This is not about bot status (+bot) but about its system status (UP / DOWN etc)
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: > On 01/02/2013 03:29 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> He may have misspoke on the "we" part. However, for wikis with bot >> approval processes (e.g. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Bot_Approvals_Group<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_Approvals_Group>), >> there is >> tracking on what bots work on (due to the potentially disruptive nature >> of an active bot on a large wiki). >> > > When you apply for bot status, there is typically some > requirement to present an idea for the bot, but once > the status is granted, that idea can change without > having the bot status removed. > > LA2-bot has been used by me since 2007 and has > 100 edits or more on 26 different projects, covering > everything from ISBN number fixes on Russian > Wikipedia, to flag icon templates on Danish Wikipedia, > to verb forms on English Wiktionary. The only time my > bot status was revoked, was because of inactivity on > the Polish Wikipedia. > > http://toolserver.org/~**quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?**username=LA2-bot<http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=LA2-bot> > > I see Pywikipediabot and replace.py as just an > alternative browser software for some edits. The very > widespread idea that a "bot" is something magic with > science-fiction powers, and the messages that this > software leaves on Recent Changes, make users > insist that I apply for bot status when using it (except > on Commons, where it has 5,000 edits without bot > status), and so I think up some good idea and apply > for bot status, which is almost always granted. > > > > -- > Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<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
