Wikipedia:Bot requests

This is a page for requesting work to be done by a bot. 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:Bots to see if the bot you are looking for already exists. Please add your bot requests to the bottom of this page.

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Message Bot

Basicly, a bot that sends a seris of pre-typed messages to a number of users.

This could be used when your RFA gets an overwhelming number of support votes, like this one, It will be a pain in the ass to send everyone a thank you; or if you want to update everyone in a big wikiproject about a event or just want to have some sort of newsletter.

Well, whatdaya think? The Republican 00:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

You can use the AutoWikiBrowser for that. Fetofs ^Hello! 00:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Or you can just not spam users' talk pages. Anyone interested should spot the closure on their watchlist. Thryduulf 22:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK archiving - bot help requested

Copied from Wikipedia talk:Did you know:

The archive section at the bottom of Template talk:Did you know is getting very long. Reading the source of that section, it seems that User:AllyUnion used to run a bot that archived old DYKs in that section. Does anyone object if I reuse the code and make another DYK archiving bot? Kimchi.sg 07:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Please do, the archive section on the talk page is way too long. --Cactus.man ✍ 09:57, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

We need a bot to archive DYKs from Template talk:Did you know#Archive into Wikipedia:Recent additions and archive old entries from Wikipedia:Recent additions to another archive page (details are in User:AllyUnion/did you know.pl, does anyone want to help? Kimchi.sg 15:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I believe Werndabot does it, it has nice auto archive, it does my talk page and it works well -- Tawker 16:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll drop Werdna a note. Kimchi.sg 13:10, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

This will require some semi-trivial modifications to Werdnabot, but I'll work on it. Werdna648^T/_C\^@ 01:35, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

remove links to pages that redirect back to current page

It would be beneficial (imo) to have a bot to remove links to pages that redirect back to the current article (i.e. X shouldn't link to Y if Y is a redirect to X). I'm no programmer (otherwise I'd work on this myself!) but I'd have thought that it should be possible to do this by checking the what links here information and then unlinking anything that links to any redirect pages in the list. This might need to be a human-supervised bot (or AWB function?) as there may be occasions when the link is apropriate. It should only deal with the main namespace - links on talk could be useful and/or out of date relating to page moves/mergers. Possbily it would be of benefit in the Wikipedia: namespace if WP: shortcuts are explicitly ignored. Thryduulf 23:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Some notes on this and why it would need to be human-supervised and what else it could do. There are three types of links that link back to the article itself:

• Alternate names, where the linking should be replaced just with bolding (if it's mentioned for the first time)
• Accidents, where the link (but not its text) should be simply removed
• Subtopics which haven't been created yet, and so link back to the main article. These redirects may be marked with {{R with possibilities}}

A bot like this would have to take these things into account, and so would need a human to discriminate the type of link. The bot might also mark redirects with {{R with possibilities}} too if that's the appropriate choice. I'm not volunteering to write it.—Pengo 21:52, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Interwiki batch copy of userboxes

Would someone be able to copy all our userboxes (working definition: everything in Category:User templates), their associated categories, and the images they link to, over to [1]? Seahen 01:55, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Protected Articles List Bot

I'm requesting that someone run a bot to keep the List of protected pages up to date. This is being discussed at: Wikipedia talk:List of protected pages. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Right now, I have code that keeps the semi and full-protection sections of WP:PP up to date. I may add userpages later, but it is quite usefull now. I will make a copy of the code that does not have any messages and submitts the newform automatically. I can then get that times for User:VoABot.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 19:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I will begin running User:VoABot from the monobook...though I would greatly appreciated if someone good with programming can tell me how to run it of script on my computer, and not my script on Wikipedia.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 03:24, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

This task would be as simple as examining Special:Log/protect and storing the most recent entry for each page encountered. Examining each line would yield:

(date'n'time) (username) (action) (page) (summary)

Disregarding articles where the most recent action was "unprotected", the bot could examine the others and sort them chronologically in a table like this:

date/time	page	user	edit	move
22:26, May 5, 2006	George W. Bush	Deskana	semi	semi

But ideally, this functionality should be a built-in feature, analogous to the Special:Ipblocklist. — May. 8, '06 [05:25] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Yeah, it probably should be built in. Anyway, what you said is already what my bot does, see here [2]. If you want me to generate a chart, I would have to make it in userspace, and take some extra time to code in the table formatting.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 11:56, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Council elections in England - wikify dates

Many articles under Category:Council elections in England and its subcategories have entries for by-elections with dates formatted "dd/mm/yyyy". An example is "Boney Hay By-Election 20/02/1997" on Lewes local elections#By-election_results. Is it feasible to do a bot to wikify these dates? Generally these by-election results seem to have the same standard format. --A bit iffy 12:08, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I have tools to deal with most problems concerning dates. Leave a list of articles on my talk page and I'll have a look. Rich Farmbrough 22:50 11 June 2006 (GMT).

Rich has now done this. (Thanks again.) --A bit iffy 14:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for bot to do simple daily maintenance of Current events

Over at Current events we're floating around a couple of new systems with several goals in mind, a couple of them being simplifying the monthly archiving process (when Current events is moved to April 2006, for instance) and then solving the issue of having only one day's worth of events on May 1 because all the previous ones were archived. My current proposal is to create a page for every date (May 1, 2006 for instance) and then just listing the last <<fixed_number>> date pages in Current events as templates. The hassle of monthly archiving would be virtually eliminated as the only necessary maintenance would be creating a new monthly page before the end of the month, creating 31/30/28 blank daily pages, and inserting them all into the monthly page as templates. The monthly page would begin blank but will fill up as each date's window of exposure passes at Current events (or of course if anyone chose to edit them afterwards).

Where we need your help is that every night we would need the oldest date removed from Current events and then the current date template inserted at the top of the list. I'm wondering if any current bot owners would be willing to add to their bot's daily activities the nightly rollover at midnight, and then the monthly mass creation of new, blank date pages (should this reach consensus as the new method which with a bot owner on board I think it would)? — GT 14:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Maybe we can create a template that does that automatically, instead of needing a bot? I'm not quite good at that, but someone could try. Fetofs ^Hello! 21:28, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, I think the system I'm describing would requre either a bot or a diligent user(s) to do the rollover at midnight and the monthly mass page creation would just be a matter of convenience. — GT 00:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm talking about the rollover at midnight. See for example {{day+1}}. If we could tell the system to use day-18, day-17, or something like that, it would automatically change the pages, although I don't know if this is possible. Fetofs ^Hello! 12:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, it would be somewhat confusing to users (look at the sourcecode of this, for example! Fetofs ^Hello! 12:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

WelcomeBot

I am aware that this proposal was not popular here, but I would like to request one to run on the Commons. The Commons does not have such a strong community as en.wp and it is quite important that we keep trying to promote essential information such as licensing requirements, to save both users and admins a lot of hassle. I brought up this idea on commons:COM:VP and it was well-received.

On the 14th May we had 163 new users register; on the 13th, 185. So probably 150-200 is a typical daily number. The possibility to restrict welcomes to users who have made at least one edit or one upload would also be welcome.

Thanks, pfctdayelise (translate?) 13:43, 14 May 2006 (UTC) (en or commons)

We should be able to get commons:Special:Log/newusers in a similar fashion as we get Special:Newpages. I tried, but got confused when applying the regex. Fetofs ^Hello! 14:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

If you get it successfully working, would you mind to leave me a note too? We've discussed this on Wikiquote, and if there is a working copy of one, I'd like to be able to offer it for demonstration. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 14:39, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

commons:User:Orgullbot is now doing this, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Run by commons:User:Orgullomoore. pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Babylon5

I want to have a robot named Babylon5. Before I read that I must request it, So What should I do??? --MehranVB 08:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I guess the first question is: what do you want to do with it ? Schutz 08:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Here is the tasks of my robot: Make Category, Raplace a letter with another, Make redirect, Interwiki (Especially Farsi language), Disambiguation pages, etc. --MehranVB 18 May 2006 (UTC)

If you plan to create and run this bot yourself, you should ask for approval on Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals rather than here; in both cases, you should probably be more specific, especially since several bots already perform these kind of functions. Schutz 11:44, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

EisenBot

I want a bot that can do everything that are in the other sections above. eisenhower ^UTC 18:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Plus I want to use it myself once I get permission. eisenhower ^UTC 18:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello. Anyone wants to answer. General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) (History of War) 16:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

ask for approval on Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals Rich Farmbrough 22:53 11 June 2006 (GMT).

Bot for adding {{linkless}} to Special:Lonelypages pages

Hi, is there already a bot for adding {{linkless}} to all pages on the long, long Special:Lonelypages list? If not, could someone write one? It would not have to run all the time, just for a short time each time the Special:Lonelypages page is regenerated. This would be beneficial for Wikipedia: the Siegenthaler page only lasted as long as it did because it had almost zero links in. When someone sees an article with {{linkless}}, though, they will be encouraged to add links to it from elsewhere. Cheers, --unforgettableid | talk to me 22:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I have requested input at the approvals page as to this and if people don't object to it I'll have my bot do it. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 03:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! --unforgettableid | talk to me 01:12, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

MarshBot seems to be doing this. Rich Farmbrough 23:16 11 June 2006 (GMT).\

It seems to me that Jimbo should have taken this excellent idea as the solution to the Siegenthaler issue rather than the restrictions he decided upon. Just a thought. —  Stevie is the man!  ^{Talk | Work} 23:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I am currently doing that with User:MarshBot, but I have been swamped lately and haven't run it (eventually I'll get a bot flag for it so it's easier to do). Since it ignores pages with that template already on it, I have no objection to other people running similar bots/AWB sessions. You will want to avoid disambiguation pages, {{deleted}} pages, and some others that should NOT have inbound links, or should have only very specific ones. --W.marsh 23:38, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

CommonsBots?

Could someone create/run a 'bot that would check commons:Commons:Deletion requests that 1) downloads the image, 2) superimposes a big red X over the image, 3) re-uploads the new version of the image? This would benefit many sister-projects, as well as Wikipedia. (Some discussion is at commons:Commons:Village pump#Random image deletion.) --Connel MacKenzie 18:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

This idea needs a bit more work yet. For example it doesn't cover the no-sources and the no-licenses and the bad-licenses. It will also affect images that are decided to be kept. I think there needs to be more discussion about whether or not it would actually help, before implementing it. pfctdayelise (translate?) 23:33, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Adding a new image can always be rolled back; deleting an image can never be rolled back. What are you talking about, not helping? Right now, no sister-project has any notification that something is on the chopping block. Once the image is deleted, there is no simple way of getting to Commons, where it was deleted. --Connel MacKenzie 07:42, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

For a start uploading over an image in no way 'notifies' the projects where it's being used. In fact rather dangerously, they get no notification at all. Weeks could go by where they are displaying ugly crosses completely unaware. Is that going to help? Won't it look really unprofessional? Shouldn't we really get permission from all the projects that use Commons before we implement this? I'm not saying we should do nothing, but I think the m:User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker is going to be way more helpful and relevant, that's all. Anyway, I hope we can continue this on the commons:COM:VP? pfctdayelise (translate?) 09:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I can see your reasoning for wanting approval on each project, but it is seriously flawed. Right now, projects are assulted by images dissapearing, with absolutely no notification whatsoever. The big red X concept is worlds better, as simply everyone who sees it is given an indication that there is a problem, and an avenue to comment about it. That is an order of magnitude nicer than leaving broken (null) image links everywhere. Even if CommonsTicker worked, it would still not give indication to anyone (e.g. sister-project sysops/janitors such as myself) who might be inclined to do something about the situation. --Connel MacKenzie 23:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'm just going to continue this on commons:COM:VP now. pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:47, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Fraction hyphenator?

Do we have an existing bot that checks for the existence of hyphens in spelled-out fractions? It would look for common word pairs I guess like "one third", "two thirds", etc. and add in the hyphens between them.--Hooperbloob 05:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

In 2001, Justin Wilson wins the FIA International Formula 3000 Championship with three wins, six second places, one third place and two pole positions - he broke the records for the most points in an F3000 season and the most podium finishes.

As you can see from the example above, the bot would need to be manually assisted. —Pengo 23:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Also not everyone likes hyphenated numbers. Rich Farmbrough 18:58 16 June 2006 (GMT).

Pulloscarbot

Looking through the Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles page it struck my attention that there are really a lot of requests for the 19xx Pulitzer Prize or Oscars. Now, for the Pulitzer at least, the data are available at http://www.pulitzer.org/. Would it be possible to make a bot to do the drudge work of capturing the data from there and wikifying it? Copyright is ever troublesome, of course, but the format of the existing 19xx articles does not seem to vary significantly from the hypothetical output of such a bot. - Pthag 00:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Lists of facts, such as winners of an award, would not be copyrightable. Commentary in paragraph form would be, obviously. — Jun. 2, '06 [17:48] <freak|talk>

Italics

Is there a bot that is open to do jobs? I needs a bunch of phrases to be changed to italics, can anyone help? Cheers, Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 12:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Can you be more specific? Rich Farmbrough 18:58 16 June 2006 (GMT).

Replace image in sig?

I deleted Image:Perfecto.icon.svg (redundant with Image:Flag of Canada.svg). Someone was using it in their signature... so I don't know if it's worthwhile replacing all of the link references or deleting them all. If nobody wants to set a bot on them, I don't see a problem with leaving them alone. ~MDD4696 01:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Personally I think this sort of thing us better to run on a direct database query but that means troubling someone w/ shell access -- Tawker 04:35, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

There's only 3 pages including this one linkig there now, so I huess we can forget this one.Rich Farmbrough 18:57 16 June 2006 (GMT).

Add Template to Talk pages

Does anyone have a Bot that could add {{Template:Architecture}} to the talk page of each article in Category:Architecture, Category:Architects, Category:Architectural history, Category:Architectural elements, Category:Buildings and structures, Category:Architecture by nationality, Category:Landscape architecture and other related categories (Listed on Portal:Architecture). Many thanks--

I'll do it. Martin 16:27, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Do you want the template on the sub category pages as well? Martin 16:29, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes Please.--Mcginnly 22:25, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Featured content

A few days back I found a featured picture that did not have a {{FeaturedPicture}} template on it. Thinking as a one-off case, I added the template. Today, I found another such image. This made me think that there might be many more such cases. Can we have a bot which will do the following:

1. Check whether all the articles/pictures/lists/etc. featured on Wikipedia (as indicated by WP:FA, WP:FP, etc.) have the required templates on them.
2. Check whether all the articles/pictures/lists/etc. that have the featured template on them are really featured on Wikipedia (Rare, but it might be possible that some vandal can do it and escape undetected).

The bot will need to run once every month or so to check for consistancies. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Help with pywikipedia addition of messages

I actually already have a bot, approved without a bot flag, NedBot. However, I'm still learning how to use phyton, pywikipedia, regex, and all that fun stuff. But I've been pretty busy with work and all, and so far have just used the basic text replacement and category functions that are included with pywikipedia.

I would be really greatful if someone could help me get the bot to place a message at the top articles found in a category, and possible in targeted section as well. The bot was approved for providing assistance to WP:DIGI, and we wanted to add a message to editors to help combat a large amount of anon users who were adding unsorted information. Something to the extent of <!-- Please cite character attack blah blah, such information without a source could be deleted at any time-->. (the exact message, if you are interested, is being discussed on our WikiProject's talk page) Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ned Scott 05:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

At the top of the articles? You would just get the text, save it in a variable and add the text you want to it. Something like:

digipage = Page('en', 'Agumon')
pagetext = digipage.get()
pagetext = '<!-- blah --> + pagetext
digipage.put(pagetext)

It seems you already got the most difficult part sorted (looking into the category). If you want to place it in the top of a specific section, use the replace tool:

digipage = Page('en', 'Agumon')
pagetext = digipage.get()
pagetext = replaceExceptMathNowikiAndComments(pagetext, '==Section==', '==Section==\n<!-- blah blah -->)
digipage.put(pagetext)

fetofs ^Hello! 23:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Chembot

Is there a bot for use in the field of chemistry? One that can place and edit chemboxes? If not there should be, this is getting really tedious... - jak (talk) 21:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

What information is available? It would be possible to do something along those lines. Rich Farmbrough 23:17 11 June 2006 (GMT).

Replace a image

There are two images in commons, Image:Big cookie.jpg and Image:Choco chip cookie.jpg. Big cookie.jpg is only used in en:. If you could replace the image, it can be deleted on commons. --Lyzzy 06:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I see almost all of the uses are subst'ed templates. This should be easy. fetofs ^Hello! 12:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --Lyzzy 16:54, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Flag

Could someone get a bot to replace all instances of Image:Republican-AusFedFlag.png with Image:Australian Federation Flag without Union Jack.svg? Most of them are subst:'ed userboxes, it seems. Cheers! +Hexagon1 ^(t) 12:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

:( Aww. You people are mean. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 10:15, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I did it myself. Happy now? +Hexagon1 ^(t) 03:43, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Notification to editors of Wikipedia entity up for deletion

As an editor of some articles and other things that got put up for deletion, I think it would be great if there was a a "courtesy bot" that informed past editors of the thing. Perhaps the bot would insert a post on the editor's talk page. Note: I don't think watching is a good solution, because the decision to watch something isn't (in my case) related to all articles I care about, but rather ones I feel are especially critical to watch at any given time. —  Stevie is the man!  ^{Talk | Work} 16:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

This might be semi-practical, if:

1. The alerts are kept short and sweet, not some huge colorfully formatted template.
2. It only notifies people who have asked to be notified.
3. It ignores anonymous edits, minor edits, and edit summaries which suggest it's merely a vandalism revert.
4. It ignores blocked accounts whose block is not expected to expire before the VFD closes. A large portion of these will be accounts whose only edits to the page were vandalism.

— Jun. 14, '06 [18:27] <freak|talk>

All of those points are well-taken and IMHO, agreeable. The second point sounds like it would require a new preference setting, but is that normally done for bots that are not built into the wiki software? Perhaps there should a generic setting where the user decides whether bots can leave messages on their talk pages. The third point probably would be difficult to perfect as far as anything outside of anonymous and minor edits. But if somebody can handle parsing out posts to determine which are merely vandalism reverts, all power to them. —  Stevie is the man!  ^{Talk | Work} 19:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Another thought: Instead of requiring a change in user preferences, another approach could be to have a "registry page" specific to the bot for those who want to sign up for such notifications. That is, if you've put your username on that registry page, the bot will notify you of any deletion efforts being established on articles/etc. you have edited. —  Stevie is the man!  ^{Talk | Work} 21:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Yerse, some of ous don't really watch out watch lists anyway. Rich Farmbrough 18:19 15 June 2006 (GMT).

If somebody wants to work on this, please leave me a message in my talk. Thanks! —  Stevie is the man!  ^{Talk | Work} 02:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Establishments by year

I have been updating the individual year pages in Category:Establishments by year. At the moment all of the pages from Category:1870 establishments to Category:2006 establishments have been done. A few of the pages prior to 1870 have also been done. The change involves going from:

• {{estcattemp|n|m}}

to

• {{estcat|n|m|o|p}}

where:

• n = the year in question with its right-most digit truncated
• m = the year in question's right-most digit
• o = the year immediately preceeding the first year of the decade in which the year in question falls
• p = the year immediately following the last year of the decade in which the year in question falls

A bot which updates the remaining pages would be great. Greenshed 18:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow, before you go any further, you might look into m:ParserFunctions. The {{expr:}} notation might make this task a lot easier. — Jun. 14, '06 [18:35] <freak|talk>

Most of these are simple, I'll make a start. Rich Farmbrough 18:07 15 June 2006 (GMT).

All done. Rich Farmbrough 20:31 15 June 2006 (GMT).

WelcomeBot

Simple enough, really. I think we should have a bot which makes the following edit on the talk page of each new user:

{{subst:Welcome}}

:Sincerely, The [[Wikipedia:Community_Portal|Wikipedia Community]] ~~~~~

The edit summary will read, "Welcome!"

Thoughts? --Alex S 22:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I think this gets proposed a lot... and it kind of defeats the purpose of a personal welcome. Also it would welcome a lot of vandals, which could confuse RC patrollers. And considering the number of accounts, and a 1k message, well it would only take up about a gigabyte a year, but still... it would be 1,000,000 edits/year more and that's a lot of server load in actually leaving the messages. I believe various helpful links appear as you create an account anyway. --W.marsh 22:40, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

It's really impersonal for a bot to do this... if it's a person, it means that someone noticed your edits and took the time to say hello. In reference to W.marsh's comment, I see a lot of people welcoming vandals or even people with no edits already! It just makes me shake my head... ~MDD4696 23:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I think that a WelcomeBot could complement, not undermine, the personal touch to welcomes. Typing something like:

{{subst:Welcome4}} --~~~~

isn't exactly very personal. After the WelcomeBot has left its inital message, a user-left welcome would probably look more like this:

"Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Feel free to [[User talk:32902304892|drop me a line]] if you have any questions. --[[User:32902304892|32902304892]] 06:06, 06 June 2006.

As for welcoming users with no edits... why not? A welcome message pointing them to useful pages will encourage them to contribute and hopefully improve the quality of their inital contributions. Also, I created an account, and not a single one of the Welcome message links popped up. If there's a definite "no" consensus about a WelcomeBot, we should at least add some key links to the account creation process. --Alex S 00:13, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

How to distinguish between an account and a user? We have the best part of 2 million accounts, most of which I suspect will never be used again, either they're nonce accounts or vandal accounts. "Wasting" over 1 million edits and the associated growth of the databse and dumps, seems like a bad idea. Rich Farmbrough 10:24 23 June 2006 (GMT).

Detecting broken external links

The bot should check external links, and tag those that fail with {{cleanup-link}}. This will add the article to Category:Articles with broken links, and allow interested humans to investigate and either repair or delete as appropriate. Robert A.West (Talk) 00:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Replacing single digits with their written equivalents

Doing a text search for the phrase " 2 types" I found numerous cases where the digit should be spelled out (for numbers less than ten (eleven?)). If a human-assisted bot could include searches for " 'n' types" and " 'n' categories" this would help. If there are other grouping names that could be included that would be great, I've only considered of those 2...er. two! --Hooperbloob 05:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes < 11 (i.e. 10 ten). Iolakana|^(talk) 15:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Maori to Māori

Kia Ora, I was wondering if there is much chance of someone getting a bot thingy to change the uses of "Maori" to "Māori", which is more correct. Many thanks. --Midnighttonight 10:24, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I have done some using AWB Brian | (Talk) 05:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[[Sasha]] to [[Alexander Coe|Sasha]]

Someone changed "Sasha" into a disambig page which broke like a hundred links. Can someone run a bot to change all links that currently point to "Sasha" to now be piped links to "Alexander Coe"? Thanks a bunch! Wickethewok 16:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Erwin85 18:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks a bunch! Wickethewok 21:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Color change

Is there a bot that will do font color changes? That is change every instance of a six digit hex string to another 6 digit string within a single page. What I am planning to do is explained here, but the first change is still a month or so in the future. NoSeptember 18:18, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Replace a string of hex digits within a page? Well, a bot can easily do that as long as there aren't any occurances of the hex strings which you don't want to be replaced. fetofs ^Hello! 18:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, as soon as I posted this I realized this is a pretty simple request that you guys can probably do in your sleep. The key to my color changes is doing them in the proper order so that you don't have two groups of data having the same color value at a given point in time. I think I still need to select better color choices. If anyone has a better color scheme suggestion, please comment here. NoSeptember 18:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Category:FOTW images

Too much has been allowed to creep into this category and be reused without watching. The template and category should have been deleted a long time ago, but now represents so much work in removing images from articles nobody would dare approaching it. Can a bot deal with removing images from articles? Circeus 01:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Bot requested for image backlogs

I have been thinking over the last few days and seeing that Category:Images with no copyright tag, Category:Images with unknown copyright status, Category:Orphaned fairuse images and Category:Images with no fair use rationale get back-logged quite a lot, I think I bot would be able to help us combat these backlogs. The bot should go through the sub-categories of the main categories and remove all those images listed at the sub-category and remove them from the article(s). The bot would not delete the image, merely remove it from the article(s) that contain the image. This would make it a whole lot easier for admins to go around these categories and delete the images there, and not have to remove the images from the article themselves. I am aware OrphanBot does some work linked to this, but it doesn't go through all of the categories. Iolakana|^(talk) 15:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Bot for researchers needed

A bot (or perhaps a script, or some other tool) would be very useful to the growing amount of people (myself included) who are interested in studying Wikipedia. I'd very much like to see and use a tool that would look at the history of any article (including a talk page!) and:

• generate a list of people who have edited target article
• generate an information feedable to a statistical analytical program (comma-separated values format is quite simple and popular) which would tell:
  • how often each individual edited this article
  • when did he edit it
  • how much new content has he changed
  • was the edit marked as minor
  • was the edit summary used
  • was the edit a vandalism (possibly using parts of Tawkerbot2)
  • was the edit a vandalism revert
  • was the edit part of a revert war

Even one or a few of those if implemented would be much, much appreciated! If we already have tools that can answer some of these questions, please let me know.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 00:40, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

While this could be implemented as a user script, some of those features would require fetching all the past revisions of the page, which would hit the servers pretty hard. I think this would be better implemented as a Toolserver project, or offline using the database dumps. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 08:51, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree that it likely would be better to use dumps to avoid server load (on the other hand, this bot would not likely be used often). Can one download only a part of the database dump (since this bot would be analyzing only 1 or few pages)? Does toolserver work on the dumps?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 22:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Book citation completion

I'd very much like a bot that would fill in the blanks in incomplete {{cite book}}s. A cite can be considered incomplete if it's missing any of the following parameters: Title, last, first, publisher, year, id.

I can see five cases in which this could be used (given in fall-through order):

1. An id (ISBN etc.) parameter is given, and it has been referenced in another article. In this case, the completed template (omitting page/chapter references, etc.) can be copied over.
2. An id (ISBN etc.) parameter is given, and the info can be looked up from an external source.
3. A wikilinked title is given, and the linked-to article gives the required information in an {{infobox book}}.
4. A wikilinked title is given, and the linked-to article gives exactly one ISBN. (ISBNs in the References and See Also sections don't count, unless the article's one ISBN is in the References section.) In this case, the info can be looked up as above.
5. A subset of the aforementioned basic parameters is given, and an external source gives exactly one search match with the required data.

If the bot is unable to fill in all of these basic parameters, it should insert ?s for the missing ones and/or a page comment, to show that it has tried.

If this type of bot responds quickly to new {{cite book}}s, it will no doubt save editors a lot of tedious work looking up and typing in all the data fields. We can tell them to type just the ISBN, and suggest that they come back later and verify the bot's work. Seahen 03:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Bot Wanted. User: Xana1

Bot's Name: SpyroBot Editing Spyro Articles