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 <svenmangu...@gmail.com> > 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 > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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