Thumbnails Check Bot

This user account is a pywiki-based bot operated by Slick (talk). It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

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Status edit

Bot is deactivated and no more used

Details edit

Creator/Operator: Slick
Details of the bot's task: check recently uploaded files and if not found a thumbnail add a maintenance category for human review
Automatically or manually operated?: automatically
When does it operate?: several times a day (or when it is started manually)
Maximum edit rate: not much, depend on files with missing thumbnails, I guess on high load no more than 20 edits/day
Language: bash/python

About edit

The bot is still in development and so the bot flag is not requested yet.

The bot scans all new files (older than 48 hours) and does a HTTP HEAD request on the 120px thumbnail. If there is not a HTTP status code 200 (successful), it sleeps some time and tries again. If this second test fails too, it adds Category:Possibly files without thumbnails detected by bot to this file.

It may happen that in the file history you can read the HTTP status code. Explanation:

HTTP status code 500 → The server told the bot there was a script error, so we can assume there was not a valid thumbnail.
HTTP status code 503 → The server was busy and was not able to deliver the requested thumbnail, so we are not sure about the file and suggest the file needs a human review. (Often, all was in best order.)

Source edit

Not all, but the important code:

stage-1.sh