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MarkTraceurBot (talk · contribs)

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Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Adding a maintenance category to file pages which have a description, but no language templates (I haven't created this category yet, it will probably be Category:Files missing language templates in their descriptions

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run, though I will need to perform test runs first of course

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): I'll limit it to 5 edits per minute.

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y - would be helpful to increase amount of requests I can do to the API, and number of results I can get per request.

Programming language(s): JavaScript

MarkTraceur (talk) 00:15, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Discussion

• Please make test run. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:15, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
• Is it possible to add the language template in the first place, instead of the maintenance category? --McZusatz (talk) 06:00, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
• I suspect that this will affect a huge number of images. I think McZusatz is right that it would be better to get the template right the first time than to edit each of these files twice. --99of9 (talk) 05:06, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
  • … ping @MarkTraceur. odder (talk) 11:09, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
    • @Odder: @99of9: Sorry, some other things cropped up and this is no longer a priority for me; I don't think this is a very large number, but clearly there are already mistakes, and we have to find and fix them somehow. This is the best option I could think of. --MarkTraceur (talk) 16:12, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

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Ok, I propose we close this as declined. --99of9 (talk) 02:53, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Declined per above. (Objections, no test run, no priority.) --Krd 18:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)