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

[White Cat]

Like I implied on my earlier post. Regulating it would be much easier and
time consuming from a central location: Meta.

   - White Cat

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wikibooks has the same problem - interwiki linking is rather more
> complicated for the non-Wikipedia project. I think it would be acceptable
> to
> give a global bot flag BUT bots are only to work where approved (ie not on
> Wikibooks unless you ask first; not on Wikisource if you ask first). This
> allows stewards to not waste time flagging a bot on all Wikipedias (use the
> global flag) but the bot should then only work on Wikipedias (unless it is
> allowed to work on the other families).
> However, thoughts on this may differ. I know many don't agree that
> people/bots are able to /not/ use rights they have, but that's just not
> true. Just because a bot is globally flagged as such doesn't mean it must
> work on all wikis - it is quite easy to restrict it to only one family.
>
> Mike.lifeguard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birgitte SB [mailto:birgitte_sb at yahoo.com]
> Sent: May 29, 2008 3:23 PM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis
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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.
> >
> >
>
> 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.
>
>
> Birgitte SB
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> Birgitte SB
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