Re: annoying polish bot

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Peter Gervai wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Someone from Poland started a bot which _tries_ to create interlanguage
> links. I wouldn't care if they would mess up polish wikipedia but they
> started to generate havoc on other wikipedias (including our well beloved
> hungarian one, and as I noticed netherlanders aren't really happy either).
>
> Their bot (anonymous naturally, so nobody seem to know where does it come
> from) started to create empty articles, which doesn't make me happy since we
> do not want empty articles, so I have to delete them by hand, one by one,
> since cannot rollback freshly created articles. (maybe this is something to
> consider as a wanted feature: rollback-like delete submissions? aargh!)
> So far we only had some, but I don't know what i'll gonna do when they start
> to create all years article from 10000 BC to 2003 AD. :-((

Another problem is that it adds interwiki links to #REDIRECT-pages, which
makes them not work (since the #REDIRECT is not the start of the page). I
already complained about this a few days ago, see
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyskusja_wikipedysty%3A80.49.184.77. But at least
it seems the person has now heared of the complaints.

Andre Engels