Hello all, in nearly 2 months it will not longer be allowed to run most langlink-bots (aka interwiki-bots) on the toolserver for nearly all of you (see my old mail below for details). To make it official I added a new rule 9.4 to our rule-page short time ago and send this mail also to -announced. The new rule forbids the running of any langlink-bot on the toolserver with the following 2 exceptions: *The bot is run by the MMP interwiki-bot (or however it will be called at the end), *The bot runs only for limited time (!=continuous) or testing.
Until now, no building of the needed MMP has taken place AFAIK, so I would recommend to speed that up so there will be a MMP until 1. March. Sincerly, DaB. At Wednesday 01 February 2012 17:34:45 DaB. wrote: > Hello, > > At Sunday 15 January 2012 17:13:26 DaB. wrote: > > Isn't this a bit too many interwiki > > bots? > > yes, there are, although not the cpu-load is the problem but the > memory-usage. The best solution would be if the mediawiki-devs finaly get > rid of interwiki- links in the article-text of course, but I have the > fealing thta will not happen soon. The second best solution would be, if > the interwiki.py would fix their code, but there I have also the fealing > that will take some time. > > So here is my plan to fix the problem on our (the TS) side: > 1.) I create a MMP called interwiki-bot (or something). > 2.) YOU (the ts-users) choose (by election, by appointing, by playing "Trip > to Jerusalem", I don't care) 5 of you who will become member of that MMP > until 15th February. Only rule: 1 of the 5 has to be an active user of a > non- wikipedia-project (like wikisource or wiktionary or so). > 3.) The members of the MMP create a wikimedia-project-account (like "ts- > interwikibot" or something) and request global-bot-status until 1. April. > 4.) After 2. April no-one is allowed to run a interwiki-bot except the MMP. > > Any problems with my plan? > > Sincerly, > DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885
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