2012/11/22 Sven Manguard <svenmanguard@gmail.com>

I reposted that on the project chat and we all agreed to stop the bots. That was on November 13.

That "all" was not quite the fact. :-) http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Pause_item_creating_bots Sorry to make you sad about that at this hour, but unfortunately I am not an American. :-)

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

Nice idea, maybe a well-targeted block for bots? :-))) It is up to the community: it is possible to ask them to stop at 99800 and block for a while at 99900 if they forget to stop. With a comment that won't be too ugly in their log.