On 21 August 2016 at 11:55, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Once the bot can determine the version namespaces on its own,
* why does it take version and namespaces from family
Historical reasons. Mostly because this information was not easily available in the screen-scraping era, but also because it allows the bot to normalize page titles without connecting to the wiki.
- why does it complain instead of working?
Historical reasons. Mostly to make sure the family file is updated.
- what problem will I experience?
The bot might not understand links to newer namespaces. The version number is not likely to have any direct impact.
Merlijn