Birgitte SB wrote:
Trusting the stewards to opt-in what they judge to be
a wiki with no community and taking this feature live
on all wikis at once is not the same proposal. Both
proposals make dealing with vandalism on inactive
wikis easier, but my proposal prevents the problems
that might occur with more active wikis due to poor
communication.
I agree. This is a commonsense approach. When such steps are taken
with sensitivity to a community's circumstances they could work quite
well. What's frightening is those individuals who would take such tools
as an opportunity to impose their views on a community where they have
not previously shown any interest at all. In Wikisource it's not
unusual for a fresh immigrant to assume that the same rules apply as in
en:wp. We can and should be less understanding when we are dealing with
bots, but if these proposals were about bots they should not have been
framed in more general terms.
Ec