[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for Board elections :) -Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Wikimedia Board Elections Committee board-electi...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:26 PM Subject: Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Thehelpfulone
Certainly is, even more puzzling is my email for Thehelpfulbot, 2011/6/10 Wikimedia Board Elections Committee board-electi...@lists.wikimedia.org Liebe(r) Thehelpfulbot, Du bist berechtigt, bei der Wahl des Kuratoriums der Wikimedia Foundation im Jahre 2011 mit abzustimmen, die Projekte wie

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
On the contrary, I'm quite happy: the system recognized that my bot is mainly active on Wikiquote and is Italian although its home wiki is Wikipedia and it's not active on it.wikiquote. :) Errors are annoying but thank you very much to the sysadmin who volunteered for that (Andrew Garrett, I

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Анатолій Гончаров
My bot was invited: user AHbot 2011/6/10 foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for Board elections :) -Tinu Cherian -- Анатолій Гончаров mailto:ah...@wikimediaukraine.org.ua ICQ: 364-176-156

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:09 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for Board elections :) This bot isn't flagged on all wikis that it's eligible to vote. In particular, azwiki (I think). Accounts on wikis with

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
May be it is a good idea to exclude accounts that has blog flag in at least one wiki. If it has bot has blog flag on at least one wiki, the global account can be considered as a bot. Otherwise it would give undue advantage to the bot operators like me for voting more than once ;) Regards Tinu

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Béria Lima
Well, i received a mail to my global bot account (Ripchip Bot) and the bot has - at least - 60 local bot flags. So we should assume there are no checking for bot flags at all. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Well, i received a mail to my global bot account (Ripchip Bot) and the bot has - at least - 60 local bot flags. So we should assume there are no checking for bot flags at all. In this case, the bot qualified on Norwegian

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Gervai
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:37, Анатолій Гончаров ah...@wikimediaukraine.org.ua wrote: My bot was invited: user AHbot Does he (she?) have an opinion? :) g ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread MZMcBride
Andrew Garrett wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Well, i received a mail to my global bot account (Ripchip Bot) and the bot has - at least - 60 local bot flags. So we should assume there are no checking for bot flags at all. In this case, the bot

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 06/10/2011 08:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for Board elections :) I'd like to take this opportunity to remind all the bots who have yet to vote that, as a bot writer and supporter, I pledge to keep their interests in

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Now we know why all the bots were invited to vote this year ;P -Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 06/10/2011 08:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for Board elections

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) Bots

2011-06-10 Thread Erik Moeller
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: In this case, the bot qualified on Norwegian Wikipedia. It's looking like global bots which aren't flagged everywhere are an edge case that should be addressed next time around. I for one welcome our new interwiki