Wikipedia talk:Bots/Archive interwiki

message: I'm inserting interwiki links on Polish wikipedia. Now it's time to put them into en wikipedia. I've prepared bot to do this job.  As soon as I get permission I'll start inserting interwiki.   Margospl 21:44, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot status request for [[User:Margosbot]]

message: I request a permission for the bot flag of Chobot. It is an interwiki-bot running in korean wikipedia. I want to fix backlink between ko&en wikipedias. -- ChongDae 15:47, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, but with the recent events of certain Interwiki bots, I must ask that you run your bot without the flag temporarily for one week.  I need to see a sample of contributions under that account to determine whether or not the bot is doing an accurate job of what it is suppose to do. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:20, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

text: It will still run, that is merely a warning notice.  I'm giving you permission to run your bot on User:Chobot for a duration of a week.  By doing that, at least the RC patrol can monitor your bot for awhile.  Modifying the source slightly to slow down the bot's edits further, if possible.  Then I'll look over the bot's contributions to see if did anything bad.  What I am particularly concerned is that your bot doesn't do something weird like remove the valid interwiki links just like User:FlaBot.  No one caught User:FlaBot's errors until it was too late...  -- AllyUnion (talk) 23:50, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

text: It shouldn't be touching them anyway.  Furthermore, I checked the Latin page.  That is the page about the number and the year 1.  Please restrict it from removing other Wikipedia language links.  It should only modify ko: or add ko:. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:26, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  This bot stop running at 14:21, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

text: My objection was that you can apply for it once it ran for a full week.  Since it did, I no longer have any objections. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Chobot|Chobot]] 

message: Recently, there has been several requests from various people to run interwiki bots.  While such use is praised and accepted without comment, apparently one bot has caused disasterous results... removing several pages' interwiki links when it should not have.  My proposal does not change the fact that anyone who wishs to run such a bot must request permission to do so at Wikipedia talk:Bots, but that a person who runs an interwiki bot should have a grasp of the language in which they are linking to and from.  The reason behind this is that a person who runs an interwiki bot should be responsible enough to understand whether or not the interwiki linking that is being performed is done correctly and that if they are running it automatically (without user intervention) that the person who is running it should review the edits of the bot periodically.  For example, if I wanted to run an interwiki linking bot between the Chinese (zh) Wikipedia and the English (en) Wikipedia, I should be able to read and understand Chinese to a reasonable degree.  Likewise for English.
I'm sorry, but if you don't understand English enough to understand that your bot is breaking pages and people are complaining about it on your user talk page, then you shouldn't be running a bot.  Same goes for the other languages you're running the bot on.  The only exception that I'd give this rule is if your bot is merely going to all the other Wikipedias using the interwiki links and making certain that the interwiki linking is the same on all the pages. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:12, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. -- Beland 19:59, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree completely. Thryduulf 00:48, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree too. Surely we can have a rogue bot blocked until things have been straigthened out with the user who runs it? 131.211.210.13 08:07, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Certainly.  However, I am attempting to slow down the number of interwiki bot requests and making sure that the only people requesting to do so are the people who understand what the heck they are doing.  Not the people who think they are helping by doing something useful by guessing.  (Although the help is appreciated, it seems to do more harm than good sometimes.) -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:24, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki Bot Policy Proposal 

message: I'd like to get a bot flag for Jumbuck, it has 5579 edits (~13500 on all projects combined) and aside from some encoding problems at the start of its operations has performed flawlessly. I'd like to get permission to continue interwiki work as well as text replacements if need be (such as converting  to {{}} and other things like that. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 14:41, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)
: I approve. --AllyUnion (talk) 06:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot flag for Jumbuck 

message: Hi. I would like to receive permission to run my bot on English wikipedia. I am one of the developers of the PyWikipediaBot framework, primarily working with interwikies. My largest contribution is to the ru: site (over 16000 changes by bot alone)  (see ru:User:YurikBot, en:User:YurikBot)
I am about to submit a change to the framework that would significantly reduce server load. At present, when an interwiki bot runs on a site, it follows every available interwiki, resolves them, and updates the user's site. Unfortunately, all that effort of resolving and querying multi-language servers goes to waste, because other users on all sites have to go through the same process. Thus, to solve one interwiki with N links, currently each user runs N queries + 1 update, thus its N*(N+1) server hits!  My code will significantly reduce this by updating all sites the user has registered for (in case user is registered everywhere, that's total of N queries + N updates!)
My current tests on en: are always one page at a time (manual runs). The code has been stabilized, although i am still testing it on various sites. Thanks! --Yurik 4 July 2005 16:10 (UTC)
: Approved for running one week.  If no complaints are made at this page, bot's talk page or bot's owner's talk page, then may apply for bot status. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:14, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot status request for [[User:YurikBot]] 

message: Hi, I'm running ZwoBot to place interwiki links on de:. If it encounters missing or incorrect links on en:, it will also fix them.
If someone wants it to have the bot flag set, and nobody objects that, I can request that flag on meta.
P.S.: It would be nice if an admin could move User:Zwobot (vandal account) to User:ZwoBot. --Head 10:37, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
: Approved for running one week.  If no complaints are made at this page, bot's talk page or bot's owner's talk page, then may apply for bot status. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:15, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  ZwoBot 

message: I'd like to request botstatus for User:CyeZBot. It is used for placing interwiki's on nl:, if it encounters incorrect links on other wikipedia's it will also try to fix those if I have a registered account there. CyeZ 12:13, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for running to modify interwiki links between en and nl for one week.  If no complaints are made at this page, bot's talk page or bot's owner's talk page, then may apply for bot status. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  CyeZBot 

message: I'm running interwikibot User:Bota47 at cswiki. It is also adding links here on enwiki --Li-sung 19:55, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for test run for one week.  Only permitted to run between cs: and en: --AllyUnion (talk) 05:06, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Bota47]] 

message: Hi, I've been running the interwiki.py using MoriBot a couple of times since yesterday, but failed to follow the rules at en:. I'm sorry. I will not run the bot again until explicitly allowed. Any comments please on nl:User talk:Moribunt. Regards, Moribunt 07:44, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll have to specify what your bot's purpose is for.  --AllyUnion (talk) 08:20, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:MoriBot|MoriBot]]

message: I would like to run bot Lt-wiki-bot, which would place interwiki links using warnfile generated by Lithuanian wikipedia bot Lang-bot-as). If noone disagree, I would like to request bot-status for this bot. Knutux 06:31, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for testing for one week, if no one disapproves within one week, may apply for bot status. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:39, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lt-wiki-bot 

message: I would like to run bot M7bot, which would place interwiki links for the Wikipedia in Italian language, as already the bot it:M7bot does. The bot operation shall always be checked through both visually and by log examination. I would also like to request bot-status for this bot. M7it (M7) 12:35, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for testing for one week, if no one disapproves within one week, may apply for bot status --AllyUnion (talk) 17:57, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  M7bot 

message: I am a portuguese wikipedian, run interwiki links with  LeonardoRob0t in several other wikipedias and want to use in wikipedia:en. Wait to be approved, thanks --Leonardo Gregianin 21:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you list which Wikipedias you plan to run this bot with?  Thank you. --AllyUnion (talk) 21:47, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The bot is with a new option, to edit at the same time several wikipedia. I will bind articles in da, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, la, nl, pl, pt, sv, zh and future others. --Leonardo Gregianin 23:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is nothing against you in particular, but it has been proposed on this page that you should reasonably understand the majority of those languages before you place interwiki links.  The only reason behind that is to ensure the accuracy of your bot, since only a few Wikipedians can be able to perform such a task.  --AllyUnion (talk) 04:23, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I do not need to know that Rhythm is the same that 节奏 in Chinese or リズム in Japonese, or that Skirt and dress link to Saia in Portuguese and Rock (Kleidung) in Deutsch link to Portuguese. Or that 昆虫. I do not need to know, but bot knows alone. --Leonardo Gregianin 13:05, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  You do need to know.  Otherwise, how can you be sure your bot is functioning correctly? --Carnildo 05:36, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  You know as function interwiki bots? LeonardoGregianin 14:26, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Computers are not infallible, nor are humans.  If you can not read the other languages, you can not assume the bot is always correct. --AllyUnion (talk) 05:10, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  LeonardoRob0t