As an interwiki bot runner myself, I find this plan a little too constrained. Many of us run the interwiki bots on many different configuration and with this MMP project created, some configurations that we use would then not be available with this new plan. I can't think of much, but seeing from top -c, I can tell that the other bot runners run their bots differently from mine.

Personally, I rather we wait for the Pywikipedia devs to fix that script, install more memory for interwiki bots, or create another custom login server just for running interwiki bots.

Your plan is generally okay, just about having only 5 people to run this project, from many many bot operators, its quite hard to choose. Its best if people don't run multiple interwiki bots for one project (especially enwiktionary, which has an overload of interwiki bots).

Regards,
Hydriz


From: WP@daniel.baur4.info
To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:38:40 +0100
Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] interwiki.py

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