Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotMultichill 4


 * 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 Symbol keep vote.svgSymbol support vote.svg Speedily Approved.

BotMultichill 4
Operator: Multichill

Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually assisted

Programming language(s): Python - pywikipedia

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia (replace.py most of the time)

Function overview: Help migrate GFDL images.

Edit period(s): For a few days weeks until migration is over

Estimated number of pages affected: Up to 122,500 images

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Think so, but not very relevant with this task

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

Function details: Together with MGA73 I migrated a lot of images. At first I myself did a lot of easy migrations. Later on I made lists and MGA73 ran a bot. Sometimes I ran a bot too. At Commons we emptied out Category:License migration candidates, but because Category:Wikipedia license migration candidates is not empty yet, images keep showing up in that category. This request is basicly the same as task 1 at Bots/Requests for approval/MGA73bot 2.

Discussion
Suggest speedy approval. Experienced bot op, known task. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 21:23, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Are you sure that exclusion compliance is not necessary? Is it not possible that someone might place nobots on one of the image pages, as a poor substitute to Do not move to Commons or something? This is probably not going to happen or affect you; I'm simply speculating. The Earwig (Talk &#124; Contribs) 05:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It was I that mentioned moving to Commons in my bot request (MGA73bot). I check every image before I move it but I think it should be the copyright status and not the uploader that should tell it image could go to Commons. But it will only take 2 seconds to make the bot skip these images.
 * If you do not want your image migrated you should add "opt-out" (not somthing like "nobot"). If you added opt-out then the image will not be in the migration candidates category so I think it is hard to see a problem. But we could do a check to see if the nobot-template is on any images in the category. It will only take 2 seconds to make the bot skip them. --MGA73 (talk) 17:49, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Pywikipedia skips nobots. multichill (talk) 18:09, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

BAGAssistanceNeeded
 * We feel like running, multichill (talk) 18:52, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Worked at commons. No problems here. - Kingpin13 (talk) 19:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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