Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 1

Adjust image sizes ✅
Each of the country pages listed at WikiProject Lists of basic topics display a flag and a coat of arms side-by-side as a pair.

The sizes of the images in each pair need to be adjusted so that their heights match. The countries that still need this done for are the J's through the S's.

The Transhumanist 23:55, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Well done. Thank you for the help! The Transhumanist 00:52, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Question ✅
Can AWB be prevented from editing certain articles? I saw the article SoundSpel, and in the given examples, where the spellings are simplified in the SoundSpel manner, I thought that AWB might try to correct something that shouldn't be corrected. Thanks,  Spencer T♦C 19:18, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * —  Ree dy  22:02, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

I need a notice removed from a set of pages ✅
The Village Pump notice at the top of the country lists located at WikiProject Lists of basic topics needs to be removed. Only the drafts in the Wikipedia namespace have the notices.

I don't currently have access to a machine I can run applications on, so I'd really appreciate your help.

Please drop me a note on my talk page if you take this task on.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Move an item on a set of pages ✅
On the country lists located at WikiProject Lists of basic topics, the link "Extreme points of x" (where "x" is the country's name) needs to be moved to the end of the "Location:" item above it in the same section (use two asterisks for the indent). "Extreme points" refers to the country's location after all, and I didn't catch this when I created the lists. This only needs to be done on the drafts in the Wikipedia namespace (not the pages in article space).

Please drop me a note on my talk page if you take this task on.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like this is done to me. Rich Farmbrough, 13:41 21 August 2008 (GMT).

Cities and towns in Quebec ✅
Category:Cities in Quebec → Category:Cities and towns in Quebec. I've already moved all the subcategories, but since there's 191 of them and my eyes are glazing over, could somebody with access to AWB do a quick move run on the articles? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 20:53, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Done! —  Ree dy  22:26, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed a category &  portal  that were missed --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:51, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Leigh Rayment changed his url ✅
Would somebody who knows how please make the following changes across wikipedia or, even, tell me how to do it:
 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/acommons3.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Acommons3.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/bcommons1.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons1.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/bcommons2.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons2.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/bcommons6.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons6.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/dcommons2.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Dcommons2.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ecommons2.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons2.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/fcommons.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Fcommons.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/hcommons3.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons3.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/hcommons4.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons4.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/icommons.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Icommons.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/kcommons1.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Kcommons1.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/mcommons1.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons1.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ncommons2.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ncommons2.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/pcommons1.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons1.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/rcommons1.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Rcommons1.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/scommons1.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/scommons2.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons2.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/scommons3.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons3.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/scommons4.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons4.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/tcommons.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Tcommons.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/wcommons2.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons2.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/wcommons5.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons5.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peersd2.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersD2.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peerso.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersO.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peersr3.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersR3.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peersr4.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersR4.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/baronetsb6.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB6.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/baronetsj.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsJ.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/baronetse.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsE.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/baronetsf.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsF.htm


 * 1) www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/02PrivyCouncils--Ireland.htm
 * www.leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncilI.htm

Kittybrewster  &#9742;  09:32, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Is that an exhaustive list or not? —  Ree dy  15:22, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I very much doubt it; I found these using search (for angeltowns.com/town within google). Kittybrewster  &#9742;  20:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I am taking care of these now... Where should http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/02PrivyCouncils--UK.htm be redirected to? Found it on Paddy Ashdown ThaddeusB (talk) 00:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I got all mainspace pages found by either a Wikipedia or Google search for "angeltowns.com/town". I also got the peerage project page and ignored user pages.  Fortunately, the new server is not case sensitive so it wasn't too bad.  My substitutions:


 * angeltowns.com/town/peerage/?common -> leighrayment.com/commons/?common
 * angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peers -> leighrayment.com/peers/peers
 * angeltowns.com/town/peerage/baronets -> leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronets
 * angeltowns.com/town/peerage/02PrivyCouncils--Ireland.htm -> leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncilI.htm
 * angeltowns.com/town/peerage/02peerage-records.htm -> leighrayment.com/reppeers/peerrecords.htm
 * angeltowns.com/town/peerage/Baronetage.htm -> leighrayment.com/Baronetage.htm


 * "http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/02PrivyCouncils--UK.htm" occurs 3 times, but not appear to have a direct equivalent, so you'll need to edit it manually. These pages are Paddy Ashdown, Sir William Rae, 3rd Baronet, & Robert Sutton (diplomat). --ThaddeusB (talk) 00:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well done. Many thanks. Kittybrewster  &#9742;  08:55, 29 August 2008 (UTC)


 * continued below Kittybrewster  &#9742;  13:50, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

How do I do changes in talk page based on content in the article page?
I do this. I load Category:Place of birth missing (consisting only of talk pages) and then I want to change this category with Category:Place of birth missing (living people) if Category:Living people exists in the article's page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:48, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Right click in the box with your list of pages. Then click "convert from talk pages."  This should populate the list with the appropriate article pages.  You can click "convert to talk pages" later if you need the list to show the talk pages again.  Hope this helps. --Andrew Kelly (talk) 03:33, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Is this page active? Big project

 * Wikipedia 0.7 includes over 30,000 articles (after removing duplicates). I've already AWB-spell-checked a couple thousand 5152. Anyone wanna help? I have lists; we can split 'em... Ling.Nut (talk&mdash;WP:3IAR) 23:55, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * TypoScan is co-ordinating a big sweep based on the last database dump. —  Ree dy  14:46, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

✅ Search/Replace
Here's a simple one:

On all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list, please change:


 * Economic rank:

To:


 * Economic rank (by nominal GDP):

(use the wikicode itself for the search/replace)

Be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now. Please make sure AWB does the search/replace only and nothing else.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 20:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅: A few pages were skipped, see here for more info. --AK AWB (talk) 05:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you! That helps a lot.  (most of the skipped pages already had it in there).  Cheers.  The Transhumanist  18:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Typo ✅
Hi, there are about 8,000 pages that contain the phrase "an European", which needs to be changed to "a European". This error was presumably caused by non-native English speakers using the pronunciations of their own language. Would anyone be willing to have a go? --Lo2u (T • C) 19:24, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Typo rule added. I'll have a run through, though a Wikipedia mainspace search gives 191 results. Rjwilmsi  19:58, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I do seem to have have rather overstated the problem. Anyway, thanks a lot. --Lo2u (T • C) 15:36, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅. I ran through that google search you did with the Find & Replace set to find "an european" & replace it with "a european." Most of the results didn't contain that text, and most of those that did were in namespaces other than the mainspace which I left alone. I fixed these articles:


 * Alin Jivan
 * ModeFRONTIER
 * Freedom of the press in Italian Republic
 * Marian Drăgulescu
 * Andreas Hillgruber
 * SeCSE
 * Driv3r
 * William Penn


 * I think this, combined with the addition to the typo-fixing function, should mostly take care of the problem in the Mainspace. If you have any other tedious typos you'd like fixed, I'd be happy to help. Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 01:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Category:Future election candidates
Most of the people currently listed in this category were candidates in the recent US elections which are now over, so Future election candidate needs to be removed from their articles. Bearcat (talk) 05:43, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll get started on this. \ / (⁂) 05:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Most were minor American politicians, Samoan Gubernational contenders, but one or two Filipinos from an election in 2007. \ / (⁂) 06:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)