The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: The Earwig (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Available at tools:~earwig/earwigbot; see wrongmimebot_run.py

Function overview: The bot goes through a list of files whose extension does not match their MIME type, and tags them with ((rename media)).

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 71#Images uploaded with wrong file extension

Edit period(s): Once a week on Wednesdays

Estimated number of pages affected: 2050 edits or so on the initial run, about 15–20 every week.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: The bot generates a report that is very similar to tools:~earwig/cgi-bin/file_extensions.py for the following MIME types:

• image/gif
• image/jpeg
• image/png
• image/svg+xml
• image/x-bmp
• image/x-ms-bmp

Then, the bot adds ((rename media|correct file name|This file has an incorrect MIME type.)) to each file unless it already has ((rename media)), a redirect, ((wrongmime)), or ((nobots)). — The Earwig ^(talk) 18:21, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seems useful. Tim1357 (talk) 20:30, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ill approve this in 4 days if nobody opposes. Tim1357 (talk) 01:55, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Erm... wouldn't a trial be better first? — The Earwig ^(talk) 02:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (18 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Three of each mime type, for luck. Josh Parris 10:08, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. I couldn't find any problems; the task appears to have been done as expected. [1] — The Earwig ^(talk) 21:34, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Good job! Tim1357 (talk) 01:14, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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