Commons:Bots/Requests
If you want to run a bot on Commons, you must get permission first. To do so, file a request following the instructions below.
Please read Commons:Bots before making a request for bot permission.
I | Create a user account (while logged in to your normal account) and user page for the bot
On the bot's userpage, add {{Bot}}, which automatically adds the page to Category:Commons bots. Then add the following information to the bot's userpage (all this is mandatory):
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II | Create your bot request:
Add your bot request to the list here:
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III | Test run
You can be demanded to make a short test run with your bot account (30–50 edits/uploads) to allow other users to review your bot's tasks. Unauthorized test run is not allowed. |
IV | Waiting for approval.
You now need to wait for community approval. A bureaucrat will close the request and will also grant a bot flag, where necessary. Closed requests are moved to Commons:Bots/Archive. |
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Requests made on this page are automatically transcluded in Commons:Requests and votes for wider comment.
Requests for permission to run a bot[edit]
Before making a bot request, please read the new version of the Commons:Bots page. Read Commons:Bots#Information on bots and make sure you have added the required details to the bot's page. A good example can be found here.
When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bots/Archive.
Any user may comment on the merits of the request to run a bot. Please give reasons, as that makes it easier for the closing bureaucrat. Read Commons:Bots before commenting.
Svetlov Artem Bot (talk · contribs)[edit]
Operator: Svetlov Artem (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:
- Change date=2004-07-17 12:00:00 to date={{Taken on|2004-07-17 12:00:00|location=Russia}} or Russian subregions for photos in manually selected categories.
- Creating categories like Category:Tula_Oblast_photographs_taken_on_2004-07-17 and Category:Russia_photographs_taken_on_2004-07-17 if not exists.
- Remove [[Category:Russia photographs taken on 2004-07-17]] from file description if edit is success.
Automatic or manually assisted:
Automatic unsupervised on manually set categories by bot operator
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): multiple manual run
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y
Programming language(s): pywikibot
Svetlov Artem Bot (talk) 18:26, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- Discussion
- Please make test run. Also bot account should not be used for generic edits like this request. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- Here is contributions: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Svetlov_Artem_Bot
- I used to run this bot from my main account last year, and user @User:Cryptic-waveform asked me to run it from bot account: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Svetlov_Artem#c-Svetlov_Artem-20231107212100-Cryptic-waveform-20231107211900 Svetlov Artem Bot (talk) 16:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- Please leave the bot account exclusively for your bot's edits.
- Looks good to me. Some files have duplicate {{Taken with}} tags like File:Zukovskiy industrial railway 2022-10 1664723936.JPG for example. Would it be possible to remove the dupes on the fly when dealing with the files? --Achim55 (talk) 18:49, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
NinoBot (talk · contribs)[edit]
Operator: Ignacio Rodríguez (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:
- Dealing and cleaning {{Book}} template on spanish book files, for compatibility at Spanish Wikisource.
- Changing Author names in database form (LastName, FirstName, 1889-1934) into {{Creator}} templates when it applies.
- Simple tasks such as changing {{Description}} to {{Book}} on book files.
Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): intermitently
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10 edits per minute
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y
Programming language(s): pywikibot
Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 16:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Discussion
- Please make test run. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- @EugeneZelenko I conducted a series of test, both here at Commons and on Wikidata. I finally opted for a less intrusive modality, that doesn't modify the Commons page too much, and instead just creates an entry on Wikidata and links it here. You can see the results
- File:Alma de niña. Irresponsable (1903).pdf here
- d:Q124799320 and here.
- Since the volume of edits won't be massive, and I would be doing this only occasionally, I'm not sure if I really need the bot flag. Still I will leave this request open for any remarks you might want to add. Regards, Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 16:06, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- So far I'm doing the bulk of the edits at Wikidata, but still one edit per book here (I'm doing this with my main account as they're script assisted edits, not automatic). I will edit the bot request to reflect another task I figured out: changing bare author references to {{Creator}} templates. Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 06:17, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
- Revision #861215671 This is a prototypic edit. It moves parameters around as a side effect, and it may remove blank parameters it doesn't recognize, but filled parameters always stays the same. So, if it's mandatory to respect the parameter order, I will figure it out. Also it doesn't deal with the blank spaces either side of the equal sign (=). Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 06:44, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
- @EugeneZelenko I conducted a series of test, both here at Commons and on Wikidata. I finally opted for a less intrusive modality, that doesn't modify the Commons page too much, and instead just creates an entry on Wikidata and links it here. You can see the results
Lucasbelo.bot (talk · contribs)[edit]
Operator: Lucas.Belo (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Insertion of SDC in images from Wiki Loves Monuments missing SDC participant in.
Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic (supervised)
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one time run
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): between 40 and 50 edits per minute
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y
Programming language(s): OpenRefine
Lucasbelo.bot (talk) 01:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- Discussion
- Generally supportive of the task. Could you please confirm that you have read and understood Commons:Bots-Policy and will follow it moving forward. Thank you. --Schlurcher (talk) 08:33, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- I have read, understood and will follow the Bot account policies. Lucas.Belo (talk) 23:24, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
- Please make test run. Please do not use bot account for unrelated activities like creating this page. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:39, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- Here are some edits [1].
- Looks OK for me if same code was used there. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:04, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, I'll be more careful when making edits with the bot account. Lucas.Belo (talk) 23:43, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
- Here are some edits [1].
- Who is theb operator of this bot? --Krd 17:19, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- Found it on metawiki: User:Lucas.Belo. --Achim55 (talk) 18:42, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Schlurcher, EugeneZelenko, Krd, and Achim55: Is it okay if I start making edits or should this discussion still be open for a while? --Lucas.Belo (talk) 02:30, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Please make a reasonable amount of test edits. Krd 04:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
GeertivpBot (talk · contribs)[edit]
Operator: Geertivp (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:
- Add missing SDC depict statements on media files (File namespace)
- Add missing Wikidata Infobox template to Category pages (Category namespace)
Automatic or manually assisted: Automatically, but monitored
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Intermittently
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 8 edits per minute
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y
Programming language(s): Pywikibot, Python scripts are on GitHub:
- https://github.com/geertivp/Pywikibot/blob/main/add_image_from_sdc.py
- https://github.com/geertivp/Pywikibot/blob/main/copy_label.py
Test runs are here.
Geert Van Pamel (talk) 22:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Discussion
- Could you please elaborate how `depicts` is filled? For example, File:Novosibirsk Regional Museum at night 2.jpg should depict building and condition of shoot (night shoot) should be qualifier. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:40, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
- The image depicts a "night view of the Royal museum", expressed as SDC depicts (P180) nighttime view (Q28333482) with qualifier of (P642) City Trade House (Q19908752), based upon and generated by the original Wikidata statement Q19908752#P3451 City Trade House (Q19908752) nighttime view (P3451) (M19171168). By doing so, both the SDC depict statement in Wikimedia Commons and the Wikidata statement are describing the same fact.
- What qualifier would you use instead? Can you please elaborate more about the exact statement that you would create? Thanks. Geert Van Pamel (talk) 16:23, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe you would like to see: depicts (P180) City Trade House (Q19908752) with qualifier depicted format (P7984) nighttime view (Q28333482)? Please give your point of view/preferences. Geert Van Pamel (talk) 14:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- It makes sense to have broader discussion on matter of qualifiers. May be bot should be limited just for subjects for now? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:35, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Geertivp: ? --Krd 14:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Or we might generate two statements without qualifiers:
- depicts (P180) City Trade House (Q19908752)
- depicted format (P7984) nighttime view (Q28333482) Geert Van Pamel (talk) 19:43, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Geertivp: ? --Krd 14:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- But here we have the problem that depicted format (P7984) may not be used as a qualifier: d:Property:P7984#P2302 => property scope constraint (Q53869507) as main value (Q54828448). In addition to that it can only be used with work of art (Q838948) entities and requires item-requires-statement constraint (Q21503247) genre (P136), which is in general not the case in this suggested usage. Which other qualifier property could be used instead? Geert Van Pamel (talk) 18:51, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- I cannot follow. Please advise. --Krd 05:04, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
- It makes sense to have broader discussion on matter of qualifiers. May be bot should be limited just for subjects for now? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:35, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe you would like to see: depicts (P180) City Trade House (Q19908752) with qualifier depicted format (P7984) nighttime view (Q28333482)? Please give your point of view/preferences. Geert Van Pamel (talk) 14:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)