[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis

masti mst at warszawa.pl.eu.org
Wed May 28 22:20:05 UTC 2008


Yaroslav M. Blanter pisze:
> We do have a bot policy:
> 
> [[:meta:Bot policy]]
> 
> It is implemented in all small wikipedias I am active. Bot owners (in
> theory) leave a request at a special bot page, if there are no objections
> within a reasonable time (a week or so), the steward grants the bot
> status. Once I had to report on meta and actually ask stewards to grant
> the bot flag for some of the old requests on os.wp.
> 
> You may be sure the small wikis suffer much more when a bot can not get
> the status since the list of recent changes becomes unusable - this is for
> instance what is right now happening with the newly created wikis.
> 
> Cheers
> Yaroslav

the problem is in some wiki you get rejection because "the bot is 
involved in to few projects". Hmm.. how ca it be involved more if one 
cannot apply?

masti



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