On 1/10/07, Ligulem ligulem@pobox.com wrote: [snip]
We are currently discussing giving this user account only the permissions from the group "registered" (or "bots") *plus* the protect permission alone (instead of the whole sysop group set of permissions). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Protectio...
Do we need a new user group for this on en.wikipedia? Maybe a new group "protect", containing the protect permission alone?
If we can show consensus for this, would a site admin/developer do this for us?
If the operator of the bot is not trusted enough to have access to deletion or blocking, why do you trust him enough to have access to protection?
Mediawiki isn't built around fine-grained security.