Yes, but whilst StatusBot and the proposed bot would have comparable edit statistics, the latter would have more of a reason for running than 'to update people's statuses'. It's not just about actions, it's about the justification for those actions.
- Chris On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Soxred93 <soxre...@gmail.com> wrote: > In case you didn't see the whole StatusBot fiasco on enwiki, I used > to run a bot as a replacement to a replacement of [[User:StatusBot]]. > The bot made 50k edis in a few months, and was soon shut down by > Brion. A bot the edits the sandbox every few minutes would no way be > approved. > > On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:54 PM [Mar 10, 2009 ], Thomas Dalton wrote: > > > 2009/3/10 K. Peachey <p858sn...@yahoo.com.au>: > >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> Out of curiousity, when a technical problem shuts down all > >>> editing on > >>> a major wiki (as this did) are there any automated alerts? Is it > >>> likely to be noticed and addressed even if no one rushes to IRC? > >>> > >>> I guess I am curious what is the normal delay between problem onset > >>> and problem recognition? > >>> > >>> -Robert Rohde > >> I believe with this issue (Full MySQL table) that there is no easy > >> way > >> to automate the test..... > >> maybe you could automatically query it every so often but even then > >> that might not return reliable results. > > > > A bot that edits the sandbox every few minutes would work, would it? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
