Commons:Bots/Requests/Ruthven
Operator: Ruthven (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:
Sorry in advance if I am posting in the wrong place.
Often I categorise a huge amount of files, sometimes with hidden categories, typically starting from Category:XXXX_books (where XXXX is a year), cf. User:Fæ/Project_list/Internet_Archive.
When I do so, I use the Cat-a-lot tool, meaning that I flood the RC with my edits (up to 200 at the same time), but these edits can be seen basically as maintenance. I was wondering if requesting a bot flag, to be activated when I do this kind of activity, shouldn't be better than flooding the RC.
There were previous discussions on assigning the flag to a human; as I see it, it's to make RC patrollers' life easier.
Automatic or manually assisted: manually
Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): daily to weekly
Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 1000
Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y
Programming language(s): -
Cheers, Ruthven (msg) 14:11, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Discussion
Oppose Cat-a-lot won't mark your edits as +b. Apart from that i don't like the idea to assign botflags to accounts. There is User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands/Category moves for mass category moves. --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:18, 16 December 2015 (UTC)- Please create dedicated bot account and make test run. Did you discuss naming conventions? Looks like space is not needed before colon in Category:Correspondence : Cornwell (Giles) and Engelmann (George). --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:05, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Withdrawn by operator. Thank you all for the advices (on this page and on discussion pages), but if it's not a common practice yet to grant the bot flag for humans on Commons, I shouldn't insist. Cheers, Ruthven (msg) 19:46, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
