[Wikipedia-l] botbit

[GerardM]

Hoi,
There are many projects and they are in different stages of development.
There are projects where there is no policy. It is assumed that there is a
commonality between the projects. This commonality is what makes certain
things work. However, things break down when the amount of effort involved
becomes too big.

Andre is with his Robbot one of the oldest bots. The amount of effort that
Andre has put into creating interwiki links is astounding. Andre's bot works
on most if not all Wikipedias. There are more then 250. There are several
projects that hardly function, where there is no clear "village pump". And
at some stage, as Andre reports, the whole mechanism of doing the bot works
breaks down when bots policies are starting to exists.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 10/28/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > No, it's not the English one I'm talking about now. Although I would
> > imagine there are other bots having the same problem there.
>
> You don't think it would, perhaps, be useful to tell us which one it is,
> then?
>
> I don't know about other languages, but the English Wikipedia has a
> bot policy that determines when bots are and aren't allowed to edit,
> and when they get bot flags. I expect other projects have similar
> policies, and they probably include maximum edit rates for bots
> without flags, and they probably have a process by which you can
> request a flag if you want to edit faster than that rate. I can't see
> any project handing out flags to any account that looks like a bot
> without the owner requesting it.
>
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