On 01/02/2013 03:03 AM, Bináris wrote: > Before generalizing it will be very useful to overview various > wikis. According to the interwikis, very few wikis have an explicit > bot policy like enwiki and even less have BAG. Definition of a bot > may vary, too: in the bot policy of enwiki only automatic processes > are called bots, while in other projects the so-called "assisted > edits" may also qualify as botwork. Enwiki!=Wikipedia.
I explicitly said "for wikis with bot approval processes", and "a large wiki". Nowhere did I say all wikis or all Wikipedia wikis met either of those criteria. I am aware of AWB (assisted edits) and the like. I don't think they should fall under this idea. >> A bot approval group could certainly encourage people to >> participate in this dashboard. For the bot writer, all it should >> take is a HTTP POST to the dashboard every few edits to check in >> (which could be a simple as "350 edits for task XYZ in the last >> hour", in appropriate format). >> > This "all it should take" is not so trivial for everybody, and may > require rewriting a plenty of running bots. It's not trivial, but it's about the same as a single API call (many bots at least use the API for edits, others do multiple API calls), and probably easier than screen scraping. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
