I'm also a bit hesitant about allowing third parties to futz with live bots. If there's one bot operator, then there's one person who can be held accountable for all of the actions of the bot. If any of a number of people can come by and frob its code and run the bot, this clear accountability becomes fuzzy.
Fairly reasonable idea that edits should be accountable to a single person.
I'm sure it's useful to post source code for bots, but if a second person wants to use the same source as an existing, useful bot, they should copy it and get a separate account to edit under.
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What I primarily question what happens or what you do for someone who is still running a bot, but no longer part takes in the Wikipedia? Pass the account? Shutdown the bot, wait for someone to reinvent their wheel?