I think that this rule should be canceled until we
have this system.
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 can easily verify a users identity by requesting them to make an edit
with a predefined edit summary to their user page. Interiot is currently
using that for the opt in of the edit counter.
I firmly believe that it's a bad idea to ask users for their password -
it's convenient, sure, but it's an invitation to abuse. There should and
will be a single, simple and reviewable way to authenticate. Please be
patient.
-- Daniel
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