On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Sven Manguard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 didn't want bots running until after the new API hit and > we had a chance to make sure that nothing was broken. I reposted that on the > project chat and we all agreed to stop the bots. That was on November 13. > > Today I wake up to find that there is a bot running, and another > to-be-bot-op is asking if he can run his too. Does anyone know if the new > API has hit? Denny had no idea when it would. If it has, and nothing is on > fire, does anyone have any other objections to running bots again?
No it has not. Technically you can run bots. Just don't got too crazy with them :) > On a final note, I would ask that the bots stop running at Q99900 and resume > once we're at Q100001, 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 > Q100000 is a big one) to be reached by humans and not bots. Donno if that's > possible to program in though. Gosh, I remember creating things with four > digits after the Q. I'm feeling old. :D Heh I think that's something you need to figure out with the people running the bots. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
