[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

[Stephen Bain]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * Ease of maintenance - lists are much better. Only one article need
> be watched for vandalism, bot updates can be done in one edit, etc,

Most simple vandalism isn't dealt with by watchlists anyway, but by
recent changes listings, whether on-wiki, on the IRC feed or through
separate tools that monitor these. Having separate articles makes no
difference to these methods whatsoever, since they're edit-based and
not page-based.

As for bots: well, the very reason for their existence is so that they
can do the grunt work for us, and updates to large groups of articles
is a perfect example of such work.

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com