DeltaBot stopped updating huwiki badges again. For example James E. Webb (Q537520) has become a good article over three months ago, yet it still does not have a Wikidata badge to date. Could you please make this service a bit more reliable? Or at least tell us clearly that it won’t work and we need to reinvent the wheel ourselves (but in a more reliable way).
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It's almost a year ago that I've stopped adding badges because the script was not running reliable. Feel free to implement it by yourself.
Then maybe you should have alerted us. We relied on the bot running (this is why we have bots, to rely on them), and I’m very disappointed that we got no notification about the bot being stopped. It’s OK to decide to stop a bot, but it’s not OK not to communicate it.
Sorry that I did not inform you, I program here as a volunteer and do not follow professional software development procedures.
In Topic:Vk0w6n8jslil9d0h I mentioned that I deactivated the script after the bot was blocked. I'm unsure whether it is the blocked user or the blocking user who should do the Wiki wide announcement.
I think you, since you was the one who made the decision to stop this task permanently—the block was, and was meant to be, temporary.
I know you’re a volunteer, this is why it’s totally OK for me that you decide not to run the task anymore. However, alerting communities is IMO not a “professional software development procedure”, it’s a basic thing among humans: if you’ve promised to do something (let it be running a bot, watering the flowers or picking up the family’s landline phone when it rings) and you decide to stop it, you tell it to the stakeholders so that someone else can take over it.