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User talk:Liné1

‎Bot for creating Taxonavigations where information exists on WikiSpecies
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Hi Liné,

Hi Liné,

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I see you've done some work on taxonavigation bots. I've noticed that there are some Commons images, such as [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allactaga_major.jpg File:Allactaga_major.jpg] which are used as the [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Allactaga_major main image on WikiSpecies], but which do not have a [[Template:Taxonavigation | taxonavigation box]] in their Commons category (e.g. see [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Allactaga_major Category:Allactaga_major], versus [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mus_musculus Category:Mus_musculus]). Wikispecies usually has (what I assume is) an appropriate Taxonavigation box that could be used. Would it be a simple bot job to copy the Wikispecies Taxonavigation to the Wikimedia Commons image category, for image categories that do not have a Taxonavigation box already? I haven't written any wiki bots before, so I wondered if you might have time to do this, or know someone who could?
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I see you've done some work on taxonavigation bots. I've noticed that there are some Commons images, such as [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allactaga_major.jpg File:Allactaga_major.jpg] which are used as the [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Allactaga_major main image on WikiSpecies], but which do not have a [[Template:Taxonavigation | taxonavigation box]] in their Commons category (e.g. see [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Allactaga_major Category:Allactaga_major], versus [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mus_musculus Category:Mus_musculus]). Wikispecies usually has (what I assume is) an appropriate Taxonavigation box that could be used. Would it be a simple bot job to copy the Wikispecies Taxonavigation to the Wikimedia Commons image category, for image categories that do not have a Taxonavigation box already?

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Not only would that mean better tagging of species images on Commons, but it would also allow them to be harvested automatically by the [http://eol.org Encyclopedia of Life].
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I haven't written any wiki bots before, so I wondered if you might have time to do this, or know someone who could? If not, I was thinking of posting a request to [[Commons:Bots/Work_requests]].

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Not only would a bot like this mean better tagging of species images on Commons, but it would also allow them to be harvested automatically by the [http://eol.org Encyclopedia of Life], something I'm interested in.

Cheers, [[User:HYanWong|HYanWong]] ([[User talk:HYanWong|talk]]) 06:16, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Cheers, [[User:HYanWong|HYanWong]] ([[User talk:HYanWong|talk]]) 06:16, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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