Commons:Bots/Requests/GifTagger (confirmation)

GifTagger (talk · contribs)

Operator: McZusatz (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

1. Converting problematic^[1] static GIFs to PNG (Only in Category:Images which should be in PNG format right now)
2. Uploading the PNG
3. Tagging the source-GIF with the appropriate templates
4. Posting the replacement to Commons Delinker (Admin flag used for this sub-task)
5. Create the redirect (Admin flag used for this sub-task)

[1] Problematic are:

• GIFs using transparency
• GIFs using color
• GIFs using color & transparency

Unproblematic are:

• Opaque GIFs in greyscale
• Animated GIFs

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): less than 12

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N

Admin flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Java

--McZusatz (talk) 14:52, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Discussion

Since this is still a highly requested task (e.g. 1), but there were some people opposing the automated deletion of the images by the bot itself, I am requesting to get explicit permission for doing the deletion by the bot. As I have the admin bit myself, I spent my time going through the duplicates category and redirecting the duplicates on my own. But this obviously does not scale. The bot itself can verify that the source and target image are RGBA identical, thus can do the redirect on its own.

Another thing was that I did not ask the other wikipedias if they were OK with replacing the GIF images. I will send out a mass message when the time is appropriate but right now, I'd rather have the bot task limited to a single category (Category:Images which should be in PNG format) and finalize the code. (Some GIF have virtual pages, which does not exist in PNG and makes conversion really nasty; Wikipedia thumbnailer do not handle the virtual page properly btw)

TLDR:

• Remove the bot bit for now, I will request it later when I gained consensus
• Grant permission to use the admin bit to do the redirects by the bot itself when the images are RGBA identical

--McZusatz (talk) 14:52, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

 Comment As there are no objections, I think this can be approved shortly. --Krd 06:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Bot flag removed as requested, task approved. --Krd 17:10, 23 September 2015 (UTC)