Commons:Bots/Requests/Embedded Data Bot (alteration)

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Embedded Data Bot (talk · contribs) (alteration)

Operator: Zhuyifei1999 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) and Steinsplitter (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Alteration of Commons:Bots/Requests/Embedded Data Bot (adminbot): Remove condition #3 (require hit on Special:AbuseFilter/166 before deletion)

Pro:

  1. A lot more abusive uploads will be deleted faster, reducing manual work. Compare deleted contribs and delete log (note that the bot is now coded to tag before delete in any case, due to the description of the embedded data may get very long because of the recursive detection I added a few hours ago)
  2. The AF can be hidden for anti-abuse purposes -- though, this may not be necessary if the bot no longer depend on it anyways

Con:

  1. Dunno... The deletion false positive rate will be raised by a negligible (?) amount. I've yet to see one false positive of "having embedded data" that also pass through both condition #1 (file ending determined by a parser) and #2 (the mime sniffing of the embedded part shows an archive)
  2. And I might get even lazier to block accounts, since blocking usernames does little anyways, with all the VPN being used to evade blocks :(

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic unsupervised

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous via RC

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 6 per min

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N

Programming language(s): Python: Pywikibot

Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 14:26, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion


No objections, minor issues will be addressed. Approved. --Krd 06:31, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]