On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:02:57 +0100, Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
Hi, I was wondering quite a lot when yesterday my bot for the Italian wiktionary did not work anymore ... then I heard about problems witn "one" user - vandalism of course.
To expand on Andre's answer: As I understand it, from lurking on various mailing lists, it's not that bots have been blocked as such, but that new security features have been added to the software to prevent certain kinds of attack. Unfortunately, these also impact legitimate automated access, in that bots will have to jump through a few extra hoops to prove that they are making "legitimate" edits, and there seem to be "teething problems" getting the pywikipediabot to jump through those hoops.
I hope I've understood this right, and wish Andre [and/or any other coders] luck in getting the bots back up and running soon.