User:OrphanBot
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This user account is a bot operated by Carnildo (talk).
It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. |
This bot is run by User:Carnildo . If you have any questions about image tagging, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.
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[edit] Description and purpose
OrphanBot's current task is to remove images that are in Category:Images with unknown source and Category:Images with unknown copyright status from articles, so that administrators can delete them.
Images in the article, category, and portal namespaces will be removed. Images in the wikipedia, mediawiki, mediawiki talk, template, help, and help talk namespaces will be left alone, but a message will be logged on the bot's talk page. Images in all other namespaces will be completely ignored.
Additionally, OrphanBot inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed.
OrphanBot was written in Perl using the Pearle code for accessing Wikipedia.
[edit] In simple terms:
What OrphanBot does:
- OrphanBot tags images with no description as {{no info}} and images with no copyright tag as {{untagged}}
- OrphanBot removes images with certain tags from articles using them.
- OrphanBot notifies the presumed uploader of the impending deletion.
What OrphanBot does not do:
- OrphanBot does not delete images.
- OrphanBot does not tag images for deletion.
- OrphanBot does not evaluate fair-use claims.
- OrphanBot does not edit templates.
- OrphanBot does not edit user pages.
- OrphanBot does not tag unused fair-use images. That's Roomba and Fritzbot.
- OrphanBot can not check for copyright so please put in a description.
- OrphanBot is not responsible for every image that gets deleted.
[edit] Current development status
Working on improved bot. New behaviors:
- Better Wiki-access code for increased reliability.
- Automatic detection and tagging of images with no fair-use rationale.
[edit] Current task status
- Cleanup of Category:Images with unknown source and Category:Images with unknown copyright status every day.
- Automatic tagging of no-source, no-rationale, and untagged images is ongoing.
- Assorted tasks by request
- Current: Tagging unused by-permission and non-commercial-use images for deletion.
[edit] Bot statistics
As of June 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 63,976 images, removing images from 33,698 articles, 1,266 portals, and 64 categories. The bot has handed out 36,988 warnings to 23,925 users.
As of September 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 102,366 images, removing images from 50,683 articles. The bot has handed out 72,910 warnings to 47,627 users.
[edit] I did specify the source
Regarding 'Image tagging for Image:Kashidu Hura1901.jpg'. I identified it clearly as 'owner having died more than 100 years ago.' Did that get erased? Mohonu 02:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Image Removed: Island in 1901
The image removed was given to me by an old photographer who died about ten years ago. His name is Baa and he was working for Ali Najeebu, Nedhunge, Male', Maldives. That Image could not have been taken by him, for it is 106 years old, and when Baa died fifteen years ago he was barely eighty. It is part of a collection of old pictures I own. Full three-quarters of the image on the lower right part were missing, so I edited it. I think it is relevant to the article, illustrating the dramatic erosion of the islands. So at least the text below the image should have been preserved.Mohonu 07:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
