Hello all, in nearly 2 months it will not longer be allowed to run most langlink-bots (aka interwiki-bots) on the toolserver for nearly all of you (see my old mail below for details). To make it official I added a new rule 9.4 to our rule-page short time ago and send this mail also to -announced. The new rule forbids the running of any langlink-bot on the toolserver with the following 2 exceptions: *The bot is run by the MMP interwiki-bot (or however it will be called at the end), *The bot runs only for limited time (!=continuous) or testing.

Until now, no building of the needed MMP has taken place AFAIK, so I would recommend to speed that up so there will be a MMP until 1. March.

Sincerly, DaB.

At Wednesday 01 February 2012 17:34:45 DaB. wrote:

Hello,

At Sunday 15 January 2012 17:13:26 DaB. wrote:

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Isn't this a bit too many interwiki bots?

yes, there are, although not the cpu-load is the problem but the memory-usage. The best solution would be if the mediawiki-devs finaly get rid of interwiki- links in the article-text of course, but I have the fealing thta will not happen soon. The second best solution would be, if the interwiki.py would fix their code, but there I have also the fealing that will take some time.

So here is my plan to fix the problem on our (the TS) side: 1.) I create a MMP called interwiki-bot (or something). 2.) YOU (the ts-users) choose (by election, by appointing, by playing "Trip to Jerusalem", I don't care) 5 of you who will become member of that MMP until 15th February. Only rule: 1 of the 5 has to be an active user of a non- wikipedia-project (like wikisource or wiktionary or so). 3.) The members of the MMP create a wikimedia-project-account (like "ts- interwikibot" or something) and request global-bot-status until 1. April. 4.) After 2. April no-one is allowed to run a interwiki-bot except the MMP.

Any problems with my plan?

Sincerly, DaB.