2012/1/16 Hydriz Wikipedia admin@wikisorg.tk:
Yes, so probably our issues here are the lack of coordination of bot owners and memory usage issue. Shouldn't we write some simple script which can automatically remove old memory used by the interwiki script? DaB's idea was okay for me, just that one of the points was that no one else can run the interwiki script anymore, which is ridiculous to me.
Maybe the MMP can be used to ensure that there is no overlapping bots? All interwiki bot owners should join this project, check an available wiki that no one has taken up and start asking for clearance to run their own interwiki bot there.
Even bots on different wikis will have a large overlap. Perhaps we should restrict not-'selected' interwiki bots to running with -back set (for autonomous runs on the main namespace of Wikipedia, because I think that that's where most bots are active)?