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Scheduled to end: 22:34, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi. I'm Nux, a programmer from Poland, and I want to become a technical admin and an interface admin (after reading that page, I assume I need both). In my day job, I work as a Tech Lead at a relatively large library systems company, so I'm accustomed to working in highly used environments. I've also been a user on Wikipedia for more than 20 years and have worked with various other open-source software (including translations for OpenOfice and Greenstone Digital Library, minor changes to Firefox debugger, and some changes in MediaWiki). My primary technical interests are accessibility, cybersecurity, i18n/l10n, and JavaScript. I create gadgets and bots on wikis (mostly on pl.wiki, but I also have e.g. IA rights on Meta).

Here on Commons, you might know me from fixing US maps, such as File:Map of Virginia highlighting Roanoke City.svg (and many others). I could use higher API limits when doing things like that. I can also process requests from the Polish community. I speak Polish, English, and JavaScript fluently, I used to know German and I'm learning French.

Cheers and thanks for reading my request :), Nux (talk··dyskusja) 22:34, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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ToprakBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: ToprakM (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: Cleanup: it will remove unnecessary invisible characters such as left-to-right (U+200E) or Byte order mark (U+FEFF), deciding they are not needed based on their location. In cases where these characters are needed or their necessity is uncertain, invisible characters will be made visible by replacing them with their corresponding HTML entity, such as "​" to "​". This allows editors to easily spot them in the source editor.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): something like 25

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): yes

Programming language(s): C#

This task is running on trwiki, azwiki. Source code is here. I am going to work on it to be sure it works perfectly on Commons. An example edit is here. --ToprakM ^✉ 21:20, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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FlickrResourcesBot (talk · contribs)

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: Add {{Flickrreview}} template to files under Category:Uploads using Flickypedia so that the bot can add improve SDC (task 1) for those that pass review

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic

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

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

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N

Programming language(s): Python, review integration at https://github.com/DaxServer/wikibots/pull/88

-- DaxServer (talk) 18:55, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

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• Here's a test run: -- DaxServer (talk) 18:55, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

they dont need review. RoyZuo (talk) 19:17, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

RupumpedBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Rupumped (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: Adds English labels and descriptions to Wikidata items for rivers in Kenya that have a Swahili label beginning with "Mto " but no English label. The English label is derived by replacing "Mto " with the river name followed by "River" (e.g. "Mto Tana" → "Tana River"). The English description added is "river in Kenya".

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted: operator runs and monitors the bot throughout.

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 60 edits per minute (throttled to ~1 edit per second).

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N RupumpedBot (talk) 08:19, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

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Please describe what excactly will be done at Commons. Please make a test edit. Please do NOT manually edit with a bot account. --Krd 04:13, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

KormiSKbot (talk · contribs)

Operator: KormiSK (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: Uploading of images, changes of description, fixing categorization

Automatic or manually assisted: Supervised automatic, through script for specific uses

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): Through PyWikiBot, so presumably ~6 edits/minute

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Not necessary

Programming language(s): Python

KormiSK (talk) 08:59, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

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I want to use the bot for occasional uploads of images, mostly from personal endeavors (travels, chemical formulas etc.) or from various activities of meta:Wikimedians of Slovakia User Group, or to modify descriptions of the uploaded pages. However, I'm getting the pywikibot.exceptions.APIError: cantcreate: You do not have permission to create new pages. error when running it, which means the bot doesn't have the correct rights for upload (also per API:Upload). I don't require the bot flag, as I don't intend to do copious amounts of edits, I just need the correct rights for this. I originally asked for the Confirmed rights, as the bot flag doesn't seem to have the createpage (likely because I have no edits here? I don't know how rights work on Commons). Thanks for understanding! I'll respond to any questions, if necessary. KormiSK (talk) 08:59, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Why is this to be done by a bot account instead of your main account? Krd 09:08, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

@Krd: Occasionally I want to upload larger amounts of files (10+), which I find to be tedious to do by hand. There are many similar tasks for regular Wikipedia that I automate rather than do manually, hence why I want to apply the bot for this use as well. KormiSK (talk) 09:45, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Still waiting on a resolution here. KormiSK (talk) 10:44, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

A week later, still waiting for a response here. KormiSK (talk) 16:52, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Please describe which exact tasks you want to automate, and please elaborate why the uploads need to be done by a different account than your main account. Krd 04:11, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

@Krd: As mentioned above, I want the upload rights to be able to upload larger amounts of files (~15+) comfortably without the need to do it manually and/or other tools. I like doing things in Python, I know how to do them, and I find this way the most comfortable. (In the meantime, because I was without a response for roughly 2 weeks, I've done it manually and hated every moment of it.) In a similar vein, I'd like to modify descriptions of larger amount of files, such as for pictures in Category:Wikimedia Europe General Assembly in Prague 2026, where I'd add a description in Slovak + fix the one that is supposedly in Czech but is, in fact, in English. My driving force is automating tasks that are tedious to do by hand.

For this second example, I can write a code snippet and do a few edits (so as not to flood RC) as an example; I can write a code example for upload as well, but cannot provide an example usage due to missing rights. KormiSK (talk) 08:42, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

@KormiSK: Please note that tool-assisted edits including uploads are not considered bots on Commons, per our policy. So as long as they are human supervised you can use such tools on your main account. Did you try to use pywikibot with your main account? --Schlurcher (talk) 22:03, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

@Schlurcher: I did not and I would prefer to keep all of my bot edits separate at my bot account. Especially if there's many edits to be done. However - if this is not an issue with the Commons folk, I am happy to do it through my main account without having to bother regrading the botflag. If I use pywikibot with my main account to edit ~100 descriptions at once (as mentioned above), would this be problematic? What would be the following course of action - would I be notified and asked for a botflag or something? If so, that'd be a good enough solution for me. I just want to make sure everything is by the book and will not cause unwanted ruckus. KormiSK (talk) 10:51, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

@Krd to confirm, but in my oppinion the community here rather expects you to perform the type of edit you plan (content edits) on your main account. Doing batches with tools is not a problem here. Please use meaningful edit summaries. --Schlurcher (talk) 12:51, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

AndrybakBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Andrybak (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: replace {{Cc-by-3.0-us}} with {{Cc-by-2.0-fr}} in all pages of this search (15915 pages as of 20:53, 25 March 2026 (UTC)) per discussion at Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2026/03#Ukrainian pronunciation audio files. See also User:AndrybakBot/Tasks/Fixing license template for Ukrainian pronunciation audio files.

Automatic or manually assisted: semi-automatic editing using VisualFileChange (aka VFC)

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): whatever rate-limiting is builtin in VisualFileChange

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Yes

Programming language(s): CirrusSearch search queries and regular expressions

Test run: 20 edits

—⁠andrybak (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Discussion

Originally, I planned to use JWB for these edits, but turns out that JWB cannot handle pages with "Structured data"; plus, there are too many pages for JWB (at least in my experience of using it on enwiki). It is also too many edits for a regular account – using a bot account seems logical for this. Getting wider consensus wouldn't hurt too.

Per User:Jmabel, VFC is a good fit for this (Special:Diff/1175097428). I've tried VFC for the first time in these 3 edits. Its mode "Action: custom replace" seems intuitive enough. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

VFC might be a bit slow for doing nearly 16,000 pages, though. That's about 5 or 6 times the largest thing I've done with it, and that was tedious. A true bot might be better. - Jmabel ! talk 21:32, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

I don't think that - Doing 1 replacements should be edit comments because it does not add anything to task description. EugeneZelenko (talk) 12:13, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

"Doing 1 replacements" is the part of edit summary that is automatically generated by VFC. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:12, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

InteGraalityBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Jean-Frédéric (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: Updating pages which use {{Property dashboard}}

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Weekly and on-demand (via the “Manual update” link)

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

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Happy either way. It’s been running for 7 years without BotFlag on Wikidata with no issues. I’m currently hitting Captcha though, so I guess I’d need some kind of flagging (autoconfirmed or smth?) to pass that by.

Programming language(s): Python/Pywikibot

Jean-Fred (talk) 20:20, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Discussion

• What will it do?  Oppose because there's not info what it will do. --Prototyperspective (talk) 22:24, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

  Sorry, I had thought toolforge:integraality was enough of a basic introduction ; I should have linked directly to d:Wikidata:Tools/inteGraality.

  As mentioned above, users may use the {{Property dashboard}} template to configure the to select a subset of Structured Data on Commons elements (for example, all pictures by a given user etc.), slice it along a dimension (by date of publication, by camera used, etc.) and what elements should these items have (properties, labels, descriptions).

  The tool then run SPARQL queries (via QLever) to write the table.

  See as example User:Jean-Frédéric/Integraality/T294893.

  Let me know if you need more details. Jean-Fred (talk) 07:06, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

  The details I think are needed are what the bot would do like for what the tool would be used via the bot. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:58, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

  It’s a tool quite similar to User:ListeriaBot: users use {{Property dashboard}} (and end) templates, and the bot’s only task is to write between these two templates on pages that use these templates.

  I cannot anticipate what users may want to use it for. There are over a thousand uses on Wikidata − from lighthouses per country to red pandas per residence, video games per platform to music albums by year, politicians per parliamentary term to cameras per manufacturer. I can imagine SDoC usecases like all images depicting a particular subjects, all images from a particular Flickr stream, all uploads of a user… Jean-Fred (talk) 16:12, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks for explaining. I was looking for concrete examples so that category sufficiently addressed my questions so that I'll strike my vote. I guess here it would use tables where media files are shown in it. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:21, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

• I also cannot follow what is the use of the data. If possible please explain the use case. --Krd 04:06, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

P170Bot (talk · contribs)

Operator: P170 (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: Creating the usual categories above 'Photographs by location by date', i. e. 'Month Year Location X photographs', 'Month Year in Location X', 'Year Location X photographs', 'Year in Location X', 'Month Year Superior Location XY photographs', ... by filling it with the intended templates (such as {{Location X photomonthyear|Year|Month}}).

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic, overseeable batches (probably one type of category, one location and every remaining date per batch)

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

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

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): as you wish

Programming language(s): pywikibot

P170 (talk) 18:54, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Discussion

In the test edits I see a lot of subcategories with one or two files only, and a lot of redlinks. Please elaborate why this makes any sense. --Krd 08:04, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Fundamentally, the category tree in this scope is intended to be structured this way. Therefore, I would like to create the corresponding categories accordingly. By using a bot, I don't have to do it by hand, which saves a lot of time that I can use to upload new photos, for example. As described, the red links are intended to gradually turn blue—that is indeed the goal. P170 (talk) 15:05, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I think will be good idea to explore/improve Structural Data capabilities for this purpose instead of categories, so date/coordinates queries could be run for different precision. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:08, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

I am talking about the status quo and would like to simplify my and other people's work using a bot. If we handle this via structured data at some point, that is fine with me, but that is a future consideration and not the focus of this conversation. P170 (talk) 17:25, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

In my opinion the bot request can make sense and make work easier. The categories for photos by location and time period are very well established and often used. I wouldn't completely question or reject the bot request just because the same thing could be handled via structured data in the future. Greets -- Triple C 85 ^{| User talk |} 19:08, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Please provide any evidence that this is useful and/or doing so is community consensus, if you like for the example: Category:Landkreis Trier-Saarburg photographs taken on 1946-06-13 as it stands today. Krd 08:59, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

GinnyTheCatBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: GinnyTheCat (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: Transforming creator (P170) statements using some values to their appropriate Wikidata entry if one exists. A more detailed explanation is given on the bot's userpage.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic, supervised

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Currently daily, but in the future more rarely.

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

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Rust

ginnyTheCat (talk) 00:50, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Discussion

I'm currently unable to start the test run since the bots edits get blocked due to AbuseFilter 265 since the bot account is not autoconfirmed. What is the recommended solution for this case? ginnyTheCat (talk) 01:23, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Now confirmed. Krd 07:22, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I concluded the test run now. ginnyTheCat (talk) 14:09, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Do such photographers meet Wikidata notability requirements? EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:25, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

That's a good question. The items already exist, the bot doesn't create them, but using them does make it more difficult to delete them in the future due to being in use, I agree. The list of photographers I currently have, I think, all meet the criteria by being people known for other things, being professional photographers, or even having newspaper articles written about them.

Also I'm not sure if It fulfils a structural need, for example: it is needed to make statements made in other items more useful. applies to SDoC as well or only statements directly on Wikidata, since otherwise it would cover this use case as well I think. ginnyTheCat (talk) 18:51, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

What about a compromise (for now)? If you have a list of photographers which already have their own Wikidata item and clearly fulfil Wikidata notability requirements (e.g. because the Wikidata entry contains several solid and reliable sitelinks as well as references to respected external sources), the bot could transform the creator (P170) statements using some values to their appropriate Wikidata entry. Presumably, hardly anyone would object to that; the P170 entries for their images would become clearer, and the work on the bot would not have been in vain. Later, in a broader discussion, possibly with Wikidata experts, it could be clarified whether the P170 statements of some lesser-known photographers should also be converted, and under what conditions. – Aristeas (talk) 10:21, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Sounds good. ginnyTheCat (talk) 16:13, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Please advise the exact criteria you implemented and please make another test run. Krd 06:23, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@GinnyTheCat: : ? --Krd 16:02, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

When trying to form a set of criteria initially, I struggled with politicians or actors being creator (P170) of their own portraits. While this might be the case, I believe most of these photos are taken by a member of their team/professional photographer and the public figure just used their own Wikimedia or Flickr account to upload them, so they are only the uploader (if even).

I think this SparQL query is quite a decent set of candidates. On top of that I would exclude people with only one stub article, cases where I can't fully verify the connection to the account, public figures that are covered by the problem I described above or other cases where I'm not fully convinced that the mapping would be 1:1/lossless.

Many photographers on Commons that are in Wikidata are since they're mentioned in some authority database. I'm unsure if you would be ok with me including those in my set of criteria.

I apologize for responding so late. ginnyTheCat (talk) 16:29, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

I concluded another test run ginnyTheCat (talk) 18:29, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

I cannot follow where thhe information for Special:Diff/1192721339 comes from. Could you explain? Krd 04:00, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Ofc, I feel like that one is one of the easier ones to verify. The Wikidata statement contains a source stating this. Other sources I used are CBS News and The Washington Post. There are probably more sources on his Wikipedia articles. ginnyTheCat (talk) 15:06, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

CuratorBot (talk · contribs)

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: Commons:Batch uploading/IZW-Medienarchiv

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

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

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 45

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): N

Programming language(s): OpenRefine

-- DaxServer (talk) 09:57, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Discussion

• Test run: https://editgroups-commons.toolforge.org/b/OR/34a22116a4c/ (OpenRefine does not expose configuration settings to limit maximum number of edits per minute and is why I've put 45 edits) -- DaxServer (talk) 09:57, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

  Please use use all lowercase letters for license. Is there project to refine categories by humans? EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:04, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

  Perhaps @Rosenzweig, can you answer about the category refinement?

  License noted. -- DaxServer (talk) 08:34, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm not aware of a specific project to refine the categories. I'll try to sort the uploaded files into specific place categories though (if that is not already the case) and let others know in the discussion forums that the files were uploaded, so interested users can work with them. A thorough categorisation will likely take years, as with other batch uploads. --Rosenzweig τ 11:32, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

My point it to avoid such backlogs. Is it possible to notify relevant WikiProjects' participants if media collections are themed? EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:35, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure there is a WikiProject specifically for waterways or transport here at Wikimedia Commons. There is the German-speaking community which is notified easily enough by letting them know at the Commons:Forum and at de.wp. @OhneEisen: You have commented at Commons:Batch uploading/IZW-Medienarchiv and are somewhat active in the subject of transportation. Can you think of additional ways to notify interested people? --Rosenzweig τ 21:30, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

In the AI ages, is there no way to at least generate rough categorization? --Krd 07:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Are there any test uploads for this batch? --Krd 07:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Only a few, see , File:Altes Schiffshebewerk Niederfinow-Havel-Oder-Wasserstraße 1933-05-30 HB16020.jpg, File:Schiffshebewerk Rothensee-Mittellandkanal nach der Generalreparatur 1981 HB07353.jpg. They have rudimentary geographical categories. --Rosenzweig τ 08:46, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

File:Altes Schiffshebewerk Niederfinow-Havel-Oder-Wasserstraße 1933-05-30 HB16020.jpg: Who is by which reason the copyright holder, and why is it under cc-by-sa-4.0? Krd 10:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

The copyright section at says in the copyright section "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License". They don't explicitly say why they can license the photos that way, but I think the assumption is that the photos were created by photographers working for those public agencies (see Beschreibung der Pools linked on the left of the main page). With some of the images from the Rhein-Museum that might not be the case though. --Rosenzweig τ 12:46, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

So we have a different license used for the upload that at the source. If we do such batch upload, shouldn't we clarify? I hesitate because they request cc-by but don't mention any author or attribution, and I'd assume that they could be mistaken about copyright. Krd 05:13, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hm, you're right, the Commons uploads actually have a more restrictive license (BY-SA) than the source has (just BY without SA). That should be fixed for any future uploads. @DaxServer: Is that a mistake on our (Wikimedia Commons) side (not blaming anyone here ...), or did they change the license at some point? They do offer "Zitiervorschlag für die korrekte Namensnennung: Quelle: Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau" in the Nutzungsbedingen, so that would be the attribution I guess? About them being mistaken about copyright: That might be the case for some of the museum photos from external sources I think, but the majority (taken by their own photographers) should be ok. --Rosenzweig τ 11:11, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey.. let me get back to you in a couple of days. -- DaxServer (talk) 17:37, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Sobreirabot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Sobreira (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: Upload images of Galician parochial location maps through QGIS, already rendered, and helped by IA.

Automatic or manually assisted: Programmed to be automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Next few days (4 may 2026) only, until task completed (3.7k files)

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): I don't know

Bot flag requested: (Y/N):

Programming language(s): Python

Previous experience: Botsobreira @ gl.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Botsobreira; so long aeons time ago (2008) that I don't remember (even the password or the backup e-mail); I've done 10k editions by then.

Test run: 74 files at category:Identification maps of parishes in the province of A Coruña (grey location map scheme) (they should have gone into Pontevedra's)

※Sobreira ◣◥ 〒 @「parlez」 18:58, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

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