I am curious about something: I know there is at least one person on the English Wikipedia running weblinkchecker.py with the talk page notification feature. I've been intending to do the same thing myself, and for the last 6-12 months (read: a really really long time), I've been running weblinkchecker with notification turned off. If I turn notification on, will these two bots possibly clash by putting duplicate notifications on talk pages?
(I don't want to ask for a bot account until I know there are no ill effects, and I can't test that there are no ill effects without an account.)
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On Saturday 04 August 2007 23:10:52 Gwern Branwen wrote:
If I turn notification on, will these two bots possibly clash by putting duplicate notifications on talk pages?
No. Before adding a report on a talk page, the script checks if the link is already present on that talk page, as this most probably is a report by another bot (but may also be a discussion by normal users about that external link).
By the way, make sure you're running the latest version of weblinkchecker.py, there are many fixed bugs.
Daniel
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