AFAIK there are many iw-bots and several others.
I don't think that there are iw-bots doing anything else as well. It would not be very useful now. But acually I don't know it. If yes, blocking those specific ones might be a good idea. Marco Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> schrieb: >So are the same bots doing different things? I seem to remember there >was >one giant toolserver pybot instance doing only interwiki. > > >On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.rs> >wrote: > >> On 29/01/13 10:02, Magnus Manske wrote: >> >>> Why not just block the bots on wikis that use wikidata? >>> >> >> Bots are used for much more than interwiki handling. >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Bináris <wikipo...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:wikipo...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> 2013/1/28 Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:ladsgr...@gmail.com>> >>> >>> >>> What is exact time of the next deployment (it and he)? >>> >>> If you want to catch it, join #wikimedia-wikidata on IRC. It was >>> great to follow it on D-day! >>> >>> And what time you think is best to disable interwiki bots? >>> >>> Xqt can modify the code, but pywiki is not deployed, it is >updated >>> by bot owners, so there is no chance to focus it on one hour. >For >>> this reason I would say to begin it after deployment of Wikibase >as >>> otherwise one should do it at least 1 or 2 days before which >would >>> cause a maintenance pause. Yes, people will try to remove iws >and >>> some of them will be put back by bots. >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> >https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Wikidata-l mailing list >Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
