Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Filedelinkerbot
Operator: Krd (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 16:46, Wednesday January 29, 2014 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: No
Function overview: Removing links to and instances of files (and their related captions) for that are deleted on Commons.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#MissingFilesBot > see Category:Articles with missing files
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: approximately 50 per day
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details: The bot watches the deletion log at Commons and removes file references from articles (namespace 0) of files which have been deleted. For file references that have associated captions, those are removed as well. This bot would operate as an addition to the function of User:CommonsDelinker, which is performing inadequately.
The code has been running as de:Benutzer:Dateientlinkerbot at de.wikipedia for nearly two years with 11k edits. Necessary modifications to meet en.wikipedia requirements have been made.
Discussion
Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests#MissingFilesBot > see Category:Articles with missing files for additional information and consensus on the need for this bot. (In summary, ImageRemovalBot only catches files that were deleted from en.wikipedia, not Commons, and "there is little to no development capacity for CommonsDelinker", creating the need for a new bot to perform this task.) This bot's operator, Krd, is a trusted editor on de.wikipedia and successfully operates four bots there: de:Benutzer:Krdbot, de:Benutzer:NowCommons-Sichtbot, de:Benutzer:Bilddrehungsbot-Sichtbot, and de:Benutzer:Dateientlinkerbot (which functions similarly to the proposed User:Filedelinkerbot). - tucoxn\talk 20:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)