In my opinion, I suggest that (1) global bots which are on ts should have access to the MMP, (2) we shall grant every wiki (or at least every major wiki) a user (or more than one, if the wiki is big) in the MMP for it.
In this way, we may try to reflect the current situation: we have both *bots which are active in a wiki only, controlling its pages, *global bots wandering around. I think that for what concern the bots involved in the (2) above, a good idea could be asking each group of ts users working on a certain wiki to take a decision according also to the thoughts of their wiki. On a brief discussion on it.wiki bot runners' IRC channel, there were suggested (I don't know whether this is possible or not) to set up a "fake user" for interwiki on it.wiki usable by every it.wiki ts user, in order that, in case a bot runner will stop his/her activity, interwiki will have no problem. While, bots of group (1) I think are already determined.
I am interested in this issue. In fact, I was asked by DaB to find 5 or more users to found the MMP, but I hadn't been successful (and i had also to slow down my presence on wikimedia projects due to real life...).
:) Best wishes, Nickanc
2012/3/1 Toto Azéro totoazero@yahoo.fr:
Hi all! As, so far — to my knowlegde, nothing has been settled regarding the new MMP interwiki, I suggest that *WE* (TS users, as DaB said) speed up this step... It would be a pity if nothing has been done at April 2nd, when the new rule 9.4 will be effective (no continous interwiki-bot on the TS)... But how to choose users who will be in the MMP and actually who will be entirely responsive of the bot ? I think an election would be a bit difficult to organize - but if someone who has spare time feels like organizing it, why not ? So I suggest that people interested in getting involved in the project let all the TS users know it, emailing the toolserver-l list... Then, TS users could support or critize one or more persons till a consensus is found... And in this mannner, people designed will have a few weeks (about a fortnight I think, but it depends on the last of the debate).
Here is my plan... What do you think about it ? Any other ideas ?
Personally, I've run a globally flagged interwiki-bot (ZéroBot) for a while, under a script I wrote (but still using interwiki.py from the pywikipediabot framework), and I'm pretty interested in being a member of the MMP... _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette