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

[White Cat]

I am not going to agree nor disagree with that. I personally do not care
about the order one bit. I do believe best solution for that is via code and
svn update to interwiki.py.

   - White Cat

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2008/5/29 Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/5/28 Jon <scream at datascreamer.com>:
> >
> >> We could just not get wrapped around the axle about sorting interwiki
> >> links.  I don't think it is a large issue.  I can be convinced otherwise
> >> however.
> >
> > +1, as I believe the hip young things say these days.
> >
> > Would it perhaps be simpler to have two kinds of interwiki bots? The
> > cross-wiki ones can deal with adding and removing links, in
> > time-honoured tradition, and the local ones can just crawl through
> > recent changes fixing the order in whatever way is accepted on that
> > project...
>
> That would hardly be a solution, I think. Why use two bots where one
> could do the same thing? The solution I think is to simply tell the
> bot operators what order to use on what wiki. And that solution is
> already being implemented for several years now.
>
> For the bots that change order to work correctly, the bot code needs
> to know the order. If the bot code knows the order, I see no reason
> not to use that information. If the bots use the correct order, there
> is no problem to be solved.
>
>
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