Commons:Bots/Requests/KunMilanoRobot
KunMilanoRobot (talk · contribs)
Operator: Kvardek du (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: changing the username for users having renamed their account (probably mostly users from French Wikipedia). I tested the bot yesterday with a first case and it worked well.
Automatic or manually assisted: Supervised (every request is launched manually, and I check a subset of the edits in real-time)
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One-time run at each user request
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 6 edits per minute (default for Pywikibot on PAWS), but I can lower it if needed
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y
Programming language(s): Python
kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 17:24, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
- Discussion
- Isn't user renaming is done globally these days? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:46, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- @EugeneZelenko: the account is renamed globally but the old account name stays in every wikipage, including file descriptions. kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 14:43, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- It'll be reasonable to have global bot for such purposes, similar to User:CommonsDelinker. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:04, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- On long run, your usages replacement feature could be merged with the "global rename [account]" feature.
This exact global usages replacement function already exist for files renaming on Commons which also rename all usages across the various wikis. Since that very "global rename [media]"'s code already exists, it just need to make it available as an option for "global rename [account]". Could be both low cost and cool. Yug (talk) 09:33, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- On long run, your usages replacement feature could be merged with the "global rename [account]" feature.
- It'll be reasonable to have global bot for such purposes, similar to User:CommonsDelinker. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:04, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- @EugeneZelenko: the account is renamed globally but the old account name stays in every wikipage, including file descriptions. kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 14:43, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
- I think edits like Special:Diff/683299131 are valid when done per user request (and a Commons-only problem that should be resolved here), but I think Special:Diff/683306522 is invalid. --Krd 10:36, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- That was also done per user request. Commons:Username policy#Changing your username states that "Signatures on discussion pages will continue to use the old name; while these can be changed manually, it is not recommended unless a contributor wishes to remove as much information as possible about their previous name for privacy reasons". The privacy was the motivation of the change here; using a bot just makes easier to respect that request for privacy from the user.
- In the opposite case, it is easy for the bot to only edit file namespace. kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 15:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Kvardek du: Please suggest how this should be continued. --Krd 08:01, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
Closing as stale. --Krd 05:22, 16 October 2022 (UTC)