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“ My understanding is that much of the Author information was taken by bot. There was also some kind of bot import of many of our main namespace works, but not a complete one and there have been many problems spotted. I tend to work on items by hand, but then I'm doing a lot of cleanup at both ends, primarily in a small and highly specialized set of works (ancient Greek drama) .
A few challenges I've come across in Greek drama, which would make a bot difficult or impossible:
(1) Data items require a unique label and description. You cannot duplicate them from item to item. ”

“ I can edit them out as I validate and not worry or forget about asking anyone to run a bot. They are not that frequent. However, if a bot will handle all books then I am all for that! So, who has a bot that can do this? If you know of someone please do ask them to run the bot. It's too bad that a bot is not automatically running to correct pages when they are saved. Kind regards, —William Maury Morris IITalk 03:17, 9 November 2012 (UTC) You can probably leave them as is, and not have to worry about it. ”

“ When a user is requesting a bot flag, we should consider his ability to control his bot (for example he should be able to understand and revert mistakes made by his bot) , and his willfullness to apply community decisions. Therefore support or opposition to the flag bot should be based on his technical capacity to control a bot, not on the particular task he proposes to do first. Whether letters should be capitalized or not should be the topic of a separate discussion. ”

“ Black magic! ... It ran through the Page: pages and removed the extra line feed, and that fixes the chapters. The bot is able to work around the introduced problem with ProofreadPage, where we as users are unable. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:06, 25 October 2011 (UTC) Then your bot is definitely magical and unique. If I see it again I will have to request your bot to fix it; though I really don't want to add another job to SDrewthbot's probably sky-high list of requests and jobs. Poor bot already works round the clock. ”

“ Pathosbot won't only resolve redirects; it also standardizes parameter layout, performs validation (invalid parameters, invalid or deprecated parameter use, formatting in metadata parameters, redundant symbols, broken syntax, and so forth) , and detects incorrect conversions (bot or human) , so there is value in a one-time conversion. Since we encourage users to copy & paste from other pages, it would be beneficial to ensure that pages are using the header correctly, but we cannot easily do this manually or during other bot tasks. ”

“ Service bots are less common on MUDs; but some others, such as the `Julia' bot active in 1990-91, have been remarkably impressive Turing-test experiments, able to pass as human for as long as ten or fifteen minutes of conversation. 2. An AI-controlled player in a computer game (especially a first-person shooter such as Quake) which, unlike ordinary monsters, operates like a human-controlled player, with access to a player's weapons and abilities. An example can be found at http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/. 3. Term used, though less commonly, for a web spider. ”

“ A vandal may choose to vandalize using a fake bot account. Marking known good bots with a bot flag has lots of benefits and no real harm. Not everybody needs to review every bot edit which almost always are non-problematic. This request isn't just about my bot. It has a general rationale. It would be trivially easy for me to alter my bots username (user-config.py) rather than making a single post about it. ”

“ The bot does not have "bot" in its name; that makes it impossible for someone reviewing the history of an article to know that a particular action was taken by a bot. I would even question the validity of "Computer" as a user name, because in generic nature could cause confusion. The proposed bot purports to combine the work of three existing bots; what would be the problem with running each of these separately? The delinker is also a problem, because the image inclusion policy here allows for some images that might not be allowable in Commons. ”

“ OK, that makes sense. Yes, Hesperian told me some time ago that the bot is something they run manually on their own server. Do you think it would be worthwhile to request that the code be released under a free license, and migrated to the toollabs? ”

“ If a freeman commit edor breach [breaking through the fenced enclosure and forcibly entering a ceorl's dwelling] , let him make bot with 6 shillings. If any one take property from a dwelling, let him pay a three-fold bot. If a freeman goes with hostile intent through an edor [the fence enclosing a dwelling] , let him make bot with 4 shillings. If [in so doing] a man slay another, let him pay with his own money, and with any sound property whatever. ”

“ Who is allowed to use them? Nothing I do is an automatic help bot or gadget. Respectfully, —Maury (talk) 19:02, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
The way I'm using Phe-bot is performing Match and Split. See Help:Match and Split for guidance on how and when to use the bot. This is the only automated process I use here. I should say that sometimes using the bot is quite complex. It's taking a couple of hours to process each chapter of this work. That's because of the formating complexities in the original mainspace version (I wish I'd picked a simpler work to do this weekend) . ”

“ Do we want to spend their time doing something that a bot can do or on something that a bot cannot? A bot can upload 95 volumes, but it cannot verify the completeness of a work. With such a bot, I can go to IA, find the best scan, set up the links on the Author page, press save, and the then do something else. In a day, the files will be there and I can proceed to set up the index pages. Languageseeker (talk) 14:55, 5 April 2021 (UTC) BTW, I’ve seen plenty of incomplete non-Google scans especially from the LOC. Hathi Trust has a feedback button that we can use to report missing pages. ”

“ The proofreading done by others would, in many cases, not have happened without me. The community has added text layers both manually and with bots such as LA2-bot, InductiveBot, TarmstroBot and Wikisource-bot.
I have received messages and echo notifications from many editors thanking me for my efforts. No-one apart from you is expressing any interest in the fact that the edits are done manually. ”

“ This could eventually be used to improve the ocr in an index, with a bot making many common corrections. Having to load the image to confirm corrections would be factor when considering efficiency. Some users are already doing this semi-automatically with javascript, they could use the same list and add the ocr errors that appear in their Indexed copy. As users of the Page namespace would know, this can only catch some of the errors and one needs a scan to fix the rest. ”

“ It is a python bot (mainly using pywikipedia library) ; I use it widely as it:Utente:Alebot into it.source, but it is flagged into pt.source; it runs too from toolserver, but here I'll use from my pc only, and, I presume, working only on my personal uploads. The bot is specialyzed in Page: uploads from djvu text layer and in various kinds of text editing. Presently, as I told, I'm working about djvu layer text "as it is", t.i. on the output of djvused -e output-txt from djvu file. Running upload into Index:Horse shoes and horse shoeing.djvu comes from these tests. ”

“ The exception is MediaWiki default. This is not a normal bot account. It is the default username to which content diffs are ascribed whenever internal changes to MediaWiki, or the running of internal MediaWiki scripts, result in apparent changes to content. It appears that we do have the ability as a community to determine whether we want to flag this account as a bot or not. ”

“ The community should review the bot policy over the mandatory restriction of the inclusion of "bot" in bot usernames. The community should do so not to simply satisfy me but because that such a discussion and change may benefit the community. The real question is does the mandatory "bot" in bot usernames really benefit wikisource? Would a lack of "bot" in bot usernames harm the project? Should it be a recommendation rather than requirement? Mind you, a bot operator may still choose to name their bot username to contain a "bot" even if manditory "bot" in bot username thing is loosened. ”

“ If you could just make a short note on the bot's user page about the basics of the bot (i.e. supervised, pywikipedia-based, infrequent ad-hoc tasks, etc) that will allow others to quickly see what it is later on when this thread is archived. Support unflagged use of proven bot by experienced user (review in future if flag is needed) Inductiveload—talk/contribs 15:10, 14 May 2010 (UTC) Support. Basically, I concur with Inductiveload. Note that, technically, your bot violated the edit throttle guideline (putthrottle over 60 seconds for unflagged bots) . ”

“ The whole point of the bot is that it uploads high quality original scans from the Internet Archive, which is distinct from the purpose of the template (which, as you describe, typically pulls in the low quality preview from a DJVU file, so the reader has something to look at.) Maybe the best thing would be to adjust the way that HesperianBot tags files? (Personally, I no longer use it, primarily because the lack of PD tags makes the transfer to Commons cumbersome; easier to just download the JP2 files directly from the Archive myself.) ”

“ Proposals New bot proposal Please see older thread at #Bot extraction of text already in DjVu file. I'd like to set up a pywikipedia bot to go through the nonexistent pages at Index:Dramatic_Moments_in_American_Diplomacy_ (1918) .djvu and fill them in using the djvutext.py script. This is the only task I plan for the bot for now. ”

“ I have raised the EB1911s issue at WT:EB1911#author in header and WT:EB1911#navigating sub sections. This project to merge the templates isnt being done primarily for the benefit of the bots - if anything it is for the benefit of the bot operators. It isnt fun having to manually approve 2,000 bot operation because of all the irregularities. Standardising the templates removes the complexity in parsing them, which allows the humans to run the bots in a more automated fashion. ”

“ To get rid of the red marks I'm most interested in to be rid of, a bot would have to be nearly realtime in autopatrolling trusted users. Edits are patrolled by recent change ID, not by revision ID, so it's not possible to just inspect the user contributions of trusted users. ”

“ Had some smart soul developed a way by now to use the coordinate mapping found in basic XML formats that are compiled from dimensions set in stone at the time of scanning and then re-addressed again when characters are associated with those coordinates (OCR'd) , then all us humans would be concerned with is just validating the work of Bots. The way things stand now (and for the foreseeable future) we get a plain text dump by what can never be mistaken for a Bot and have to do both the proofreading And the validating never mind the layouts. ”

“ I suppose you could ask for a bot to be created if you know what text is on what page though... —Dark (talk) 10:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Gosh, now you tell me; after I just typed page 2 :P A bot to extract the text out of a DJVU file and place the text into Pages would be good, but I dont think anybody has written one. I saw ThomasV fix the page numbering problem you mention on one of the Index files, but I cant find which one he altered. I'll ask him to comment here. John Vandenberg (chat) 11:07, 19 March 2008 (UTC) Manually typing things can be very annoying ;) ”

“ Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:03, 2 February 2013 (UTC) Comment I would think that we would want to see RtR in action prior to granting it the bot flag, or some other demonstration that you know how to control it, eg. it has bot status elsewhere. After that, I would think that we would hold you to similar standards for the rest of us using AWB. Major maintenance tasks are documented on the bot page, or a subpage that is what I have been doing with sDrewthbot (talk • contribs) ) . That for ad hoc minor tasks that they have an adequate edit summary of what is the purpose ”

“ Ultimatey, we should ask a competent 'bot programmer to build a 'bot. The 'bot would check each page in turn in page space to see that the page is completely spanned by sections (i.e., each portion of the page is within a section.) ”

“ What is achieved by placing some of these in a separate section, except ambiguity? The same goes for announcements. Bot requests are really a maintenance issue and of little or no interest to anyone except admins, regardless of activity. A heads up notice here would be fine. (a total of 4 users, all admins, have !voted there) Moondyne (talk) 13:38, 7 February 2013 (UTC) The bot requests being here reflects the history that the community, as a whole, has discussed and approved the functioning of bots (see Wikisource:Bots) . If you wish to suggest a change, go for it. ”

“ Good point. I'd go even further and pipe all links. Sometimes, users hyperlink text in the main namespace. Changing them might destroy text integrity. Granted, it isn't necessary in all cases, but usually not harmful either. Since it's difficult for a bot to decide what to do, I'd lean towards piping unpiped links by default.--GrafZahl 17:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC) I'm not sure about the main namespace; piping inline links is necessary to maintain integrity, but piping links in a see-also section or in the header might lead to confusingly outdated link names ("see Wikisource:Title format") . ”