Hello all,

with the beginning of the next year (2011) I will not longer accept new interwiki-bot-accounts, if: -The homewiki of the bot has at least one active interwiki-bot, which runs on the toolserver, OR -The homewiki has less then 1000 articles. (There can be exceptions if there is a good reason of course)

The homewiki is that wiki where the bot starts and where the account-requester got his/her bot approved (see [1]).

If the account-requester requested the account only for the interwiki-bot, the request will be rejected; if he/she requested the account also for other things, only the interwiki-bot will be denied of course and the rest of the request will be handled the normal way.

For interwiki-bots which runs already on the toolserver, there is no change at the moment. When you find a free minute: Please add your bot to [2] and check if there are inactive bots listed for your wiki.

The goal of this change is to limit the number of interwiki-bots on the toolserver (and improve our documentary a bit).

Sincerly, DaB.

[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Account_approval_process, Request process, Point 4. [2] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Wikimedia_bots