On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:14:19 -0500, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
I think it might take some time to rewrite and test the new interwiki bot. If the bot operators simply download the latest version, they will continue running the old one until its fixed. If we plan to deploy wikidata to all sites soon, there is really no point in running IW bots any more until their logic is substantially changed.
Note that we will still need "traditional" IW bots on non-Wikipedia projects for the foreseeable future.
Cheers Yaroslav