Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotMultichill 7

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BotMultichill 7

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Operator: Multichill

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python (pywikipedia)

Source code available: Simple script based on pywikipedia, see here

Function overview: Make galleries of recently uploaded free images

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): I'll probably schedule it to run on a daily basis depending on how it goes.

Estimated number of pages affected: One page for each day, so one more each day until days are done

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function details: We're working on getting images to Commons. First approach is to mass transfer old images, the second approach is to patrol newly uploaded files. This bot is to assist the second approach. The bot makes a gallery for the free files uploaded on a certain day and excludes problematic files (unfree, tagged for deletion etc). The base page is User:Multichill/Free uploads, an example day page is User:Multichill/Free uploads/2011-01-01. Later on this whole page tree could be moved to the Wikipedia namespace if all works well. User can use these pages to transfer the images to Commons or nominate them for deletion if something is wrong. The actual bot working on this is BotMultichillT a clone. I already did some test edits, see the history of the sample page. multichill (talk) 15:10, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

Speedily Approved. Already trialled in userspace, moving to subpages of one Wikipedia-namespace page should be uncontroversial, and the code looks straightforward too. I'll leave it to the Toolserver people to determine if the SQL query causes them issues, that's outside our remit.

I don't know whether you want to consider Category:Wikipedia files on Wikimedia Commons for which a local copy has been requested to be kept in any way, but either way that detail doesn't affect whether the bot should be approved since all the bot does is generate a list for human attention. Anomie⚔ 17:40, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

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