Wikipedia:Bot requests

This is a page for requesting work to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to simply put ideas for bots. If you need a piece of software written for a specific article you may get a faster response time at the computer help desk. You might also check Wikipedia:Bot policy to see if the bot you are looking for already exists. There are also quite a few "frequently denied requests", for various reasons, such as a welcoming bot, as it would de-humanize the process, and an anti-vandalism bot, as several already exist. If you want to request a bot to populate a category for a wikiproject, please create a full list of categories to be used, as most bot operators who can complete this task will not go into all subcategories, as some members may be irrelevant to your project. Also note that if you are requesting that an operator change or add a function to an existing bot, you should ask on that editor's talkpage.

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cites & reference in-line tags are way too frequently put before a comma or full stop.

Too often I see this. <-- it looks ugly, it should look like this. All we need is a bot that searches for: </ref>. removes the "." and looks for the <ref> that exists just before it, and places the "." in front of that. Many put extra spaces between the ref. also, so that needs to be accounted for, but I'm sure someone could come up with a bot to fix this, it is endemic to Wikipedia right now. 67.5.156.176 (talk) 07:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

This applies to all punctuation, so something like

re.sub('<ref([^/]*?)>(.*?)</ref>([.,;!?])','\3<ref\1>\2</ref>',text)

would work in python. I can't think off the top of my head where this would throw false positives (I've excluded all brackets and quotes, as these can be ambiguous). The issue would be finding these errors. They'd probably have to be found from a database dump. Ideally, it would be nice to have a continuously-running MOSbot to check RecentChanges for such simple and easily-fixed violations; when a new feature was added, we'd just have to search the most recent database dump for existing violations and fix them with a one-time script, and thereafter they'd be fixed in real-time. Happy‑melon 08:34, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Please do not do this. I consider it more logical to put the reference immediately after the fact, and that usually means before the punctuation. See Wikipedia:Cite your sources#Ref tags and punctuation, which allows both styles. —AlanBarrett 17:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I seem to recall that the MoS says you can put them before or after the punctuation, so long as it is consistent within an article. DuncanHill (talk) 17:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Doh! I should have read Alan's comment! DuncanHill (talk) 17:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Well if the MoS allows both styles, then this is a fast-track to Special:Blockip. No thankyou! Happy‑melon 21:54, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Two things: 1) we've denied bot proposals for this before, and 2) the regexes to do this properly are a lot more complicated than the above. Gimmetrow 04:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

From a strictly academic perspective, how much more complicated? Where would this throw false positives? Happy‑melon 18:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Punctuation before and after, to start with.<ref>Something</ref>. Then named/reused refs. Then refs "stacked" back to back.<ref>Something</ref><ref name=two/>. Then spacing and line breaks. Then dealing with quotes of various forms. I have a set of regexes for these situations, but I still know some cases that cause problems. Real language doesn't usually fit nicely into a simple regex. Gimmetrow 21:49, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm... I think that the regex above would work for "named/reused refs", "stacked" refs, and properly skip instances of spacing/linebreaks. However, I have just noticed that it would throw a catastrophic false positive in a page that had an error at the end of a long paragraph (namely, that it would match everything from the first <ref> tag in that paragraph to the misplaced tag), so deploying this 'as-is' is definitely not a good idea :D. Happy‑melon 09:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

The regex above does not catch this<ref name=two/>, since the closing ref is part of the match phrase. Yes, it will catch some things, but it only scratches the surface. Like I said, I've developed regexes that catch most of it. Gimmetrow 16:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm surprised to see one mention placing something "immediately after the fact" as meaning to jump in front of proper grammar by truncating the punctuation of the sentence structure. i.e. before the fact is finished. I think policy needs to be reviewed in this instance! The latter form I gave is clearly superior in looks and logical structure. 67.5.147.10 (talk) 10:23, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

A bot to count pages in a category and update the count on a page to keep track of Adopt-a-user backlog

Resolved

I would like a bot to count the pages in Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user and update Template:Adoption backlog/count with that number, daily, or a few times per day if possible. Thanks in advance, xenocidic (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Or, how about {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user}} = 25. :D Happy‑melon 21:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah ok you need to wait for the maintenance script to finish compiling the data table for en.wiki, but eventually it'll be a quick and easy way of doing this. Happy‑melon 21:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the suggestion! xenocidic (talk) 22:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

←Since this doesn't seem to work, any takers? xenocidic ( talk ¿ review ) 20:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

It does seem to work (now)... just about... it's just a bit slow (and you need to purge the page cache to get an updated value). Happy‑melon 21:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks Melon. xenocidic ( talk ¿ review ) 21:53, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Category:Genetics tagging

WikiProject Genetics is a new WikiProject. As of 00:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC),[1] User:John Bot tagged the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics stubs with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Now, for those article talk pages not already tagged with {{WikiProject Genetics}}, can you get a bot to tag the talk pages of all the articles in Category:Genetics and all of its sub categories with {{WikiProject Genetics|class=|importance=|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 05:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I can do this one. The whole category, I assume? Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 05:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Hummm, on review I think I need confirmation on this from Madeleine Price Ball. I'll let you know. GregManninLB (talk) 06:09, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

User:John Bot Will do this again. I have the code ready for it anyway. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 14:02, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I've been away. I think this is a good idea, much appreciated! Thank you! Madeleine ✉ ✍ 14:37, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Will begin Later today. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 15:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

 Doing... Starting now. Will do cat by cat because the Wikiproject is in this cat. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 19:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

 Doing... I forgot about this lol! CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Wow, that didn't work well at all. I'm really sorry about that. It looks like the bot shouldn't be digging into the subcategories like this! What a mess... Is it hard to automatically clean this up? :-( (I don't mind if you have to remove all wikiproject genetics banners entirely.) Madeleine ✉ ✍ 00:22, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

um sure. codes some stuff CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)}

Give me two hours and i can do a mass revert. β^{_{command 2}} 00:35, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Do It. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

roger, will do. I just have to get back to a machine that supports javascript. (ETA 1.5 hours) β^{_{command 2}} 00:54, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

← Let's do this the right way this time. Give me a list of all categories like the request here. Thanks, CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

What's going on with this - is this running again? I see Age at first marriage got tagged in the last day and it clearly doesn't belong. Did someone give you a list of categories somewhere? Madeleine ✉ ✍ 04:35, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Requested redirect migration

Could someone please migrate usages of the redirect {{self2}} to its target, {{self}}? There appears to be several thousand usages. The reason is that this license template is being broken when image pages transcluding it are transferred to the Commons, and the name of the author is being dropped. Kelly ^hi! 20:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I now have a BRFA up for this. ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 20:51, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Note: There are around 12,000 transclusions of {{self2}} to be changed to {{self}} ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 20:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Um, how exactly is this breaking? Commons redirects template:self2 to template:self, too. Gimmetrow 16:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the delayed reply...I don't understand why it's breaking either, but when CommonsHelper is used to transfer images to Commons, the {{self2}} part of the template, and the name of the author, is being dropped and the license is broken into its component pieces. Kelly ^hi! 13:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Some type of GeoBot

Okay, may I please say this is a TOP PRIORITY. We have tens/hundreds of thousands of articles missing on places all over the world. Myself and User:Blofeld of SPECTRE have been working so hard to create these articles but a bot would really help. We could use Maplandia.com to create stubs like Simaw. Many thanks to whoever creates such a bot. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 21:49, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Well I've tried to propose something before where it can generate 10 articles a minute but nothing has been done. Articles such as Simaw are created using the same source and all that changes is the external link and the digits in the infobox. What is being done to burma and togo can be done to virtually any country in the world which doesn't have a full gazetteer and lord knows that many countries on here, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America only have 20 or so articles for osme of the countries whn potentially there could be several thousand even for each region of the country. Creating district templates like so is the best possible way to cover territory on here anywhere. Evne as the stubs are they are of value. The list of places for each district is listed in maplandia where it is copied to wikipedia. Then the articles are created with as little change as possible making it as efficient as possible. Such is the extreme simplicity of the procedure that I am certain a bot could be programmed to perform the task ten times faster as it is reading a repeated format each time. A Bot I believe can read the list of places on the site by region or district for eahc country and can read the coordinates on the site and copy them into the infoboxes as the articles are created. If wikipedia is to be serious about developing into the best reference site imaginable, then given that all populated settlements have claim to notability we should seriously be thinking about a way to be adding these articles on a daily basis. To be able to cover the world evenly and in a detailed way for each country would be an incredible strengthening of our encyclopedia and I know that we should start to be thinking seriously about making this possible. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:48, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

If this can be done, it should be, and quickly - there's a ton of information out there that ought to be made available, and the sooner the better. It would be a tremendous boon to the project. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 15:18, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Given the activity and nature of RamBot's work before this is definately possible particularly given the simplicity of the task. I see it as an essential foundation to cover the world properly and evenly on wikipedia and give a strong basis to build upon in which in my view I think it should have been done long before now. There is likely to be information out there on many countries which could be used to epxand them and I am convinvced more data and info will become available for the developing countries over time. What this encyclopedia needs is real world content and nothing can be more important that covering the world comprehenisively on wikipedia ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

give me month, (im very busy at the moment) and Ill look into it β^{_{command 2}} 16:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I have some bad news for you. From http://www.maplandia.com/terms-of-use/:

“ Provided you comply with these Terms of Use, Maplandia grants you a nonexclusive, non-transferable license to view and print the Materials solely for your own personal non-commercial use. You may share a map with another individual for that individual's personal non-commercial use using the email option on the map webpage. You may not commercially exploit the Materials or the underlying data, including without limitation, you may not create derivative works of the Materials, use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on the Materials, frame any portion of the Materials, or reprint, copy, modify, translate, port, publish, sublicense, assign, transfer, sell, or otherwise distribute the Materials without the prior written consent of Maplandia. You shall not derive or attempt to derive the source code or structure of all or any portion of the Materials by reverse engineering, disassembly, decompilation or any other means. ”

Emphasis mine. Also from FAQ: "However you may not copy any part of our webiste under any cirucumstances" (sic). Using robots is forbidden, and I'm not even sure whether using mplandia as a source for creating articles manually is ok (using it for one article is fine, but using it systematically could be considered copying). The problem is not the names and coordinates, that comes from US military and is PD. The administrative hierarchies are a different story. I'm not sure if I have seen any other site with such detailed information, so I think that's their own doing. Correlating the geoname databases with administrative division data is not tricky, it's quite trivial in fact, but the GIS data for administrative divisions tends to be proprietary and (very) expensive. Certainly somebody who actually understand copyright (I don't) needs to take a look at this.

I still believe it's better to approach the governments directly and ask what information they have available. Wikipedia is now big and well known. Pretty much every country has statistical and/or map making agencies, as the countries need that kind of data for their internal planning. As a rule, they do not make such a data publicly available (one reason is the large size of such data sets, especially if they have been meshed into full GIS system). Potentially that data could be very detailed... – Sadalmelik ☎ 17:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

well yes but how do you suggest we get them onto here more efficiently then??? I don;t see how using coordinates from the webste is copying -the names and coordinates of the places are naturally public domain. I pretty certain the site is talking about copying their maps as it is "Maplandia". If anything it is google maps not maplandia. Ideally I would also stick to using official goverment sources if possible but the idea that the Burmese goverment is going to give an online website like wikipedia statistics and info on their 40,000 towns and villages is a highly improbable one ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

We are not copying any information from maplandia other than the coordinates, which are already present on a bunch of other websites such as Fallingrain.com. Besides, I'm sure they were talking about the maps and source codes, not coordinates. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 19:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

You are copying more. The names and coordinates come from US military and are not an issue – maplandia, fallingrain & co simply wrap this information in html. Personally I have always used GNS directly for coordinates without bothering with various gazetteers, but regardless where you get the names and coordinates they should be free (I have not seen any disclaimer about sources Maplandia is using, so I'm strictly speaking only assuming they are using GNS). What GNS does not include is the administrative hierarchy beyond first level. That appears to be work of Maplandia. Like I said in above, in principle it's quite trivial. You simply take the administrative boundaries, and check where the coordinates lie. As simple as that! But as far as I understand Maplandia have done it themselves, and is claiming copyright for it. From FAQ: The use of boundary data, regional directory data or any other part of our website's content outside the maplandia.com is prohibited. Also according to their FAQ they are not using freely available sources for administrative boundaries (whatever is freely available tends to be old, anyway). All I'm saying is that somebody who actually understands copyrights need to look at this site, before a bot is sent to crawl through it. I have certainly been wrong (too paranoid about copyright) about these issues before. I'm not sure who to ask, though... – Sadalmelik ☎ 21:40, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes I think you are being very paranoid about this -- besides, they cannot claim copyright for material that is in the public domain. Their data comes from google maps, which has the exact same coordinates and is ot as paranoid. Besides, I never thoght that strings of numbers were copyrighted anyway, and the "content" that they are claiming copyright for is simply "so and so is located at..." etc. I'm sure there are many sorces available for this data, but the end result would be the same and I certainly don't see why we would have to sacrifice misinformation (writing the wrong coordinates) for copyright paranoi. Besides, in the .00001% chance that they decide to take us to court for an issue as unimportant as this, I guarantee 100% that we would win. I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 00:40, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

It is possible to claim copyright for works derived from public domain sources – that's why there is a whole industry selling reprocessed Landsat images. It depends on the modifications done. From what I can see Maplandia essentially claims their addition of "Regional Directories" (administrative hierarchies) is sufficient (again I'm only assuming they are using coodinates and names from GNS... I suppose there are also commercial products similar than or derived from GNS). Whether their claim is true and whether it covers the whole of Maplandia or only parts of it, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. The maps are separate topic. Google provides the basemap: satellite images (coincidentally from Landsat and copyrighted) and some of the labels. The administrative boundaries drawn are from Maplandia and, as they state, are proprietary and licensed from third party geo information providers. The same administrative boundaries have likely been used to created the "Regional Directories" in the first place. – Sadalmelik ☎ 05:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Well I've contacted the website and I'm waiting for a reply. Given the huge traffic on wikipedia an increased direction to that website would certainly not be a bad thing for it. In fact if I was the owner I pretty much want to increased as much traffic to my website as possible ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Assuming it is all legitimate for using it, I could probably sit down and write up a bot to do this task. Getting the bot approved might take a little time though - could you wait that long? Fritzpoll (talk) 14:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Well if it is years or a year no. But if you could sort something in a few weeks or months I wouldn't have any objections as long as you consider it important. Things can be done manually up until then. I seriously doubt the name and coordinates of towns are copywrightable and if maplandia tries to claim this it is clearly deluded. The site obviously used google data but they do appear to be claiming authorship of this. I;m certian if you studied that site you'd see how straightforward its system is ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:35, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about that, but I do not that there have been sources which have intentionally introduced willful small errors in their work, which, if copied, are clearly copyright violations. Such might happen here as well. If some other site, like governmental sites, were available, that might be different. John Carter (talk) 20:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this over the weekend Fritzpoll (talk) 16:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Basically we are looking to retrieve the names and coordinates of places which can be inserted straight into the infoboxes and work through districts/regions of each country. There are likely to be google databases or other sites which have such lists anyway. Extracting place names and coordinates are non copywrightable I'm pretty sure ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:33, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Names and coordinates can always be taken from GNS (http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp there is a download link on left hand side), which is maintained by US military (and therefore even officially PD); I have always used this. The files are TAB-separated text files, so parsing them is easy. GNS only has information on the first level administrative divisions, so the hierarchical information will have to be taken from somewhere else. – Sadalmelik ☎ 18:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Feist v. Rural establishes that mere data without any human creativity (like phonebooks) are not copyrightable. Mind that this is SCOTUS so the decisions will not apply outside of the United States. So it is always best to try and get the information from public resources whenever possible. — Dispenser 22:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I am satisfied by this discussion, and have begun work on the bot to achieve this. Since it will be automated, I shall apply to BAG at the appropriate time to get it flagged and any further information can be brought up then - alternatively, if something crops up sooner than that, let me know ASAP Fritzpoll (talk) 22:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I have coded a bot that works simply by using the publicly published hyperlinks of maplandia, which the bot uses to reference the GNS database. I think this skirts any outstanding copyright issue. Fritzpoll (talk) 20:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Need bulk text-replacement on about 85 asteroid articles

85-odd asteroid-related articles need minor text-replacement updates. Replace at Siding Spring in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey with at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey and replace discovery_site = Siding Spring in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey with discovery_site = Siding Spring Observatory. Yes, I know this will leave a redlink, I was unable to find the topic in an article. See User talk:Davidwr/6227 Alanrubin for details.

 Doing...... CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

For some damn reason AWB doesn't like me.  Not done yet. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

 Doing... It's a love-hate relationship. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:45, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

 Done. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Bypassing redirects in templates

I would like a bot that fix redirects in templates. Generally we discourage fixing links to redirects that are not broken, but in templates a correct link is better since the direct link will display in bold (and not as a link), making it easier to navigate through a series of articles using the template. See WP:R#NOTBROKEN. I tried bypassing redirects links on football templates with AWB, but it was a pain doing this manually. A bot could be tried out on templates in the subcategories of Category:Football squad by nation templates. Rettetast (talk) 18:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I would be willing to take a look at this, but my bot is still in the process of being developed, and it may be a while before it's completed/approved. --T-rex 22:02, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Standardise babel templates

Could a bot standardise the babel templates to the standards described here, and search for templates that are not in that category yet and standardise them too? Example of a good way to do it: fr. How not to do it: af. User:Krator (t c) 21:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Given that the "standards" on that page make no sense to me whatsoever, what, exactly, would the bot be doing? There is such a massive amount of difference between {{user af}} and {{user fr}} that I have no idea what features of 'af' are problematic (I'd guess all of them, but you can't be sure :D). Happy‑melon 15:54, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

User:SatyrTN

If I had been a client of User:SatyrTN's User:SatyrBot do I need to request new bot assistance.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Tony. Gimmetrow 18:52, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

O.K. User:SatyrTN has been tagging categories at WP:CHIBOTCATS with {{WikiProject Chicago}}. It has autostubbed talk pages that have preexiting templates with class=stub. It also auto-FA, FL, and GAed pages that have templates with such tags on them. I think he had to do some special things to avoid some railroad categories that have articles that don't belong to us, but I don't recall. He use to run this bot twice a week looking for new articles for us. Can I get a new bot that will take over this responsibility?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Togo bot tagging request

Would request that the articles in Category:Togo, Category:Assoli Prefecture, Category:Bassar Prefecture, Category:Bimah Prefecture, Category:Centrale Region, Category:Cities, towns and villages in Togo, Category:Doufelgou Prefecture, Category:Kara Region, Category:Lakes of Togo, Category:Landforms of Togo, Category:Lomé, Category:Maps of Togo, Category:Maritime Region, Category:Mountains of Togo, Category:National parks of Togo, Category:Neighborhoods of Lomé, Category:Old maps of Togo, Category:Parks in Togo, Category:People from Lomé, Category:Plateaux Region, Togo, Category:Prefectures of Togo, Category:Regions of Togo, Category:Rivers of Togo, Category:Savanes Region, Togo, Category:Settlements in Togo, Category:Subdivisions of Togo, and Category:Togo geography stubs all be tagged with {{AfricaProject|class=|importance=|Togo=yes|Togo-importance=}}, with autoassessment based on stub template if possible. John Carter (talk) 19:53, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Will Do. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Done! CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

BoT Request for WikiProject India / Kerala work group

I am from the Assessment dept of WikiProject India. This is a bot request for Kerala work group.
The banner for the Project is {{WP India|kerala=yes}}

Many of the articles Talk pages doesnt have the importance tag for the workgroup kerala.
My request is to append "|kerala-importance=" to ALL article talk pages with {{WP India|kerala=yes}} and doesnt have |kerala-importance= already.

Can this be done by a bot ??. Thanks in advance -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 06:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

What on earth is the point in adding a blank |kerala-importance= parameter by bot if it is going to have to be filled in by human editors anyway? The whole point of having separate importance scales for task forces is that a TF might have assign a different importance to an article than its parent project, so you can't just copy from the main |importance= parameter. Given that you're going to have to do this anyway, why not skip the bot step and go straight to digging through Category:Unknown-importance Kerala articles and adding the |kerala-importance= parameter by hand. Unless I've completely misread the situation, there's nothing that a bot can do to help you here. Happy‑melon 21:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

One less step for reviewers. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I thought it will be faster and easier with BOTs -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 07:06, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

 Doing... I've got my alternate AWB account on it now, adding |kerala-importance= to articles in Category:WikiProject Kerala articles that don't already have it. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 11:44, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

User:Richard0612/stilldoing c.500 pages to go. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 12:21, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 12:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Richard0612/stilldoing c.150 pages to go RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 12:43, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

 Done All relevant pages updated with the parameter. 237 pages edited out of 963 pages checked. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 13:07, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot from the Project Team -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 13:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

bot to fix broken reference tags

Often times, people mean to add <ref></ref>, but instead they put <ref><ref>, resulting in a lot of missing text. I don't think <ref></ref> tags can be nested inside one another, so finding these errors and changing the second to </ref> would fix most cases. Or, how about just even making a list of articles that have this occurrence that can be scanned. I think this would be a very useful bot. --Rajah (talk) 16:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I have some regexes for a related thing, I may be able to make a list. Mr.Z-man 22:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

The list is at User:Mr.Z-man/Broken refs. Since there are well over 1000, I'll post this elsewhere so more people can work on these. Mr.Z-man 20:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll start helping with this now [hope you don't mind]. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 20:35, May 19, 2008 (UTC)

Redirect classification

I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but is there a way where I could add {{TelevisionWikiProject|class=Redirect|importance=Low|avatar=yes|avatar-importance=Low}} to the talk page of any page that redirects to the article page of any page on this list. For example, one of the pages on that list is Talk:Appa. So any page that redirects to the article page, Appa, should have the template on its talk page. Some of the pages might already have something on them. Since they are redirect pages, I think just blanking the talk page and adding the template would be OK. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 14:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

 Possible: I'll look into it. It will require generating a long list of pages, and checking to see what redirects to each one, then running a script to add the template. It's certainly doable, but will require a lot of work. I'll see what I can do. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 14:52, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 15:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Generating that list now. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 15:12, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

 Doing... About 300 pages to edit, this will take a while! RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 15:50, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

 Done Pages added to this category automatically by the template. This category therefore is redundant, and discussion should probably be brought up on the relevant project page as to whether to delete it. It is probably easier to keep the new one [which I have categorised appropriately] and delete the old one than to change the template to use the old one, requiring the re-caching of some 300 pages. If you need any more help, please feel free to ask. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 17:00, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for everything. The old category is actually redundant. I will put a CSD tag on it. It was there before the project standardized its category system. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 18:17, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Non-free images in non-article space

Per WP:NFCC#9, non-free images are only allowed in mainspace. Apparently we used to have a bot to remove non-free content used elsewhere, but it is no longer active. I think we need a bot to automatically remove non-free images from user, template, etc. spaces. Kelly ^hi! 20:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure we did and still do. I can attempt doing this I guess. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure whether I am quite up to writing one, but if someone can point me in the direction of some source code, I can refine it and run it if you like. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 21:30, May 18, 2008 (UTC)

That's okay. I'm good in the image bot field so I can handle it. I found one that used to run, User:ImageBacklogBot. I'll see about getting source code... CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:32, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks like I'm coding this from scratch. Say Hello to User:John Bot IV CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Fill Infobox with value from redirect

All pages that use Template:Infobox Settlement and have an incoming redirect from Category:Redirects from UN/LOCODE shall get the 5 char value of the redirect e.g. for the redirect UN/LOCODE:USNYC put in the Infobox at New York City the value like this: |un_locode = USNYC UnLoCode (talk) 08:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I see no parameter in {{Infobox Settlement}} for {{{un_locode}}}. Are you sure you have the right template? RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 15:29, May 19, 2008 (UTC)

 Not done for the moment. OK, I see that the idea has been proposed but not added in. If/when the parameter is added to the template, please repost the request as [at the moment] there is nothing to do. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 20:11, May 19, 2008 (UTC)

WP:INDIA Bot Assisted Assessment

I am from WP:INDIA to request for a Bot Assisted Assessment. Please see the discussion on this here .
Our banner is {{WP India}}
Our request is

1) If "|class=" tag is empty, replace it with the highest quality assessment from the other project banners on the same talk page. for articles in Category:Unassessed-Class India articles

Who can take this up ? -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 05:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 Possible: It can certainly be done with AWB. I'll generate that list now. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 15:36, May 20, 2008 (UTC)

I can't seem to get the regex working, so I've asked over at WP:AWB; I'm still working on it, but it may take a bit longer than expected. Also, this requires over 9000 pages to be processed, so if anyone wants to share the workload... RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 21:34, May 20, 2008 (UTC)

Is BetacommandBot still operational ? I remember taking BC's help for a similar task for another project -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 04:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I have asked BC for the source code. -- maelgwn - talk 04:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Any progress ?? -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 04:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Nup -- maelgwn - talk 08:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

can you get on IRC tuesday so that I can walk you through the usage of my tool? β^{_{command 2}} 20:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Based on the custom module that I have coded for the CHICAGO project below, I should be able to get this one done as well. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 19:52, May 22, 2008 (UTC)

RCP bot

Out of sheer ignorance of bots and how they work, I am unsure whether this has been done or thought of before, or even if this can be done, but I would like to request a bot who could possibly do RCP-ing and identification of certain kinds of inappropriate pages, in a similar way to User:ClueBot or User:VoABot but with new pages? For instance, the ability to detect when a page is created for pure vandalism, link spam, blatant copyvio's or just an empty or near-empty page, etc.? Thanks, Mizu onna sango15/水女珊瑚15 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC).

ClueBot V was going to do it, but the BRFA was withdrawn. Soxred93 (u t) 00:45, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Category:Engineering stubs

For those articles listed at Category:Engineering stubs, please tag their talk pages with {{Engineering|class=Stub|importance=Low|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}. Please do not modify any existing parameters on the talk pages and please do not tag the subcategories of Category:Engineering stubs. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 22:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 Doing... Soxred93 (u t) 00:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

All but 100 pages done, I'll need to be reminded later today to do it. Soxred93 (u t) 12:10, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Adding links to all articles that use the "alongside" field of Infobox Officeholder

Right now, the "alongside" field (also the "alongsideX" field, where X is any integer from 0 to 9) of Template:Infobox Officeholder is automatically wikilinked. This can pose problems in some cases, so I would like to remove the automatic wikilinking, and have proposed as much at the talk page. However, if I do that, there are going to be a bunch of wikilinks that should be there disappearing; I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a bot put wikilinks in to replace the ones that I'm removing from the template. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 18:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:CHICAGO bot needed

Maybe this got lost in the middle of a discussion above so I will create a separate section.

It seems User:SatyrTN and his bot User:SatyrBot are no longer active. WP:CHICAGO needs articles in WP:CHIBOTCATS tagged with {{WikiProject Chicago}}. It would also be helpful if the bot autostubbed talk pages that have templates from other projects with class=stub. I think his bot also tagged newly found articles with FA, FL, and GA parameters and added them to class when it added the template. --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

•  Possible:It's a definite can do, see this edit for a primitive example using a custom AWB module. I shall code GA/FA/FL recognition in and set it running (it may take a while). RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 19:52, May 22, 2008 (UTC)
•  Doing... Tagging all Talk: pages in the WP:CHIBOTCATS categories with {{ChicagoWikiProject}}, adding Stub/GA/FL/FA where appropriate. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 20:30, May 22, 2008 (UTC)