In case you didn't see the whole StatusBot fiasco on enwiki, I used to run a bot as a replacement to a replacement of [[User:StatusBot]]. The bot made 50k edis in a few months, and was soon shut down by Brion. A bot the edits the sandbox every few minutes would no way be approved.
On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:54 PM [Mar 10, 2009 ], Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/10 K. Peachey <p858sn...@yahoo.com.au>: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Out of curiousity, when a technical problem shuts down all >>> editing on >>> a major wiki (as this did) are there any automated alerts? Is it >>> likely to be noticed and addressed even if no one rushes to IRC? >>> >>> I guess I am curious what is the normal delay between problem onset >>> and problem recognition? >>> >>> -Robert Rohde >> I believe with this issue (Full MySQL table) that there is no easy >> way >> to automate the test..... >> maybe you could automatically query it every so often but even then >> that might not return reliable results. > > A bot that edits the sandbox every few minutes would work, would it? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > 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
