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Operator: X! (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: On Toolserver SVN

Function overview: As requested on BOTREQ, this is an adminbot that will delete 25000 specific images under CSD F8.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One-time run

Estimated number of pages affected: Roughly 25000 images will be deleted.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function details: This bot, as requested by multichil, does the following:

• Get every transclusion of Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:PBB Image citation
• For each transclusion:
  • Check if the transclusion is actually an image, if not, skips
  • Check if the image exists on Commons, if not, skips
  • Gets the hashes of both the enwiki and commons images, if they are not the same, skips
  • Checks if the enwiki page has ((nobots)) (or a variant), if so, skips
  • Deletes the image with the summary: "[[WP:CSD#F8|F8]]: Media file available on Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Example.jpg"

This is a one-time run, so this should be relatively uncontroversial.

I have spammed WP:AN and WP:VPR about this bot. (X! · talk)  · @072  ·  00:43, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good as far as I can see. Two small points:

• You don't have to download the files, you can just ask the api the SHA1 hash
• Link should probably not be external, what do you think of "[[WP:CSD#F8|F8]]: Media file available on [[:Commons:File:Example.jpg|Commons]]"?

multichill (talk) 08:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Caveat to the first is that the database contains the correct hash, which has been known to break. Q ^{T C} 08:31, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First is just a fallback, to ensure that images are not skipped or deleted unless they actually are the same image. Second was something that did not occur to me, I have completed this accordingly. (X! · talk)  · @664  ·  14:56, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Question - How would this bot check to see if 2nd, 3rd, and 4th main/outer bullet points of the F8 criteria are true?--Rockfang (talk) 23:23, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I took care of that, see here. multichill (talk) 19:11, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for the link. That works for me. One further question though. What about any potential images that might have ((NoCommons)) or ((KeepLocal))?--Rockfang (talk) 19:22, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • The uploader likes this transfer, so I think the potential is zero.
      • Upload is done by the way, so it would be nice if the bot could be fired up. multichill (talk) 19:26, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • Sounds fine to me.--Rockfang (talk) 19:40, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Images transfered to Commons look good so I support a bot deletion. Let admins check what needs to be checked and let a bot do this job here. --MGA73 (talk) 20:03, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

((BotTrial)) — The Earwig ^(talk) 02:08, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done 30 on main account. (X! · talk)  · @139  ·  02:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. Josh Parris 08:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good, Trial complete. multichill (talk) 12:22, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. the trial has shown this helpful and harmless. Josh Parris 13:13, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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