Commons:Bots/Requests/UsuallyNonviolentBot

Operator: Jc86035 (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: Creation of categories

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One-time runs

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 12/min

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): AWB

Which categories exactly? Please make test run. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:57, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- @EugeneZelenko: Anything under Category:BSicon, broadly, although almost all of the edits will be in the "other colors" BSicon categories, since there are 31 sets of categories which should be identical except for the colour set. I may also use the account to edit categories to replace {{BS-color/category}} or manually added categories with {{Bots/Requests/UsuallyNonviolentBot}}, which I am writing to automatically add categories and other information. I cannot make the test run with the bot account since it does not have the AWB flag, but I will create some semi-automatically using my regular account. Jc86035 (talk) 14:12, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
40 test edits (on my main account). Almost every edit will be the same. Jc86035 (talk) 16:23, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As this is one off, I'd do it on the main account unless the total number of edits is tens of thousands. A bot flag feels a bit of an overkill. --Fæ (talk) 18:14, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- @Fæ and EugeneZelenko: I could just do it with the Pywikibot scripts on my main account, I guess (I would need the bot flag for AWB since otherwise I can't use automatic mode). Feel free to close the request. Jc86035 (talk) 11:44, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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