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Operator: Ricky81682 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: I'd like a bot flag for my AWB edits for splitting up Sanborn maps. You can see Category:Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chicago, Cook County, Illinois is currently being split into 37 separate Sanborn maps, organized by year. A number at Category:Sanborn maps of Illinois I probably wouldn't split as they may have only 10 per category so it would be for organizing them into the various map by year categories.
Automatic or manually assisted: Manual, entirely
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 60, I guess. I don't think I can do much faster given the need to review it.
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Yes, probably just to avoid clogging up Recent changes with this minor yet tedious task.
Programming language(s): AWB You can see examples with the splits I've completed for New Orleans, San Francisco, and Phoenix (the remaining Phoenix ones seem confusing so I left them alone for now). These were done manually beforehand.
Ricky81682 (talk) 21:47, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
- Please make edit summaries similar to Help:Gadget-HotCat. Section header is also useless. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:48, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- Section header I'll review and do manually. The full category names are huge but I'll try to fit them. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:43, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- There is an option in AWB to not use section headers. Please search for it in the menu panel. If I remember correctly, you have to deactivate a checkbox that is on by default that says "use section headers" or something similar. Also please add {{Bot|Ricky81682|flag=no|type=AWB}} to your userpage, so your message appears in the user specified language. --Schlurcher (talk) 09:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- I found it. Thanks! Hope the edit summaries are better now. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:50, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
- There is an option in AWB to not use section headers. Please search for it in the menu panel. If I remember correctly, you have to deactivate a checkbox that is on by default that says "use section headers" or something similar. Also please add {{Bot|Ricky81682|flag=no|type=AWB}} to your userpage, so your message appears in the user specified language. --Schlurcher (talk) 09:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- Given that all edits are curated manually, I think this does not require prior approval as a bot task, but can be considered a semi-automated script like cat-a-lot. I'm fine if these edits are performed on a separate account. I would not flag this account as a bot. Recent-changes is clustered in commons already (so it would not help), but these category changes should not be hidden from the watch lists of users. --Schlurcher (talk) 09:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- I'm good either way. Just wanted to make sure since it's a lot of edits. You can see Washington state in the 1880s and 1890s for an idea. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 20:50, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Approved without bot flag. --Krd 17:36, 3 April 2020 (UTC)