On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
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.
And where am I to found the bot ops? Who are they? What is meant by "bot ops" in fact? (yes, I do realize that it is short for "bot operators", but is there any meaning beyond the literal "someone who operates some bot on some wikimedia project"?)