User:Thumbnails Check Bot

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Status

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  • Bot is deactivated and no more used

Details

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  • Creator/Operator: Slick
  • Details of the bot's task: check recently uploaded files and if not found a thumbnail add a maintenance category for human review
  • Automatically or manually operated?: automatically
  • When does it operate?: several times a day (or when it is started manually)
  • Maximum edit rate: not much, depend on files with missing thumbnails, I guess on high load no more than 20 edits/day
  • Language: bash/python

About

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The bot is still in development and so the bot flag is not requested yet.

The bot scans all new files (older than 48 hours) and does a HTTP HEAD request on the 120px thumbnail. If there is not a HTTP status code 200 (successful), it sleeps some time and tries again. If this second test fails too, it adds Category:Possibly files without thumbnails detected by bot to this file.

It may happen that in the file history you can read the HTTP status code. Explanation:

  • HTTP status code 500 → The server told the bot there was a script error, so we can assume there was not a valid thumbnail.
  • HTTP status code 503 → The server was busy and was not able to deliver the requested thumbnail, so we are not sure about the file and suggest the file needs a human review. (Often, all was in best order.)

Source

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Not all, but the important code: