[Wiktionary-l] Wiktionary quality issues

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Apr 24 20:49:22 UTC 2007


Gerard Meijssen wrote:

>Hoi,
>When my bot is blocked on one Wiktionary it does not work at all any 
>more. The way it is configured is that it works on all projects at all 
>times. This is completely different from how it works on the Wikipedia 
>projects. It is also why one guy can run this as a service.
>Thanks,
>    Gerard
>
>the dave ross schreef:
>  
>
>>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?
>>    
>>
Then reconfigure it so that its operation can be blocked on a project 
that doesn't want it.  In the interest of autonomy of projects, a 
particular Wiktionary should be able to block it the way it blocks any 
other user.

Ec




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