That's what I said this week, we should make #mediawiki-feed where all bots would live and leave #mediawiki for humans
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:01 PM, btb <[email protected]> wrote: > hi- > > i'm hopeful this is the appropriate venue for this topic - i recently had > occasion to visit #mediawiki on freenode, looking for help. i found myself a > bit frustrated by the amount of bot activity there and wondered if there > might be value in some consideration for this. it seems to frequently drown > out/dilute those asking for help, which can be a bit > discouraging/frustrating. additionally, from the perspective of those who > might help [based on my experience in this role in other channels], constant > activity can sometimes engender disinterest [e.g. the irc client shows > activity in the channel, but i'm less inclined to look as it's probably just > a bot]. > > to offer one possibility - i know there are a number of mediawiki and/or > wikimedia related channels - might there be one in which bot activity might > be better suited, in the context of less contention between the two > audiences [those seeking help vs. those interested in development, etc]? > one nomenclature convention that seems to be at least somewhat of a defacto > standard is #project for general help, and #project-dev[el] for development > topics. a few examples of this i've seen are android, libreoffice, python, > and asterisk. adding yet another channel to this list might not be terribly > welcome, but maybe the distinction would be worth the addition? > > as i'm writing this, i see another thread has begun wrt freenode, and i also > see a bug filed that relates at least to some degree > [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35427], so i may just be > repeating an existing sentiment, but i wanted to at least offer a brief > perspective. > > regards > -ben > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
