Andre Engels schrieb:
I think better results could be reached by putting the emphasis on the "cooperating" part rather than the "running one" part.
Yes, I agree. Basically, making this a multi-maintainer project ensures that: * there's a common code base, and a single toolserver-account * operators are aware of each other, and will hopefully coordinate * thus, we get less redundant runs and less concurrent processes
Get some database or such where the bots notify when they have either updated a page or found that it did not need updating, then have the bots (except when running with hints or such) request this database before doing interwiki on a page and skip it if its last notification was less than so-and-so-much time ago (for example one week).
Such a database sounds like an interesting Idea - in fact, it sounds like a good reason for including you in the project :) talk to the bot ops about it.
-- daniel