In case you didn't see the whole StatusBot fiasco on enwiki, I used to run a bot as a replacement to a replacement of [[User:StatusBot]]. The bot made 50k edis in a few months, and was soon shut down by Brion. A bot the edits the sandbox every few minutes would no way be approved.
On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:54 PM [Mar 10, 2009 ], Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/3/10 K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
Out of curiousity, when a technical problem shuts down all editing on a major wiki (as this did) are there any automated alerts? Is it likely to be noticed and addressed even if no one rushes to IRC?
I guess I am curious what is the normal delay between problem onset and problem recognition?
-Robert Rohde
I believe with this issue (Full MySQL table) that there is no easy way to automate the test..... maybe you could automatically query it every so often but even then that might not return reliable results.
A bot that edits the sandbox every few minutes would work, would it?
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