On 10/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, No when there are ten accounts with a bot flag, I would trust that account and give it a SUL account with bot flags. Assume some good faith; the point is that particularly in the 100 or so Wikipedias with less then 1000 articles there IS no bureaucrat and a lot of time IS wasted.
What do you mean by "a SUL account with bot flags"? As far as I know, there is nothing stopping accounts with bot flags from being merged as any other account would be. The bot flags won't go anywhere, either. You seem to be suggesting that they be given bot flags on all the other projects too - that's what I mean by a global bot flag (exactly how it is implemented isn't really relevant). It's not a matter of good or bad faith, it's a matter of different policies. For example, some small projects may be willing to hand out bot flags quite freely because they don't have the resources to check them thoroughly, while large projects like to check through the code and have the bot do some trial runs, etc. With your system, 10 projects handing out flags freely would override other projects wanting to be more careful.
In a perfect world all our Wikipedias have more then 1000 articles and have a full localisation. Sadly we can strive to make it so but there is a long way ahead of us. Thanks, GerardM
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, There are several bots who work on almost all projects of a kind. Particularly on the smallest projects where there is no bureaucrat, it
is
not easy to get a bot status. The consequence is that on these small projects it is harder then necessary to establish if there has been
some
regular activity.
When an account with more then existing 10 profiles and bot flags is
allowed
to be a SUL account, this would make vandalism and regular activity a
lot
more visible.
I'm not sure I understand you. Are you suggesting that once a global account has 10 local bot flags, they get some kind of global bot flag?
If so, I would be opposed to that. Bot policy is a matter for individual projects. Should 10 projects be able to impose decisions on all the rest?
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