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(a)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(a)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, Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:wikiposta@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 2013/1/28 Amir Ladsgroup
<ladsgroup(a)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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