I'm getting contradictory messages from Wikidata
staff then. I mean we
already knew that we *could*, the issue is whether or not we *should*.
Sven
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Sven Manguard
<svenmanguard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hey there. To those of you that are American,
happy Thanksgiving! To
those
of you that are not American, happy "Why
can't I reach any of the the
Americans today, and what's with all this talk of stuffing? day!".
So a while back when Denny gave a talk in Boston about Wikidata, he
mentioned that he didn't want bots running until after the new API hit
and
we had a chance to make sure that nothing was
broken. I reposted that
on the
project chat and we all agreed to stop the bots.
That was on November
13.
Today I wake up to find that there is a bot running, and another
to-be-bot-op is asking if he can run his too. Does anyone know if the
new
API has hit? Denny had no idea when it would. If
it has, and nothing is
on
fire, does anyone have any other objections to
running bots again?
No it has not. Technically you can run bots. Just don't got too crazy
with them :)
On a final note, I would ask that the bots stop
running at Q99900 and
resume
once we're at Q100001, as Denny did make a
point to me in private that
day
that I agree with, that it's great for the
milestones in projects (and
Q100000 is a big one) to be reached by humans and not bots. Donno if
that's
possible to program in though. Gosh, I remember
creating things with
four
digits after the Q. I'm feeling old. :D
Heh I think that's something you need to figure out with the people
running the bots.
Cheers
Lydia
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