Commons:Bots/Requests/JhealdBot (2A)

JhealdBot (talk · contribs) (2A)

Operator: Jheald (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:

Update of the progress tracking page

• Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/map tag status

as part of a campaign to identify every map image in the British Library Mechanical Curator collection

The campaign will launch with a live all-day event at the British Library on October 31st (RSVP), though participants can equally well join in from anywhere in the world online.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Initially, during the launch event, every 15 minutes. After that, perhaps every few hours.

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): One edit every 15 minutes.

Bot flag requested: (Y/N):

Programming language(s): Perl

Jheald (talk) 21:04, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

• Prototyped so far with page generation off-line. Automated page-reading & upload to follow (but should be trivial). Jheald (talk) 21:04, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
  • @Jheald: Just let us know once the task is ready and once you performed a test run so we can review it. I am afraid we might not make it before Halloween, but we'll at least be able to move the request in the right direction. Thanks :-) odder (talk) 11:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
    • @Odder: First test, from my laptop, now run: diff. Now working out how to turn this into a cron job on Labs. Jheald (talk) 11:58, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
      • @Jheald: Thanks, the edit looks fine to me. odder (talk) 19:17, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
        • Some test executes now done on the Toolserver... everything still appears to be going well. Jheald (talk) 22:46, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
          • Bot has now been running all day from the ToolLabs cluster, at 10 minute intervals, and appears to be working well. It has to be re-started once every 24 hours to update its Flickr access key, used for tallying the number of 'map' tags added. With luck people will go on tagging maps and removing templates until at least Sunday, so if it is all right with everybody, I propose to keep it running at this rate until then. Hope that's okay. Cheers, Jheald (talk) 20:31, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

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 Approved. Might as well close this as approved then. --Dschwen (talk) 16:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)