1. There's
a new rule now in effect regarding interwiki bots.[1] How will
this rule be enforced?
I was (and be) a little bit disappointed, that the TS-user were not capable to
organize a MMP until 1. April, but I was too busy to write an eMail yet so
thanks for the reminder.
I extends the date hereby to 15th May. All interwiki-bots which are running on
the TS are only tolerated, not allowed, now. If there is no ts-user-organized-
MMP until 15th May, I am going to create the (empty) MMP by myself and kill
and disable every longrunning interwiki-bot that I find.
Just to clarify - is the MMP supposed to be only for interwiki bot, or for entire pywiki
running - by which I mean is there supposed to be some sort of job queue to be created and
run pywiki bot only in one instance (with second instance for iw) or is this just only for
having single iw bot only?
2. There's
currently a rule requiring every bot user page to mention that
the bot runs on the Toolserver.[2] I don't think this rule is followed very
closely (I don't think any of my bots mention where they're hosted at the
moment). I believe this rule originated due to a desire to avoid
inadvertent autoblock damage on the Toolserver's IP addresses if a bad bot
were blocked. But most wikis now whitelist the Toolserver's IP range using
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Autoblock_whitelist>. Is this rule
still necessary and/or in effect?
I guess we can remove it with the next rule-change-edit. But it is
nevertheless a good idea to leave a line on the bot-user-page that the bot is
run on the TS.
Aside of rules, we can also have recommendations and/or guidelines and this could be one
of them.
> [1] Text: After 2. April 2012 the continuous
running of langlink-bots (also
> named interwikibots) is only allowed for the Multi-Maintainer-Project
> "interwikibot".
>
> [2] Text: You have to add a line at the bot-userpage, that the bot runs at
> the toolserver.
Kind regards
Danny B.