On 21 August 2016 at 11:55, Bináris <wikiposta(a)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