Re: [Wikidata-l] Bots and the new API

2012-11-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Not contradictory, merely confusing :) Whether you should, is the communities decision. I was merely mentioning that I would be happy if there was a bit to do for humans still, because they write better bug reports. On the other hand, considering we already have over 100k items, it is probably

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bots and the new API - milestones

2012-11-23 Thread Merlissimo
On a final note, I would ask that the bots stop running at Q99900 and resume once we're at Q11, as Denny did make a point to me in private that day that I agree with, that it's great for the milestones in projects (and Q10 is a big one) to be reached by humans and not bots. Donno if

[Wikidata-l] Bots and the new API

2012-11-22 Thread Sven Manguard
Hey there. To those of you that are American, happy Thanksgiving! To those of you that are not American, happy Why can't I reach any of the the Americans today, and what's with all this talk of stuffing? day!. So a while back when Denny gave a talk in Boston about Wikidata, he mentioned that he

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bots and the new API

2012-11-22 Thread Sven Manguard
I'm getting contradictory messages from Wikidata staff then. I mean we already knew that we *could*, the issue is whether or not we *should*. Sven On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Sven Manguard

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bots and the new API

2012-11-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Sven Manguard svenmangu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting contradictory messages from Wikidata staff then. I mean we already knew that we could, the issue is whether or not we should. There is no technical reason at the moment to not run bots. Beyond that it's not

Re: [Wikidata-l] Bots and the new API

2012-11-22 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Sven Manguard svenmangu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting contradictory messages from Wikidata staff then. I mean we already knew that we could, the issue is whether or not