Hello, Am Montag, den 21.08.2006, 22:28 +0400 schrieb Edward Chernenko:
2006/8/21, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
A few days before, DaB had added another one:
It is not allowed to ask a user for his/her password of one of the wikimedia-projects.
A system for user authentication using wiki accounts is under development.
I think that this rule should be canceled until we have this system.
no, the rule is fine, because the possibility of collecting passwords is too dangerous.
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 should just write a bot, which is not broken (and test it not from zedler). BTW: AT least dewp forbits bots, which are not controlled by a human (I can imagine, that other wikis do this the same way). So you must sit on your PC and can stop your bot yourself, if there is a problem.
Sincerly, DaB.