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On 31.12.2012 11:52, Bináris wrote:
2012/12/31 Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw@arctus.nl mailto:valhallasw@arctus.nl>
It was added by xql in r10769: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py?r...
This happened quite recently, I did not know about that. Earlier I always read the SVN notifies but since this spring I had no time for that. Anyhow, this is not a general expectation to bot owners. I think we should generally re-think our communication, and have a proper noticeboard or newsletter with the essence of talks and updates.
Honestly I do not think this was that bad the joke - such things happen from time to time since we all do have time to meet every week in order to discuss about what happened recently. And even if you would read all those messages it might happen that the committer forgot to note the part important for you... It happend to me too that a simple change of scope in trunks query.py broke some code... I think it better to suppress an edit in case of doubt instead of writing to often and just by accident to wiki. May be it would be a good idea to output the suppressed page write to a local text-file in order not to waste your time! I do also strongly support improving the exceptions message if it was unclear! Last but not least I do think this kind of page edit suppression can be removed ideed, since you can use the parameter '-simulate' to prevent editing by accident.
Greetings and Happy New Year! DrTrigon