Thanks for quick responses! Merlijn touched on something that I found out I
could easily test. Apparently there's about 634 or so links to the
{{nobots}} template. Only 3 use a 'allow=' parameter, so I think it's clear
that it's an incorrect way of using the template, and there's no point in
supporting it.
One other thing I found was the behaviour xqt mentions below, only found on
one page though: en:Norwegian Wikipedia has {{nobots|interwiki}}.
Thanks again for commenting, and helping me figure out the easy way to test
this. Next time I'll probably remember to run a quick SQL query and write a
few lines of Python.
Cheers,
Morten
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> sometimes I found sth. like {{nobots|Xqbot}} which is similar to
> {{bots|deny=Xqbot}}. Maybe it should be implemented (I've done it for my
> working copy).
>
> An other idea I've tested on my working copy is {{nobots|<scriptname>}}
> which could prevent running some scripts on a given page like interwiki but
> enables other bot scripts working.
>
> Greetings
> xqt
>
>
> ----- Original Nachricht ----
> Von: Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]>
> An: Pywikipedia discussion list <[email protected]>
> Datum: 02.07.2011 22:30
> Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] botMayEdit() and {{nobots}}
>
> > Hello Morten,
> >
> > The nobots-feature was designed by enwiki originally, so if their
> > documentation states it should be {{bots|allow=...}} and the pywikipedia
> > code does this - I think it's the way it should be ;-).
> >
> > However, it might be an idea to check how many people are using the
> > {{nobots|allow=}} syntax. If this is a common error, we might want to
> > consider updating the code (and enwiki docs!) to make this work.
> >
> > Best,
> > Merlijn
> >
> > On 2 July 2011 22:20, Morten Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've noticed botMayEdit() doesn't check for a whitelist if the template
> > > used is {{nobots}}, instead it always returns False. Is that a bug or
> a
> > > feature? From reading the documentation on en:Template:Bots, it seems
> > that
> > > {{nobots|allow=FooBot}} isn't actually a supported way of using the
> > template
> > > (instead it should be {{bots|allow=FooBot}}) so pywikibot is doing it
> > right.
> > > Still, I just wanted to check before I go fiddling with the template
> on
> > > somebody's talk page (again) :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Morten
> > >
> > >
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