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).