Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Peter17-Bot
- 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. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Approved--Ymblanter (talk) 14:53, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Peter17-Bot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Peter17 (talk • contribs • logs)
Task/s: Add the Commons category claim (property p373) for the Roman Catholic dioceses, based on the English Wikipedia list.
Function details: I have programmed a bot using pywikibot. My bot reads this article section and extracts the list of the articles about the dioceses. If the article exists and has a wikidata entry and this wikidata entry has no p373 claim, my bot searches for a Commons category of the same name as the WP:en article. If this category exists and is not a redirect, it is added as a p373 property. If it is a redirect, the redirect target category is added as a p373 claim.
I have run this bot in read-only and it shows that about 1000 categories match and can be added. I have run the bot in semi-automatic mode and made the last 3 edits of Special:Contributions/Peter17-Bot as a proof that it works. I have the 1065 results "Qxxxx->Title of category" cached in a text file.
Best regards. --Peter17 (talk) 19:18, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, trial edits look good to me. Legoktm (talk) 07:12, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for your support and for the permissions upgrade. Can I proceed or should I wait for more comments? Peter17 (talk) 15:58, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- If there is no objection, I will proceed tomorrow. Peter17 (talk) 16:04, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]