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

White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 09:08:59 UTC 2007


Yes, whats breaking the bot is human error. and as a fellow interwiki-bot
operator I think it would be of great help if we were given some slack on
bot flag bureaucracy. You could just use the bot to fix the bad
interwikilink rather than fixing them manually. The policy would not solve
everything but would be a good step in the right direction.

      - White Cat

On 9/7/07, Tuvic <tuvic.tuvic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
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