User:Vel Bot

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Featured picture tidy-up
With the help of editors from Featured picture candidates I am fixing the featured picture listings. This involves two stages:
 * 1) Compare and contrast the listings at Featured pictures, Featured pictures thumbs, and Featured pictures visible and produce a report of inconsistencies. All edits for this part are performed by humans.
 * 2) Once the lists are OK, I will produce a report of orphaned featured pictures and wrong-version pictures included in articles. These come about because a nomination for Featured status often causes multiple versions of the same image to be uploaded, and sometimes the version that is promoted will not be in any article. During this process I will create many gallery pages in either my User: space or the Wikipedia: namespace (depending on how may people end up helping out) which human editors will use to help me judge which images are truly different versions of the same picture, and which image is genuinely the Featured picture

A bit more info from a relevant post on Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates:
 * What I was actually planning to do was compile a script that would solve the problem of different versions of FPs being in different articles as well as the problem of orphaned FPs. My idea was basically to have a script gather all FPs and attempt to find and read the relevant FPC discussion. All images linked during that discussion, and all images linked in the image pages themselves would be collected as 'suspected alternate versions' and the bot would create a gallery page showing the different pics as thumbnails. This is where a human would be needed - to confirm which were genuine alternate versions and which were irrelevant. Once the human operator has removed the irrelevant pics and confirmed which is the genuine FP, the bot can then produce a report like the one you've already seen, of lists of articles which probably want Image:Xyz.jpg replaced with Image:Xyz2.jpg
 * The first thing to get right, was to standardize the list of FPs - hence this post. The next problem I have to solve on the way to my final scheme is to write code that can fetch the 'what links here' for images - and once I've done that I'll use it to produce a list of orphaned FPs. Thanks for your help, I'll stop poking round in python code this afternoon long enough to fix a few myself too! ~ Veledan • Talk 15:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)