Like I implied on my earlier post. Regulating it would be much easier and
time consuming from a central location: Meta.
- White Cat
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Wikibooks has the same problem - interwiki linking is
rather more
complicated for the non-Wikipedia project. I think it would be acceptable
to
give a global bot flag BUT bots are only to work where approved (ie not on
Wikibooks unless you ask first; not on Wikisource if you ask first). This
allows stewards to not waste time flagging a bot on all Wikipedias (use the
global flag) but the bot should then only work on Wikipedias (unless it is
allowed to work on the other families).
However, thoughts on this may differ. I know many don't agree that
people/bots are able to /not/ use rights they have, but that's just not
true. Just because a bot is globally flagged as such doesn't mean it must
work on all wikis - it is quite easy to restrict it to only one family.
Mike.lifeguard
-----Original Message-----
From: Birgitte SB [mailto:birgitte_sb@yahoo.com]
Sent: May 29, 2008 3:23 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis
--- On Wed, 5/28/08, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 10:51 PM
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter
<putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote:
We do have a bot policy:
[[:meta:Bot policy]]
It is implemented in all small wikipedias I am active.
Bot owners (in
theory) leave a request at a special bot page, if
there are no objections
within a reasonable time (a week or so), the
steward
grants the bot
status. Once I had to report on meta and actually
ask
stewards to grant
the bot flag for some of the old requests on
os.wp.
You may be sure the small wikis suffer much more when
a bot can not get
the status since the list of recent changes
becomes
unusable - this is for
instance what is right now happening with the
newly
created wikis.
This is one of the most problematic issues: Asking for bot
flag on
~250 projects is really painful. There should be one place
for asking
the bot flag for interwiki bots.
Please no global flag for interwiki bots. An all Wikipedia flag would be
fine but not a global one. Interwiki's to not work in a strait forward
fashion on Wikisource and bots using the code that works on Wikipedias
create a big mess on Wikisource. Interwikis bots will probably only be
able
to be work properly off of a "white-list" on Wikisources. These white-list
have not yet been made so for right now interwikis need to be done by hand.
Please do not authorize any bots to do this task on Wikisources.
Birgitte SB
Birgitte SB
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