AFAIK there are many iw-bots and several others.
I don't think that there are iw-bots doing anything else as well. It would not be very useful now. But acually I don't know it. If yes, blocking those specific ones might be a good idea.
Marco
Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com schrieb:
So are the same bots doing different things? I seem to remember there was one giant toolserver pybot instance doing only interwiki.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
On 29/01/13 10:02, Magnus Manske wrote:
Why not just block the bots on wikis that use wikidata?
Bots are used for much more than interwiki handling.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:51 AM, BinĂ¡ris <wikiposta@gmail.com
mailto:wikiposta@gmail.com> wrote:
2013/1/28 Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup@gmail.com <mailto:ladsgroup@gmail.com>> What is exact time of the next deployment (it and he)? If you want to catch it, join #wikimedia-wikidata on IRC. It was great to follow it on D-day! And what time you think is best to disable interwiki bots? Xqt can modify the code, but pywiki is not deployed, it is
updated
by bot owners, so there is no chance to focus it on one hour.
For
this reason I would say to begin it after deployment of Wikibase
as
otherwise one should do it at least 1 or 2 days before which
would
cause a maintenance pause. Yes, people will try to remove iws
and
some of them will be put back by bots.
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