Comment from @M-J copied over here from Gitlab:

about 1: I think a bot operator is sufficient, who can support. a native speaker is also neccessary to translate the bot
about 2: I'm not a friend of fork, it makes stuff complicated. I would like to implement https://docs.python.org/3/library/i18n.html – one .mo-file per language and programm the date recognition function more internationally. cause we can access one wiki per api once time it is the best to run bot processes once per wiki, configured by erinnermich.ini & seperate bot users are not a problem

I think, till end of february the work could be done and I'm interessted to implement this. I had this idea also to provide this bot to more wikis.

If needed, I can either help with the code or just operate it for frwiki. However, like most wikis, the community approval is needed before the bot can operate at a large scale (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bot/Statut).

In T384842#10499696, @Mr_Tortue hat geschrieben:

If needed, I can either help with the code or just operate it for frwiki. However, like most wikis, the community approval is needed before the bot can operate at a large scale (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bot/Statut).

sound good :)

this bot is running without bot flag in dewiki, 15 edits this month and 1317 edits since may 2021 are not a problem. edits of this bot is something you want on the watchlist cause of user interaction, so the botflag could be counterproductive. but that's something you can discuss in the frwiki and as a bot operator would fall under your responsibility, i think.

Dans T384842#10556598, @M-J a écrit :

hello, after some conversation with tkarcher in the background, here a possible roadmap:

• add 2 more accounts RapelleMoiBot @ frwiki, testwiki & RemindMeBot¹ @ enwiki, testwiki & ErinnerMichBot @dewiktionary (already done)

The name "RapelleMoiBot" doesn't seem to be appropriate in that case, as it's grammatically incorrect. It should be "RappelleMoiBot", though after asking some contributors on the French-speaking Discord, they were more keen to use "Pense-Bôt", as it's a play on words between "Pense-bête" (Sticky Note in English), and "Bot". How do you feel about it ?

• translate the bot into fr (@Mr_Tortue)

Sure, would you like me to wait for the creation of the i18n files to begin or should I just send the translations here (or somewhere else) ?

@Mr_Tortue I'll give you access to gitlab and co this week. would this be ok? I'll start implement this week the new features

no problem

The bot I created two weeks ago for the French Wikipedia is indeed called RappelleMoiBot (so grammatically correct), but it would be easy to globally rename it to Pense-Bôt. And I like the idea! :-) Any objections, @M-J ? Otherwise, I'd request the renaming.

In T384842#10560624, @Tkarcher hat geschrieben:

The bot I created two weeks ago for the French Wikipedia is indeed called RappelleMoiBot (so grammatically correct), but it would be easy to globally rename it to Pense-Bôt. And I like the idea! :-) Any objections, @M-J ? Otherwise, I'd request the renaming.

no objections & pls request.

@Mr_Tortue mmh, I think it's best to create i18n files first, so you can commit the translated file to gitlab

Bot is renamed now:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Pense-B%C3%B4t

I have created the template : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Pense-B%C3%B4t

@Mr_Tortue : Looks good, thanks! @M-J : Any update from your side already? Is there anything we can support you with?

Hey, is there any news ? Something which I can help ?

Bad news, I'm afraid. 😕 M-J was temporarily blocked for a couple of weeks in February in de-wiki and did not return after that, and also didn't react to my message on the talk page last week. I have a rough understanding of the plan outlined in the roadmap above and think I can implement it, but didn't want to start working on it yet as I was still hoping M-J would return and pick it up again - which probably will not happen anytime soon. So I'll start looking deeper into it in the next days.

Hey, I apologise that I haven't given a sign yet. I am currently very busy with other voluntary projects and in my private life and have not yet found any free time to take care of this task. I think that my situation will last another 2-4 weeks. If you would like to start with the realisation, I have nothing against it.

Glad you're OK! 😊 Take your time. I'm sure there will be plenty of work left (and/or to fix 😬) when you come back.

No problem, it's not urgent anyway. However, is it possible to have access to the repository in order to help at least a bit ?

In T384842#10757882, @Mr_Tortue hat geschrieben:

No problem, it's not urgent anyway. However, is it possible to have access to the repository in order to help at least a bit ?

I invited you. I created a branch for this: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/erinnermich/-/tree/multilingual?ref_type=heads - you should have access to it

Perfect - thanks! (And also thanks for reviewing the open changes in the development branch and bringing them to production!)

So I'll start looking deeper into it in the next days.

Just in case this wasn't obvious anyway: I didn't work at all on this task in the last weeks, and won't be able to do so for at least another week or two. So nothing to be added from my side for now.