On 18/01/2008, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
What's wrong with giving bots sysop access? Are you worried they might rise up and overthrow the human sysops?
More or less. There's lots of paranoia on en:wp about admin bots going batshit in sorcerer's apprentice mode. Though I don't think it's warranted, as *anything* an admin can do is easily reversible except history merges. (Making those *easily* reversible is one for the wishlist.)
- d.