WLKBot

This user account is a bot operated by Kim Bach (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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WLKBot, short for Wiki Labs Kultur Bot, is a bot that automates upload of public domain content donated to Wikimedia Commons through partnerships with Wikimedia Denmark.

The following GLAMs are participating:

Wikimedia Danmark
Den Hirschsprungske Samling
Det Kgl. Bibliotek (KB)
Det Danske Filminstitut (DFI)
AU Library Campus Emdrup
Statens Værksteder for Kunst (SVfK)
Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
Thorvaldsens Museum

Operator edit

User:Kim Bach is the operator, he can be contacted through commons mail, User:MSanderhoff can also be contacted.

Tasks edit

Upload of public domain images of artwork and related metadata, using the Template:Artwork of artwork provided through partnerships with Danish GLAMS.

The first partnership is with SMK - The National Gallery of Denmark a project page is created for the purpose Commons:SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

For the SMK contribution, the images are downloaded and metadata is mapped to the Artwork template, utilising the Statens Museum for Kunst, SMK API: entry KMS1 and the wikilabskultur Artwork template preprocessor.

The bot is written in Python using the pywikibot library

The source code is available on GitHub

Operation edit

The bot is manually assisted and will most likely be running from a stand alone computer

When edit

The bot operates at specified intervals (batches). Activity depends on the availability of new batches from GLAMs, it can be started on demand by the local operator, on a stand alone pc

Maximum edit rate edit

Most likely 10-50 edits per minute, but only in short bursts, and it can be set to a much lower rate. The first proposed upload will be in the form of approx. 500 files of 10-30MB in size, time to finish is not of the essence, the total size of the contribution from SMK currently is approx. 70.000 images, the collection is expected to be quite static.

Language edit

The content is expected to be predominantly in Danish