[Foundation-l] Porchesia

Sun Oct 1 23:42:58 UTC 2006

pgkbot doesn't read individual edits though, it only reports one that fail a
filter of the rc channel feed.  We'd need to change it if we want to flag
content of edits, and it would use a lot of bandwidth (though a couple on
the smallest WPs wouldnt be too bad).

On 10/1/06, Titoxd at Wikimedia <titoxd.wikimedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is not a problem. The existing pgkbot IRC monitoring framework
> already
> allows each bot to report to multiple channels simultaneously, so a bot
> could report to its "home" channel, as well as to a centralized channel,
> if
> needs warrant. This data is already being broadcast on Wikimedia's IRC
> server, so there isn't anything to modify server-side. All that you need
> is
> poke a few users on IRC to change their bots' settings.
>
> Titoxd.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Birgitte SB
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:11 PM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Porchesia
>
>
>
> --- Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
>
> >
> > In any case, I think this is interesting at a global
> > level because the
> > Wiki's at greatest risk of collecting garbage are
> > often the ones with
> > the least activity.
> >
> > After seeing that one of the Wikipedias had its main
> > page changed to
> > say "Welcome to the Runescape trading forum", I
> > wondered if it would
> > be useful to setup a bot to check recent changes on
> > all the smaller
> > wikis for insertions of English text. .. With the
> > hope that the worst
> > of the junk on small wikis would be in inappropriate
> > languages.
> >
> > It would be really nice if we had a single
> > recentchanges page that
> > aggregated all the low activity wikis.
>
> I think this is a great idea.  Is it possible to set
> up several RC bots (in different wiki's) to work in a
> single RC channel?  If this could be done with the
> bots displaying a snippet of any added text, it should
> be easy to recognize any english which does not
> belong.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
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