I prefer to make the API call and not to check by a list of languages.

Several reasons:
1. It's more robust in general.
2. Wikibase extension, as well as pywikipedia, can be used on other wikis, too.
3. There are dark corners in Wikimedia wikis - non-standard codes,
redirects, locked wikis, non-language wikis (Commons, Outreach etc.)
It's possible that these are out of the bots' scope, but checking the
API will still make it more robust.

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2013/2/14 Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup@gmail.com>:

> That's a very interesting idea when i check this:
> http://fa.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=wikibase
> we can make a call for a bot to check every wiki but for now i think there
> is a very few wikis updated on wikidata so I don't think it's very good idea
> right now but for the future it's the only option so I'll work on it but not
> now
>
> Best
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> We really ought to change it to dynamic:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=wikibase
>> (thanks duh)
>>
>> If there is no error, wikibase is present, disable. This way no update to
>> the blacklist is needed. The query should be re-issued every 30 min to make
>> sure it hasn't changed.
>>
>> The sad part is that interwiki bot needs to be significantly reworked, so
>> there is no big incentive to do any changes like this to it. It should be
>> aware of wikidata, remove all data unless it is not in wikidata, etc. Lots
>> of heuristical changes.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I did this:
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/11073
>>> so updated bots are not a concern anymore :)
>>> BTW:congrats.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Katie Chan <ktc@ktchan.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 13/02/2013 21:31, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You have examples of that? Did not happen to my edits (so far).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just once so far -
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Papal_conclave,_2013&diff=prev&oldid=538105382>
>>>>
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