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CategorizationBot is a bot to find uncategorized files and to try to get these files categorized.
If files are still uncategorized, notify the uploader. (disabled at the moment)
The bot creates maintenance categories:
Logs for the different jobs can be viewed at http://tools.wmflabs.org/catbot/logs/ and the server admin log is also available.
With the move from Toolserver to Toollabs all categorization logic was gone. The only thing the bot was doing is tagging uncategorized files. End June 2015 ([1]) the MediaWiki API was changed and the operator of this bot didn't feel like investing time in porting the bot code from pywikibot compat to core and instead chose to shut it down.
You add a category by adding the text [[Category:Something]] at the file page where "Something" is the relevant category. The process of adding categories at a wiki is described more detailed at en:Help:Category. The Commons category system is described at Commons:Categories. If you still need help after reading these pages, ask at Commons:Help desk.
It didn't. At the time you got the message the image was tagged with {{Uncategorized}}. In the meantime someone added a category. Check the timestamps in the file history if you don't believe me!
The best way is to categorize all your uploads before CategorizationBot notices them or use you can add {{subst:Unc}} if you do not know a category. You may also add {{bots|deny=CategorizationBot}} to your talk page, which will prevent the bot from leaving you messages there. And of course, you are always free to remove any message from your talk page.
Galleries don't replace categories. Also see Commons:Categories vs Galleries.
That is great! If you like you can remove the message on your talk page.
Hopefully someone will help you find a category. If you add a good description that is easier for other users.
No, the daily bot doesn't. It uses a conservative approach. If categories were added directly (not via a template), the bot will skip the image. If there are no directly added categories the bot will loop over all templates. If all templates are on the ignore list, the bot marks the image as uncategorized. If one of the templates is not on the ignore list the bot assumes that the template adds a category and skips the image. Every once in a while a query is run on the database to find images without categories or with only hidden categories.
No, some filtering is applied to remove not so useful categories and to find better categories.
The bot relies on links from the different Wikipedia's for its categorization. If these links are incorrect, the bot mis-categorizes images. For example this link cause Category:Maintenance to be flooded with seemingly random images.
The fixing consists of two steps: Finding the source of the problem and cleaning up the category.
replace.py -lang:commons -family:commons -regex -dotall "(\{\{Check categories\|.+)\[\[Category:Maintenance\]\]" "\1" -cat:Maintenance -summary:"Removing category maintenance"
(replace Maintenance with the name of the flooded category). If you don't have a bot, ask someone at Commons:Bots/Work requests to run it for you (point them here).For general questions you should go to the help desk. You can post questions about this bot at User talk:CategorizationBot.
This bot is operated by Multichill. You can post questions about this bot at User talk:CategorizationBot.
This user account is a pywiki-based bot operated by Multichill (talk). It is flagged as a 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.
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