[Wikipedia-l] Bots not working

[Andre Engels]

I have been working on getting the Pywikipediabot confirm to the new
rules, but it seems to not have worked. I don't know what I am doing
wrong :-(

Andre Engels

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:02:57 +0100, Sabine Cretella
<sabine_cretella at yahoo.it> wrote:
> 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
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