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

[White Cat]

There is no reason to panic. Just because a bot gets a technical bot flag
does not mean we bot operators will go out of our way to wreck projects. We
are reasonable people. A note on the global bot fag request page or a
general "global bot noticeboard page" can do wonders in such a case.

As for the problems experienced on wikisource, they are not technical ones.
The problems there are purely cultural and often consequences of centuries
old disputes (such as the bible case). This however is not the time and
place to discuss that.

    - White Cat

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- On Wed, 5/28/08, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > From: Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis
> > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 10:51 PM
> > 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.
> >
> >
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> Please no global flag for interwiki bots.  An all Wikipedia flag would be
> fine but not a global one.  Interwiki's to not work in a strait forward
> fashion on Wikisource and bots using the code that works on Wikipedias
> create a big mess on Wikisource.  Interwikis bots will probably only be able
> to be work properly off of a "white-list" on Wikisources.  These white-list
> have not yet been made so for right now interwikis need to be done by hand.
> Please do not authorize any bots to do this task on Wikisources.
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> Birgitte SB
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> Birgitte SB
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