Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/EdinBot
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Approved.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:33, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
EdinBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Edinwiki (talk • contribs • logs)
Task/s: Creating about 10-15k links on Wikidata to bswiki for the NGC and IC astronomical objects.
Function details: Hi all. I would like to request a bot flag for EdinBot. There are several projects on bswiki for mass article creations which I'm working on at the moment. One of them is generating all the NGC and IC objects (about 10-15k pages). That would require me to also add the relevant links on Wikidata to articles on bswiki. The bot is currently using the Pywikipediabot framework. If you need to know more, please let me know. Regards. --Edinwiki (talk) 15:27, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Can you make 50 test editions at low speed? I think 15k editions are few to request a bot flag in Wikidata. There are bots making arround 150.000 editions/per day. If you create the articles adding the local interwiki link [[en: XXX]] one bot will do the job for you. If you're going to create more articles in the future go ahead with the request. I am not opposed.--Kizar (talk) 00:52, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- The reason that I requested this is that it would require 15k more revisions (30k in total) when I add the links on bswiki and then have another bot clean that up. That would simply be a waste of resources. In the future there are more mass creations on the planning so I think the flag will certainly be useful. -- Edinwiki (talk) 17:39, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, go ahead with the test editions. --Kizar (talk) 19:25, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Done 50. Regards. -- Edinwiki (talk) 00:52, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, go ahead with the test editions. --Kizar (talk) 19:25, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- The reason that I requested this is that it would require 15k more revisions (30k in total) when I add the links on bswiki and then have another bot clean that up. That would simply be a waste of resources. In the future there are more mass creations on the planning so I think the flag will certainly be useful. -- Edinwiki (talk) 17:39, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Kizar (talk) 13:52, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Thieol (Thieol) 19:52, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Regards, — Moe Epsilon 18:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- If there are no objections, the bot will be approved in 24h--Ymblanter (talk) 20:46, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support -- Cheers, Riley Huntley 02:29, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]