Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FastilyBot 10


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FastilyBot 10
Operator:

Time filed: 21:53, Wednesday, June 1, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Java

Source code available: Will be linked to Bot's user page

Function overview: Reviving Bots/Requests for approval/Fbot 5

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Requested by Cloudbound

Edit period(s): Continuous - Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: 1-2k

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: This is a uncontroversial maintenance/categorization task, intended to facilitate tracking of orphaned free files via. Files tagged with are categorized in Category:Wikipedia orphaned files, where other users can either de-orphan the files and/or move them to Commons. This task also performs a complementary function to Bots/Requests for approval/FastilyBot 4. - F ASTILY   22:46, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Discussion

 * So the task is to look for unused free files which are not tagged with orphan image and add that template, right? Some questions:
 * 1) How do you define 'free'? Is the file automatically 'free' if it doesn't appear in Category:All non-free media? There are plenty of files which neither appear in Category:All non-free media nor in Category:All free media.
 * 2) How do you define 'unused'? Is a file unused as long as it isn't used in the main namespace, or must it be unused in all namespaces?
 * Looks like a useful task. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:25, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is correct.
 * For simplicity, I'll only be using Category:All free media as a generator.
 * Unused is defined as no file usage in the main namespace
 * - F ASTILY   22:37, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * So e.g. userphotos for a userpage are unused? I'm not sure if that is desirable. --Stefan2 (talk) 23:09, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair point. To keep false positives low, I'll have the bot only flagging files with zero   links in any namespace -  F ASTILY   08:54, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Since created daily galleries of new files, maybe file use in Multichill's userspace shouldn't count? I'm not sure if there are other pages which should be excluded.
 * I assume that you design task 4 and task 10 so that your bot isn't edit warring with itself. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:07, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I have started an ignore list for the task; feel free to add any other titles you can think of. The bot won't be edit-warring with itself -  F ASTILY   10:39, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Since there are no other objections, could this please be approved for trial, thanks - F ASTILY   23:35, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


 * — xaosflux  Talk 02:13, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * , everything worked as expected - F ASTILY   10:50, 29 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Task approved. — xaosflux  Talk 15:02, 30 June 2016 (UTC)


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