Commons:Bots/Requests/Cyberbot I

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Operator: Cyberpower678 (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Adminstats. A few commons administrators have asked me expand adminstats onto Commons. The script is identical to that used on english Wikipedia, which already has approval.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic Unsupervised

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 1 edit per second, for the most part.

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Yes

Programming language(s): PHP

cyberpower ChatHello! 22:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Looks OK for me, but isn't task itself is duplicate of ToolServer tool? Sure, there are issues on ToolServer and WMFLabs migration may be required. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:34, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Túrelio asked me whether it would be possible to make this template available so admins can show their activity on their user page. -- Rillke(q?) 16:24, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. Maybe I should port to dewiki too.—cyberpower ChatHello! 19:21, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I still think it's domain of tools like this. May be tool's API combine with one template is more reasonable solution? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:26, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The first link you posted doesn't seem to work for me. The second link directs to the edit counter I maintain. I'm not quite certain where your going at. Could you possibly clarify?—cyberpower ChatHello! 19:54, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to say, that it's better to maintain statistics on WMFLabs then with bots. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:12, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The task itself has been in existence since 2008. Take a look at the template history.—cyberpower ChatHello! 19:22, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
While I agree to this, there is still a difference in being able to put the statistics directly on a Wikipage so every reader is able to see them, or forcing visitors to do an additional click. This way, users are able to choose the presentation design their own. In the best case, MediaWiki would have some useful built-in statistic-parser functions or a cached page.
Frankly, I am not a fan of these statistics, either because they do not say anything about the quality of the work a user does. However, this is the way administrative activity is currently measured.
If I am honest, I think WMFLabs won't be a lot more "stable" than toolserver in future; at least not if they do not introduce excessive quota-restrictions. -- Rillke(q?) 17:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bot flag granted. Thanks for writing this! --MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:41, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]