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If your favorite project is using the
1.0 assessment scheme you may want to periodically clear out deleted and redirected pages. Best done from Category:X articles by quality, which can be converted from talk pages. Make sure "Bypass redirects" is off, and use the log of skipped articles to look for articles skipped due to containing #REDIRECT or nonexistence.
Nifboy (
talk) 19:55, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
A better, albiet more verbose, explanation can be found
here.
Nifboy (
talk) 00:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Doing... for WikiProject Computing.
fahadsadah (
talk,
contribs) 08:28, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason not to simply add assessments to the existing {{SKCNproject}} banner and ask a for a bot to update it based on whatever {{WikiProject Canada}} is at? Almost all talk page categories are currently done through banners, so I'm not sure about adding plain old categories via AWB (which is entirely possible, it just makes maintaining them harder, since you have to update the categories manually as well as the talk banner(s)).
Nifboy (
talk) 09:21, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Re-pointing links to a moved page
I've come across this at times, where a page needs to be moved so that it is consistent with naming conventions, and so that a disambiguation page (or a link to one) can be put in place of its old title. For example:
Speak (song) was moved to
Speak (Godsmack song), and most or all of the links to it are
Godsmack-related and need to be changed, as there are other songs named
Speak. Likewise for
Speak (album) and
Speak (Lindsay Lohan album). Any way to scan for this automatically, or would anyone be willing to run through these manually on occasion? –
radiojon (
talk) 17:56, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
I've fixed the ones that link to
Speak (song), checking my edits. I'm not sure about the rest, so I'll leave that for someone else. If I used it wrong, please let me know. Note:I'm starting to get a bad feeling about doing this, because per
WP:R2D, so I'm going to stop.
Pie is good(Apple is the best) 19:41, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
"The following demographic statistics are from the [[CIA World Factbook]]."
with:
"The following demographic statistics are from the [[CIA World Factbook]], unless otherwise indicated."
(without the quotes)
Please copy your reply to my talk page, to take advantage of Wikipedia's message alert feature. Or post me a heads up leading to this section. Thank you.
Bot is approved; Doing....
Robert SkyhawkSo sue me! (
You'll lose) 04:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC) Never mind...this is a mainspace task, so I need to do it myself, which I will when I get time. Alternatively, I could file a BFRA for this task.
Robert SkyhawkSo sue me! (
You'll lose) 04:13, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Doing...do you want the pages in the Wikipedia mainspace recategorized too?
Robert SkyhawkSo sue me! (
You'll lose) 03:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Actually, looks like you've already beat me to this, unless you want the Wikipedia namespace articles recated too.
Robert SkyhawkSo sue me! (
You'll lose) 04:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
I have a small task for an AWB user... could we change all the links to
Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling,
Buddah Records? Thanks
Chubbles (
talk) 17:54, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Done even correct the link here :P ·Add§hore·Talk To Me! 09:51, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Broken refs
The majority of the pages listed at
Category:Wikipedia pages with broken references have a simple problem, they have no references section. There are other reasons a page can be listed there, but AWB can use a regex to skip any page that already contains "<references|{{reflist". --
Pascal666 (
talk) 14:11, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
My bot has taken a sweep theough the cat to try to add a list of refs to articles that have 2 or more refs in them. This should now be done :) ·Add§hore·Talk To Me! 08:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, but why only two or more? Every page in that category should have a references section. --
Pascal666 (
talk) 08:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
My bot isnt designed to do it for single refs. But if that Category is going to remain where it is and be updated I will add it as continuous task for my bot, (along with any other cats you know of) ·Add§hore·Talk To Me! 08:18, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
That category is automatically populated by
MediaWiki, so yes, I expect it will stay there for some time. --
Pascal666 (
talk) 08:41, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
My bot,
User:Thehelpfulbot also runs through these pages periodically, if you see the list was cut by almost half by a simple edit that I made to the Infobox Planet.
TheHelpfulOne 13:54, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Now all the articles that had a references section added to them just for that infobox will have an empty references section. --
Pascal666 (
talk) 14:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
The info box has been restored to the info box with references. We will continue adding sections ·Add§hore·Talk To Me! 17:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
passed away
Could this be replaced throughout with "died"?
Kittybrewster ☎ 05:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I took a stab at this, with a list created by finding articles in Category:Deaths by year, including its subcategories. I'm sure I missed a few instances as such, but couldn't think of a better way to do it. However, all pages which apply to that category have been gone through and fixed where needed.
Raven1977Talk to meMy edits 22:09, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
I did a run on this one last month. --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 12:17, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
tragically died
Could this be replaced throughout with "died"?
Kittybrewster ☎ 23:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
I took a stab at this, with a list created by finding articles in Category:Deaths by year, including its subcategories. I'm sure I missed a few instances as such, but couldn't think of a better way to do it. However, all pages which apply to that category have been gone through and fixed where needed.
Raven1977Talk to meMy edits 22:10, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
I found over 600 occurences of "tragic death" which about two thirds needed changing. --
Alan Liefting (
talk) - 05:48, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
There are still over a thousand such instances - so I am slowing getting through some of them. I just created a list of articles containing the phrases "tragic death" "tragically died" etc.
Alan16 (
talk) 12:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
The main problem I've found is play names and stuff like that, but there are still a lot of "tragic deaths" in articles - especially music articles oddly enough. Also when you get a phrase like "untimely and tragic death" it makes it more difficult.
Alan16 (
talk) 12:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
died at a young age
Could this be replaced throughout with "died young"?
Kittybrewster ☎ 23:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Doing... I've done about 20, would like feedback on the edits...
MacMedtalkstalk 14:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
prettytable
There are still many pages in Wikipedia that use the CSS class "prettytable". The en.wp CSS maintainers would very much appreciate it if any usage of it could be updated to use "wikitable" instead, so that in time it will disappear. Wether this be a task, or part of the "autocorrection" rules, does not matter much. See also
MediaWiki talk:Common.css#.prettytable --
TheDJ (
talk •
contribs) 20:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
class="?prettytable"? to class="wikitable" ?? —Reedy 21:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Run manually, may still be a few outstanding exceptions that search didn't get.
Xclamation point 01:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
A simple wiki search throws out 13 in articles, which should be easy to do nice & quickly, but a load more if you include all namespaces, so they'll all have to be checked. Does this change extend to places like commons too? --
ClickRick (
talk) 18:37, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Doing... Correction, make that 600. --
ClickRick (
talk) 22:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
The suggested regex isn't sufficient. Consider class="prettytable sortable" which would end up as class="wikitable" sortable" --
ClickRick (
talk) 22:55, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Usage changes between the templates - details of their use are documented on each template
The appropriate lead is automatically inserted by {{Animanga by year category header}} - as you go through, please remove the lead and, if it differs significantly from the inserted lead, I'd appreciate a note of it
Three or four categories also automatically get inserted, a slightly different set for each case (anime/manga and year/decade):
Anime of year: Anime by year of first release, Anime of the decades, year works, year in Japan
Anime of the decades: Anime by decade of first release, decades in animation, decades works
Manga of year: Manga by year of first release, Manga of the decades, year works, year in Japan
Manga of the decades: Manga by decade of first release, decades comics, decades works
Wherever these categories are specified on the updated categories, they need to be removed, and whenever one of the categories is categorized under something different, I'd like a notice about it.
If anyone needs this clarified, feel free to ask. Thanks in advance! 「
ダイノガイ千?!」(Dinoguy1000) 17:16, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
tragic death -> death.
Kittybrewster ☎ 14:13, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
I took a stab at this, with a list created by finding articles in Category:Deaths by year, including its subcategories. I'm sure I missed a few instances as such, but couldn't think of a better way to do it. However, all pages which apply to that category have been gone through and fixed where needed.
Raven1977Talk to meMy edits 22:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
On the pages listed at
User:The Transhumanist/Indexes of U.S. States please do the following search/replaces (they can be done in a single pass). The actual strings can be found in the edit window, and do not appear correctly below.
The redirect Various Artists was recently deleted, and there are still slightly under 1000 pages that link to it (
Special:WhatLinksHere/Various Artists). Could someone with AWB go through and replace all instances of Various Artists with Various artists ? Thanks, rʨanaɢtalk/contribs 23:15, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I don't have AWB, but I was able to remove most of the incoming links with Twinkle.
Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (
Many otters •
One hammer •
HELP) 01:28, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Done I've done all that remain using AWB Limideen 12:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Not that Complicated of a cleanup
I just did some page moving, and I need some links fixed. Could someone please go through and change [[Complicated]] to [[Complicated (Avril Lavigne song)|Complicated]] and [[Complicated (album)|Complicated]] to [[Complicated (Nivea album)|Complicated]]?
Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (
Many otters •
One hammer •
HELP) 22:39, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Done hopefully, first time I've ever used AWB, so there may have been mistakes -
Kingpin13 (
talk) 19:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Stub cleanup
All the stubs at the moment uses outdates classes and stubs and should be repaired. They should have the classes: "metadata plainlinks stub". They should have the classes "notice boilerplate" removed (no longer in use), and the id="stub" should be removed as well (there can be multiple stubs on a page, so an id is not valid. See also
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stub_sorting. —
TheDJ (
talk •
contribs) 10:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh and other cleanup, like removing the div's around some of them and fixing some of the broken xhtml are welcome as well of course, but my concern is more with the CSS. —
TheDJ (
talk •
contribs) 10:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I'll gladly do it, but don't really know how... just started using AWB. If anyone could show me how I would do that I would.
RedSkunktalk 04:42, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Assuming that all of those stubs should have the classes "metadata plainlinks stub", but never any other classes, with no exceptions, we can try a little distributed editing to get all of the templates that need updating (
listed here). Just grab the
Fronds plugin, make a list ("Links on page" => User:Jarry1250/Stublist), then make sure you have the "stub cleanup" frond enabled and starting working your way through the list, remembering to delete the ones you've done from the list every so often. -
Jarry1250[ humourous –
discuss ] 11:56, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Help fix Wikipedia's most linked disambiguation page?
Salford was recently moved to
Salford, Greater Manchester following a consensus on the talk page between members of
Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester. It's left circa 900 ambiguous links however. We require someone with AWB to change all links to Salford to go to "Salford, Greater Manchester" (i.e. pipelinked like:[[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]]). This would be doing Wikipedia a great service. Can anybody help? :) --Jza84 |
Talk 12:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to modify all links that point to
United States Census, 2007 and make them point to
United States Census Bureau instead? There wasn't a 2007 census so that redirect is just pointless. After this task is done, I'd like to delete the 2007 redirect page.
Timneu22 (
talk) 14:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Doing... -
Kingpin13 (
talk) 16:27, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Done, all [[United States Census, 2007]] should now be [[United States Census Bureau]]. Despite my reasoning the other day, looks like I've ended up doing this, to get rid of all of those redlinks (since
United States Census, 2007 was deleted per XfD). Cheers -
Kingpin13 (
talk) 16:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm curious though: I see that pages no longer have the links but there's no revision history showing the change? Am I missing something?
Timneu22 (
talk) 17:02, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Ah yes, there are some pages which "What links here" seems to think do link there, but which neither I nor AWB can find the links for. I suspect that it may be using a template or somesuch, or in some other way the link code is "split". But after browsing through the articles I couldn't find any redlinks (which would result from a link to
United States Census, 2007, so decided to let it be -
Kingpin13 (
talk) 17:05, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
OK. Thanks much
Timneu22 (
talk) 17:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Fixing parameter name in template
In the template {{Infobox UK property}}, I have renamed the parameter |imgage_name= as |image_name=. I'd like to request that someone use AWB to correct the name of the parameter in all articles where the template has been transcluded. Thanks. — Cheers,
JackLee–
talk– 05:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I notice this also needs to be done on the redirect
{{Infobox UKproperty}}. Should those instances be renamed to bypass the redirect while the parameter is being renamed? —
ClickRick (
talk) 05:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I didn't realize there was a redirect. Yes, why not. Also, I renamed the parameter |Managed= as |managed= for consistency with other parameter names. This is not a big issue as I tweaked the template to provide for backwards-compatibility, but if you're able to repair this I can trim the duplicate parameter name from the template afterwards. Thanks! — Cheers,
JackLee–
talk– 05:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Check
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_UK_property for the full list of articles which transclude that template. I only changed main-space articles, not user pages, user talk, or WP-space articles, so please confirm before I go and do those as well. —
ClickRick (
talk) 06:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Looks fine right now. Go ahead and finish the task! Thanks very much. — Cheers,
JackLee–
talk– 06:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Once again, thanks very much! — Cheers,
JackLee–
talk– 09:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, ClickRick, I've done some further cleaning up of the infobox, and have decided to rename the following parameters for standardization:
|gridSquare= → |gridsquare=
|webAddress= → |website=
If you are free, could you do some more AWB magic and fix these as well? No hurry, as the template currently works with both the old and new parameter names. — Cheers,
JackLee–
talk– 10:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Recently, however, I learned about {{CRS}}, designated for
CRS Reports (i.e. reports published by the
Congressional Research Service). In this instance, the template would display the following:
The {{Film}} template currently has three fields that permit linking to the Internet Movie Database, All Movie Guide, and the official website. These links often appear in the film articles' "External links" sections, too, so
discussion took place in the community to determine whether or not to limit these links to only these sections. The consensus is to remove the fields, but before I put in a request to change the protected template, I would like to make sure that film articles will have IMDb, AMG, and the official website available.
Is it possible to check if the IDs already exist in the "External links" sections of film articles, and if not, to move the IDs there, inserted in the respective template? For example, {{imdb title}} could be inserted with the ID and the title from the infobox; same with {{amg title}}. For the official website, the URL could be cut from the infobox and pasted in the section as [<URL GOES HERE> Official website]. Just wondering if AWB was capable of this? Or is there another tool that can do this, if any? —
Erik (
talk •
contrib) - 18:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
In python it would be possible to do
match=re.search(r'\|\s*imdb\s*=\s*(?P<imdbnum>\w+).*?(\{\{[Ii]mdb[ _]title\|\w+://w*.imdb.com/\w+/)(?p=imdbnum)',text)ifmatch:print"%s has both imdb infobox and template/link"%page.aslink()
to check articles, but it doesn't seem that .NET has support for referencing named groups. —
Dispenser 19:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, it does. If you get a regex matches, iterate through (for each match in matches), you can do match.Groups["groupname"].Value —Reedy 21:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Here's a juicy one!
This one is major. There's a mainstream set of pages, most of the pages of which have the same errors on them...
For a great many of the "Demographics of" country articles, statistical data from the CIA World Factbook was dumped in there.
The problem is, the data is formatted wrong. It needs to be wikified in each article (I've already done some of them manually), by giving it the level-2 heading "Statistics", and the bolded headings need to be replaced with level-3 headings without the colon.
There are a bunch of <br>s in there too, and they need to be replaced by regular carriage returns.
In all links, the portions of the link address before and after the substitution remains the same; this pertains only to the text that falls between www.crtc.gc.ca and the year. I've already updated a few isolated articles here and there, but as you can well imagine, this is a pretty daunting task to perform manually. Merci salut la visite!Bearcat (
talk) 06:08, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I have recently written
a bot to update links. Once it is
approved I will be happy to work through these links. Looks like there are about 1500 of them in need of update. Including some "/archive/ENG/Hearings/" and "/archive/ENG/Notices/" both of which appear to also update to "/eng/archive/". Is that correct? --
ThaddeusB (
talk) 13:21, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
I had to double-check those, because I'd been planning to resolve hearings and public notices separately, but yeah, it looks like that's right.
Bearcat (
talk) 14:26, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Scratch this request — for a variety of reasons, I've ended up repartitioning my hard drive and installing Windoze on part of it, so I'll just go through the run myself. But thanks for the offer of help anyway.
Bearcat (
talk) 23:20, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I've just done this to five articles and was hoping you could tell me whether this is right. I want to clarify this before I go full-scale (but this is a rather large list; I can split them with someone). Anyway, could you check these diffs:
[1][2][3][4][5] to see if this is to your liking? Thanks,
Robert SkyhawkSo sue me! (
You'll lose) 00:34, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
PS The new category is nonexistant.
§hep •
¡Talk to me! 22:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
The cat has been created! The pages you modified turn up in the category correctly. See the results at
Category:Outlines. Looks good to me. When your task is completed, there shouldn't be any pages listed at
Category:Basic topic lists.
The Transhumanist 02:35, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
So really, I could just make a list out of
Category:Basic topic lists and move those pages into the new category? This would be a more concise list to make, and it would make sure that other AWB users don't go over the same article as another one has already done, since the resorted articles get moved out of the old category.
Robert SkyhawkSo sue me! (
You'll lose) 04:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Yes, working off the category is fine. Someone else will catch any that aren't listed there. I see you've got some of them done already. Thank you!
The Transhumanist 00:02, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Robert, you did almost 300. Nice. Thank you.
The Transhumanist 00:54, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
160 left to search/replace
From the task directly above, there are 160 left. We need someone to finish these up. Robert is not currently available (he's on a wikibreak which started about a week ago).
I would do these, but I have not access to a computer that can run AWB, so I need your help.
On all the pages listed at
Category:Basic topic lists, please search and replace [[Category:Basic topic lists]] with [[Category:Outlines]]. That'll move the pages from one category to the other.
Yes, I've been rather busy with a production this week. I'll (hopefully) be able to finish the list this weekend, and if anyone else can do some that would help a lot. Thanks,
Robert SkyhawkSo sue me! (
You'll lose) 05:37, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
I just found another instance of [:
http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page] on
Eardley-Wilmot Baronets (see history) although google and wiki don't list it. I am told the way to find them all is using a special link, namely
[6]. Please would somebody go through these (83 errors) pointing them to
rayment for peers,
Rayment-b for baronets,
Rayment-hc for MPs and
Rayment-pc for privy councillors. Lots of them wrongly point to peerage page when they are about baronets and should point to baronetage page. Please note Baron -> rayment, while baronet -> rayment-b.