Wikidata:Bots/Import bot features
This is a list of recommended features for all import bots. Some of these are requirements, and others are merely recommended.
- Originally from Wikidata talk:Bots#Import bot feature list
| No. | Feature | Required for botflag | MerlIwBot | Sk!dbot | BeneBot* | ZaBOTka | Choboty | Legobot | ValterVBot |
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| 1.1 | wbgetitems/wbsetitem (deprecated) |  OK (automatic version detection)
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OK
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OK
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OK
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OK
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OK
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| 1.2 | wbgetentities/wbeditentity (current API module) |
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OK (automatic version detection)
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OK
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OK
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| sitelink import | |||||||||
| 2.1 | supported wikis | all wmf wikis except wikivoyage location Database (including incubator testwiki), but currently limited to [1] | all wikipedias | all wikipedias | all wikipedias | all wikipedias | anything supported by Pywikipediabot (all wikipedias) | all wikipedias | |
| 2.2 | interwiki conflict checking |
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yes, by creating strong connected components and testing for uniqueness | checks every interwikipage, if there is an interwiki conflict the site will be skipped, if there are to many new interwikilinks which are not on de-wikipedia the site will be skipped too | OK (see User:BeneBot*/conflicts)
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in process | Run interwiki bot before importing | in progress | |
| label import | |||||||||
| 3.1 | source for label | displaytitle and if not set page title | page title | edited page title | page title | page title | page title | page title | |
| 3.2 | removing disambig title part | OK
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could be possible if there are fixed rules | only brackets | only brackets for all wikis except ruwiki, where I know rules | OK Fixed + manual(based on the naming conventions)
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in progress | only brackets | |
| 3.3 | variant support (e.g. sl-ec/sl-el or zh-hans/zh-hant) | OK (uz-latn is added as uz)
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waiting for consensus | Partly. zh-hans/hant conversion | |||||
| 3.4 | langcode used for a label (wiki code (e.g. alswiki=als)/iso language(e.g. alswiki=gsw)/page content language(e.g. incubator:Wp/kiu=kiu)) |
page content language | wiki code | wiki code | wiki code, do not add labels for simple | Do not add labels for simple, *-old, als. | wiki code | ||
| 3.5 | label conflict handling (import includes to two wikis using the same language like simplewiki, enwiki, commonswiki, specieswiki) |
all further titles in this language are added as aliases | imho not needed | not needed | Do not add labels based on simplewiki. | ||||
| 3.6 | automatical label creation | de-ch if de label contains ß | no | no | zh-hans/hant using a conversion library. | ||||
| alias import | |||||||||
| 4.1 | import redirects as aliases | yes, but excluding simplewiki, enwiki, huwiki and mkwiki | yes, but excluding simplewiki, huwiki and mkwiki | currently working on | not supported | not supported | not supported | ||
| 4.2 | automatical aliases creation based on label | ru:ё⇒e | no | no | Custom rule. | no | |||
| 4.3 | removing disambig title part | OK
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yes for dewikipedia | see above | |||||
| 4.4 | does not add aliases which differ only in lower/upper case | OK
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OK
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OK
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| description import | |||||||||
| 5.1 | source for description |  not supported
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might be supported if there are clear rules | waiting for consensus | based on wiki category with some exceptions | Based on wiki category | not supported | Based on wiki category, Infobox, Template or off line file | |