On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
You probably know by now that the English Wikipedia will be closed tomorrow [1]. Keep an eye on your bots if they're running on the English Wikipedia (don't forget interwiki.py) because you might see some unexpected behaviour or just crashes tomorrow.
As I understand, the blocking will be through Javascript, so the bots will not be affected.
In the case of the Italian blacking, the bot could still get the pages without problems, but all pages were also acting as if locked, so edits were not possible.
Still, I do agree with Maarten that it would be good to check, of course.