On 21/08/06, Edward Chernenko edwardspec@gmail.com wrote:
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.
How do you intend to verify that the user is entering the correct password? You don't have access to the full user table, and certainly not the password hashes.
Rob Church