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	Auto-WP:NAVNOREDIRECT	Not a good task for a bot.	10	5	Wikiwerner	2024-04-28 12:22	Primefac	2024-03-13 18:37
2	Automatic NOGALLERY keyword for categories containing non-free files (again)		15	7	Legoktm	2024-06-24 01:34	Legoktm	2024-06-24 01:34
3	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
4	Bot to update match reports to cite template	BRFA filed	14	5	Yoblyblob	2024-06-20 21:21	Mdann52	2024-06-20 21:11
5	Bot to mass tag California State University sports seasons	Doing...	5	4	Frostly	2024-06-10 17:05	Headbomb	2024-06-09 17:28
6	Clear Category:Unlinked Wikidata redirects		7	4	Jlwoodwa	2024-06-21 06:41	DreamRimmer	2024-04-21 03:28
7	Find linkrot with a specific pattern		7	3	GreenC	2024-05-01 16:20
8	Fixing stub tag placement on new articles	Not a good task for a bot.	4	3	Headbomb	2024-05-19 20:17	Headbomb	2024-05-19 20:17
9	User:RetractionBot, v2	Y Done	8	5	Mdann52	2024-05-25 16:06	Mdann52	2024-05-25 16:06
10	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
11	Adding Facility IDs to AM/FM/LPFM station data	BRFA filed	10	3	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-12 14:29	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-12 14:29
12	Tagging women's basketball article talk pages with project tags		7	2	Hmlarson	2024-06-10 19:17	Mdann52	2024-06-10 19:15
13	Friendly support for Draft categories – feedback request		1	1	Mathglot	2024-06-10 19:40
14	'Literature of Kashmir'	Not a good task for a bot.	2	2	Usernamekiran	2024-06-11 07:37	Usernamekiran	2024-06-11 07:37
15	Adding links to previous TFDs		7	4	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02
16	Bot that condenses identical references	Coding...	9	4	Acebulf	2024-06-19 03:07	Headbomb	2024-06-18 00:34
17	Convert external links within {{Music ratings}} to refs		2	2	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11
18	Stat.kg ---> Stat.gov.kg		2	2	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21
19	Add constituency numbers to Indian assembly constituency boxes		2	2	Primefac	2024-06-25 00:27	Primefac	2024-06-25 00:27

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|quality= to |class= on WP templates

Could someone change "|quality=" to "|class=" on WikiProject templates. It doesn't work with "quality". Talked about it here. Pelmeen10 (talk) 18:09, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

There are 279 such pages. This edit will make "quality" work as well, though this is perhaps a sub-optimal hack. –xeno^talk 18:20, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Frankly that few number of records isn't worth the effort of a bot request. I could do them by hand in a couple hours and using AWB in less than 10 minutes (although thats not an issue for me anymore). I already did a few of these and I'll hack away at some more later. --Kumioko (talk) 19:48, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

So only WP:Volleyball had this kind of problem? Thanks. Pelmeen10 (talk) 11:41, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

 Doing... using the list xeno created. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:41, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

More projects have this mistake. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:53, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

 Done Someone who has a database scan of talk pages could probably give us more results. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:57, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

"|priority=" to "|importance=" on WP templates

In some WikiProjects, there is "|priority=" instead of "|importance=". Could someone check? Pelmeen10 (talk) 16:28, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Atleast for Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic music it makes mistakes. Pelmeen10 (talk) 16:34, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

This one can be fixed also, right? Pelmeen10 (talk) 12:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Garbage out of talkpages

Oh, and many WikiProjects have "|attention=", "|comments=", "|needs-infobox=", "|needs-photo=" etc in talk pages, but it's not icluded in the main WP template. Pelmeen10 (talk) 16:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

OK. You should make a to-do list then. I can't work the problems like this. Moreover, some people may disagree that invalid parameters need removal. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:17, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

I'll vouch for that. I don't agree with it but there are definately some editors out there that will react violently against anyone that tries to remove trash from an article. --Kumioko (talk) 19:45, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Why would they disagree? Pelmeen10 (talk) 05:46, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Maybe this won't need a bot, but should be discussed somewhere. Pelmeen10 (talk) 19:50, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Its been discussed a couple times already but feel free to start it up again. I would recommend the village pump. Maybe if it comes up often enough the handful of editors blocking it will allow it. --Kumioko (talk) 01:28, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Basically the reason that some don't like it is because they believe its a waste of system resources to remove garbage from a talk page that doesn't render any changes to the page and its better to leave it there. I do not and believe that it should be deleted but thats a different story. --Kumioko (talk) 14:31, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Okay, understood. But maybe we should add those parameters to main template to avoid trash on talkpages / or remove the "pointless stuff" from main template's documentation instead? Pelmeen10 (talk) 14:47, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

I see no point to ad support to |needs-infobox=, etc. if the wikiproject doesn't use them. I like the idea of mass talk page cleanup but we have to convince the community. -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

I also think a mass cleanup would be a good idea and would be a good general housecleaning task. --Kumioko (talk) 20:25, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

List of my edits to Spain

Browsing the various tools available on the toolserver, I've found that I've contributed more edits to Spain than any other mainspace page. However, I can't remember what these were (they were probably therefore several years ago). Would it be possible for a bot owner to satisfy my idle curiosity and put links to all my edits on the Spain article at User:Thryduulf/Spain, or point to a tool that I can use to get this list myself (I've had a look for one without success, but I've a poor track record when it comes to finding what is available on the toolserver). What I'm after would ideally look like a standard history page, but filtered to show only my edits.

This is a very low priority request.

Cheers, Thryduulf (talk) 14:55, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

I think the API can do this for you - I betcha someone will tell us how shortly... You could also try http://toolserver.org/~dcoetzee/contributionsurveyor/index.php (but it might die because of your substantial edit count) –xeno^talk 14:57, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

This query looks approximately what's wanted. Rjwilmsi 16:34, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Subject matter for my wiki

Hello, I have set up a wiki and its very empty. I need a few pages so it serves a purpose lol.

   Example Page title/Content:

-C++ programming:
tutorials
source code
examples

^all in link format with a few details about the site the link points to kind of like how google displays search results.

I can supply the links and edit the output, but I would have to do this for many pages each having a different subject and a bot would be very useful.
Could someone here create a bot that, upon editing a config file for each page and logging in, would format and post the page content for me?
Or possibly I could enter a topic into the config file or script and it would make a page with neatly formatted revelant info about the topic so I have consistant page content and it takes a little bit off my workload?

Thank you, Nick - The forum — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stickynicky1411 (talk • contribs)

Hi, Nick! This is a bot requests page for specific tasks for English Wikipedia, and not other wikis. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 10:18, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

asking a solution for interwiki problem

Hi All, I made 2500 articles in Fa.Wiki (one of them is this fa:کاوانیشی، هیوگو) and I added en.Wiki interwiki inside the articles but after 5 days none of our Interwiki bots couldn't detect interwiki and adding another wiki's links and had confect's error so they didn't add the other wiki's links. what should i do? If I prepare the list of our articles that they have one side interwiki, Would you please add farsi interwiki links to related english articles? also we have this problem for other articles.yoursReza1615 (talk) 20:24, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Holocaust nav box/Creating a bot to link articles to matching nav boxes

I have noticed that many of the articles that the Holocaust nav box links to do not have the nav box listed on it. In fact, I've noticed this with lots of nav boxes on Wikipedia. Is there a way to have a robot automatically do all of the linking of nav boxes on the articles that it links to? If not, can't Wikipedia create a robot to do stuff like that? This seems like the exact type of task that could be programmed into a bot. It would save a ton of tedious work and time for people.Hoops gza (talk) 06:39, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

There are a few reasons why some editors would chose to leave out a certain template. Other times, if a template were used, it wouldn't necessary go in the same spot on every article. Looking at the example you posted - Template:The Holocaust (end) - You can see this template posted at the bottom of such article as Auschwitz concentration camp. However, the same template also links to Pogrom, which also has significant content unrelated to the Holocaust, and thus this template doesn't belong there. I hope that makes sense. ^Avic_ennasis @ 21:58, 11 Nisan 5771 / 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Welcome Bot?

I am on the Wikipedia Welcoming Committe who's goal it is to welcome all new users. However, there are currently less than 20 of us and there is no way we can welcome all new users. I was wondering if ther was a bot that could welcome new users for us? Oddbodz (talk) 12:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots#Welcome bot and Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Use a bot to welcome new users. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:29, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Stand-in for Xenobot Mk V (WikiProject tagging and autoassessment bot)

I've found that my time available for operating my WikiProject tagging and auto-assessment bot has greatly reduced.

I am looking for a replacement operator who can deal with the requests at User:Xenobot/R and any subsequent requests that may be left there. There are at least five pending requests.

Any replacement needs to be able to mirror Xenobot's autoassessment process, outlined at User:Xenobot/A. I have some AWB settings that achieve this, and also a Python script written by User:EdoDodo (still developmental and with some known issues), both of which I can provide on request.

(Note: some projects also request custom work such as the open request for SEATTLE.)

Thanks in advance, –xeno^talk 14:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Anyone? –xeno^talk 13:56, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I try it ;-) Petrb (talk) 17:48, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

FFD and PUF page creation

We need to get a new bot to take up the work prepping each day's pages for Files for Deletion and Possibly Unfree Files. This involved making edits like this and like this, just setting up the pages for FFD and PUF discussions ahead of people who will actually be using them.

This task was previously done by Zorglbot, until said bot was blocked for malfunctioning on March 26, and has not since been unblocked. Thus we need a bot to pick up this task of Zorglbot's. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:41, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Filing a BRFA, easy task. Noom _talk ^stalk 13:46, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Unpolluting Category:Living people

Super-low priority task but I also suppose it's a pretty trivial thing to do for a bot. I'm trying to remove userspace pages that appear in Category:Living people (see Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories). I'm searching for these pages by hand which is pretty inefficient since the density is maybe 1/800 so I'd be grateful if someone can automatically create a list. Pichpich (talk) 16:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

[1] (takes a minute or two) —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 16:07, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. (and why did I not think of that?) Pichpich (talk) 16:32, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Category:Football biography using deprecated parameters

Hi guys, a long term aim of WP:FOOTBALL will be to empty Category:Football biography using deprecated parameters by converting a multitude of old infoboxes into the correct code found at {{Infobox football biography}}. However, with nearly 50,000 infoboxes to be converted, this will take a helluva long time - would it be possible for a bot to do this instead? Regards, GiantSnowman 18:28, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes Petrb (talk) 18:30, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

If that task doesn't need consensus I can start it soon. Petrb (talk) 18:31, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks - Magioladitis (talk · contribs) over at WP:BON says he has already prepared for this task, so you may want to liase with him. Regards, GiantSnowman 20:38, 17 April 2011 (UTC)