On 01/04/2013 08:21 AM, Matma Rex wrote:
You are both assuming that there are no other wikis except for the English Wikipedia.
I'm not assuming that. I explicitly said "Every wiki has a different approach to bots.". I meant it, and I welcome people providing information about other wikis.
For example, on pl.wiki, there are basically only two kinds of bots: interwiki-only and multipurpose. As long as you're not breaking anything using the bot and not doing anycontroversial changes, if you've gotten the flag, you can do any task you deem necessary. A bot control in this case simply wouldn't work.
Bots could still tell the dashboard what they're working on, even if they don't need permission to add a new task.
And if this is an en.wiki-only matter, this isn't really the right list to discuss it.
It's not. It's an idea that could work for multiple wikis, but we currently just brainstorming.
Matt Flaschen