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

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> 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.

This is one of the most problematic issues: Asking for bot flag on
~250 projects is really painful. There should be one place for asking
the bot flag for interwiki bots.