If your bot were blocked on a given wiki all that would happen is that your
bot could no longer edit their entries. Your bot could still get data from
that wiki, and it could still write that data to all other wikis. Sounds
like a painless control over the bot, and one that any wiki which doesn't
want that interwiki data should use. How do you figure that either solution
will actually affect the process as a whole, anyway?
-Dave
On 4/21/07, Muke Tever <muke(a)frath.net> wrote:
GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
- Can the Polish demand what they do?
Absolutely. You continue saying your bot is a "service" but a service
works for the people who need it and does what they want; it doesn't
(except
perhaps incidentally) work for the person providing it, doing what he
wants.
- Is having a project that consists mainly of
stubs acceptable?
Stubs? Yes. When I worked with the English Wikipedia it was mainly stubs.
The Russian example, though, is more a project that has been pre-seeded
with
templates. There is nothing wrong with this in itself--though it does
inflate
the page count--and we have already gone over the usefulness of knowing a
word
exists in a language.
- Is having incorrect data acceptable?
Isn't it the point of wiki that one has incorrect and incomplete data, but
that
one is building a community who will take the effort to improve it? In
such
a case you would, rather than wanting to hide the links, make the
information
_more_ public so, say, Russian visitors curious to see how the Vietnamese
handle
their words can contribute to correcting the information. (After
all--this problem,
was brought to your attention by vi.wikt regulars, or those following
interwiki
links to it?)
*Muke!
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