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DaxBot
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Tracking category

• Category:Uploaded by DaxBot

Tasks

Tasks

#	Task	Status	Notes
1	Royal Society Open Science journal PDFs	In progress
2	UCLA Library collections	Withdrawn
3	Capella Space Open Data	In progress
4	Categorise User:Chris Light categories with Template:User category	Done	One-time
5	Add sorting keys for files in Category:Photographs in the Golestan Palace Library	Done	One-time
6	Work on DGJ file descriptions from Flickr	Done	One-time
7	Replace {{PD-self|author=I, with {{PD-self|author=	Draft

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#1 Royal Society Open Science journal PDFs

Upload en:Royal Society Open Science CC-BY-4.0 journals to Category:Journals from Royal Society Open Science under appropriate category

Version-1

• Workflow: (see Version-2)
• Development:  Done
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot  Done
  • Test run:  Done
• Operational:  Redirect

Version-2

• Workflow: PMC IDs are downloaded from https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/, RSOS entries extracted. PMC OA bulk subset download and RSOS extracted. These extracts provide FTP download location for OA package which has the PDF, figures and XML data. The |description= in the {{Information}} is set to enwiki {{Cite journal}} rendering from enwiki Citoid API enanced with XML data title for formatting and CrossMark API. A CrossMark link is provided to check for updates. The upload is added into User:DaxServer's watchlist.
• Categories
  • Category:Files from Royal Society Open Science uploaded by DaxBot
  • Category:Uploaded by DaxBot needing category review
  • Category:Files from PubMed Central uploaded by DaxBot
• Development:  Done
• Approval: Minor modifications thus not required - User talk:Krd#User:DaxBot task modification
• Operational: In progress
  • DR: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mothers may shape the variations in social organization among gorillas.pdf -  Keep

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#2 UCLA Library collections

Upload Public Domain images from UCLA Library https://digital.library.ucla.edu/

Version-1

• Workflow: ... <drafting>
• Development:  Withdrawn
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (2)  Withdrawn
  • Test run:  Done
• Operational:  Not done

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#3 Capella Space Open Data

Upload CC-BY-4.0 images from Capella Space Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Open Dataset

Version-1

• Workflow:
  • Parse Catalog at https://capella-open-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/stac/catalog.json
  • Check if the file (example) thumbnail PNG and/or GeoTIFF and/or application/vnd.nitf (probably infeasible due to extremely large file size) already exists using SHA1 check
  • If not, upload
• Categories
  • Category:Files from Capella Space uploaded by DaxBot
• Development:  Done
  • Tooling: https://n8n.io/ powered workflow with JavaScript snippets and MediaWiki API to upload
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (3)  Done
  • Test run:  Done
• Operational: In progress

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#4 Categorise User:Chris Light categories with Template:User category

To add {{User category|1=Chris Light}} to the user categories of Chris Light. This ensures they are in Category:User categories (flat list) and marked as hidden categories. Petscan: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=28135244 See Commons:Bots/Work requests#Add Template:User category (CL)

Command: pwb replace -subcatsr:"Image by Chris Light" -summary:"Replace __HIDDENCAT__ with [[Template:User category]]. DaxBot Task #4." -ns:Category -excepttext:"{{User category" -titleregex:"C(hris )?Light" "__HIDDENCAT__" "{{User category|Chris Light}}"

•  One-time
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (4)  Done
  • Test run:  Done edits
• Operational:  Done

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#5 Add sorting keys for files in Category:Photographs in the Golestan Palace Library

As requested at Commons:Bots/Work requests#sorting files

Sample command: pwb replace -pageid:149009415 -summary:"Add sortkeys. DaxBot Task #5." "[[Category:Album No. 343 in the Golestan Palace Library]]" "[[Category:Album No. 343 in the Golestan Palace Library|001]]"

•  One-time
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (5)  Done
  • Test run:  Done (edits)
• Operational:  Done

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#6 Work on DGJ file descriptions from Flickr

As requested at Commons:Bots/Work requests#DGJ file descriptions from Flickr

Sample command: pwb replace -recursive -nocase -summary:"DaxBot Task #6 test run" -search:"PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED." -ns:File -grep:"\[https://www\.flickr\.com/people/22490717@N02 Dennis Jarvis] from Halifax, Canada" -regex "\[https://www\.flickr\.com/people/22490717@N02 Dennis Jarvis] from Halifax, Canada" "{{Creator:Dennis G. Jarvis}}" "Quote from photographer on numerous files|((Quote )?{{Quote\|)?PLEASE, ?\*?(no )?(multi )?invitations((, glitters)? or self promotions?,?| \(none is better\))?( in your comments(,|\. Thanks\.))?( THEY WILL BE DELETED\. *My photos are FREE( for anyone)? to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks\.?( - NONE OF MY PICTURES ARE HDR\.)?)?( I AM POSTING MANY DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT ON ALL - JUST ENJOY.)?(}})?\n*" "" "=( *)\n+( *)\|" "=\1\n\2|" "1=\s+" "1="

•  One-time
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (6)  Done
  • Test run:  Done (edits)
• Operational:  Done

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#7 Replace {{PD-self|author=I, with {{PD-self|author=

As requested at Commons:Bots/Work requests#Remove extraneous "I, " in author param of PD-self

• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (7)
  Pending
  • Test run: In progress