[Wikimedia-l] Some of Wikipedia's most important tools are broken

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 19:27:43 UTC 2013


Rand McRanderson, 09/09/2013 20:30:
> Maybe it is time to consider taking highly useful but less maintained bots

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/42259 is only a request for almost-raw 
data to be provided to tools, it's not about taking over bots or tools.

> and adding them to Wikipedia architecture. Wmf can offer (not force) to
> take them over.

Instead, the WMF forced (not offered) to kill them all in few months 
when they'll kill the Toolserver. ;-) So let's focus on feasible things 
like bug 42259 instead.

Nemo



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