Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/John Bot III

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was

Approved.

John Bot III

Operator: CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)}

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Pywikipediabot

Function Summary: Like BCBot, tagging images.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous/daily (whenever possible, I need a toolserver account)

Edit rate requested: 10-15 edits per Minute (I'm not too sure of this, as I haven't run it yet :) )

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

Function Details: We all know what BCBot does right? It basically does that, just differently. The code is here: User:John Bot III/Code

Update: Sorry about that :p

The bot will basically look at the uploaded files log and check to see if the image meets any of the following:

There is only a {{PD}} tag in the description
There is no template in the summary

and if it does it adds {{subst:nld}} and notify the unloader.

Discussion

What does the bot do? One of the problems people have with BetacommandBot is that it's got at least eight different functions, which generally aren't related to each other. --Carnildo (talk) 00:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, I don't speak much python. Do you think you could give us a more detailed explanation of which BCBot task it duplicates, and, how it does it differently? {{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} SQL ^{Query me!} 09:05, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reading the source indicates that it checks images for license metadata. — Werdna talk 04:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was sleepy when I wrote this :p. I'll fix it in a bit. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 21:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about substed templates or text that does the same as a template? its very difficult for a bot to parse these kinds of things. β^{_{command 2}} 22:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ImageTaggingBot uses {{untagged}} when it can't find a license tag, the idea being that a human will then look at the image before deciding if it needs to be deleted or not. Perhaps this bot could do the same thing? --Carnildo (talk) 23:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It will use {{untagged}} now though the use of {{subst:nld}}. Betacommand, could I have an example? CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it's a clone of Filbot over at the commons with modifications for wikipedia. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 00:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just dropping by, to check the discussions. One comment here. As far as I can read, the recent modification you did does not make the bot use {untagged} instead of {nld}. It only makes the bot skip pages which are previously tagged with the {untagged} template. Oceanh (talk) 16:16, 4 April 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Does the operator understand the fair use policy, and is the operator willing and able to respond to endless frustrating queries civilly? Any other objections to a trial of this bot? — Werdna talk 13:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oceanh, Thanks! Fixed here. Werdna, Yes I fully do! CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 20:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Trial please :). CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 02:37, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 06:59, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done 49 edits, another full cycle would cause for 51 edits. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 15:29, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I checked a few samples from the test run. It seems that several of the bot-tagged images have a "vandal history", like this first example, or the second example. It is fine these cases are found, but maybe they should be marked more specificly? Oceanh (talk) 21:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC).[reply]

If you can find a template or even make one That would be excellent :). CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 22:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Meh, I'm a nice guy, So I made one :). Its {{Untagged Old}}, Feel free to change it. It will be used when going though old images. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 23:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added to code here. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 23:28, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, fine. Good idea with an extra reminder to check the file history etc. for old images. Oceanh (talk) 00:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC).[reply]

I've checked a few diffs and it looks okay. I'm willing to go ahead with approval if there are no objections, and another member of the approvals group checks some diffs. — Werdna talk 07:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any problems with what it's done so far (few enough edits, that I was able to go over all of them). SQL ^{Query me!} 13:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. SQL ^{Query me!} 13:34, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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