Hello all,
in nearly 2 months it will not longer be allowed to run most langlink-bots
(aka interwiki-bots) on the toolserver for nearly all of you (see my old mail
below for details). To make it official I added a new rule 9.4 to our rule-page
short time ago and send this mail also to -announced.
The new rule forbids the running of any langlink-bot on the toolserver with
the following 2 exceptions:
*The bot is run by the MMP interwiki-bot (or however it will be called at the
end),
*The bot runs only for limited time (!=continuous) or testing.
Until now, no building of the needed MMP has taken place AFAIK, so I would
recommend to speed that up so there will be a MMP until 1. March.
Sincerly,
DaB.
At Wednesday 01 February 2012 17:34:45 DaB. wrote:
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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