User:Usage Bot

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To contact the operator, use his talk page.

This bot's approved task is to create and maintain galleries on Commons that record the use of files by other projects that are not supported by Special:GlobalUsage.

The bot operates automatically in daily and weekly batches, editing at a rate of up to 12 edits per minute.

The bot's code is available on Wikimedia GitLab.

The bot also operates on the OpenStreetMap Wiki.

Operational details

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The bot maintains several collections of galleries. It does not make any edits to pages outside of those galleries.

Once a week, on Mondays, the bot fetches the lists of files in use on various MediaWiki instances and uses them to update corresponding sets of galleries:

Once a day, the bot fetches a list of values of the image and wikimedia_commons keys in OpenStreetMap using Taginfo and uses them to maintain subpages of Commons:Files used on OpenStreetMap.