Wikipedia:Bot requests

For the policy on bot requirements, see WP:BOTREQUIRE.

This is a page for requesting tasks to be done by bots per the bot policy. This is an appropriate place to put ideas for uncontroversial bot tasks, to get early feedback on ideas for bot tasks (controversial or not), and to seek bot operators for bot tasks. Consensus-building discussions requiring large community input (such as request for comments) should normally be held at WP:VPPROP or other relevant pages (such as a WikiProject's talk page).

You can check the "Commonly Requested Bots" box above to see if a suitable bot already exists for the task you have in mind. If you have a question about a particular bot, contact the bot operator directly via their talk page or the bot's talk page. If a bot is acting improperly, follow the guidance outlined in WP:BOTISSUE. For broader issues and general discussion about bots, see the bot noticeboard.

Before making a request, please see the list of frequently denied bots, either because they are too complicated to program, or do not have consensus from the Wikipedia community. If you are requesting that a template (such as a WikiProject banner) is added to all pages in a particular category, please be careful to check the category tree for any unwanted subcategories. It is best to give a complete list of categories that should be worked through individually, rather than one category to be analyzed recursively (see example difference).

Alternatives to bot requests

• WP:AWBREQ, for simple tasks that involve a handful of articles and/or only needs to be done once (e.g. adding a category to a few articles).
• WP:URLREQ, for tasks involving changing or updating URLs to prevent link rot (specialized bots deal with this).
• WP:SQLREQ, for tasks which might be solved with an SQL query (e.g. compiling a list of articles according to certain criteria).
• WP:TEMPREQ, to request a new template written in wiki code or Lua.
• WP:SCRIPTREQ, to request a new user script. Many useful scripts already exist, see Wikipedia:User scripts/List.
• WP:CITEBOTREQ, to request a new feature for WP:Citation bot, a user-initiated bot that fixes citations.

Note to bot operators: The {{BOTREQ}} template can be used to give common responses, and make it easier to keep track of the task's current status. If you complete a request, note that you did with {{BOTREQ|done}}, and archive the request after a few days (WP:1CA is useful here).

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#	Bot request	Status	💬	👥	🙋 Last editor	🕒 (UTC)	🤖 Last botop editor	🕒 (UTC)
1	Automatic NOGALLERY keyword for categories containing non-free files (again)		20	9	Thryduulf	2024-08-03 10:13	Legoktm	2024-06-24 01:34
2	Can we have an AIV feed a bot posts on IRC?		8	3	Legoktm	2024-06-21 18:24	Legoktm	2024-06-21 18:24
3	Bot to update match reports to cite template	BRFA filed	14	5	Yoblyblob	2024-06-20 21:21	Mdann52	2024-06-20 21:11
4	Bot to mass tag California State University sports seasons	Doing...	5	4	Frostly	2024-06-10 17:05	Headbomb	2024-06-09 17:28
5	Clear Category:Unlinked Wikidata redirects		9	6	Wikiwerner	2024-07-13 14:04	DreamRimmer	2024-04-21 03:28
6	Fixing stub tag placement on new articles	Not a good task for a bot.	5	4	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10	Tom.Reding	2024-07-16 08:10
7	Bot to change citations to list defined references	Not a good task for a bot.	3	2	Apoptheosis	2024-06-09 17:44	Headbomb	2024-06-09 16:56
8	Adding Facility IDs to AM/FM/LPFM station data	Y Done	13	3	HouseBlaster	2024-07-25 12:42	Mdann52	2024-07-25 05:23
9	Tagging women's basketball article talk pages with project tags	BRFA filed	15	4	Hmlarson	2024-07-18 17:13	Usernamekiran	2024-07-18 17:10
10	Adding links to previous TFDs		7	4	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02	Qwerfjkl	2024-06-20 18:02
11	Bot that condenses identical references	Coding...	11	5	Polygnotus	2024-07-17 12:30	Headbomb	2024-06-18 00:34
12	Convert external links within {{Music ratings}} to refs		2	2	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11	Mdann52	2024-06-23 10:11
13	Stat.kg ---> Stat.gov.kg		2	2	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21	DreamRimmer	2024-06-23 09:21
14	Add constituency numbers to Indian assembly constituency boxes		3	2	C1MM	2024-06-25 03:59	Primefac	2024-06-25 00:27
15	Bot to remove template from articles it doesn't belong on?		2	2	Primefac	2024-07-24 20:15	Primefac	2024-07-24 20:15
16	One-off: Adding all module doc pages to Category:Module documentation pages		6	2	Nickps	2024-07-25 16:02	Primefac	2024-07-25 12:22
17	Draft Categories		7	4	DannyS712	2024-07-27 07:30	DannyS712	2024-07-27 07:30
18	Remove new article comments		3	2	142.113.140.146	2024-07-28 22:33	Usernamekiran	2024-07-27 07:50
19	Removing Template:midsize from infobox parameters (violation of MOS:SMALLFONT)	Resolved	14	2	Qwerfjkl	2024-07-29 08:15	Qwerfjkl	2024-07-29 08:15
20	Change stadium to somerhing else in the template:Infobox Olympic games	Needs wider discussion.	8	5	Jonesey95	2024-07-29 14:57	Primefac	2024-07-29 13:48
21	Change hyphens to en-dashes		10	6	Thryduulf	2024-08-03 00:03	Qwerfjkl	2024-07-31 09:09
22	Consensus: Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo		15	4	Bsoyka	2024-08-02 20:48	Qwerfjkl	2024-08-02 20:23

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Bot for creating name redirects

I very often come across situations like the one I just did at Vanessa C. Tyson, where the middle name (Catherine) is given right in bold at the start of the article but the redirect from Vanessa Catherine Tyson has not been created. Sometimes there are other variations of this situation, such as if the redirect from Vanessa Tyson hadn't been created, or if the page was located at "Vanessa Tyson" but the redirect from "Vanessa C. Tyson" wasn't created. I don't expect a bot to be able to fix all of these, as in some cases there could be disambiguation concerns, but for many many situations, it should be possible for the bot to determine that only one notable person has a name and create redirects accordingly. Could we do that, and have it tag with {{r from short name}} and {{r from long name}} as needed? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:31, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm just wondering: Why isn't there a semi-auto, human-in-the-loop system for tasks that might be sensitive to context and false positives like this? Having the bot find all the needed changes and apply them with approval would still save a ton of work from having humans do all the changes manually. Intralexical (talk) 12:28, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

We have WP:AWB and WP:JWB. They can accept or create a page list and suggest methodical changes to each page on the list. For example, I recently used JWB to change links to the ambiguous term Qu'Appelle. For the 90% about Regina—Qu'Appelle I just clicked Save; for the few exceptions I typed a better link in manually. Certes (talk) 12:45, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

I think data quality is a big concern here. It's well documented that middle names, birthdates, etc will often get added to biographies with no sourcing (or unacceptable sourcing) and persist for a very long time. A lot of them will turn out to be completely bogus, too! On the other hand, I think the idea of automatic name redirects for biographies with middle names has some potential. For example, if Vanessa C. Tyson didn't exist, there was no disambig at Vanessa Tyson, and no other articles were titled "Vanessa * Tyson", it would be helpful to make the redirect (or at least flag it for creation). jp×g 22:54, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

That is how the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo in Gold became awarded to Joseph Sepp Bellend Blatter.[1] Thincat (talk) 20:20, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Quasi-arbitrary break

So with some generous help from Cryptic at the query request page, we now have a list of articles of people located at titles with a middle initial, but for whom there is no redirect from the title without an initial and for whom no one else shares their first and last name. See sample of results at this list. I'm struggling to find a way to go through that list to create the redirects with AWB, though—I'd need to start from the list of redlinks without the initial to create them, and doing that loses the information on what the middle initial is. So I'm thinking this might have to be done some other way. Would anyone who can code be interested in taking this up? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Sdkb: I think I could do this. Here's my understanding of what should happen while iterating over some list of pages:

• Do some sanity checks (possibly):
  • Check that the title can be parsed as "[first] [initial]. [last]"
  • Check that "[first] [last]" does not exist (especially if some time has passed since generation of the list)
  • Perhaps check the defaultsort:
    • If it's of the form "[last], [first] [initial]", proceed
    • If it's of the form "[last], [first] [initial].", remove the period and proceed
    • If it's different, log it and don't create the redirect
    • If there is none, either proceed or just log it (to be determined based on how many of these should have redirects)
• If everything is fine, create a new redirect to that page, preferably with pre-determined rcat(s)

Does this seem correct? Tol (talk | contribs) @ 01:52, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Tol, yes, that sounds good! For rcats, I think {{R from short name}} is presumably the one (or maybe {{R from alternative name}}). {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 04:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Sdkb: Alright; I'll work on it! I don't know if the redirects should have defaultsorts — I know redirects should have them if they are from a person's name to a page that includes or is related to that person, but I don't know about redirects from a different name (in this case, without the initial). And if there was a defaultsort, would it include the initial? Tol (talk | contribs) @ 19:26, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

I'm not overly familiar with defaultsorts. My understanding is that it's best when they are complete as possible, e.g. "Smith, Jane Quincy" rather than just "Smith, Jane Q.". This would help in the rare circumstance that multiple articles have the same "Smith, Jane Q..." defaultsort. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 19:31, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Agreed, but that makes it even more complicated. I don't think defaultsorts would be needed, because they wouldn't be redirects to a related topic (person to related topic) but rather alternative names, and so probably shouldn't be categorised. I don't know if sort order is needed in rcat categories. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 19:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Yep, doing the basics for defaultsort should be plenty good enough. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:09, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

@Sdkb: The BRFA is here. I haven't transcluded it yet, because I'm still calculating the number of pages. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 03:44, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Categorising redirects

Hi, I presume this has been requested previously, but is there any reason why a bot couldn't categorise redirects? I think at least {{R to diacritic}}/{{R from diacritic}} could be done, maybe {{R to section}} and {{R to anchor}}. Some more can also probably be used, but I can't think of them. ― Qwerfjkltalk 22:01, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Quite a few redirect templates could be added, preferably within {{Rcat shell}}. Others are tempting but probably best left to humans, e.g. deciding between {{R from other capitalisation}} and {{R from miscapitalisation}}. This does sound like a perennial request but I can't find previous discussions. WP:WikiProject Redirect may be more helpful. Certes (talk) 00:29, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: AWB's general fixes include a Redirect tagger which could be run as a bot. If you could point to a conversation where there in consensus to run it as a bot, I'd submit the BRFA. GoingBatty (talk) 15:27, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't recall such a conversation happening, but Paine Ellsworth is always my go-to person for institutional knowledge about redirect categorisation. Off the top of my head, I don't have any problem with a bot doing some categorisation - {{R to section}}, the diacritic ones and to/from ligature being examples of where human judgement is not really required. {{R from alternative language}} may be possible where the term is used inside an e.g. {{lang-de}} template at the target. {{R from unnecessary disambiguation}} could also be done where the redirect ends with a term in parenthesis and targets a page that is identically named other than that parenthetical (e.g. "Foo (bar)" → "Foo"). There may be others too, but that's the sort of thing that would be best left to a second discussion if there is consensus for the general principle here. Thryduulf (talk) 12:26, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, Thryduulf, for the ping. There is uncertainty regarding the use of bots to categorize redirects; however, I think it's a really grand idea! When I think of the enormity of the task to find and sort each and every redirect that already exists, as well as all the new redirects that are made everyday by editors who are unfamiliar with categorization and so leave it to someone else, the task really screams for bot involvement. Since I've never been involved with bot usage, and my experience only includes limited AWB usage, I really don't have the words to ask for a new bot or an existing bot to handle such a complicated task. Is there a bot that can sense diacritics? That could be either a "from" or "to" situation. Can a bot sense a redirect to a section? I honestly don't know the answer. I would hope the answer is "yes", because I don't know how much longer I'll be around to help with redirect categorization, which has been my pet project since even before I first registered. Yes, a bot would be a dream come true. I'm just not sure there's a bot that can do the job correctly. P.I. Ellsworth - ed. ^put'r there 13:09, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

This seems like a good area for a bot. Howevever, there's one relevant issue that I can think of. A regular editor can move a page over a redirect only if that redirect has no more than a single edit in its history. This means that if all redirects out there got edited now (for rcats or for something else), then regular editors won't be able to perform moves over these redirects. This will incur some maintenance costs (more work for WP:RMT, more cleanup after cut-and-paste moves) and I really have no idea if they'll be outweighed by the benefits of having more thorough redirect categorisation. I imagine there should ultimately be a technical fix for the problem (like excluding bot edits from counting, and that's independently desirable because of the bots that fix double redirect). Regardless, that will obviously not be an issue for redirects that aren't suitable as article titles and so would never get moved over. – Uanfala (talk) 00:12, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Ideally, we should be allowed to move page A over page B with any number of revisions if all revisions of B are redirects to A, whether produced by bot or human, but that might require awkward software changes. Bonus points for allowing revisions of B which are redirects to C, where C also redirects to A, though that might be gamed. Certes (talk) 00:24, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

gbif bot

hi please creat a bot to creat species articles from gbif.org many species articles not in enwiki Amirh123 (talk) 14:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Amirh123! I'm already working an this idea, but there are some issues (for example, ensuring verifiability, and not having problems that someone has to clean up later). Mass stub creation is also on the list of frequently denied bots. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 15:56, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

GBIF aggregates data from many sources, not all of them reliable. GBIF has picked up misspellings that originated in Wikipedia. A bot generating articles with GBIF as the sole reference is not a good idea; multiple taxonomic databases should be consulted. Plantdrew (talk) 01:12, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

not just gbif irmng.org eol.org and many sources I think creat articles in wikidata items to Wikipedia has many source Amirh123 (talk) 17:53, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Migrate archive URLs from WebCite to the Wayback Machine

Per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184#Migrate archive URLs from WebCite to the Wayback Machine I would like to request the following bot/script task:

• Replace all archive links in citations/references that use WebCite with archive links using the Wayback Machine.

My understanding is that this essentially leads to the following presentation of the task:

Task to perform on WebCite links

Main citation link works	Wayback Machine archive exists	Task to perform
Yes	Yes	Replace WebCite archive link with Wayback Machine archive link
No	Yes	Replace WebCite link with Wayback Machine archive link
Yes	No	Submit original link to the Wayback Machine to create a new snapshot of it, replace WebCite archive link with Wayback Machine archive link
No	No	Submit WebCite link to the Wayback Machine to create a new snapshot of it, replace WebCite link with Wayback Machine link

One thing that needs to be taken into account in this task is the potential problem of content drift mentioned by User:GreenC at WP:VPR. I believe this may be an issue especially in the first two cases, i.e., Yes Yes and No Yes. I have to admit that I do not know if/how a bot/script could handle this. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 13:59, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

OK, I have a bot that can do this. And have done some in the past. And am approved for it. It's more complex and error prone than it seems. I would suggest waiting a little longer. There are discussions ongoing with the owners of WebCite. Ideally these captures will be copied over to another provider and redirects would make it seamless. It's all of Wikipedia 900+ projects and IABot database. In the mean time feel free to manually make changes but be careful about "No/No: Submit WebCite link to the Wayback Machine" this can create a snapshot completely different from what is expected. Also caution about "No/Yes: Replace WebCite link with Wayback Machine archive link" due to content drift. -- GreenC 15:31, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

"Empty sections" that are not empty

I sometimes find {{empty section}} tags in sections that are not empty, such as this one. Is there a bot that can replace these tags with {{expand section}}? Jarble (talk) 22:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

I don't know if this search is the best one to find such sections, but it found only 5 such articles. A couple of them probably need to be marked with {{citation needed}} tags or otherwise cleaned up instead of just removing the tag or replacing it with a different tag. This looks like a good item for a human editor to inspect periodically. Maybe it could be added to the reports that are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:18, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: I see that Data hierarchy isn't in your search results. Even if I tweak your search to include quotation marks, I don't think the search string will find line breaks.

@Jarble: I checked the October 1 database dump and found 450 articles with {{empty section}} tags in sections that are not empty.

Hope this helps! GoingBatty (talk) 02:01, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Yep, newlines are difficult to search for. Here's a better search that currently gives 548 results, including some false positives. That number is similar to what GoingBatty ended up with. I still think the articles need to be processed by humans. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:06, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Looks better - thanks! It's not necessary to have {{empty section}} in "See also", "Notes", "References", and "External links" sections. I started on this, and can do more later. GoingBatty (talk) 04:59, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: I've knocked it down to 445 results.

@Jarble: I think a bot could remove true empty sections with headings of "Bibliography", "Further reading", "Notes", "See also", "External links". There are hundreds of such articles. GoingBatty (talk) 16:01, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

• gettina a feature in AWB would also be good for long term. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 01:22, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: You can use the links at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser to make AWB feature requests in Phabricator (and first search to see if any such feature requests already exist). GoingBatty (talk) 02:25, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

I searched for existing requests, it is not in the list. I will do that now. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 14:45, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

• I've requested the feature for AWB.
  Tracked in Phabricator
  Task T294770
  
  —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 15:05, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

@Jarble, Jonesey95, and Usernamekiran: BRFA filed, and shared my suggestions at the AWB feature request. GoingBatty (talk) 00:43, 13 November 2021 (UTC) @Jarble, Jonesey95, and Usernamekiran: I posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Removing some empty sections via bot to determine if there is consensus for this work do be done by bot. GoingBatty (talk) 16:17, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Bot for tel: links bug

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T116525

There's a bug with Mobile Web + VisualEditor that causes certain formats of numbers in articles to erroneously have tel: links attached to it. See diffs [2][3] for examples. We have 1169 (hist · log) to log these, and there was a discussion to move it to warn at EFN, but the possibility of having a bot just fix them after the error is introduced seemed less bitey and less likely to cause good contributions to be abandoned -- see Wikipedia:Edit_filter_noticeboard#Moving_1169_to_warn. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 16:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 192#Pseudo-telephone numbers. I suspect an add-on to Safari but there may be multiple causes. Certes (talk) 16:28, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

And see also T116525. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:39, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Beware that another, subtly different effect may cause confusion here. MediaWiki renders the wikitext tel:123 (or even Tel:Aviv) as a hyperlink, even though I didn't add square brackets. Certes (talk) 23:40, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

What the heck? It looks like they are handled by mw:Manual:$wgUrlProtocols, possibly with no sanity checking, which is why the totally invalid http://foo and news:fornerds and mailto:foobar all generate links. Oof, who is running this circus? – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:24, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Well, $wgUrlProtocols is the sanity check. tel, http, news etc are being explicitly allowed. mw:Manual:$wgUrlProtocols#Advanced_modification notes The default protocols should all be safe to click on (no evil side effects), and removing a protocol from the list will cause URLs using those protocols to become unrecognized in many places throughout the software. In particular, removing 'http://' or other common protocols will probably break huge amounts of stuff. – SD0001 (talk) 08:57, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

BEIC urls

I ask if a bot can replace the old links "http://gutenberg.beic.it" with "https://gutenberg.beic.it" because "http" no longer works with that site. Thanks.--Spinoziano (BEIC) (talk) 10:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

@Spinoziano (BEIC):  Doing with AWB. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 15:56, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

 Done Tol (talk | contribs) @ 16:11, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

"Notes sections" that are empty

Recently, only on two articles, there was a Notes section but no notes actually referenced within the article. It's really useless to have a notes section and not have any notes within the article. I've seen it on the Bombing of the Vatican and Mark Meadows articles. I removed the empty sections myself. A bot list can help reduce what articles have this issue. There's no point in having a notes section if there are no notes. Those two articles might have had notes prior to my edits, but became redundant as they were most likely removed or changed to an article or some other form of reference. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 16:13, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

@WikiCleanerMan: Agreed! I can submit a BRFA for this (and the {{empty section}} issue above) when my current BRFA is completed. GoingBatty (talk) 15:17, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

@WikiCleanerMan: BRFA filed GoingBatty (talk) 00:43, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

@WikiCleanerMan: I posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Removing some empty sections via bot to determine if there is consensus for this work do be done by bot. GoingBatty (talk) 16:18, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Add authority control to lighthouse articles

Please can someone add {{authority control}} to all articles in Category:All articles using infobox lighthouse. I think about half have already been done by User:Tom.Reding using AWB. We are planning to migrate the identifiers from the infobox to the authority control template. Thanks. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:53, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

@MSGJ:  Doing with AWB. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 16:11, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks. Little suggestion for improvement. Cheers — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:19, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

@MSGJ: I've made that change (only one newline before); thanks for letting me know! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 14:42, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

@Tol: are you still working on this because at the time of of writing there are still 400+ articles without the template. Thanks again — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:07, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I am. I'm busier than expected right now, but I should finish it today. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 15:08, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

 Done Tol (talk | contribs) @ 15:57, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Challenge bot /CewBot

I would like to request that CewBot should add template for inclusion at talk pages of articles included in Challenges other than WPEUR10k for Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge, which is the only Challenge project with its own bot template today. For example today there is no template to add to the talk pages of articles included in Wikipedia:The 2500 Challenge (Nordic) which specifies this particular challenge project, I do think that if such a template was created and CewBot was given the task to add it to the talk pages of the articles included in the Nordic Challenge it would benefit the project.--BabbaQ (talk) 02:47, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: Hi there! Have you tried contacting Cewbot's operator, Kanashimi? Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:58, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Well, I will add 6 templates listed in User:Cewbot/log/20210902/configuration. All of them are in Category:Wikipedia article challenge templates. You may edit the configuration page to add more templates. Kanashimi (talk) 04:03, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Oh, do not bother on my account. I am not good at those kind of configurations. But thank you for showing me that list. Will take a look and see what I can do.BabbaQ (talk) 07:52, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Also refer to the report. Kanashimi (talk) 11:25, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

 Done Kanashimi (talk) 07:42, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Upload WikiProject cleanup issue stats csv/tab data to Commons

CleanupWorklistBot is a treasure, generating cleanup work lists based on WikiProject topic across all maintenance categories. This makes it easy for WikiProjects to run maintenance cleanup drives except for the fact that CleanupWorklistBot's stats have to be manually imported on-wiki to visualize/incentivize progress. That problem could be solved if there was a bot that converted CWB's CSV data to .tab format and uploaded to Commons after it runs each week. The result would be compatible with {{Graph:Lines}} for display on-wiki (see similar example to the right). I reached out to CWB's maintainer but he was only interested in generating graphs within his external tool, not importing the data for on-wiki manipulation. Would someone be able or interested in helping with this? czar 06:18, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Fixing the references broken by the Phabricator bug (T296044)

There is currently a bug of the Phabricator which breaks the references of an article when the user edited it with the Visual Editor, cf. Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#VisualEditor_duplicating_named_citations. I think a bot should be patroling to try to fix those broken references, as I think otherwise some of those references broken by this bug may continue to exist in many articles. Veverve (talk) 01:47, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

What a mess. I'll have a look :) firefly ( t · c ) 10:36, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

@Veverve BRFA filed :) firefly ( t · c ) 12:33, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Code replacement bot?

Is there any bot that replace old wikitext to new wikitext (e.g. Infobox species to Speciesbox)? Also, i want this bot to add image parameters and automatically add images from Commons to the speciesbox. Leomk (Don't shout here, Shout here!) 03:02, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

We don't generally run bots just to bypass template redirects per WP:COSMETICBOT, and add[ing] image parameters and automatically add[ing] images from Commons does not seem automatable because a bot cannot decide what the most appropriate image is. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:03, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Automatic TFA semi-protection trial

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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At this discussion, we've realized that the automatic TFA semi-protection trial that was approved by the community in this discussion closed two months ago has not yet taken place. Could anyone with an admin-bot help facilitate it? The BRFA will looks similar to this one. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:58, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

I'll ping Anomie to this request seeing as their bot is the one handling PC (and thus the architecture is already there). Primefac (talk) 09:52, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Still not interested. But thanks for the ping. Anomie⚔ 12:46, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

My apologies for the unnecessary ping, clearly I did not know about that discussion. Primefac (talk) 13:52, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Could @Legoktm's TFA Protector Bot do this? It already move-protects upcoming TFAs, so I think it wouldn't be too hard to add semi-protection. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 23:15, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

We're already discussing this at Wikipedia_talk:Today's_featured_article#TFA_vandalism. Legoktm (talk) 23:28, 21 November 2021 (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.

US Census Bot needed

I think we need a census bot for the US census, to allow for automated updates every 10 years, for all the census designated places in the US that are also in Wikipedia. I have no idea how to go about making any of that happen, but it is definitely something to consider doing, and while we're at it, we can figure out how to use reliable external sources for other population data that is periodically revised by the authoritative source that a bot can then go about and update the data in WP. Hires an editor (talk) 02:23, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

@Hires an editor: I suggest only approving a bot for each census, since a lot could change in the 10 years between censuses. GoingBatty (talk) 02:31, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Adding a category to 1000 sub-modules of Module:Adjacent stations

There are around 1000 sub-modules of Module:Adjacent stations which aren't categorized and should be added to Category:Rail transport succession modules (inside the Sandbox other template so only the module itself will be in the category). Could someone help me with a bot? Gonnym (talk) 10:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Just to double-check, the category would go on the /doc of each sub-module, wrapped in <includeonly>...</includeonly> tags, yes? Primefac (talk) 10:46, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I thought /doc part was clear. And yes, they are surrounded by includeonly tags, but more specicially with the {{Sandbox other}} as well. See the result of the create doc at Module:Adjacent stations/Echigo. Gonnym (talk) 10:49, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry, I totally misread your initial statement, asked a really dumb question, then realised my mistake and re-worded my reply in a subsequent edit. I can put through a BRFA. Primefac (talk) 10:53, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Happens to all of us :) and thanks! Gonnym (talk) 10:54, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Request to replace soft-redirected userbox created in template space with its new userbox

Y Done
{{Proud USA}} is a userbox that was created in the wrong place and was moved a year ago, leaving a malformed userbox on 200+ user pages. Each of its 245 transclusions needs to be replaced with its replacement, User:Folksong/Userboxes/Proud American. A friendly editor with AWB privileges should be able to take care of this one pretty easily. Thanks in advance! – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:10, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

The same task needs to be performed for {{Userbox/POC}}, which has 32 transclusions; and {{User browser:Mozilla Firefox}}, with 286 transclusions; and {{CountriesVisited}}, with 80 transclusions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:12, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Wouldn't WP:AWBREQ be a better place for this?
Anyway,  Doing. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:48, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

I'll finish this off tomorrow. (I've almost completely finished {{Proud USA}}, except for one edge case.) ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:23, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Some of the Mozilla ones are formatted like {{Babel |browser:Mozilla_Firefox| }}. ― Qwerfjkltalk 22:06, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

 Done (except for maybe one or two). ― Qwerfjkltalk 23:07, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, and good catch on the Babel one. It looks like that one only works if the name of the template is "Template:User xyx", so I have restored that one as a redirect instead of using the quirky German migration system. I appreciate your diligence. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:22, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: I think I fixed this by using {{Babel |:Mkdw/Mozilla Firefox| }} →

Wikipedia:Babel

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

Search user languages

 ― Qwerfjkltalk 08:25, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Bot for linking redirects to Wikidata items

There are a large number of items on Wikidata which aren't notable enough to have a Wikipedia article in their own right, but are notable enough to be given a redirect here. Normally, I'd just do this from the Wikidata side, but the Mediawiki software treats redirect pages on other Wikis as their target when doing sitelinks. However, if a page is made into a redirect page after being connected to a Wikidata item, the Wikidata item will retain the original sitelink. This means that the current approved method for linking pre-existing redirect pages is a 3-stage process of (1) editing out the redirect on the target Wiki, (2) adding the sitelink to the Wikidata item, then (3) restoring the redirect. This is obviously very tedious.

The testbed I had in mind for this was the currently existing 6,400 redirect pages for each private use character in the Unicode block "Private Use Area" (e.g. , ,  etc.). They all redirect to Private Use Areas, and I imagine see almost no use. I'd also update them with Template:Wikidata redirect. I can see this having future application in certain lists, for example. --Theknightwho (talk) 06:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Fixing phab:T54564 would be a better solution, but it's been open for five years. Certes (talk) 12:31, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Way beyond my skillset, I'm afraid. One of my suggestions on the Village Pump recently turned out to be an idea that's been open since 2006, so I think there may be a bit of a backlog. Theknightwho (talk) 17:07, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

At the risk of being controversial, there's a real need for the WMF to divert 0.1% of the cash raised by their advert calendar to technical fixes and enhancements. Certes (talk) 22:47, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

I agree. In any event, am I okay to get approval for this in the meantime? There's no net change from the WP side of things. Theknightwho (talk) 14:58, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Idea for a bot

Moved from Wikipedia talk:Bots/Noticeboard § Idea for a bot

 – Rummskartoffel 20:47, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

I've had an idea for a bot. IMvHO, there is a need for an "AFD notification bot". Such a bot would deliver a neutrally worded notification to all Wikiprojects associated with articles nominated for deletion. The intent of this proposed bot is to get more participation at AfD discussions. Mjroots (talk) 19:29, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

I think that's already a thing: Wikipedia:Article alerts. Rummskartoffel 20:48, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Redirect links from down website to another website that uses the same database

Moved to Wikipedia:Link_rot/URL_change_requests#Fossilworks

Edit filtersBot for requested articles pages

• Task: Prevent (by denyingreverting the edit [or removing the offending links, though this might be more complex for little gain]) the addition of self-published and social media pages specifically to pages like Wikipedia:Requested articles/music/Performers, bands and songwriters (probably a good idea for every sub-page of Wikipedia:Requested articles). Examples of such sites include links to "bandcamp.com", instagram, facebook, any blog/wordpress/blogspot link, ...
• Reason: The criteria are very simple, in that, like every article on Wikipedia, requests for articles need to be accompanied with independent reliable sources. Social media/blogs/whatever are not independent reliable sources, and, while they might be useful for some stuff on the ultimate final article, they are simply useless fluff on the requests page.
• Diffs: Unnecessary, but here's an example of the kind of removal and waste of editor time that this creates.

• On another tangent, it might be simply a better idea to just get rid of the requested articles pages with more obvious potential for self-promotional attempts, but that's another issue, which I'm not willing to start exploring now. In the meantime, this would be a decent first step.

RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:12, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Filters run on every page so I don't think this is an appropriate use of the filter. Suggest using a bot to manage a single page. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:17, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

@ProcrastinatingReader: I don't know how efficient it is, but it is possible to specify page_title or page_prefixedtitle in a filter, i.e. pseudo-code:

if (page_prefixedtitle == "Requested articles") { //regex for links }

RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:27, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Yeah but it'll still run on every page. See top of page (Filters are applied to all edits. Problematic changes that apply to a single page are likely not suitable for an edit filter. Page protection may be more appropriate in such cases.). If we start doing requests for some pages we'll have no good reason to stop doing them for others, and it'll only get us closer to the limits. I think a bot to revert edits is more desirable for a use case like this. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:29, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

@ProcrastinatingReader: If you say so. My skills with bots are non-existent, so I assume there's also a noticeboard for bot requests somewhere, since I can't quite go to WP:BAG and ask them to create a bot, right? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:38, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Yup! WP:BOTREQ. It shouldn't be difficult to have a bot either listening to recent changes or checking the page at regular intervals. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:39, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Moved from WP:EFR

RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:42, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

This didn't get any response here on this page before getting archived the first time around. Hopefully someone notices? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:08, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

@Beetstra: Is this something your bot could handle, presumably starting with logging? Johnuniq (talk) 04:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

XLinkBot reverts those: social media in external links, I think bandcamp is one of them (see user:XLinkBot/RevertList), and blogs and similar are in the list of links that XLinkBot tries to detect as references and revert them as such (see User:XLinkBot/RevertReferencesList). I do see that a lot of these still come through though, and see even regulars adding linkfarms of social networking and even trying to defend it. XLinkBot is a nice warning system on newbies, but the rest still requires constant cleanup. Maybe an edit filter with category checking: if this is in category:X AND in category:Y then warn/block? Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

If you only want this to run on requested article pages: This could be done easily with a user script that is manually run by the user every once in awhile. I wrote a similar one last year called User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/RequestedArticleSifter.js, which deletes any bullet in Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies that has less than 2 sources. Adapting it to delete any bullet that contains a blacklisted URL would be simple. Would just need the blacklist. I would support shutting down some of these spammy, unmaintained areas of WP:RA. I've thrown the idea out on a talk page or two, but the talk pages are inactive, and I didn't want to put in the effort/drama of an RFC/MFD. –Novem Linguae (talk) 05:00, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

External links on Wikidata

Template:Sports links fetches and displays external links from Wikidata, which is very useful. However, it is underutilized: there are many sportspeople who have external links attached to their Wikidata items, but not the sports links template on their article, so readers are missing out on these links. E.g., George Simond has numerous IDs attached to his Wikidata item that weren't shown on his article until I added the template [4]. Likewise, there are many articles that have one or more site-specific external link templates in their external links sections, but more external links attached to their Wikidata items that would be shown if Template:Sports links was used instead. E.g., Gavorielle Marcu had one external link via Template:ATP on his page [5], but now has 3 after I replaced it with the sports links template [6].

The request is thus to have a bot that generates a list of all articles whose Wikidata items have one or more external IDs fetched by Template:Sports links, and then a) adds an "External links" section (if nonexistent) + Template:Sports links to articles without it, and b) replaces all the site-specific external link templates with Template:Sports links once their data has been imported to Wikidata. Sod25k (talk) 14:39, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Please don't. There are enough issues with this template (see Template talk:Sports links#Questions for a sample of the current issues) that this shouldn't be mass-added or bot-added anywhere. Perhaps an RfC to decide which links to include (if any) should be held first? This template is now used on some 36,000 articles, this proposal would increase this to, what, 10 times as much perhaps? Fram (talk) 15:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Have responded to your concerns there, which can be easily resolved by removing the problematic IDs from the list the template fetches. Given it's already heavily used, we should be judicious about which IDs it fetches anyway. Sod25k (talk) 15:50, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

It can be "easily solved" when people actually check and discuss which links to add, and watch the template talk page to solve issues. I looked at some of the links, I have no idea if many of the others I didn't look at are any better. It looks as if the template is used on tens of thousands of pages, but hardly anyone actually cares about these links, as no one else noticed e.g. the ones not working. If so, why would we add it to many more articles? Fram (talk) 16:13, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

The properties you found with broken links - Mackolik.com player ID (P2458), ForaDeJogo player ID (archived) (P3046) & ForaDeJogo manager ID (archived) (P3661) - are used on a combined 6,052 items on Wikidata. However, of the 36,722 articles that transclude {{Sports links}}, only 19 have items with these properties and therefore have them shown with the template, with a median 1 pageview per day. The probability therefore that those specific links a) will be clicked b) by an editor that c) is competent enough to know where/how to ask for the issue to be looked at and d) cares enough to do it, is very low, and so that no one raised those broken links before you doesn't reflect on the overall utility of the template or interest in external sports links across Wikipedia. If the template was used on every sportsperson's article as proposed, I'm sure any new issues that cropped up would be found very quickly. I do agree that the list of properties, originally copied from the Norwegian Wikipedia, should be checked over again. Probably all those that are important enough to have a site-specific template made for them are fine as a start. Sod25k (talk) 17:45, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

WP:LINKFARM is policy. Any bot that indiscriminately adds external links will be blocked. Johnuniq (talk) 22:46, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

The idea is little different to KasparBot 2 & KasparBot, which added {{Authority control}} to pages without it and replaced {{Authority control|id_1=X|id_2=Y|...}} with {{Authority control}} after migrating the IDs to Wikidata. Was that indiscriminately add[ing] external links in your book? Sod25k (talk) 23:35, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

That's known as an other stuff argument which is not persuasive at Wikipedia. Further, adding more external links because some other external links exist is the opposite of what is at WP:EL. Johnuniq (talk) 04:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

WP:Otherstuff is for deletion of articles/article content and so not relevant to bots, which are all explicitly approved by the community prior to being run and thus each set a precedent for what the community finds acceptable, but yes, each bot task needs to be considered on its merits. Given 36k pages already use the template (presumably added semi-automatically), with very little feedback one way or the other, this idea appears in practice to be less controversial than it is being made out to be. Again, if there are specific IDs that are deemed not useful, they can be easily be removed from the template (or rather, module). Sod25k (talk) 05:51, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Remove lone P-tags

(\[\[File:Stop x nuvola.svg\|40px\|left\|alt=\|link=\]\]Your account has been '''\[\[WP:Blocking policy#Indefinite blocks\|blocked indefinitely\]\]''' from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for \[\[WP:Spam\|advertising or promotion\]\], which is \[\[WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion\|contrary\]\] to the \[\[WP:Five pillars\|purpose of Wikipedia\]\], and your username indicates that the account represents a business.*web site, which is against the \[\[WP:UN\|username policy\]\].) \<\/p\>

Replace that with $1. Tested in the wiki editor search and replace. Probably about 26000 pages affected, but a part may be variations not caught by the above. The closing P-tag's opening friend was abducted in 2018 by L235 and the closing tag befell the same fate just now. (thx!) — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 02:57, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Silly me, another 15000+.

(\[\[File:Stop x nuvola\.svg\|40px\|left\|alt=\|link=\]\]There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for \[\[WP:Spam\|advertising or promotion\]\], which is \[\[WP:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion\|contrary\]\] to the \[\[WP:Five pillars\|purpose of Wikipedia\]\], and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against.*Because of those problems, the account has been.*from editing\..*) \<\/p\>

Should do the trick. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 03:09, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

I could do this. It's large enough that a manual AWB run would be tedious, so I can do a bot run. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 03:29, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Tol, much appreciated. A few thousand edits I could've handled myself but with ~40K+ it would get tedious indeed, so better if a bot could do it. Also as this is exclusively about user talk pages, doing it with a bot flag would be helpful to avoid massive watchlist spam. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 12:23, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

No problem, Alexis Jazz. Especially because they're user talk pages, the bot/minor combination (which won't trigger talk notifications) would be useful. This is a simple find & replace for search results, so I should have a BRFA within a few days. Tol (talk | contribs) @ 01:48, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Merging WikiProject Meteorology into WikiProject Weather

Would anyone be able to replace the talkpage banners for Wikipedia:WikiProject Meteorology with Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather so the meteorology project can finish merging into weather? Noah^Talk 12:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: I might be able to do this. Can you give some example edits/more in-depth explanation? ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:46, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

{{WikiProject Meteorology|class=C|importance=Mid}} becomes {{WikiProject Weather|class=C|importance=Mid}}... it would basically involve changing the word meteorology in the TP banner to weather. There may be duplicate banners on some pages that would need to be merged. Noah^Talk 12:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Sure, that will be no problem. ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:55, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

If I merge banners, and the class/importance doesn't match, what do you think should happen? ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:56, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

The higher of the two class/importance parameters should be used for articles. For other ones such as template, redirect, etc.. just use the appropriate class parameter if they don't match and importance is usually not assessed for those. Noah^Talk 13:11, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

I've generated a list of pages that only have WP METEOROLOGY. I'll file a BRFA soon. ― Qwerfjkltalk 13:58, 20 December 2021 (UTC)