DaxBot

This user account is a pywiki-based bot operated by DaxServer (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. tasks • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • global contribs • flag bot

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DaxBot
DaxBot (Talk · Contribs)
Operator:	en:User:DaxServer
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Task/s:	See description
Edit rate:	5/minute
Edit period/s:	once-a-day per Journal Issue (~1 upload-edit per article in the Issue)
Automatic or manual?	Manual
Programming language/s:	Python (pywikibot), assisted by en:GitHub Copilot
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Tracking category

• Category:Uploaded by DaxBot

Tasks

1. Royal Society Open Science journal PDFs In progress
2. UCLA Library collections  Withdrawn
3. Capella Space Open Data In progress

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#1 Royal Society Open Science journal PDFs

Upload en:Royal Society Open Science CC-BY-4.0 journals to Category:Journals from Royal Society Open Science under appropriate category

Version-1

• Workflow: (see Version-2)
• Development:  Done
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot  Done
  • Test run:  Done
• Operational:  Redirect

Version-2

• Workflow: PMC IDs are downloaded from https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/, RSOS entries extracted. PMC OA bulk subset download and RSOS extracted. These extracts provide FTP download location for OA package which has the PDF, figures and XML data. The |description= in the {{Information}} is set to enwiki {{Cite journal}} rendering from enwiki Citoid API enanced with XML data title for formatting and CrossMark API. A CrossMark link is provided to check for updates. The upload is added into User:DaxServer's watchlist.
• Categories
  • Category:Files from Royal Society Open Science uploaded by DaxBot
  • Category:Uploaded by DaxBot needing category review
  • Category:Files from PubMed Central uploaded by DaxBot
• Development:  Done
• Approval: Minor modifications thus not required - User talk:Krd#User:DaxBot task modification
• Operational: In progress
  • DR: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mothers may shape the variations in social organization among gorillas.pdf -  Done

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#2 UCLA Library collections

Upload Public Domain images from UCLA Library https://digital.library.ucla.edu/

Version-1

• Workflow: ... <drafting>
• Development:  Withdrawn
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (2)  Withdrawn
  • Test run:  Done
• Operational:  Not done

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#3 Capella Space Open Data

Upload CC-BY-4.0 images from Capella Space Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Open Dataset

Version-1

• Workflow:
  • Parse Catalog at https://capella-open-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/stac/catalog.json
  • Check if the file (example) thumbnail PNG and/or GeoTIFF and/or application/vnd.nitf (probably infeasible due to extremely large file size) already exists using SHA1 check
  • If not, upload
• Categories
  • Category:Files from Capella Space uploaded by DaxBot
• Development:  Done
  • Tooling: https://n8n.io/ powered workflow with JavaScript snippets and MediaWiki API to upload
• Approval: Commons:Bots/Requests/DaxBot (3)  Done
  • Test run:  Done
• Operational: In progress