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| Operator | Traveler100 |
| Author | Traveler100 |
| Approved? | Approved Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/People-photo-bot |
| Flagged? | yes |
| Edit period(s) | Periodically |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language(s) | Works through AWB |
| Exclusion compliant? | No |
| Source code published? | user:People-photo-bot/source-v9 |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? |  |
| Other information | Function is to move article talk pages currently in Wikipedia requested photographs of people into sub-categories so that the number of articles in a specific category are of a manageable number. |
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Situation
editThere are a large number of requests for photographs of people. These requests are currently in very large categories. For example Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people has over 11,000 requests , Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of sportspeople has over 13,000 requests and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of artists and entertainers has almost 10,000 requests. These lists cover a wide variety of people from saints to porn stars and all types of sports personalities.
As these categories are totally mixed up and are so large no one is going to work through these lists.
Proposal
editIf these lists were split into smaller categories based on a specific topics related to active WikiProjects it would increase the likelihood of someone addressing these requests. It would also make it easy to work through looking for fulfilled requests or images on other wiki sites. I therefore propose a bot that will go through the main requested photographs of people categories and edit the talk page of articles so that they belong to a more specific sub-category. For example Wikipedia requested photographs of Saints and Wikipedia requested photographs of baseball people.
This should be achieved by removing the need-photo=yes tag from the {{WPBiography}} template and adding the {{reqphoto}} template with appropriate classification such as, for example, {{reqphoto|cricket people}}.
naming convention
editThe collective name used in category is not always the most obvious one. For example golfers is not used as the golf wikiproject template contains people involved in golf and not just players. Where possible the collective name used for articles of that subject are used.
Specification 1
editUse AWB automatic bot user in bot mode to
- Go through article talk pages in
- If article talk page contains a WikiProject that is in the list (see below)
- removed yes y 1 from need-photo = parameter in WPBiography template
- If reqphoto template exists on the talk page
- add to reqphoto template category shown in list for the WikiProject found.
- if reqphoto contains parameter people or sportpeople
- remove parameter
- else
- add reqphoto template with category shown in list for WikiProject found.
- The bot will also change reqphoto where there is a in= to people of
- The bot will also move existing reqphoto templates after the WPBiography template and out of {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}.
- The bot will also change reqphoto and other derivatives to Image requested
- The bot will also change WPBiography and other derivatives to WikiProject Biography
- The bot now also removes yes from needs-photo and added a new Image requested if non exists
- The bot also checks work-groups and changes from people request to appropriate sub category.
List of projects and category already created AWD code for
editList of projects and category to create AWD code for (please expand)
edit| WikiProject template | reqphoto category |
|---|---|
| {{WikiProject Food and drink}} {{WP Food}} {{Food and drink}} {{WikiProject Agriculture}} {{WPAgriculture}} {{WPFarm}} | people in food and agriculture occupations |
| {{WikiProject Fashion}} {{WP Fashion}} {{WPFashion}} | fashion people |
| {{WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom}} {{WikiProject British Government}} | politicians and government-people |
Specification 2
editSee User:People-n-photo-bot. How to address the many articles with no WikiProject templates.
See impact of update
editNotification
editAt:
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography#photo requests
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Images and Media/Archive 1#photo requests
- Template talk:WPBiography#more categories for biographies
- Category talk:Wikipedia requested photographs of people
- Category talk:Wikipedia requested photographs of sportspeople
- Category talk:Wikipedia requested photographs of artists and entertainers
Comments
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