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I'm skilled programmer and have a good idea for a bot, but instead of requesting a bot, I'd like to write one myself. I downloaded pywikipedia but failed to find any documentation. Where can I find a manual or a howto on how to write a bot? -- Dijxtra 13:49, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Taking a look at this page, I notice there are a number of requests that are at least a month old (and by old, I mean, the discussion has been dead a month, not just that it was started a month ago). I'm wondering if perhaps an archival is in order, and if so, if there would be interested in having the lovely EssjayBot_II ( talk · contribs) to archive requests after the discussion has been dead for say, 30 days. Thoughts? Essjay (Talk) 07:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Re: Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_8#New_articles_bot... is nobody going to make a bot for us?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 20:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:00, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Some of the recent posts to the WP:BOTREQ page are from a brand-new user...which after a bit of digging appears to be a WP:SPA. Just a heads up to anyone who cares. ^ demon [omg plz] 14:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. I'm a moderator (called admins here) on a wiki called Bionicle Sector 01 Wiki (for, as the name suggests, info about BIONICLE, the toy line). I've tried in the past to talk to some programmers about creating a bot, or just copying the code for one of Wikipedia's anti-vandalism bots and giving a quick crash course on how to operate it, but had no avail (folks didn't respond after a while). Well, our wiki is still concerned about vandals coming in at night when no one else is really on, so thusly I'm attempting to have a bot created for our wiki again. Would it be possibly to request one here for another wiki, or can anyone respond with how I can perhaps get one for another wiki? I'll try the makers of the AVB to see if they can help out at all. ~U
Im not sure how often are requests like Wikipedia:Bot requests#WikiProject Rugby league tabbing requested, but I have a question about that type of bot work. That is, bots that look through a category and mark every Talk page in that category with a certain WikiProject's banner if it is not already present there.
Im hoping that bots that do this kind of work can be made to support BannerShell. That is, when adding a WikiProject banner to a talk page, if that talk page already has a {{ WikiProjectBannerShell}} AND if the banner being added supports nesting (according to User:MadmanBot/Report, 99% banners do support it and upgrading new banners can be requested at Template talk:WikiProjectBannerShell), it would be best if that bot can add the new banner within the BannerShell, with an additional parameter of nested=yes. There is an example of that functionality on User talk:Madman bum and angel/Archive 1#preg_replace. Shinhan 15:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Do you think you could make a bot to remove all instances of the phrase "very unique?" This would have to know when to put a {{sic}} in quotations. I just hate that phrase. I didn't care until I just saw it SO MUCH. My goodness. Be well, Gregbard 05:09, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I've been looking for a bot that will find redlinks in designated categories. I haven't seen it yet? Be well, Gregbard 05:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I've been noticing that as of late there's a "backlog" of bot requests which could potentially frustrate some users, whose view is if they post on WP:BOTREQ and no one ever responds, that no one is willing to help them and that they're stuck. I'd like to be helping out a bit more, but indeed, my personal TODO list is backlogged too. Would anyone object to a {{ notice}} like the following at the top of the page? — Madman bum and angel ( talk – desk) 18:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Please do not feel slighted if there is no reply to your bot request for some time. Bot operators, like all Wikipedia contributors, are volunteers, and indeed there is a shortage of editors with the technical skills required to operate bots and write code to your specifications. If you feel that a task is time-critical and that waiting for a bot operator to reply or for a BRFA to be approved may take too long, you may want to consider a user-friendly, semi-automated tool like AWB. |
Moved to main page by -- Boricua e ddie 21:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
After failing to elicit a response within the four-day time limit, my request was automatically archived. Should I post it again, or is that considered inappropriate? — David Levy 04:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The jobs seem to be dissapearing off here very quickly and given the other message at the top saying it may take a while for requests to be responded to, how about we increase the time the thread spends on the page to 7 days? :: maelgwn - talk 10:36, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Is there some bot that fixes links to pages that have been redirected? i.e. link -> redirect page -> actual article gets changed to link -> actual article Jared Wiltshire 02:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
No. WP:R#Do not change links to redirects that are not broken. — madman bum and angel 02:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I saw somewhere that others could program bots for you here, but here, it is saying that if you need work done by a bot, post it here. Which is the proper thing to do here? Hyper Sonic Boom RFA? 00:44, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a small problem. I have to change hundreds of piped links, and I'm hoping a bot could save me a lot of trouble. I have to change every piped link that currently contains User:Lincalinca (i.e. [[User:Lincalinca|Foo...]]) to another piped link (i.e. [[Correct link|Foo...]]). I've done this change manually to show what I'm trying to accomplish ( see here). Any suggestions on how to change this in as little effort as possible are most welcome. If anyone's up for the task, I'll be glad to share the details. Thanks! - Mtmelendez ( Talk| UB| Home) 01:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Over at WikiProject Canada I've been editing the main talk page template so that you can have the template add articles to both the main Canada project and a given subproject at the same time. I'd like to eventualy replace all of the old talk page templates that subprojects were using with the new WikiProject Canada one, but I can't just replace them with redirects because I need certain parameters turned on; for example, a template reading {{Canadian Music project | class=B | importance=Mid}} should be replaced with {{WikiProject Canada | music=yes | class=B | importance=Mid}}. There are thousands of such templates around that should eventually be replaced, and I was wondering if it would be possible to get a bot to do it. For each subproject, the task would be something like:
How would I go about getting such a bot set up? Thanks. -- Arctic Gnome ( talk • contribs) 15:40, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to run a bot that compiles a list of indefinitely blocked users that still have user or user talk pages so pages can be deleted accordingly. A lot of admins don't leave blocked templates per WP:DENY when blocking a vandalism only account so I suspect there's a lot of talk pages out there for users that have been blocked. Ryan Postlethwaite 01:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone else found bugs with:
Timneu22 ( talk) 20:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
This may be a silly question, but how would I go about trying to get the comments added to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals all have a timestamp? We currently are trying to ensure that proposals stay there only about four months or so, and sometimes it's hard to tell how long something has been there, particularly if the originator of the proposal didn't sign it. John Carter ( talk) 22:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
This pages archiving is less than ideal in my opinion. I think requests with no responses should be left on the page longer; conversely I think requests that have been fulfilled should be archived faster. As it is, unfulfilled requests are archived in a week, when it often takes at least two weeks for anyone to do anything about them, and fulfilled requests sit on the page for a week after they have been fulfilled clogging up the page. I recently set up archiving for the graphics lab in which fulfilled requests (requests with either {{ done}} or {{ resolved}} somewhere in the section) are archived in 3 days and unfulfilled requests are archived in three weeks. I think here we could go with 1 day and 2 weeks respectively and it would be a great improvement. What does everyone else think? If this gains consensus I could implement it very easily by adjusting my existing code.-- Dycedarg ж 21:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
To make it easier to respond to requests, for users to see the progress of said requests and to assist with archival, I have boldly created Template:BOTREQ with full documentation. It does duplicate one or two others, but I thought that it would be good to have all the common replies in one, appropriately-named template. If it is generally liked, I can add it to the main page. If the general consensus is that it is rubbish/unnecessary, then please feel free to delete it. RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ 11:45, May 26, 2008 (UTC)
Since Newsletter delivery is one of the main BOT requests, I have made a new cats and added the known relavent BOTs. Feel free to add them. This will help people to contact the BOTs directly in the non-availablity of another known bot -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 12:27, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
User:Yobot is doing a large bot run, removing accurate "Date of birth missing" cats from numerous articles where the date of birth is indeed missing, or estimated (such as Tan Kai, for whom we don't even have a year of birth). Does not respond to numerous messages. Please shut this bot off and see to it that the bot operator undo his/her damage. Thank you for this, Badagnani ( talk) 20:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
The bot operator removed "Date of birth missing" cats from numerous articles (possibly hundreds) about individuals whose years of birth are estimated, such as Tan Kai. Rather than move the cat, the bot operator simply chose to blank it entirely, then claim s/he was acting properly. Such conduct is unacceptable in that it does not improve our project. If you wish a cat to be in a different place, move it, don't blank it. I ask again that the bot be blocked and the bot operator be asked to undo his/her mistakes (as outlined above) over the past few thousand edits. Badagnani ( talk) 21:24, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
What would you guys think of adding |Editintro=Template:Botcats to {{ AddNewSection}} in the header. An extra reminder couldn't hurt? I don't want to add it without someone else thinking it's a halfway decent idea. Thoughts? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:14, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've disabled ClueBot III's archiving for the time being as it continues to improperly archive active discussions. Notification of the problem has been given at the bot's talk page. Once fixed, it will need to be renabled. -- JLaTondre ( talk) 16:13, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Rather than simply archiving those page chronologically, would it not make more sense to archive it three ways: Completed requests; pending requests; and disputed or declined requests.
That way, if I want something doing, I could look in the former to see who has done something similar previously; and a bot owner could check long-standing, unfulfilled requests. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 19:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I was just listening to Daniel S. Weld talk about the Intelligence in Wikipedia Project in a video podcast from some time ago. He said their bot request here was turned down by a 14 year old administrator from Finland because they didn't have enough edits as a registered account, but had been editing for a while unregistered. I'm curious if this issue was ever resolved or what the current status is, as Wikipedia could benefit from their research. Viriditas ( talk) 01:33, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
I know that there is a tool which can help find any articles that have selected tags on them, like, for instance, a specific project banner and a DYK template. but can't remember how to find it. Any ideas? John Carter ( talk) 19:47, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
With east's bot? Dropping this around to everyone whose name east dropped. لenna vecia 12:24, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
I know I should know this, but is there some sort of tool or bot which can check to see which if any articles that are contained in one category, or have one template, also have another template? John Carter ( talk) 15:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
with the "top twenty" on, courtesy of the Sunday Times in 1992:
1. practise (to) 2. withhold 3. occurred 4. innovative 5. benefited 6. principle (belief) 7. incur 8. grievance 9. concede 10. transferred 11. competent 12. calendar 13. warranty 14. acquire 15. liaise 16. truly 17. expedite 18. discrete (separate) 19. affect 20. accommodation
necessary. Could a bot be used to check for these spellings? Some of them slip through editing. #8 Principal School teacher le belief #12 calendar get er spelling often and so on21:41, 25 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.208.160 ( talk)
After reading the bot requests it seems to me that there is a nice division here between what the WikiProject help desk is doing and what this page does. I noticed there are many intricacies that must be dealt with when doing stuff like applying regular expressions to the entire Wikipedia. As such I have placed a rule on that WikiProject that states that all changes suggested by a program will be approved by a human. This eliminates systematic changing of the entire Wikipedia, a domain which this page seems much better at. However if you see any requests come through here for one-off tasks, or tasks that only apply to a few articles, then send them over to the help desk; that way you can focus your attention on the subtle details of not destroying the entire Wikipedia with a crazed bot =). Triddle 16:53, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
Please see centralised discussion at When & how to archive Wikipedia:Bot requests. Your contributions will be welcome there. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 18:13, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
It currently reads: "You might not expect Category:World War II to be a subcategory of Category:Thailand, but it actually is, and a bot will find it!" Shouldn't that be "Category:Wars involving Thailand" instead of Category:Thailand? Dream Focus 23:12, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Is there any bots currently active that do deletion sorting and reporting for wiki-projects like for what Maelgwnbot used to do ( Example? Peachey88 ( T · C) 05:29, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
At the top of AFDs these days you can click "AFD statistics" and it'll show you who voted for what. If someone says Keep, however, and then they mention the word delete in a reply to someone, it counts them as voting both Keep and Delete. [4] Notice the names Epeefleche and MichaelQSchmidt on both list? Shouldn't it only count key words(keep, delete, merge, redirect) at the front of their sentence? Many times someone who says keep, will say "that's not a valid reason to delete", and thus end up being on both list. Dream Focus 00:37, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
We need some help in Estonian Wikipedia, can I ask it here? Pelmeen10 ( talk) 16:31, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
{{ Run-page-shutoff}} has been nominated for deletion. You may be interested in this issue. 65.93.15.80 ( talk) 05:14, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I need a copyright tool. I've asked a few independent tool developers, but they have either lacked know-how or time.
We have bots and tools that can compare the text in an article to the results of search engine tests. Earwig's copyvio detector is far and away the most useful tool in my work. I really, really could use a tool that allows me to compare two specific pages. Often, somebody will tag Article Fu as a copy of [Random website], but give no guidance on where on the target page the text is drawn. I spend a lot of time scanning through documents trying to find these alleged text matches so that I can close out listings at WP:CP. If anybody could make a tool that would allow me to have two pages compared with results listed ala Earwig, I would then be able to find the exact text matches on the suspected source so that I can see how extensive the problem is, or if it even exists.
In my dream world, this tool could also evaluate PDFs, because the absolute worst cases I've encountered were documents hundreds of pages long. It would also be great if the tool could, as the once-planned "URL Intersection Tool" would have done, compare versions of Wikipedia articles via permanent diffs. I don't know if this dream world tool is possible, but I'd be ecstatic just to get a tool that could compare a Wikipedia article with a website.
Can anybody help me? Or suggest a forum where somebody might be able to help me? (I considered posting this at Wikipedia talk:Tools, but considering that the section above mine would have been a forlorn and unanswered cry for help, figured it might not be that useful. :/ Wikipedia:Proposed tools doesn't really seem to have flown.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:48, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
I looked at this page just now and there are three references to database reports and someone is using my yanker tool. I'm so popular! -- MZMcBride ( talk) 04:07, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
The present long description of what kinds of requests to put here is
This makes no difference between requests for help by existing 'bots, and requests for 'bots with new functionality. However, a couple of times, when I've asked for help by existing 'bots, in order to fix some interwikilinking they seem to have overlooked for some reason, I've got absolutely no response. (The latest example was Request for help with linkage between wp's from different languages.)
When I look at the rest of the requests, they all seem to be of the other kind; not requests for work done by existing 'bots (with no modification), but requests for new functionality. I guess this is what thie project page nowadays is intended for, and that this is the reason why my requests are ignored. If my guess is right, then the long description of the page purpose is misleading; at least, it has mislead me to direct efforts at the wrong place. The text then should be clarified, preferrably with a hint of where one properly should make such requests. JoergenB ( talk) 18:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Not sure of the correct place to put this so feel free to move it or redirect me to an appropriate page. Recently we updated the WP:GAN page and it has broken the report generated by StatisticianBot ( talk · contribs). I have tried to contact the owner via talk page and email (and have just asked another interested editor to also email [5]), but so far no reply yet. What is the next step in this situation. Is it possible for someone else to update the bot? AIRcorn (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
It looks like the operator actually hasn't been notified on his talk page; the last message is from September. You might want to try to establish contact there in addition to e-mailing him. Cheers, — madman 18:02, 3 February 2012 (UTC)