The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: Wikihermit

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic - Unsupervised

Programming Language(s):AWB

Function Summary:Replace fair use images in user spaces and swap out image for another upon request; CFD/W as well.

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

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per min

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

Function Details:Bot will use AWB. It will began each session by getting a list of all fair use images. I will click "Image Links" and then filter out the links to include user pages only. The bot will run through and replace any fair use images in the user space with an image substitution. The bot could also be use to replace a specify image with another upon request (i.e. [1]). I have already done this before, just without clicking "Save".

Added: Also requesting permission to run bot at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working for category renaming. Will use AWB under "More" to replace category A with category B. Wikihermit ^{(Talk • HermesBot)} 21:47, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. This is on the assumption that for the image task, you will be warning users on their talk pages when an image is removed from their userspace and the image that will be inserted in place of the removed fair use images will be Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg. (This is exactly what User:Gnome (Bot) does, although it hasn't been running for a few days now). Replace (and warn about) 30 images or so, and fix 50 or so categories. —METS501 (talk) 01:23, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Thanks! --Wikihermit ^{(Talk • HermesBot)} 01:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm done with the CFD/W work. Here are some diff: [2], [3], [4]. Replacing images and adding a tag to the user talk page of the user isn't easy with AWB and I may need to use pywikipedia, so bot windrawn for the image task. Also, I'm trying to use AWB to replace external links to sister wikis and make them interwiki links (see this and [5]). To do that, should I make a new Bot task request or just add it on with this one? --~ Wikihermit _(HermesBot) 15:21, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing its still an open bot request, I believe you won't have to open another task request. Now just to wait and see what the BAG thinks of the bot and it's edits. Good luck. E ^talk 10:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I got the external to interwiki to work,(see diff, so I'm also requesting permission to test the Bot with changing external links to sister wikis into interwiki links. ~ Wikihermit _(HermesBot) 20:40, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for the interwikis. ST47 21:12, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. ST47 21:21, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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