Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Milk's Favorite Bot III


 * 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 delete vote.svg Denied.

Milk's Favorite Bot III
Operator: «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie

Automatic or Manually Assisted:
 * Fully automatic.

Programming Language(s):
 * Python.

Function Summary: Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):
 * This bot will tag images with missing copyright tags.
 * Daily.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):
 * No.

Function Details:
 * This bot will tag images with missing copyright tags and leave a message on the uploaders talk page.

Discussion
Will it use a custom tag? Where will it get the images to tag from? -- Chris  03:00, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It will use the same tag as John Bot III. «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  03:02, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * John Bot III has already been replaced. BJ Talk 03:04, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I really don't see a problem with redundancy here. «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  03:07, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * ImageTaggingBot has been running for two years (longer under OrphanBot?) without fault. I don't see how adding another bot to this task is at all useful. BJ Talk 19:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's last edit was a month ago. «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  19:14, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Touché. BJ Talk 19:18, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, and may I also mention that MFB will be on 24/7 (until I move of course) Any further objections? Thanks! «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  19:20, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Is that particularly necessary, I mean tagging them is not really time-sensitive. RichardΩ612  Ɣ ɸ 19:37, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * What? Keeping it running 24/7? No, of course not. Its just that my computer stays on 24/7, so why not the bot? «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  19:42, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I've shut down ImageTaggingBot until I have time to fix some problems it has with repeat notifications of users and with failing to handle obsolete tags properly. It would be useful to have another bot as backup for it. --Carnildo (talk) 20:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * How many images will it check daily?  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »   (talk) 02:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I really can't answer this one. Hundreds of images is my estimate. «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  02:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * How does the bot know which images it has already checked?  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »   (talk) 07:08, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's in the source code. «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  13:58, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Where is the source code?  « l | Ψrom3th3ăn ™ | l »   (talk) 15:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * In the pywikipedia framework. «  Milk's Favorite  Cøøkie  15:17, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This bot would be a near exact clone of User:John Bot III (Currently Offline) and User:MifterBot (I have heavily re-written the script from the original python script but the base of the code is still intact) with the only differences being minute and being that I am in the process of acquiring a tool server account so that MifterBot can run continuously, I really don't think that we need any more bots running around tagging no-source images and pd images for deletion, we already have User:MifterBot, User:John Bot III (Currently Offline), and User:ImageTaggingBot (Currently Offline) and as soon as I get tool server access MifterBot will be running continuously (As I said above) so I am not sure if we need any more bots doing the same task. Thoughts?  --Mifter (talk) 18:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * MFC, I currently have MifterBot set to check the last 10,000 Image uploads to insure that each run overlaps with the last, and if you want, I could send you a copy of the source code via e-mail to help you with setting some of the parameters that took me a while to figure out :), although this is all dependent on wither your bot gets approved :(. All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 19:00, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

←I knew there was a clone of this running. I don't think clones are needed at this time. BJ Talk 06:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm also concerned that MFB II made a good number of mistakes yesterday (see User talk:Milk's Favorite Bot II, User talk:Xenocidic) some of which still have not been fixed at the time of this writing. While I don't doubt the good intentions of MFC, I think he's taking too much on his plate right now. xeno  ( talk ) 14:47, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Are you up to speed on the relevant bot opt-out policies here? – Quadell (talk) 14:56, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I would recommend denying this bot based on comments from Bjweeks and xeno. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:44, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

BJ Talk 07:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


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