User:BMacZeroBot
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This user account is a bot operated by BMacZero (talk).
It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. tasks • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • global contribs • flag bot |
Bot owned by User:BMacZero. Problems or requests? Leave a message at User_talk:BMacZero.
This is a C# bot for one-off maintenance tasks and batch uploads. It operates automatically at 6 edits per minute.
The bot's source code is stored on GitHub (MIT License). You are free to make use of it, but note that structuring it and cleaning it up for easy re-use is not one of my priorities.
Current Tasks[edit]
- Commons:Batch uploading/NPGallery
- Commons:Batch uploading/University of Washington Digital Collections
- Commons:Batch uploading/The Digital South Asia Library
On hold. BRFA. Adding common categories like Category:Men by name to person home categories, and propagating them to Wikidata.- On hold. BRFA. Replacing implicit creators that can be verified via categories with Creator templates.
- On hold. BRFA. Replacing PD-old-*-1923 and PD-old-*-1996 with PD-old-auto-* where the author's death year can be automatically determined.
Completed Tasks[edit]
Done. BRFA. Replaces text matching "|date=YYYY-MM-DD[\n]|" with "|date={{Taken on|YYYY-MM-DD}}[\n]|" in files in eight categories of User:Nyttend.- Done. BRFA. Commons:Batch uploading/Freshwater and Marine Image Bank: Uploads about 20,000 PD images from the University of Washington.
- Done. BRFA: Filling infobox date field using image EXIF data in Category:Photographs by Jiří Bubeníček.
Cancelled Tasks[edit]
Not done. BRFA. Make Creator templates from Category:Creator templates to be created by a bot and perform other Creator home category maintenance.
Tasks Ideas[edit]
- Populate taxonomy categories with the appropriate boilerplate if it's missing
- Apply the Taken On template to photographs globally