Hoi, Andre runs a bot for years now on the English Wikipedia .. He runs his bot on probably every Wikipedia in the same way as my bot runs on every Wiktionary.

When you are to ask for bot status on a 10 article project, there is often no beer parlour but the stewards expect you to ask the community where there is no established way of finding them.

I can appreciate Andre's sentiments because I share them. I think some 2/3 of my bots have the bot flag. Mine are all called RobotGMwikt where Andre's bot is called Robbot. The bots that I run, run 24 hours a day and edit all wiktionaries whenever there is a need for an edit on any Wiktionary

NB this mailing list is for ALL wikipedias and it is not exclusively English..

Thanks, GerardM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Robbot

On 5/7/07, xaosflux xaosflux@gmail.com wrote:

Your email below states that someone asked you to request it "for your bot". Are you running a bot on the english wikipedia? If so under what account?

Thanks, Xaosflux

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Engels" andreengels@gmail.com To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; "Wikimedia bot editors discussion" wikibots-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:05 PM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Asking for bot status

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I am sometimes asked to request for bot status for my bot. I find this strange. Bot status is there for the normal users of the wiki, not for the bot operator. If you want my bot to have bot status, then you request it. I'd be happy to help you in that, but why should I request something just because someone else wants it?

-- Andre Engels, andreengels@gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels

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