2006/8/21, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>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.
--
Edward Chernenko <edwardspec(a)gmail.com>