On 21/08/06, Edward Chernenko <edwardspec(a)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