From: Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <
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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