To Thomas Dalton:
Well I do not expect it any time soon. Once it is around we can then talk
about it. :)
To Andre Engels:
Yes I meant interwiki.py. I haven't done many interwiki edits yet (I am
waiting by bot's status on all wikis to be resolved first) so I am
inexperienced with it. I think I'll use your settings.
Indeed, bot operators have a finite life span and do not really have time to
deal with wikis individually. I personally refuse to run my bot on any wiki
without a bot flag. I guess I am too careful. I really think people who ONLY
work on mindless tasks (double redirect fixing, interwiki linking, commons
delinking) should be given a good amount of slack from local policies the
bot operators cannot even read.
- White Cat
On 9/8/07, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2007/9/8, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com>om>:
I bet it is the same code (redirect.py). You can
intwerwiki link pages
like
that with it too.
I suppose you mean interwiki.py rather than redirect.py? In that case,
yes, it's the same code. The options are a bit different (in
particular, I don't use -automatic as a smaller difference I do use
-whenneeded:3), but it's the same code. There might be differences on
the decision for that (on the one hand, my bot does some changes that
would not 'otherwise' be done by another bot, on the other hand,
those are changes that would be more likely to be protested). Still,
it's mostly the same code.
The amount of attention I pay to it is directly
proportional to the number of wikis my bot operates on (other wise it is
a
waste of time as explained above as another
interwiki bot would simply
revert). I do not have the time for that at the moment because I have
665
wikis to request a bot flag which I rather not.
If people want to give my bot a bot flag, I'm happy with that. If they
prefer to have it run without a bot flag, or if they don't mind either
way, I'm happy with that too. Basically, I just start running my bot
on a wiki, and sometimes (often 2 years or so afterward) I get to hear
that I should request a bot flag. I still think that's silly - I can
imagine having to ask permission, but the bot flag is for the normal
users, not for me, so I don't see any reason why I should be the one
to ask it.
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
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