If your bot were blocked on a given wiki all that would happen is that your bot could no longer edit their entries. Your bot could still get data from that wiki, and it could still write that data to all other wikis. Sounds like a painless control over the bot, and one that any wiki which doesn't want that interwiki data should use. How do you figure that either solution will actually affect the process as a whole, anyway? -Dave
On 4/21/07, Muke Tever muke@frath.net wrote:
GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
- Can the Polish demand what they do?
Absolutely. You continue saying your bot is a "service" but a service works for the people who need it and does what they want; it doesn't (except perhaps incidentally) work for the person providing it, doing what he wants.
- Is having a project that consists mainly of stubs acceptable?
Stubs? Yes. When I worked with the English Wikipedia it was mainly stubs.
The Russian example, though, is more a project that has been pre-seeded with templates. There is nothing wrong with this in itself--though it does inflate the page count--and we have already gone over the usefulness of knowing a word exists in a language.
- Is having incorrect data acceptable?
Isn't it the point of wiki that one has incorrect and incomplete data, but that one is building a community who will take the effort to improve it? In such a case you would, rather than wanting to hide the links, make the information _more_ public so, say, Russian visitors curious to see how the Vietnamese handle their words can contribute to correcting the information. (After all--this problem, was brought to your attention by vi.wikt regulars, or those following interwiki links to it?)
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