[Foundation-l] Bot policy on bots operating interwiki

[White Cat]

About the "replacing fair use images with free ones": unless the fair-use
image was uploaded to commons, I do not see how it is relevant. Fair use
images will be deleted from commons.

You are being asked, just the discussion is being held in meta not on
wikinews. And this isn't for any bot, just bots that take care of mindless
tasks like interwiki linking, commons delinking, and double redirect fixing.
The idea is a "centralized discussion" which any participant from any wiki
(weather it  is wikinews, wikipedia or something else).

On 9/8/07, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
>
>
> >> I think SUL is a distant dream at this point.
>
> >Really? From what I've heard, the devs are making pretty good progress
> >towards it.
>
> I've seen a demo somewhere that finds all user accounts that match up. SUL
> is no easy task, but it is achievable.
>
> Anyway, on the topic of interwiki bots, as an admin on en.wikinews I would
> prefer to be asked. We protect everything when it is about a week old, so
> bots that go into the archives won't work. I also have concerns that
> replacing fair use images with free ones on old articles could distort
> Wikinews' historical record. For example, using a picture taken years
> after
> an event that is free instead of one available at the time and more
> representative.
>
>
> Brian.
>
>
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