User talk:Svick/WikiProject cleanup listing/Archive 1

thanks and milhist
Very nice script! Could you please add WP:MILHIST to the listing? Kirill [talk] [prof] 20:51, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Done, although the list is really huge. Svick (talk) 22:02, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Kirill [talk] [prof] 00:59, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

thanks and about a TOC
To Svick and Smallman12q: Thanks so much for developing this replacement system for WikiProject cleanup information. It will be a big help for WikiProject National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). One small question/suggestion: i notice the cleanup report by category provides many separate useful sections listing articles needing different types of cleanup. For the NRHP wikiproject, the page is quite long and includes many types. I wonder if your report could be amended to provide a TOC at the top, so that the different types of cleanups would be made clear. The top TOC could provide, or not provide, a tally of the number of items of each type. Just a simple TOC listing the types of cleanups and allowing an editor to jump down to one of possible interest for them to tackle would be a help. You could consider this or not, no big deal. Mainly: thanks for developing this great tool! --doncram (talk) 20:55, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Done, listing by category now contains a TOC with a number of articles for each category. Svick (talk) 22:14, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Request
Please at WP:MED to the list. Also, we had a filtered list for Top-importance articles here, and if it's easy to do, then that would be nice. But the main listing is probably more important. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:58, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Medicine already was there and you can sort by importance (or other columns) by clicking on that column heading. Svick (talk) 22:27, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Architecture
Seems to be a very useful tool. Could you please add WP:WikiProject Architecture as well? thanks. --Elekhh (talk) 22:26, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Svick (talk) 22:32, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

WP:FA and GA
Hi Svick! Thanks so much for getting this up and running! Would you be able to make cleanup listings for featured and good articles? I don't know if the listings run off WikiProject categories or banners, but featured articles are part of Category:Wikipedia featured articles and good articles are in Category:Good articles. It was extremely helpful when Wolterbot made listings for these two groups - and it would be just as helpful if you could as well :) Thanks, Dana boomer (talk) 23:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Done and done. I'm using talk page categories, and both good and featured articles have their own. Svick (talk) 23:56, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Wow, less than an hour response time - impressive :) Thank you very much! Dana boomer (talk) 11:59, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks and "order by cleanup priority" suggestion
Big thanks for reviving this tool - Since the BLPRFCs at the beginning of the year I've been saying that this is the sort of maintenance tool that should be run from the foundation level, but as they don't seem interested in any practical, ground level work, it lies in limbo for a year until someone like you two comes along and puts in the effort. You are a wiklegends.

But one suggestion, could you somehow reorder the list so that the most important cleanup cats - ie BLP related, copyvio, hoax, attack etc are listed first, with the style related ones later? Twinkle has two lists, maybe use those lists as a guide. Regards The-Pope (talk) 00:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I could reorder them, if you provided the order of the categories. The current list of all used categories can be seen at . Svick (talk) 00:15, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

thanks and about a template
Hey, thanks for generating this script, it would be great if there was a simple template summarising this data with a link to the tool-server page that we could put on our wikiproject page and hopefully nudge people towards fixing the issues, something like the wikiproject version 1.0 release template or even as simple as the BLP listing tool template. Ajbpearce (talk) 20:48, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * What “BLP listing tool template” do you mean? Svick (talk) 21:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, what I meant was a simple wikified page (ala DASHbot - see our wikiproject page) which would be a little nicer than the toolserver list.Thanks Again! Ajbpearce (talk) 08:25, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Smallman12q is now working on that. Svick (talk) 21:17, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I've just seen it updated at the bottom - Thanks!!Ajbpearce (talk) 16:43, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Template?
Thanks for the new tool. Do you have a nice box template that one can add to a project page to link to the tool? --NJR_ZA (talk) 05:53, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It does now. Svick (talk) 22:04, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Taxobox cleanup
Is there any chance that you could add the various subcategories of (except  and its children) to your cleanup listings? Thanks. --Stemonitis (talk) 14:44, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Now that is an odd cleanup category. Both talk pages and articles? The tool currently supports only dated categories, but it should be fairly easy to add non-dated ones too. So, yeah, I'll probably add those categories there, but only for articles and not talk pages. Svick (talk) 23:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Most of the articles are marked on the article, not the talk page, so that will be fine. --Stemonitis (talk) 05:44, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Svick (talk) 23:51, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject The Clash
Hi, thanks for the great tool and for having included our WP! –p joe f (talk • contribs) 12:51, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Svick (talk) 22:28, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate entries
Hi, thanks for the tool to provide the listings again. On the category listing there are duplicate entries produced, in some cases, any chance of suppressing the duplicates. You can see this on this listing under section "Articles needing additional references". Keith D (talk) 00:52, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * That was because those articles are members of Category:Lincolnshire articles by quality twice: once for the class category and once for Category:Lincolnshire articles with comments. I have fixed it now. Svick (talk) 22:26, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Keith D (talk) 01:35, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Great tool; very important and worthy of your efforts. At least now there won't be a bot operator who abandons the tool. Brad (talk) 09:21, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Israel
Hi- Can you please create a new cleanup listing for WikiProject Israel? I will add the template to the page. TIA! --Sreifa (talk) 07:23, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Israel is already there, see . Svick (talk) 10:50, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Spaceflight
Hi, can you add WikiProject Spaceflight to the list? The WikiProject banner is currently in development, but any article in Category:WikiProject Spaceflight articles is in the project. Thanks! :) Mlm42 (talk) 02:14, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Svick (talk) 21:25, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

WP:UKGEO
Could you add a cleanup listing for WikiProject UK geography. Just to warn you this is likely to be a big list :-(&mdash; Rod talk 16:10, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Not that big. It's 32nd among the projects I process, two positions below WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom. Svick (talk) 23:48, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've added the template and alerted project members - hopefully we can start to reduce this.&mdash; Rod talk 08:14, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Another user has pointed out a possible bug at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography saying Barstable (hundred) is showing as "Articles lacking sources (December 2009)" but there are currently no tags on the article.&mdash; Rod talk 11:46, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * As pointed out there, the article was a member of the category Articles lacking sources from December 2009, so it was listed correctly. Svick (talk) 13:58, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject United States
Could you add a cleanup listing for WikiProject United States? WolterBot is no longer active, the WikiProject could use a big cleanup listing in any article in Category:WikiProject United States articles or the project banner template. JJ98 (Talk) 20:23, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Added. Svick (talk) 23:31, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

On wiki listing by type of problem
Good job creating a new cleanup listing. I like the sortability, but I miss the on wiki category breakdown that WalterBot was generating (like this one). Are there any plans to bring back this functionality? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:21, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
 * you can get it to sort by category on the toolserver Tom B (talk) 20:20, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Could you please add ...
WP:WikiProject Food and drink And its task forces? --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 21:09, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, the taskforces are listed in the index. Svick (talk) 17:36, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

movenotice?
Firstly, this listing is really useful; thanks. Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like articles tagged with movenotice aren't included in the cleanup listing? Is it possible to add them? That would be useful. Thanks! Mlm42 (talk) 04:07, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
 * No, they aren't included, because that template doesn't use add any category and my tool relies on them. If you change that template to add a category to all articles it is used on, I could add it. Svick (talk) 14:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I see; I think I've now changed the template to add the articles to Category:Articles to be moved (hopefully it worked..). I don't know if this should be a hidden category, or how to make it hidden.. but hopefully it's enough for the tool to work. Thanks, Mlm42 (talk) 18:36, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think using a category specifically for this template is better than using one that already exists for slightly different purpose, so I changed it to Category:Proposed moves. I have added the category to the listing, so it will show on the next run. But I noticed that lots of articles have this template on their talk page and those won't be reported by the tool. Svick (talk) 19:46, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Good idea. Thanks a lot! Mlm42 (talk) 20:05, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * By the way, it looks like many (most?) of the talk pages that contain the template have already been moved, or at least the discussion is over. Mlm42 (talk) 20:09, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

New categories?
Is there any chance you could include these categories:


 * Category:Pages with DOIs inactive since 2008
 * Category:Pages with DOIs inactive since 2009
 * Category:Pages with DOIs inactive since 2010

For some reason, they haven't made one yet for 2011 that I can find. Also, is there any way that you can have the listing pull from talk page categories, but list the article? (Or really, even listing the talk page would be helpful...) If so, Category:Wikipedia requested photographs and its gazillion subcats might be kind of nice to have listed. If not, no big deal, just something that popped into my head. Thank you very, very much for getting this listing back up and running - it is an amazing help to many projects. Dana boomer (talk) 02:49, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have added the DOI categories. I have added the talk page categories to my todo list, but it's probabaly going to take some time before i get to it. Svick (talk) 13:36, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Dana boomer (talk) 14:15, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

WP:APO
Hi, can you please add WP:APO to your cleanup listing? That would be great --Hutcher (talk) 04:10, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Svick (talk) 16:46, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Mammals
Could you add WP:MAM please. Cheers, Jack (talk) 18:16, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Svick (talk) 18:44, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Listings not working
When I go to look today at any of the listings, I am getting a database error. Any page I try gets me nothing but "Could not select db: Unknown database 'u_svick_cleanup'."  Jim Miller  See me 00:20, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It seems to be working now. I assume the error was caused by changes related to the change to MediaWiki 1.17. Svick (talk) 02:34, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Australian baseball task force
Is it possible to add a listing for the Australian baseball task force?  Afaber012  (talk) 06:43, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Here you go. Svick (talk) 13:59, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Women's History
Can you please add WikiProject Women's History? Thanks! - PKM (talk) 03:59, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Svick (talk) 14:57, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! - PKM (talk) 18:29, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

LGBT studies
Greetings! I was searching for gender related articles and found WikiProject LGBT studies/Cleanup listing which is out-of-date. Can you add it to your updating? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigifaq (talk • contribs) 03:54, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * My tool doesn't create its listings on wiki (at least for now). And there already is the listing for WikiProject LGBT studies. Svick (talk) 14:55, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! I didn't know that existed.Gigifaq (talk) 22:55, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Radio Stations
Can you please add WikiProject Radio Stations? Thanks! - Dravecky (talk) 05:23, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, sorry for the delay. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 00:21, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

WP:AR
Please, can you include WikiProject Argentina in the bot's work? I have already included the "WikiProject cleanup listing" template MBelgrano (talk) 11:26, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Argentina was already in the listing. Sorry it took me so long to respond. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 00:21, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Listings are broken
Hi Svick, it looks like they've broke again. it comes up with "Could not select project: " if you try to select any project e.g. Featured or Good Articles, please can you fix? Tom B (talk) 14:32, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for that, it was my mistake and I had to restore the database from backup (fortunately, toolserver makes backups of all user databases). It has been fixed for a while now, though. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 23:43, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

WP Switzerland
Hi, can you please add WP Switzerland to the list? Tobyc75 (talk) 13:24, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. I'm sorry it took me so long. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 00:21, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

WP:DK
Hi, could you please include WikiProject Denmark on your list? Thanks! Poulsen (talk) 12:08, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, it seems to be working already. Cheers! Poulsen (talk) 12:14, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Insects
Hi Svick, could you please add WikiProject Insects to the list? AshLin (talk) 13:13, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Here it is. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 22:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Anime and manga
Hi, can you please add WikiProject Anime and manga to the list? Thank you! Cyn starchaser (talk)  22:40, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Exactly 5000 articles are marked for cleanup in that project. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 20:41, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
Can you please add this WikiProject? Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 16:56, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
 * Done. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 19:38, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Conservatism
Hi, please add the project in the title. Thanks and great job! Lionel (talk) 07:40, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Here you go. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 21:01, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Pittsburgh
Can this project listing be added? Thanks! --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk 19:19, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 22:32, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics
Please add WikiProject Statistics. Thanks Melcombe (talk) 11:38, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It was already there, see . <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 17:48, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * OK thanks. I have changed various links in project templates to point to that address. But is there a way of getting the results as a Wikipedia page ? ... the old bot that was used previously mangaged to create a result at WikiProject Statistics/Cleanup listing, which meant that an external link in the templates could be avoided. Melcombe (talk) 10:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No, there is not, at least for now. But this was already requested by a few other people, so I might get to implementing it some day. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 21:45, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * +1 for the dump to a wiki page, rather than only a dynamic toolserver output. The big advantages, even if it's a once a week output is you can track cleanup rates over time and also the cleanup list will show up on the what links here tab, so you might get more people aware of the tool and help out with the cleanup tasks. Thanks for your work so far on getting this back up and running.  The-Pope (talk) 09:39, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * As for the tracking of history, I think that would be much easier by directly reading the database. Since I don't delete anything, the data is already there. It's just that I'm not using it for the moment. But yeah, I can see the point for on-wiki listings and I'll try to get to them when I find the time. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 19:05, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Nickelodeon
Hi, can you please add WikiProject Nickelodeon for cleanup listing? Thanks. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  05:10, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 21:54, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union
Could WikiProject Rugby union be added please. AIR corn (talk) 07:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Here you go. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 11:02, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks AIR corn (talk) 11:43, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Bristol, WikiProject Spain and WikiProject Theatre
Hi, can you please add WikiProject Bristol, WikiProject Spain and WikiProject Theatre. Thank you. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
 * All three are already there, see the index. If you were thinking about reports of that here on Wikipedia, like WolterBot did previously, that's not possible (yet). <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 20:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:18, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Protected areas
Hi, would be great to have this tool helping WP:WikiProject Protected areas. Thanks. --Elekhh (talk) 21:27, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 20:32, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, --Elekhh (talk) 22:02, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Thoroughbred racing
Would you please add this project? Thanks very much; our cleanup listing is large and outdated (I've done several articles and removed the tags, but they're still listed).--Miniapolis (talk) 01:07, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * This tool doesn't replace the old listing in that it doesn't update them (for now). Instead, the new listings are available at toolserver, for your project, it's at here. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 21:52, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Could you please add WikiProject IMJ to your fun-filled listings. The main page is at GLAM/IMJ, but we have WikiProject Israel Museum, Jerusalem template, so don't know what you need. Bgwhite (talk) 17:46, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, sorry for the delay. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 14:16, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Australian rules football
Hi there, WP:AFL has been renamed WP:WikiProject Australian rules football so can you please update your listings. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 08:53, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Bump. Please update this, or provide a system where we can register or alter the project's as required. The-Pope (talk) 02:57, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it should be fixed now. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt>

WikiProject RISC OS
Hi. This is a request to please add WikiProject RISC OS. Thanks. --Trevj (talk) 13:57, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, before that's done (in the case of you agreeing to the request) how does this list differ (if at all) from User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings? Thanks. --Trevj (talk) 20:22, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, B.Wolterding left the project and this cleanup listing service was created to replace it when the Wolterbot one stopped working. The-Pope (talk) 15:50, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, I hadn't realised that. Therefore, the request to add the project here stands. Thanks. -- Trevj (talk) 07:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, sorry it took so long. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 14:30, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * That should come in very handy. The short delay is fine! -- Trevj (talk) 14:44, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Science pearls
Could you please add WikiProject Science pearls to your listing? RockMagnetist (talk) 05:45, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello? Anybody home? RockMagnetist (talk) 17:20, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry it took so long, it's here. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 14:56, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you! RockMagnetist (talk) 15:12, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Good Articles
There is a good articles clean up listing at Good articles/Cleanup listing, which was last updated in March 2010. Would it be possible to create a new listing using your tool for articles that are judged as being good to make it easier to identify any that need maintenance or should be delisted? AIR corn (talk) 20:46, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late answer. This tool doesn't produce listings on wiki, and I'm not sure when will I get to implementing that. But you can see the listing at toolserver. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:00, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't sweet the delay. It was worth it to get this listing. Thanks. AIR corn (talk) 19:54, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Urban studies and planning
Hi, could WikiProject Urban studies and planning be added as well? --Elekhh (talk) 07:07, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Sorry it took so long. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt>
 * No problem at all. Thanks! --Elekhh (talk) 21:39, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

A request -- Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter
Would it be at all possible to get a cleanup listing by project for articles in Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter? It's a task I'd like to tackle for Projects I'm involved in, and this would make it a HUGE amount easier to locate and fix them. Would be much appreciated! Cheers, Buttons to Push Buttons (talk | contribs) 16:16, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I added the category, so it should appear in the listings the next time they are generated. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:09, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Bibliographies
Could you please add WikiProject Bibliographies? RockMagnetist (talk) 21:00, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 12:52, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Now that was speedy! Thank you. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Texas
Could you please add WikiProject Texas? Thanks. JJ98 (talk) 03:48, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The listing is created. It seems like you have lots of work to do :-). <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 20:44, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Is this cleanup list automatically updated on a regular basis, or only on request? Maile66 (talk) 19:35, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The listing should be updated automatically weekly once added. Projects are added on request.Smallman12q (talk) 23:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Mauritius
Can WP:MAURITIUS get a listing, too? Thanks, <span style="-moz-border-radius:1em;border:1px solid black;font-size:11px;background-color:red;color:white;padding:1px 4px 1px 5px">BCS  (Talk) 04:33, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It already has one. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 12:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought there were pages like WP:WikiProject Mauritius/Cleanup listing? Or has that deprecated? <span style="-moz-border-radius:1em;border:1px solid black;font-size:11px;background-color:red;color:white;padding:1px 4px 1px 5px">BCS  (Talk) 16:46, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The bot that was making them stopped working, so I created the listings on toolserver. Lots of people are asking to have the listing here on wiki, so I am planning to do that, but it won't be anytime soon. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 21:58, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. I'll try to do it manually. <span style="-moz-border-radius:1em;border:1px solid black;font-size:11px;background-color:red;color:white;padding:1px 4px 1px 5px">BCS  (Talk) 00:10, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Cricket
G'day Svick, WikiProject Cricket is pretty good at sorting and organising, but for some reason never seemed to have a WolterBot cleanup list. I think it's time we grabbed a Svick version.

Also, have you looked into making an "on-wiki" version each time it updates? I've been manually cutting and pasting the WikiProject Australian rules football list into WikiProject Australian rules football/Cleanup listing, but I sometimes don't get around to doing so. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 11:08, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. On wiki listings are planned, but they probably won't happen anytime soon, sorry. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 12:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * If you have Windows, you can try User:Smallman12q/Scripts/cleanuplistingtowiki, which will automate the process. If you want a different output, or have any questions, let me know.Smallman12q (talk) 16:22, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

A request for WikiProject Canada
Hi Svick, I would appreciate it if you could add Wikiproject Canada to the cleanup listing. Also, for personal curiousity, is it possible to get a listing by category rather than a specific project? Thanks! Resolute 04:41, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, the listing is done. If you want to have a list of all articles in some cleanup category, regardless of project, just look at that category. I don't think it makes much sense to make such listing because of that (and because it would be too huge for most categories). <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 17:57, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thanks! And sorry, I worded my category request poorly. I have an unofficial project going for articles related to the Calgary Flames, so was curious how difficult it would be to see what articles within Category:Calgary Flames and its subcats (or if that is too much of a pain, just Category:Calgary Flames players) have maintenance tags on them.  Thanks, Resolute 18:08, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, right, I misunderstood. I can easily make listing for some specific category (but not all subcategories). Is there some page in the Wikipedia namespace I could link the listing to? If you don't already have one, maybe your project could benefit from creating it? <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 18:20, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:HOCKEY is already enrolled in your overall listing, and I never felt a need to create a task force for my little obsession since it is really a one-man project. Something like WikiProject Ice Hockey/Calgary Flames could work as a location, catching just Category:Calgary Flames players then.  Much appreciated, thanks. Resolute 19:11, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It was slightly more complicated than I thought, but it's done now. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 17:45, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thank you! Most appreciated. Resolute 17:48, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject London Transport
May we have a listing for WikiProject London Transport please. --DavidCane (talk) 23:28, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 18:12, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Now to work!--DavidCane (talk) 21:43, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Geology
Could you please add WikiProject Geology? RockMagnetist (talk) 21:57, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Sorry for the delay. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 14:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Wow! That's a long list. Thank you! RockMagnetist (talk) 14:45, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Baseball
WikiProject Baseball and its task forces use the old clean up listing service, which I just noticed has been down for two years. Can you please change it to your service? I'm talking about WikiProject Baseball/Cleanup listing, WikiProject Baseball/Old-time Base Ball task force/Cleanup listing, WikiProject_College_baseball/Cleanup_listing. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:12, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * My listings have their own page, there already was a listing for Baseball and College baseball. And I have just added listing for Old-time Base Ball. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 11:54, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

WP:FOOTY listing, please
Hi,

Thanks for taking this up. WikiProject Football has a stale cleanup listing from WolterBot and we'd appreciate getting it updated again (discussion). Cheers! Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 12:58, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * My listings have their own page. The listing for WikiProject Football is huge, so it will take a while to load. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 13:28, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Awesome. Cheers! :) Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 00:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject San Diego
Could you please add WikiProject San Diego? Thanks. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  10:57, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 13:38, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Good article nominations
Would it be possible to produce a clean-up listing of articles in Category:Good article nominees. It could help weed out bad nominations. Thanks AIR corn (talk) 07:25, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 13:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks AIR corn (talk) 10:12, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Tennis
Hi,

Did some cleanup work for the WikiProject Tennis based on your cleanup list but when I generate a new list it doesn't reflect the changes and seems outdated. How can I get an up-to-date list? Thx. --Wolbo (talk) 10:06, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by “generate a new list”? There is no way for you to do that. The list for each project is updated weekly, but I can update a specific list earlier, if you want. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 14:46, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, on WP Tennis there is a section Cleanup listing which has a link to your cleanup tool and I thought this generated a new cleanup list just like I can update the quality assessment overview by clicking on the update link (update project data). I understand from your comment that this is not the case so if you could update the cleanup list for the Tennis project that would be appreciated. Just for my understanding, is there a technical reason why the cleanup list can not be generated by the editors like the articles by quality and importance overview? Cheers. --Wolbo (talk) 15:01, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have updated the listing. But if you meant the summary on the page you linked to, then that is not updated automatically. And there isn't really a technical reason why you can update the listing manually, it's mostly that it would require some work from me and I don't have the time to do it. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:35, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Turtles
Could you please add WikiProject Turtles. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 21:20, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 19:32, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Regards, SunCreator (talk) 20:27, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

logging of totals
Hi there, I was wondering if you could log the outcome from each project's list generation into a single text log file so that we could easily check how each project is doing. It really only needs to basically be the headline summary that you aleady put on the output pages (maybe tabulated, maybe plain CSV instead of text sentences? Whatever is easiest to generate & use). ie:


 * WikiProject Baseball/Old-time Base Ball task force generated on 10 June 2012, 12:57:33 UTC. Of the 2576 articles in this project 268 or 10.4 % are marked for cleanup, with 313 issues in total.
 * WikiProject Baseball generated on 10 June 2012, 13:57:33 UTC. Of the 22576 articles in this project 22576 or 100 % are marked for cleanup, with 31333 issues in total.
 * etc

It might need to be archived every few months to avoid getting too big, but I think it would be a very useful addition. Thanks The-Pope (talk) 04:29, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Fortunately, I thought something like this might be useful to someone one day, so I keep everything in my database. Thanks to that, creating a history table was quite easy, see for example history for WikiProject Baseball. To get to listing for other projects, you can edit the URL, or use a link from the index. If you want the listing is CSV format, add  to the URL: . <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 11:59, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * fantastic! Thanks. Can you also pull the data into a single "all projects" chronological list, either all-time or split into the weekly runs? I managed to create one using excel's macro & web queries, but it was slow to retrieve all 575 history files! The-Pope (talk) 00:02, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I have added a listing of history of all projects by month, for example . You'll have to wait a while for it to load (because the database is not optimized), but it was simpler for me than doing it by week. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 21:48, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject Elements
Hi, could you please add WP:ELEMENTS to the list? -DePiep (talk) 08:20, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 12:04, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -DePiep (talk) 12:19, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Has it stalled?
Your very useful log tracker shows that it's only run 4 projects so far this month. Does it need a reboot/bump? The-Pope (talk) 11:45, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The toolserver replag is currently insanely high. That's why the listings are not updating. Once the replag gets down, they will start updating again, but I have no idea when will that be. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 09:52, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Please add Wikipedia:WikiProject Globalization
Could WikiProject Globalization please be added to the cleanup listing? Thank you in advance. Meclee (talk) 19:10, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 13:47, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Olympics
When you are next able to do a run (I assume that there are still toolserver issues tripping the runs?), can you please add WikiProject Olympics to the list, as we have lots of new articles that have been created recently. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 05:52, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Are there still some toolserver issues? The run that started on 13 Sep eventually covered all 576 listed projects (but took all week), but last week only 111 were done. Today's start of a new run only did 4 projects before stoping after Clans of Scotland. If you are updating the list to add the recent requests, you can delete Puducherry (renamed Pondicherry which is also on your list) and International development is a redirect duplicate of International Development. The-Pope (talk) 02:12, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not replying sooner.
 * Toolserver seems to be working fine now. I have also modified the code, so that it doesn't start from the beginning of the list of projects each week. This way, if the list isn't processed completely in a week, the next week will start with projects that weren't processed in that last week. As a side effect, if there are problems processing the huge projects (which is usually the issue), it won't affect the smaller projects much. I will also try to optimize the problematic queries later today, which should improve the situation too.
 * I have added WikiProject Olympics.
 * The listing for Pondicherry doesn't have importance and class of articles, while Puducherry does have them. This is because some of the categories for the WikiProject weren't renamed (Category:WikiProject Pondicherry articles vs. Category:Puducherry articles by quality). Because of that, I will keep both listings until the categories are fixed.
 * I have removed International Development.
 * <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 13:45, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. The-Pope (talk) 14:13, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Please add project
Please add: Wikipedia:WikiProject California / WikiProject California

Note -- the previous bot, User:WolterBot, has been inactive since March 2010. I removed the Wolterbot listing from the cleanup page

Thanks. --S. Rich (talk) 18:08, 24 September 2012 (UTC)


 * My project doesn't use pages on wiki, it has its own website. See the listing for WikiProject California. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 17:30, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Persondata template issues
Hi there Svick,

I've been wondering why the almost 400,000 articles in Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter are included in your cleanup lists. To me that is a wikipedia maintenance issue, not a cleanup issue - the article isn't really improved by adding the description. Category:Persondata templates without name parameter also exists, but is not listed at all. I'll cross post this to WT:Persondata, but I think you should remove it from the cleanup list, but only if you could create a duplicate set of maintenance reports, ie http://toolserver.org/~svick/MaintenanceListing/ with just the two cats I've mentioned above in it at first, and then maybe others, as the need arises. It might speed up the running of the cleanup lists too - just had a look, 28000 Musicians, 3000 Footballers, 16500 Actors and Filmmakers... Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 12:37, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I added that category because of a request by Buttons to Push Buttons. I will think about splitting the report the way you describe, but it's not likely to happen soon. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:09, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Women scientists
Svick, Could you please add WP:WikiProject Women scientists to your list? RockMagnetist (talk) 01:15, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! RockMagnetist (talk) 16:21, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

cleanup of cleanup links
This is a very useful tool. I notice there is however many Wikiproject using User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription template notice, which is a link to an inactive tool, instead of your WikiProject cleanup listing. Do you have any plans to change all of these links?--Traveler100 (talk) 08:16, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Would you have any issue with me doing a swap of these templates?--Traveler100 (talk) 07:45, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't have any issue with you doing that, assuming you make sure that those listings exist in my tool. When I started this tool, I tried adding all projects that previously used WolterBot, but I think some of them failed. If you find any project with WolterBot's template that's not included in my listings, feel free to report it here. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:14, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the WP:1.0 team has a few too many projects in their list, but this list covers 575 projects, whereas the 1.0 list has almost 1600 projects with more than 200 articles. When we ran the User:DASHBot unreferenced BLP lists in WP:URBLP we had about 700 projects.  We really need a definitive list somewhere (and standardise the naming and setup).  But until there is a list, I guess we'll keep on adding them as we find them missing. The-Pope (talk) 16:42, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Freedom of speech and WikiProject Journalism
Can you please add WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech and WP:WikiProject Journalism to this cleanup listing service? Thank you very much for this great service, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Journalism was already included, I have now added Freedom of Speech. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:19, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Biophysics
Hello again. I was surprised to discover that WikiProject Biophysics has no cleanup listing. Could you please add the project? RockMagnetist (talk) 17:12, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt>

WikiProject Electrical engineering
Svick, Could you please add WP:WikiProject Electrical engineering to your list? SchreyP (messages) 17:12, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 17:52, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Svick! Template with releated links is added to the project. SchreyP (messages) 20:44, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Polymers
Can you please include WP:WikiProject Polymers into the listing? Thank you and regards. ···V ani s che nu「m/Talk」 08:09, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 17:53, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! Very helpful, it is.<font style="text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.3em 0.2em">···V ani s che nu (alt) 08:17, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Neopaganism
Greetings! Could you please include WP:WikiProject Neopaganism into the cleanup listing? Thanks! Phoenixred (talk) 20:47, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Sorry about the delay. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 19:23, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Meteorites
Good evening. If your tool can cope with task forces please add WikiProject Geology/Meteorites. Thanks. -Arb. (talk) 03:13, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, task forces are supported. Meteorites are now added. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 19:25, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks good and will be useful. Many thanks. -Arb. (talk) 00:09, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Request to add WikiProject The Beatles
Hi Svick! Just stumbled across your WikiProject cleanup listing, which looks great! Could you please add WikiProject The Beatles? Thanks, and happy new year! GoingBatty (talk) 16:16, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * On a similar note, WikiProject Songs and WikiProject Albums are two of the biggest projects without cleanup listings. The-Pope (talk) 02:06, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't like adding large projects if I don't know that anyone would use those listings, because those are also the most problematic ones. I have added the two you mentioned now. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 19:48, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 19:28, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding the Beatles listing. I've posted a link to the WikiProject, and started some of the cleanup.  It's amazing that 25% of the articles need some sort of cleanup, and will be fun to see that number drop down.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 05:43, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

SGpedians' notice board
Hi Svick, can you add SGpedians' notice board to the list please? This essentially functions as WikiProject Singapore. Thanks in advance!--Lionratz (talk) 12:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 19:34, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Pink Floyd
Hello. Could you add WP:WikiProject Pink Floyd to your list please? yeepsi (Time for a chat?) 19:38, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 17:37, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Strange entry on WikiProject Somerset cleanup list
On the cleanup listing for WikiProject Somerset there are several entries for Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study (ie Articles to be merged (October 2012), Articles needing additional references (September 2012), Articles lacking reliable references (September 2012)). This was redirected to Bath, Somerset per Articles for deletion/Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study some months ago, however the entries still appear in the cleanup list - any idea why?&mdash; Rod talk 16:24, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Back in about October, the tool server database was corrupted in some way for some articles. Try doing a WP:Null edit on the redirects, other wise wait for the tool server to fix itself. The-Pope (talk) 00:24, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks I've tried a null edit & will see if that fixes it next time the bot runs.&mdash; Rod talk 08:03, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it seems it's really corrupted database. It seems your null edit didn't help, I'm not sure what else can be done about that. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:41, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Old WolterBot subscribcions
If a project was subscribed under WolterBot, is it automatically subscribed under the current toolsever system. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 23:54, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Was that supposed to be a question? Yeah, when I started this project, I tried to import all WolterBot subscriptions. But it's possible that some of them failed. If you have some project that you want to be added, just list it here. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:43, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup statistics
The Cleanup statistics need to be updated, the statistics are from 2009. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 11:57, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
 * My bot is not just a copy of the old WolterBot. It does (almost) the same task, but it's a new code and it doesn't support generating statistics like that. To do that, I (or someone else) would have to program generating them. And I'm sorry but I don't have the time to do that. <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 15:51, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That explains it, I'll update the statistics page. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 16:09, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Poor choice of words, I should have said "I'll put a note on the statistics page". It sounded like I was saying that I was going to update the statistics themselves. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 16:41, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It could be updated to a dynamic page, as most of the cleanup cats have a global 'all articles' cat that you could use the PAGESINCATEGORY: magic word. ie   provides a live count of how many articles are in Category:All articles with unsourced statements - ie . The total is   =  and to get % it's  %   = %.  Having it dynamic doesn't help with tracking progress either, as you can't see what it was like a month ago, as there will be no history (unless there is an regular archive taken that converts it all to plain values.  Might be easier to ask at WP:BAG, but if it isn't a Svick tool, it probably should be moved to another pagename, maybe under WP:CLEANUP (or do they already have an equivalent page?) The-Pope (talk) 17:11, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It was a subpage of User:WolterBot. I moved it to it's current location because, maintained or not, it is part of the cleanup listings, and not some mere obsolete relic of WolterBot like User:WolterBot/upload test. It didn't occur to me that I was moving it to be "under Svick", I just thought of it as updating the title to match the current location of the cleanup listings page. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 17:39, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

New Category:Articles with too few wikilinks needs added to reports
Appears that the new Category:Articles with too few wikilinks isn't yet in the WikiProject cleanup listing reports. See Village pump (technical). Thanks, Wbm1058 (talk) 19:30, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I have added Category:Articles with too few wikilinks, it should show up on each report when it's next regenerated. I'm not going to add Category:Wikipedia requested photographs (as requested on VP), because it's not a single category, but a whole hierarchy. If there was a single category that contained all the tagged articles, I could add that. (The fact that the talk page is tagged is not a problem, that would require only a minor change in code.) <tt>User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk;</tt> 16:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)