In addition, we would have a reliable list of bots running on each wiki, far better than what we have for example on english wiki now. In case some bot would be down for a longer time, people would easily find that out and some developer could overtake its task.
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be first step to solve this: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34606 > > + it would make it easier for bot operators to keep track of status of > their services as well for community to find out why certain service is no > longer available. For example if archiving bot crashes, the people would > see why archiving doesn't work. Etc. > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> what is the final purpose of this suggestion? What kind of problem do we >> have that needs to be solved this way? >> I think the first step to do anything with bots should be to store the bot >> activity in tables other than recent changes so as to be able to mark them >> in page histories. This has been requested for years now. >> >> -- >> Bináris >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
