Yes, whats breaking the bot is human error. and as a fellow interwiki-bot
operator I think it would be of great help if we were given some slack on
bot flag bureaucracy. You could just use the bot to fix the bad
interwikilink rather than fixing them manually. The policy would not solve
everything but would be a good step in the right direction.
- White Cat
On 9/7/07, Tuvic <tuvic.tuvic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed, that's right. Just remember that interwiki-bots just spread
the bad link, they don't make it: it are human users who make the bad
link.
It happened to me on several occasions: I had just spend 20 minutes to
untangle an web of interwiki-linked articles, and some user just puts
a bad link back, because he/she thinks that the link should be there.
Very annoying, and not always revertable: after all, I'm just an
interwiki-bot-operator, while it's their home wiki most of the time.
So, not all problems would be avoided when having a general bot policy.
Greetings, Tuvic
2007/9/7, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com>om>:
Bots aren't sentient so they can act
stupidly. There are situations
where
you have a bad interwiki link. Unless that is
removed from every single
instance where it forms a chain it will eventually return to the list
(which
makes sense, the bots think the wrong link as a
new member to the
chain).
However if all interwiki bots were able to
operate on all wikis such
problems could be very easily avoided.
- White Cat
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