Hey there. To those of you that are American, happy Thanksgiving! To those
of you that are not American, happy "Why can't I reach any of the the
Americans today, and what's with all this talk of stuffing? day!".
So a while back when Denny gave a talk in Boston about Wikidata, he
mentioned that he didn't want bots running until after the new API hit and
we had a chance to make sure that nothing was broken. I reposted that on
the project chat and we all agreed to stop the bots. That was on November
13.
Today I wake up to find that there is a bot running, and another
to-be-bot-op is asking if he can run his too. Does anyone know if the new
API has hit? Denny had no idea when it would. If it has, and nothing is on
fire, does anyone have any other objections to running bots again?
On a final note, I would ask that the bots stop running at Q99900 and
resume once we're at Q100001, as Denny did make a point to me in private
that day that I agree with, that it's great for the milestones in projects
(and Q100000 is a big one) to be reached by humans and not bots. Donno if
that's possible to program in though. Gosh, I remember creating things with
four digits after the Q. I'm feeling old. :D
Sven