Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/John Bot III

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

[edit] John Bot III

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)}

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Pywikipediabot

Function Summary: Like BCBot, tagging images.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous/daily (whenever possible, I need a toolserver account)

Edit rate requested: 10-15 edits per Minute (I'm not too sure of this, as I haven't run it yet :) )

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N ( :( )

Function Details: We all know what BCBot does right? It basically does that, just differently. The code is here: User:John Bot III/Code

Update: Sorry about that :p

The bot will basically look at the uploaded files log and check to see if the image meets any of the following:

• There is only a {{PD}} tag in the description
• There is no template in the summary

and if it does it adds {{subst:nld}} and notify the unloader.

[edit] Discussion

What does the bot do? One of the problems people have with BetacommandBot is that it's got at least eight different functions, which generally aren't related to each other. --Carnildo (talk) 00:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Sadly, I don't speak much python. Do you think you could give us a more detailed explanation of which BCBot task it duplicates, and, how it does it differently? {{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} SQL^{Query me!} 09:05, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Reading the source indicates that it checks images for license metadata. — Werdna talk 04:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I was sleepy when I wrote this :p. I'll fix it in a bit. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Y Done CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

What about substed templates or text that does the same as a template? its very difficult for a bot to parse these kinds of things. β^{_{command 2}} 22:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

ImageTaggingBot uses {{untagged}} when it can't find a license tag, the idea being that a human will then look at the image before deciding if it needs to be deleted or not. Perhaps this bot could do the same thing? --Carnildo (talk) 23:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

It will use {{untagged}} now though the use of {{subst:nld}}. Betacommand, could I have an example? CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, it's a clone of Filbot over at the commons with modifications for wikipedia. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Just dropping by, to check the discussions. One comment here. As far as I can read, the recent modification you did does not make the bot use {untagged} instead of {nld}. It only makes the bot skip pages which are previously tagged with the {untagged} template. Oceanh (talk) 16:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC).

Does the operator understand the fair use policy, and is the operator willing and able to respond to endless frustrating queries civilly? Any other objections to a trial of this bot? — Werdna talk 13:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Oceanh, Thanks! Fixed here. Werdna, Yes I fully do! CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Trial please :). CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 02:37, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 06:59, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Y Done 49 edits, another full cycle would cause for 51 edits. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 15:29, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I checked a few samples from the test run. It seems that several of the bot-tagged images have a "vandal history", like this first example, or the second example. It is fine these cases are found, but maybe they should be marked more specificly? Oceanh (talk) 21:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC).

If you can find a template or even make one That would be excellent :). CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 22:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Meh, I'm a nice guy, So I made one :). Its {{Untagged Old}}, Feel free to change it. It will be used when going though old images. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 23:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Added to code here. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 23:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, fine. Good idea with an extra reminder to check the file history etc. for old images. Oceanh (talk) 00:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC).

I've checked a few diffs and it looks okay. I'm willing to go ahead with approval if there are no objections, and another member of the approvals group checks some diffs. — Werdna talk 07:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't see any problems with what it's done so far (few enough edits, that I was able to go over all of them). SQL^{Query me!} 13:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Approved. SQL^{Query me!} 13:34, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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