Spin off from the "Phase 1" thread.
2013/1/29 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>om>:
Why not just block the bots on wikis that use
wikidata?
This looks like the right thing to me, but I don't want to be too rude
to the bot operators and I do want the bots to keep doing useful
things.
Imagine the scenario:
* Wikidata Client is deployed to the Hebrew Wikipedia.
* I remove interlanguage links from the Hebrew Wikipedia article
[[ASCII]], an item for which is available in the Wikidata Repo (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8815 ).
** The article is supposed to show the links brought from Wikidata now.
* After some time User:LovelyBot adds the links back.
* I block User:LovelyBot.
Now what do I say to User:Lovely?
A: Stop changing interlanguage links on the Hebrew Wikipedia. We have
Wikidata now.
B: Update your pywikipedia bot configuration (or version). We have
Wikidata now, and your bot must not touch articles that get the
interlanguage links from the Wikidata repo.
I prefer option B, but can pywikipediabot indeed identify that the
links in the article are coming from Wikidata? And are there interwiki
bots that are not using the pywikipediabot infrastructure?
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