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

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do think it's unacceptable that Interwiki bots go in and change the
> order of interwikis against the agreed-upon orders at each Wiki.
>
> I remember a while back, we agreed on en.wp to order interwiki links
> by code, and it seems that the bots never cared - ja: always came
> after nl: rather than after it:. I'm not sure if a different policy
> has been decided since then, but bots have always been oblivious, it
> seems.

So, this should be solved. And I think that pywikipedibot (maybe more
than 90% WM bots) implements that for a long time. It is even possible
to change the order from wiki to wiki and it is integrated in the code
of PWB framework.