User talk:Template namespace initialisation script
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[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators
Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:50, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Automated message to bot owners
As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:
Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.
Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 05:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I seriously doubt that this is relevant now, but...
See Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 November 18#Template:Tooltip-article. It appears that problems with this script have caused some confused and unneccesary redirects in MediaWiki space and some useless templates to be created. This problem is, however, unlikely ever to come up again unless the same code is used to upgrade a wiki from MediaWiki 1.3 again, which seems unlikely in 2007, but as it's a problem with a bot (a devbot, in fact!), it may as well go on the public record. --ais523 12:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)