Commons:Bots/Requests/HiW-Bot 1
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HiW-Bot (talk · contribs)
Operator: Hedwig in Washington (MAIL?)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: plain old interwiki maintenance for now.
Automatic or manually assisted: automatic, unsupervised (first few edits supervised)
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): daily
Maximum edit rate (eg edits per minute): about 5 / min
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y
Programming language(s): pywikipediabot
Hedwig in Washington (MAIL?) 06:37, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Discussion
- History of contributing on other projects seems OK for me. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:42, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- As the user seems to have almost 0 contributions to Commons, it's probably normal that they don't know about interwikis at Commons. -- Docu at 20:41, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- RE: Bot has 0, User 2k (only, mostly images) :-)) What is it I don't know? :) --Hedwig in Washington (MAIL?) 07:37, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- 2k: sorry about that, I mainly noticed that your last 50 edits takes me back to 2007. The main point is that there are no "plain old interwiki" at Commons. You will probably notice that when you do a test run. iw at Commons are mainly meaningful in Category namespace. There they should point at Wikipedia articles. Standard py-bot doesn't support that. -- Docu at 05:17, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
- No problem at all, hope you saw the :) I actually didn't know that PWB iw doesn't support commons. Well, no big deal. I find something else for the script to crunch. Is there anything PWB could do and be helpful on Commons? --Hedwig in Washington (MAIL?) 00:25, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- If you want to try something different, you could attempt to match categories at Commons with articles at English language Wikipedia with identical titles. As link, maybe images categorized in at Commons in that category and used in articles can serve. Maybe there are none though? A toolserver query could help and output a list you could use for the bot. -- Docu at 21:40, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
- No problem at all, hope you saw the :) I actually didn't know that PWB iw doesn't support commons. Well, no big deal. I find something else for the script to crunch. Is there anything PWB could do and be helpful on Commons? --Hedwig in Washington (MAIL?) 00:25, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- I already applied for approval on enwiki for a second task. I use commonscat.py to find matching categories on commons for articles on enwiki. Another user applied for the same thing but wants to work on enwiki categories only, I get to work on the articles as soon as the task is approved. I don't think we need more delinker bots right now. So I guess we can close this BRFA for now? --Hedwig in Washington (MAIL?) 05:34, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
I'll take that as Withdrawn. --99of9 (talk) 02:12, 22 May 2012 (UTC)