[Foundation-l] Fwd: [foundation-l] Bot policy on bots operating interwiki

[Tuvic]

Indeed, that's right. Just remember that interwiki-bots just spread
the bad link, they don't make it: it are human users who make the bad
link.

It happened to me on several occasions: I had just spend 20 minutes to
untangle an web of interwiki-linked articles, and some user just puts
a bad link back, because he/she thinks that the link should be there.
Very annoying, and not always revertable: after all, I'm just an
interwiki-bot-operator, while it's their home wiki most of the time.

So, not all problems would be avoided when having a general bot policy.

Greetings, Tuvic

2007/9/7, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>:
> Bots aren't sentient so they can act stupidly. There are situations where
> you have a bad interwiki link. Unless that is removed from every single
> instance where it forms a chain it will eventually return to the list (which
> makes sense, the bots think the wrong link as a new member to the chain).
> However if all interwiki bots were able to operate on all wikis such
> problems could be very easily avoided.
>
>    - White Cat
>