Requests for comment/Global Wikidata Bots
There are still around 1 million articles across all language Wikipedias that contain interwiki links (some on protected pages) which are being moved to Wikidata. Bots have been set up to migrate all of these links but they cannot remove the links from protected articles. These bots are used to reduce human error while migrating to Wikidata as well as to speed up the process and save on man hours.
Proposal
It is proposed that a new global group and wikiset be created with the name "Global Wikidata bots". This will allow the bots that are in the proposed group to edit protected pages on Wikipedia projects in the wikiset. The new global group would contain all of the permissions that are currently in the Global bot group as well as the editprotected flag.
Once a bot has been approved on all the projects where local approval is needed operators would request their bot to be added to the group at Steward requests/Bot status, if the request is valid the bot will be assigned to the group. The wikiset will only include Wikipedia projects. All projects can opt out of the wikiset if they choose to, and the group would not affect that project. But if the project does not decide against being included, the projects will automatically be opted-in.
This proposal does not mean:
- All bots on Wikidata will be able to edit protected pages on all wikis
- All global bots will be able to edit protected pages on all wikis
How this RFC will work
This RFC will be left open for 1 month (Closing 10th July, 2013 00:00 UTC). Each project will be notified via a global message and should then have its own local RFC (linking to it below) to decide on whether they opt in or not. Once the local RFC has finished, the result should be put in the appropriate section below. All local discussions should be closed until this global RFC ends.
Discussion
For discussion on Meta see the talk page.
Local Discussions
Pending discussions
- examplewiki - [1] - Closing 10th July, 2013 00:00 UTC
1 - Fully Opt-in
The local project community blanket approves all Wikidata bots and does not need to be informed.
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2 - Opt-in with Local approval
The local project community needs to be informed about the bot operator and has the ability to object the global bot approval.
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