Wiktionary talk:Votes/bt-2011-01/User:Rukhabot for bot status

Rukhabot=Interwicket?
A few questions (I probably already know some of the answers): Lmaltier 21:54, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Does Rukhabot use the same code as Interwicket?
 * Does Rukhabot apply the same rules as Interwicket:
 * links between pages with exactly the same title (equal strings)
 * redirections considered as ordinary pages for the purpose of interwiki links (i.e. there may be a link between a normal page and a redirect)?
 * Are all wiktionaries read by Rukhabot?
 * Will Rukhabot also be used on other wiktionaries (if given the bot status)? Which ones?


 * Rukhabot does not use the same code as Interwicket.
 * Rukhabot applies the same overall rules as Interwicket, including the details that you mention, but it does differ in some details. (For example, this edit of Interwicket's added bn: between ar: and zh-min-nan:, whereas Rukhabot would have added it between zh-min-nan: and bs:.) I hope that it is the same in all respects that matter.
 * Rukhabot reads every Wiktionary's "all-titles-in-ns0.gz" file (a plain-text list of mainspace pages, including both entries and redirects), but only for the English Wiktionary does it read the full "pages-articles.xml.bz2" files (an XML file contents of mainspace and some non-mainspace pages). It does not try to keep up with any Wiktionary's Special:RecentChanges or Special:NewPages or whatnot.
 * At the moment, I have no plans to run Rukhabot on any other Wiktionaries; but in a few weeks, if all seems to be well, and the code is in a halfway-decent shape, I'll make it available for other Wiktionarians to run. (Actually, even right now, if someone wanted to run it on their own Wiktionary, I could send them the current code; but they'd be on their own. It's not in a support-able state right now; they'd just need to figure out my undocumented, half-written Perl code.)
 * —Ruakh TALK 22:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you. It was important to explain it. Lmaltier 18:13, 20 January 2011 (UTC)