Commons:Bots/Requests/Geograph Update Bot (credit lines)

Operator: Bjh21 (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: Adding credit lines to files from Geograph projects.

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic, unsupervised

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Initial one-time run, then periodically to add credit lines to newly-uploaded files

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

Programming language(s): Python with pywikibot

This is in addition to Geograph Update Bot's existing authorisations for uploading and geocoding.

There's more detail of what the bot will do at User:Geograph Update Bot#Credit lines. Initially, it will combine these edits with location updates, but eventually they'll stand alone (not least on images where the bot has already updated locations). --bjh21 (talk) 21:50, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Test run complete; see here for the edits. Notable ones:

File:Quiet lane near Pitter's Farm - geograph.org.uk - 1183720.jpg, where the title has actually changed on Geograph since we got the picture. I think it's OK for the credit line to use the new title, since the author name hasn't changed.
File:R251 road signs at Glenveagh National Park - geograph.org.uk - 1187149.jpg, where the author name has changed on Geograph. To avoid changing the existing licensing information on Commons, the bot has not added a credit line.

Update: I realised that the bot could make a fair guess at whether the title I proposed to add was the original one that GeographBot saw, so it will initially not add credit lines to pictures in the situation of File:Quiet lane near Pitter's Farm - geograph.org.uk - 1183720.jpg above. --bjh21 (talk) 22:23, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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