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Support

New cases

We do not have the resources to help you with general computer questions or help you edit Wikipedia. We are here to write software tools to make remedial tasks easier. For now add an item to the end of the list (or start the list) below. Please give a brief overview of your problem including the tool that you use and what you use it for. Someone will open a case for you and leave a message on your talk page requesting more information. If you are unsure what to do feel free to contact us via this talk page. Please be patient.

User:Splintax has requested an update of Wikipedia:Offline reports/This article links to a redirect back to itself. -- Beland 04:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would like some help separating and sorting red links and blue links as part of the WP:MEA. Compare this and this. This is currently being done by hand as it makes pruning the lists much easier. Ideally I would have control over the tool so I could select which articles are chosen or not chosen because it may not be appropriate for all lists, though I'd be happy with anything. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 19:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have downloaded en 1.5 database tables page, pagelinks and categorylinks. Given a category (e.g. Category:Mathematics) how can I get:

1. The list of 'Subcategories' titles (e.g. Algebra), currently there are 65 according to the math category web page? 2. The list of 'Pages in category "Mathematics"' (e.g. Additional logarithm topics), currently there are 71 according to the math category web page? I am looking for the way to link the tables together via SQL.-User:Kippersnax

Some guy just moved the article about Sasha to Alexander Coe and it has broken about 100 links that are now directed at a disambiguation page. Can someone throw something in a bot to fix this? All it really needs to do is find all the articles that link to Sasha and change their link that says [[Sasha]] to [[Alexander Coe]]. Wickethewok 17:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tool for researchers - history page analysis. Briefly - it would look at the history page and generate some statistical info, like who has edited the article, when, and what have they done with it. Please see details here.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's a great need for a semi-automated tool to handle reviewing Articles for Creation submissions. Rather than posting an excessively long entry to this list, I'll refer you to my Village Pump request, which includes a before-and-after sample of the type of editing that needs to be done. Any help you can provide would be really, really appreciated. Kickaha Ota 17:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It would seem that the Special Page "Cite" e.g. the one for "Driverless car" is broken, in that an attempt to acces the list of main contributors barfs complaining about python: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tim/cgi-bin/contribution-counter?page=Driverless_car&namespace=&dbname=enwiki_p&hide_minor=on Help! Is this what is meant by long replication lag? if so, a more useful error message would be, er.... Useful. Samfreed 22:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

wikEd is a full-featured in-browser text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia and other MediaWiki edit pages. Currently it works only for Firefox and other Mozilla browsers. I am looking for somebody who can help to make the script work under Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9. Cacycle 04:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cases needing help

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Dmcdevit 20050718 Dmcdevit has noticed that the List of Wikipedians by number of edits page is badly out of date. Triddle 20:46, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Smack 20050724 Smack would like a new report format for fixing disambiguations at WikiProject Disambiguation.

Open cases

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Todo

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Wish list

This is where ideas for useful tools or other software bits can be noted. If there is free time and interest this is a good spot to find something to do.

I think it would be nice to have a tool that can take wikitext table data and sort on column names, etc then re-output the table. Triddle July 2, 2005 18:05 (UTC)

See [1] --Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 03:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Tool now at WMF Labs —[AlanM1(talk)]— 13:33, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]