User:BotAdventures

This user account is a bot operated by Ghouston (talk). It is flagged as bot. 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

This bot runs on Wikimedia Toolforge. Toolforge is part of Wikimedia Cloud Services and subject to the Cloud Services End User Terms of use.

• Operator: Ghouston (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)
• Details of the bot's task or tasks: Adds files to categories in Category:Photographs by camera manufacturer or Category:Scans by scanner brand based on Exif data. It will only add to categories that don't already contain at least 100 files (except in special situations). The reason for the limit is that the Structured data project may provide a better way of storing such information in future, as discussed at the original Commons:Bots/Requests/BotAdventures bot request.
• Whether the bot is manually assisted or runs automatically: automatic
• When it operates (continuously, intermittently, or at specified intervals): intermittently
• The bot's maximum edit rate (edits per minute): Limited to 12. It also checks Maxlag=5.
• The language and/or program that it is running: Go, using go-mwclient.

The bot's source code can be found at GitHub.