Commons:Bots/Work requests

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This is a page for requesting work to be done by a bot. This is an appropriate place to simply put ideas for bots. However be aware of various tools available to all users which can be used to accomplish the work without the need for a bot:
  1. Gadget Cat-a-lot can be used for most category copying
  2. VisualFileChange tool can be used for mass-changes of one author's uploaded files, or files in a category, creating a mass-deletion-request, let you insert tags to the file-description-pages (even copy from exif/meta-data). You can also perform find and replace operations with or without JavaScript regular expressions (regexp). A common use case is: "I've changed my username". It's a web-tool and can be launched directly.
  3. Commons:AutoWikiBrowser can be used for large number of supervised and automatic edits
  4. Commons:Batch uploading page can be used to request mass image uploads
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21.000 imags with coordinate to commons category[edit]

Hello, I found a way to clear out the Category:Media with geo-coordinates needing categories.

  1. Get the coordinate from the image
  2. Search with OSM-Overpass-API for every admin-level with Wikidata-Values for this coordinate from the image
  3. get the deepest commons-category from wikidata ( If not then it goes one admin-level up ( from Village --> County --> State --> Country)

With this concept I could categorize nearly 130.000 images by hand in the last two weeks with a perl-script and the tool "Cat-a-lot". Now we can found with this usefull search that only 21.687 images are left. But in this last images there mostly only 1 or 3 images in the same category. So I think this last setting of nearly 10.000 categories in 21.000 images can done by a bot.

See also:

I know there is a small number of images, which not work with this process. All images in en:International waters get no admin-level. Maybe there is another way. Also we need a new category for images with wrong coordinates like 99° north or 185 east. --sk (talk) 18:35, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

@Rudolphous, Jim.henderson, MB-one, Multichill: Thanks to RudolphousBot! Yesterday this category lost over 8000 images. :-) I think with one or two other working days of RudolphusBot the category will be empty. At the moment only 11.476 images are left. -- sk (talk) 14:18, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Status currently is that around 4000 are left (see link above). Most of them are people (some even DR worthy), wrong gps coordinates. Some manual help is welcome. Rudolphous (talk) 07:07, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Replace coord by GPS EXIF template in some files I uploaded[edit]

Vicuña uploader keeps messing with coordinates of some files. I need a bot to replace {{location}} with {{GPS EXIF}} in the last files I upload. Those files are in category:Urbasa and have a name beginning with "Serra d'Urbasa". Just going for all files uploaded by me in that category would be equivalent, or going to my last 45 uploaded files. If more of my recent files are affected it won't be a problem because EXIF data is OK.--Pere prlpz (talk) 23:38, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Done for 48 pages. — regards, Revi 01:20, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Louvre museum renamed their exhibition rooms[edit]

The Louvre renamed all their exhibtion rooms before the Summer. Wikidata is update. Now we would like to update Commons. A bot is needed to rename ~350 categories and move the files. Shonagon could provide all the technical info necessary to the bot owner who would be happy to help us ;) Pyb (talk) 19:39, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

@Pyb: As a admin you can directly post batch rename reuests to COM:CDC. --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:06, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Add 19,194 photos by photographer Tudor Washington Collins to Commons category bearing his name[edit]

Hello,

The 19,194 images retrieved using this search: insource:aucklandmuseum.com -incategory:"Tudor Washington Collins" "tudor washington" that are not currently in the Tudor Washington Collins category should be added to it. I did this for some 537 files that were in the Images from Auckland Museum category using VisualFileChange.js, but then discovered all these extra files. Could someone help with this please? Sorry for not linking the categories here; something odd is happening with the wikicode. Thanks. — Hugh (talk) 06:33, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

I've made your links work. --bjh21 (talk) 16:57, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

✓ Done via a custom script due to size. --Fæ (talk) 11:20, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Make a bot that uploads pictures from pixabay to commons[edit]

There is a image depository called http://www.pixabay.com and all the images it contains have a Creative Commons 0 License, essentially making it public domain. I believe these photos could really augment Wikimedia projects since they are so high quality. So I request a bot to be created to upload images from pixabay to commons. 49206561742062616e616e6173 (talk) 23:01, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Bots/Requests/Pixabay upload bot. Yann (talk) 17:23, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment @49206561742062616e616e6173: that can't possibly be a valid username. It's bananas.. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 05:34, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: I agree, it's too confusing.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:10, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
The bot would probably have to be heavily assisted by the operator - titles and descriptions would need to be written manually. The site has a nice API, but the only useful metadata associated with each image is a short list of pretty broad tags. BMacZero (talk) 19:16, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Batch create "surname" categories[edit]

I have built up a list of missing surname categories, about 20000 or so. I am ready to associate existing Wikidata items to them and they would readily be linked to existing Commons items as well. Up to now I created them manually but... it takes forever. All such new categories should be initialized to the very same contents: "{{Wikidata infobox}} [[Category:Surnames]]". See this example that I created a few days ago. Please let me know if I can use an existing tool to do it myself. --Laddo (talk) 22:37, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

@Laddo: Creating the catgory's is enough (who links the stuff with wikidata? Subcats are added to all category's automatically, right?)? If yes, i can do that. --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:20, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
@Steinsplitter: Yes, just creating categories is fine. I would create Wikidata-to-Commons links myself with QuickStatements, as soon as Commons categories are created. I completed and cleaned up the list, there are a bit more than 36000 entries to create. Thanks! -- Laddo (talk) 14:22, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
@Laddo: Ok, started bot just now. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:57, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
@Steinsplitter: I corrected a few errors in the list of surname categories to be created, please use the updated version when you restart the bot. Thanks! - Laddo (talk) 11:42, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Upload videos from nasas youtube channel to commons[edit]

I wish to have a bot to upload files from Nasa's youtube channel to commons via COM:V2C, because it says in here {{PD-NASA}}

Much of NASA's content is really educational and I'd love to have them augment Wikimedia commons, but doing that manually would be to tedious, so I'd like to have a bot do the same work.

I eat bananas 101 (talk) 15:23, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

I have done this for other channels, however NASA published content is not always NASA copyright only. There would have to be some credible verification that all their YouTube content was strictly their copyright to release. --Fæ (talk) 11:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
For now, you can use https://tools.wmflabs.org/video2commons/ Yann (talk) 11:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Bot reques: Audio.ogg to Audio.mp3 transcription[edit]

The last 5 years I have uploaded 5.000 to 7.000 Audio-Files as OGG (Category:Curso de Alemán Para Principiantes con audio) 20% of them are very large (almost 100 MB, 1 hour). All files are used in spanish wikibooks: German language course (es:b:Curso de alemán para principiantes con audio). --Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran (talk) 19:42, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

@Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran: The files are already transcoded to MP3 and can be downloaded from the "Transcode status" section of the file page. Is this sufficient for your purposes, or do we need MP3s as a separate file for some reason? Guanaco (talk) 19:50, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
I linked the files in Curso de alemán para principiantes con audio (wikilibros.es), there the files are .ogg. Therefor you can't listen to them on mobil devices with apple OS. I tried now simply to chzange the ending to .mp3, but it does not work. I need embeddes audio-mp3 files inside the textbook, not for separate downloading from commons. Maybe there is a simple trick for this. MP3 (with capital letters)? --Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran (talk) 20:02, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
If this is not already possible, you should make a feature request on Phabricator, not a bot work request. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 20:18, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
OK. Thanks! --Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran (talk) 20:20, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
@Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran:
Looks like this should already work. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 20:38, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
But neither .mp3 nor .MP3 does work. But now I am confident that they are working on it and hopefully my "problem" will be solved at least in one year or earlier. Thanks again! --Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran (talk) 21:40, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
@Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran: did you try loading the page on an Apple OS device? It should play. If it doesn't, open a bug report on Phabricator and explain exactly what happens. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 23:13, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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