Commons:Bots/Requests/Htsabot
At The history trust of South Australia we are hosting an Edit-A-Thon. We are planning to upload 20K photographic collections(images) to WikiMedia Commons.
Operator: Htsabot (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot is planned to communicate with our digital management software to pull relevant images meant for edit-a-thon and upload those images in one go. Later, in case of change re-upload images and update metadata.
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:
- Bot is meant to upload the photographic collections to the wikimedia commons and periodically update the metadata. For this we will require the permissions to upload, re-upload , upload-by-URL , update the files and its metadata.
Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 30
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N
Programming language(s): Php/Python
Htsabot (talk) 00:10, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Discussion
Comment Operators should be human. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:23, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Please advise who is the operator of this bot. --Krd 07:43, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- That appears to be Htsa (talk · contribs), an unconfirmed role account for "The history trust of South Australia". — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:40, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- I would like to hear the answer directly from the operator. --Krd 16:44, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- That appears to be Htsa (talk · contribs), an unconfirmed role account for "The history trust of South Australia". — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:40, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- Please advise who is the operator of this bot. --Krd 07:43, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
@Krd: Thank you for the reply. I am the operator of the bot and work for The history trust of South Australia. We are working along with Pru Mitchell <pru.mitchell@wikimedia.org.au> to host an Edit-A-Thon next month- planning to upload 20K photographic collections(images) to WikiMedia Commons. Htsabot (talk) 01:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
- The operator of a bot is a long-term Commons user, not the bot account itself. Please do not edit manually with a bot account. --Krd 05:24, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Declined, operator stays unclear after discussion. --Krd 14:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC)