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MappeComuniBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Sette-quattro (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Tasks: Upload up-to-date maps of Italian municipalities. There are about 8000 municipalities, boundaries are updated yearly by the national statistical agency. Here is an example of image that will be uploaded, the description will be automatically updated for each municipality: [1]

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: upload several images automatically

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic supervised (through OpenRefine)

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run each year

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): I don't know the edit rate allowed using the new OpenRefine function for uploading images. As fast as it can, i suppose.

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): used through OpenRefine Batch Uploading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc6aNNmsNCI

Sette-quattro (talk) 16:03, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

• Please make test run. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:34, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Done a test run Sette-quattro (talk) 21:10, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Looks OK for me, but please fix space in Category: Maps of municipalities of the province of Monza and Brianza. Will be good idea to create templates for legend and data source. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:01, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok, I will create the two templates. Thank you and best regards. Sette-quattro (talk) 09:16, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Why have more than 1000 edits been done before the request is approved and the bot flag is applied? Krd 13:56, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

@Krd sorry, i thought the process was concluded with the last message of @EugeneZelenko. Since the new shapefiles for 2024 are available I'd like to reactivate this bot. Yesterday I uploaded one province but will wait until your approval. Thank you and best regards Sette-quattro (talk) 07:08, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

You have requested a bot flag, so I think the process will be concluded when the bot flag is set. Am I mistaken? Krd 11:20, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Description should be fixed like this. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:30, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

AmeisenBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Ameisenigel (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Adding information that is already included in templates to the Structured Data of the file.

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Intermittently

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): Depending on QuickStatements

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): QuickStatements

Ameisenigel (talk) 08:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

Please make a small test run. --Krd 12:54, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Test run done --Ameisenigel (talk) 10:21, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Looks OK for me. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

ImagehashBot (talk · contribs)

Operator:

• Zache (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)
• Ipr1 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: adding pHash checksum (P9310) and Imagehash difference hash (P12563) values to the photos.

Documentation for the hashes

• pHash: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/432-Looks-Like-It.html
• dHash: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/529-Kind-of-Like-That.html

Example images with P9310 and P12563 values

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patricia-Seppala-1995.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Sibelius-1927.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potato_crop_lifting_(JOKAMT2Ju29-2).tif

First targets are photos from Europeana, Estonian, Finland, Sweden and Flickr, but long term target is to add imagehashes to all commons photos. Currently we have used FinnaUploadBot for Finna images. Reason for the new account is to make dedicated account and service for the non Finna related edits.

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): first a batch jobs, later continuous

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute):

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s):

• Python, Imagehash library, Pywikibot

Zache (talk) 15:08, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

What is use for such hashes? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

One can use them to compare the similarity of pictures by checking how much the identifiers differ to detect duplicates and match photos in different repositories. We have used image hashes to prevent duplicates when uploading files and to prevent the wrong photos from being updated when reuploading photos from Finna with better quality and/or updating metadata. --Zache (talk) 16:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Such hashes make much more sense as part of Commons database. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:26, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

In SDC they are filemetadata and in particular using SPARQL it would be easy way for querying and sharing the hashes for external usage. Ie. it is part of metadata for the files. Zache (talk) 14:52, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Also, even if the information would be added to the Wikimedia Commons database (there are good technical reasons why one would like to use an external service instead of adding this to the MediaWiki core), I would like to note that we are populating SDC values from the Commons internal database using bots. Most notable in this context are the SHA-1 checksum, mime type, image width, and image height. (Commons:Structured data/Modeling/Meta) And yes, there would be probaply better ways to do this, but currently using bots is the preferred method. --Zache (talk) 06:42, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Is there any community discussion that such data shall be generated at large scale? Krd 06:53, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

I am not aware that there would have been a wider discussion. Current discussions, to my knowledge, are related to the Fæ's User:Fæ/Imagehash and village pump discussions 1 and 2. In my structured data property proposal in 2021, there were no follow-up comments in Wikimedia Commons. Phabricator has some tickets (for example, phab:T121797) related to image hashing.

Also, just for background, I am running ImageHash-Toolforge, which has approximately 25% of Wikimedia Commons bitmap images (jpg, tiff, png) indexed with phash and dhash. I also made a Wikimania lightning talk proposal for it. (Proposals are currently under review.) My current idea was to proceed gradually when adding values to SDC, and my current personal need was to add hashes to European and Estonian photos before the Wikimedia Hackathon, Tallinn, in May so they would be available there. (see my question in Commons_talk:Bots/Requests#Extending_FinnaUploadBot).

However, if you think I should do the village pump discussion or the discussion on the Structured Data talk pages, I am happy to start these. --Zache (talk) 07:49, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Please do. Krd 05:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

APPERbot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Wurgl (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: One-Time job: Remove 550+ languagelinks to not existing pages in de-WP, see Commons:Village_pump/Technical#Interwikilinks_to_german_wikipedia_with_no_corresponding_german_article

Update some the Graphic File:Normdatenentwicklung-de-wikipedia.svg 4 times a year, it already is created on the tools-Servers

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10 (like in deWP)

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): PHP

Wurgl (talk) 21:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

I am running this bot in deWP since January 2017 the bot has currently 1.715.969 Edits, but only 927.842 since I control it.

For this (first) one-time job look at https://persondata.toolforge.org/data/common_diff.txt there is a diff showing what the bot would do --Wurgl (talk) 21:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Please make test run. Please create bot's user page. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:55, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Svetlov Artem Bot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Svetlov Artem (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

• Change date=2004-07-17 12:00:00 to date={{Taken on|2004-07-17 12:00:00|location=Russia}} or Russian subregions for photos in manually selected categories.
• Creating categories like Category:Tula_Oblast_photographs_taken_on_2004-07-17 and Category:Russia_photographs_taken_on_2004-07-17 if not exists.
• Remove [[Category:Russia photographs taken on 2004-07-17]] from file description if edit is success.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic unsupervised on manually set categories by bot operator

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): multiple manual run

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): pywikibot

Svetlov Artem Bot (talk) 18:26, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

• Please make test run. Also bot account should not be used for generic edits like this request. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

  Here is contributions: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Svetlov_Artem_Bot

  I used to run this bot from my main account last year, and user @User:Cryptic-waveform asked me to run it from bot account: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Svetlov_Artem#c-Svetlov_Artem-20231107212100-Cryptic-waveform-20231107211900 Svetlov Artem Bot (talk) 16:18, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Please leave the bot account exclusively for your bot's edits.

Looks good to me. Some files have duplicate {{Taken with}} tags like File:Zukovskiy industrial railway 2022-10 1664723936.JPG for example. Would it be possible to remove the dupes on the fly when dealing with the files? --Achim55 (talk) 18:49, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

There was some manual inserted templates. Taken on and Taken with are completly diffirent templates, one for date, second for camera. I can not now to automatically edit Taken with template, it need complicated investigation of EXIF camera tags, witch allways differs from real camera names. Svetlov Artem (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

What is the reason to do such edits, in which way does it improve the file page? Is there any community discussion about doing this at large scale? --Krd 06:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

I was asked by user @MasterRus21thCentury, may you comment? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Svetlov_Artem#c-MasterRus21thCentury-20231026174700-Category:Russia_photographs_taken_on_2008-05-01

Such categories useful for discovery photos in series: if someone photographed a train, bus or village house, there is possibility to see other photographs from next village or train line at same day from same user. Svetlov Artem (talk) 16:23, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

•  Support this bot actions Юрий Д.К 01:56, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

NinoBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Ignacio Rodríguez (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

• Dealing and cleaning {{Book}} template on spanish book files, for compatibility at Spanish Wikisource.
• Changing Author names in database form (LastName, FirstName, 1889-1934) into {{Creator}} templates when it applies.
• Simple tasks such as changing {{Description}} to {{Book}} on book files.

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): intermitently

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10 edits per minute

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): pywikibot

Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 16:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

• Please make test run. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

  @EugeneZelenko I conducted a series of test, both here at Commons and on Wikidata. I finally opted for a less intrusive modality, that doesn't modify the Commons page too much, and instead just creates an entry on Wikidata and links it here. You can see the results

  • File:Alma de niña. Irresponsable (1903).pdf here
  • d:Q124799320 and here.

  Since the volume of edits won't be massive, and I would be doing this only occasionally, I'm not sure if I really need the bot flag. Still I will leave this request open for any remarks you might want to add. Regards, Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 16:06, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

  So far I'm doing the bulk of the edits at Wikidata, but still one edit per book here (I'm doing this with my main account as they're script assisted edits, not automatic). I will edit the bot request to reflect another task I figured out: changing bare author references to {{Creator}} templates. Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 06:17, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

  Revision #861215671 This is a prototypic edit. It moves parameters around as a side effect, and it may remove blank parameters it doesn't recognize, but filled parameters always stays the same. So, if it's mandatory to respect the parameter order, I will figure it out. Also it doesn't deal with the blank spaces either side of the equal sign (=). Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 06:44, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

  If you are planning to do the edits with the bot account, please do the test with the bot account. If not, do you withdraw this request? Please advise. Krd 07:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

GeertivpBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Geertivp (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

• Add missing SDC depict statements on media files (File namespace)
• Add missing Wikidata Infobox template to Category pages (Category namespace)

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatically, but monitored

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Intermittently

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 8 edits per minute

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Pywikibot, Python scripts are on GitHub:

• https://github.com/geertivp/Pywikibot/blob/main/add_image_from_sdc.py
• https://github.com/geertivp/Pywikibot/blob/main/copy_label.py

Test runs are here.

Geert Van Pamel (talk) 22:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

• Could you please elaborate how `depicts` is filled? For example, File:Novosibirsk Regional Museum at night 2.jpg should depict building and condition of shoot (night shoot) should be qualifier. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:40, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

  The image depicts a "night view of the Royal museum", expressed as SDC depicts (P180) nighttime view (Q28333482) with qualifier of (P642) City Trade House (Q19908752), based upon and generated by the original Wikidata statement Q19908752#P3451 City Trade House (Q19908752) nighttime view (P3451) (M19171168). By doing so, both the SDC depict statement in Wikimedia Commons and the Wikidata statement are describing the same fact.

  What qualifier would you use instead? Can you please elaborate more about the exact statement that you would create? Thanks. Geert Van Pamel (talk) 16:23, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

  Maybe you would like to see: depicts (P180) City Trade House (Q19908752) with qualifier depicted format (P7984) nighttime view (Q28333482)? Please give your point of view/preferences. Geert Van Pamel (talk) 14:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

  It makes sense to have broader discussion on matter of qualifiers. May be bot should be limited just for subjects for now? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:35, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

  @Geertivp:  ? --Krd 14:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

  Or we might generate two statements without qualifiers:

  depicts (P180) City Trade House (Q19908752)

  depicted format (P7984) nighttime view (Q28333482) Geert Van Pamel (talk) 19:43, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

  But here we have the problem that depicted format (P7984) may not be used as a qualifier: d:Property:P7984#P2302 => property scope constraint (Q53869507) as main value (Q54828448). In addition to that it can only be used with work of art (Q838948) entities and requires item-requires-statement constraint (Q21503247) genre (P136), which is in general not the case in this suggested usage. Which other qualifier property could be used instead? Geert Van Pamel (talk) 18:51, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

  I cannot follow. Please advise. --Krd 05:04, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

  @Geertivp:  ? Krd 07:31, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

  In my previous reply I concluded that depicted format (P7984), because of its defined constraints, can't be used as a qualifier and only in some specific domains as work of art (Q838948). So we would need another more generic (currently not existing) property that could be used as a qualifier with a generic meaning of "type of representation", e.g. nighttime view (Q28333482) in the above example. Geert Van Pamel (talk) 20:53, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

  What does this mean regarding this request, what should be the conclusion? Krd 04:30, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

  We would need a new property "type of representation", that could be added as a qualifier to the Depict statements in Wikimedia Commons SDC for all images that are registered in Wikidata, and don't have a image (P18) property in Wikidata. Geert Van Pamel (talk) 07:45, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

  Are you going to take care of property creation? Krd 09:09, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

  See d:wikidata:property proposal/Type of representation Geert Van Pamel (talk) 19:28, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you. Please advise when the discussion is closed. Krd 07:02, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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