User:Image-req-proj-bot
| This user is a bot | |
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| (talk · contribs) | |
| Operator | Traveler100 |
| Author | Traveler100 |
| Approved? | Not yet |
| Flagged? | no |
| Edit period(s) | Periodically |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language(s) | Works through AWB |
| Exclusion compliant? | No |
| Source code published? | user:Traveler100/imagereqproj |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? |  |
| Other information | Function is to move article talk pages currently in Wikipedia requested photographs of people into sub-categories so that the number of articles in a specific category are of a manageable number. |
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Situation
There are a large number of requests for photographs some requests are currently in very large categories. For example Category:Plant articles needing photos has over 16,000 requests and Category:Rail transport articles needing images has over 7,000 requests.
As these categories are so large no one is going to work through these lists.
Proposal
If these lists were split into smaller categories based on a specific topics it would increase the likelihood of someone addressing these requests. It would also make it easy to work through looking for fulfilled requests or images on other wiki sites. I therefore propose a bot that will go through the main requested photographs of people categories and edit the talk page of articles so that they belong to a more specific sub-category. For example Wikipedia requested photographs of Saints and Wikipedia requested photographs of baseball people.
This should be achieved by removing the need-photo=yes tag from the project template and adding the {{Image requested}} template with appropriate classification.
Specification 1
Use AWB automatic bot user in bot mode to
Will use as basis the source used for a numbrer of years as with Semi-automatic wiki browser but with options switched of to ensure edits are specific and restricted.
- Go through article talk pages in
- a specific category
- If article talk page contains the WikiProject
- removed yes y 1 from need-photo = parameter in WPBiography template
- If reqphoto template exists on the talk page
- add to reqphoto template category shown in list for the WikiProject found.
- else
- add reqphoto template with category.
- The bot will also change reqphoto where there is a in= to people of
- The bot will also change reqphoto and other derivatives to Image requested
Notification
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Comments
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