Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/JackBot

As I wrote on [//en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Wikibooks:Desired_bots&diff=1968057&oldid=1909035 Wikibooks:Desired bots], I can do take care of the double redirections with redirect.py, and the interwiki links with interwiki.py. Moreover, I can treat some more complex requests like I used to do on the French wikis, for example add the little stars toward the good articles if you decide one day to paste this JavaScript. JackPotte (talk) 22:50, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Fixing redirects should be fine. However interwiki links are considered a task too complex for automation due to Wikibooks allowing multiple books on the same subject and no two books across projects necessarily being similar enough for interwiki links to be meaningful. Which books across languages projects should be interwiki linked is arbitrary and left up to contributors to individual books to decide. We have good books, not good articles, and I think the problems with using little stars by interwiki links is tied with the problems with automating the interwiki links. --dark lama  23:01, 12 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd like to see a bot that can update a template here with the equivalent of what you see at n:Template:Statistics. I'd like an equivalent to w:User:ClueBot VI for usurpation requests, w:User:ClueBot II for updating the statuses of WikiProjects, w:User:SineBot for automatic signature addition for people who forget, and w:User:WP 1.0 bot for updating a version of w:Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Language articles by quality statistics for WikiProject Languages and other WikiProjects.  These were the reasons I created Desired bots and there's a reason it originally didn't include a desire for interwiki linking.  If you manage to rip the code for any of those and set up here, you'd then have my voice of support for a bot flag. – Adrignola talk 23:25, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Not yet but I'll try. JackPotte (talk) 19:37, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I've read carefully the bots pages and to my mind:
 * "ClueBot" would is not absolutely necessary here thank to special:abusefilter.
 * Idem for "Millbot" with stats.wikimedia.org
 * "WP 1.0 bot" should be preceded by an RFC on Meta (or a maximum of Wikibooks) to adopt Link FA into each Featured books (like on Wikipedia, my bot can already update these templates after).
 * This message will self destruct in a few seconds, or will be automatically signed as well (but I don't know how to avoid to add a signature to these kinds of editions). —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 2010-11-25 00:20:36
 * Re: WP 1.0 bot, the functionality I was thinking of was updating tables like the one on this page based on the contents of categories, not starring of featured books in the interwiki links. That's not to say it's not something we consider, but it's not what I personally had in mind regarding that particular listing. – Adrignola talk 01:13, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Category:WikiProject_Languages includes 92 subcategories and 4159 pages : these boards can quickly be exported in different formats. JackPotte (talk) 02:39, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Today I would like to: JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Deploy BookCat into Special:UncategorizedPages (when the present book category name allows it).
 * 2) Treat the thousands of images mentioned into Reading_room/Proposals/2014/August (some license templates may be adapted for Commons before importing them over there, and the images should be tagged "on Commons" after their exportations).
 * 3) Operate some regular interwikis synchronizations.

As requested on commons:Commons:Bots/Requests/JackBot, I'm putting 30 files into Category:Files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 18:30, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

+Bot
Today, my bot corrects the few double redirects and deploys BookCat from Special:UncategorizedPages, when the last version is statistically not a vandal blanking. The code is here: https://github.com/JackPotte/JackBot/blob/master/src/en.wikibooks.format.py.

By the past, I had already asked for the bot flag in 2010, but now I would need to empty the thousand pages from Category:Pages using ISBN magic links without flooding. You can check the tests [//fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alberto_Giacometti&diff=prev&oldid=139517905 here for example].

Moreover, a few thousand medias are still movable to Commons and it would be nice to allow our books translations (and completion during this process).

PS: my bot provides a security system allowing anyone posting on its talk page to stop it immediately.

Thank you for your attention. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 20:17, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

PS: I almost forgot, my bot has more than 4 millions editions and 25 bot flags. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 15:27, 6 August 2017 (UTC)


 * You're asking for the bot flag? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:40, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, actually my bot is only reviewer here. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:16, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm willing to that.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 20:55, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
 * - No issues, now that the problem with bookcat have been resolved. --George (Talk &middot; Contribs &middot; CentralAuth &middot; Log) 13:23, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I am going to this, but please allow only autoconfirmed users to post on talk page. If not, ban ips from page. |Wikibooks=PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions|#default=  PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  }}|Wikibooks=PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions|#default=  PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  }}|Wikibooks=PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions|#default=  PokestarFan*Talk*Contributions  }} 13:33, 16 August 2017 (UTC)