Milos Rancic wrote:
- Organization: I think that we should organize our bots in the next way:
** One bot owner should cover one country. In the cases of the bigger countries, one bot owner should cover one or a couple of states/regions. Such bot should update all Wikinews editions (of course, all Wikinews editions which are willing to be updated in such way and which localized messages) for that country/region. In other words, for example, the first bot owner from France should cover weather in France for English, French, Serbian etc. Wikinews. Note that you'll need as many bot instances as Wikinews editions you are covering. (In other words, if all Wikinews editions are willing to have weather, you'll need to have ~20 bot instances.) Usually, bot should be initiated as a cron job, which means that you should periodically check does bot work.)
Why is people wanting to bot create thousands of pages of such not particulary useful events? It's ok if you want to have weather data in wikinews, but that should go as a MediaWiki extension instead (eg. Special:Weather).