Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 1

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Replace "PD-self/ca" on "PD-self" on image description pages

Need replace license tag {{PD-self/ca}} on {{PD-self}} in all page, where {{PD-self/ca}} used directly. See all images in Category:Translated license tags. --Kaganer 12:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I do not see a way for doing this without running through the complete namespace "Image" for all images with {{PD-self}}, as there is a link to {{PD-self/ca}} in there, and I will not run through many, many pages. Denied? Siebrand 15:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't know whether you write your own bot api, but you can use embededin or whatever it is called, from the m:API -- Bryan (talk to me) 18:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
It is possible to use the AutoWikiBrowser to generate a what transcludes here list to generate a list and then go through them. I would be willing to do this, as this is a one off do I need to create a bot only account and apply it for bot status or just do it with my account without status. Lcarsdata 22:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

It would be easy enough to directly query the DB to make a list of pages which transclude that template. I can do this if there is no objection. --Gmaxwell 22:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

It would appear there are no longer any transclusions of that template. According to AWB and a brief scan of the first 5,000 also reveals none. Lcarsdata 22:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Category:Maps of rivers

All remaining images in Category:Maps of rivers should be re-categorized to Category:Maps of rivers of Europe before anything new appears. PM 23:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Done.  V60 干什么？ · VContribs 00:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

From {{IT}} to {{It}}

I've found that {{IT}} is deprecated, but still used. It could be useful to use a bot to change it to {{It}}, that is the "standard" language template. (And then make a redirect from IT to It, maybe). Thanks in advance. --Gatto Nero 23:25, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

The problem isn't simply replacing one template by another as-is — a redirect would solve that. The problem is that the newer language templates are designed to include the text as an argument, rather than just using the template as a label preceding some text. This allows one to use custom CSS to control the display of different languages (see Commons:Multilinguality). People have written multilingual descriptions in so many different, idiosyncratic ways that it's difficult to create a bot script to safely replace the templates in every case. I've done it for several thousand pages so far, but as you've seen there are many more that still need to be addressed. --Davepape 04:21, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Patroling Special:Unusedimages

Will be great if bot will assist this task.

Images without description and with single history (to avoid falsely marking vandalized images) entry should be marked with {{subst:nld}} and uploader notified with {{subst:Image source|Image:<ImageName>}}.

I don't know how hard to implement this algorithm but this will help to avoid many typing :-)

EugeneZelenko 14:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

On my experience (I visit this page at least 5 times per week), it always updated. Since my proposal cover simple case (images uploaded without descriptions and never edited after that), more complicated tools will not help too much. --EugeneZelenko 04:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
OK. Perhaps I always visit just after you've finished cleaning up. ;) pfctdayelise (translate?) 04:43, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


Flickr.com images again

This could be improvement to User:FlickrLickr or separate bot.

It will check licenses and upload files from http://flickr.com listed on Commons page. Commons page should contain destination file name and description (including categories), except Template:flickr info. Additional rotation commands will be plus.

Improvements over current User:FlickrLickr: individual images could be uploaded, users could look into topics interesting for them, simpler interface. EugeneZelenko 14:51, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I welcome improvements to FlickrLickr, and if you're willing to work on it, let me know and I'll send you the code (it's very messy, though). I'm not sure it's a good idea to let people work on particular topics, as that leaves you with a lot of pictures nobody wants to see, when our goal is to review as many pictures as possible.--Eloquence 16:14, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, unfortunately I'm not specialist in bots. This is reason why I asked to for help on this page.
Illustration to my problem: I reviewed images for potato tag and selected 8 images (from 1000) which could be useful as illustration. I just want to avoid downloading from flickr.com and reuploading on Commons stage and creating info in Template:flickr form.
Many users upload images from flickr.com here, so bot automating process (and checking licenses - sometimes people don't pay attention to NC/ND) will be good idea.
EugeneZelenko 14:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Possibly. On the other hand, there's a huge amount of old material that still needs to be reviewed. So please help me to get more reviewers for FlickrLickr - we've already uploaded 5,500 pics and alwyas need new volunteers! :-) --Eloquence 06:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)


Maybe this has been brought up before, but on this revision of the ampersand page, there was one interlanguage link, to the English wikipedia. At the wikipedia article, there are interlanguage links to 15 other languages. On wikipedia, I sometimes see bots adding interlanguage links, so it seems that the list of languages for any given wikipedia article is updated automatically. Can someone have a bot check for this on the commons? The bot could go through each commons article, follow one of the interlanguage links if there is one, and then check for interlanguage links on that wikipedia article, to see if the commons page is missing any of them. Philbert2.71828 18:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I have tried experimenting with the pywikipediabot however it is having trouble picking up the links (probably because it is not just a different language it is a different family and laguage). It will probably need some work to get it going. Lcarsdata (Talk) 19:17, 5 October 2006 (UTC)


Maritime photo collection

There are quite a few pictures from the collection which aren't categorized. The pictures can be found through Orphan Images ([1]) if you search for User 'Frederic'. We are talking about 450+ orphans here. It would be great if those pictures could be categorized automatically.. --Werckmeister 07:01, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

What exactly are you asking of bot operators? I am against automatically categorising as that will most probably assign categories that are very high level. I'm afraid you'll have to annotate what you have added in the past. It is part of the value you add. Siebrand 17:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Flag of Venezuela is´nt correct, bot support would be needed

Image:Flag of Venezuela (state).svg --Tets 18:58, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

What exactly are you asking support on? Siebrand 17:01, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


List of images with extension .svg.png

These images are most likely thumbnails of existing SVG versions and candidates to automatically tagging with {{Duplicate}}. --EugeneZelenko 16:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I plan to do these images manually, so that I can delete them immediately. (see also User:Bryan/Images_to_be_checked) -- Bryan (talk to me) 17:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)


May take this list first:

  1. Image:209px-Hofmann voltameter.fr.version.svg.png
  2. Image:20px-Road sign bus stop.svg.png
  3. Image:313px- No Soccerball.svg.png
  4. Image:45px-smoking symbol.svg.PNG
  5. Image:600px-Subcardioidpattern.svg.png
  6. Image:60px-Nuvola german flag.svg.png
  7. Image:662px-Anatomical-directions.svg.png
  8. Image:666px-Wikiversity-logo-Snorky-CormaggioDarkBlue.svg.png
  9. Image:Diagram of the human heart (cropped) el.svg.png
  10. Image:EscudoPerú.svg.png
  11. Image:Estaos Materia.svg.png
  12. Image:Football-NO.svg.png
  13. Image:Lei de moore 2006.svg.png
  14. Image:Modelo bandera panama 1.svg.PNG
  15. Image:Moravia 3-coat-of-arms.svg.png
  16. Image:No-Copyright.svg.png
  17. Image:Wikiversity logo Green and Violet.svg.png


  1. Image:405px-EspiritoSanto Municip AtilioVivacqua svg.png
  2. Image:520px-EscudoFranken.svg-1-.png
  3. Image:Anatomical-directions.svg-1-.png
  4. Image:Gnome-mime-image-svg.png
  5. Image:Inkscape OS X SVG.png
  6. Image:Konqi svg.png
  7. Image:Nuvola-inspired File Icons for MediaWiki-fileicon-svg.png
  8. Image:Pdf 16x16 Crystal SVG.png
  9. Image:Problem with Victory banner svg.png
  10. Image:Torchlight svg.png

PortalBot 02:54, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

  1. nosvg : Konqi svg.png
  2. nosvg : 600px-Gray.svg.png
  3. nosvg : Torchlight svg.png
  4. >SVG< : Thud board.svg.png
  5. nosvg : BSicon nKRZ.svg.png
  6. nosvg : EscudoPerú.svg.png
  7. >SVG< : Football-NO.svg.png
  8. nosvg : Orion-guide svg.png
  9. nosvg : BSicon eleeg.svg.png
  10. nosvg : No-Copyright.svg.png
  11. nosvg : Estaos Materia.svg.png
  12. nosvg : 210px Schild M1.svg.png
  13. nosvg : Banderadearanda.svg.png
  14. nosvg : Gnome-mime-image-svg.png
  15. nosvg : Ustrój Warszawy.svg.png
  16. nosvg : Fraga Provincial svg.png
  17. nosvg : Lei de moore 2006.svg.png
  18. nosvg : 120px-Cross-Pattee.svg.png
  19. nosvg : 538px-Dharma wheel svg.png
  20. nosvg : Partido demócrata.svg.png
  21. >SVG< : Phylogenetic-Groups.svg.png
  22. nosvg : Zh-Speciation modes.svg.png
  23. nosvg : 800px-LocationIsrael.svg.png
  24. nosvg : 313px- No Soccerball.svg.png
  25. nosvg : 426px-Vaygach Island.svg.png
  26. nosvg : 800px-LocationIsrael2.svg.png
  27. nosvg : Moravia 3-coat-of-arms.svg.png
  28. nosvg : Montenegrin AF roundel.svg.png
  29. nosvg : 600px-Logo republicano.svg.png
  30. nosvg : 330px-Inverted pentacle svg.png
  31. nosvg : 135px-Wikiversidad-logo.svg.png
  32. nosvg : 198px-CharcoalSpecimen7 svg.png
  33. nosvg : 20px-Road sign bus stop.svg.png
  34. nosvg : 60px-Nuvola german flag.svg.png
  35. nosvg : 600px-Subcardioidpattern.svg.png
  36. nosvg : 612px-Third party cookie.svg.png
  37. nosvg : 668px-Southampton Island.svg.png
  38. nosvg : 687px-Gefahrenzeichen 12.svg.png
  39. nosvg : 600px-Radiative-forcings.svg.png
  40. nosvg : Huesca-municipiosgrandesl svg.png
  41. nosvg : Huesca -municipiospoblacion svg.png
  42. nosvg : 662px-Anatomical-directions.svg.png
  43. nosvg : Problem with Victory banner svg.png
  44. nosvg : Strada Statale 335dir Italia svg.png
  45. nosvg : 501px-Lanterna magica schema.svg.png
  46. nosvg : 120px-Bandeira de MinasGerais.svg.png
  47. nosvg : 778px-Benasque - Mapa municipal svg.png
  48. nosvg : 575px-Sergipe Municip itaporanga.svg.png
  49. nosvg : Wikiversity logo Green and Violet.svg.png
  50. nosvg : 585px-M16-Rifle-Magazine-LineDraw.svg.png
  51. nosvg : Button trash can.svg.PNG
  52. nosvg : 45px-smoking symbol.svg.PNG
  53. nosvg : Modelo bandera panama 1.svg.PNG
  54. nosvg : 575px-Sergipe Municip itaporanga.svg.PNG

EDUCA33E 17:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


When uploading images of plants I found that often links has been made not right. For example on page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Magnolia you see that almost all subjects fall under the letter M. Only for 'Magnolia stellata' and 'Magnolia zenii' the links on those pages are made as [[Category:Magnolia|stellata]] instead of only [[Category:Magnolia]]. In some case I have changed manually many links, but I would like that that can be done automatically. Is that possible? --Wouterhagens 18:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

There is no built-in automatic way to do that. Try posting a request at commons:bots and a bot writer may do it if they think it is not too hard. I think it could be useful. --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 14:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
That is the reason I post it here. Thanks. --Wouterhagens 19:45, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I'll get to it ASAP.  V60 干什么？ · VContribs 19:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Jon Harald Søby/Kartlisens

Could someone please subst all the uses of this template on the image pages since personalised templates should always be substed. When substed the template adds some "scrap code" related to IF statements (and similar) used in the template. Ideally this junk code would also be celaned up afterwards. /Lokal_Profil 20:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Please hold. Jon Harald Søby 17:05, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I one again ask that someone does this, for a relevant discussion se Commons:Village_pump#Personalised license /Lokal_Profil 15:28, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
That has no consensus regarding substing. This is not essential and therefore we should wait until there is a clear consensus before proceeding or otherwise. Lcarsdata 15:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
True but Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2007Jan#Personal_license_templates had a concensus about this. /Lokal_Profil 16:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Okay, you can subst it now. I changed the template so that the functionality it gives is still there, while everything else is like Lokal Profil wants it. Jon Harald Søby 20:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I have tried to deal with this request, but I haven't managed to perform it by a single-pass process. If nobody else finds a better solution, I will process it in two passes (first, substing, second, cleaning the empty parameters). guillom 08:42, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Empty parameters? /Lokal_Profil 09:42, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
See my try and the cleanup I had to do then. guillom 10:09, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I see. Didn't realise that the template contained optional parameters. /Lokal_Profil 16:00, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Icon tools.svg

Substitute Image:Icon tools.svg for Image:Icon tools.png in wikipedia(s).

nb. : please add "{{vva|Image:Icon tools.svg}}" in Image:Icon tools.png. <STyx 20:59, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, in order to prevent World War 3, the CommonsDelinker will not universally replace png's by svg. -- Bryan (talk to me) 10:37, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Three categories to move

Per Commons:Categories_for_discussion#Category:Historical_Markers:

- Jmabel | talk 05:53, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Please request this at User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands instead. Thanks, (→O - RLY?) 13:10, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Add {{Wallpaper}} to images=

Add the tag {{Wallpaper}} to these images for Commons featured desktop backgrounds, preferably right under the {{Featured picture}} tag. The image names are hidden under this because there are quite a few of them. --Digon3 talk 17:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done -- Bryan (talk to me) 18:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Substing Template:Idw

As far as I know, Template:Idw should be substed on user-talk pages. Thanks / Fred J 21:53, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Processing —O (说 • 喝) 03:35, 25 September 2007 (GMT)
Thanks. / Fred J 23:01, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
✓ Done again – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


Text replacement

I have just uploaded a load of distribution maps of sharks into Category:Shark habitat maps, but silly me i put the source down as self-made instead of putting the actual source of the image data. Would a bot be able to go through and replace all instances of 'self-made' in all images in Category:Shark habitat maps to:

Compagno, Leonard; Dando, Marc & Fowler, Sarah (2005). Sharks of the World. Collins Field Guides. ISBN 0-00-713610-2.

Thanks Chris_huhtalk 15:08, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I should be able to do this tonight, after I am situated at my regular computer. —O (说 • 喝) 15:54, 30 September 2007 (GMT)
✓ Done by O's bot. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Substing Template:Speedywhat

This template should also be substed. / Fred J 23:01, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done O2 (息 • 吹) 03:21, 12 November 2007 (GMT)
Great, thanks O. / Fred J 07:09, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Personal corrections after renamed account

Hi. I had my account renamed yesterday so I'd like (if it's possible) some bot help for that:

  • Replace "User:Jraf" by "User:TwoWings"
  • Delete every mention "(aka Jraf)" or "(akas Jraf)"

Thank you. --TwoWings * Wanna talk? ;-) 07:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry this is a waste of resources. If you were going to have a problem with your name being changed you shouldn't have done it. :: maelgwn :: talk 13:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
OK I understand the problem of "waste of resources" but the second part of your reply is useless and gratuitous... My name being renamed isn't a problem at all. It's just that I wanted 1) to avoid too many redirects (first part of my request), 2) to avoid mentions of my old name. Moreover, I'm quite disappointed because I first asked the consequences of being renamed and I was told I could ask such a thing to a bot (so you might easily understand that contradiction is quite irritating!). Anyway, I don't expect any change in your reply but I just want to ask at least something (that won't imply as many resources as my total request): replacing {{User:Jraf/Note}} by {{User:TwoWings/Note}}. That concerns "only" 230 pages (even less because I already changed a few of them), which is quite "nothing" compare to the many pages I wanted to be corrected in my first request! And if you're nice enough, you could do the seconde part of my request since it implies the same pages... Thanks for your comprehension. --TwoWings * Wanna talk? ;-) 15:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Whats wrong with the redirect? :: maelgwn :: talk 23:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
We don't need to fix redirects that aren't broken. Deleting your old redirects is actually discouraged. O2 (息 • 吹) 04:45, 14 November 2007 (GMT)
Well I don't know. It's just that I might have taken that "habit" of French Wikipedia where redirects are considered "bad" by many users! Anyway, forget about that, I'll do what I want myself (even if it might be a waste of time, I have my reasons) --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 12:53, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

 Not done – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Replacing Category:Nipple Piercing by Category:Nipple piercing

Thanks/ --84.97.11.115 16:14, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done at some point in the past. – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot help, please

Hi! Would it be possible to get bot or tool help with this row of edits?: The image Image:StoutFigure30type60type above the waist.jpg and its siblings (all "stout"/"slender" and "medium" images of the same kind) in category:women need to be moved to a more specific category, for example category: standing women or maybe to an own, new category like category: female figure. Jorva 21:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Someone, please? Jorva 00:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Appearently not; then I'll do it manually. Jorva 16:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Miss World 2007

Can any bot delete the parent categories Category:Beauty pageants and Category:Miss World in every pictures included in Category:Miss World 2007? Thanks in advance. --TwoWings * to talk or not to talk... 22:02, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

✓ Done as the trial edits for User:Mike's bot account.  —Mike.lifeguard|@en.wb 20:18, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Category:Army parade of Italy

Hallo,

could anyone please move all images inside Category:Army parade of Italy to the Category:Army parade of Italy 2006 which I just created? They are all images from 2006, also the last three ones which don't have "2006" in their filenames. I could do it myself, but I would flood recent changes as I don't have a bot account here yet. --Head 02:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Busy. -- Bryan (talk to me) 21:06, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Substing a personalized license template

Hi. {{Donarreiskoffer}} needs to be substed. If there's a bot owner available, I would appreciate some help (my own bot is currently waiting for my home computer to recover). guillom 18:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

ABFbot is working on it. abf /talk to me/ 19:32, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
All done. Regards, abf /talk to me/ 20:10, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Insert Template:Kept for closed deletion requests

This template is IMHO very useful and should be used more often than now... (<5 images). A bot operator could:

  • insert in after archiving COM:DEL discussions
  • insert it on already archived discussion resolved as KEEP

This request should go to bot managing COM:DEL archive. A.J. 10:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Will be done in the rewrite of DRBot. -- Bryan (talk to me) 20:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

QI without QIC process

These images are in the Quality Image catagory without going through the QIC process. See here.. Could someone remove the Quality Image catagory from the images hidden below? Thanks. --Digon3 talk 21:47, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

✓ Done I think I did all these manually --Tony Wills 23:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


User:Rama/Eurockéennes07

Can any bot put {{Supported by Wikimedia France}} on each pictures ? Thanks in advance. ~Pyb 15:18, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

My slave is working on it. abf /talk to me/ 13:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Done. abf /talk to me/ 14:59, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thx ;) ~Pyb 23:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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