Commons:Bots/Requests/AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot

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AliciaFagervingWMSE-bot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Uploading freely licensed images from (primarily GLAM) collaborations with Wikimedia Sverige.

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Image uploads

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One run per batch.

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): ~ 3/min

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python / pywikibot

The particular task the bot account will be used for is uploading freely licensed images from the Swedish National Heritage Board. This will be a continuation of the most recent upload by AndreCostaWMSE-bot, using the same codebase and category structure, incl. maintenance categories.

Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk) 11:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • Is there a reason why this is better than creating a generic WMSE upload account which can be run by WMSE on defined projects? As an observation, you don't need a bot flag on an upload account like this. --Fæ (talk) 12:04, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As for the bot flag, it's necessary for the account to be able to upload files via url, as opposed to from the local machine. We also prefer to use separate accounts to make it clearer who's responsible for specific tasks. Since institutional accounts are discouraged on some wikis anyway, we've decided to stick to one account per person. --Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk) 15:12, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed that institutional accounts remain controversial (though they do exist), however having a bot flag makes no difference to uploading via URL as far as I'm aware. So if the concern is that the person doing the uploads needs to be accountable, then you can just use your existing WMSE account. There may be a good case to use a separate account if you want to run the uploads as a distinct project and there are going to be a lot of images (like 10,000+), but even then, there is no special benefit in having a bot flag, you can just create the account and start using it. --Fæ (talk) 17:04, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You need upload_by_url permission to do so, and it's restricted to image reviewers, bots, and admins. Guanaco (talk) 21:53, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, my mistake. I vaguely recall a discussion early in the year about relaxing the restriction. It does seem slightly arbitrary considering there are few restrictions on upload tools that do the same thing by proxy. --Fæ (talk) 06:49, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Closing as stale as there was no answer and no test edits. --Krd 16:47, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reopened on request. --Krd 08:50, 20 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Krd: Thank you! I've uploaded some files to Category:Media contributed by RAÄ: 2017-09. They follow the same structure as our previous batch, Category:Media contributed by RAÄ: 2017-06. Do you know if it's possible to disable the Small jpeg's uploaded by users with low editcount filter? Some of our files get caught in it.--Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk) 09:17, 20 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good to me. --Krd 09:23, 20 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please make some more test edits for final approval. --Krd 06:56, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A few more images have been uploaded. Note that the "Textiles of Sweden" category has since been removed from our mapping. /André Costa (WMSE) (talk) 14:25, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Krd: What do you think? --Alicia Fagerving (WMSE) (talk) 08:38, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good to me. Approved. --Krd 08:48, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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