[Toolserver-l] Interwiki-Bots

[Michael Andersen]

I think it would be a good idea to replace the fully automated iw-bots with a multi-maintainer-bot.

You can also do iw "manually" where you (as human) choose with iw-link to accept. Therefore it should also be possible to have bots you can run/operate "manually".

I think there are many things that are done at the different projects where it would be possible to share bots. But let's start with iw and see how it works.

So if it was because of the hot water please also take a hot shower tomorrow ;-)

:-)
MGA73

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Fra: toolserver-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:toolserver-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] På vegne af DaB.
Sendt: 7. januar 2010 16:14
Til: toolserver-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Emne: [Toolserver-l] Interwiki-Bots

Hello all,

while I was under the shower today, I got the following weird idea: We have several interwiki-bots on the toolserver, that do more or less the same, but by different ts-users. Some bots run old versions of the software, some stop for unknown reason and were never restarted (properly because the ts-user
left) and some just work how they should. Often I read in the wikimedia- projects (most time in my homewiki dewp of corse), that there are problems with a bot (because it add a wrong interwiki-link again) and the users don't know how to contact the bot-owner and what they should do.

So my idea: Amalgamate all interwiki-bots (in the same programming-language of
corse) into 1 multi-maintainer-project. The advantages would be, that we would use lesser resources, the bot-maintainer could work together, they could use a database together, it would be easier for wikimedia-project-user to contact us (in jira for example or with a mailinglist), if something is wrong, it would be easier to contact the bot-software-maintainer and so on.

Any thoughts about that? Good idea or a "you had too much hot water in the shower"-idea?

Sincerly,
DaB.

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