Commons:Bots/Requests/Htsabot

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At The history trust of South Australia we are hosting an Edit-A-Thon. We are planning to upload 20K photographic collections(images) to WikiMedia Commons.

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

Bot is planned to communicate with our digital management software to pull relevant images meant for edit-a-thon and upload those images in one go. Later, in case of change re-upload images and update metadata.

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

  • Bot is meant to upload the photographic collections to the wikimedia commons and periodically update the metadata. For this we will require the permissions to upload, re-upload , upload-by-URL , update the files and its metadata.


Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 30

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N

Programming language(s): Php/Python

Htsabot (talk) 00:10, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Krd: Thank you for the reply. I am the operator of the bot and work for The history trust of South Australia. We are working along with Pru Mitchell <pru.mitchell@wikimedia.org.au> to host an Edit-A-Thon next month- planning to upload 20K photographic collections(images) to WikiMedia Commons. Htsabot (talk) 01:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The operator of a bot is a long-term Commons user, not the bot account itself. Please do not edit manually with a bot account. --Krd 05:24, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Declined, operator stays unclear after discussion. --Krd 14:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]