--- On Fri, 5/30/08, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
From: Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Proposals for the first global roles To: andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 6:59 AM On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
2008/5/30 Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k@gmail.com:
Besides that, most interwiki bots will run on all languages of one project
rather than various projects,
so interwiki bots for other projects would
normally not come to
wiktionary to edit there.
Exactly, you would ask for a global flag on
wikipedia or wiktionary or any
other project... not a global flag for every
project created..
My understanding is that the tool we have is
"global everywhere"; we
don't have the capacity to say "global on all
Wikipedias", etc.,
without doing it manually, which is... well, what we
had before.
Yes, but a person who is running bot from, let's say, German Wikipedia, will never reach any Wiktionary. And if a bot owner is enough trusting to have a bot privilege on Wikipedias, it is really paranoid to expect that such person will abuse their privileges by writing case-insensitive links/pages on Wiktionaries; even this is not default at pywikipediabot, as Andre said.
No one expects bot owners to intentionally do harm. But people would not be aware of these issues unless some bot owner had once thought it a good idea to run the Wikipedia script on another project.
Maybe one solution is to put a cap on these flags for now. If we only have a dozen bots to worry about; it will be easier to watch for them and for all the owners to be informed of these issues. But if there are an unlimited amount of flags given out and they become some sort of trophy for bot owners at some point the information is going to be lost.
Birgitte SB