Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FastilyBot 10

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FastilyBot 10

Operator: Fastily (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

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

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Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Java

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

Function overview: Reviving Wikipedia: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 {{

Orphan image}} 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 Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FastilyBot 4. -FASTILY 22:46, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply
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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)[reply
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  • Yes, that is correct.
  1. For simplicity, I'll only be using Category:All free media as a generator.
  2. Unused is defined as no file usage in the main namespace
-FASTILY 22:37, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply
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Fair point. To keep false positives low, I'll have the bot only flagging files with zero fileusage links in any namespace -FASTILY 08:54, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Since Multichill 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
Stefan2 (talk) 20:07, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply
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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 -FASTILY 10:39, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Since there are no other objections, could this please be approved for trial, thanks -FASTILY 23:35, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply
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Approved for trial (50 edits or 10 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux Talk 02:13, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. [1], everything worked as expected -FASTILY 10:50, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Approved. Task approved. — xaosflux Talk 15:02, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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