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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 8

Category:FOTW images
Too much has been allowed to creep into this category and be reused without watching. The template and category should have been deleted a long time ago, but now represents so much work in removing images from articles nobody would dare approaching it. Can a bot deal with removing images from articles? Circeus 01:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Bot for researchers needed

 * Crossposted to Wikipedia_talk:Bots.

A bot (or perhaps a script, or some other tool) would be very useful to the growing amount of people (myself included) who are interested in studying Wikipedia. I'd very much like to see and use a tool that would look at the history of any article (including a talk page!) and: Even one or a few of those if implemented would be much, much appreciated! If we already have tools that can answer some of these questions, please let me know.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 00:40, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * generate a list of people who have edited target article
 * generate an information feedable to a statistical analytical program (comma-separated values format is quite simple and popular) which would tell:
 * how often each individual edited this article
 * when did he edit it
 * how much new content has he changed
 * was the edit marked as minor
 * was the edit summary used
 * was the edit a vandalism (possibly using parts of Tawkerbot2)
 * was the edit a vandalism revert
 * was the edit part of a revert war

 * While this could be implemented as a user script, some of those features would require fetching all the past revisions of the page, which would hit the servers pretty hard. I think this would be better implemented as a Toolserver project, or offline using the database dumps.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 08:51, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that it likely would be better to use dumps to avoid server load (on the other hand, this bot would not likely be used often). Can one download only a part of the database dump (since this bot would be analyzing only 1 or few pages)? Does toolserver work on the dumps?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I have a history stats tool that picks up reverts, and a user contrib's stats tool that get the number of large, medium, and small edits form the summaries (and can be percectly accurate sometimes). I'll try to combine the twain. A tool to get the editors and how many times they edited can be found here for example. Voice -of- All  05:32, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Tnx for any help. Unfortunately the current ' TDS' Article Contribution Counter' seems not to be working with non-article namespaces, which makes it mostly useless for my research :( I will ask TDS if he can fix it, and I will be waiting for your combined tool :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It doesn't work? It seems to work for me. (Yay! I'm second on the list!)  fetofs  Hello! 17:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it should be working for all namespaces. I just merged my user contribs tool's article sorting stats for the type of edits with my history stats tool. It still may need some debugging though. Voice -of- All  23:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh :) All right, it's a case of user friendliness problem. We need better instructions on the tool page, as I was putting in Wikipedia:Verifiability instead of Verifiability, and the Wikipedia namespace is named Project in the pool down menu :) Now what all those tools are missing is some kind of time-series analysis: a listing on when the edits were done. A graph would be nice, but that can be easily done with any common statistical packages, if the data can be extracted first. Which reminds me - it would be nice if those tools could generate output in comma-separated values (although it's rather easy to copy and paste them in the current output, too).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:18, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Bot requested for image backlogs
I have been thinking over the last few days and seeing that Category:Images with no copyright tag, Category:Images with unknown copyright status, Category:Orphaned fairuse images and Category:Images with no fair use rationale get back-logged quite a lot, I think I bot would be able to help us combat these backlogs. The bot should go through the sub-categories of the main categories and remove all those images listed at the sub-category and remove them from the article(s). The bot would not delete the image, merely remove it from the article(s) that contain the image. This would make it a whole lot easier for admins to go around these categories and delete the images there, and not have to remove the images from the article themselves. I am aware OrphanBot does some work linked to this, but it doesn't go through all of the categories. Iola  k  ana |(talk) 15:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes it does, afaik. JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:11, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Book citation completion
I'd very much like a bot that would fill in the blanks in incomplete cite books. A cite can be considered incomplete if it's missing any of the following parameters: Title, last, first, publisher, year, id.

I can see five cases in which this could be used (given in fall-through order):
 * 1) An id (ISBN etc.) parameter is given, and it has been referenced in another article. In this case, the completed template (omitting page/chapter references, etc.) can be copied over.
 * 2) An id (ISBN etc.) parameter is given, and the info can be looked up from an external source.
 * 3) A wikilinked title is given, and the linked-to article gives the required information in an infobox book.
 * 4) A wikilinked title is given, and the linked-to article gives exactly one ISBN. (ISBNs in the References and See Also sections don't count, unless the article's one ISBN is in the References section.) In this case, the info can be looked up as above.
 * 5) A subset of the aforementioned basic parameters is given, and an external source gives exactly one search match with the required data.

If the bot is unable to fill in all of these basic parameters, it should insert ?s for the missing ones and/or a page comment, to show that it has tried.

If this type of bot responds quickly to new cite books, it will no doubt save editors a lot of tedious work looking up and typing in all the data fields. We can tell them to type just the ISBN, and suggest that they come back later and verify the bot's work. Seahen 03:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Extra thing this bot should do: remove the frequent colons afetr the word "ISBN". these prevent the ISBN from being parsed properly. Circeus 02:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Anyone working on this? I think i might do it, sounds easy and fun. LilDice 17:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Bot Wanted. User: Xana1
Bot's Name: SpyroBot Editing Spyro Articles

 * I think you need here: Bots/Requests_for_approvals Reedy Boy 21:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Requested articles
I noticed a lot of the requested article pages are in quite a mess with not being proper formatted, ie bullet points.

Would it be possible for someone to write a bot to place bullet points in front of the requests to make the pages look better?

I did do one page manually, and it took quite a while.

And, would it be possible for a bot to automatically remove blue links.

I would happily run it if someone could write it!

Thanks!

Reedy Boy 10:38, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Main to user space redirect finder
I have already created a list of some cross-space redirects at User:Invitatious/cnr. I would like this bot to do the following:

 * 1) Generate a list of cross-space redirects. (Not from any of the acceptable pseudo-spaces)
 * 2) Split this list into main to userspace and not that.
 * 3) Present confirmation of each MTU redirect to the human user of the bot, which if approved, will tag it for speedy deletion using the following tag:
 * 4) Make the other redirects into a wikicode list, grouped into sections depending on the first two characters of the redirect. And also upload it to a user page, preferably with code that will prevent a bot from "bypassing the cross-space redirect". Or upload it to an outside web server. Example:

BE

 * Being a dick &rarr; Wikipedia:Don't be a dick

Invitatious 19:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Prod Bot
I'd like to see if anyone's up for writing a bot to help those who monitor PROD. Specifically, I think a bot could:

 * 1) Maintain pages, one for each day, that lists all articles that were PROD'ed that day, the time of the prod, the prodder, the prod concern, and the edit summary used when prodding.  It could strike out articles that were de-prodded.  Optionally, it could note whether a prod2 or prod2a tag has been added.
 * 2) Automatically remove prod from any article if prod was previously removed from that same article, and notify the prodder that this was done.
 * 3) Automatically remove prod from any page that isn't an article, and notify the prodder that this was done.

Number 1 especially would be very helpful in patrolling. I don't have the skills to write the bot myself, or I would. Mango juice talk 14:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 * NOTE: There is already a system in place that provides functionality similar to that described in item 1 (I can't remember the specifics, but it includes an auto-updating table of PRODs), and it was used successfully in the early days of PROD. Unfortunately it relies on a copy of the database kept on the Wikimedia toolserver, which is not up-to-date for the English Wikipedia. Proposed deletion states that the current category-based system is actually a temporary "backup system" until this is fixed – Gurch 17:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

NoOffenseBot
I am requesting a bot that can detect & remove offensive language.--StitchPedia 00:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * If the bot plans to run in the Article namespace, this is censoring, which is not allowed. If it plans to run in talk pages, then this is editing other peoples' comments, which certain users think it rude. Iola k ana |T  18:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this could be problematic. In the article space it could lead to problems, for example, the Sum 41 article correctly uses the phrase "Anna Nicole is a (fucking stupid) cunt". In the talk space, it may frustrate users. It might work if the bot depended on human confirmation before making changes. Cedars 13:49, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This would definitely be problematic. Wikipedia is not censored. Alphachimp  talk  17:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I would suggest a slightly different approach, then. How about an option where is censors out words for any particular user who doesn't like them?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by OneWeirdDude (talk • contribs)
 * That wouldn't be a bot thing. That would be something that would have to b accomplished by changing the software behind Wikipedia. It's really not going to happen. Even if it ever did, it would be difficult deciding what was an appropriate and innapropriate use of profanity. Coincidentally, did you know that wikipedia has a fairly large number of pornographic images? As I said before, Wikipedia is not censored. Alphachimp  talk  18:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not censored. --mboverload @ 19:54, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

A bit of redirect snapping
Will a botbeard please go through the Whatlinkshere for Template:Redirect-acronym (recently moved from Template:Disambig-acronym) and snap the links to point to the new name? JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:10, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * That's not necessary unless you intend to re-use the old title for a different purpose, or delete the trailing redirect. — Jul. 6, '06  [03:11] < [ freak]|[ talk] >

Index of initials
I think a bot that creates an index for all 2 and 3 word articles according to their initials (instead of the first letters as in Quick index) would be very useful for browsing and figuring out abbreviations. I guess in current software it can't be done in a dynamic way or searched for initials. Any ideas?

I would like to work on such a bot, but I have no idea how to write one (even though I have some programming experience). If somebody send me a code for a similar bot (that looks every article title and categorize for a certain criteria) I can modify it.

--þħɥʂıɕıʄʈʝɘɖı 22:10, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The generated index would never be complete, because articles are always being added, although I can generate a list for you if you are a bit more specific. Will small, common words such as "the" or "of" be counted? If I understand what you mean, Flags of the World will become FOTW (all words), FOW (all but articles), and FW (no short words). Non-return-to-zero will become NRTZ (all words) and NRZ (no short words). This would be an offline report tool though, not really a bot. Invitatious 23:45, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Good point. I was thinking of "no short words" version but it could be otherwise. I don't need it for immediate use so may be we should think of some dynamic way to generate it. I thought that a bot running periodically would do the trick. Do you know how does Quick index work? May be I should file a feature request to MediaWiki, instead of a bot. þħɥʂıɕıʄʈʝɘɖı 01:01, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Quick index uses a special page Special:Allpages. It is an real-time alphabetical list of all the pages in Wikipedia. It might be possible as a MediaWiki special page extension (SQL text quantifiers), but you wouldn't find the correct NRZ, as opposed to NRTZ for Non-return-to-zero. It would use way too much processing time anyways. So it would have to be an offline report. Invitatious 12:21, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Do you think it would worth the effort? þħɥʂıɕıʄʈʝɘɖı 18:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe for finding pages that are not on disambiguation pages for acronyms. I might start programming it to generate wikicode> HTML once I get the data (the current one's at "http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060702/enwiki-20060702-all-titles-in-ns0.gz" ). If that turns out to be extremely useful, maybe the data can be cached every night and made a special page extension. Invitatious 23:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I didn't know that there was a titles only database. May be I can play with it later. I am looking forward for your results. þħɥʂıɕıʄʈʝɘɖı 01:38, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * A prototype is at User:Invitatious/intindex.py (without the short words feature, which I now consider to be of little use). It is written in Python. Instructions are on the page. Currently you will have to search through the text files. If anybody wants to write a database storage modification to this that would certainly be welcome. Invitatious 03:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you Invitatious! --þħɥʂıɕıʄʈʝɘɖı 06:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Substitution
A bot is needed to keep template:ISBN out of actual use, see Templates for deletion/Log/2006 July 9. Circeus 12:59, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Batch move of interwiki images
We've got a non-Wikimedia MediaWiki site over at Wikible; there are several versions of the wiki in different languages, so we also have a Pool (like Wikimedia Commons). We've changed how things work and now have a bunch of images to transfer from wikible.org/en to wikible.org/pool. I don't think anyone has any bot experience in our group; would you mind helping us out? Read the discussion on our site for more background and relevant links. Thanks! --J. J. 18:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

 * We've manually moved all the pictures, but we're still interested in Bot experts to help out with the site. --J. J. 13:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Any idea whom should I contact to get more answers there?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * First try installing these to YOURNAME/monobook.js to be able to anaylize pages. As for something that a bot could do en masse (nothing as complex as that tool), I'd have to know what you want more specifically (point by point). Voice -of- All  07:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Stub-labeller
I'd like a bot to go through small articles and label them stubs. Anything smaller than 1k is probably a stub, yeah? --BradBeattie 05:54, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Omg I was just about to click Request and saw this! :o u stealer :P --Deon555|talk 23:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Just to add again (sorry!) if it's not possible, could it work out all the small pages from Special:Shortpages, without the stub tag, and put it to the cleanup area, and we (the cleanup ppls) can tag it with the correct one, whether it be or whatevr, which ever is easiest... I just think the bot wont be able to tell whats a australian geography related and whats an American president related, and having those stubs, is better than just  --Deon555|talk 00:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Grammar & Spell Checking bot
I need a bot to review a page I added. I've been without the necessary time to review my writing and I know there must be mulitple grammar and spelling errors. Page is H. B. Hollins.--LongIslander 15:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

 * This is no easy job for a bot, best done by a human.  fetofs  Hello! 16:30, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Bot
I originally posted this here, but figured it would be good to post it here also.

I've noticed a recent issue with WikiProjects. I've noticed it in the one I work on, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anime_and_manga, but it probably applies to all WikiProjects. When an article is declared a "Good Article" or any other article class, editors add the appropriate tag on the Discussion page, but they often forget to add the appropriate Wikiproject tag that says "this is a good article for Wikiproject whatever". This means that the Wikiproject statistics page that shows how many Good Articles and the like the Wikiproject has may be drastically off, and the categories sorting the Wikiproject's articles may show tons of "good articles" and the like in the "unassessed" section.

Would it be possible for a bot to regularly peruse the Wikiproject article discussion pages and find ones that have a GA tag but no Wikiproject GA tag, and the same for all article assessment tags? Also, if a Wikiproject has a system for article ratings that doesn't coincide with the main Wikipedia system (as warned by a commentator on my original post), the bot could simply not affect articles on that Wikiproject. Dark Shikari 15:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Date Change Bot
It could change M/Y or M/D/Y dates for template defaults like and various "As of..." containing articles. It sounds like it wouldn't put too much strain on the servers and would prevent articles from becoming inaccurate datewise. --Blackjack48 23:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm a little confused about what you are talking about. My bot is already doing the whole updating cleanup dates thing. Alphachimp  talk  05:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, okay. --Blackjack48 14:00, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Fixing #Redirects
How about a bot that fixes links that redirect. Like, say a link points to A, which redirects to B; the bot could fix it that it points straight to B. OneWeirdDude 18:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Then what's the point of having a redirect from A to B?--Orgullomoore 02:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * In case a user goes to that page (Got you, Orgullo!)  fetofs  Hello! 15:51, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Daily maintenance bot
Given the recent apparent demises of both and, which did a bunch of housekeeping tasks related to WP:CFD, WP:TFD, and the WP:VPs (and others), I propose we designate some bot source as the "official" daily maintenance bot, create an account for it, post the source, solicit an owner, and put its daily tasklist (instructions) in a protected file. This way anyone could propose or even implement new tasks for it, and if the current owner goes missing, anyone else could take over as its owner as well. I've started a list of maintenance activities at maintenance/tasklist. IMO, having the normal operation of any of the *fD activities rely on any individual's closed source bot is not a sustainable model. Comments? -- Rick Block (talk) 01:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree and I would be willing to help with this once you get some sort of system implemented to mantain it (subversion?, cvs?, wiki?). However, another good way to avoid this, not just with this particular bot, is asking for the source code before the operators leave. I think that most of the time, the author isn't intentionally keeping his source closed and would be willing to publish it, but assumes that no one cares and/or doesn't have a convenient way to do it. This is my case.--Orgullomoore 02:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't run any bots, per se, but do run some automated scripts whose source I simply post as a subpage either of my user page or of the page they deal with.  See, for example, List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations/script. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:05, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * That's fine for just one script, but I don't imagine it's ideal for some one like AllyUnion or myself, who have dozens of bots. I would support a central repository for all of the open source Wikipedia bots.--Orgullomoore 10:52, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Subpages of Bots, e.g. Bots/Orgullomoore/bot1, Bots/Orgullomoore/bot2, etc.? Note posting them here makes the GFDL.  -- Rick Block (talk) 14:52, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Help needed on the feasibility of a bot.
This comment is a little different from the others here as its not directly a Bot request but rather some assistance with clarifying whether a bot that can do the following is possible. Any thoughts before I embark on trying to make it are greatly helpful. Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to raise this. I am in the early stages of designing and building a bot named the Prolificity Sentinel.

In short the bot will flag articles where:
 * They (and their talk page) have not been updated for a minimum of 6 months.
 * They will not be flagged if they contain under 1000 characters. (a measure to avoid flagging stubs and minor articles like most biographies).

It will upon finding a suitable candidate for flagging edit the page of the article and give it 'Sentinel Alert Status'. This will be a category all wikipedians can see and go through.

Any way, thats a very breif overview, i've discussed it in much more detail here Prolificity Sentinel. Thansk for your help and sorry if this is not an appropriate place to ask this. --WikipedianProlific(Talk) 22:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

 * It is possible. Of course, if you're using a database dump you can check all pages of the 'pedia, but a live lookup demands for extensive thinking about how will this affect the server.  fetofs  Hello! 23:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I guess the three key things I'd need to know per page on the run are: So per page analysed there'd be 3 requests for information if it was going to be flagged. I was thinking of setting the Bot up with specific parameters say, so it would only do a run of say 1,000 articles at a time(roughly one per minute over the course of a day?) I can make the bot less server intense by having it immiediately stop requesting say the last talk page edit if its already found out that the main page edit was within the last 6 months. That way the majority of articles would only have one piece of information requested making sure I dont accidently DoS the server. Any thoughts on that. Is there a database query that can be made to ascertain the last page edit date? Thats the key think I need to know and I can't find a script for it if one exists. ta --WikipedianProlific(Talk) 00:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * When the last namespace page edit was made
 * When the last talk page edit was made
 * How many characters are on the namespace page

Create a bot to update CIA World Factbook links
I wanted to ask if someone could create a bot to automate the changing of links to the CIA's World Factbook web site.

For example, the current link for Malaysia's entry on the Wikipedia page for Putrajaya point to http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html. If you go to that address, the CIA says that the page has been moved. Even worse, it doesn't forward you to the correct page for Malaysia. Instead, it redirects you to The World Factbook's front page and you have to navigate yourself to the right page.

I thought they re-did the directory structure or something, but found that the change is much more subtle. They've simply required The World Factbook to be accessed using the secure server method.

So, http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html can be successfully viewed at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/my.html.

Can someone create a wikibot to go through the wiki files and change the http://www.cia.gov.... to https://www.cia.gov ?

I figure it'd be more helpful since the CIA doesn't do the forwarding automatically... The wiki community would appreciate it. :-D

Thanks!

Brian --Bsheppard 23:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Another observation: Links formerly beginning with  http://www.cia.gov/nic/  must now be changed to  http://www.dni.gov/nic/ . -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * That should be fairly easy to do with AWB (my only tool =. Let me see if I can cook something up. I'll check it out. alpha Chimp  laudare 21:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Easy said. Easy done. Check out my changes at Putrajaya with my sock account. I'm putting up a bot proposal now. My only question/difficulty is...where are we going to compile the list of pages to be updated from? alpha Chimp  laudare 21:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Google says there are 106 pages linking to the url, http://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos. Not sure how you can pick up the links from there. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 21:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Or Wikipedia search too (per Omicronpersei8's suggestion). - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 22:01, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm going to go ahead and selfishly plug my query link, because the problem described in this section applies to all subpages of cia.gov, with a few exceptions, like with  cia.gov/nic  and the strange, slow  www.foia.cia.gov , which doesn't seem to need changing. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 22:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Just searching for 'cia.gov' has been working quite well for me. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I put in the proposal on WP:BRFA. Feel free to comment, criticize, etc. As a little note about searching for the factbook text, some of those articles already have the http format in place. The bot is going to replace http://www.cia.gov with https://www.cia.gov. Can you guys give me some examples of the NIC thing, so I can add it to the proposal? alpha Chimp laudare 22:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I only get ten results for 'cia.gov/nic', so I guess you don't have to worry about that. (See where I saw this problem here.) -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 22:15, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Right. It might be worth doing a manual run on that link after the main bot run. alpha Chimp  laudare 22:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think I already took care of all of them. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks everyone for their help. Hope they can expedite the approval process.  :-D    Bsheppard 01:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh. Well, we'll see. I'll post here whenever I get approved to meet the request. I really don't see this being a major inconvenience...the only thing really holding us up is the wait for approval. alpha Chimp  laudare 15:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

User interaction
Is there a way to make a tool that will help tell us if two users have ever interacted before? For example, it tells you (and provides diffs) of instances when user A has edited user B's talk page (or any user space page) and vice versa. NoSeptember 08:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This really should go on the userscripts page. I have a tool that can spit out the last 20 blocks for two users and all pages they edited in common. I't should be too hard to whip up something like this. Voice -of- All  08:40, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Knowing which pages they edited in common would likely do the trick, since you can look for the user talk pages and other low volume pages that may suggest an interaction (although you would still have to dig into the history). NoSeptember  09:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I've added this to the script, which can be found here; note that it also requres this and only supports the monobook default skin. Voice -of- All  20:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

http://www.websearchinfo.com/
I don't know whether this requires a new bot or just an addition to a data file for an existing bot. Anyway, various people add links to various pages in http://www.websearchinfo.com/ e.g in Cloaking. All links to this site are spam e.g. http://www.websearchinfo.com/poker and http://www.websearchinfo.com/cloaking-techniques.

Could we create / amend a bot to revert all links to this site shortly after they are made? Nunquam Dormio 11:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * If it's always spam (I haven't checked), we could add that website to our blacklist. NoSeptember  11:57, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Color change
Is there a bot that will do font color changes? That is change every instance of a six digit hex string to another 6 digit string within a single page. What I am planning to do is explained here, but the first change is still a month or so in the future. NoSeptember 18:18, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Replace a string of hex digits within a page? Well, a bot can easily do that as long as there aren't any occurances of the hex strings which you don't want to be replaced.  fetofs  Hello! 18:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, as soon as I posted this I realized this is a pretty simple request that you guys can probably do in your sleep. The key to my color changes is doing them in the proper order so that you don't have two groups of data having the same color value at a given point in time. I think I still need to select better color choices. If anyone has a better color scheme suggestion, please comment here. NoSeptember  18:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * If this is a find and replace operation, it can even be done with AWB. If you send me a list of pages, and the find and replace criteria I can blow it out pretty quick. —  xaosflux  Talk  17:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's all on one page, just several hundred uses of several colors needing to be changed. NoSeptember  09:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * If it's all just on one page, why not simply use a decent text editor, or Cacycle's in-browser text editor to take care of it? A bot seems like a pretty heavy-weight solution. --maru  (talk)  contribs 01:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

pngbot
I'm looking to write a bot that will go trough all pages, (or for wikipedia, preferably a dump) and look for references to uploaded .gif's if found, convert them to .png's and update the reference. I have some experience in programming, but not anything of this sort. I seems like a fun project, but I would like some help making it. Martijn Hoekstra 17:33, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

 * It's not necessary or useful. Also, some GIFs are animated; there is no standard animated PNG. There are two common types of animated PNGs (PNG) but neither are commonly supported by web browsers. Only convert images as you improve them. Invitatious (talk) 17:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

 * thanks for pointing that out, I hadn't tought of animated gif's. Would bringing down the filesize/maintaining the same quality be enough improvement to edit? Martijn Hoekstra 17:32, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

 * It should be noted that the MediaWiki image scaling code often produces much better results with PNGs than with GIFs, since the PNG format allows more colors in a single image — the scaling often introduces new colors where the colors of adjacent pixels are blended together. Thus, if the image is used at less than full size, converting it to PNG may yield an improvement in thumbnail quality even in the absence of other changes.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Have you looked at gif2png, which also includes a python web2png, which may do what you want?

ISBN Checker
moved the following from the talk page to here: Martijn Hoekstra 17:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Such as bot would go around, and whenever the string "ISBN" is followed by 10 or 13 digits, would compute the special ISBN checksum, and if the checksum is invalid, leave a comment or a template to the effect that someone needs to check the transcription of the ISBN or fix it. --maru  (talk)  contribs 04:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

 * SmackBot already does a lot with ISBNs, this will be the next step. Incidentally there is a category of "invalid isbn".  Rich Farmbrough 14:28 21  August 2006 (GMT).

 * This is now tested and awaitng approval. FYI there were c.  1,100 with obvious checksum errors. Rich Farmbrough 14:27 24  August 2006 (GMT).

 * Note that there are indeed erroneous ISBNs. If a book has a bad ISBN printed on it, we can label it as incorrect as much as we want but it still exists, and someone holding the book should be told the ISBN on the book rather than what it should be.  There also are different books which have the same ISBN printed on them.  A related issue are SBNs which have been converted to ISBNs although the book only has the SBN on it.  It probably is a good idea to be able to graciously handle certain improper information, but we're in a different situation than unpacking books in a library where a challenged book can be immediately examined and confirmed.  (SEWilco 17:45, 24 August 2006 (UTC))

AIV watcher/template
Can someone design a bot that when a user posts an alert on the WP:AIV page, it places this template on the reported users' talk page:

This message is to alert you to the fact that you have been reported to the Administrator Intervention against Vandalism (AIV) page so that your case can be reviewed by an Administrator. They may then impose a block for a period of time on your IP to prevent you from editing in the future. If you wish to contest the merits of the report, please post it under the actual report on the AIV page. Do not remove the initial report, as this will probably not help you in trying to prove you are not a vandal.

The template is. I'll run it off my main user, or create a new bot account, whichever is easier. Thanks! Killfest2 (Critique my new user page design please) 05:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd like to follow up on this really quickly. I encouraged Daniel/Killfest to post this request here. At present I'm not sure what this would entail in terms of unecessary server load and increasing vandalism to WP:AIV. I'd be very interested to hear what you all think. Alphachimp  talk  05:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

 * anyone????? I've thought about it, and really do think it might be a good idea, if implemented correctly. Alphachimp  <sup style="color:Black;">talk  05:57, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Judging by the time admins take to block vandals, are there many vandals who would need this anyway?  fetofs  Hello! 13:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

 * When I was an IP, got blocked because an administrator didn't even bother to check my contributions, but instead took the word of a now-blocked user that I was "POV-pushing". If there was this template to alert people who have been reported, situations like mine would be avoided.  Killfest2 — Daniel.Bryant  06:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguating Commonwealth
There are hundreds of articles about holders of the Victoria Cross where the opening statement is a standard phrase:

'' the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces ''

which should be disambiguated to

'' the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces ''

Simultaneously, most of these articles could have the reference title Monuments To Courage corrected to Monuments to Courage, and many of them need SCOTLAND'S FORgotten VALOUR (and other eccentric capitalisations) converted to Scotland's Forgotten Valour.

Colonies Chris 22:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Consider it done (I seem to keep coming back to these articles). Rich Farmbrough 14:29 21 August 2006 (GMT).
 * BTW "SCOTLAND'S FORgotten VALOUR" is correct. Rich Farmbrough 14:31 21 August 2006 (GMT).

Bot requested for link title change
I was hoping to get a bot to change all instances of List of professional wrestling throws and Professional wrestling throws to List of professional wrestling throws. Although currently it is linked to spinebuster slam it is a nearly universal consensus that it is always linked to simply as spinebuster and never referred to as a spinebuster slam. The problem is it's a very common link in wrestling profiles and would take an exceedingly long time of human interaction to find all instances of the link and remove the word slam from the URLs. Could someone help me and WP:PW out? --- Lid 10:01, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * All instances of *, List of professional wrestling throws, * and Professional wrestling throws should be changed to * or List of professional wrestling throws, where * stands for random characters, correct? --Erwin85 12:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Correct, if you're going to do this can you leave a message on my talk page and if I don't respond in time can you change the title from Spinebuster slam to Spinebuster before you run the bot otherwise other users may change the link back to Spinebuster slam? --- Lid 09:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Just an addition to state that I still need a bot for this and any help would be appreciated. --- Lid 19:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Your request looks fairly simple. I might be able to help out. Trouble is, I already have 2 pending requests on WP:BRFA and 2 waiting proposals here. It might be a little bit. Do you have any idea of the scope of the proposed replacement? alpha Chimp  laudare 19:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Not really no, sorry. --- Lid 02:25, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * List of professional wrestling throws does not exist. If I were to perform this change, it would break links... alpha Chimp  laudare 17:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That is true, I've left the title so as not to break the links in advance however if you were to change the title before you start the bot there would be no problem. HOWEVER, an issue has come up in that List of professional wrestling throws appears to have been moved to Professional wrestling throws (although someone may have simply copied + pasted looking at the history). What this means is that currently the link is Professional wrestling throws but I'm not sure how much longer this will last so maybe put a hold on it for a short time while this gets figured out. --- Lid 19:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ewwwwww. Copy and paste move. I'm really sorry about that. Just shoot me a line when we get this whole thing working. alpha Chimp  laudare 19:30, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok we've got everything fixed and it's moved back, just change Spinebuster slam to Spinebuster and then run the bot. Thanks for your help. --- Lid 19:59, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot to warn vandals
I would like to request a bot for me that can:
 * Warn vandals
 * Block pagemove vandals with the edit summary (pagemove...) or

This would be good, since Curps block bot is inactive at the moment. --TheM62Manchester 12:05, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * If you just want to warn vandals, a script would be a good idea. You can find some here. You could also download a vandalism fighting program, like VP, which will automate your vandal fighting. Eitherway, the Tawkerbot team already does a ton of stuff like this. The Curps thing, however, is a good point. I'm not sure where we are with that. Anyone? alpha Chimp  laudare 14:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Curps is offline, and allowing bot to have administrator rights is never going to happen (not in the near future anyway). They can cause too much damage. — FireFox  ( talk ) 14:53, 30 July '06
 * At least one bot has admin powers --mboverload @ 19:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Which? — FireFox  ( talk ) 12:12, 01 August '06

Company Ticker Symbols
Will anyone be willing to create a bot to redirect ticker symbols to their respective companies? -Blackjack48 18:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Can you give an example of what you're talking about? I'd just like to see one article example to get an idea of what we're looking at. alpha Chimp  laudare 19:17, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Like SBUX would redirect to Starbucks and CSTR would disambig to Coinstar. A bot that could make changes like that. --Blackjack48 19:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * How would that list be generated? It almost seems to me like this job would be better done by a user than a bot, simply because some of the names of listed companies are common names. Still, it would likely be a crapton of work...and I imagine that some of the companies don't even have articles yet. What would be done about that? alpha Chimp  laudare 15:38, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You may be right as we do have a list of stocks which I looked over and it did have many red linked company articles. But I still think it can be done. If we have a bot that generates articles on cities and their demographics, we can generate articles on companies with basic facts about them and their financial statistics. We could focus on this before going on to those redirects. -User:Blackjack48 19:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Do you mean something like what Rambot did with all of the articles for small US towns (based on US census data)? We could probably find a source and generate articles from it. Trouble is, most sources of market information are copywritten, and obviously wouldn't consent to their work being released under GFDL. alpha Chimp  laudare 21:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well unless we could get someone to get permission from a copyrighted source, I guess we're out of luck because I've tried searching for a GFDL source for company profiles already. -Blackjack48
 * The goal, though, is very admirable. Someday, Wikipedia really out to have an article on every listed company, considering that listing is a criteria of WP:CORP. I'm not sure what to say. Obviously we could navigate to their sites and copy their descriptions...but...that's copyrighted too alpha Chimp  laudare 23:37, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Hasn't this morphed a bit? I read the original request to be to add a set of redirects (not the articles).  Assuming there's a list of symbols to company names somewhere, shouldn't this be relatively trivial? -- Rick Block (talk) 02:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Category architects
We put a request in recently for all the articles in Category:Architects and all it's sub and sub-sub categories to have added to their talk pages. I think only the root category got done. Would it be possible to now do the sub and sub-sub-cateogies? Many thanks. --Mcginnly | Natter 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * That shouldn't be too hard to do with AWB (considering that that's how BlueMoose originally did it). Unless someone else is interested, I'll take a look tonight and see if I can cook something up using AWB. I'll get you some diffs, and, if you approve, I'll put in a request. alpha Chimp  laudare 23:40, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. I don't know whether this is relevant, but for some of the article which I added the template to manually didn't have talk pages - I had to create the page and then add the template. Regards --Mcginnly | Natter 09:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * As long as you didn't have to create the article, then no, it shouldn't be. alpha Chimp  laudare 12:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This request is 2nd on my list, following approval of my CIA task on WP:BRFA. Sorry for waiting so long to get back to you. alpha Chimp  laudare 23:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. One of the things I like about architecture is it's permanence. --Mcginnly | Natter 15:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps someone else could have a look at this - alphachimp seems busy doing other things - many thanks. --Mcginnly | Natter 21:25, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm trying . 22:22, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh! Apologies......--Mcginnly | Natter 23:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

apply different copyright template to images
A bunch of images are showing up on Category:License_tags. When I looked at the source it looks like some public domain template might have gotten subst'd in rather than being included using PD-whatever resulting in those pages having the License_tags category applied even though it's in a noinclude section. I forget if subst works that way, but that's my best guess.

I created Template:PD-Japan for some of those images and started applying, but I think it might be bottable. If so that would be much simpler than doing it by hand :-). At the least, I would think the noinclude sections could be removed from the image pages using a bot.

RainbowCrane 22:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hospital stubs
Hospital-stub and were created today. Articles in Category:Medical organization stubs that have the word "Hospital" in their title need to be re-stubbed from med-org-stub to hospital-stub. I count over 200 such articles in Category:Medical organization stubs. If a bot could please do this it would save a lot of time. Kurieeto 18:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I can easily do it, but they're not approving my requests over at WP:BRFA. I've already got a backlog of 2 requests. Let me see what I can do. alpha Chimp  laudare 23:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for looking into this, I appreciate it. Kurieeto 16:26, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * request met. Let me know if you need anything further. alpha Chimp  laudare 17:09, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I think there should be a bot that fixes spelling mistakes and typos

County highlighting maps
There are still lots of such maps not moved to Commons. Is it possible for bot to do it? If bot can't find maps, which haven't been moved, I can find some of them. Paweł ze Szczecina 13:34, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Asteroids (interwiki)
Hi! I would like to ask someone to add missing interwiki links to Polish Wikipedia in Category:Asteroids. Those articles appeared on pl.wiki just few days ago. I was asked to do this with my bot, but it doesn't run here yet. Asteroids articles are named identically on both wikis and we now have every article that you have, so it shouldn't be that hard task. :) And sorry for my probably poor English. Thanks a lot for help, Jozef-k 10:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Genetic disorder category
Regarding this discussion, please someone move every article in Congenital genetic disorder category to Genetic disorder category. Thanks! NCurse work 19:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Request met. alpha Chimp  laudare 04:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) NCurse [[Image:Nuvola_apps_edu_science.png|22px]]work 06:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

FreedomBot
We all know OrphanBot removes unsourced images. The thing is, sports logos are exempt, because it being a logo is a source in itself. Recently, OrphanBot removed a logo for the Pee Dee Cyclones, and it was in a teamtable and everything. Therefore, I request the installation of FreedomBot, a bot that will undo any damage OrphanBot may unintentionally do when someone feeds it a little too many cookies (restore sports logos OrphanBot may have removed-as long as they're sourced). Tom Danson 14:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This is probably not the place to voice your objections to Orphanbot. alpha Chimp  laudare 05:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

"Deonbot" hehe
lol i love the name already :P Anyway.. I was going through some random pages and i saw Turkey slap, and on the talk page I noticed it had survived an AfD, but all that was placed was this. So i changed it into the right header, and it prompted me to think there must be heaps more of these, hundreds possibly on Wikipedia, and I think we need a bot to either a)put the notice on Talk pages, or b) Change plain text into the proper font. I would be happy to run the bot. I welcome feedback. Thanks --Deon555|talk| e | Review Me! :D 05:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You're talking about admins (or those closing AfDs) missing the template. It's a real problem, and you're certainly bringing up a valid concern. Are you saying that you would be able to program a bot to do it youself?  alpha Chimp  laudare 05:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I .. could... give it a shot :), although I may need a little help :)--Deon555|talk| e | Review Me! :D 05:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * We were discussing the need for this tonight on IRC. I think it might be a good idea to incorporate something like this into the scripts for closing AfDs. Is there a way you could do that? alpha Chimp  laudare 05:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I s'pose I could help.. I don't have a lot of programming experience.. probably not enough to fully make a bot by myself, but i guess I would catch on :) --Deon555|talk| e | Review Me! :D 05:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Eagle_101 has created this. Thanks anyway :) --Deon555|talk| e | Review Me! :D 03:14, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Image trawler
I'd like to request an image trawling bot to do some indexing for me. Now, I'll explain with the first one I'd like to go with. Start with [ linksearch]. Go to each image page and log if that image is not in Category:NASA images. I want to try to generate a list of image that reference a NASA image page, but don't have the correct image classification. Post results somewhere (probably not on this page, of course). Would prefer a wikiformatting, like  * Image:blah\n  for each image to make it easier, but whatever. Just need to get a list of images that refer to that link and are not in that category, so I can analyse them for retagging. Note that Special:Linksearch needs to be screen scraped. &action=raw and the rss and atom feeds don't work for it. Don't forget to restrict results to the Image: namespace. If this works, I may request a different URL and a different cat to be compared in the same manner. Thanks! --Kevin_b_er 05:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Deletion sorting
I'm attempting to restart this project, and was wondering if a bot could regularly run on a list of its subpages (such as WikiProject Deletion sorting/UK) to remove transcluded deletion discussions that have been closed. It's not ready for the bot to start yet, I just want to find out if it's feasible/easy, and if anyone is willing to do it. the wub "?!"  14:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Anti-insult Bot
Quite simple really, a bot that checks all edits that are done to User: and User_talk: pages and user space for swears/insults/racism etc. And ****'s them. It is optional and only watches user pages that are listed in the bots user space. Thought this would be useful for admins, and users that recieve a lot of vandalism/attacks. Good idea?-- Andeh 18:21, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally I'd prefer to have admins that are mature enough not to give a **** if there are nasty words on their talk page. the wub "?!"  20:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well some insults/vandalism are just repeats from 10 minutes ago and are just not needed.-- Andeh 21:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not censored. — FireFox  ( talk ) 21:40, 10 August '06
 * Yes, I know that. But does that mean you can upload the most disgusting images and place them on your user page for others to see? Having a bot to give some sort of protection to users who want it would be nice.-- Andeh 21:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It'd be really easy to do, even with AWB. The trick would be listing the relevant images and relevant profanity. Very simple. I'm just a little worried about the controversy it would generate (by the way, I could do it if you provide me with the profanity list and bad picture list). alpha Chimp  laudare 01:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Images? I don't believe you said that in your original description, so I assumed you just meant the odd swear word or two. — FireFox  ( talk ) 10:15, 11 August '06

little bitty bot
I've found a bug in this template. I fixed it, but there are a ton of pages that used the broken template. Here's what I've done, and here's the list of sites that need to be fixed. Is this a thing a bot could fix, or does this need to be done by hand? Lawilkin 22:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * All fixed. alpha Chimp  laudare 02:47, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Athletics --> Athletics (track and field)
The content of Athletics was recently moved to Athletics (track and field), and a disambiguation page placed at Athletics, after a lengthy discussion. However, many pages on track and field still link to Athletics. We need a bot that would redirect appropriate links from Athletics to Athletics (track and field), using the pipe trick to keep the wording the same in the text. -- Mwalcoff 01:20, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The key word that makes this request difficult for a bot to satisfy is "appropriate". If the task requires user input to make the decision, I'd suggest you guys use AWB. alpha Chimp  laudare 02:02, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot to drop project template in talk pages of articles in categories
There's probably already a generic bot that can do this, but I need a bot to add the WikiProject Kentucky template (if it or LouisvilleWikiProject isn't there already) into the talk pages of articles listed in specific categories: Cities in Kentucky, Kentucky counties, Towns in Kentucky, and Unincorporated communities in Kentucky. Doing this manually has become too much of a chore. Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This is quite easy to do. Unfortunately my bot is currently in the middle of a very long task, so I'll leave this open for other offers, and if nobody has said anything when my bot is available, I'll try and sort something out for you. — FireFox  ( talk ) 17:56, 15 August 2006
 * And also, can I just ask you to clarify what you want doing, for the benefit of myself and other bot owners? Am I correct in saying you want only adding to the talk page, if both  and  aren't there? —  FireFox  ( talk ) 17:58, 15 August 2006
 * That is correct. If neither of these templates are on the talk page, add the  template to the top of the talk page, or under other preexisting templates at the top (if that's possible). Thank you very much for considering doing this for WikiProject Kentucky.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 18:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've put in a request and I'll get started as soon as that goes through. If I don't get finished tonight I'll finish it off tomorrow for you. — FireFox  ( talk ) 18:50, 15 August 2006
 * Thank you. This is very much appreciated.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 18:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'll drop by a message on your talk page when it's all done. — FireFox  ( talk ) 18:58, 15 August 2006

Firefox has unfortunately taken a leave of absence. Does anyone else have the capability to run a bot in the manner I heretofore described? Thanks! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I can Take over just let me get it approved. Betacommand 15:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind assistance. It is much appreciated.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 15:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Should be done within a few hours Betacommand 06:27, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Appears done, and it worked like a charm. Thank you again for doing this task for the project.  It is very much appreciated.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 09:11, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Transwiki Updates
A couple weeks ago, I noticed a significant disparity between a Wikipedia page and the Meta master page. I updated it, but I notice there are a lot of such pages, and many are not kept up-to-date. I suggest a bot to update page copies on a regular basis.

The pages in question are most—but not all—of the pages listed here and here.

Now it's worth noting that people do edit these pages, despite the prominantly displayed message suggesting that they refrain from doing so. It may be worth the time to transfer significant edits back to the Meta copies beforehand, if they are obviously good additions to the article. I dunno if I'd want to do that all myself though, so someone else would have to be interested as well.

Any regular bot activity should be announced on the talk page, I think, to discourage anyone making changes that may be quickly overwritten. --Tsuji 02:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

 * A good idea, but I tried to code it in the pythony way, and my computer can't encode the characters used at meta. I've seen that the bots used to ignore them, but I don't know how to do it without triggering any error that causes the program to stop.  fetofs  Hello! 00:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Number edit detecting bot
I've run into a number of people lately whose idea of fun is editing numbers on Wikipedia (and other information that most people won't recognize as vandalism, but numbers are the most obvious) just for the hell of it. Some do it every day as a hobby. They usually switch usernames often, or use anon/proxy.

It would be very useful to have a bot that downloads the Wikipedia database (to avoid undeserved load on the real one) and searches the entire edit history of Wikipedia for edits that:

 * Were made by an anon or user with few edits (fewer than 5 or 10 maybe).
 * Only change a number and nothing else with no edit summary.
 * Have not been reverted or otherwise changed since.

These edits could then be checked out by Wikipedians to see if they're vandalistic or not. Da rk Sh ik ar i  <sup style="color:#000088;">talk /<sub style="color:#000088;">contribs  00:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd like to work this bot. Can you provide examples of pages that have been vandalized in this manner? Curtis Autery 17:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

New Reference Desk Daily Maintainance Bot
Discussion of this proposed bot's function can also be found at Wikipedia talk:Reference desk.

Cleaning and maintainance of the Reference Desk was formerly performed on a daily basis by the now defunct Crypticbot. Due to the incredibly large size of reference desk archive pages, Crypticbot began to have problems archiving the questions. In order to make the reference desk easier to use, the way in which archive pages are managed was recently changed. Consequently, a new bot will need to be designed to handle daily maintainance tasks. Each day at approximately 00:00 UTC, the bot would have 18 tasks to complete: three pages must be modified (main page, monthly archive page, daily translusion page) for each of the six reference desks (Humanities, Science, Mathematics, Computing, Language, Miscellaneous).

As such, the bot must be able to complete the following tasks for each of the six reference desks on a daily basis at approximately 00:00 UTC:

 * 1) Start the new date at the bottom of each page
 * 2) Archive oldest date
 * 3) Transclude questions and answers that are more than 24 hours old (include Reference desk navigation)
 * 4) Add the newly transcluded page to the reference desk archives

At the start of each month, the bot would have six additional tasks to perform to create a new monthly reference desk archive page with Reference desk navigation for each of the six reference desks.

Detailed Example of Bot's Function:

At 00:00 UTC on August 16, 2006, for the Miscellaneous reference desk the bot would:
 * Append = August 16 = to the bottom of Reference desk/Miscellaneous
 * Remove = August 9 = and from the top of Reference desk/Miscellaneous
 * Copy all text between = August 14 = and = August 15 = from Reference desk/Miscellaneous to Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 August 14
 * Prepend the copied text with the following text and create the new page Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 August 14

 * Replace all text between = August 14 = and = August 15 = on Reference desk/Miscellaneous with and save the page
 * Append = August 14 = and Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 August 14 followed by a numbered list of all questions asked to the end of Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/August 2006 and save the page. For August 14, this would look like:

= August 14 = Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 August 14
 * 1) A type of chair
 * 2) Male Orgasm
 * 3) World Trade Center Movie
 * 4) edits
 * 5) Maps from Nationalatlas.gov
 * 6) Clitoral Hood Piercing
 * 7) Guitar
 * 8) Alexander Graham Bell
 * 9) Cruise control on the 1998 ford windstar
 * 10) Gangster Chronicles TV Series
 * 11) Physics of a bullet
 * 12) T.E.A.M.
 * 13) Who would be richest?
 * 14) My surname is Bencko.
 * 15) Top Hats
 * 16) pounds to dollars
 * 17) The New York Pass

In addition to its normal daily tasks, at 00:00 UTC on the third of each month, the bot would need to create a new monthly reference archive page for each of the reference desks. After creating all six monthly pages, the bot would perform its normal daily duties.

For example, at 00:00 UTC on September 3, 2006 the bot would create Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/September 2006 as a new page containing the following text:

-- C. S. Joiner (talk) 23:07, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I hope you don't mind, but the templates have been altered since then, so 24 is now used to create daily archives, and

is now being used for monthly archives. The changes were to decrease the work load so that it could be done by hand until a bot was made available-- VectorPotential <IP_ADDRESS> 21:16, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Replace specific invalid ISBN
There are a bunch of articles in this category: Category:Articles_with_invalid_ISBNs that have this reference in them:

Naval wars in the Levant 1559-1853 - R. C. Anderson [ISBN 0-87839-799-0]

The correct reference for the 2005 edition (the only one with an ISBN I could find) is: Anderson, R. C. (2005), Naval wars in the Levant 1559-1853, Martino Pub, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>

or, wiki-style:

Is it possible for someone to do a mass search and replace on that reference in the bad ISBN category? It looks like all of the bogus ISBNs were added by [User:SpookyMulder] on September 4, if that helps.

Examples:
 * Action_of_14_July_1616
 * Battle of Focchies

Thanks RainbowCrane | Talk 02:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Talk to User:SpookyMulder. Adding a zero to a nine-digit SBN makes a valid ISBN.  The 1952 editions may have had SBN 87839-799-0.  The ISBN which you gave is for the 2005 edition, which might not be the edition which SpookyMulder used for a source.  (SEWilco 05:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC))
 * I forgot to check something: 87839 identifies Princeton University Press, the publisher of one of the 1952 editions of that book. The ISBN probably is valid, it just isn't in all modern databases.  (SEWilco 06:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC))
 * Thanks for the info... I just looked in LC and in WorldCat at that edition of the book and couldn't find the SBN. Do you know of any databases that have SBNs available? RainbowCrane  | Talk 19:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Ratings
Can someone write a bot that parses a page in the form (...)(...) and prints the results on another page? The format of (...) is (quality and importance and name). Ratings could be posted on another page. The rating of an article is the average of all the user ratings. There is a quality rating and an importance rating (quality and importance are numbers). The URL for the ratings is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eyu100/Bot_area, but there are no ratings yet. This bot will be used for the Wikisort project. Eyu100 18:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Unlink (Main) categories on user pages
Occasionally, when browsing categories, I find user pages that are tagged under some of the encyclopedic categories. These pages are usually user sandboxes or "Works in progress" of articles that they copied to their user space to thoroughly revise incrementally. Now, I'm still quite new at Wikipedia, so I may be missing something here... but I am surprised that the encyclopedic categories aren't hardcoded to skip User: Space pages.

In lieu of such a change, it seems like it would be simple to have a bot go through the categories, and when it finds an article linked to User: Space, it would go and tack  tags around the  links. Of course, templates that add categories, like and such would make things more difficult, but I imagine the most common templates could be similarly coded into the bot.

Does such a bot exist? Is there a particular reason why it doesn't? Just a few thoughts. Matt B. 06:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There is a reason that the bot doesnt exist there are thousands of cat's and cheching them all isnt feasable. also the Temp pages should have those cats that way when the user copys them back the page has the cats. Betacommand 15:21, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I see that now. Previously I had assumed that all User categories began with "Wikipedian," but that is obviously not the case.  I would still love to see some sort of segregation between the user pages and the encyclopedic content... but I suppose this would need to be done at a deeper level (like category classes). Matt B. 16:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

request for help at CfD
At Categories for discussion we're entering a terrible logjam caused by my taking on the responsibility to ensure Wikipedian user categories all had "Wikipedian" in the title. These are many hundreds of categories, and some of the more traditional CfD bots (notably Cydebot) can't handle user categories. We're only about a week out from having most of these approved for renaming and deletion, but we have fewer resources for actually carrying out the renaming and deletion. So if anyone has a bot that can handle this task, I encourage you to go to Categories for discussion/Working and help out. Thanks!--Mike Selinker 20:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Mine can, and already is :) — FireFox  ( talk ) 20:44, 03 September 2006
 * dito Betacommand 21:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Neat! Thanks. If you can just clear out those Wikipedians by location categories and the rest, we can get on to other things.--Mike Selinker 22:33, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Template parameter changes bot

 * → Discussion moved to Template talk:Infobox City. Please add posts there, thanks. --Ligulem 00:45, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Mina19 1919 bot request
PLEESE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE! See my request for beurocrattiness to see what I am all about.I just think that I could program a bot-abouve-all-bots bot that picks up all vandelism and nothing BUT vandelism!--Hi its mina19_1919! 03:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That'd be really hard to do without a human controlling it. Tawkerbot and Antivandalbot are trying, however. alpha Chimp (talk) 04:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Add template to talk pages
Is there a bot that can add the template to the top of all of the talk pages of the articles in Category:Sharks? And if there is one for that is there also one that can replace with  for all of the articles in Category:Sharks, and if it doesn't have  could it just add  below the taxobox.

Is this easy to do? --chris_huh 13:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Not a problem it is fairly easy for my bot User:BetacommandBot to do it give me about a week and ill get it done for you. im in the middle of another run at the moment when the current one is completed ill get on you request Betacommand 15:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Pittsburgh --> Pittsburgh
I have created WikiProject Pittsburgh, and for the organizational work I am trying to do, it would have to have the Pittsburgh links changed to article Pittsburgh. This is the only Pittsburgh in existence; all other "-burghs" in the United States dropped the last "H" at the turn of the 20th century, so anything marked "Pittsburgh" actually refers to "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." --Chris Griswold (  ☎  ☓  )  21:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Easy to do. I'm putting in a bot request. alpha Chimp (talk) 21:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm so glad I found this page. --Chris Griswold (  ☎  ☓  )  22:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries. See Bots/Requests_for_approval alpha Chimp (talk) 22:13, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Bypassing old user template redirects
If someone could design a bot to replace things like "User:Akrabbim/Asplode" (which redirects to User:UBX/Asplode) with "User:UBX/Asplode. I've been working on it with AWB, but I don't have enough time, as there are hundreds of transclusions. I think it would be a relatively simple bot task, as it is really only a few simple replacements. The only pages that need it is User:Akrabbim/Asplode, User:Akrabbim/Earthling2, User:Akrabbim/Emptybox, User:Akrabbim/No secondhand smoke, and User:Akrabbim/Towel. I'm just moving them into the User:Akrabbim/UBX subuserspace. It would be appreciated. —Akrabbimtalk 16:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Will do with User:MetsBot — Mets 501 (talk) 21:51, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Redirects to Connecticut towns
I would like a bot to check links to all Connecticut cities & towns and create the standard redirects town, CT and town (CT) if they haven't yet been created. I have noticed that these have not all been finished for Connecticut. --Schzmo 11:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Redirect templates need to be substituted
According to Wikipedia_talk:Redirect, redirects may now contain multiple lines (by design) and categories, but an unforseen side-effect is that the developers did not know redirects contained templates such as R from misspelling and the other contents of Category:Redirect templates (and they may break this functionality in the future). There are currently 52 templates, 34 of which may have no current transclusions, and ~15,000 instances that need to be substituted in - all they contain is the categories Category:Redirects from X and Category:Unprintworthy redirects, to my knowledge. -- nae'blis 19:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll get on subst'ing the templates on Category:Redirect templates within the next few days I'm not sure how long it will take me to subst ~15000 pages. But i will get it done as soon as i can with my bot. Betacommand 21:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject banners on talk page
Can someone please write a bot that could tag articles in Category:Rapid transit and it's subcategories with ? I'd do it myself, but the perl module used appears to require a steep learning curve (that and the fact that I have not written a perl script for ages). Thanks! -- Selmo (talk) 00:03, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Template Tagging Bot
Does anyone know of a Bot that I could request to add a project tag to every article talk under a Category (including Sub-Categories) - (North Carolina), if the tag does not already exist on the article? Looks like Selmo has the same request. Thanks Morphh 04:04, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Will do with User:MetsBot — Mets 501 (talk) 21:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Request for bot sorting Pages needing expert attention
I've also requested feedback on this idea from User:Beland:

"Hi,

''I had an idea to sort Category:Pages needing expert attention according to expertise. That way, Wikiprojects could easily track articles needing expert attention in their field. I think expert attention will get more input from wikiprojects than general cleanup. I've already begun "Pages needing attention from expert in medicine" manually, but if a bot could detect categories, it could split up the expert-category entirely into subjects (if necessary, with a complete list of pages needing expert attention in place).''

''a) I'm not sure if you don't already plan to implement such functions into Pearle. b) If you like the idea, I'd be interested in running a clone of Pearle for this task. Or maybe Pearle could be expanded.''

Anyway I have no experience with bots. "

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Adding a template to talkpages
Hi everyone. I'm a member of wikiproject Writing Systems. A while back I created the template wsproj with the intent of adding it to every article under the topic of writing systems, but after looking at Category:Writing systems, I realised it would take an extremely long time to do and misleadingly inflate my edit count. Is there a bot that could add this template to the talkpage of every article under Category:Writing systems and its sub-categories? The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 23:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Being Worked out Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 00:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Protected deleted categories
There's been some talk at CFD about having a bot patrol Category:Protected deleted categories to make sure the categories stay empty. Does anybody have a bot that can do that? - EurekaLott 02:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC) (copied from Wikipedia_talk:Bots TimBentley (talk) 16:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC))
 * Someone with WP:AWB could do that Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 18:48, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Dates containing "th", "rd", and "st"
Per the MoS (dates and numbers), dates should read September 10 or January 1 instead of September 10 or January 1. Although many pages use the "th", "rd", and "st" for dates. Is it possible to get a bot to fix this? Either by going through the articles or by going to the "What links here" page for each of the incorrect date formats and changing the linked pages? Not only would September 10 have to be checked but also 10 September. Dismas|(talk) 07:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Wybot

 * Bot request.
 * this bot is python bot.
 * I use it mainly for interwiki.
 * I use bot in korea. (at kowiki)
 * -- Wybot 03:03, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

AWB category removal
AWB request: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Category:Evolution_Wikipedians&limit=500&from=0 - remove this category from these places, it's been deleted by CfD CfD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_May_10#Category:Evolution_Wikipedians

Thanks! JesseW, the juggling janitor 21:27, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Taken care of Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 21:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Good luck ;) --Ligulem 21:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

eu interwiki on Protected pages
Berria requested:
 * Please, can somebody (an administrator) add the interwikis to this kind of templates (selected anniversaries templates) if it is possible? Only the month of january yet. I would do it myself but it's impossible. The interwiki of this day is  eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 2 and the next days are similar; only changes the number (  eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 3,  eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 4... ...  eu:Txantiloi:Urtarrila 31). Thanks in advance. If there are any trouble, my talk page is always open for questions. Berria · (talk) 14:08, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Adding 31 slightly varying interwiki's seems like the perfect job for a bot, so I'm posting it here... JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Bots do not run with administrator rights, so a bot cannot do that task. — Mets 501 (talk) 18:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

A bot could create a list of proposed edits, and an admin could approve them manually, but it makes it alot harder. HighInBC 19:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Template:Cite journal2
A while back Template:Cite journal was forked to create Template:Cite journal2, the only difference being that "In contrast to cite journal, cite journal2 omits the quotation marks around the article title." Since this fork, an option was coded into cite journal so that the quotation marks can be removed from individual usages of the template. Would a bot be able to change all usages of to, copying over the existing information for each usage of the template and adding "|quotes=no" at the end? For example,

*

needs to be changed to:

*

For comparison, this is how the two render:
 * [deprecated]

can then be depreciated. I've contacted the original author of the fork, and they have agreed to the merge (see User_talk:Stemonitis). About 120 pages would be affected by this change, with multiple instances of the template in use on each page. Thanks. Mike Peel 21:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Yup. I will do it. MWiki-Browser should fit for this. Consider it done. --Ligulem 22:18, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Done. I also put a deprecate notice on template:cite journal2 and will blank that template in a week or so (after re-checking that no calls have reappeared). --Ligulem 12:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Nice work. Thanks. It's a pity that nothing like your MWiki-Browser is available for use on a Mac. :( Mike Peel 08:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Fun Song Factory page
Table requested:
 * On the Fun Song Factory page in Wikipedia can someone put a table for the TV Schedule (You will see this added on the page). I have tried to do this but got into a bit of difficulty.

Any help appeciated
 * This is a question for WP:VPT. — Mets 501 (talk) 18:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

userbox
I've moved a few userboxes onto my user space, and I need a bot to update them.
 * to
 * to
 * to
 * to
 * to

Thanks! Laur ə  n whisper 18:24, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * As long as the original templates have the GUS template (which all of those do), they are listed at CAT:GUS, and will eventually be dealt with by a human or bot there. No need to request at this page. — Mets 501 (talk) 18:22, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Gotcha, thanks! Laur  ə  n whisper 20:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

List of all pages touched by one editor
I am not certain if this is the right place to post this question (if it is not, please move it to the right place and drop a note on my talk page.

The editor Sheynhertz-Unbayg has recently been banned and now his contributions (mostly weird "onomastics" pages that are just concatenations of several disambiguation pages, see Lust (onomastics) for a typical example) need to be cleaned up. To ensure that all pages he has edited do get checked, I would like to have a bot- or script-generated list of all pages he has touched. As he has more than 20,000 edits, manually created lists like the one here are probably incomplete. Also, a centralized list would help avoid duplicated efforts from the people who check the pages.

Please create a list of all pages touched by this editor and drop it somewhere, for example at User:Kusma/Sheynhertz/contribs. A good format would be a bulleted list with wikilinks to the pages, perhaps with a "redirect=no" or a mentioning of the redirect target for the numerous redirects created.

In addition, a bot could be used to check all of the interwikilinks created by Sheynhertz. I have already removed dozens of links to nonexistent articles on the Japanese Wikipedia, and I expect that many more of his interwikis are wrong.

Thank you for any help or insight you can offer, Kusma (討論) 08:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * My bot can't do this, but someone else's might. You might also want to see the pages linked to from here, as it seems like that editor has already made a big list of his contributions. — Mets 501  (talk) 18:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Interiot just did it for me. Thanks for the idea, though! Kusma (討論) 19:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Bot for test removal
There ought to be a bot that is automated to remove common things used for testing, such as Bold text, Italic text, Link title, link title , [[Media:Example.ogg]] , Image:Example.jpg, #REDIRECT Insert text within other text, etc. from the article space. --Gray Porpoise 10:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

 * No, that should better be done by hand, as such articles have to be checked for other damage done by the editing experiment. Sometimes such an article needs a reversion, sometimes it can be deleted right away (talk pages), replaced by the welcome message (user talk of newbies), or it may also be a unintentional click on the toolbar while doing good edits, only then the plain removal is correct. I am doing these cleanups manually almost daily... andy 11:38, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, me too. Rich Farmbrough, 11:42 22 September 2006 (GMT).

 * Tawkerbots usually pick them up.-- Andeh 21:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Article and image talk pages
Is there any way a bot can go through and look for all talk pages without an associated article/image and tag them with Template:db-talk? I've encountered a large amount of these and I can foresee a bot finding a few thousand. VegaDark 20:18, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Good idea! I'm going to look into it. — Mets 501  (talk) 20:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The problem with doing this via bot is that you run the risk of taging and retagging (depending on how often the bot is run) talk pages that are being used for page research/construction. See Talk:Chiba-Ken for an example (only one I can think of off the top of my head). There's also a number of pages which have been deleted but contain information related to the deletion or an eventual recreation (explicitly exempted from the CSD criterion).
 * Now, what I think would be useful is if someone took an offline data dump and created a list of all such pages for human examination and possible tagging. It'll flood CSD like whoa when it's processed, but still has that human intervention necessary. -- nae'blis 20:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I see your point. What about an altered template, such as this? — Mets 501  (talk) 21:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

 * A link to the articles deletion log would be helpful for admins.-- Andeh 21:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed, that looks pretty good. Another option may be a "whitelist" where pages can be added that the bot won't tag.  The offline data dump is also a fine option. We may also want it to find all other namespace pages with only talk pages just for review.  Wikipedia space talk pages are the most likely to be exempt from speedy deletion, but it would still be useful and we may still find some of those elligible for deletion.VegaDark 21:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I was thinking of something similar to List of stubs without msg, where people can then go through the list at their "leisure" (ha ha) and tag the pages that actually need. We're ranging farther afield from bot requests, though... -- nae'blis 21:30, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Another thing to note is that there are a large number of MediaWiki images that have had Wikipedia talk pages accidentally created for them. Such pages are speedyable, but any relevant content should first be merged to the MediaWiki talk page. VegaDark 21:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've added a bot request. Let's continue any discussion there. — Mets 501  (talk) 22:11, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Articles to be merged
I was wondering if a bot could do the same for Category:Articles to be merged as it did for Category:Category needed and Category:Articles that need to be wikified. To sort them out per month. There currently is a backlog of close to 11.000 (!!) articles. And it would help a lot if you could see quickly how long the merge tag is already on an article. Garion96 (talk) 00:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd be able to do this (at least put everything into a single month now, and into later months starting in October). I'm not able to find the month that the tag was applied...sorry. Fortunately, someone could always send a bot through September 2006 and organize the articles. I'll put in a bot request. alpha Chimp (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That already would help a lot. Garion96 (talk) 09:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Indiana cityboxes
A while ago, I made maps for all of the cities and towns in Indiana, and started semi-automatically adding cityboxes each article. I got part way through the 'L's but I have not worked on it for a year now. It would be helpful for someone to finish the rest of the pages. The red-dot maps are located here. - Marvin01 | talk  00:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Bots can't really add city boxes to pages (where would they get the info?), the only thing they could do was add the map, but that would look kind of funny in an infobox with no other information. — Mets 501 (talk) 18:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Most of the information you can get from the text of the page itself - Marvin01 | talk  19:46, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If there is a better place to request "semi-automated bot + a little research", let me know or move this request, though I can't imagine doing this task without at least a little bot participation. - Marvin01 | talk  19:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I will take care of these - Marvin01 | talk  14:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Split off Bat-Stubs
Hi, could someone please replace mammal-stub with bat-stub for the articles listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eug/Bat-Stubs ? Eug 13:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Working on it. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 13:52, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Half-way done. Will continue later. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 14:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I finshed it up. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 15:05, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Eug 14:48, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Dates containing "th", "rd", and "st"

 * I'm relisting this since nobody responded to it the first time before it got archived.

Per the MoS (dates and numbers), dates should read September 10 or January 1 instead of September 10 or January 1. Although many pages use the "th", "rd", and "st" for dates. Is it possible to get a bot to fix this? Either by going through the articles or by going to the "What links here" page for each of the incorrect date formats and changing the linked pages? Not only would September 10 have to be checked but also 10 September. Dismas|(talk) 17:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry this didn't get responded to the first time, I read it but was thinking about it and forgot to respond. I don't know if this is a good job for a bot, because of things like July 4, which as a holiday is referred to as July Fourth, not July Four, and is written that way. — Mets 501  (talk) 18:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response, though I'm a bit confused about your response. Are you using July 4 because of the U.S. holiday that falls on that day?  I'm having a hard time thinking of that many exceptions that would exclude a bot from doing the job.  Besides which, July 4 redirects to July 4 as it should.  Surely the bot could be told to ignore certain dates.  There shouldn't be that many of them that fall under a holiday terminology clause such as the Independence Day holiday.  Dismas|(talk) 21:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, you're probably right. — Mets 501 (talk) 21:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * So does this mean that it will/can get done? Dismas|(talk) 21:29, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Not by my bot, but if someone will pick it up then it can get done. You could also do it yourself: do you use AWB?  If so then you could enter a request for bot approval and run AWB in automatic mode. — Mets 501  (talk) 02:23, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't run Windows, so no go on the AWB. Where do I find someone with a bot that can do it?  Will they possibly be reading this?  Dismas|(talk) 08:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This doesn't seem that hard, the worst part looks like making the list of articles. I'll see what I can get done with AWB. -Mulder416 02:02, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Diacritics bot
Following Wknight94's suggestion, I would like to request a bot whose function would be to create redirect pages for articles whose names contain diacritics. For example, the bot could verify if the article České Budějovice can be redirected from Ceske Budejovice. If not, the latter would be created. This could prove useful because many articles lack these redirect pages and are hard to find for those who do not possess the diacritics on their keyboards. Recently I had to create redirect pages for nearly all Portuguese municipalities. A bot could perform these tasks much more efficiently. If there is someone interested in creating this bot, thank you in advance. Regards.-- Hús  ö  nd  22:44, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

1500 Mormon redirects
Hi. I wonder if there's a bot with the time and inclination to go around all the articles linking to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and change those links to point at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There are between 1500 and 1600 such pages, so it's a bit of a task to do by hand. Thanks! -GTBacchus(talk) 01:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Just a comment, wouldn't the correct article title not include the "the"? The MoS says this: Avoid the definite article ("the") and the indefinite article ("a"/"an") at the beginning of the page name unless the article would be capitalized in the course of a sentence such as The Gambia or The Hague.  Dismas|(talk) 01:28, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, in this case, the word "The" is part of the official title of the church. Kind of like The Beatles.  Please feel free to read the discussion at Talk:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. -GTBacchus(talk) 01:30, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * A point raised by your comment though, is that maybe any bot completing this request should search for instances of "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" and convert them to "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", capitalizing the "The". -GTBacchus(talk) 01:31, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * There are also those articles that use a capital D for day (Latter-Day) which could be fixed, and others which have a lowercase the and a capitalized one, as in "the The Church..." --Lethargy 02:28, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * To clarify, you guys want to switch all links (in articles) from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...right? (Pointing to it is different). I could probably do this pretty easily, I just need to know exactly what is wanted. alpha Chimp (talk) 06:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, let me be precise: every occurence of the text:
 * the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * or
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * should be changed to:
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * If there's no "the" in front of the link, then those should probably be dealt with by hand, because it could mess up the surrounding grammar to start inserting indefinite articles. Still, I think the edit I've described above will fix the vast majority of those redirecting links.  Does that make sense?  Please feel free to ask for any additional clarification, and thanks for offering to help. -GTBacchus(talk) 18:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * There are also 90 pages that link to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a redirect page which seems to be there in case someone uses improper capitalization. So, using the system above, pages using:
 * the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
 * or
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
 * should also be changed to:
 * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --Lethargy 21:10, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * sorry for the delay guys. I'm going to get going on this as soon as my current bot run is complete. Alphachimp 02:55, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries; at your convenience. -GTBacchus(talk) 02:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Firefoxbot
I would like permission to run Firefoxbot using AutoWikiBrowser in automatic mode. The Fox Man of Fire 14:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Request that on WP:BRFA Alphachimp 14:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:RD
We still need an archive bot, our current system is starting to break down, and the last bot we had was CrypticBot, so we've been doing it all by hand for quite a while now. Since our old request has been long since archived off this page (by an archiving BOT, oh the irony o:) I decided to repost a less involved version of the same request here-- VectorPotential RD NEEDS A BOT (-: 13:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * A link to the complete description. I'm unable to do it with my bot, but maybe someone else will pick it up. — Mets 501 (talk) 13:13, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

" to the top of the page, and place the content for October 3, on that page. The older description is a little dated-- VectorPotential RD NEEDS A BOT (-: 13:15, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Quick breakdown: Each day it would remove the oldest header from the top of the page, let's say for Reference_desk/Computing, for instance " = October 3 = " and all the content from under it, it would then move that content to a page, in this case Reference desk archive/Computing/2006 October 3, and add " 3

Revisal

Here is a new REVISED bot request. I have created a demo reference desk that could be used to test implementation of an RD bot using a slightly updated layout. It will be proposed by a few of the RD editors (including me) only once a bot is working for it, because of the increased number of desks to manage manually. Please read User:Freshgavin/Sandbox/Reference_desk_bot_request for more details about the changes that will be proposed, and for a detailed summary of the requirements for the bot.

The reference desk relies now on a few diligent editors for manual archiving, and there are a lot of people that would really appreciate a bot to help us do this task. Any suggestions, ideas would be greatly appreciated. Questions and comments about the new layout should be posted on this talk page, and those about the current system should be posted here. freshofftheufo ΓΛĿЌ  07:03, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm happy to give this request a go - I'll look at writing the code over the coming week (fitting it in with other commitments) - then I'll test and fix (and so on) until submittiny to WP:BRFA.  M  a  rtinp23  20:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia bots on AIM, MSN, and Google Talk, and SMS
Off-topic question: There's an MSN bot that lets you get information from Encarta. Are there Wikipedia IM or SMS bot? Such a bot, if it doesn't already exist, would be mighty useful. IM bots would let people get information from Wikipedia without opening a web browser. And an SMS bot would let people get info anytime, anywhere, for just the price of an SMS text message. Anybody know if these exist? If not, would it be appropriate for me to file a bug on MediaZilla or would this request be off-topic there too? :-) Cheers, --unforg e ttabl e id | talk to m e 00:54, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Very interesting; I never thought about something like that before. Not quite sure how to implement it though. — Mets501 ( talk ) 02:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Trillian has this integrated with the IM client; it highlights various words. However there's no bot to my knowledge.. SMC 21:15, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:User iso15924
The templates, , etc shall be replaced with the parameterized template:user iso15924. Parameters given below. Some templates may be included via Template:Babel. AFAIK these cannot be replaced by a bot and will be done by hand. The request was developped at Wikipedia_talk:Userboxes/Writing_systems Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC) The 15 replacements are as follows:

thanks a lot for your help! Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:33, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I completed all replacements on user pages that do not use Babel. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 07:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And I have done all Babel replacements. PoccilScript 08:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

page creation bot
I'm proposing a bot that patrols articles for creation and starts new articles for unregistered users. I understand that this defeats the purpose of the restriction that only registered users can create articles, and that this bot can be easily abused. However, this bot may not be such a bad idea if the following measures were in place:

 * the bot creates the article if and only if it can find enough Google matches
 * anonymous users cannot use the bot to create more than three pages in one hour
 * the bot declines requests from blocked IPs

Anonymous editors would also be able to create pages by accessing the bot interface on an off-wiki site.

Any thoughts on this? --Ixfd64 05:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't recommend it. It does completely defeat the purpose of not letting unregistered users start articles. Someone with an AOL dynamic IP could create thousands of articles easily on things that are "googleable" but not deserving of Wikipedia articles. — Mets 501  (talk) 15:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Personally it sounds like something impossible to work. Google matches are a pretty bad indicator of notability - it seems way too much like a one way trip to CSD for most of these articles.  Good thought but I think the risks outweigh the benefits on this one -- Tawker 06:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that AfC needs human patrolling to find worthy articles - neologisms may have huge numbers of gHits, but are not permitted on WP. However, don't despair!  I'm in the progress of writing a program for closing AfDs, which a list of approved users will be able to use (regular AfC patrollers).  I was having a problem with it, but I think that may be fixed now :) (hoping..) I'll try to get a BETA release out soon.   M  a  rtinp23  17:02, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Assessment
I'd like to ask a bot to help the Medical genetics project. We've finished the article rating mostly and we'd like a bot to tag every unassessed articles in Category:Medical genetics with. Thanks in advance. NCurse work 18:30, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll take care of that. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 18:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Done Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! :) NCurse work 19:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Infobox status
At WikiProject Bedfordshire/Infobox status we are trying to create a list of all pages and their infobox status. We have a template which is placed on the talk page of all these articles that contains an infobox status and automatically puts them in one of four categories. We would like a bot that automatically creates the list daily. If you do want to help please contact the talk page of that article for more information. Thanks. Lcarsdata (Talk) 14:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll do this M  a  rtinp23  19:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Bot for WikiProject Indonesia
Hello everyone, how are you going? I'd like to request a bot for WikiProject Indonesia. With it's current number of members, it is getting hard for me to post a message on each talk page. For now, maybe I'd like the bot runs every week, to deliver weekly notices (but I can change it, right?). Thanks in advance -- I   mo   eng  14:11, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi - I'll look at doing this for you :) M  a  rtinp23  14:15, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Macrons - Imperial Japanese Navy
I'm looking for some help converting all the article titles, links, and non-linked mentions of a great number of Japan-related articles which, when macrons (e.g. ō and ū) are taken into account, need to be respelled. The greatest congestion of these, I think, comes from the ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Right now, I have a very short list of names that need to be changed, but as I look into each individual ship's Japanese name and how it ought to be spelled, I'll be adding to the list of those that need renaming. The number of ships isn't too great - those that need renaming hopefully do not number more than 30-50, hopefully. But if each of those is linked to by 10 articles, that's 300-500 right there. Please let me know what to do or who to talk to. Thanks for the help. LordAmeth 23:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. The current changes that need to be made are Kotetsu-->Kōtetsu, Hyuga-->Hyūga, Soryu-->Sōryū, Unryu-->Unryū, Fuso-->Fusō, Kongo-->Kongō, Kaiyo Maru-->Kaiyō Maru, and Hiryu-->Hiryū. All of these have an article named either "Japanese battleship X" or "Japanese aircraft carrier X", but that is not the only context in which they will appear; they will be referred to simply by name (e.g. "the Unryu was sunk at the battle of such-and-such...") or as "X-class aircraft carrier" or a number of other contexts. Some such as Hyuga and Kotetsu may appear quite often in non-naval related contexts. But as far as I am aware, and I can double-check this, both of those words should be respelled (with macrons added) in any and all contexts. Thanks once again. LordAmeth 23:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Page update bot
Would there be any way to create a bot which would be able to indicate which pages have been added to the listing of pages here or elsewhere, over, say, the last month? Maybe a two-section format listing all the pages in one column and another listing either those which existed (or were revised) before a given date or were created after a given date might be easiest. Also, the bot could potentially be used to determine which pages are "stable", which is to say, not modified over a given period. Thanks for your response, positive or negative. Badbilltucker 16:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look at doing this - would you be able tell me (on my talk page), how many days ago the last edit is to have beeen for the page to be considered stable? (I'll be a while fulfilling this request - perhaps just over a week because of other commitments).  Thanks  M  a  rtinp23  20:28, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Adding to articles
I'd like a bot to go through all the articles linked to in this template and add this template to the bottom with and  around it as is standard with football templates. If and  are already present, just add this template in front of. Not too hard to do I hope? - MTC 11:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I can do this manually with AWB using some fancy regexes, just let me set it up ST47 Talk 18:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 48 edits completed using AWB at 19:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC) by ST47 Talk 19:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, thanks, but there are a couple of errors I noticed from checking a few of the pages:
 * Some of the pages haven't been touched at all (Norwegian Premier League to name one, {{FA Premier League]] too, though I added it manually just now)
 * Some have had the box added around other boxes that were already there (Serbian Superliga, League of Wales for example)
 * I wonder if there's a way you can fix these easily using some more fancy programming or maybe it's best to just go through them manually? - MTC 19:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Deleted categories
Just like repeatedly-recreated unwanted articles are tagged with deletedpage and protected, some unwanted categories are protected with deletedcategory. However, given the way the cat system works, this doesn't stop people from adding articles to the cat. Hence, a bot is requested to regularly (e.g. weekly) empty these deleted categories.  > R a d i a n t <  12:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I could have my bot do it if you are interested. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 13:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I would be, thanks.  > R a d i a n t <  13:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It appears (see User talk:Centrx) that a bot is already doing this.  > R a d i a n t <  09:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

User:RobotG currently clears categories in Category:Protected deleted categories. Any Category tagged with deletedpage (or the now-redirect deletedcategory, is placed in this category. —Centrx→talk • 23:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome bot
Do we have a welcome bot, that adds welcome templates to new user pages? Seems like a good idea to me, it was discussed on the mailing list somewhere. Mind, it seems such a good idea it's probably been discussed before. Hiding Talk 10:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think a welcome bot is a bad idea, as it will reduce the number of personal welcome messages. If I see a redlinked talk page for a user and see that he is making good contributions, I welcome him and thank him specifically for his contributions. I don't see much point in welcoming users just for signing up. In any case, welcoming can be done through a MediaWiki message at account creation instead of by a bot, saving lots of server space that would otherwise be used for all those indefblocked username vandals. Kusma (討論) 10:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * One place where this was discussed is Template talk:Welcome. Kusma (討論) 10:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * To say some more, I think we should solve the social problem that newbies aren't welcomed by encouraging RC patrollers and New Page patrollers to welcome good-faith users personally (ideally with a message that acknowledges their edits), not by applying a technical solution that doesn't actually have any of the social components that welcoming should have. Kusma (討論) 10:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

phonetic symbols to { {IPA} } template
I've learned that the { { IPA } } template is used to enable phonetic symbols to appear as they should, and not as little squares, in IE6. A bot to do a mass conversion of "hard" phonetic symbols to { { IPA } } template-formatted phonetic symbols would be useful. Tawagoto 01:47, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * can you give me a list of the hard phonetic symbols, and i'll load up a database dump and see how many edits need to be made? I'd also like an example to help set up. Two options are a bot and manual using a tool, bot's probably smarter but would need a BRFA, and User:STBot is currently busy overnight, so I couldn't even run it for another week. reply here or my talk ST47 Talk 19:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * ok, i see how it works, I'll start working on a count later. ST47 Talk 19:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * count is at 62k edits. I'll confer with some admins later to determine whether or not it's worth it, though as it, first probably is less that that, as that includes pages with the ipa template(subtract 10-20k) and will add support for an otherwise porked browser as far as i can tell, it should go. only one question - are you bringing the help, or the cookies? ST47 Talk 23:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Uh, I don't really understand any of the technicalities of this. It sounds like you found the answer to your first question.  Just in case, the IPA symbols are the last line of hyperlinked characters in the Insert/Sign your name/characters rectangle at the bottom of each "Edit this page" page.  I have plenty of cookies on my hard drive that I can upload if you're interested.  Anyway, thanks very much for your work on this. Tawagoto 01:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

POV Bot
Can someone please write 4 me a bot that will pick up NPOV breaches which is shut-off complinatnt.

Thanks

Nathannoblet 04:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * a NPOV bot is not feasable as there is too much of a human factor.Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 04:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Red Link Bot
Can someone write for me a bot that removes red links, red templates, and red categories from articles (except Template:Red link)? What it does is it will turn "this" into "this" for red links, and remove red templates and red categories straight from the article. --AAA! (talk • contribs) 11:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * IMO, this is a very bad idea. See Red link for some reasons why red links are good.
 * If you remove all red links, then the person who writes a new article has to go around to every page that my conceivably contain a link to that page and make new links. If the red links are left alone and that same article is written then they will automatically turn blue.  Red links aren't the devil!!  Dismas|(talk) 11:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Red links to plausible article titles are a good thing. It inspires people to create articles and create them under the correct name, and it means that when a good article is created there are likely to be at least a few useful incoming links, so people will be able to find the new article. But people should be careful to only create redlinks to possible articles, same as always. A bot to just remove all redlinks is a bad idea. --W.marsh 15:56, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Touché. --AAA! (talk • contribs) 04:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

small batch of double redirects
Hi. At this page, you can see a list of links pointing at List of Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy episodes. That page, however, is a redirect to List of Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes, without the apostrophes. Could someone please sic a bot on that list and fix all the individual episode pages, which are currently double redirects? Thanks. -GTBacchus(talk) 19:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem, getting to it. — Mets 501 (talk) 19:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Wait a minute: was there consensus for this move? — Mets 501 (talk) 19:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It was listed at Requested moves for five days without anybody objecting.  The editor filing the request had commented on each of the three talk pages involved, in this case, here.  I followed the link provided, and sure enough, the official site lists the title without the apostrophes.  So, I went with it, rather than relisting for another week.  It seemed pretty clear-cut to me. -GTBacchus(talk) 07:09, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Major Highways
Change all "Major Highways" titles to "Major highways", particularly in counties. --MNAdam 03:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

You mean page titles or in text? why? is there a consensus/vote(I SAID THE V WORD ZOMG!) somewhere? ST47 Talk 11:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * In the titles, I don’t know about consensus/ there hasn't been a vote, but the template on WikiProject U.S. counties has it listed as "Major highways". It also violates the MOS wording  .  Back when the template was first made, all titles were capitalized, and the capitalization was removed from the template on December 5, 2004.  I just think all county articles should be standardized.  --MNAdam 21:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Auto-signature bot
I have noticed that perhaps six out of seven anonymous users who leave comments on talk pages do not sign their posts properly. I have usually added the unsigned message after those posts when I have encountered them. However, this could be a job for a bot: scan the Recent changes list limited to the Talk space, and if a comment is made by an IP-address, check it for a signature and add one if necessary. Of course logged in users also forget the signature sometimes, and those could be checked too, if it doesn't take too much resources. Alternatively only check those users that have not created an user page yet, they are often new to Wikipedia and do not know about signing their posts. Is anyone with the skill/equipment up to this? --ZeroOne ( talk | @ ) 20:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Do-able but not 100% sure of the demand on resources it would make -- Tawker 20:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * To help gauge how big the demand would be, what is the number of nsigned comments made, say, per minute (I can easily see this being well over reasonable bot editting limits). Perhaps an extension to mediawiki is more appropriate?  M  a  rtinp23  21:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, within the last two hours there were an average of 110 anonymous edit per hour in the talk namespace. Some of these were edits instead of new comments. Also excluding signed comments, I'd say there are some 90 matches / hour, or 1,5 matches / minute. Registered users seem to edit the talk namespace maybe five times a minute (300 times / hour), but if you count only those who have not created an user page (the risk group of new users that may leave unsigned comments), the number is much smaller, about 15 / hour. So all in all, rounding a little upwards, I'd say the bot would have to make ~120 edits / hour or 2 edits / minute. I believe this is about half the amount of edits that the AntiVandalBot makes.
 * I'm not familiar with the MediaWiki extensions you mentioned. However, I can accept anything that works. :) --ZeroOne ( talk | @ ) 13:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I thought of this same idea last night. We could really use a bot signing for anonymous users. Alphachimp 14:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * A disadvantage of auto-signing edits with a bot is that a potentially nonsensical/vandalistic entry will no longer be the top edit in people's watchlist, and will require more effort reverting or removing. Also, you'll have to know which edits do not require signing (addition of templates, edits to headers or general information about the talk page, archiving, refactoring etc.), which is a rather nontrivial and probably impossible task. I would certainly not want a bot that signs my edits. Kusma (討論) 15:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Another problem is that many pages need signatures more than talk pages do. On AFDs, signing is usually necessary, but they are not in the talk namespace. On many article talk pages, it doesn't matter at all which anon says what, as most discussions with anons do not involve more than one at the same time, and they will sign manually if necessary for identification. Plus, an AOL anon signing with a nickname is signing in a more useful way than our autosig with his always-changing IP address. Kusma (討論) 15:49, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

 * If the bot gets a bot-flag, it won't even be shown on people's watchlist, so no problem there. The first rule could be that if a new paragraph is created, then add signature, otherwise treat it as an edit. The paragraph should also not start with a, nor should the signature be added to those paragraphs that already end with one. The bot could also be made to monitor AFD-pages.
 * The signature has other functions besides identifying the user who left the message. It separates different messages from each other and tells you the date and time the messages were left. --ZeroOne ( talk | @ ) 11:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Er, when I have "hide bots" turned on, I don't see the edit before the bot edit on my watchlist, the page disappears from my watchlist completely (and I want to see what the interwiki bots do anyway, so I don't want to hide bots). I can't use the "extended watchlist" because I have too many high-volume pages on my watchlist, and it sucks anyway, as I need an extra click to see whether the top edit summary at WP:AIV does or does not include the word "empty". Kusma (討論) 12:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmm, if that's how it works then it sounds like a bug in the MediaWiki software. --ZeroOne ( talk | @ ) 13:20, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Why not just write it into the program (an auto signature)? If it's not an option to not leave a signature then a bot wouldnt be needed in the first place. --MNAdam 23:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

 * In case of simple edits or addition of certain templates one will not want to leave a signature. --ZeroOne ( talk | @ ) 12:51, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Interlanguage Commons image suggestion bot
How about a manually summoned bot that can suggest images for an article based on images from Commons that exist on copies of the page on other language wikis? --InShaneee 02:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Like this? --Emijrp 12:02, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Bot to help with WP:COMIC assessments
Waht I'm after is either guidance on how to write a bot and what I need to run it, or perhaps someone to set up a bot that would run through the various comic stubs categories and tag them as stubs for the 1.0 assessment. I get some webspace with my ISP that includes cgi space I don't know if that's enough to host a bot, but I'd be interested in doing it if someone would hold my hand, otherwise if that's impractical or impossible, I'd appreciate someone taking it on. The categories are Category:Comics stubs and sub-categories and the code that needs to be added or amended on an article talk page is that either   needs to be added or where it exists  {{Comicsproj  needs to be amended to  {{Comicsproj|class=Stub , leaving the close brackets in case other fields are active. Also, I guess a subpage, um,  {{FULLPAGENAME}}/Comments  needs to be created with a message, um Assessed by comics-bot which automatically tags articles in stub categories as syub class articles. Appreciate thoughts. Hiding Talk 18:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * can do the tagging but do you realy need a subpage? I could just put that in the edit summary. Betacommand {{sup|(talk • contribs • Bot)}} 18:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, the tagging is the more vital element, so no, the subpage isn't vital. Hiding Talk 20:39, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I was just asking why you want a subpage? Betacommand {{sup|(talk • contribs • Bot)}} 20:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, that's the way the 1.0 version ideally want it set up, with comments on such a subpage so they can better contextualise the ratings. So that's why. Hiding Talk 21:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I can do Ill set up the pre-run data and get back to you. Betacommand {{sup|(talk • contribs • Bot)}} 02:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * See: User:Betacommand/WPCOMIC and remove/add any that you want tagged and leave me a note on my talk page when you are done. Betacommand {{sup|(talk • contribs • Bot)}} 03:24, 3

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