On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Goldammer thogol@googlemail.com wrote:
That would be really good, but then all interwiki bots will have to be case-sensitive according to page titles. Wiktionaries have case-sensitivity and I don't want to see any interwiki bot run on a wiktionary without case-sensitivity enabled since that causes lots of trouble.
I don't see a purpose for having cross project interwiki bot. So, bot owners which take care about Wiktionaries will have a possibility to ask for a "Wiktionary bot flag" at one place instead of asking for it at ~150 places. Generally, I think that at least some of the global rights should be per-project, not general. But, present situation is such that it would be complex enough.
As for the rest of your proposal, why don't we discuss that on Meta? This is a mailing list, thus a platform for announcements, not a discussion platform...
This email is a step before making a draft. So, the question here is: Does anyone have a serious objection? After gathering such kind of inputs, I'll make a draft which would be put at Meta (with an announce here); which means, in a couple of days.