Wikipedia:Bot requests

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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:USURPREQ, for reporting a domain be usurped eg. |url-status=usurped
• 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.

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#	Bot request	Status	💬	👥	🙋 Last editor	🕒 (UTC)	🤖 Last botop editor	🕒 (UTC)
1	Bot to remove template from articles it doesn't belong on?		4	4	Wikiwerner	2024-09-28 17:28	Primefac	2024-07-24 20:15
2	One-off: Adding all module doc pages to Category:Module documentation pages		7	3	Andrybak	2024-09-01 00:34	Primefac	2024-07-25 12:22
3	Removing redundant FURs on file pages		5	3	Wikiwerner	2024-09-28 17:28	Anomie	2024-08-09 14:15
4	Need help with a super widespread typo: Washington, D.C (also U.S.A)		32	10	Jonesey95	2024-08-26 16:55	Qwerfjkl	2024-08-21 15:08
5	Dutch IPA		4	3	IvanScrooge98	2024-08-25 14:11
6	AnandTech shuts down		9	6	GreenC	2024-09-01 18:39	Primefac	2024-09-01 17:28
7	Date formatting on 9/11 biography articles		5	2	Zeke, the Mad Horrorist	2024-09-01 16:27
8	Discussion alert bot		6	4	Headbomb	2024-09-08 12:29	Headbomb	2024-09-08 12:29
9	Regularly removing coords missing if coordinates are present	BRFA filed	11	2	Usernamekiran	2024-09-07 13:19	Usernamekiran	2024-09-07 13:19
10	Latex: move punctuation to go inside templates		3	2	Yodo9000	2024-09-07 18:59	Anomie	2024-09-07 03:38
11	de-AMP bot	BRFA filed	13	7	Usernamekiran	2024-09-24 16:04	Usernamekiran	2024-09-24 16:04
12	Articles about years: redirects and categories	BRFA filed	7	3	DreamRimmer	2024-09-16 01:18	DreamRimmer	2024-09-16 01:18
13	WikiProject ratings change	BRFA filed	3	2	DreamRimmer	2024-09-15 11:43	DreamRimmer	2024-09-15 11:43
14	QIDs in Infobox person/Wikidata	BRFA filed	11	4	Tom.Reding	2024-10-06 14:23	Tom.Reding	2024-10-06 14:23
15	Remove outdated "Image requested" templates		3	2	7804j	2024-09-21 11:26	DreamRimmer	2024-09-19 18:53
16	"Was" in TV articles		5	3	Primefac	2024-09-29 19:34	Primefac	2024-09-29 19:34
17	Films by director	done	9	4	Usernamekiran	2024-10-03 13:30	Usernamekiran	2024-10-03 13:30
18	altering certain tags on protected pages?		6	5	Just Step Sideways	2024-10-16 21:19	MusikAnimal	2024-10-07 15:35
19	Request for Bot to Remove ARWU_NU Parameter from Articles Using Infobox US University Ranking Template		4	2	Primefac	2024-10-13 12:50	Primefac	2024-10-13 12:50
20	Removal of two external link templates per TfD result		6	4	Primefac	2024-10-14 13:48	Primefac	2024-10-14 13:48
21	Replace merged WikiProject template with parent project + parameter		1	1	PARAKANYAA	2024-10-16 16:58

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Copy infobox field from German wikipedia

German wikipedia uses databases for recent (December 2008) population numbers for municipalities in Germany. I already copied one of those database templates: {{Metadata Population DE-SN}}. By using a municipality code from the German statistics office (the Gemeindeschlüssel) this template can provide the population for templates like {{Infobox German location}}. I would like a bot to copy the "Gemeindeschlüssel" field from the Infobox Gemeinde in Deutschland templates in German wikipedia for all municipalities. For instance for the municipality Wachau, Saxony that would mean replacing "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14 2 92 560" with "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 14625600" from de:Wachau (Sachsen) (the code in English wikipedia is incorrect) and for Wiesensteig adding "|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08117058" from de:Wiesensteig (no code given yet). This has to be done for all articles in the categories Category:Cities in Germany, Category:Towns in Germany, Category:Municipalities of Germany and their first degree subcategories. That's about 11,500 articles. Could a bot do this? Markussep ^Talk 17:49, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

I could potentially do it, but I will have to put in for bot approval. Or, I could help someone else develop the code who already has a bot. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 21:59, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

The number of articles is probably lower than I estimated above. The new version of the infobox picks up all errors, and puts them into this Category:Germany articles requiring maintenance under "U". This is slowly being filled. I think all municipalities in Saxony will have to be done, since they changed the keys at the 2008 district reform. The ones under "T" need to have their key removed (and a population number has to be added, if available), if there's not many of them, I can do that manually. Markussep ^Talk 12:17, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

There's 1034 articles now that require a Gemeindeschlüssel. Markussep ^Talk 13:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Create list of names (genera and species) into lists.

I request someone to be able to design a bot that would be able to arrange a list from this data source: [1]. I did page one Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Global_Names_Index/A although when trying to update page 2 I am getting error messages and I figure doing it by hand would take too long anyway. I need someone who can make the lists in the same format as the first page I showed as an example on all the remaining pages (A2, A3, A4 ETC. then B, B2, B3, B4 ETC. ETC.). Any help with this would be much appreciated. Note that page A2 through to A10 and the first page of letters B to Z were done by hand but will need to be updated because the lists are from an old source (unfiltered name list). Cheers!Calaka (talk) 09:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC) :{{BOTREQ}} CrimsonBlue (talk) 21:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

My computer must not be that great, because I can't even process the list without it freezing... They are huge... If someone else wants to take this feel free... I will try to figure out something for you CrimsonBlue (talk) 06:06, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Tell me about it! Although I should point out that there is a limit of approx 2000-2500 names of species/genera on one page due to having more would disable the {{search}} function at the end of each name. Thanks for trying though!Calaka (talk) 08:35, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Can't figure it out, the list is too big, someone else can pick this up CrimsonBlue (talk) 01:18, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Anyone else think they would be able to help? I would hate to leave this project unfinished as it is, especially since Raul put in so much effort obtaining the names. Calaka (talk) 12:19, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

So this should be something I can easily do, but it's going to take some more effort. For instance, it seems the Global Names Index contains annotations, and I'm a little unsure about some of the details. Perhaps you can come to my talk page and we'll make a project writeup for this? Second, is it a one-off request? tedder (talk) 15:20, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Hey there Tedder. I will reply to your talk page now with all the answers/info etc. Thank you for giving it a go!Calaka (talk) 08:57, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Template:Expand

Coren has closed the TFD on this template and has placed it in the holding cell. See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell. Is there a bot owner who could do this? Garion96 (talk) 17:50, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

I can do the "if stub tag remove expand tag" part. I have filled a BRFA recently. Check Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 13 -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:47, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, that would at least be a big part of the job done. Garion96 (talk) 19:19, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Task approved. We can start now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:19, 4 May 2010 (UTC) Done. I removed expand from all stubs. Still 17,663 articles to deal with. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! Do you know how many stubs had the expand tag? Garion96 (talk) 23:58, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

There were probably about 1800. It has been general practice to remove these anyway, but of course stubs are the road less travelled. Note that the template is now at DRV. Rich Farmbrough, 12:12, 10 May 2010 (UTC).

add coordinates_display= to Infobox settlement transclusions

Resolved

 – BRFA filed (rolled into |coordinates_region= task) –xeno^talk 23:34, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I'd like a bot to run through all transclusions of {{Infobox settlement}} in mainspace which do not have the coordinates_display= parameter set. If the article lacks title coordinates, the parameter should be set to inline,title. Pages lacking title coordinates can be identified by the fact that they transclude neither {{Coord/display/inline,title}} nor {{Coord/display/title}}. There was discussion about this at Template_talk:Infobox_settlement#coordinates_display.3D, and I think all the concerns were addressed. --Stepheng3 (talk) 03:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Is there any other way to identify the pages? –xeno^talk 03:46, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

It may be possible, but there are so many templates which call the coord template, that it would be hard to detect all the possible variations (at least in a foolproof way). Is it possible to generate the list offline? Plastikspork (talk) 04:27, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

A database report is probably the best way to go about it. And this should run in concert with User:Xenobot/6.2. –xeno^talk 04:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

If a database report is generated, will the bot come? --Stepheng3 (talk) 05:24, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. I'll roll it into the coordinates_region task. If there's any other Infobox settlement work that needs done, it should be added in as well. –xeno^talk 12:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

You can thank user:MZMcBride for the report. –xeno^talk 23:34, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Are these right? - [2] [3] [4] –xeno^talk 02:51, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

They look good to me. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:29, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I received the following comment on my talk page:

Right now we generally have coordinates in place articles about twice, sometimes, three times. An effort on the part of the coord-aficionados, I guess. I don't suppose the bot can check for redundancies. It would be nicer to remove redundant coordinates or maybe all coordinates since I don't see the general use of them anyway. Maps are more useful IMO. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 20:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Thoughts? –xeno^talk 15:46, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

This isn't the place for this. Try WT:GEO. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. –xeno^talk 16:24, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

I agree that deleting redundant coordinates would be a good thing. However, I see it as a separate task, tricky to automate and only tangentially related to what Xenobot is attempting to do here. --Stepheng3 (talk) 04:08, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

User:ArticleAlertbot has been inoperable for a month

User:ArticleAlertbot has been inoperable for a month. Can we get a replacement?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

A helpful starting point is source code. Can you obtain the source code for the bot? Josh Parris 04:47, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

User:Legoktm has it (coded in Java). I raised this issue last month and User:Tedder volunteered to fix it. However he can't get anyone to pay attention to his request for toolserver access (I don't think it's required however). See User talk:Legoktm/April 2010#AA bot for additional details. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 09:26, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

So how do we get somewhere with this?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Is Tedder (talk · contribs) at work on this?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:28, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Tagging circa 850 categories for renaming

Bot help is needed to tag circa 850 categories for renaming; see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 May 5#More settlements. Ideally, the bot would add (with an informative edit summary) the following code to each category:

{{subst:Cfr|''ProposedName''|More settlements}}

where ProposedName is the proposed new name of the category. A less-complex (and perhaps AWB-able) option is:

{{subst:Cfr||More settlements}}

Thank you, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 08:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Coding... a general XfD tag-on-demand bot for just this sort of thing, will file a general BRFA with reference to this run later. - Mobius Clock 15:32, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks. Let me know if a I can help with a bot readable list of pages to tag, or the like. ^{şṗøʀĸɕäɾłäů∂ɛ:τᴀʟĸ} 19:15, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. As a side note, many of the entries under Category:Populated places where either settlements or compound a name (like cities, towns and villages) are in the name are going to be nominated. So this will involved a lot more nominations then the current batch. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

No problem. Once the bot's approved, just send me a list as and when they need doing! - Mobius Clock 20:22, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

BRFA filed - shouldn't have too much problem, 'tis a fairly simple task. - Mobius Clock 20:48, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! By the way, once the bot is approved, will it be able (from the standpoint of both programming and approval) to tag categories that are not related to settlements? -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 21:31, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

From a programming standpoint, it would most likely be a trivial change to tag other categories. As for approval, it'd probably be best to ask at the BRFA (seeing as you'd be able to give examples, etc.), I'm not sure. - Mobius Clock 22:14, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, I'll comment there. Thanks, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 22:40, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Updating a table weekly

I'd like a bot to go through the following pages:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Biography task force#Unreferenced BLPs (only that section)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Biography task force/2007
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Biography task force/2008
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Biography task force/2009

Then update the following template: Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Unreferenced BLP progress

Here are the rough rules for where to place the numbers:

1. If the entry is marked with {{tick}}, then it should be tallied with all others which meet this criteria for the month and the combined total for that month listed in correct cell on the "Fixed" row
2. If the entry is marked with {{cross}}, and it is not deleted, then it should be tallied with all others which meet this criteria for the month and the combined total for that month listed in correct cell on the "No refs found" row
3. If the entry is has been deleted, then it should be tallied with all others which meet this criteria for the month and the combined total for that month listed in correct cell on the "Deleted" row
4. If the entry does not meet any of the above three criteria, then it should be tallied with all others which meet this criteria for the month and the combined total for that month listed in correct cell on the "Unchecked" row

The bot would tally up how many for each row for each month, then update the Totals row and Totals column. The sum of the totals row and the totals column should be identical. If a bot could update the table weekly, that would be very helpful. This is to serve as a more complete listing (this listing is about 3x larger) than the one generated by DASHbot as not all of the articles in this more complete list have had their talk pages marked as being part of WikiProject Japan. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:23, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Bot to help maintain CFD/W

Would someone please be willing to code a bot which would help to maintain CFD/W, including the following tasks:

1. At the start of each day, add a link in the section 'Discussions awaiting closure' to the most-recently-overdue log page; and
2. At the start of each new day, or perhaps on request (cf. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old), calculate and list for each day's log page the number of open discussions.

User:MathBot performs a similar function at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, and the bot's code is available here. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 04:44, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Note it would have to be an adminbot to edit that page, because its fully protected, unless there is another idea. CrimsonBlue (talk) 05:49, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Use transclusions for the sections of materiel that you want to include to avoid those issues. β^_command 17:26, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Convert dates to template

This request remains outstanding. (There's a more up-to-date list of templates to act on) SmackBot started the work, but has made no such edits for some months; repeated requests for it to restart have been to no avail. The original request was made in August 2008! I'd be grateful for some help, please. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 09:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Capitalization error on asteroid stubs

I'd like to point out that thousands of asteroid stubs were created with some incorrect capitalization, using the phrase, "Main-belt Asteroid"[5], or sometimes, "Main-belt asteroid". I am in the process now of correcting the capitalisation of these.

I am also fixing the links within, to reflect what is probably a move in an article title. These were originally wikilinked as [[Main-belt Asteroid]], and I am changing them to [[Asteroid belt|main belt]] [[asteroid]], as there is no article Main-belt Asteroid (it now redirects to Asteroid belt). My use of two links (one to Asteroid belt and one to asteroid) was just a personal choice, but one which I think benefits the reader.

Anyway, I've done several hundred of what are over 11,000 of these articles. Is there any way that a bot could be programmed to do what I have been doing? (Example: [6]) Thanks! 98.82.34.167 (talk) 19:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Renaming Primera Division Uruguaya season articles

In a request similar to this one, I request to have the league season articles in the category Category:Primera División Uruguaya seasons (the specific articles being any with the "Primera División Uruguaya XXXX" format) be moved/renamed to this format: "XXXX Uruguayan Primera División". Feel free to contact me if there is any need for clarification. Thanks in advance. Digirami (talk) 21:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Mobius Clock (talk · contribs) should feel free to run this task without seeking a new BRFA. –xeno^talk 18:52, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Yep, will be Doing... very soon. Thanks for letting me know Xeno. - Mobius Clock 20:27, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

And we are Y Done here. If you have any more of these to do, just let me know. - Mobius Clock 15:22, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Book for Nobel laureates

Hi, I wanted to write Wikipedia books on the nobel laureates, and having a bot write "first drafts" would be very helpful. It should be rather straightforward to implement. For example, on List of Nobel laureates in Physics, there is a table with the year, name/link, and reason for the prize. From this the bot could generate

{{saved book
 |title=Nobel Laureates in Physics
 |subtitle=
 |cover-image=
 |cover-color=
}}

==Nobel Laureates in Physics==
;Overview
:[[Nobel Prize]]
:[[Nobel Prize in Physics]]

;1901
:[[Wilhelm Röntgen|Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen]]

;1902
:[[Hendrik Lorentz]]
:[[Pieter Zeeman]]

;1903
:[[Antoine Henri Becquerel]]
:[[Pierre Curie]]
:[[Marie Curie]]

...

The name of the laureate should appear as on the list, but it should be piped to the non-redirect. The result should be uploaded at Book:Nobel Prize in Physics (I've taken care of this one, but not the other disciplines). Likewise for List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry, List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, List of Nobel laureates in Literature, List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. This would be much appreciated and save me a lot of time. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:47, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Anyone? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 00:16, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

So all you need is a list of names arranged by year? LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 02:41, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Pretty much. Although it needs to be formatted as above. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:31, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Add {{Caldwell catalogue}} and Category:Caldwell objects to relevant articles

I just created {{Caldwell catalogue}} and it needs to be placed on roughly 109 articles (a bit less, since some haven't yet been created). It would really help if a bot could go through all the Caldwell objects (which can be found in the navbox, or on Book:Caldwell catalogue) and add the navbox at the bottom of the page, as well as categorize them with [[Category:Caldwell objects|###]], where ### is the three digit number (Caldwell 1 = 001). BTW, sometimes the category may be present, so just overide it. The current scheme uses an innappropriate ## sorting rather than ### sorting, which leads to problem with C100 to C109. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:20, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Dating adoption offers

I have just added a date requirement to {{adoptoffer}} and there is no obvious way to persuade users to adapt to the changes quickly. Could someone use/adapt/create a bot to add it automatically? Every time the template is added to a page - which will add that page to Category:Undated adoption offers - it simply needs the text |month={{subt:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} inserted before the final }}. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 18:49, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Looks like a good task for SmackBot (talk · contribs) which does similar dating of templates. –xeno^talk 18:51, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Grammar nazi bot

Every instance of "is comprised of" can be replaced by "comprises". This improves clarity, parsimony, and grammatical correctness. Likewise "was comprised of" -> "comprised".

Not a good task for a bot.. That would be better suggested as an AWB typo fix. Bots aren't suited to mass grammar fixing where the edits need to be confirmed by meatware (i.e. a human), as special cases could (probably do, actually) exist where the change would be wrong. See also the small bit in the bot policy about such changes. - Mobius Clock 15:40, 12 May 2010 (UTC)