2012/1/16 Hydriz Wikipedia <admin(a)wikisorg.tk>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)?
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André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com