On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2012/8/13 Snaevar snaevar-wiki@gmx.com:
For example:
- The interwiki bots' will definitely have to be modified for the
Wikidata age. Did anybody start a conversation with the operators of these bots?
MerlIwBot is the only bot that is compatible with Wikidata.
Is there any reason not to make the others compatible, too? IIRC, they all use the same upstream pywikipedia code. Or am I naïve?
No reason, no. I am not sure what the status is there. If you look at http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Special:RecentChanges and show bot edits you can see that MerlIwBot is already busy. Merlissimo: Can you comment on this?
Lydia has started a conversation with the operators of the bots that have volunteered to transit interwiki links to Wikidata.
Is it public?
No, I didn't get to it yet beyond what you saw above. It's still on my todo unfortunately.
- How will bots identify pages that use Wikidata?
Is this http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MerlIwBot/WikiData what you are looking for?
Well, probably. Probing Wikidata and seeing whether the page appears there sounds reasonable. If everybody uses it, of course. What happens if a bot doesn't behave well and does add a plain old interlanguage link to a page that is already connected to Wikidata? Which link will be shown to the reader - the old, the new, or both?
The local one will overwrite the one in Wikidata. So the local one is shown.
And what to do with the bot account - block it to make the operator notice that he should upgrade?
That is a decision the editors and admins have to make.
Cheers Lydia