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This is a page for requesting work to be done by a bot. This is an appropriate place to simply put ideas for bots.



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[edit] Cat template

I accidentally uploaded 287 files in [[Category:Sulaymaniyah Province]] with the wrong license template. Can someone run a bot to change it all from: {{PD}} to {{PD-self}}. Thank you. ~ Zirguezi 16:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

  • ✓ Done, applied many file page fixes including addition of date, Licensing and Summary section, empty permission parameter and add the author instead of own work.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 23:34, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Personality Rights tagging

There are a large number of images that currently do not have the {{personality rights}} tag, but which, by policy, should (... identifiable image of a currently living person). Adding the tag requires some judgment, but it would be a great project for some experienced bot operator to try to put together something that could either do it, or develop a list for further review and refine heuristics for doing it... any takers? 68.188.146.168 00:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Well probably anything that is under the Category:Living people...? --Admrboltz (talk) 01:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
I don't think so. For example, not all images of a building designed by a living architect (or the contents of a museum designed by a living architect, or all images in a park designed by a living architect) would have personality rights, but they'd probably fall somewhere under the category for that person. - Jmabel ! talk 20:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template replacement

Please change all instances of {{ThisDateInRecentYears}} to {{ThisMonthInRecentYears}}. Thank you. Evrik (talk) 17:56, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Perry-Castañeda Library

Ok, this is going to be a long one I think. There are probably hundreds - thousands of images that are either direct copies or derivative works of maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library, which has a source template {{PCL}}. What I would like is either:

  • a list of all files that have the string "utexas.edu/maps/*", and not the {{PCL}} template in them to be listed somewhere so I can do this manually (not a very appealing thought, but I could do it.
  • or after the list was complied, if the bot could automatically add the {{PCL}} template, filled in properly.

Thanks --Admrboltz (talk) 01:46, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I just did a search [1]. In the top it says "Results 1 - 50 of 1,413 for "utexas.edu/maps/"" but it only shows less than 100. Sure this request is what you wanted? --MGA73 (talk) 16:21, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rote Flora

Could a bot be of some help in creating a category corresponding to Rote Flora, and removing the then-redundant supercategories from the images? - Jmabel ! talk 20:43, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A personality rights request

Could a bot add {{personality rights}} to all images in Category:Chumleigh or Category:Chumleighland? A few may have it, but most don't. Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 20:50, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Former hotels in Seattle

Could a bot please move everything in Category:Demolished or former hotels of Seattle except what is under Category:Demolished hotels of Seattle into Category:Former hotels in Seattle instead? Thanks. - Jmabel ! talk 20:57, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] My images without template:information

Would it be possible for a bot to generate a list in my userspace of images in Category:Photos by Chris McKenna and Category:Diagrams by Chris McKenna that do not use the {{information}} template. Thanks, Thryduulf (talk) 08:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Running this ( http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?language=commons&project=wikimedia&depth=5&categories=Photos+by+Chris+McKenna%0D%0ADiagrams+by+Chris+McKenna&comb[union]=1&ns[6]=1&templates_no=information&ext_image_data=1&doit=1 ) should do the trick (you have to copy paste). If this does not work for you feel free to ask again. Maybe a bot could assist you in adding {{information}} on your images. --MGA73 (talk) 21:42, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, that query seems to have worked. I'll have a look through them and see if adding any of the {{information}} templates can be automated. Thryduulf (talk) 10:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Adding new category to everything in an existing category

Could a bot add "Category:2007 Scottish election" to the 22 files presently in "Category:Election posters in United Kingdom" ? Thanks. --Estillbham (talk) 19:10, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I have taken care of this. --Estillbham (talk) 23:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Moving {{Published}} to the file description page

Hello, can a bot move the template {{published}} from the file talk pages to the file description page. It's just useless to keep them on the talk pages, because then the category isn't a gallery and the template isn't shown on other wikis. While it's useful to add them on the talk page over at en.wikipedia, the Commons file description page isn't about the subject of the image, but about the image. Also, other assessment templates like {{Assessments}}, {{Quality image}} or {{Valued image}} are also on the file description page. I would be happy if a bot could assist with this job. Thank you. --The Evil IP address (talk) 19:07, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

You might want to bring this up on VP first. Not sure if it's really a good idea to fill file description pages with such things. -- User:Docu at 14:02, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Adding same category to 200+ uncategorized media

More than 200 files in Category:Media needing categories as of 12 October 2009 have a filename beginning "File:Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary". Could a bot strip out the {{Uncategorized|year=2009|month=October|day=12}} and insert [[Category:Images from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary]]? Estillbham (talk) 02:19, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Most images should have at least one additional category. What do you think if I would just add Category:Images from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary? -- User:Docu at 16:16, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
The images are already in Category:PD Brockhaus&Efron. Adding them to Category:Images from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary wouldn't improve this much. I'd rather leave them in uncategorized for now. From there, e.g. File:Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary b32 840-0.jpg could go into Category:Spiders etc. -- User:Docu at 16:28, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Replace author's name

My username has been changed. My request is to replace my fomer username (Té y kriptonita) for my new name (Tyk) in the author field of every file I have uploaded. This reason is to protect my privacy and keep my anonimity. Thank you --Tyk (talk) 15:54, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Churches in Cornwall

There are 57 subcats in Category:Churches in Cornwall, and 53 of them are "Churches in {PLACENAME}." Could a bot please move the categories and files under/within the 53 categories to Category:Anglican churches in Cornwall, and then delete the 53 then-empty categories? Thanks. Estillbham (talk) 23:11, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I have decided that I can work with these categories, so I am withdrawing this request. Estillbham (talk) 12:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Misspelled file names

There are eight files named File:Brisland church st probus and st hyacinth 001.jpg 001 through 008. The "probus" should be "protus". It is correct in the description and the category (I moved them all). Could someone with adminstrator powers make the change? Estillbham (talk) 02:57, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

If you add {{rename}} to each, eventually they will be moved. -- User:Docu at 09:53, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
I'd say "maybe" rather than eventually personally. Noodle snacks (talk) 10:51, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
The filename starts with B so it's likely that it eventually happens. If it started with Z, probably never ;) -- User:Docu at 11:02, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I will do that as soon as possible. Estillbham (talk) 13:19, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Replace maps with wrong boundaries

Please make the following replacements of images occurrences in all WPs. Reason: the maps to be replaced show wrong or outdated wilayas (provinces) boundaries, the new ones have been checked with maps of an Algerian's official site. Note that the purpose is not about replacing raster maps by vector versions, but to replace maps displaying wrong boundaries by maps with the correct information. Thanks. Sting (talk) 11:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Replace:

by File:Algeria_01_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_44_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_46_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_16_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_23_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_05_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_08_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_06_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_07_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_09_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_34_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_10_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_35_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_02_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_25_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_17_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_32_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_39_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_36_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_47_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_24_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_33_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_18_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_40_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_03_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_28_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_29_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_26_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_43_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_27_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_45_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_31_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_30_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_04_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_48_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_20_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_19_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_22_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_21_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_41_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_11_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_12_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_14_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_37_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_42_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_38_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_15_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg
by File:Algeria_13_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg

And also:

The new filenames kind of suck. Can't you assign more descriptive names?
When you're done the old files should probably renamed to something like File:Algeria-Tlemcen pre 2009.png. Multichill (talk) 13:01, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
I know the new filenames aren't the best, at least the numbers are ok as they are the official ones, but I didn't wanted to upload a third serial for these “simple” locator maps, so I just updated the existing ones. I don't know if the boundaries displayed by the PNGs version maps were once correct: some of them come from the old VMap-0 data, other are different and I don't know if changes have been made between 1983 when there were only 31 provinces and now.
If you think it's better to modify the names of the updated maps, I would propose a scheme like “Algeria_xx_wilaya_locator_map.svg”, "xx" being the number of the wilaya. All occurrences of the former names should then be replaced in the projects. Sting (talk) 13:55, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
It looks like you replaced a series of maps in the svg files, e.g. File:DZ-13.svg. One shouldn't overwrite existing images with newer boundary details. To avoid problems in the future, I suggest you include a date or a year when the boundaries are considered correct, e.g. "2009". -- User:Docu at 14:11, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Humm... So, what do we do? Undo all my uploads which updated the maps and I make brand new uploads under a different and descriptive name of the up-to-date maps ? Sting (talk) 14:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
I would generally suggest to do that, but here I'm not quite sure about the quality of the previous maps. If it's being done, at least, it wont be too complicated to replace one svg with another svg. -- User:Docu at 15:13, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
OK, so standby with this request for now, the time for me to upload the new maps under a correct name. Sting (talk) 15:33, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I uploaded my maps, reverted what I've done with the "DZ-xx.svg" serial and updated the list above which is now ready for the bot. So there are now the occurrences of two serials of maps to replace by the new of the "Algeria_xx_Wilaya_locator_map-2009.svg" type. Thanks. Sting (talk) 20:05, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
The svg/svg replacement can be requested at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands. Maybe Multichill can help you with the png/svg ones. -- User:Docu at 06:37, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Commonscat links

Hi bot operators, would more people be willing to run Commonscat bots at Wikipedia's? A lot of Wiki's need to be updated (see my statistics)? Code is easy:

commonscat.py -lang:<the language code> -always -start:Category:!

This improves the accessibility of Commons from the Wikipedia's and makes CategorizationBot give better suggestions. If you're working on something, please sign here to prevent double work. Thank you! Multichill (talk) 15:19, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Multichill. I could do some of en.wp. Rather than crawling through all pages, wouldn't it be quicker to use a database query and just load pages that need it? BTW do you also work on articles? -- User:Docu at 05:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
No, database query is probably not an option. I do use a database query to find links, just added a lot of new links. This bot does a lot of checking and also find links when the name of the category at the Wikipedia and the name at Commons are not the same. It's also possible to work at articles. We did that at nlwp and dawp, haven't tested it on enwp yet, but should work. Just a bit tired of the overly bureaucratic bot approval procedures over there. Multichill (talk) 13:13, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
I haven't reviewed the code in detail, but which categories other than the ones with an identical title would it find? -- User:Docu at 08:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Commons categories linked from other language categories. Multichill (talk) 08:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
For most languages this is crucial, but for English is this needed or even a risk to avoid? -- User:Docu at 09:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
It's also needed at enwp because the naming convention is different than Commons. Multichill (talk) 10:34, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
It might find a few additional ones and can validate additions. Still, I don't think running it through en:Special:Allpages is possible. One would have to make a list first and then use this to run commonscat.py with "-file:list.txt". -- User:Docu at 11:31, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Maps of South Tyrol

Is it possible to move from the Category:Maps of South Tyrol ONLY the yellow maps (files "Cartina Comune BZ ...") in the new Category:Maps of municipalities of the province of Bolzano? Thank you very much!
Nota bene: there is no problem for the province name. The yellow maps are the same like the brown maps that you find in the Category:Maps of municipalities of the province of South Tyrol which are the municipalities in their german names; the yellow maps are the same municipalities but in theyr italian names. Province of South Tyrol = Province of Bolzano. So it's good for the german names "Province of South Tyrol"; for the italian names "Province of Bolzano". --DenghiùComm (talk) 16:21, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Carmona

Please, move all files from Category:Carmona, España to Category:Carmona and delete the first one, the category is duplicated. Thank you in advance --tyk (talk) 11:46, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation needed. Corrected as needed. Move will be executed within a couple of days. --Foroa (talk) 12:08, 26 November 2009 (UTC)