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Meteorites

Greetings.

Looking for a bot owner to help classify articles in Category:Meteorites and its sub-categories.

I've gone into a lot of detail below for my own peace of mind; most of this will be self evident to the experienced.

The task...

1. For every article in the Category:Meteorites category tree:
   1. If its talk page does not contain {{WikiProject Geology}} add this with parameters "|class=|importance=|attention=|needs-infobox=".
      1. Do not touch "class=" if it is already set; otherwise set it to "Stub" if there is a stub tag on the article (in which case also set "|auto=Yes") or else leave "class=" blank.
      2. If the article contains "{{Infobox" set "needs-infobox=" to "No" otherwise set it to "Yes".
   2. If the article is a stub (ie stub tag on article or "class=Stub" on talk page) ensure that {{Meteoroid-stub}} is in the article and if it isn't then add it.
   3. If the talk page includes {{WikiProject Astronomy}} add its name to a list of articles for future consideration.
   4. Ensure that every image displayed in the article is included in Category:Meteorite files.
   5. Deleted task
2. For every Category in the Category:Meteorites category tree:
   1. If its talk page does not contain {{WikiProject Geology}} add it with parameters "|class=".
      1. Do not touch "class=" if it is already set; otherwise set it to "Cat".
3. Sub-categories of Category:Meteorites by find location take the form "Category:Meteorites found in <Country>". For each article in any of these except the one exception (Category:Meteorites found on bodies other than Earth‎):
   1. Check if {{WikiProject <Country>}} exists and if so that it is on the article's talk page. If not then add it using the usual rules for setting "|Class=Stub" and "|auto=Yes".

Having made many edits to these articles over the past few days with virtualy no response I suspect no one is interested in discussing this uncontroversial request. None the less I've added pointers to it (or am about to) at Category talk:Meteorites and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geology. -Arb. (talk) 00:07, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Pointer also at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy for good measure. -Arb. (talk) 00:17, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it's a good idea to mix image and articles in a category, when you can have a separate image category instead. Category:Meteorite files should hold the media files. That way they can be properly placed into the media files category tree. -- 70.24.250.110 (talk) 00:30, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Good point. Requirement above edited accordingly. Will re-categorise the few existing files manually. -Arb. (talk) 10:33, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Added task 3. -Arb. (talk) 12:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Meteorites has become the December collaboration of the month at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geology#Collaboration of the month so it would be good if this request was dealt with soon. Many thanks. -Arb. (talk) 12:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

For (2), what if the category doesn't have a talk page? Should one be created with this template in it? — Wolfgang42 (talk) 20:28, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes. -Arb. (talk) 00:50, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Coding... — Wolfgang42 (talk) 01:44, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

That's great. Any idea how long it will take you? -Arb. (talk) 12:28, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

I already have it about 50% done; I expect by next week it'll be ready. — Wolfgang42 (talk) 23:22, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

That's good news.

As you are still coding would you kindly accommodate a small requirement creep to step 1.1 (per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geology/Meteorites):

1. When adding {{WikiProject Geology}}, include before the closing "}}" the string "|meteorites=Yes|meteorites-importance="
2. If {{WikiProject Geology}} is already present then check if it contains "|meteorites=Yes|meteorites-importance=" and if not add it. Note that there might exist instances like "|meteorites=|meteorites-importance=" or "|meteorites=Yes|meteorites-importance=Low" and all possible permutations. If you come across one of these ensure "|meteorites=Yes" and leave "|meteorites-importance=<any value>" untouched.

Many thanks. -Arb. (talk) 01:32, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

{{Coord missing}} has several parameters for categorization. Would meteorites be considered astronomical objects to be placed in Category:Astronomical objects articles needing coordinates even if they've landed? — Wolfgang42 (talk) 20:14, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Interesting question. My gut feeling is no; landed meteorites seem to be more the province of Geologists than Astronomers (though I am neither). If we really want to do that job properly it would be best achieved via a small update to {{Infobox meteorite}} and a new category Wikipedia infobox meteorite articles without coordinates‎ similar to Category:Wikipedia infobox amusement park articles without coordinates‎. No bot action required. -Arb. (talk) 23:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Should I perhaps create a new Category:Meteorites articles needing coordinates so we can use {{coord missing|country|Meteorites}}? — Wolfgang42 (talk) 00:13, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Coords missing should be driven from the infobox. That's the most user friendly way to do the job in that once coords are added to the box the "no coords" category just goes away without the editor having to remember to delete coords missing. Just because you have a hammer (bot) does not make every problem a nail. Would much rather you focused on the requirements above. Thanks. -Arb. (talk) 01:55, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

So I should ignore task 1.5 above and not include {{coords missing}}? — Wolfgang42 (talk) 02:10, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

That does indeed seem to be the case. Task 1.5 was a mistake and, worse, I'd forgotten it was there. Humble apologies for wasting your time; feel free to call me any names you like under your breath. The rest are still anxiously awaited though. -Arb. (talk) 12:33, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

I understand completely. Leaving your mental state in the edit summary was extremely helpful—it gave me an idea of what was going through your head.

I'm almost done; I just need to make sure that the code I've written actually works and then I'll submit the BRFA. — Wolfgang42 (talk) 12:54, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Requirement creep 2 if it's not too late:

1. In requirement creep 1 above the strings should all be singular not plural ie "|meteorite=" and "|meteorite-importance="
2. Task 1.1.2 should read: If the article contains "{{Infobox" or "{{MarsGeo" or "{{chembox", remove the "needs-infobox=" parameter (whatever it is set to) otherwise set it to "Yes".

By way of explanation, this is the first task force I've worked the detail for; I'm learning plenty as we go along. Many thanks for your understanding. -Arb. (talk) 12:54, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Should images on Commons also be tagged with Category:Meteorite files? — Wolfgang42 (talk) 00:18, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Another issue with tagging images with Category:Meteorite files: The bot will also tag images such as File:Folder Hexagonal Icon.svg, File:Question book-new.svg and File:Commons-logo.svg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfgang42 (talk • contribs) 02:09, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Good catch there Wolfgang42. Commons images should not be tagged, Commons has a completely different category system.

The background to this task is that there are a few Wikipedia hosted meteorite images in the target category; we want to ensure that all such Wikipedia hosted images that are used on any of the articles are so tagged. This would (clearly) not include the three you mention nor any others like them. If you can figure out a way to distinguish those from "ours" then great, otherwise we'll have to do this task manually.

The only thing the three seem to have in common is that they are all in Category:Protected images... -Arb. (talk) 13:44, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Overnight additional thoughts. Don't place these into a category but instead build a list and I'll use AWB to go through them manually; there won't be many it's just locating them that's time consuming. Filter out commons files and any others that are easy per discussion just above. -Arb. (talk) 11:34, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

BRFA filed I can filter out commons files, but trying to find the other ones without false negatives may be difficult. I'll look into it shortly. — Wolfgang42 (talk) 00:22, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Good to see the first test run a couple of days ago Wolfgang42. Look forward to more after the Christmas break. -Arb. (talk) 13:03, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh, yes, about that... Actually, that wasn't supposed to happen. I thought I was running the bot in `fakedit' mode where it would print its edits to a file instead of actually making them... then I looked and there wasn't any such file... At least I found some bugs in my code! (And my head.) — Wolfgang42 (talk) 17:55, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Scottish Peaks (around 2,000 articles)

We have 8 list of Scottish Peaks on Wiki-cy which contain individual peaks: names and co-ordinates. The other 7 lists can be found here. My request is for a map to be placed in the Infobox ("Mynydd2"). All that I require is for someone to just add these two lines as the last lines of the infobox:

| lledred = 56.454 | hydred = -3.991

replacing the XY, of course with the corresponding / correct co-ordinates. Then, the map appears.

Sounds easy! Is it? - Llywelyn2000 (talk) 00:09, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Rich Farmbrough, 17:44, 14 December 2012 (UTC).

I'm not sure where I'd be getting the correct coordinates, though.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  04:17, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I have the coordinates in an Excel file. Trying now to input them with WMB, but it's a tad difficult. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 04:27, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

What does "WMB" stand for? The Transhumanist 03:55, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

{{Rayment}}

Template:Rayment should have the parameter external links=1 when used as an external link. I have often seen people forget that parameter, and that causes two error messages appear that should only appear when used as a source. Werieth (talk) 21:48, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

• Coding...--Makecat 06:19, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Request for update to two references

Would it be possible to use a bot to update occurences of two online references occuring in about 250 articles?

Back in October, the Royal Australian Navy decided to overhaul its website, breaking almost every single one of the 2,000-odd external links here. While most would be impossible to update via bot (due to weird and wonderful changes in the URL naming conventions and alterations to or removals of content during the update), there are two addresses (http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf and http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours) removed from the site that are linked around 250 times each, which I think could be mass-updated by a bot to include the link to the Archive.org Wayback Machine version.

What the bot would have to do is take the articles containing the url(s), add the relevant archiveurl and archivedate parameters to the citation, and update the accessdate parameter. Not knowing bots at all, would it would be easier to insert/adjust these parameters, or strip out the entire citation template and replace it with a new one? Full format is below.

• {{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf |title=Royal Australian Navy Ship/Unit Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |accessdate=14 March 2010}} with {{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf |title=Royal Australian Navy Ship/Unit Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20110614064156/http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf |archivedate=14 June 2011 |accessdate=23 December 2012}}
• {{cite news |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours |title=Navy Marks 109th Birthday With Historic Changes To Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |accessdate=14 March 2010}} with {{cite news |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours |title=Navy Marks 109th Birthday With Historic Changes To Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20110613184920/http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours |archivedate=13 June 2011 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |accessdate=23 December 2012}}

Any assistance or thoughts appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- saberwyn 03:52, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I ran my bot across all pages that were in a couple of Australian Navy categories and every page that started with "HMAS ", it didn't quite make 250 edits, but ~220, which you can see at Special:Contributions/Thehelpfulbot. Hope this helps, if I've missed any please let me know and I'll run the bot for the rest of the pages. Thehelpfulone 17:23, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that. There are a couple that were missed (I'm guessing because of a different citation layout to the others), but its small enough that I can do them manually. -- saberwyn 19:58, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

No problem at all, out of interest how did you find the ones that were missed - using a toolserver tool? Thehelpfulone 20:27, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't know if such a tool exisits. I just went wandering through a bunch of articles and applied a Mark I Human Eyeball. Any that I've missed at this point, I'll pick up through the course of general editing. -- saberwyn 21:45, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Curious which BRFA this was done under? Rich Farmbrough, 02:05, 25 December 2012 (UTC).

That would be BRFA number 3, simple find/replaces "for Wikipedia:WikiProject Topic outline and any other articles that need it." Merry Christmas! Thehelpfulone 02:18, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Handbook of Texas Online

Per Talk page conversation Magioladitis. We need a bot.to correct coding on existing articles that contain the Template:Handbook of Texas. The handbook changed its URLs. User Magioladitis has changed the template so it works with all new uses. But we need to run a bot to correct how existing templates were coded in the template section "id="

• Mason County is one example. You can see "id=MM/hcm4". The new handbook URL has eliminated the double alpha "MM" and its forward slash, and inserted a zero to the left of the number 4. Handbook-Mason County

• However, the addition of the zero seems to apply only where there previously existed a single digit. Guadalupe County is an example. The digit in this one is 12, and the Handbook-Guadalupe did not add a zero, but eliminated the double alpha and the forward slash to the right of it

Therefore, we need a bot that makes these changes to the coding on "id=":

1) Remove the double alpha coding and the forward slash to the right of it

2) Add the extra zero to the left of any single digit coding

There are possibly hundreds or thousands of Texas articles affected. Please let me know if you need additional explanation.— Maile (talk) 15:16, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

There are about 120 articles affected at first blush. I will attend to these over the next few days if I can. Rich Farmbrough, 21:30, 24 December 2012 (UTC).

List of WikiProjects

I am preparing the research within wikigroups. I need a list of WikiProjects, would it be possible to send me (you can use e-mail) a list of pages (would be nice one pagename per line) which starts at Wikipedia:WikiProject~ ? I will sort out subpages manually, or if you can remove them would be nice. I guess each pagename which has / is not needed.--Juandev (talk) 18:00, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

WP:STANDARDIZE (or this) is what you are looking for? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:05, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

The problem here is that although there are several of us that can tell you what the WikiProjects are, the naming isn't standard among them. Some start with WikiProject, Some with WP, some have names like Maths project or US Roads WikiProject. Additionally there are many variations of some with a large number of redirects. What this means is that although its fairly easy to identify 99% of the projects, doing any sort of analysis on them becomes much much harder due to the lack of standardization. Kumioko (talk) 22:22, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Actually most of the projects (if not all) do start with Wikipedia:WikiProject, even the templates there are only about three that are non-standard, Maths Rating, US Roads WikiProject and Canada Roads WikiProject, by memory, though there are a zillion redirects, as you say. Rich Farmbrough, 01:08, 25 December 2012 (UTC).

Good to know, there are just 3 projects without "standard" name.--Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

[All This] may be what you are looking for. — Ganeshk (talk) 22:06, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Well its better than the category list, which is not complete by the means I cant get a full list on one page. This I can sort much easier. Looking on that number (2087) its much higher than the category:WikiProjects by status. Is that a real number of WikiProjects? Even those, which are abandoned? --Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

This also shows the WikiProjects and their associated redirects if applicable. Kumioko (talk) 22:24, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Looking on that, I would not know, how to sort it out and get just project names from that.--Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

For the full list you will need someone to use the API to return all non-redirect pages in Wikipedia space with a prefix of WikiProject and fileter out the subpages, or scan a database dump in the same manner. I had a quick go with AWB but it is limited to fetching the first 25000 pages. I don't download database dumps since I can't make much constructive use of them thanks to the certain people, or I would run a scan for you. Rich Farmbrough, 01:18, 25 December 2012 (UTC).

Thank you Richard, I think I will use that Project index to get the full list. But one small related question. Can bot read project participants even from page history?--Juandev (talk) 13:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

In principle, yes. However I can see little (not zero, but little) use in knowing who has left certain projects. Rich Farmbrough, 21:31, 29 December 2012 (UTC).

Just an idea..

But i had the idea that if we had an bot that checked users using Check User and added the Ip to a database by ip and if it has 2 users conflicting then will add the sock-puppet tag to all users with that ip (Other then the first account). Being a semi programmer i know that the only real problem is the database. IanMurrayWeb (talk) 03:56, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

This would run afoul of Wikipedia:CheckUser#CheckUser and privacy policy as "fishing", not to mention that accounts used from the same IP are not necessarily the same person's. Also, for sockpuppets of already blocked users, we already have autoblock. PleaseStand (talk) 04:51, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you PleaseStand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IanMurrayWeb (talk • contribs) 05:15, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Removal of comments

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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A number of articles include the comment:

<!-- please do not add an infobox, per [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes]]-->

Not only is this against the spirit of Wikipedia, but it is explicitly contrary to the outcomes of this RfC. Can someone with a bot remove all instances, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:47, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I can't find any such articles using a regular Wikipedia search. Could you please give some examples? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

By the way, Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music#Biographical infoboxes provides a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Style guidelines#Biographical infoboxes, which states "current consensus among project participants holds that the use of biographical infoboxes is often counterproductive on biographies of classical musicians, including conductors and instrumentalists and that they should not be used without first obtaining consensus on the article's talk page." Should the guidelines be updated to reflect the RfC first? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Also, is there consensus to remove this comment from each article? GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Consensus at the cited RfC is that "WikiProjects are free to publish guidelines and recommendations but do not have the authority to override a local consensus on the talk page of an article." Thus, the comments do not reflect the will of the community. From the examples I've seen, such comments pre-date that RfC. For example, the Vivaldi article mentioned below had it added on 28 April 2007‎; the RfC ran Feb-April 2010. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Almost certainly. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Regular searching doesn't find comments; that's why script assisted editing is needed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Requested at IRC -wikipedia to add: tools:~betacommand/reports/db_scanner.log which is the results of a running dump scan . Dru of Id (talk) 15:53, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Ah, Antonio Vivaldi contains <!-- please do not add an infobox, per [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers#Lead section]]-->. GoingBatty (talk) 16:27, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. That's 363 articles, by my reckoning. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:33, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Please additionally note that the script continues to run, but the 363 fugure figure (insert- may or...) may not update. Dru of Id (talk) 17:16, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I can take this one, under my 3rd BRFA as per above, I'll replace it with nothing and will wait until the database scan is complete to process it in one go. Thehelpfulone 17:39, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines#Biographical infoboxes. Hyacinth (talk) 03:39, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Given all the prior discussion about composer infoboxes, including the RfC, it ought to have been obvious to everybody from the start that the removal of these comments was not going to have consensus. This includes the requester, who definitely ought to have known better. Most of the edits made by Thehelpfulbot have in the meantime been reverted by various other editors. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:54, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Note: The comments are now being discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Wikiproject notes in articles. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:48, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Assessment

Hi everyone. I realize there already is a bot, DoboBot, used for this upon request, but how about a bot that will automatically assess talk pages with the banners of WikiProjects based on the article or page's subject, links, or such. This is useful because it helps WikiProject statistics maintain their accuracy, and I notice that there are a number of articles without assessments from relevant WikiProjects. This is different that the DodoBot because it will add assessments without a request, and most will not bother requesting banners be placed and it will save some time, although I am not sure how it will effect each other. I'd be more than happy to work on this type of bot myself, but would like the opinion of others as well, and, of course, am just thinking out loud. Thanks, and happy holidays! TBrandley ^{(what's up)} 02:33, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Just a note but Dodobot and I think all the other bots that did assessments are down. Dodobot hasn't edited since last year. Kumioko (talk) 02:37, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Resolving multilanguage pages

It happened a few times that I found a wikipedia page in a language with links to others that weren't consistent. Let say the English version of the page has German, French and Polish. It happens that the French version of the page only has German and English.

My bot idea is to automatically add the link to the Polish version in the French version.

I wonder if such a bot already exists or not and if the numerous interwiki bots already do this or not.