User:OgreBot/Commons instructions
What
[edit]As of December 2010, there is a very large backlog at Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons. I (User:Magog the Ogre) created a bot to deal with the problem. There are several steps that an administrator must take before deleting an image on en.wikipedia:
- 1) Verify the image on commons is a) the same image (or higher resolution) and b) same file type.
- 2) Verify attribution is properly given.
- 3) Verify the image is in fact eligible for commons.
- 4) Verify that there isn't an image superseding the commons image (e.g., en:File:Example.jpg exists, which means we can't access.commons:File:Example.jpg).
- 5) Delink all instances of the image on en.wp.
Why
[edit]The community has decided a bot cannot do steps 2 or 3; it just requires too much human review. However, steps 4 and 5 can take more time than either 2 or 3. As such, I've written a bot script that:
- Does step 4
- Does step 5
- Does step 1b (trivial)
Instructions
[edit]- All you have to do is
- Be an administrator.
- Make sure the commons name parameter is correct on the {{Now Commons}} template.
- Tag the image with {{User:OgreBot/approved}} (if there is any interest in this bot, I will create a script to considerably quicken up the process - or I might create one anyway).
- Wait for the bot to perform the delinkage and mark the image deletion.
- A few things to note before beginning
- If you're not an administrator, and add this template, the bot will not perform the delinkage. Message me if it's a big deal for you.
- Beware of images with Non-ASCII characters; BotMultichillT had a bug where it misreported the filename (e.g., File:Žaliakalnio.jpg instead of File:Žaliakalnio.jpg [1]). If OgreBot can't find the image in the {{Now Commons}} template, it will look for an identical image on commons on its own.
- I'll be doing some rescaled images manually, but don't worry about it, just tag the images as you see them.
- The bot doesn't run all the time; it only runs when I start it up, so it might take a few days before the image is marked ready for deletion.
- This bot is only meant to run for images with a different name on commons than on English.
How much times do you expect to save clearing out the backlog this way?
[edit]It depends on which of the categories. Most of the images in Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons as of unknown date are already delinked; most of the images on the dated categories are not. I expect about 10% of the former, and 50-70% of the latter. I've noticed quite a large difference when I alone have been the one using the bot.
Where do I go to report a bug or if I have a question?
[edit]To my talk page, of course!