Incubator:Administrators/Archive/Bots

VVVBot

Please, give a flag to my bot to move Template:Wikt/* to Template:Wt/* - VasilievVV 16:46, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} Visit IRC! 16:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Request bot flag for User:Alexbot

• Operator: Alexsh
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Function: Double Redirect Fix

--Alexsh 18:53, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Is this really needed? These are the double redirects. I think that is manually possible. And most pages need to be deleted too. I will see what other users think. SPQRobin 19:54, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Such a bot might be good, although I don't think we need a bot just for this. --MF-W {a, b} 10:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I am just running Kimberley-nia Bot for doing this. --MF-W {a, b} 10:12, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Not done - no need. --MF-W {a, b} 15:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Amdfbot

I am A.M.D.F., and I want to use Amdfbot account with AutoWikiBrowser. I want to add prefix to all unprefixed categories of Erzya Wikipedia. Using AWB, I will make changes like this. A.M.D.F. 12:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 13:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Computer

• I'd like to request a bot flag for my bot "Computer"
• The bot operates on many wikis: m:User:White Cat#Bots
• Tasks I hope to preform are the fixing of double redirects and commons delinking on situations where commons delinker is down

-- Cat ^chi? 09:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Could you do some example edits please? --MF-W {a, b} 12:37, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I am trying but pages the bot tries to edit appear to be protected. Maybe the bot also needs a sysop flag. -- Cat ^chi? 18:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Hm, you could fix this for example: User talk:Computer -> User talk:Cool Cat -> User talk:White Cat. --MF-W {a, b} 09:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Hah! I forgot to login with the bot account! :) -- Cat ^chi? 02:07, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Lol. 'Botflag granted.' --MF-W {a, b} 10:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Crochet.david.bot

I should like to propose using my robot to allow for maintenance of categories following the name desired to clean up more easily this page and this page.The bot flag is only temporary, while this maintenance is carried out, that is why I did not create a specific account for my robot. The robot will use the script pywikipediabot. Crochet.david 12:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I think you should create a bot account nevertheless. --MF-W {a, b} 12:43, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Account created.Crochet.david 15:05, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

'Botflag granted.' --MF-W {a, b} 15:14, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.Crochet.david 15:16, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker

hi,

I would like to ask a flag for CommonsDelinker. When a lot of image are deleted from commons it will spam our RC. I think this is a trusted bot and could have a flag.

Cheers, Sterkebaktalk 10:33, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 17:08, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Tanhabot

Please, give a flag to my bot i will use it for maintenance and it will only when i am behind the computer --Mardetanha ^talk 21:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Done SPQRobin 21:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

ebrambot

I want flag for my bot, because I want update money transfer daily (please see here). thanks, I have flag on ckb,fa,ar wiki. thanks --ebraminio^talk 17:46, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 20:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

EmausBot

I'd like to request a bot flag for my bot for latin to cyrillic character changings in Hill Mari Wikipedia. Examples of work: [1], [2], [3]. Bot has a global bot flag. --Emaus 10:54, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Support. It was me who asked to assist with character replacement in Hill Mari Wikipedia. амдф 13:10, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, so what? --Emaus 12:59, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 18:39, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! --Emaus 20:17, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

(1.VSNCT)Bot

• Operator TeleComNasSprVen

Standard pywikipedia library; fixes double-redirects. TeleComNasSprVen 05:12, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

• • Do you plan to run it regularly? --MF-W {a, b} 17:04, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
    • When I have the time, which is often in the span of three days or so. TeleComNasSprVen 18:58, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 19:56, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

MerlIwBot

• Operator w:de:User:Merlissimo
• Has Flag on: global bot, commons, many local wikipedia flags (= flag on 266 of 270 wikipedias)
• Task: Interwikis

I am using my own java framework having a reverse language link search module. So my bot can also work on wikis where language links are only possible at one direction like commons, wikispecies or incubator. The only special thing on this wiki would be that multiple linkling to the same page must be allowed, but i could simply implement this.

Only adding Commonscat to categories would need some work because each test language has its own one, so this feature will be added later.

I would like to start working on languagelinks to wikipedia family, but i could extend this to other families like wiktionary if this is wanted. But this would require some additional replacing for importers before sources could be moved to a newly created wiki ( [[de:wikt:Name]]->[[de:Name]])

Merlissimo 19:38, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Could i starting doing some test edits?

I think there is a great advantage for wikis which are newly if interwikis are already added at incubator. At the moment unflagged interwiki bots are doing many edits there (because this wiki is not already part of global bot and each bot has to do about 100 test edit for flag). But other bots cannot flood recent changes if interwiki are already added. Merlissimo 14:48, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

It is a good idea to have a bot that can run interwiki links for our test wikis. I do hope that you know Incubator's weird configuration of pages. Articles are located as subpages, not like how Commons and Wikispecies works, which usually has the articles in the root page. As for test edits, I am not sure how you are going to perform that, but we might create a dummy test wiki for your bot testing, but nothing is confirmed yet. Just replying to let you know that your post has been seen. Hydriz 15:18, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

With "test edits" i mean some example edits for demonstration so that this community can check if the bot works well. While developing i have already done test edits using my debug modus which creates a log on my computer, so that i know that the bot works well.

Just for clarification: I would like to run my bot on incubator sites and on test wikis sites. So the bot can change interwikis also on this site because it is able to handle interwikis included from a subpage like it is often done on template namespace.

My bot uses wikiids to identify unique wikis. For this wiki its normally incubatorwiki. But I have simply added a rule: if domain='incubator.wikimedia.org' and pagetitle (without namespace) starts with 'wb/', 'wn/', 'wp/', 'wq', 'wt/' then wikiid='incubatorwiki-'+ substring_index(pagetitle, '/',2) which would result to incubatorwiki-wp/gag for all pages starting with wp/gag/*. The only thing i am still thinking about is that the bot should not add interwikis from a test wiki to its own newly created live version. Merlissimo 16:13, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Well, this last problem can probably be solved easily because tests that got an own subdomain are protected here (and eventually deleted) and the bot would also need an interwiki link on another wiki to the new subdomain to add one here, wouldn't it? I agree that it would be good to have interwiki links already at Incubator, so new subdomains won't be cluttered up by dozens of overzealous bot owners who want to run their bots there; and also for better usability of the tests here. So, please go ahead and make some example edits - you can choose some pages here ;) --MF-W {a, b} 20:31, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I believe with the global bot flag, the edits might not get seen on Special:RecentChanges, so we might need to monitor the bot's edits on Special:Contributions/MerlIwBot. Hydriz 02:14, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

No, Incubatorwiki is not part of the global bot opt-in wikiset. Merlissimo 06:48, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Today i added a new feature: The bot uses the native language of the test wiki for summary. The only problem is, that i havn't found any test wiki which has translated summaries at translatewiki for pywikipedia-interwiki which are also used by my java bot. So fallback language en is always used :-(. Merlissimo 20:17, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

botflag granted --MF-W {a, b} 21:41, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, but your timing is very good. Two minutes after my bot has done its last test edit: 06.05.2011 23:38:47 PageContentModifyModule FINE: finished: no more queued edits (time is UTC+2). Merlissimo 21:51, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

CompBot

• Operator: User:Comp1089
• Software: pywikipedia

This bot is mainly going to change the orthography in the articles of Votic Wikipedia (and to make some cosmetic changes from time to time). Comp1089 11:01, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Example? Is there a need to change a lot, and have you talked about that with the (other) contributors? --MF-W {a, b} 13:58, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

There really is such a need. Examples: ď→d', ľ→l' tš→c, ń→n', ź→z', ŕ→r' in all cases; long vowels in the genitive forms (both singular and plural)... As for talking with other contributors, I had a discussion with User:Чернявский Виталий (talkpage) via email. Comp1089 17:00, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

UPD: after the test the bot seems to work normally, but sorry for my inaccuracy... --Comp1089 16:52, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

All worked well, and I hope the request was done. I am approving the task. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 15:29, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

OwtbBot

I need to fix some templates and broken structures in Wn/li. I request a bot flag, 'cause it will be at least 500 edits and that does flood RC a little bit. There are some other templates in the test I want to change as well, so it might become even more :) For clarity: it will just be me editing manually under a bot flag :) --OWTB 17:01, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 18:25, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Danke :) --OWTB 19:08, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

PrzemuBot (Talk | contribs)

Hi. I request bot flag for my bot, because we need to standardize the spelling on Lower Silesian Wikipedia, and hence we must move some categories, correct linking, etc. For example, all "heet" and "seyte" must be changed to "haupt" and "seite". I doing similar works on Polish Wikipedia (above 1500 edits) and on Silesian Wikipedia (above 8700 edits). Bot works semi-automatic. Regards, Przemub 14:35, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Could you please run a few example edits? --MF-W {a, b} 16:44, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I moved Category:Wp/sli/Heetstoadt anner Woiwodschoaft to Category:Wp/sli/Hauptstoadt anner Woiwodschoaft and I corrected name Heetseyte to Hauptseite. Przemub 17:51, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

ok --MF-W {a, b} 18:02, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Cellistbot (run by Nickanc on TS)

Now cleaning Wp/rgn pages. If asked, I may also help with whatever it is needed.--Nickanc 16:35, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 16:38, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Requesting bot flag for User:タチコマ robot

Bot runs on pywikipediabot, redirect.py and handles double redirects. -- Cat ^chi? 20:12, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Done, trust your bot knowledge from other wikis. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 00:11, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

I must say I don't quite see the need for this bot. --MF-W {a, b} 08:58, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Just for if it happens, we do not have to repare it ourselves. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 09:36, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Ok. --MF-W {a, b} 09:47, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

GálaBot

Request for GálaBot botflag.

1. Creating of articles in wp/sma, wp/smj, wp/sms, wp/smn and wp/fkv.

Gálaniitoluodda (talk) 16:33, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi, please describe what the articles would be about (or give some examples). Also note that the user accout does not yet exist. --MF-W {a, b} 16:39, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

For example articles of municipalities, years and counties. Substubs. (I don´t know kven finnish, but understand very good). And yes, this account is only in handfull Wikipedias, not in Incubator. Gálaniitoluodda (talk) 17:23, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Account GálaBot was registered also to Incubator. Gálaniitoluodda (talk) 17:37, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I approve some test edits: Please let the bot make around 20 edits as you described above (without the bot flag); so that we can see that it works well. --MF-W {a, b} 18:23, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I get AWB not to work, will see tomorrow. Gálaniitoluodda (talk) 18:36, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

AWB is working now. Gálaniitoluodda (talk) 18:47, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Botflag granted - It seems to work fine. Just one idea: Make just one edit, instead of multiple. --MF-W {a, b} 19:48, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

When the bot creating substub-articles, I should use {{PAGENAME}}-tag, but then comes the "Wp/fkv/$1" and I'll be on next edit remove "Wp/fkv/"-prefix.

You can use {{SUBPAGENAME}} for the name without a prefix. --MF-W {a, b} 15:26, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

vikibot(Wp/azb)

requests for vikibot flags .--E THP (talk) 17:33, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Please describe what it is supposed to do. --MF-W {a, b} 18:02, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

interwiki،add cat,Create Article، — The preceding unsigned comment was added by E THP (discussion • contribs) 07:22, 14 September 2012 (UTC).

For interwikis, we already have user:MerlIwBot which knows the specifics that need to be payed attention to here on Incubator.

For categories, could you make some example edits and/or say how it finds the categories to add?

For creation of articles, this is in general discouraged; articles should be written by people not by bots. But what would the content of these articles be? --MF-W {a, b} 09:49, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Add and Delete.

1. Category to the Article (Wp/azb)
2. Image to the Article Pictures not available (Wp/azb)
3. commonscat to the Article (Wp/azb)
4. Spelling correction in the (Wp/azb)

--E THP (talk) 07:22, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I approve some test edits: Please let the bot make around 20 edits as you described above (without the bot flag); so that we can see that it works well. --MF-W {a, b} 18:23, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Are you still interested in this? --MF-W {a, b} 17:42, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Right now I have a problem in the connecting to incubator.E THP (talk) 18:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

test.--E THP (talk) 15:05, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

First of all, please refrain from further edits like this. Also, it is not necessary to replace "Image:" by "File:" - in fact, File is the more up-to-date form. Third, what is this? [4] Thanks --MF-W {a, b} 20:34, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

It was a test,Solution ok.Thank You--E THP (talk) 14:58, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Testing was performed, Not problem(test/Blepharoplasty) .E THP (talk) 15:58, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

botflag granted --MF-W {a, b} 19:51, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank You.--E THP (talk) 20:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

CarsracBot

• Name of the robotowner : Carsrac Robotowner talk page
• Purpose: Interwiki links: It adds/modifies/deletes interwiki links.
• Software: pywikipediabot framework via SVN
• Already has bot flag on: see for a complete list), but in short 20++ project including nl, fy, zea, li, ksh, tr, en, nap.

It will only add and remove interwiki links to live projects. It will not add links to incubator projects. See the test edits. Thank you for your time Carsrac (talk) 17:44, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

• I can't see any test edits... --MF-W {a, b} 17:56, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
• I think he means on other wikis. Even in that case, there should be test-edits here to make sure the bot can function correctly on this wiki where the page format is different with prefixes. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 01:28, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Not done since there was no further response from the bot owner. --MF-W {a, b} 15:24, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

CandalBot

Hi, I request a bot flag for User:CandalBot, for Venetian Wiktionary. The bot will use standard Pywikipedia framework, in manual mode only. I will use it for standardizing our templates in all vec.wikt pages, and adding missing templates. Thanks Candalua (talk) 08:10, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Done --MF-W {a, b} 02:39, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Cheers!-bot (Talk | contribs)

I request a bot's flag for Cheers!-bot to maintain the template in Wy/vi only. Bot will add prefix for some templates in the articles using AWB (when I log in, it is requested the bot's flag). I use this bot in Vietnamese Wikipedia with over 2,5 millions edits. Thank in advance.--Cheers! (talk) 11:50, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Can you make some example edits? --MF-W {a, b} 12:48, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Test edit done.--Cheers! (talk) 02:34, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

botflag set --MF-W {a, b} 22:56, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks.--Cheers! (talk) 01:42, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

TuanUt-Bot! (Talk | contribs)

I request a bot flag for TuanUt-Bot! to edit typos in wikivoyage Vietnamese project - Tuấn Út^{Thảo luận-Đóng góp}04:15, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

• I take it as by "typos", it's wikilinking. I'll grant the bot flag for fixing links. Ebe123 (^{Talkabout it}|_contribs) 12:49, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks - Tuấn Út^{Thảo luận-Đóng góp}13:25, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Requesting a bot flag for one purpose (fixing links) and then "using it for anything" seems rather absurd to me. --MF-W {a, b} 16:58, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Reply: [5]

• My mind is not entirely so. I request a bot flag to fix the link and then I can edit more than that to fix the link. Sorry, I'm not good at english. - Tuấn Út^{Thảo luận-Đóng góp}17:25, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I see. What I meant was that you could maybe list all intended bot tasks, not just one and then do the others nevertheless. But I don't care much if the community of Wy/vi is OK with the bot. --MF-W {a, b} 00:33, 29 April 2013 (UTC)