Hello,
Am Montag, den 21.08.2006, 22:28 +0400 schrieb Edward Chernenko:
2006/8/21, Daniel Kinzler
<daniel(a)brightbyte.de>de>:
A few days before, DaB had added another one:
It is not allowed to ask a user for his/her password of one of the
wikimedia-projects.
A system for user authentication using wiki accounts is under development.
I think that this rule should be canceled until we have this system.
no, the rule is fine, because the possibility of collecting passwords is
too dangerous.
Due to recent problems with one of my scripts I was
going to create
interface to allow some trusted users (or any user with more than 1000
edits except some blacklisted) to _stop_ any of my bots without
blocking bot's account. Of course, such a tool should check which user
is making this request; now the only way to do that is to ask password
on Wikipedia.
You should just write a bot, which is not broken (and test it not from
zedler). BTW: AT least dewp forbits bots, which are not controlled by a
human (I can imagine, that other wikis do this the same way). So you
must sit on your PC and can stop your bot yourself, if there is a
problem.
Sincerly,
DaB.