Commons:Bots/Requests/JhealdBot (3)
JhealdBot (talk · contribs) (3)[edit]
Operator: Jheald (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:
- Upload bot, to upload images identified as maps from the British Library's "Mechanical Curator" set of images on Flickr.
- An overview of the project can be found at:
- A set of sample image description pages can be found at:
- These were created by hand for images that had already been uploaded; but they show what I am aiming for. I have requested guidance on some of the finer use of the template at Template_talk:Map, including the addition of some additional fields to the template; a discussion that I have also flagged in a post to the Wikimaps group on Facebook, and the wikimaps and maps-l mailing lists. So I hope to get sign-off there on what the pages will look like.
- A set of preparation pages for the first dozen or so proposed batches can be found at:
- These show the files currently earmarked for each batch, with current-best proposed identifications, filenames and categorisations. The pages (and filenames) are expected to evolve, as target files get more names/titles added on the BL georeferencer. The intention is not to get a perfect identification/categorisation before upload, which would probably be impossible anyway; but rather, to get useful batches, in which the more extreme misidentifications should stand out. While I will do what I can to refine identifications and categorisations before upload, ultimately it probably makes more sense to get the images uploaded without delay, and then to make refinements going through them here systematically, on-wiki. More about categorisation planning can be found here in the project plan.
Automatic or manually assisted:
- Automatic.
- My intention is that a whole batch of about 100 to 500 images would be uploaded each time the bot was run, without further intervention.
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):
- Batch.
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute):
- I think the bot library imposes a limit of 12 per minute. I don't know if it would reach that speed.
Bot flag requested: (Y/N):
- I believe the account already has one.
Programming language(s):
- Perl.
- Likely to be based on elements stripped from Nichalp's script, with a look also at flickrrippr -- though it wouldn't need to be as general as either of those two scripts.
Jheald (talk) 23:37, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Please make test run. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:42, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks. I may wait a little bit, until any changes to the {{Map}} template are in place. Jheald (talk) 20:39, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
- Are you ready to make a test run? --Krd 10:49, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Krd: Hope to within the next two to three weeks. Now that Commons:Bots/Requests/JhealdBot (4) has approval (Thank you!), first I want to migrate existing images from this set to the {{Map}} template, with some of the additions I've suggested. Once that is all looking solid then the next step will to be to add an upload capability and put in here for approval. Jheald (talk) 12:54, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
- Are you ready to make a test run? --Krd 10:49, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
On hold. @Jheald: Please consider to withdraw this request and open again when you are ready. Some people (like me) only watch the requests page and thus you might get more attention once you add it in again.
Besides, I'm also happy to learn if there is a way to watch a page including all sub pages, which would make my comment irrelevant. --Schlurcher (talk) 22:00, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Closing as stale for the moment, can be reopened when required. --Krd 17:18, 6 February 2018 (UTC)