On 4/28/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Whether technically possible or not technically
possible, Proxybot was
both a sysop and a bot on the cs.wikipedia.
His activity is to block ips :
http://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speciální%3ALog&type=block&am…
Is that suitable that a bot also has a sysop status ?
Perhaps more pertinently, why does this bot need bot status? I don't
believe being a bot hides your admin activites from the log or
elsewhere. Apart from it being semantically correct, there is no
reason why this bot should be flagged as such. Indeed, I can't
actually imagine any circumstance where a bot needs sysop privileges
to *edit*, which is the only area that botship (?) actually affects.
--
Sam
Approved bots are exempt (I remember hearing once) from some edit
throttling measures aimed at discouraging the use of unauthorized bots.
Neil