Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/MechQuesterBot 2

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

 Not done, the owner was blocked for sockpuppetry, pledge to never return, and will have to convince the community that they are trusted enough to run a bot.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:18, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

MechQuesterBot[edit]

MechQuesterBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: MechQuester (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: Add description to a bunch of villages in China.

Code:

SPARQL Code: select ?item {?item wdt:P31 wd:Q13100073}

Function details: I am refiling this bot request. It is to add descriptions to the villages in China. --MechQuester (talk) 22:31, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What descriptions? "village in China"? Or in which languages? Steak (talk) 16:17, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
just in Chinese + English. MechQuester (talk) 17:55, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I am also adding "subdistrict of China" to a few entries. I ran 10 test edits if anyone wants to read. MechQuesterBot (talk) 18:05, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

anyone gonna comment any furthur?03:13, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

  • There are 590,000 items for villages in China but only 250,000 different labels for villages in China. [1] That means there are many villages sharing the same name. Since the software enforces to have label+description to be unique, you will run into many conflicts. --Pasleim (talk) 12:42, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think these item could need some edits to make them useful to people who don't speak Chinese. Let him have a go. Eventually maybe a better description will emerge.
      --- Jura 11:31, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Im not totally willing to make a go at it now that there are numerous conflicts. MechQuester (talk) 16:37, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Well, maybe it could be limited by doing something like "village in <adm3>, <adm2>, <adm1>, PRC". As I'm not sure which administrative layers are relevant and stable for China, I can't really suggest more. For the US, this could read "village in Trump County, Wyoming, USA" or "neighborhood of the city of <..>, Trump County, Wyoming, USA". For conflicts that remain, one would need to find a manual improvement. Maybe there is a default way to disambiguate such names.
--- Jura 16:52, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps there. It would require some form of looking at parent "located in administrative category" but i don't have the coding skill abandoned. Thus a new one is better.

How about a new proposal? 

select ?item {?item wdt:P31 wd:Q61878}

Using this to add P421:Q6985. MechQuester (talk) 03:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What about just P421 and Q6985 for every article? MechQuester (talk) 17:18, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@MechQuester, Jura1, Pasleim:, are we ready for approval here?--Ymblanter (talk) 21:16, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I see you've already added Chinese descriptions to these items. Regarding these plans, you want to add them in separated edits one by one? If so, I give an oppose vote. I think you already know that Emijrp is working on this task adding by 20+ descriptions to these items.[4] It would be more apropriate to help him populate his dictionary, or add yourself multiple descriptions at once if you can. XXN, 18:32, 2 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There is nothing wrong with adding them 1 by 1. I use descriptioner, which is 1 by 1. Im getting stuff done, yet I have to coordinate with someone? MechQuester (talk) 12:32, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Without waiting for an approval here, you proceeded to mass editing. Is this OK in your opinion? In previous run - March 2017, you introduced such descriptions: "‎Village in Heilongjiang province, China"[5][6] which contains two mistakes (the description should start with a lowercase per Help:Description, and the word "province" should be with an initial uppercase). You did not resolved previous problems, and ignoring some suggestions, you began mass introducing new terms. I think there is a problem. --XXN, 11:45, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'll get to it soon enough.MechQuester (talk) 22:51, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Different Request[edit]

Plan to use descriptioner to add "Beetle" or "Bettle in Cerambycidae family" to en:Category:Lamiinae MechQuester (talk) 03:31, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please file it as a separate request so that it could be properly discussed.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:16, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
What happened in items like this?
  • 08:57, 27 March 2017‎ MechQuesterBot (talk | contribs)‎ . . (32,776 bytes) (+76)‎ . . (‎Added [en] description: species of beetle, #quickstatements)
  • 21:40, 4 April 2017‎ MechQuesterBot (talk | contribs)‎ . . (32,798 bytes) (-11)‎ . . (‎Changed English description: species, #quickstatements)
  • 21:41, 4 April 2017‎ MechQuesterBot (talk | contribs)‎ . . (32,809 bytes) (+11)‎ . . (‎Changed English description: species of beetle, #quickstatements)
It's not ok.
And in general, I don't think that for any of those 2 tasks should be approved a quickstatements-based "bot". IMO there is necessary a real bot which will set multiple descriptions (and labels) at once, instead of tens-to-100+ edits for changing terms for each language in part. XXN, 23:06, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree here with XXN, running the bot only on English labels seems inefficient. ChristianKl (talk) 09:34, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I could add chinese labels if you wish. MechQuester (talk) 19:47, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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