On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:02:09 -0800, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
2011/2/22 Michel Vuijlsteke
<wikipedia(a)zog.org>rg>:
This is where it starts. Thousands of our users have their first
interactions with a bot or with a user leaving a template. We're
unlikely to alter our practice to completely abandon bots and talk
page templates (although we can improve our software to give more
direct user feedback which makes bots and automated messages
unnecessary, e.g. for something like missing categories), but while
we're still using them, we really need to pay more attention to what
they are saying.
I do not see why it would be impossible to abandon warning templates. I
actually only use the copyvio warning template, because it is technically
advanced, and it would be difficult to write all these issues without the
templete. For the rest, if I warn someone, I just write smth myself, it
does not take any longer time. Bots are a different issue altogether, I
agree.
Cheers
Yaroslav