Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Pavol Cupka wrote:
I would like to suggest making a mailing list for users running robots. Would this be possible? Something like wikibots-l or similar.
Pywikipediabot has a mailing list. If you're hacking up yet another wikipedia bot framework, you probably should avoid duplicating effort... http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/
You and other Pywikipediabot fans keep saying that on this list, but it never changed the fact that people are more passionate about writing their own scripts than they are about learning some obscure never-heard-of programming language for the only purpose of reading someone else's code which will probably turn out to be unsatisfactory anyway.
I'm not a Python programmer (whitespace as syntax? eww) but this seems a little inflammitory. Python *is* a reasonably popular language, and even those who don't know it can usually read it fairly easily.
Having said that, the Pywikipediabot list is probably not an appropriate place for non-Python programmers to discuss wikibots, just as wikitech-l isn't an appropriate place to debate programming languages. Creating a language-neutral forum might be a good idea.