Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/STBot 14

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 Request Expired.

STBot 14

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Test lists of images populated by category or by page to determine whether the image exists on enwiki, exists only on commons, or does not exist.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): As requested by users.

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

Function Details: I'll decide on a syntax for the interface when I actually get around to programming this bot. We'll use a simple "request" page in the bot's userspace - people will list a category of pages or a single page, the bot will check every image there to see where it resides and will output it to that same page.

Discussion

Another useful feature would be alerting you if new images turned up. For example, I might move all the gull images to Commons, only for someone to upload a whole bunch shortly after. If I could say 'alert me if any more free images are uploaded' it would make things easier; I don't particularly want to watchlist every article I check to make sure I don't miss anything in future. Richard001 (talk) 08:59, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure I entirely understand your proposal, but isn't this something that could be done directly on the Toolserver? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:36, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Request Expired. BJ^Talk 07:37, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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