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Could someone program a bot that scans through articles, and tags articles which have had a significant reduction in content since the last edit as articles that have possibly been vandalised. The tag would also add them to a category, allowing humans to go through and see which ones have actually been vandalised, reverting as nessicary. This would be run daily, and would help to keep out vandals. -- GW_Simulations 14:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm currently writing this bot. It uses a highly modified pymediawiki to both get the history and do reverts. It uses a pretty complex mechanism to determine if something is vandalism or not. It will hopfully be launched under the name User:tawkerbot2 joshbuddy talk 18:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Per a (non) vote in
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Illinois_State_Routes, we have a list of routes in
List of Illinois State Routes that all have articles of the form Illinois State Route X (active and red links). All of them need to become of the form Illinois Route X. It amounts to about 150 pages, and about 300 links to these pages, but I don't know if a bot can touch the "what links here" pages to change the names of those pages.
There's also a template that I will update to reflect the new name when the pages are moved. Thanks for your help! —
Rob (
talk) 12:00, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to get a bot to change all the links that point to US, meaning the country, to be changed to [[United States|U.S.]]. This would do two things, first it would make the link direct to the page for the United States. Secondly, it would change US to U.S. to fall in line with the standard set forth in the Manual of Style. And as long as the bot is in the article, could it change all other instances of US (exact match and case sensative, of course) to U.S.? It is usually the case that if an article references the United States in this way that the U.S. will be mentioned later in the article as well. Also, a similar function for a bot would be to change all instances of U.K. to UK which is that countries preferred abbreviation per the MoS. Dismas| (talk) 01:47, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Could someone subst: Template:Warning used in User talk pages. Thank you. CG 17:19, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
I added a category to a template Wikiproject Indian cinema after it was created and added to more than 100 articles. Is there anyway a bot can run through all articles using that template (what links here) and do a null edit on them. This is only way the category would refresh. - Ganeshk 09:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
A lot of tedious disambiguation work could be done by a bot to replace
[[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]]
by
[[University of Texas]] at [[Austin, Texas | Austin]].
Recently, the infomovie box was changed. As a result hundreds of pages were affected. Images in the infobox used to have brackets around them, with Image: in front of it. Now it's built like this: batmanmovieposter.jpg with out anything around it. Could a bot be made to fix all pages that have it the old way? See Enduring Love for an example of how its messed up...
Does anyone else feel the word "notion" is a bit POV? "Concept" is just the dry definition, but "notion" seems to imply skepticism. Thoughts? - MPD 14:42, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I see on Wikipedia:Template messages/Maintenance that {{ attention}} tags are supposed to go on each article's Talk page, but that "older uses have not yet been moved."
Would this be a useful bot to write? I am a capable programmer and am willing to take this on (though I have not yet had experience writing bots for Wikipedia). Tim Pierce 18:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to find ways to stop User:Gibraltarian. We've tried everything save one idea. He uses the IPs 212.120.224.0 to 212.120.231.255. I wrote a template at Template:Gibraltarian. It makes it clear under which circumstances that the IP could reasonably be considered to be G. If someone wants to make it clearer, go ahead. I would like a bot to put this template on the IP range that he uses. It would aid users. Right now, he's being warned several times before we're blocking him because non-admins especially are unaware of this guy's MO and his status (the arbcom is about to ratify the indefinite block). This is what I mean. He basically roamed free for half an hour until someone realized who it was. Here is the list of IPs he has used just to show that they are all in that range. Thanks. -- Woohookitty (cat scratches) 21:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Could someone touch the "What links here" for Template:User zodiac. I just need it done once. Thanks.-- Commander Keane 22:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I just now came across someone ( Karmafist) who has placed A LOT of un substituted welcome templates. Would it be possible for a bot to go through his contribs and fix all these? Or, better yet, could someone tell me how I could make one myself? - Mulder416 19:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
A new service for newbies has been created, they can now use {{ helpme}} to get help (run by Boot Camp). The standard welcome messages have this new service listed (eg {{ Welcome}} etc), but many editors have personal welcome messages (eg User:Sam_Spade/Welcome).
I'd like an analysis of the database dump to be done which finds as many of the these alternative welcome messages. A script would check for "Welcome" or "welcome" in the title of pages in the User namespace (or any other keyword you can think of). I would then go through the report and contact the owners of the alternative welcome templates. Can anyone do it?-- Commander Keane 00:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Not a technical kind of person myself, but is it possible to create a bot to welcome new users? One that would put the welcome template on new user's talk pages? It would be a real benefit - I know a lot of users appreciate it. Obviously, a bot takes away the personal touch, but it would possibly save a lot of time as newbies would have links to help pages and guidelines as soon as they registered. Robdurbar 21:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I request that a bot goes over the Whatlinkshere for both these templates and removes them from any and all talk pages and user pages (where it shouldn't be to begin with, and likely is as the result of a move), so that the relevant categories Category:Articles actively undergoing a major edit and Category:Articles actively undergoing construction are useful once more. Especially the former consists for 90% of talk and user pages. >Radiant< 13:11, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there one? Pattersonc( Talk) 8:00 PM, Sunday; January 29 2006 (EST)
I just created Template:Google video for Google video URLs, I'd like a bot to change any instances of these links:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7521044027821122670
to
{{Google video|ID|description}}
The ID is the number appearing after ?docid=, note that some links also contain a search term: &q=search+term . Also note that some Google video links link to a search result page, these should probably be ignored. Alternatively, I could settle for a list of articles with these links if anyone has got access to a database dump. - O bli ( Talk) 22:42, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting bot status (flag) for bot User:Sashato. This bot is active on sr: and hr: wikis. The only job will be adding interwiki links. I use pywikipediabot for this interwiki job. Thank you — Sasa Stefanovic • 18:07 1-01-2006
This category has several projects sorted under W when they should be changed to be under the name of the project, i.e. Wikipedia:WikiProject Hong Kong should be under H. Could a bot go through the projects sorted under W and re-sort them?-- Max Talk (add) 20:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Saint Louis, Missouri has become St. Louis, Missouri per consensus since it is the official and by far most widely used name for the city. However there are still hundreds of links to the old title on Wikipedia and it is very tedious to go through and fix them manually. This is a simple task for a bot to do -- can someone who is able take care of this? GT 04:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
From what I understand, "External links" at the bottom of an article should always be plural reguardless if there is only one external link. There are many articles that have "External link" or "External Link" (the L captialized). Could a bot be made to correct them all to read "External links"? Steve-O 17:40, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been on a little crusade for a few weeks now to get the monthly news archives to start listing the days in forward chronological order (i.e. beginning March 1 and ending March 31). Why aren't they already in that order, you might ask? It's because these monthly archives are produced by moving the page Current events at the end of the month, and on Current events the newest events are placed at the top (which is appropriate there).
I've taken care of March and February of 2006 (see before and after for March if you're unclear on what I'm talking about). However, every other one between January 2002 and January 2006 (inclusive) is in reverse chronological order and needs fixed.
It appears the formatting on these pages has evolved over the years, complicating matters quite a bit. But if anyone feels like they can help out with this please do (or reply here if you want me to help out somehow). GT 07:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
This was completed manually :( — GT 14:03, 11 May 2006 (UTC)