<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 15:05, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
"...I couldn't get the status "abandoned" to show up as an option, so<br>
gave up. I expect your bot will fix it in the morning. ..." - Jeisenbe<br>
" Sadly no, the bot won't fix it -- it will never touch anything<br>
contaminated by humans :) In other words, if you modify a specific<br>
property of a data item, that property becomes taboo for the bot. So<br>
it has to be forever maintained by the human." - Yurik<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I suppose the bot could be bi-directional, using the most-recently changed to update the</div><div>least-recently changed, if the wikidata keeps track of modification date/time. But it might</div><div>be undesirable because it could lead to unintentional edits wars with one person changing</div><div>the wiki and the other changing the wikidata, neither realizing what is happening.</div><div><br></div><div>What might be feasible, and better is one of the following (in order of preference)</div><div><br></div><div>1) Editor warns somebody editing that part of the page that they ought to make the change</div><div>to the wikidata. But many of us prefer the source editor, so that may not be possible at all.</div><div><br></div><div>2) Bot mails the person who changed that part of the page that the wikidata needs to be</div><div>edited to match. If, after a set period of time, no such change is made, an admin is mailed.</div><div><br></div><div>3) The bot mails an admin to come clear up the mess.</div><div><br></div><div>4) The bot forces the page to match the wikidata and emails the person who made the</div><div>change to alter the wikidata instead, including details of the changes made in the mail.</div><div>If, after a set period of time, no such change is made, an admin is mailed.</div><div><br></div><div>5) The bot forces the page to match the wikidate and emails and admin to fix things,</div><div>including details of the changes made in the mail.</div><div><br></div>None of those are perfect, and maybe somebody can come up with something better.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>