Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/VolkovBot

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Hi! This interwiki bot owned by w:ru:User:Volkov has a global bot flag and is active on many wikimedia projects. Please grant a bot flag locally to avoid flooding recent changes. In case of any issue the bot owner can be reached at Russian wikipedia. Thanks. --Volkov (talk) 09:03, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Interwiki bots aren't as useful here. Books across projects tend to be nothing alike and so interwiking is not done as much. --dark lama  12:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Agree with Darklama re. usefulness, but if the bot is going to be used it should have a bot flag... it flooded RC yesterday. Unusual? Quite TalkQu 12:45, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * This bot also appears to be interlinking to pages that don't actually exist, for pages in the main namespace at least. --dark lama  13:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I had noticed this bot two days ago operating on other Wikibooks editions & I was going to ask you to stop or at least not link English. As mentioned on previous requests, Wikibooks has little need for interwiki links. If you can do them properly, fine, but pywikipediabot is not going to do a good enough job - up to now all the appropriate interwiki linking I've seen on Wikibooks (in any language) has been done manually. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 13:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The bot was running on categories, not in main namespace. I realize that linking articles in main namespace may be not that useful but I feel like linking categories may be helpful on all wikimedia projects including wikibooks. --Volkov (talk) 14:29, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Interesting idea. I'm not sure about how effective it will be considering how messy our category system is currently. However, it might make for a nice experiment. My suggestion: Run the bot now without the flag. We will flag it if it is doing good work and the flooding becomes a problem. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 19:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)