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* Every page with [[:Category:Green living]] but without [[:Category:Sustainability]] should be added to [[:Category:Sustainability]] (but checked one-by-one. This is assuming that [[green living]] should be treated differently from other subcategories of sustainability, that it overlaps a lot. (Sustainability is more serious, perhaps - green living suggests a more specific readership.) Don't know if that makes sense... --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 14:05, 20 November 2009 (UTC) | * Every page with [[:Category:Green living]] but without [[:Category:Sustainability]] should be added to [[:Category:Sustainability]] (but checked one-by-one. This is assuming that [[green living]] should be treated differently from other subcategories of sustainability, that it overlaps a lot. (Sustainability is more serious, perhaps - green living suggests a more specific readership.) Don't know if that makes sense... --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 14:05, 20 November 2009 (UTC) | ||
* Fix improperly closed ref tags, which cause the bottom part of pages not to display. Is it possible to detect when a <nowiki><ref> is followed by another <ref>, rather than by a </ref></nowiki>, or by neither? (Maybe [[Wikipedia:User:SmackBot]] does this - it fixes certain ref errors.) | * Fix improperly closed ref tags, which cause the bottom part of pages not to display. Is it possible to detect when a <nowiki><ref> is followed by another <ref>, rather than by a </ref></nowiki>, or by neither? (Maybe [[Wikipedia:User:SmackBot]] does this - it fixes certain ref errors.) | ||
* change <nowiki>{{Newpageresource}}\n{{Putinthiscategory}}</nowiki> to <nowiki>{{Newpageresource}}</nowiki>, then manually merge those templates | |||
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Revision as of 09:24, 17 May 2011
Agreed bot tasks
Uncontroversial or agreed-upon tasks should be listed here:
Routine bot tasks
Actual commands are in bold.
Most are currently performed by ChriswaterguyBot, but may be performed by any bot. Use appropriate care.
- fix double-redirects: python redirect.py double (brovse the outputs for anything odd, and manually fix anything that needs fixing.)
- delete broken redirects: python redirect.py broken (Requires adminship. Be extra careful)
- fix format of redirects to categories:
- python replace.py -xml:currentdump.xml -nocase "#REDIRECT [[Category:" "#REDIRECT [[:Category:"
- python replace.py -xml:currentdump.xml -nocase "#REDIRECT[[Category:" "#REDIRECT [[:Category:"
- add "|{{PAGENAME}}" to category tags, for pages not in the main or category namespaces.
Occasional
- Correcting capitalization of headers, e.g. See Also to See also:
- python replace.py -xml:currentdump.xml "== See Also" "== See also"
- python replace.py -xml:currentdump.xml "==See Also" "== See also"
- python replace.py -xml:currentdump.xml "== External Links" "== External links"
- python replace.py -xml:currentdump.xml "==External Links" "== External links"
Suggested bot tasks
- Wikilinking
- Adding categories - look for text strings, to help identify pages for categorization.
- common spelling errors
- Adapt a bot from Wikipedia?
- Tagging pages with apparent non-compliant capitalization
- Maintain a list (possibly a hidden category) of checked pages that have good reasons for not complying,
- Cancel this task, or replace these with updated templates? --Chriswaterguy 05:46, 26 December 2010 (UTC)place these templates on every topic page, if not there already:
- {{Browsetopic}}
- {{Createnewpage}}
- {{Putinthiscategory}}
- Change header ==Footnotes and references== to ==Notes==. (==References== is a different kind of section - see Wikipedia links at the bottom of Template:Notes.)
- Move categories to a new category name. A bot owner will run the changes periodically. (If you need it done soon, leave a message at User talk:ChriswaterguyBot). List categories below with links (from... to...) :
- Every page with Category:Green living but without Category:Sustainability should be added to Category:Sustainability (but checked one-by-one. This is assuming that green living should be treated differently from other subcategories of sustainability, that it overlaps a lot. (Sustainability is more serious, perhaps - green living suggests a more specific readership.) Don't know if that makes sense... --Chriswaterguy 14:05, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
- Fix improperly closed ref tags, which cause the bottom part of pages not to display. Is it possible to detect when a <ref> is followed by another <ref>, rather than by a </ref>, or by neither? (Maybe Wikipedia:User:SmackBot does this - it fixes certain ref errors.)
- change {{Newpageresource}}\n{{Putinthiscategory}} to {{Newpageresource}}, then manually merge those templates
Notes:
- Be sensitive to variations in spelling - some people don't like it if their spellings are "corrected" from American to British forms, or vice-versa. - (Can we use a dictionary that accepts both/all regional spellings?)
replace [[User:Singkong2005|Singkong2005]] (now known as [[User:Chriswaterguy| Chriswaterguy]]) with [[User:Singkong2005|Singkong2005]] (now known as [[User:Chriswaterguy| Chriswaterguy]]) ''<small>a.k.a. [[User:Chriswaterguy| Chriswaterguy]]''Done.
Simple search and replace
Replace:
[[laptop: with [[OLPC:
Useful bots
Other bots we could use:
- Wikipedia:User:SmackBot - fixes refs. Seems to be a bunch of tools operated by a user. We could ask how s/he fixes refs.
- AutoWikiBrowser