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GlaMainBot (talk · contribs)

Operator: Beao (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: I've automated lossless crops for Category:Images from the German Federal Archive with borders and need permission to start uploading the results.

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted to start.

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run for uploads, otherwise daily for my listing of User:GlaMainBot/Most_used_images_for_cleanup

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): At most ten uploads per minute.

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): TypeScript (using mwn)

Beao 07:49, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

Just to clarify: Is this to upload as a new version, or to overwrite? If the latter, is there a consensus to do so? I see that those borders include photo credits to the individual photographers, and these are from a respected archive, so I'd just want to make sure that there is agreement that this is desired; I've seen similar situations go either way. Clearly more useful in Wikipedia articles without the borders, but it's not clear to me that we don't want also to host a version with the credit line on the image. - Jmabel ! talk 23:58, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

My thought is to overwrite. I've not seen any written consensus on the matter, but in practice that's what has been done for years in this category. I think that implies a silent consensus, considering these captions have been digitally added by the archive and provide no additional information not already in the description. Beao (talk) 08:36, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Please make some example edits. Krd 17:06, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

All right, here are three examples:

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 137-068842, Sonderzug der Einwandererzentralstelle.jpg

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 137-068843, Sonderzug der Einwandererzentralstelle.jpg

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 137-068852, Sonderzug der Einwandererzentralstelle.jpg Beao (talk) 10:55, 7 October 2023 (UTC)