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Femto Bot 7

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

Time filed: 21:05, Sunday, January 17, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): perl

Source code available: no

Function overview: Creates/updates lists of articles by location that require images.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Several year old request from User:WereSpielChequers.

Edit period(s): Will probably do a full scan monthly, might remove "fixed" items from the list daily.

Estimated number of pages affected: Initially one page for UK articles. May well add more, as there seems to be a demand for this type of report.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): n/a (will only be editing it's "own" pages).

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Bot flag need re-enabling.

Function details: Produces a report of pages in a given geographical area which require images. Details may vary by region. For example the UK page will have OSGB grid squares, which make it easier to find Geograph images.

UK example layout

Discussion

Where is the report produced at? How specific are the regions, e.g. how many report pages do you expect to create?

Approved for trial (UK report). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Sounds like a straight-forward list-generating task that doesn't involve direct article edits. We can probably look at your sample report to see if there's any issues, though I can't foresee anything. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 22:40, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've yet to see how big the (UK) report will be, but I expect a few thousand entries, which would go on one page - probably in my user space while I am trialling. Later it may go in Wikipedia space, probably under the "Database reports" hierarchy.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:59, 18 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]
We could also do with a list for Ireland, and ideally split out lists for Wales and Scotland. The finer the geography the better the chance of getting wikiprojects involved. At the other end of the scale, if there are other parts of the world with as many images on Commons it would be good to get lists (the UK is 0.1% of the Earth's landmass and about 10% of Wikimedia Commons, so there can't be many places currently as well covered on commons. But we might have photographers interested in lists of articles without images in an area they are or will be in. ϢereSpielChequers 13:41, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Any updates, Rich? — Earwig talk 06:40, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I have, for example, this which is fairly raw still. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
And here is the type of page generated for Aberdeen. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:57, 18 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
@Earwig: @WereSpielChequers: All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:59, 18 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
How often is this going to edit, and how many pages per day? Ideally I'd like some assurance of hard maximums for now, given prior concerns from the community. --slakr\ talk / 04:34, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I envision once per month, and possibly updates on demand, it will only be editing pages created by me to hold the results. As to the number of pages it may be one or two (British Isles or UK and Ireland), one per country/territory (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, NI, IOM, Jersey Guernsey) or one per primary subdivision for the UK and Ireland.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:52, 19 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Really useful reports, thanks Rich. As for updating the more frequently the better please, daily would be better than monthly. It is much easier to teach newbies to add images using this list if they don't have to be told to remove entries they have added images for. ϢereSpielChequers 13:27, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It's quite a nice tool for spotting errors too. I have recovered an academy from the sea, and moved an arboretum to its correct country already. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:52, 19 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Trial complete. (@WereSpielChequers:) User:Rich Farmbrough/temp138. Only surprise is that there are some empty subdivisions. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:15, 21 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]

@Hellknowz:, @The Earwig:... any comments? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 04:08, 25 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
@Rich Farmbrough: That was wayyy more than "one page." In fact, you've made thousands of edits—and the bot is still running and has made, in some cases three edits to a single page in 24 hours. --slakr\ talk / 05:01, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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