Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Commons fair use upload bot


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Commons fair use upload bot
Operator:

Time filed: 02:00, Thursday March 17, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Unsupervised and automatic, runs on Toolserver

Programming language(s): Python, mwclient

Source code available: Still under development

Function overview: This is not an En bot but a cross-wiki global bot for Commons. See commons:Commons:Village_pump. Its purpose is to take images that are being deleted from Commons but in use on En and upload them to En as fair use candidates, tagged with Fair use candidate from Commons (and similarly for other projects accepting NFC). It will leave notices on talk pages of articles using the images. This will help people who have an interest in retaining a non-free image under En's non-free content policy after it is deleted from Commons. I'm making a request here because it needs an admin bit on En in order to upload on top of the Commons image (which is not deleted until afterwards). Neither confirmed users nor file movers can do this on En.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): commons:Commons:Village_pump

Edit period(s): continuous/frequently

Estimated number of pages affected: About 10 per day

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details:
 * Uploads files being deleted on Commons that are in use on En with Fair use candidate from Commons tag.
 * Adds talk page notices to articles using the image with Fair use candidate from Commons notice.

Discussion
Is there some check to ensure that the deletion is because the image is fair use? In particular, will it screen out instances where the image is being deleted as unquestionable copyvio? If so, this seems eminently useful. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:31, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It will be necessary to verify that the tag on Commons was added by a Commons administrator. Those administrators would have the discretion to either delete the image entirely or tag it. Since virtually any image can potentially be used under fair use, it is quite difficult for an automatic system to distinguish legitimate fair use candidates from images unlikely to comply with local NFC policy. Dcoetzee 17:43, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 01:02, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * As noted above, this bot cannot operate without admin privileges (otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered to request permission here at En). How do I request admin privileges for the bot? Dcoetzee 03:47, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, since you are an admin here, for the trial running it under your main account would be permissible. Final approval would be via WP:ADMINBOTS which just has some extra notification requirements.  MBisanz  talk 20:33, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay thanks :-) I have an idea for an alternative implementation taking advantage of image redirects which I'm going to try first. Dcoetzee 20:47, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Any news?  MBisanz  talk 20:28, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I implemented my alternative implementation based on image redirects but it proved to be problematic due to a bug in CommonsDelinker which doesn't handle image redirects correctly and removed the images regardless. I have another idea that might work without requiring an admin flag but because there's not an API for it I'll require more time to implement it. Dcoetzee 07:52, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Just noting I talked to Derrick and he's working on other things right now and will be getting back to this.  MBisanz  talk 01:16, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Any news?  MBisanz  talk 23:15, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No objection to restarting at a later date.  MBisanz  talk 23:50, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
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