[Wikipedia-l] Bots not working

[Sabine Cretella]

Hi, I was wondering quite a lot when yesterday my bot for the Italian 
wiktionary did not work anymore ... then I heard about problems witn 
"one" user - vandalism of course.

Now because of this one person it is impossible to upload contents given 
from colleagues for the Italian wiktionary (at the moment the Sicilian 
wiktionary is not involved, but it will be soon, when the second part of 
the wordlist is ready). What I can't understand is why you blocked the 
bots for all wikimedia sites - wouldn't it be enough to do this first on 
the one where you have the problems? Why do all of us now be unable to 
work properly because of one stupid person who seemed love disturbing 
just one site?

And: did you ever think about taking legal action against this person? 
There are authorities that are there for jus this job ...

Of course some people do this as they have nothing else to do for the 
whole of their day and are somewhat disturbed and simply "must" ruin 
work of others, but there could also be someone interested in 
miscrediting wikimedia.

Sorry, but I am absolutely not happy with this.

Best wishes - and today I'll be offline just to show a form of protest.

Sabine