Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks/Archive 2

Maintenance: assessment lists
If your favorite project is using the 1.0 assessment scheme you may want to periodically clear out deleted and redirected pages. Best done from Category:X articles by quality, which can be converted from talk pages. Make sure "Bypass redirects" is off, and use the log of skipped articles to look for articles skipped due to containing #REDIRECT or nonexistence. Nifboy (talk) 19:55, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * A better, albiet more verbose, explanation can be found here. Nifboy (talk) 00:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * for WikiProject Computing. fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 08:28, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Challenge: assessment lists
Can the AWB List comparer aspect be used to add articles to a new category? Would the AWB be able to take the assessments given by the Template:WikiProject Canada, and produce categories for the various classes for the WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles. The Template:WikiProject Canada gives assessments for the provinces, in this case, Saskatchewan, and it also assesses the departments in this case Canadian communities. Can new assessment categories be created from this template which would give an assessment table exclusively for an active assessment department at WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods without creating another talk page banner. It is possible to compare for example Category:Stub-Class Canada-related articles and Category:WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles to get an idea of stub class Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods articles and so on. Is there a better way? SriMesh | talk  19:08, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there a reason not to simply add assessments to the existing SKCNproject banner and ask a for a bot to update it based on whatever WikiProject Canada is at? Almost all talk page categories are currently done through banners, so I'm not sure about adding plain old categories via AWB (which is entirely possible, it just makes maintaining them harder, since you have to update the categories manually as well as the talk banner(s)). Nifboy (talk) 09:21, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Re-pointing links to a moved page
I've come across this at times, where a page needs to be moved so that it is consistent with naming conventions, and so that a disambiguation page (or a link to one) can be put in place of its old title. For example: Speak (song) was moved to Speak (Godsmack song), and most or all of the links to it are Godsmack-related and need to be changed, as there are other songs named Speak. Likewise for Speak (album) and Speak (Lindsay Lohan album). Any way to scan for this automatically, or would anyone be willing to run through these manually on occasion? –radiojon (talk) 17:56, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've fixed the ones that link to Speak (song), checking my edits. I'm not sure about the rest, so I'll leave that for someone else. If I used it wrong, please let me know. Note:I'm starting to get a bad feeling about doing this, because per WP:R2D, so I'm going to stop. Pie is good  (Apple is the best)  19:41, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Spam removal
There is a bunch of articles linking to Paraguayan Virtual Enciclopedia (which I proded as non-notable web project) and to its external website Enciclopedia Virtual Paraguaya - Portal. Can someone go thru 200+ articles and remove this spam link? Thanks, Renata (talk) 19:53, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Underway — Ree dy  20:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ — Ree dy  20:38, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow, that was fast. Thank you! Renata (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

A simple search/replace on "Demographics of" articles
On the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country demographics articles, please search/replace:

"The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook."

with:

"The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated."

(without the quotes)

Please copy your reply to my talk page, to take advantage of Wikipedia's message alert feature. Or post me a heads up leading to this section. Thank you.

The Transhumanist 22:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I can do this with my bot once I get the current task approved. Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 23:05, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Bot is approved; . Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 04:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC) Never mind...this is a mainspace task, so I need to do it myself, which I will when I get time. Alternatively, I could file a BFRA for this task. Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 04:13, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * VX! talk 00:50, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ VX! talk 00:59, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Further categorization needed to the country outlines
On the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country outlines, please search/replace this string (without the quotes):

"[[Category:Outlines"

with:

"[[Category:Outlines of countries"

(without the quotes)

Sorry I didn't catch this before. Zlerman pointed it out to me.

The Transhumanist 23:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * do you want the pages in the Wikipedia mainspace recategorized too? Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 03:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, looks like you've already beat me to this, unless you want the Wikipedia namespace articles recated too. Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 04:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. See Category:Outlines. The country outlines shouldn't be in there.  Rather, they should show up on the subcategory Category:Outlines of countries.  If you use User:The Transhumanist/Country outlines as you input list to AWB, AWB will skip the pages for which the search/replace has already been done.  The Transhumanist  04:37, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok. I'll do a run through again with the Wikipedia namespace pages on the list. Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 18:28, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅; 8 pages recategorized in all:


 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Republic of the Congo
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Czech Republic
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Cook Islands
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Central African Republic
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Cayman Islands
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of the Bahamas
 * Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 19:03, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Small request
I have a small task for an AWB user... could we change all the links to Buddah Records to point to the correct spelling, Buddah Records? Thanks Chubbles (talk) 17:54, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 *  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 09:44, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ even correct the link here :P  ·Add§hore·  T alk T o M e ! 09:51, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Broken refs
The majority of the pages listed at Category:Wikipedia pages with broken references have a simple problem, they have no references section. There are other reasons a page can be listed there, but AWB can use a regex to skip any page that already contains "<references|{{reflist". --Pascal666 (talk) 14:11, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * My bot has taken a sweep theough the cat to try to add a list of refs to articles that have 2 or more refs in them. This should now be done :)  ·Add§hore·  {{sup| T alk T o M e ! }} 08:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you, but why only two or more? Every page in that category should have a references section.  --Pascal666 (talk) 08:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * My bot isnt designed to do it for single refs. But if that Category is going to remain where it is and be updated I will add it as continuous task for my bot, (along with any other cats you know of)  ·Add§hore·  {{sup| T alk T o M e ! }} 08:18, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That category is automatically populated by MediaWiki, so yes, I expect it will stay there for some time. --Pascal666 (talk) 08:41, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * My bot, User:Thehelpfulbot also runs through these pages periodically, if you see the list was cut by almost half by a simple edit that I made to the Infobox Planet. The  Helpful  One  13:54, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Now all the articles that had a references section added to them just for that infobox will have an empty references section. --Pascal666 (talk) 14:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The info box has been restored to the info box with references. We will continue adding sections  ·Add§hore·  {{sup| T alk T o M e ! }} 17:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

passed away
Could this be replaced throughout with "died"? Kittybrewster &#9742;  05:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:59, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Not finished fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 08:24, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I took a stab at this, with a list created by finding articles in Category:Deaths by year, including its subcategories. I'm sure I missed a few instances as such, but couldn't think of a better way to do it. However, all pages which apply to that category have been gone through and fixed where needed. Raven1977 Talk to me My edits  22:09, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I did a run on this one last month. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 12:17, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

tragically died
Could this be replaced throughout with "died"? Kittybrewster &#9742;  23:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I took a stab at this, with a list created by finding articles in Category:Deaths by year, including its subcategories. I'm sure I missed a few instances as such, but couldn't think of a better way to do it. However, all pages which apply to that category have been gone through and fixed where needed. Raven1977 Talk to me My edits  22:10, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I found over 600 occurences of "tragic death" which about two thirds needed changing. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:48, 6 July 2009 (UTC)


 * There are still over a thousand such instances - so I am slowing getting through some of them. I just created a list of articles containing the phrases "tragic death" "tragically died" etc. Alan16 (talk) 12:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The main problem I've found is play names and stuff like that, but there are still a lot of "tragic deaths" in articles - especially music articles oddly enough. Also when you get a phrase like "untimely and tragic death" it makes it more difficult. Alan16 (talk) 12:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

died at a young age
Could this be replaced throughout with "died young"? Kittybrewster &#9742;  23:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I've done about 20, would like feedback on the edits... MacMedtalk <sub style="color:black;">stalk 14:03, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

prettytable
There are still many pages in Wikipedia that use the CSS class "prettytable". The en.wp CSS maintainers would very much appreciate it if any usage of it could be updated to use "wikitable" instead, so that in time it will disappear. Wether this be a task, or part of the "autocorrection" rules, does not matter much. See also MediaWiki talk:Common.css --Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * class="?prettytable"? to class="wikitable" ?? —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Run manually, may still be a few outstanding exceptions that search didn't get. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;color:steelblue;">X clamation point  01:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * A simple wiki search throws out 13 in articles, which should be easy to do nice & quickly, but a load more if you include all namespaces, so they'll all have to be checked. Does this change extend to places like commons too? --ClickRick (talk) 18:37, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Correction, make that 600. --ClickRick (talk) 22:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The suggested regex isn't sufficient. Consider  which would end up as   --ClickRick (talk) 22:55, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Template:Animanga by year category header
I'm needing someone to make an AWB run of all "Anime/Manga of year" and "Anime/manga of the decades" categories, to replace the header templates Anime by decade category header and Manga by decade category header with Animanga by year category header. Several notes on this: If anyone needs this clarified, feel free to ask. Thanks in advance! 「ダイノ ガイ 千 ？！」(Dinoguy1000) 17:16, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Usage changes between the templates - details of their use are documented on each template
 * The appropriate lead is automatically inserted by - as you go through, please remove the lead and, if it differs significantly from the inserted lead, I'd appreciate a note of it
 * Three or four categories also automatically get inserted, a slightly different set for each case (anime/manga and year/decade):
 * Anime of year: Anime by year of first release, Anime of the decades, year works, year in Japan
 * Anime of the decades: Anime by decade of first release, decades in animation, decades works
 * Manga of year: Manga by year of first release, Manga of the decades, year works, year in Japan
 * Manga of the decades: Manga by decade of first release, decades comics, decades works
 * Wherever these categories are specified on the updated categories, they need to be removed, and whenever one of the categories is categorized under something different, I'd like a notice about it.
 * Note: moved to Bot requests 「ダイノ ガイ 千 ？！」(Dinoguy1000) 19:52, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Tragic death
tragic death -> death. Kittybrewster <font color="0000FF">&#9742;  14:13, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I took a stab at this, with a list created by finding articles in Category:Deaths by year, including its subcategories. I'm sure I missed a few instances as such, but couldn't think of a better way to do it. However, all pages which apply to that category have been gone through and fixed where needed. Raven1977 <sup style="color:blue;">Talk to me <sub style="color:purple;">My edits  22:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:52, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Easy U.S. States outlines search/replace task
On all the pages listed at: User:The Transhumanist/Outlines of U.S. States

Please replace:

"overview of and introduction"

with:

"overview of and topical guide"

Please contact me on my talk page once you've completed the task.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 19:42, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * – xeno  ( talk ) 19:57, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ – xeno  ( talk ) 20:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you! The Transhumanist 20:24, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

U.S. States article index AWB tasks
On the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Indexes of U.S. States please do the following search/replaces (they can be done in a single pass). The actual strings can be found in the edit window, and do not appear correctly below.

Search/replace 1
Please replace (see the wikicode):

The following is a '''list of topics

with:

Articles

Search/replace 2
Please replace (see the wikicode):

]]'''.

with (wikicode):

]]''' include:

More to come. :)

The Transhumanist 20:24, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Redirect cleanup
The redirect Various Artists was recently deleted, and there are still slightly under 1000 pages that link to it (Special:WhatLinksHere/Various Artists). Could someone with AWB go through and replace all instances of  with   ? Thanks, <b class="Unicode">r ʨ anaɢ</b> talk/contribs 23:15, 30 April 2009 (UTC) Limideen 12:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't have AWB, but I was able to remove most of the incoming links with Twinkle. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Many otters • One hammer • HELP) 01:28, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ I've done all that remain using AWB

Not that Complicated of a cleanup
I just did some page moving, and I need some links fixed. Could someone please go through and change Complicated to Complicated and Complicated to Complicated ? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Many otters • One hammer • HELP) 22:39, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Done hopefully, first time I've ever used AWB, so there may have been mistakes - Kingpin13 (talk) 19:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Stub cleanup
All the stubs at the moment uses outdates classes and stubs and should be repaired. They should have the classes: "metadata plainlinks stub". They should have the classes "notice boilerplate" removed (no longer in use), and the id="stub" should be removed as well (there can be multiple stubs on a page, so an id is not valid. See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Stub_sorting. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:00, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh and other cleanup, like removing the div's around some of them and fixing some of the broken xhtml are welcome as well of course, but my concern is more with the CSS. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll gladly do it, but don't really know how... just started using AWB. If anyone could show me how I would do that I would.   Red  Skunk <sup style="color:black;">talk  04:42, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Assuming that all of those stubs should have the classes "metadata plainlinks stub", but never any other classes, with no exceptions, we can try a little distributed editing to get all of the templates that need updating (listed here). Just grab the Fronds plugin, make a list ("Links on page" => User:Jarry1250/Stublist), then make sure you have the "stub cleanup" frond enabled and starting working your way through the list, remembering to delete the ones you've done from the list every so often. - Jarry1250 [ humourous – discuss ] 11:56, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Help fix Wikipedia's most linked disambiguation page?
Salford was recently moved to Salford, Greater Manchester following a consensus on the talk page between members of WikiProject Greater Manchester. It's left circa 900 ambiguous links however. We require someone with AWB to change all links to Salford to go to "Salford, Greater Manchester" (i.e. pipelinked like: Salford ). This would be doing Wikipedia a great service. Can anybody help? :) --<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;border:2px solid #A9A9A9;padding:1px;">Jza84 | <font style="color:#000000;background:#D3D3D3;"> Talk 12:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, it's not quite simple, some need to be redirected to City of Salford and County Borough of Salford. Changing all the links to Salford, Greater Manchester would take us back to square one. Nev1 (talk) 12:29, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * It appears User:Kbthompson is on to this. :) --<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;border:2px solid #A9A9A9;padding:1px;">Jza84 | <font style="color:#000000;background:#D3D3D3;"> Talk 12:29, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

US Census Cleanup (real quick task!)
Would it be possible to modify all links that point to United States Census, 2007 and make them point to United States Census Bureau instead? There wasn't a 2007 census so that redirect is just pointless. After this task is done, I'd like to delete the 2007 redirect page. Timneu22 (talk) 14:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * - Kingpin13 (talk) 16:27, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅, all United States Census, 2007 should now be United States Census Bureau . Despite my reasoning the other day, looks like I've ended up doing this, to get rid of all of those redlinks (since United States Census, 2007 was deleted per XfD). Cheers - Kingpin13 (talk) 16:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'm curious though: I see that pages no longer have the links but there's no revision history showing the change? Am I missing something? Timneu22 (talk) 17:02, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, there are some pages which "What links here" seems to think do link there, but which neither I nor AWB can find the links for. I suspect that it may be using a template or somesuch, or in some other way the link code is "split". But after browsing through the articles I couldn't find any redlinks (which would result from a link to United States Census, 2007, so decided to let it be - Kingpin13 (talk) 17:05, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks much Timneu22 (talk) 17:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Fixing parameter name in template
In the template Infobox UK property, I have renamed the parameter imgage_name as image_name. I'd like to request that someone use AWB to correct the name of the parameter in all articles where the template has been transcluded. Thanks. — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 05:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I notice this also needs to be done on the redirect . Should those instances be renamed to bypass the redirect while the parameter is being renamed? —ClickRick (talk) 05:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize there was a redirect. Yes, why not. Also, I renamed the parameter Managed as managed for consistency with other parameter names. This is not a big issue as I tweaked the template to provide for backwards-compatibility, but if you're able to repair this I can trim the duplicate parameter name from the template afterwards. Thanks! — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 05:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Please check my recent contributions to verify. —ClickRick (talk) 05:48, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Check Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_UK_property for the full list of articles which transclude that template. I only changed main-space articles, not user pages, user talk, or WP-space articles, so please confirm before I go and do those as well. —ClickRick (talk) 06:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks fine right now. Go ahead and finish the task! Thanks very much. — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 06:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ —ClickRick (talk) 07:25, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Once again, thanks very much! — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 09:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Once again, thanks very much! — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 09:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, ClickRick, I've done some further cleaning up of the infobox, and have decided to rename the following parameters for standardization: If you are free, could you do some more AWB magic and fix these as well? No hurry, as the template currently works with both the old and new parameter names. — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 10:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * gridSquare → gridsquare
 * webAddress → website
 * ClickRick (talk) 10:54, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ —ClickRick (talk) 11:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Awesome. Thanks! — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 13:14, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Adding birth categories to living people
This is a very large project, but if someone here is bored: User:Pascal666/living. --Pascal666 06:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Got through the 'Js' on 6. -Falcon8765 (talk) 01:26, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Changing # to ##
I would like you to change the # to ## that I've send to all WikiProject Software members. The new message is as follows:

WikiProject Software IRC
For better and faster discussion between WikiProject Software Members a IRC channel has been created: irc://irc.freenode.net/##WikiProject-Software. For instant access click here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##WikiProject-Software. Please use your Wikipedia nickname. You are receiving this message because you are a member of WikiProject Software. --<font face="Georgia">Tyw7 (Talk • Contributions) 00:09, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you also include the WikiProject_Software/Free_Software members too, changing WikiProject Software to the Free Software department of WikiProject Software

--<font face="Georgia">Tyw7 (Talk • Contributions) 01:20, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but what has this got to do with AWB? – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 01:25, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅, see request at WP:BOTR and User talk:Kingpin13 for a bit of context. Cheers - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:01, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

request
I heard there is a wizard who lives here who can get me out of a fix.

I recently created about ~600 articles using a single public-domain source, and in each I inserted the following text:

==References== *Adapted from CRS Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition - Order Code 97-905, a document in the public domain.

Recently, however, I learned about CRS, designated for CRS Reports (i.e. reports published by the Congressional Research Service). In this instance, the template would display the following:

-

So now I need to replace all uses of

*Adapted from CRS Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition - Order Code 97-905, a document in the public domain.

with

thanks. Agradman talk/contribs 18:11, 23 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Working on it now. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 03:23, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 21:14, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Template:Administrative divisions of South Ossetia
Hello.

Need add Template:Administrative divisions of South Ossetia in articles included in this template. Advisors (talk) 12:53, 27 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Doing. Alan16 (talk) 11:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Done. Alan16 (talk) 11:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

External links in film infoboxes
The Film template currently has three fields that permit linking to the Internet Movie Database, All Movie Guide, and the official website. These links often appear in the film articles' "External links" sections, too, so discussion took place in the community to determine whether or not to limit these links to only these sections. The consensus is to remove the fields, but before I put in a request to change the protected template, I would like to make sure that film articles will have IMDb, AMG, and the official website available.

Is it possible to check if the IDs already exist in the "External links" sections of film articles, and if not, to move the IDs there, inserted in the respective template? For example, imdb title could be inserted with the ID and the title from the infobox; same with amg title. For the official website, the URL could be cut from the infobox and pasted in the section as [<URL GOES HERE> Official website]. Just wondering if AWB was capable of this? Or is there another tool that can do this, if any? — Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC) In python it would be possible to do  to check articles, but it doesn't seem that .NET has support for referencing named groups. — Dispenser 19:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it does. If you get a regex matches, iterate through (for each match in matches), you can do match.Groups["groupname"].Value —<font face="Trebuchet MS"> Ree dy  21:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Here's a juicy one!
This one is major. There's a mainstream set of pages, most of the pages of which have the same errors on them...

For a great many of the "Demographics of" country articles, statistical data from the CIA World Factbook was dumped in there.

The problem is, the data is formatted wrong. It needs to be wikified in each article (I've already done some of them manually), by giving it the level-2 heading "Statistics", and the bolded headings need to be replaced with level-3 headings without the colon.

There are a bunch of  s in there too, and they need to be replaced by regular carriage returns.

The question is, "Can you handle it?"

For your convenience for inputting into AWB, the pages are listed on WikiProject Demographics.

The Transhumanist 01:02, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm having a go. I'll do a few then ask you to check if it's suitable. Rjwilmsi  18:45, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I've done about 15. Awaiting feedback... Rjwilmsi 19:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

These will require several passes to clean up. Will somebody with AWB please take these on? The Transhumanist 00:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I notice some have been done, and some haven't - I'll give it a go. Alan16 (talk) 14:21, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Here's an easy one
On each of the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country outlines, please replace "* Size:" with "* Area:"

The Transhumanist 00:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)


 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of Vatican City
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of Uzbekistan
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of Tajikistan
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of Peru
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of Malaysia
 * WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Topic outline of Burundi
 * Topic outline of the United States
 * Topic outline of the United Kingdom
 * Topic outline of the Isle of Man
 * [[Topic outline of Thailand
 * Topic outline of Taiwan
 * Topic outline of Russia
 * Topic outline of Mexico
 * Topic outline of Macau
 * Topic outline of Japan
 * Topic outline of Italy
 * Topic outline of Israel
 * Topic outline of Iraq
 * Topic outline of Iran
 * Topic outline of Indonesia
 * Topic outline of India
 * Topic outline of Iceland
 * Topic outline of Germany
 * Topic outline of France
 * Topic outline of Egypt
 * Topic outline of Ecuador
 * Topic outline of Canada
 * Topic outline of Austria
 * Topic outline of Australia
 * Topic outline of Argentina
 * Topic outline of Angola
 * Topic outline of Algeria
 * Topic outline of Albania

Reference link rescue
Due to a change in the URL format at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's website, I need a kind AWBer or three to do a run through all articles in Category:Radio stations in Canada and Category:Television stations in Canada to make the following substitution in reference links and/or external links to CRTC documents:


 * "/archive/ENG/Decisions/" → "/eng/archive/"

In all links, the portions of the link address before and after the substitution remains the same; this pertains only to the text that falls between www.crtc.gc.ca and the year. I've already updated a few isolated articles here and there, but as you can well imagine, this is a pretty daunting task to perform manually. Merci salut la visite! Bearcat (talk) 06:08, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have recently written a bot to update links.  Once it is approved I will be happy to work through these links. Looks like there are about 1500 of them in need of update.  Including some "/archive/ENG/Hearings/" and "/archive/ENG/Notices/" both of which appear to also update to "/eng/archive/".  Is that correct? --ThaddeusB (talk) 13:21, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I had to double-check those, because I'd been planning to resolve hearings and public notices separately, but yeah, it looks like that's right. Bearcat (talk) 14:26, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Scratch this request — for a variety of reasons, I've ended up repartitioning my hard drive and installing Windoze on part of it, so I'll just go through the run myself. But thanks for the offer of help anyway. Bearcat (talk) 23:20, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Search/replace task: change category (easy)
On the outlines listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and WikiProject Outline of knowledge, please change Category:Basic topic lists to Category:Outlines. Add the new category to all the outlines that don't yet have it.

The Transhumanist 00:19, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, I've just done this to five articles and was hoping you could tell me whether this is right. I want to clarify this before I go full-scale (but this is a rather large list; I can split them with someone). Anyway, could you check these diffs:     to see if this is to your liking? Thanks, Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 00:34, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * PS The new category is nonexistant. §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  22:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The cat has been created! The pages you modified turn up in the category correctly.  See the results at Category:Outlines.  Looks good to me.  When your task is completed, there shouldn't be any pages listed at Category:Basic topic lists.  The Transhumanist  02:35, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * So really, I could just make a list out of Category:Basic topic lists and move those pages into the new category? This would be a more concise list to make, and it would make sure that other AWB users don't go over the same article as another one has already done, since the resorted articles get moved out of the old category. Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 04:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, working off the category is fine. Someone else will catch any that aren't listed there.  I see you've got some of them done already.  Thank you!  The Transhumanist  00:02, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Robert, you did almost 300. Nice.  Thank you.  The Transhumanist  00:54, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

160 left to search/replace
From the task directly above, there are 160 left. We need someone to finish these up. Robert is not currently available (he's on a wikibreak which started about a week ago).

I would do these, but I have not access to a computer that can run AWB, so I need your help.

On all the pages listed at Category:Basic topic lists, please search and replace   with   . That'll move the pages from one category to the other.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 00:36, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've been rather busy with a production this week. I'll (hopefully) be able to finish the list this weekend, and if anyone else can do some that would help a lot. Thanks, Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 05:37, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ The  Helpful  One  21:02, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Good work. Hope the job we've done is to your liking. Robert Skyhawk So sue me! (You'll lose) 03:21, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

LeighRayment.com (continued)
I just found another instance of [:http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page] on Eardley-Wilmot Baronets (see history) although google and wiki don't list it. I am told the way to find them all is using a special link, namely. Please would somebody go through these (83 errors) pointing them to rayment for peers, for baronets,  for MPs and  for privy councillors. Lots of them wrongly point to peerage page when they are about baronets and should point to baronetage page. Please note Baron -> rayment, while baronet -> rayment-b.

Moves needed identified so far include: -->www.leighrayment.com/orders/garter.htm -->www.leighrayment.com/reppeers/peerrecords.htm --> www.leighrayment.com/commons/Acommons1.htm --> www.leighrayment.com/commons/Bcommons1.htm --> www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons1.htm --> www.leighrayment.com/commons/Dcommons1.htm -->www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersC3.htm -->www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersC5.htm --> www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsA1.htm
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/02garter.htm
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/02peerage-records.htm
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/acommons1.htm
 * and 2 and 3
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/bcommons1.htm
 * and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ccommons1.htm
 * and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/dcommons1.htm
 * and 2 and 4
 * and e 1 and 2
 * and f
 * and g 1 and 2
 * and h 1 2 3 and 4
 * and i
 * and k 1 and 2
 * and l 1 2 and 3 and 4
 * and m 1 2 3 and 5
 * and n 1 2 and 3
 * and o
 * and p 1 and 2
 * and q
 * and r 1 and 2
 * and s 1 2 3 4 5 and 6
 * and t 2
 * and y
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peersc3.htm
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/peersc5.htm
 * and c6 c7 e1 f1 f2 g1 g3 h3 h5 i k1
 * and k2 l1 l2 l4 m3 m4 m6 p2 r2 s3 s4 t1 t2 w2 w3 and y
 * www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/baronetsa1.htm
 * and a2 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6
 * and c3 c4 c5 d1 d2 d3 f1 f2
 * and g1 g2 h1 h2 k l1 l2
 * and m1 m2 m4 n o p1 p2 r1 r2
 * and s1 s2 s3 s4 w2 y

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

Thank you.

Kittybrewster <font color="0000FF">&#9742;  12:16, 4 October 2008 (UTC)


 * this was done by Bots/Requests for approval/Erik9bot 3 Rich Farmbrough, 02:57, 1 August 2009 (UTC).