Tim-
:In keeping with Wikipedia policy, the source code is
secret,
:however, it will be made available via email to well-behaved
:users if required
Can you elaborate a bit on the destructive potential of the bot? I'm not
fully sure if
1) You do not want people to use the bot for things which you don't want
to happen, but which nobody else cares to stop; or
2) You do consider it, if modified, unstoppable.
Please note that we can block whole IP ranges if necessary or switch the
wiki to read-only, so I'm not sure what a dedicated bot attack could
accomplish? If you are basically telling Fred "I don't like you, you have
opinions I disagree with, you won't get to use my code", that is certainly
your decision to make.
But if that is your logic, I do not think your bot should be approved for
running on Wikipedia at all.
Thanks for your understanding,
Erik