pgkbot doesn't read individual edits though, it only reports one that fail a filter of the rc channel feed. We'd need to change it if we want to flag content of edits, and it would use a lot of bandwidth (though a couple on the smallest WPs wouldnt be too bad).
On 10/1/06, Titoxd@Wikimedia titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote:
This is not a problem. The existing pgkbot IRC monitoring framework already allows each bot to report to multiple channels simultaneously, so a bot could report to its "home" channel, as well as to a centralized channel, if needs warrant. This data is already being broadcast on Wikimedia's IRC server, so there isn't anything to modify server-side. All that you need is poke a few users on IRC to change their bots' settings.
Titoxd.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Birgitte SB Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:11 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Porchesia
--- Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
In any case, I think this is interesting at a global level because the Wiki's at greatest risk of collecting garbage are often the ones with the least activity.
After seeing that one of the Wikipedias had its main page changed to say "Welcome to the Runescape trading forum", I wondered if it would be useful to setup a bot to check recent changes on all the smaller wikis for insertions of English text. .. With the hope that the worst of the junk on small wikis would be in inappropriate languages.
It would be really nice if we had a single recentchanges page that aggregated all the low activity wikis.
I think this is a great idea. Is it possible to set up several RC bots (in different wiki's) to work in a single RC channel? If this could be done with the bots displaying a snippet of any added text, it should be easy to recognize any english which does not belong.
Birgitte SB
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