2006/8/21, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
Hi all.
After a short talk with River and DaB, I have added a new rule to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Rules:
If you operate a bot from zedler, it must comply to the rules of each wiki it accesses. It must not edit anonymously - it may get blocked, and all other scripts on the toolserver along with it.
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. 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.