User talk:Rybecbot

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This is a bot account. Its operator can be reached at User_talk:Rybec.

This bot is being used to automatically re-upload files which have been cropped to remove watermarks. It makes no more than two uploads or four edits per minute. It is run intermittently. It uses the pywikipediabot replace.py script with no changes, and the upload.py script with the following changes to allow unattended re-uploading:


--- upload.py.orig      2011-11-29 20:00:13.000000000 +0000
+++ upload.py.modified  2013-03-22 20:54:41.409844613 +0000
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 class UploadRobot:
     def __init__(self, url, urlEncoding=None, description=u'',
                  useFilename=None, keepFilename=False, verifyDescription=True,
-                 ignoreWarning=False, targetSite=None, uploadByUrl=False):
+                 ignoreWarning=True, targetSite=None, uploadByUrl=False):
         """
         @param ignoreWarning: Set this to True if you want to upload even if
             another file would be overwritten or another mistake would be
@@ -232,13 +232,6 @@
         pywikibot.output(self.description)
         if self.verifyDescription:
             newDescription = u''
-            choice = pywikibot.inputChoice(
-                u'Do you want to change this description?',
-                ['Yes', 'No'], ['y', 'N'], 'n')
-            if choice == 'y':
-                import editarticle
-                editor = editarticle.TextEditor()
-                newDescription = editor.edit(self.description)
             # if user saved / didn't press Cancel
             if newDescription:
                 self.description = newDescription

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