Tasks

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Task #TaskStatusBrief DescriptionLast Run
2Remove {{Orphan}} from articles with more than two incoming linksApprovedRun against articles in the monthly subcategories of Category:Orphaned articles.
Run this query to find articles with more than two incoming links.

Skip if no auto tag changes or contains "orphan" after changes.

April 2024
3Remove {{Dead end}} from articles with at least one wikilinkApprovedDead-end pages are defined as those that have "no internal links to other Wikipedia articles." Run against articles in Category:All dead-end pages. Skip if no auto tag changes or contains "dead end" after changes.April 2024
4Change {{Unreferenced}} to {{More citations needed}} from articles with at least one referenceApprovedRun against articles in the monthly subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources.

Search for incategory:"All articles lacking sources" insource:/\<ref(\>| name)/

April 2024
7Remove {{Multiple issues}}ApprovedRemove Multiple issues template if has no parameters, convert it to the original template if it has only one parameter (e.g. this edit)March 2024
8Change {{Unreferenced}} to {{BLP unsourced}} for articles in Category:Living peopleApprovedRun against articles in the monthly subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources and Category:Living people

Search for incategory:"All articles lacking sources" incategory:"Living people"

April 2024
9Remove article categories from user pages per WP:USERNOCATApprovedOn user pages, change any article categories from [[Category:Foo]] to [[:Category:Foo]] (e.g. this edit) Does not change any categories beginning with "Wikipedia" or "WikiProject". See Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories.February 2024
13Add parameter to {{Notability}} templatesApprovedFor all articles with an infobox, add the appropriate parameter to {{Notability}}. For example, for articles with {{Infobox film}}, change {{Notability|date=October 2012}} to {{Notability|Films|date=October 2012}}. See more examples at User:BattyBot/Notability.December 2023
17Fix {{Infobox company}} |num_employees= number formatApprovedPer WP:MOSNUM, replace full stop with comma (e.g. "7.000" → "7,000")March 2024
21Update talk pages per Wikipedia:Talk page layoutApprovedIf there are three or more WikiProject templates, add {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Perform any other talk page general fixes at the same time. See this edit for an example. See User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects for a list of rules and User:BattyBot/WikiProject groups for a list of groups to use.April 2024
23Fix citation templates to add http:// to start of www URL when missingApprovedGo through Category:CS1 errors: URL and use AWB's general fixes to add http:// to the start of the URL when missing.
Note: After running, check the spam black list log to see if any more domains should be added to the bot's skip list.
April 2024
24Remove invalid |author= parameters from citation templatesApprovedWhen reference creation tools suggest citation templates to be added to articles, users sometimes save the suggestions without first removing/fixing incorrect |author= parameters. This bot removes/fixes those incorrect values (e.g. this edit)April 2024
25Fix articles in Category:CS1 errors: datesApprovedFind and replace incorrect date formats in citation templates (per MOS:DATEFORMAT) to remove Check date values in: |date messages displayed to readers and/or remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: dates. User:BattyBot/CS1 errors-dates contains the AWB module used for this task. See Help:Citation Style 1 for more information, and Help talk:Citation Style 1 for discussion.

Run in pre-parse mode with Auto Tag and General Fixes off, and then run for real with those on.

March 2024
28Fix incorrect wikilinks in citation templatesApprovedFix incorrect wikilinks in the work/journal/magazine/newspaper/publisher parameters of citation templates. For example: [[Billboard]][[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] (e.g. this diff)February 2024
29Fix incorrect wikilinks in the |genre= parameter of music-related infoboxesApprovedIn the |genre= parameter of music-related infoboxes, fix incorrect wikilinks such as [[country]] to [[country music|country]] or [[metal]] to [[heavy metal music|metal]] (e.g. this edit). See User:BattyBot/Music genres for details.February 2024
30Add |living=yes or |living=no to {{WikiProject Biography}}ApprovedFor article talk pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter, update {{WikiProject Biography}} for living people with |living=yes and dead people with |living=no. This would be determined as follows:
  • If the corresponding article contains [[Category:Living people]] or [[Category:Possibly living people]], add |living=yes (e.g. this edit)
  • If the talk page contains {{BLP}}, delete it and add add |living=yes (e.g. this edit)
  • If the corresponding article contains [[Category:#### deaths]], [[Category:####s deaths]], [[Category:### deaths]], [[Category:###s deaths]], [[Category:Year of death missing]], [[Category:Year of death uncertain]], [[Category:Year of death unknown]], [[Category:Date of death missing]], [[Category:Date of death unknown]], or [[Category:1?#(st|nd|rd|th)-century *]], add |living=no (e.g. this edit)
April 2024
32Fix Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic wordApprovedUses WP:AWB/GF and find/replace rulesApril 2024
33Remove article categories from pages in the Draft namespaceApprovedExpanded task 9 to pages in the Draft namespace per WP:DRAFTNOCATFebruary 2024
34Add {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} to existing talk pages for all disambiguation pagesApprovedPer Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation#Templates, this bot will NOT create talk pages that have no discussion.

Use this query - thanks EpicPupper!

February 2024
38Fix wikilinks in {{Album ratings}}ApprovedExpands BattyBot 28 to also fix wikilinks in {{Album ratings}}, such as this edit.February 2024
39Fix incorrect piped wikilinksApprovedThe pipe trick does not work in some places (such as within <ref> and <gallery> tags), which leaves code such as [[Subject (disambiguator)|]] visible to the readers. This bot would change these to [[Subject (disambiguator)|Subject]] so the intended wikilinks will be displayed properly. (e.g. this edit)February 2024
40When adding {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} (task 34), also update |class=, |importance= and |auto= in other WikiProject templatesApproved
  • If another WikiProject template has |class= stub, start, redirect, list, C, B, blank, etc., then change it to |class=dab.
  • If another WikiProject template has |importance= with any value other than NA, then remove the parameter.
  • If another WikiProject template has |auto= yes, stub, length, then remove the parameter.
January 2024
43Remove maintenance templates from redirect pagesApprovedRemove stub templates and other maintenance templates (e.g. {{notability}}, {{unreferenced}}, {{refimprove}}) from redirect pages.

Search database dump with Singleline checked, Ignore comments checked and Ignore redirects unchecked for:

  • #REDIRECT\s*\[\[.+\]\].+{{.*?stubs?}}
  • #REDIRECT\s*\[\[.+\]\].+\[\[Category\:.*?stubs\]\] (should be done manually)
  • #REDIRECT\s*\[\[.+\]\].+{{(?:advert|COI|dead end|more citations needed|no footnotes|notability|one ?source|orphan|primary sources|refimprove|third-party|unreferenced|unsourced)
January 2024
46Fix citations to remove articles from extra text maintenance categoriesApprovedTo remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: extra text: edition and Category:CS1 errors: extra text: pages, this bot task will fix citations that have parameters that contain text that duplicates static text provided by the template. (e.g. this edit)April 2024
49Fix dates in template date parametersApprovedFix date misspellings in date parameters in other templates using the code at User:BattyBot/Date fixes. For example:January 2024
50Combine {{portal}} templatesApprovedCombine multiple {{portal}} templates in articlespace and on category pages.January 2024
53Remove Year/Date of birth missing categoriesApprovedJanuary 2024
55Add {{uncategorized}} or {{uncategorized stub}}ApprovedAdd {{uncategorized}} or {{uncategorized stub}} to articles listed in the toolsever app that are not categorized and not yet tagged with {{uncategorized}} or {{uncategorized stub}}March 2024
56Fix layout per WP:LAYOUTApprovedUse AWB general fixes to properly order "See also", "References", and "External links" sections

Search database dump with Limit results to: 50000

January 2024
57Remove stub categories from articles that are not stubsApprovedPerform a database search for \[\[Category\:([^]]+) stubs\]\] and change it to {{$1-stub}}. If AWB's general fixes then removes the stub template(s) due to the length of the article, the bot will save the edit (e.g. this edit).February 2024
59Remove line breaks in citation templates that cause templates to not display properlyApprovedSearch the database dump for citation templates such as (\{\{\s*[Cc]ite)\s*\n\s*(book|journal|news|web|GovTrack) and remove the line break by replacing them with $1 $2 like this.January 2024
61Fix |nationality= field in various person infoboxesApprovedChange values in the |nationality= field from country names to nationalities (e.g. United Kingdom or [[United Kingdom]] → British, United States or [[United States]] → American). See the list of infoboxes and countries/nationalities at User:BattyBot/Nationality.August 2023
62Remove some empty sectionsApprovedRemove empty Bibliography, Further reading, Gallery, Notes, See also, and External links sections, which may be tagged with {{empty section}}.

Also remove empty Trivia sections per WP:TRIVIA

February 2024
63Fix drafts in maintenance categoriesApprovedExpand tasks 32 and 46 to the Draft namespaceJanuary 2024
64Fix citations to remove superfluous text from |volume= parameterApprovedTo remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: extra text: volume, this bot task will fix citations that contain variations of the word "Volume" in the |volume= parameterMarch 2024
65Fix citations to remove extra punctuationApprovedTo remove articles and drafts from Category:CS1 maint: extra punctuation, this bot task will remove extraneous trailing punctuation or a leading equals sign from a parameter.April 2024
67Fix citations with unrecognized languageApprovedTo remove articles and drafts from Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language, this bot task will fix citations that contain an invalid value in the |language= parameter.April 2024
68Add WikiProject templatesApprovedAdd WikiProject templates to a list of appropriate talk pages.November 2023
69Fix |doi= parametersApprovedFix articles and drafts in Category:CS1 errors: DOI by removing https://doi.org/ or other domain name from the |doi= parameter of a citation template (e.g. this edit).April 2024
70Remove WikiProject |needs-infobox= parameters from talk pages where the article has an infoboxApproved
  1. Load a list of talk pages from a subset of subcategories of Category:Wikipedia infobox backlog
  2. Convert the list of talk pages to articles
  3. Preparse the list to skip those articles that do not contain an infobox
  4. Convert the list of articles back to talk pages
  5. Load the module User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects to convert redirects to WikiProject templates
  6. Run the job to remove WikiProject |needs-infobox= parameters and also general fixes
March 2024
72Change {{Empty section}} to {{No plot}}ApprovedIn empty "Plot" sections, change {{Empty section}} to the more specific {{No plot}}January 2024
74Convert maintenance templates to their BLP variantsApprovedUse PetScan to search for intersection of "Category:All articles needing additional references" and "Category:Living people". Then convert the following templates as follows:February 2024
75Convert maintenance templates from their BLP variantsApprovedPerform the opposite of BattyBot 74: For articles in Category:#### deaths (but not in the last 3 years), convert BLP maintenance templates to their generic counterparts, such as:March 2024
76Remove duplicate WikiProject bannersApprovedFor pages in Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with duplicate banner templates, remove duplicate WikiProject templates (e.g. this edit). This bot's definition of "duplicate" is that the WikiProject template and every parameter is included the same WikiProject template on the same page.April 2024
77Change {{Expand section}} to {{More plot}}ApprovedSimilar to task 72, change {{Expand section}} to the more specific {{More plot}}February 2024
79Fix/remove unknown WikiProject parametersApprovedFix WikiProject template parameters (e.g. impotanceimportance, importancelowimportance=low) and remove unsupported WikiProject template parameters to remove pages from subcategories of Category:WikiProject templates with unknown parameters.April 2024
81Replace {{coord missing}} with {{coord|source:wikidata|display=title}}On holdCategory:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata contains articles tagged with {{coord missing}} that have coordinates available on Wikidata. This bot would replace {{coord missing}} with {{coord|source:wikidata|display=title}} which will fetch the coordinates from Wikidata (e.g. this edit).
82Fix citations to remove superfluous text from |issue= parameterApprovedTo remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: extra text: issue, this bot task will fix citations that contain variations of the word "Volume" in the |issue= parameter (e.g. this edit).April 2024

Completed/Inactive

Completed/Inactive bot tasks
Task #TaskStatusBrief Description
1Merge supported templates into {{Multiple issues}}Approved
Inactive
Run against articles that have {{Multiple issues}} and another supported template, such as {{no footnotes}}. However, the new format of {{Multiple issues}} makes it more challenging to create a list and skip when no changes are made. More thought needed...
5Diffuse the very large category Category:American novelsApproved
Completed
Change to the appropriate sub-category of Category:American novels by century by using other categories on the same article (e.g. For all articles in Category:1987 novels, Category:American novels will be changed to Category:20th-century American novels.)
6Fix the links to the online version of Encyclopædia IranicaApproved
Completed
Replace http://www.iranica.com/articles/title with http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/title (e.g. this edit)
10Change {{No footnotes}} to {{More footnotes}} if an article has at least one inline citationApproved
Completed
Will only make automated edits if <ref> contains a citation template or an external link, or if the article contains {{sfn}}. Will make manual edits when <ref> tags contain a reference. - Needs manual review
11Change {{Cleanup}} to {{Cleanup-university}} or {{Cleanup-school}}.Approved
Completed
For all articles with {{Infobox university}}, change {{Cleanup}} to {{Cleanup-university}}.

For all articles with {{Infobox school}}, change {{Cleanup}} to {{Cleanup-school}}.

12Change {{Cleanup}} to {{Video game cleanup}}.Approved
Completed
For all articles with {{Infobox video game}}, change {{Cleanup}} to {{Video game cleanup}}.
14Change {{Cleanup}} to {{Cleanup-book}}.Approved
Completed
For all articles with either {{Infobox book}} or {{Infobox book series}}, change {{Cleanup}} to {{Cleanup-book}}.
15Fix {{PGATour player}}Approved
Completed
Replace, e.g., {{PGATour player|02/23/71}} with {{PGATour player|22371}}
16Fix {{Handbook of Texas}} templates and URLsApproved
Completed
Fix |id= parameter per Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 52#Handbook of Texas Online
18Create sockpuppet categoriesWithdrawnCopy the list of categories from WP:Database reports/Red-linked categories with incoming links into AWB. Filter the list to only keep those that contain "sockpuppets of". If the category does not exist, create it with the template "{{Sockpuppet category}}"
19Fix {{multiple issues}} |expert=, |rewrite= and |update=Approved
Completed
For all articles with {{multiple issues}} convert:
  • |expert= to {{expert-subject|date=mmmmm yyyy}}
  • |rewrite= to {{cleanup-rewrite|date=mmmmm yyyy}}
  • |update= to {{update|date=mmmmm yyyy}}

While making edits to articles containing these parameters, convert all other old style parameters into templates within {{multiple issues}} as well.

20Remove invalid parameters in {{CongLinks}}Approved
Completed
{{CongLinks}}, used in External links, has a |washpo= parameter, for Washington Post. The Washington Post has changed their website, and now the link generated by this parameter in broken if the parameter value contains an underscore. This bot task will remove the invalid parameter value.

Also doing for invalid |votesmart= parameters, as values with a letter no longer work.

22Remove invalid citation parametersApproved
Completed
Recent changes to the citation templates now display deprecated parameters as errors for all to see. This request is to be able to programatically remove those parameters as needed, such as 300+ instances of |curly=y from {{cite news}}. (Suggestions welcome for additional parameters to be removed.)
26Convert {{multiple issues}} parameters to templatesDeniedConvert all of the deprecated parameters in {{multiple issues}} into templates (e.g. this edit). This work would be done in order to implement a simplified (possibly Lua) version of {{multiple issues}}, and allow the AWB developers to streamline some of their code.
27Fix links to http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/Approved
Completed
For all the instances of urls referencing Neil Brown's site to be changed from .htm to .html. The URLs to be changed are of the form www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/ followed by a variable part and then .htm, e.g. www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/barriethomas.htm.
31Remove language icon templates from citation templatesApprovedChange |language={{se icon}} to |language=se so the value is displayed properly. See list at User:BattyBot/Language icon templates. See Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language
35Replace link to Portal:People's Republic of China with Portal:ChinaApproved
Completed
Change {{Portal|People's Republic of China}} → {{Portal|China}}, and remove any duplicates created by this process (e.g. {{Portal|People's Republic of China|China}} → {{Portal|China|China}} → {{Portal|China}})
36Fix links to "Outline of Ascomycota - 2007"Approved
Completed
Fix links for "Outline of Ascomycota - 2007" from http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp to http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp (e.g. this edit)
37Categorize articles with video clipsApproved
Dead link
Add to Category:Articles containing video clips to articles listed here
41Remove deprecated |format= from {{Infobox television}}Approved
Completed
For each page in Category:Articles passing format parameter to Infobox television, remove the |format= parameter and perform any AWB general fixes
42Replace ForaDeJogo.net links with {{ForaDeJogo}} and {{ForaDeJogo manager}}Approved
Completed
Change external links to ForaDeJogo.net to {{ForaDeJogo}} and {{ForaDeJogo manager}} (e.g. this edit), and do not change links inside citation templates.
44Replace Soccerway.com links with {{Soccerway}}Approved
Completed
Change external links to Soccerway.com to {{Soccerway}}, and do not change links inside citation templates.
45Replace Footballzz.co.uk links with {{Zerozero profile}} and {{Zerozero manager}}Approved
Completed
Change external links to Footballzz.co.uk to {{Zerozero profile}} and {{Zerozero manager}}, and do not change links inside citation templates.
47Remove deprecated {{Persondata}} template ONLY when the only value is in the |NAME= parameterApproved
Completed
This bot request is to ONLY delete those templates where the ONLY value in {{Persondata}} is in the |NAME= parameter. This bot runs in mainspace and the Draft namespace. If there are values in any other parameter, it will not make any edits. Uses User:BattyBot/Blank Persondata as custom module.
48Fix |lastauthoramp= parameters in citation templatesApproved
Completed
To remove articles from Category:CS1 errors: invalid parameter value, this bot task will change the value of |lastauthoramp= from "1" or "&" to "y", and remove the parameter if the value is "n" or "no".
51Remove hashbangs from Twitter URLsApproved
Completed
Change URLs of the form http://twitter.com/#!/foobar to https://twitter.com/foobar (with variations for URLs with https and www.twitter.com. (Hashbang URLs do not work without JavaScript, so this is an accessibility concern.)
52Replace dead links with {{OHC NRHP}}Approved
Completed
Change [http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/ohpo/nr/details.aspx?refnum=XXXXXXXX Words] to {{OHC NRHP|XXXXXXXX|Words}}
54Fix "Full-rigged ship" parameter valueApproved
Completed
Change "Full rigged ship" to "Full-rigged ship"
58Remove Category:United States Supreme Court casesDenied{{Infobox US Supreme Court case}} now automatically places articles into Category:United States Supreme Court cases, so this bot was intended to remove the explicit [[Category:United States Supreme Court cases]] from mainspace pages that transclude that template. Denied per WP:TEMPLATECAT.
60Fix broken external links to Department of Census and Statistics -Sri LankaApproved
Completed
Replace * [http://www.statistics.gov.lk/home.asp Department of Census and Statistics -Sri Lanka] with *{{DCS Sri Lanka}}
66Fix some ambiguous links to HollywoodWithdrawnConvert \[\[Hollywood\]\], *\[\[(California|Los Angeles)\]\] and \[\[Hollywood\]\], *(California|Los Angeles)\b to [[Hollywood, $1]]
71Remove {{CatAutoTOC}} from Category pages containing {{Stub category}}Approved
Completed
When a category contains both {{Stub category}} and {{CatAutoTOC}}, the table of contents can appear twice. Therefore, this bot task is intended to remove {{CatAutoTOC}} when {{Stub category}} is present.
73Fix state parameter in {{WikiProject U.S. Roads}}Approved
Completed
Fix the |state= (and |type= in the {{WikiProject U.S. Roads}} as follows:
  • \| *type *= *CR *\| *state *= *(NY|FL)-CRTF|type=CR|state=$1
  • \| *state *= *(NY|FL)-CRTF(?: *\| *type *= *CR)?|state=$1|type=CR
78Remove url-access info from citation with dead URLRequest expiredFor citation templates with dead domains (e.g. www.higbeam.com), remove the |url-access= parameter (e.g. this edit) and/or {{subscription required}} template (e.g. this edit).
80Fix Australian Dictionary of Biography CS1 template errorsApproved
Completed
Fix {{cite book}} references to the Australian Dictionary of Biography in articles containing Category:CS1 errors: periodical ignored by doing the following:

For examples, see this edit and this edit and this edit.

General fixes

When BattyBot is running one of the tasks above, you may notice it makes additional changes. These changes are part of AutoWikiBrowser's general fixes. Clicking on the "general fixes" link in the edit summary will take you to the list of these fixes. To discuss the general fixes with the AWB developers, you can start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser. If you're concerned about edits made to a particular article, please let me know and I'll be happy to work with you to improve the article.

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