Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EarwigBot 9


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EarwigBot 9
Operator:

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Available at ~earwig/earwigbot; see wrongmimebot_run.py

Function overview: The bot goes through a list of files whose extension does not match their MIME type, and tags them with rename media.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Village pump (technical)/Archive 71

Edit period(s): Once a week on Wednesdays

Estimated number of pages affected: 2050 edits or so on the initial run, about 15–20 every week.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: The bot generates a report that is very similar to ~earwig/cgi-bin/file_extensions.py for the following MIME types: Then, the bot adds to each file unless it already has rename media, a redirect, wrongmime, or nobots. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  18:21, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * image/gif
 * image/jpeg
 * image/png
 * image/svg+xml
 * image/x-bmp
 * image/x-ms-bmp

Discussion

 * Seems useful. Tim1357 (talk) 20:30, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Ill approve this in 4 days if nobody opposes. Tim1357 (talk) 01:55, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Erm... wouldn't a trial be better first? &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  02:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Three of each mime type, for luck. Josh Parris 10:08, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find any problems; the task appears to have been done as expected. &mdash;  The Earwig   (talk)  21:34, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Good job! Tim1357 (talk) 01:14, 10 March 2010 (UTC)


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