[Foundation-l] Bot policy on bots operating interwiki

[White Cat]

That requires a communication between different wikis. Right now they are
independent. Not even interwiki templates are ready.

     - White Cat

On 9/8/07, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gerard M also once mentioned an initiative to create a "single point of
> reference".
> Having that, an article in one of the wikies could have 1 link to that
> spor,
> and the spor would have links to all the wikis who have an article on that
> subject.
>
> It would save billions of edits on our servers. It would also solve much
> of
> the hassle in this thread.
>
> i wish you health an dhappiness,
> teun spaans
>
> On 9/8/07, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >> I think SUL is a distant dream at this point.
> >
> > >Really? From what I've heard, the devs are making pretty good progress
> > >towards it.
> >
> > I've seen a demo somewhere that finds all user accounts that match up.
> SUL
> > is no easy task, but it is achievable.
> >
> > Anyway, on the topic of interwiki bots, as an admin on en.wikinews I
> would
> > prefer to be asked. We protect everything when it is about a week old,
> so
> > bots that go into the archives won't work. I also have concerns that
> > replacing fair use images with free ones on old articles could distort
> > Wikinews' historical record. For example, using a picture taken years
> > after
> > an event that is free instead of one available at the time and more
> > representative.
> >
> >
> > Brian.
> >
> >
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