User:OrphanBot

This bot is run by User:Carnildo. If you have any questions about image tagging, ask them at Media copyright questions.

Description and purpose
OrphanBot's current task is to remove images that are in Category:Images with unknown source and Category:Images with unknown copyright status from articles, so that administrators can delete them.

Images in the article, category, and portal namespaces will be removed. Images in the wikipedia, mediawiki, mediawiki talk, template, help, and help talk namespaces will be left alone, but a message will be logged on the bot's talk page. Images in all other namespaces will be completely ignored.

Additionally, OrphanBot inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed.

OrphanBot was written in Perl using the Pearle code for accessing Wikipedia.

In simple terms:
What OrphanBot does:
 * 1) OrphanBot tags images with no description as no info and images with no copyright tag as untagged
 * 2) OrphanBot removes images with certain tags from articles using them.
 * 3) OrphanBot notifies the presumed uploader of the impending deletion.

What OrphanBot does not do:
 * 1) OrphanBot does not delete images.
 * 2) OrphanBot does not tag images for deletion.
 * 3) OrphanBot does not evaluate fair-use claims.
 * 4) OrphanBot does not edit templates.
 * 5) OrphanBot does not edit user pages.
 * 6) OrphanBot does not tag unused fair-use images. That's Roomba and Fritzbot.
 * 7) OrphanBot can not check for copyright so please put in a description.
 * 8) OrphanBot is not responsible for every image that gets deleted.

Current development status
Working on improved bot. New behaviors:
 * 1) Better Wiki-access code for increased reliability.
 * 2) Automatic detection and tagging of images with no fair-use rationale.

Current task status

 * Cleanup of Category:Images with unknown source and Category:Images with unknown copyright status every day.
 * Automatic tagging of no-source, no-rationale, and untagged images is ongoing.


 * The developers changed the format of the image history again. OrphanBot is currently not warning users about already-tagged images, so if you're tagging images for lacking source or copyright, please notify them yourself.

Bot statistics
As of June 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 63,976 images, removing images from 33,698 articles, 1,266 portals, and 64 categories. The bot has handed out 36,988 warnings to 23,925 users.

As of September 1, 2006, OrphanBot has inspected 102,366 images, removing images from 50,683 articles. The bot has handed out 72,910 warnings to 47,627 users.