A bot with a sysop status may be temporarily useful if a huge number of pages must be deleted, but this shouldn't happen very often. For example, the new namespace Project: has just been opened on Fr Wikipedia, and all wikiprojects have been moved from Wikipedia:Project/X to Project:X. Thousands of redirects have thus been created. Redirects concerning project subpages are being deleted. This is a task a sysop bot could perform.
Blockin is a more delicate sysop tool, which imho requires a human being to be in front of the screen.
However, a bot is damn stupid: he just does what he has been told to do. If a bot is arbitrarily blocking IP or anonymous proxies, he has just been badly programmed :)
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On 4/28/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Essjay wrote:
Jon Harald Søby wrote:
Go ahead. I'll remove it if it works. =)
Just tested on en.wiki; you can assign a sysop flag to an account that already has a bot flag, but you cannot assign a bot flag to an account with a sysop flag. The account in question (User:EssjayTest, my testing account) is now desysopped and deflagged. (Thanks Jon!)
Essjay
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That does not really answer my question...
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#Desysopping_of_cs:Wi...
Whether technically possible or not technically possible, Proxybot was both a sysop and a bot on the cs.wikipedia. His activity is to block ips : http://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speci ální%3ALog&type=block&user=Proxybot&page=
Is that suitable that a bot also has a sysop status ?
Ant
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