Wikipedia:Bot requests
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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).
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- 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.
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Request to support CfD close
Following Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 July 22#Category:Film redirects, we need the following changes for every member of Category:Film redirects (currently 80 or so):
- the members are redirects, please update the redirect not its target
- create a talk page with, or replace the current contents by,
{{WikiProject Film|class=redirect}}making sure the class is redirect if the project is already present on the talk page (some at least are incorrectly allocated to another class such as stub for example)the redirect{{Film}}may have been used instead of{{WikiProject Film}}- just checked, all the talk pages are either themselves redirects (which should be replaced by the project template), or to be created
- remove the category from the redirect page itself
Once the category is empty we will deal with it speedily. Thanks. --Mirokado (talk) 21:20, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
- Update: I've requested that we add support for redirect to
{{WikiProject_Film/class}}. Probably better to wait until that support is in place before making these changes and I will post here once that has happened. --Mirokado (talk) 11:39, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:John Zorn
Please add the navbox {{John Zorn}} to all exist articles, which refers from template. --Marek Koudelka (talk) 16:30, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Updating wikilinks upon section renaming
Let's say there's a wikilink to a specific section of an article. Then, let's say that section is renamed. Is there a bot in place for this particular scenario? Said bot should search all of Wikipedia, upon any section being renamed, for any links to that section, and then rename the link to correspond to the new section name.
- Example: For the article Determinism, section 5.4.2 Quantum world
- If the line reading "
====Quantum world====" were changed to "====Quantum realm====" - To avoid deadlinks, the bot would find any and all links that read "
[[Determinism#Quantum_world]]" and change them to read "[[Determinism#Quantum_realm]]"
Bot would scan for edits to existing lines beginning and ending in equals signs. If the entire line were removed, and the bot found a link to the removed sectioning line, it could either rename any links to point to the above section that contained the removed section, or simply rename any links to the main article at large (i.e. "[[Determinism#Quantum_world]]" becomes "[[Determinism]]" if the sectioning line of code were removed).
If such a bot already exists, please post its link here, so that I might scrutinize it further. If, on the other hand, such a bot does not exist (and is not simply inactive at this time), I would be interested in attempting to make it myself. Thank you. JimsMaher (talk) 17:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- First, I'm renaming Determinism#Quantum_world to Determinism#Quantum_realm. Second, to clarify, as it stands at this time ... incorrect section links prefaced in correct article titles (or redirects) link to the top of the article, defeating the purpose of section linking. I am looking for a bot to remedy this, as described above. ... Working on it. JimsMaher (talk) 16:33, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
List of articles with broken links to the IUCN Red List
There are several articles with a broken link to the IUCN Red List (iucnredlist.org) entry. Is anyone able to generate a list of such articles? --Leyo 22:29, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Bot to insert navbox on affiliated pages
I have created the navbox Template:Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame and have inserted it at the bottom of Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame. Can anyone please run a bot for me that will insert this template at the bottom of the existing articles listed on the template? And...if possible..at the same time, remove any Orphan Tags that may exist on those articles, as this navbox will resolve the orphan issue. Thanks for your help. Maile66 (talk) 14:59, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
- May I suggest doing this as an AWB task? It seems a fairly low number of articles and non contentious enough to make it not worth going through the full bag process. Kumioko (talk) 15:13, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
- If someone will do it for me. I don't use AWB myself. Maile66 (talk) 15:45, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Done. Template added. --Stryn (talk) 17:09, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. Maile66 (talk) 17:12, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Removal of {{wikify}}
Is there a way we can get a bot to remove all transclusions of {{wikify}} now that the template has been deprecated at TFD? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:55, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
- There is a discussion in WP:Wikiproject Wikify. As soon as we form a concrete strategy there and also make AWB rules for {{Dead end}} (there is a discussion in Template talk:Dead end for that), Yobot can run and fix/replace/remove accordingly. We also need a strategy for {{Wikify section}}. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:00, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
- Neither of those should happen. The purpose of deprecation was to keep the template from being added to any articles. It should be removed manually as the issues get solved. Ryan Vesey 04:39, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- There is a discussion in WP:Wikiproject Wikify. As soon as we form a concrete strategy there and also make AWB rules for {{Dead end}} (there is a discussion in Template talk:Dead end for that), Yobot can run and fix/replace/remove accordingly. We also need a strategy for {{Wikify section}}. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:00, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
bot to bring photos from NRHP list-articles to individual NRHP place articles
Hi. I wonder if a programmer would be willing to write a bot that would go through NRHP geographic-based list-articles, and where a photo is present in the list-article, check to see if it is present in the corresponding, linked NRHP place article, if it exists. Often there is no individual article yet, the link can just be a red-link. Or vice versa: go through the existing NRHP place articles in one state, and check to see if each corresponding list-article has a photo for it.
Some NRHP editors have been dissatisfied at times that new individual articles created by others did not immediately include available photos. Also there are often photos added to list-articles that don't immediately get added to already-existing individual place articles. This would address that complaint. I think it should be a one-way thing, just bringing pics from the list-articles to the individual NRHP place articles, not the other way around. During September there is a Wikipedia Loves Monuments (WLM) campaign going on which may bring a lot of new photos to the list-articles, by the way.
The system of NRHP geographic list-articles is indexed from List of RHPs. It links to state list-articles which link to county list-articles which in some cases link to city- and neighborhood list-articles. The list-articles are all identified in Category:List-Class National Register of Historic Places articles and should also have state or county or other geographic categories. The individual NRHP place articles all should have the NRHP infobox template, which could be tweaked to indicate something if useful, and also all fall within NRHP categories and county or other geographic categories.
The benefit would be to have a bot that could be run occasionally, and to allow quicker improvement of the individual NRHP articles. Any first reaction on whether this could be done? Have similar bots already been written? --doncram 15:09, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
bot to add NRHP nomination docs to NRHP articles
Could a programmer write a bot to go through NRHP place articles and check for availability of an NRHP nomination document at the National Park Service website, and add a reference to ones that are found, if not already included in the article? This would be hugely helpful in updating thousands of NRHP articles, as the National Park Service puts more and more states' nomination documents on-line.
For example, there are 2,543 NRHP-listed places in California, indexed from List of RHPs in CA. There are articles already for about half of those, i think. Few have references yet to the relevant online NRHP nomination documents, because the National Park Service only just made them all available for that state. The bot would draw a reference number from the NRHP infobox in an article, and use that to look up the nomination document at the National Park Service. It would add a reference (such as <ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/REFNUM.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: NAME |author= |date= |publisher=National Park Service}} and [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Photos/REFNUM.pdf accompanying photos]</ref> but with REFNUM and NAME filled in by field values from the NRHP infobox in the article) into the article, just above the references section. Such as in this diff adding NRHP nomination doc reference to a California NRHP article
A complication stems from the fact that the National Park Service's website returns a dummy document saying "Not yet digitised" in cases where the real document is not available. We want the reference to be added only when a real document is in fact available at the expected URL.
I expect this is more difficult to program than #bot to bring photos from NRHP list-articles to individual NRHP place articles item above, but it is actually far more important and useful. --doncram 20:13, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments India
Hi,
Wikimedia India Chapter is organising WLM in India, and hence would like to invite all Indian Wikipedians to participate. Find the invitation message here at my sandbox: User:Karthikndr/sandbox. Message needs to be send to all the Wiki Project India members.
Needs to be delivered by tomorrow. Thanks! -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 18:45, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- You should take a look at EdwardsBot. LegoKontribsTalkM 20:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Bot to add links to National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery, London has a website with a very well-organised index of its collection, which is also searchable. The database allocates a unique numerical ID (of the form mp01234) to each sitter (i.e. subject of a portrait), which allows the creation of a link to a list of whatever portraits of a particular person are in the catalogue. (see for example this list for Philip Rea)
In 2006 I created the template {{NPG name}} to facilitate adding external links from biographical articles to the site's collection, but so far it appears to be used in less than 1,000 articles ... whereas the NPG has 175,000 portraits, and their online catalogue appears to list over 100,000 sitters.
It seems to me that it should be possible to have a bot which at least identified possible matches between sitters in the NPG database and biographies on Wikipedia, and maybe added the links. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:32, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- Here is a list of sitters against their LinkID (CSV format). The script tried to list possible name variations (based on brackets etc). Since there are probable errors because of that, here is the raw version.
- I haven't tried to filter this list against Wikipedia articles. Would you like me to try? Noom talk stalk 15:28, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- Many thanks for creating the list -- that's a great start.
- It would be wonderful if you could try to filter it against Wikipedia articles. Even if there is a high error rate, it will still be a lot faster to add the links is the bot has made some suggestions. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:54, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- If memory serves, a substantial amount of these are simply catalogue entries - recording the NPG has a portrait but not displaying it. Would it be worthwhile to limit the links only to cases where an image is actually visible on the NPG site? Andrew Gray (talk) 15:34, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
- From my recent searches, it seems that the majority of entries do now have an image, which is a big change from the situation a few years ago.
- I think that it is worth linking even if the NPG website currently does not display an image. Firstly, we can hope that images will be added to the website in due course ... and secondly, not everything need exist on the web to be useful to our readers. Many biographical articles link to the UK's National archives website, which catalogues papers rather than displaying them. This serves as a pointer for researchers, and the NPG links can serve the same function. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:50, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Bot work
Hi. I was thinking we could create a bot that closes Wikipedia A-class reviews after two supports, and updates the article's talk page to that. TBrandley 02:19, 1 September 2012 (UTC)