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).
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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).
- 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.
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Bot request#10
I want to create a bot that does the editing on wikipedia on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Anuvarshanw (talk) 19:51, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
- I would help, but my bot only works weekends now. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 23:48, 13 April 2014 (UTC).
- Did you have a specific task in mind? Palmtree5551 (talk) 22:11, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
- I think the idea is that we can do the editing on Saturday and Sunday, while not at work/school, and the bot cover the rest of the time. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 07:11, 16 April 2014 (UTC).
- I think the idea is that we can do the editing on Saturday and Sunday, while not at work/school, and the bot cover the rest of the time. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 07:11, 16 April 2014 (UTC).
- Thats alright with me, but can we get on with creation, not talking to each other --Anuvarshanw (talk) 00:42, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
- Awaiting instructions! Monday-to-Friday Bot (talk) 03:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
We are starting the project Videos for Wikipedia articles. The Category:Articles containing video clips is extremely useful for understanding what kinds of videos are already used in what kinds of articles. Alas, it seems the list is not complete. Therefore we would like to request a bot to search for articles with video clips and mark them for that category. Thank you. --Vgrass (talk) 16:56, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- Strong
Agree . It is really essential that this category refflects the current status, and as it is a hidden cat, most users don't know it, so they can't add it when they add a video. --BR, Jan S. (media) 09:06, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Considering... If no one else is working on this, I may take it up. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 21:59, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Blank and template really, really, really old IP talk pages
Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 110#Bot blank and template really, really, really old IP talk pages., there is consensus to have a bot replace all content on IP talk pages with an {{OW}} tag if:
- No edits have been made by the IP within the last seven years; and
- The IP is not been blocked within the last five years.
Some editors would allow even shorter time frames, but those in the proposal are what have been unanimously approved at this point. Now all we need is a bot to take this up. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:54, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- Considering... Hey, something within reach of a new bot developer like me!
I will probably take this up unless someone else can do it faster. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 21:58, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Talk page archive
Request withdrawn
A bot to archive my talk-pages on the basis of signals from me. The talk-pages are the primary talk page of specified accounts and nominated holding pages. The bot should check the pages frequently, ideally by watch-listing them, or monitoring recent changes feed.
A thread will closed by me, either by a triple "-" following someone else's comment or a line starting with "--" following my own sig. (Attempted) closures by other editors, excluding Femto Bot (who knows what it is doing, and mediates all other processes that know what they are doing) should be ignored.
The entire thread from the 2nd level header to the line before the signal should be moved to the destination, preceded by one blank line. Headers should have spaces removed from between the "=="s and the title of the thread. Blank lines immediately after headers, and trailing blank lines should be removed. The "signal" line together with preceding and succeeding blank lines should be replaced with one blank line.
Edit summary should ideally identify which threads were moved where, but a summary "2 threads moved to XX, 3 threads moved to Y" is acceptable.
If no destination is specified the target page is the archive pertaining to the month of the last sig in the thread.
If the target page does not exist it should be created, with the appropriate headers, and the index/mega pages updated as required. The naming scheme for archive pages will be User talk:<account name>/Archive/YYYY Monthanme (slightly different from that used in the past). A redirect from User talk:<account name>/Archive/YYYYMM should also be created.
If an invalid destination code is left the bot should leave a note on my talk page. The bot may mark the signal line in order to simplify the task of recognising that it has already seen it.
Syntax: <closure signal>[Dest code]
The only current valid destination codes are "TODO" (case insensitive), "TALK" (case insensiteve) and BARN. TODO's target is User talk:Rich Farmbrough/To do (regardless of the account being archived) sub pages may be specified in future. TALK is the talk page of the account involved. BARN specifies that any enclosed award or gift (kittens, cookies, beer etc.) should be copied to the barnstar locations for the account involved, and the thread should be archived as normal.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:35, 23 April 2014 (UTC).
- Based on the recent modifying of your Ban on automation, I have opened a request at ArbCom Clarification asking them to enumerate if user triggered automation is included in the ban on automation. As such I suggest that no Bot Operators/Designers take the request up until the committee has rendered a verdict. Hasteur (talk) 20:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
- To be blunt, Hasteur, I was simply giving the Arbitrator's request that I get someone else to run an archiving bot for me a fair shake. I seriously don't expect to get any takers, but if I did, then that would have been one problem resolved. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:39, 23 April 2014 (UTC).
- To be blunt, Hasteur, I was simply giving the Arbitrator's request that I get someone else to run an archiving bot for me a fair shake. I seriously don't expect to get any takers, but if I did, then that would have been one problem resolved. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:39, 23 April 2014 (UTC).
Bot to create redirects for titles ending in periods
It has been pointed out that URLs ending in period cause issues when copied to clients such as email (version of 15:25, 21 April 2014). The easy solution as proposed by SmokeyJoe is to "create a redirect without the period for every article URL ending in a period". I support this, and propose assigning the task to a bot, to first make initial redirects for existing articles ending in a period such as those on the referenced list, and then to continue making such redirects for new articles, on an ongoing basis. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:04, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Request to tag articles for a Wikiproject
In order to get a grip of articles under the scope of the new WP:Physiology, I request that all articles under Category:Physiologists and Category:Physiology and all subcategories be tagged with:
{{WikiProject Physiology |class=|importance=|field=}}
Thanks in advance, --LT910001 (talk) 00:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Do you want the "class" parameter copied from existing banners? And set to stub if the article is a stub? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 05:57, 25 April 2014 (UTC).
- Thanks for your help! If you are able to, that'd be wonderful. Thank you! --LT910001 (talk) 06:16, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Bot for CAT:UAA
CAT:UAA is used to track violations of the username policy pending discussions with the users, etc. User talk pages are added to the category and removed when the relevant users are blocked, deemed to have acceptable usernames, or when they become inactive. KingpinBot removes all of the blocked accounts automatically (although it has been dormant for some time). What we need is a bot that can remove all of the inactive accounts. Standard practice at CAT:UAA is if a user has (1) been in the category for 7+ days, & (2) not edited/made log entries for 7+ days, then it is removed. Right now all of this is done manually, but it would be more efficient for a bot to do it. Is this possible? NTox · talk 04:56, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, it is eminently do-able. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 07:10, 16 April 2014 (UTC).
- Starting protyping Hasteur (talk) 23:22, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, Hasteur. That sounds great. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. NTox · talk 06:10, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Modify existing bots to flag links to http://hometown.aol.com/* as {{Dead link}}
All content. i.e. web pages, under http://hometown.aol.com/ disappeared on Oct 31,2008 (see AOL Hometown). All links to that content should be marked {{Dead link}}.
Existing bots should be modified to do this. Lentower (talk) 21:45, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Note: I've since found that much of this content is archived at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/ in archives before Nov 1, 2008. Archives after Oct 31, 2008 just link to root of that web site. Lentower (talk) 13:20, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Re: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) dead links
This request from April 10, 2014 is still unresolved. Perhaps a bot could quickly be written to fix these links; it's been two weeks since the last reply has been made to this thread, and yet no solution is in place yet. Epicgenius (talk) 03:11, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Bot that reads newspapers and creates an ontology
We can use published sources to create an ontology.