OdderBot (talk · contribs)

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Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Variety of maintenance tasks performed with the Pywikibot library — mostly adding and removing file categories

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Ad-hoc (on user request)

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

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot via PAWS)

This account had the bot flag and was actively used between 2007—2016 with over 100k edits and no major issues. I would like to request the flag again to be able to respond to various maintenance requests I continue to receive privately every now and again. These would be performed, as in the past, with the Pywikibot library, using PAWS. I expect the vast majority of tasks to be relating to file categorisation. In the unlikely case of having to perform some significantly differing task, I will, of course, request separate permission as per the bot policy. Thanks, odder (talk) 16:52, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Discussion

Which "maintenance tasks"? Which types of categories? Prototyperspective (talk) 17:20, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Like I mentioned above, mostly adding categories, perhaps adding templates, etc. In the past year, I've been asked to add categories such as Category:Wikigrant WG 2023-26, Category:Corrected by Jacek Halicki or Category:Images by Jacek Halicki, and I expect to be adding categories of similar nature to these with this bot account. odder (talk) 19:32, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Approved. --Krd 02:55, 20 October 2025 (UTC)