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"Discovered by" for asteroids

I have put in User:Ysogo/asteroidi-scopritori a list to drive the population of the property "Discovered by" for some thousand asteroids. Each line in the mentioned page looks like:

  • Qasteroid - Qdiscover1 , Qdiscover2 , Qdiscover3 , Qdiscover4

where Qdiscover2,3,4 are optional.

The bot should add the property "Discovered by" to item Qasteroid and fill the property with each QdiscoverX in the line.

The source to be referenced is Q522039 (Minor Planet Center).

If info in the list should be arranged differently to facilitate the bot in reading the list, let me know (pleas put a sample line at the top of the same page) and I can regenerate the whole list. --Ysogo (talk) 20:10, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Wow, great! I'll have my bot run through this in a few hours. The reference property to use should be "imported from" right? Legoktm (talk) 20:35, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. Yes, "imported from" is the right one.--Ysogo (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Marking as   Done, my bot finished this a while back. Legoktm (talk) 17:21, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Legoktm (talk) 08:29, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Bot flag for EdinBot

Hi all. I would like to request a bot flag for EdinBot (SUL). There are several projects on bswiki for mass article creations which I'm working on at the moment. One of them is generating all the NGC and IC objects (about 10-15k pages). That would require me to also add the relevant links on Wikidata to articles on bswiki. The bot is currently using the Pywikipediabot framework. If you need to know more, please let me know. Regards. -- Edinwiki (talk) 15:19, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Please post it here, thanks. --Ricordisamoa 15:22, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Done. Thanks! -- Edinwiki (talk) 15:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Legoktm (talk) 08:29, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Asteroids in sequence

I have put in User:Ysogo/asteroidi-sequenza a list to drive the population of properties "preceded by" and "followed by" (according to IAU sequential numbering) for some thousand asteroids. Each line in the mentioned page looks like:

  • Qasteroid , Qpredecessor , Qfollower

where Qpredecessor and Qfollower may be a "-" (i.e. item not currently available).

The bot should:

  1. when Qpredecessor is not "-", add the property "preceded by" to item Qasteroid and fill the property with Qpredecessor
  2. when Qfollower is not "-"add the property "followed by" to item Qasteroid and fill the property with Qfollower

Attention point: if any Qasteroid has the property "preceded by" or "followed by" already set but with a different value, it must be overwritten because it is a mistake.

The source to be referenced is Q522039 (Minor Planet Center).

If info in the list should be arranged differently to facilitate the bot in reading the list, let me know (pleas put a sample line at the top of the same page) and I can regenerate the whole list. --Ysogo (talk) 20:32, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

I can take this one too :) Legoktm (talk) 21:30, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
I believe I finished this one.   Done Legoktm (talk) 04:34, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Legoktm (talk) 08:29, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Extinct species due to IUCN

Please change all values for property:P141 from Extinction (which is general article) to Extinct (which is exactly IUCN conservation status). The list (but may contain some links of other type which shouldn't be changed). Infovarius (talk) 19:11, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I did [1], which apparently tripped Special:AbuseFilter/15. Has this been discussed anywhere else? Legoktm (talk) 04:45, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
No, there wasn't. I've initiated discussion at Property_talk:P141#Extinct. Infovarius (talk) 09:48, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Small changes were done (see there). Bot actions are expected. Infovarius (talk) 14:09, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
  Done Legoktm (talk) 08:17, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Legoktm (talk) 08:30, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Gujarati Wikipedia : description adding

I don't know exactly bots can help but I am asking for help regarding Gujarati Wikipedia. Gujarati is a state language of Gujarat state, India used by 600 million. We have only few editors on Wikidata.

Language code: gu
Redirect as alias: Yes
Remove brackets and its content in labels: No
Disambiguation Page: already added
Description:
We have 15,800 articles on villages in Gujarat state out of total 22,500+ articles. They are categorised by Category- શ્રેણી:ગુજરાતનાં ગામો (means Categories:Villages in Gujarat). Is it possible to add description in Gujarati, English, Hindi and other languages you know telling a village in Indian state of Gujarat based on their Category as almost 15800 are in same category needing same description. So શ્રેણી:ગુજરાતનાં ગામો will help identify in which article you should add description.
wikipedia - description
de - Dorf im indischen Bundesstaat Gujarat
en - village in Gujarat state, India
fi - kylä Gujaratin osavaltiossa, Intiassa
gu - ભારતના ગુજરાત રાજ્યનું એક ગામ
hi - भारत के गुजरात राज्य का एक गाँव
sv - by i den indiska delstaten Gujarat
ru - деревня в штате Гуджарат, Индия
it - villaggio dello stato indiano di Gujarat --ValterVB (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
you can add more language descriptions as you know other languages.
I had asked User:Sk!d and User:Merlissimo for same in past. Is it possible? Cheers.--Nizil Shah (talk) 21:31, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
I'll try to write something, but I would like to get some feedback on the English description. --Ricordisamoa 21:47, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for reply. I would be happy to feedback.--Nizil Shah (talk) 22:08, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
According to Help:Description it has to be village in Gujarat state, India --Bene* talk 10:05, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
My bot now can do this task (example) I am just waiting for more translations --Bene* talk 10:21, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Do you like this edit ? Or do you want to add some other properties, too? --Bene* talk 10:34, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
it - villaggio dello stato indiano di Gujarat --ValterVB (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Added Swedish above. Gabbe (talk) 20:15, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Bene, Your edit is OK.. You can go with it.. You can add one more property- < country(P17) : India > also. Thanks, ValterVB, Bene, Richard and all who added other language translations. Your Edits will help a lot. Regards,--Nizil Shah (talk) 05:07, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
The bot is running now. --Bene* talk 13:15, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Task has been finished this night. --Bene* talk 06:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

I am sorry I missed this section. Is it possible to run the bot again to add following French description (and maybe other late submissions):

fr - village de l'État du Gujarat

Thanks. Ljubinka (discussion) 13:51, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, and

es - localidad del estado de Gujarat (India)

Gracias, --Rondador 08:42, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Bene and all who helped filling descriptions.. It helped us a lot..Thank you again.. Cheers,--Nizil Shah (talk) 09:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
nl - plaats in de Indiase staat Gujarat
Thanks Carsrac (talk) 03:48, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: -- Bene* talk 16:03, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Create items for occupations

As suggested at Wikidata_talk:Notability#Exceptions_for_a_consistent_ontology_usage, we need new items for occupations. It would be faster if a bot could import translations from Commons:Template:Creator (which would also facilitate the mapping / importation of commons:template:Creator) and add a few properties. If anyone is interested in taking this up, I can check for already existing items and provide a clean CSV file, but that is pretty much all what my skills can do. --Zolo (talk) 19:27, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Can be useful? User:ValterVB/Sandbox --ValterVB (talk) 19:51, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
+1, this would be great. It would be good to have a public list, everyone can use and add occupations needed. --Kolja21 (talk) 01:35, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Very useful, thanks ! I will try to integrate all that in one file. --Zolo (talk) 07:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)


I have copied Commons translations in a spreadsheet [2]. I made some elementary cleanup, but much remains for those willing to help (notably integrate Valter's work and Wikidata items). It may also be worth checking the translations and perhaps also add some, remove those that sound insanely specific.

I think we should also try to add the most specific subclass of available (it can be another occupation in the list). I think field of work would also make sense (a subclass can have a field of work to transmit to its instances). --Zolo (talk) 19:46, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Could you set this sheet editable? JAn Dudík (talk) 12:37, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Ooops. Done. --Zolo (talk) 07:09, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Legoktm (talk) 11:51, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Bot task request

Hey there bot operators (and others too, of course).

It seems like it'd be an easy task for a bot to read the "Infobox football biography" template over on Wikipedia for the "Senior career" and "National team" fields and then use those to populate "member of sports team" (P:54). Once we get qualifiers, the bot can then copy over the years field attached to each entry as well. On the one hand, it might be a good idea to wait for us to have qualifiers before doing this, but on the other hand, there are going to be plenty of P:54s filled out already that will need qualifiers added in anyways. Thoughts? Sven Manguard Wha? 05:42, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Legobot should be able to do this by the end of the week. Legoktm (talk) 11:14, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
My bot imported around ~50% of all the football player's templates, I'm going to try and work out a system with qualifiers now. Legoktm (talk) 08:28, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Year and film to English description

I would like a bot to do the following:

For all items which lack an English description, see if the items links to an article on the English Wikipedia. If it does, and if the title of that article ends with "(YYYY film)", where "YYYY" are four digits, the bot should add "YYYY film" as a description. An example would be this edit. Gabbe (talk) 08:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

I done for all film in it.wiki, but I used Infobox "Film" and I have added "xxxx film directed by yyyy" where xxxx is the year and yyyy is the director. For en.wiki maybe is possible, but don't use the name of the page, because not all the film have year in the page name (ex: en:Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) --ValterVB (talk) 11:30, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
I wasn't suggesting this to be done for all films, merely for a much smaller subset. I only want this done for ones which have "(YYYY film)" at the end of their articles, which indicates that the title is ambiguous. In my view, the rest can be left alone for now. Gabbe (talk) 11:59, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Keeping last stable software version up to date

Is there a bot which keeps the last stable version of a software product up to date? How is this done on Wikipedia? --Faux (talk) 18:34, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

AFAIK it is done manually on the wikipedias and I think this could be done by hunans in future, too, because this always needs kinda review. --Bene* talk 19:20, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
I think it should be possible to find a reliable way to retrieve the current stable and unstable version for almost all well-managed software products. For example many products have automated upgrade mechanisms which only consider stable releases, or tracking the tags of SCMs could be used to determine the current development release. Of course a different source for each software product needs to be found. I think the idea is not new, I'm just wondering if this is already done or if some investigations were already done by some people who can share their research results. --Faux (talk) 21:20, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
I've requested approval for SamoaBot. --Ricordisamoa 14:31, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Fill gaps in asteroid sequence

With my previous request above, I could only give indications about how to populate property "followed by" for asteroids already named by IAU but there are several items in wikidata of already-numbered-but-not-yet-named asteroids. This means you can not yet have a journey in wikidata along the chain from asteroid 1 (Ceres) to the last numbered asteroid: in other words, e.g., from Q152016 (asteroid 3707 Schröter) you can not reach Q152021 (asteroid 3709 Polypoites) because Q152014 (asteroid 3708) refer to an object without name given by IAU and was not considered in my previous request.

I have figured out a process to properly populate "followed by" to fill the gaps in the chain. I hope a bot can do that. First of all I have created User:Ysogo/asteroidi-senza-successore which list all wikidata items referring to a named-asteroid where the "followed by" could not be set for the reason explained above.

For each Qitem in the list the bot should do the following steps :

  • A: Access Qitem in wikidata and retrieve the link to pl.wiki (let's call it PLpage)
  • B: Access PLpage and retrieve from template Planetkanav the value of parameter następna (let's call it PLnextpage)
  • C: Identify the wikidata item of PLnextpage (let's call it Qnext)
  • D: Populate the attribute "followed by" of Qitem with Qnext (setting source=polish wikipedia)
  • E: If Qnext has the attribute "followed by" already populated

Considering that pl.wiki has a fairly large number of unnamed asteroids, this process should help for several gaps.

It is welcome if the bot can write a log for every execution of line D (please put it in User:Ysogo/asteroidi-senza-successore-log): this would facilitate future maintenance work.

I tried my best to give a clear explanation, but just let me know if you need any additional info.

If this is mission impossible for a poor bot, let me know and I'll try to figure out something else.

Note: the navigation template is also present in en.wiki; but few months ago en.wiki contributors have started deleting articles of some asteroids: this makes en.wiki less useful than pl.wiki for what we need to do here.

Thank you in adavance. --Ysogo (talk) 20:56, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm working on it. --Ricordisamoa 14:53, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

descriptions for persons from persondata

en:Template:Persondata provides a SHORT DESCRIPTION, see en:Wikipedia:Persondata. this could be used as description for items which have none. same with de:Vorlage:Personendaten, KURZBESCHREIBUNG. should be run first for items on terminator. conflicting cases should be collected to support manual solving. --Akkakk (talk) 01:49, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

FischBot has been approved, and SamoaBot is thinking of it. --Ricordisamoa 14:36, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
The enwp version of the template (can't speak for the German since I don't know German) provides place of birth and death, which could also be imported into Wikidata at this time, as the properties already exist. (We'll have to wait for date datatypes before we can import the date of birth and death data, obviously.) —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 21:17, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Adding property:P107 with q215627 would be nice too. --  Docu  at 23:20, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
  Doing… for English.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  04:26, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Botanist Author Abbreviations

The information found in w:List of botanists by author abbreviation needs to be transferred to Wikidata. A bot should add the abbreviations to the corresponding botanists using Property:P428. 23PowerZ (talk) 02:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Sure!   Doing… Legoktm (talk) 04:49, 19 April 2013 (UTC) Not going to have time to do this soon, if someone else wants to take it up. Legoktm (talk) 15:12, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
Please validate abbreviations and author names against IPNI. Thanks --Succu (talk) 06:52, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
BeneBot* (talk • contribs • logs) is   Doing… this. -- Bene* talk 22:01, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

removing items which has langlink to redirects

In some cases like Q1417059 and Q5956269 the second item linked to redirect page and it should be deleted. please write a bot which can detect redirect links and change the links to redirects

now some bots using move_log to detect redirects and change the links to target page but it is not sufficient! because some users merge pages and use redirect-tag directly (instead of move) and it causes the redirect page has item but the target one has conflict! for example

A -- redirect with out move log --> B

Now A has item and when bots or users want to add B they will came across with conflict error and it cause many cases in this Hanira (talk) 10:58, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

I found a solution
SELECT /*SLOW OK */ page_title  FROM page  JOIN langlinks ON page_id = ll_from WHERE
 page_namespace = 0 AND page_is_redirect = 1 GROUP BY page_title ORDER BY count(ll_from) DESC;

shows all redirects (in namesapce=0) which have interwiki (old or wikidata). please some one who has tool_serever account make a list for all wikipedias to move their interwiki to target -- Yamaha5 (talk) 20:27, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

here is the list of pages which are redirect in en.wikipedia and they have interwiki more that 12K pages!Yamaha5 (talk) 20:52, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
links for fa.wikipedia.Yamaha5 (talk) 11:48, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Import ISO 3166-2 (country subdivision codes) from WP

Currently only ~800 Wikidata pages seem to have w:en:ISO 3166-2 codes, and plenty of the ones that don't have them in Wikidata do have them in Wikipedia, like w:en:Tartu_County. Could someone get them added? (it seems not all ~4k subdivisions have a page in the English wiki, as seen in w:en:ISO_3166-2:SI, but I'd expect most of them do). --Reosarevok (talk) 18:44, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Periods in descriptions

Can we get a bot to remove periods from the end of descriptions (e.g. "city in Ontario, Canada." becomes "city in Ontario, Canada")? FrigidNinja 23:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I'll try to write something for this. Do you have a full list of languages for which this should be done? I'm not sure if all languages use Help:Description#Punctuation. — Hazard-SJ  ✈  01:39, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Start with english, for ru they are discussing. For the other languages just start or follow the discussion on the right place :) Carsrac (talk) 03:36, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
  Doing… for English. Legoktm (talk) 04:34, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
  On hold until replag gets better. Legoktm (talk) 11:51, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

automatic labeling for highly ambiguous titles

Hi. I've been trying to label items with highly ambiguous titles like "Love", "Light", "Power" and so on. I add an English label and, when relevant, a French label (my native tongue) as well as a Spanish and a German label (which I understand sufficiently to write reasonably accurate labels). Many cases involve music albums, songs or films that share a title. For instance, even if you count only things that have their own en.wiki article, "I Love You" is the title of at least 10 films, 7 albums and 12 songs. In general the label "album by Foo" is good enough which means that the French label "album de Foo", the Spanish label "álbum de Foo" and the German label "Album von Foo" are equally good labels. Judging from infoboxes on other wikis, "álbum por Foo" is correct in Portuguese, "album av Foo" is correct in Swedish and labelling could be automated for languages where the grammar is simple enough to implement this. The same could be done for songs. I think it could be a useful task because unlabelled items with highly ambiguous title are a real nuisance for human users (and they've tripped up a number of bots). To start off this should probably be semi-automated where the bot would add the labels on a list of items produced manually. I'm willing to help on the non-technical side by verifying the grammar issues with native speakers of Portuguese, Polish, and so on. Pichpich (talk) 19:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

disambiguous items can be found on terminator --Akkakk (talk) 01:16, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
I don't think that page works properly but in any case, it's not directly relevant to this proposed task. Pichpich (talk) 02:10, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
the site was down for a few days, now it's back. however, i made a backup at User:Akkakk/Terminator --Akkakk (talk) 10:44, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
For English descriptions of railroad stations, it would be nice to add the disambiguator from en to empty descriptions too. I sometimes get stations instead of the locality. Something that can't happen at Wikipedia as they have disambiguators if they don't have "station" in the name. --  Docu  at 07:53, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Q4989245

Hi there. I've spent some time recently trying to add links to Q4989245, but I think the process could be automated, thereby saving time for human editors and reducing the risk of mistakes. According to simple:Category:Noindexed_pages, that category page is added locally by the MediaWiki software itself, based on e.g. simple:MediaWiki:Noindex-category or zh-yue:MediaWiki:Noindex-category or whatever. This makes me think that it would be possible for a bot to automatically maintain Q4989245, based on the rules for how these categories are created. N.B. there do seem to be some odd ones, though, e.g. als:MediaWiki:Noindex-category. It Is Me Here t / c 14:14, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Bot Idea

  • I am non technical person so didn't know how to write codes. So I am proposing a simple idea for description adding in multiple languages. If someone writes a code to find out repeatedly used descriptions. e.g. American footballer Than list it here. Some people knowing different languages will translate it manually here than all those translations will be added back in respective languages. I dont know how it is possible or how much helpful. Comments are welcome. Is it possible? --Nizil Shah (talk) 19:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
    My bot is doing this for disambiguation pages. If there is a category on a wikipedia my bot can get all items and set the descriptions in every language. --Sk!d (talk) 07:22, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Fixing Commons category property errors

The property "category on Commons" is being mass imported from wikipedias, but errors are being mass imported, too. Some errors can be easily fixed by bots - in fact, bots could also check before importing:

  • Property pointing to a redirected category on Commons (e.g. a category with {{category redirect}}). A bot should change the property to the name of the destination category.
  • Property pointing to non existent or deleted categories. At least, bots should delete the property, but they could also search a working category name from another wikipedia or check the deletion summary in Commons to find the right category.--Pere prlpz (talk) 11:24, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Add IMDb identifier

For pages on the Russian Wikipedia that invoke the ru:Шаблон:Фильм template, add the value from the "imdb_id" parameter to Property:P345 with "tt" added in front to the corresponding item here. If the number in the "imdb_id" parameter is fewer than seven digits, pad with zeroes to the beginning (that is, "654" is interpreted as "0000654"). If the value found in the "imdb_id" is not composed solely of digits, or if there's more than seven of them, the bot should do nothing.

The bot should also limit itself to pages in the article namespace that invoke said template once and only once.

Example: From the page ru:Война и мир (фильм, 1967), add Property:P345 with value "tt0063794" to item Q845176. Gabbe (talk) 13:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Dito for the following:
Gabbe (talk) 15:51, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
After a quick training, SamoaBot imported the correct value and reference from ru.wiki, so since VIAFbot doesn't seem to work on this, I'll start to do soon. --Ricordisamoa 16:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
as you're on it, you could add "gnd" "creative work" and "instance of" "film/movie": diff --Akkakk (talk) 16:35, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
I was thinking of that, but actually "main type (GND)" is very controversial, maybe we should start a RFC or something similar... --Ricordisamoa 16:36, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
I would avoid adding "instance of" "film/movie" by mere virtue of the usage of these templates. Someone might have added them to a TV series, or a miniseries, or similar. There are better reasons to add "instance of" "film" (such as categorisation, etc.) Gabbe (talk) 17:27, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
  Doing… for the main film infobox for all Latin/Cyrillic languages. --putnik 14:11, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --  Docu  at 04:33, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
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