[Foundation-l] Fwd: [foundation-l] Bot policy on bots operating interwiki

[White Cat]

Bots aren't sentient so they can act stupidly. There are situations where
you have a bad interwiki link. Unless that is removed from every single
instance where it forms a chain it will eventually return to the list (which
makes sense, the bots think the wrong link as a new member to the chain).
However if all interwiki bots were able to operate on all wikis such
problems could be very easily avoided.

   - White Cat

On 9/7/07, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007/9/7, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>:
> > Either way there is a need for an interwiki bot operating on all wikis
> for a
> > fix otherwise as you point out two interwiki bots may end up reverting
> each
> > other. Had either bot had permission to edit each wiki this problem
> would
> > have been avoided.
>
> Reverting each other? No, why would they? I don't understand what
> situation you mean.
>
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