On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Sven Manguard <svenmanguard@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

No it has not. Technically you can run bots. Just don't got too crazy
with them :)

> 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

Heh I think that's something you need to figure out with the people
running the bots.

Cheers
Lydia

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