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This is the requests and votes page, a centralized place where you can keep track of ongoing user requests, and where you can comment and leave your vote. Any user is welcome to comment on these requests, and any logged in user is welcome to vote.

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How and where to apply for additional user rights on Commons

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How to comment and vote

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Any logged-in user is welcome to vote and to comment on the requests below. Votes from unregistered users are not counted, but comments may still be made. If the nomination is successful, a bureaucrat will grant the relevant rights. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers. Among other things, the closing bureaucrat may take into account the strength of any arguments presented and the experience and knowledge of the commenting users. For example, the comments and votes of users who have zero or few contributions on Commons may at the bureaucrat's discretion be discounted.

It is preferable if you give reasons both for  Support votes or  Oppose ones as this will help the closing bureaucrat in their decision. Greater weight is given to argument, with supporting evidence if needed, than to a simple vote.

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Requests for Oversight rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Oversighters/Archive.

  • Please read Commons:Oversighters before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

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Requests for CheckUser rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Checkusers/Archive.

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Requests for bureaucratship

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Requests for adminship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Administrators/Archive.

  • Please read Commons:Administrators before voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.



Requests for permission to run a bot

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Before making a bot request, please read the new version of the Commons:Bots page. Read Commons:Bots#Information on bots and make sure you have added the required details to the bot's page. A good example can be found here.

When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bots/Archive.

Any user may comment on the merits of the request to run a bot. Please give reasons, as that makes it easier for the closing bureaucrat. Read Commons:Bots before commenting.

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

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Adding SDC to YouTube sourced media Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 18#Add P1651 YouTube video ID structured data from "source" attribute of Filedesc template

Automatic or manually assisted: Automated

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 6

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python / pywikibot / https://github.com/DaxServer/wikibots

-- DaxServer (talk) 13:14, 6 April 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Discussion
  • I've also added the attribution to the Copyright license statement - the author name string and the title of the video. I'm using Lingua language detector model https://github.com/pemistahl/lingua-py and seems to give good results, but might need some supervised runs for the language detection and probably some tweaks. In case more testing is required for it, I can omit that qualifier and add the remaining. See test run for the changes. -- DaxServer (talk) 13:14, 6 April 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: This bot primarily uploads public domain images from the Generalitat de Catalunya Press Room to Wikimedia Commons.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic with human supervision

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): daily runs, about 30 a day.

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 6/minute.

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python with Pywikibot, scripts are hosted on Toolforge

  • The bot ensures all uploaded images are in the public domain and comply with Commons' policies.
  • It adds appropriate categories (削除) and metadata (削除ここまで) to each upload.
  • A log of all uploads is maintained for review.


Coet (talk) 01:53, 22 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Discussion
  • Is it possible to deduce from metadata and add meaningful categories and `depicts` statements? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:39, 22 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
    • Sorry, I'm not fluent English speaker and I used AI to translate my speech, but I didn't review its translation. Script does not add metadata.
    • My script is a remake from another one that was created by a cawiki-mate. Nowadays, the script is not designed to add metadata, and in principle, I do not intend to implement this feature.
    • Next time, I'll make sure to review more carefully what the AI provides.
    • NOTE: The script is entirely my own work, and it has been thoroughly reviewed and tested. No IA was involved. Coet (talk) 14:32, 25 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
      Is AI really needed? :-) File names and descriptions contain names of politicians, this could be used to add proper categories and `depicts` statements in structural data. EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:47, 25 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
      Thank you for your message, EugeneZelenko. I appreciate your suggestion and had already considered implementing something similar. However, this requires time, as I would like the process to be dynamic while minimizing false positives. For this reason, I need to proceed cautiously to ensure accuracy and reliability. Coet (talk) 15:11, 25 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
      If this task could not be automated in near future, is there project dedicated to politicians, so participants could help with categorization and structured data? EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:49, 26 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
      Of course, the community already does this periodically and also uses them in wiki articles. Coet (talk) 14:21, 27 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
      It'll be good idea to do this on regular basis, not periodically. EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:36, 27 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Operator: Brooke Vibber (WMF) (talk  · contributions  · Statistics  · Recent activity  · block log  · User rights log  · uploads  · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Intermittently used for maintenance tasks related to MediaWiki production changes that can be cleaned up by batch editing via the API. Currently in use for fixing some broken link records related to the Charts extension.

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): python/pywikipediabot

Brooke Vibber (WMF) (talk) 23:10, 20 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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Please don't edit manually with a bot account. Please provide examples and/or make test edits. --Krd 06:25, 28 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Operator: MBH (talk  · contributions  · Statistics  · Recent activity  · block log  · User rights log  · uploads  · Global account information) (assign permissions), Iluvatar (talk  · contributions  · Statistics  · Recent activity  · block log  · User rights log  · uploads  · Global account information) (assign permissions), Well very well (talk  · contributions  · Statistics  · Recent activity  · block log  · User rights log  · uploads  · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Hello! As one of the co-maintainers of the bot I request for it bot and rollback flags. The bot detects suspicious potentially vandalous edits (on Commons this also includes copyright issues), streams them onto a Discord server, and trusted users revert/rollback/RfD them through an interface. Bot is already running on Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian Wikipedias and Wikidata.

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted

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

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

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): C# and Python

Well very well (talk) 06:16, 20 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Discussion
@CptViraj Seems like for some reason here on Commons, when a user is linked in bot edits' descriptions that user gets pinged -- a behaviour that doesn't happen on ru/uk/bewiki or WD... Do you know what it may be caused by and would it be fixed with the bot flag? Well very well (talk) 13:01, 23 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
@Well very well: Per T189040, notifications aren't sent for edit summary mentions if the edit is marked as bot edit (b), so yeah, this should be fixed with the bot flag. -- CptViraj (talk) 16:00, 23 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
It seems from subtasks of that task that just adding : to the start of link should remove the ping. I will go currently with this approach then. Well very well (talk) 17:32, 23 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Edits adding speedy deletion tags should generally not be marked as bot, as they should not be hidden from watchlists. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:06, 24 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Currently bot doesn't mark its edits as bot at all, so this shouldn't be a concern. Well very well (talk) 15:34, 25 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
I have some concerns. The test edits that have been made are mostly speedy deletion nominations, which is outside of the bot task you have described, especially since the majority of the files were tagged for copyright reasons, not vandalism. Please revise the request to accurately describe what the bot is designed for and capable of doing. Additionally, the bot does not notify page creators of the speedy deletion tags. More broadly, this bot task appears to mostly have the effect of removing rollbacks and speedy deletion tags from a user's contributions & deleted contributions, where they can be easily monitored by administrators. This is important both to deal with bad reviewing and to be able to establish a history of accurate copyright tagging when applying for advanced rights. And while rollback-like tools like SWViewer and Twinkle make the Commons rollback right less important than it might have been in the past, this bot gives administrators no control over who may be using it. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:05, 24 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
@AntiCompositeNumber
Please revise the request to accurately describe what the bot is designed for and capable of doing.
Done.
Additionally, the bot does not notify page creators of the speedy deletion tags.
Ok, will be implemented, thanks!
More broadly, this bot task appears to mostly have the effect of removing rollbacks and speedy deletion tags from a user's contributions & deleted contributions, where they can be easily monitored by administrators. This is important both to deal with bad reviewing and to be able to establish a history of accurate copyright tagging when applying for advanced rights.
Well, you can use tool for searching through user's descriptions — for that reason the bot always includes the type of action (RfD/rollback/undo) and user who did it in its edit description.
And while rollback-like tools like SWViewer and Twinkle make the Commons rollback right less important than it might have been in the past, this bot gives administrators no control over who may be using it.
Hm... @MBH @Iluvatar Maybe we can make the bot take the users list from a wiki page, e.g. a subpage of bot userpage on Meta? In this case everyone could see the list and stewards could also edit it. Well very well (talk) 15:42, 25 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]


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