geni wrote:
Going over the archives is still going to be a major comitment of rescorces (unless we give a bot admin powers and people are still not completely happy about doing that).
A blanking-bot wouldn't require admin powers. Protecting them would, but I expect that the vast majority of the blankings would never get reverted so we can skip that for the time being on the old pages.
As for server resources, just adjust the bot's speed to whatever level's acceptable. There isn't a pressing deadline.