Commons:Bots/Requests/B-bot

B-bot (talk · contribs)

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Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Create date-sorted lists of Category:Flickr images needing human review, Category:Unreviewed files from Pixabay and perhaps other categories of Category:License review needed if requested.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Twice daily, I would think

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): much less than one edit per minute

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): C#

In some of the Category:License review needed categories, images that aren't at the beginning of the alphabet sit forever because they are not handled in date order. My idea is to create date-sorted lists, just like at Category talk:Flickr images needing human review#Date-sorted list to facilitate handling the oldest images first and ensuring that images don't just sit there forever. --B (talk) 15:39, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

• Please create bot's user page. It'll be good idea to ask @Magog the Ogre: assistance because User:OgreBot is performing very similar tasks. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:44, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
  • User page created. --B (talk) 16:15, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
• Please make a test run. --Krd 07:52, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

  @B:  ? --Krd 06:47, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

  Sorry, missed this, will do it this weekend. --B (talk) 12:31, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

• There is no overlap between this bot and OgreBot. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 11:43, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

  But may be some functionality of your bot could be reused? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:42, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Krd, Magog the Ogre, and EugeneZelenko: Test complete - please see User:B-bot/Flickr images needing human review, User:B-bot/Unreviewed files from Pixabay, and User:B-bot/License review needed. Right now, I just put these in the bot's own user space, but I could potentially put them somewhere in the Commons space once this is approved. There is a configuration page at User:B-bot/Category listing configuration.js (not actually Javascript - just there so it can't be vandalized) and so it is very easy to maintain the list of pages. --B (talk) 04:04, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

  Looks good to me. --Krd 07:46, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

  I'm still in favor of OgreBot way: period pages are smaller then monolithic, additional information about files and updates by demand. Only thing missing in OgreBot is sorting list by uploader. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:24, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

  Looks good to me. Does this bot even need community approval, if it only edits it's own user space? --Schlurcher (talk) 12:15, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

  @Schlurcher: No, it doesn't, but we could have galleries in mainspace, lists in project or userspace, or a mix in the next round of tests.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 12:29, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

• How about changing {{LicenseReview}} so that these categories are sorted by REVISIONTIMESTAMP? Just like {{Copyvio}}.--Roy17 (talk) 23:52, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

  @Roy17: That's a good proposal, but it's beyond the scope of this request.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 00:22, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

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Approved. --Krd 09:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)