Is there a way that a bot can be created to look for articles that have, say, less than 30 edits in the past 3 years? The data could be used to maybe bring some musty old articles into the limelight to be fixed up, or find something that slipped through the cracks and should be AFD'ed. (Idea suggested by another, semi-retired user.) Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

I think it sounds good in theory but thats going to cover tens of thousands of articles. --Kumioko (talk) 03:46, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

What if the edit number is changed? Like, say, 40 in 4? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

I think it would be better to look fro articles that haven't been edited in X amount of time. Maybe, start with 5 or 6 years and start working up. I have seen many many articles that haven't been touched in years. If we can factor out bots then there will be even more. I'm still not quite sure if its possible and definatly outside my skill level but I'm just trying to help provide input. --Kumioko (talk) 03:59, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Fewer than X edits in Y years might create a big list, but really, what's another backlog? The user who suggested this said, " this one isn't limited to a small band of users with the right bit[…]all it really requires is people to go through it all[…]pick out an article, work on it or if it's unsalvagable, go through the usual deletion channels". Also, "fewer than x edits in y years" would help weed out articles where the only edit in the past x years is by a bot. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 04:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

I think either way theres going to be quite a lot of articles. I worry though that this would be a pillar for the deletionists to start submitting large groups of articles for deletion on the grounds they are "abandoned".--Kumioko (talk) 04:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

And how do you know that just as many editors won't see it as an opportunity to fix the articles up? No need to pull out the "deletionist" card. "Abandoned" by itself is not a reason to delete, so I think it's absurd that you think that. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 04:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Double-edged sword, but I think TPH's rationale and the intended use of this information is of overall benefit to WP. It is also without doubt that there will be worthy deletion candidates in such a population, as with many others. Having this additional data dimension crossed with perhaps a hit counter may create an exploitable list that allays those concerns. Having said that, you may be overstating the risk of mass deletions because they would have to be suitably grouped and solidly argued before any such mass deletions are likely to be approved by the community. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:30, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

The user has also suggested that maybe there should be some way to weight the results. Maybe break it down into chunks for something. Maybe also do a test run to see exactly how big the results would be anyway. (Also, this would be recurring, not just a one-timer.) Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 04:50, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

As the editor TPH submitted this on behalf of, thought I might explain a little more about the request. A bot would run monthly to gather articles which could be considered abandoned and lists them so any editor can assess what to do with it such as expansion or deoprhan it to increase hitcounts and edits. Dependant on the sort of workload this exposes, there's always the consideration of article weighting so there can be priority based lists created instead of a singular list. The criteria is a loose one, around 20-40 edits for any article 3 years or older could count as abandoned and in need of editor attention but that can be tweaked if a basic sweep yields a high amount of articles (anywhere north of 50,000?) Now, I can see Kumioko figures it might be used nefariously for mass deletion which is a reasonable thought but unlikely as the articles still have to pass through AfD or PROD. It might also be an incentive for any found articles to be tagged with {{orphan}} so they can be categorised. I notice it could be a big undertaking but if it is, it's better we go find these articles and have them listed someplace where they can be easily found and worked on instead of languishing and making a big backlog bigger. I'm just spitballing here in terms of how big it might be as it's not really a simple one-shot task but yknow, a regular heavy lifting bot, not so sure if that sort of request gets picked up here or not. Any questions, throw them out there. baa! _radda 18:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like something best run on toolserver, this whole-of-database search isn't viable through the API. In fact, ask at Wikipedia talk:Database reports for this. Josh Parris 01:09, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure why this wasn't done earlier. Took me 5 minutes to write and 1 minute to run. The output (2.7 thousand results) is here. If you want me to run this regularly, or you want a different type of output message me. If I get hit by a bus or something, I included the code below. Hopefully thats what you wanted. :) Tim1357 ^talk 03:01, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I think you want

                        WHERE  cl_to = 'All_disambiguation_pages'

Josh Parris 03:44, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

• I can't read code. Which intervals did you use? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:13, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I used 4 years. I re-ran the query to give a timestamp of last edit for each result. The results are here and the updated code is below.Tim1357 ^talk 04:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

P.S. I got to the end and figured that out, Josh Paris. Thanks anyways though. Tim1357 ^talk 04:05, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Friends don't let friends use correlated subqueries. - TB (talk) 07:26, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Suggested tweaks for false positive

It may be an idea to code it to ignore dab pages or pages with any dab template, as appears in Aberdeen North, an article featuring on that list of User:Tim1357. In fact, there seem to be quite a few such dab pages on that list. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 02:12, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Red link syntax removal

Google Translation Project added thousands of articles into several Indian language wikipedias (Example Translated page of article on Northern Ireland) by translating popular English wikipedia articles using Human assisted translation during 2009-2011. The project was closed by Google without addressing the feedback of impacted language Wikipedians. A major problem is the existence of too many red links on such pages. A bot to clean up such pages would at least make the articles presentable for subsequent manual editing.--Arjunaraoc 01:55, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

{{portal}} linking

I would like a bot to add {{portal|conservatism}} templates to the See also sections of all articles which have {{WikiProject Conservatism}} banners where importance=top or importance=high or importance=mid . Thanks, – Lionel ^(talk) 10:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Notification bot

I was wondering if there were a bot that would automatically place a notification at WikiProject talk pages when a new section is added to a discussion page. We have a collection of articles that do not have a current WikiProject, but logically belong to any of three other WikiProjects. One of the solutions is to make a working group, and post automatic notifications to the three WikiProjects when a new section is added, but we don't know if there's a bot that can do that. Anybody have any ideas? VanIsaac_WS^contribs 16:18, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

add biographies into task forces

Recently I used a script to help create a reasonable large number of stubs based on the DNZB (see here for details) the stubs need to be sorted into appropriate task forces of WP:WikiProject New Zealand. The rules are:

• every member of Category:New Zealand people, Category:New Zealand Māori people, Category:New Zealand musicians, or Category:New Zealand politicians should be in WikiProject New Zealand. (this should already be the case)
• every member of Category:New Zealand Māori people should have 'maori=yes'
  • if not already present 'maori-importance=low' should be added
• every member of Category:New Zealand musicians should have 'music=yes'
  • if not already present 'music-importance=low' should be added
• every member of Category:New Zealand politicians should have 'politics=yes'
  • if not already present 'politics-importance=low' should be added

does that makes sense? Stuartyeates (talk) 02:58, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

I should have said that all the details of the arguments are at Template:WikiProject New Zealand. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:02, 11 February 2012 (UTC)