On 25/06/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
Clever. Stewards were always able to combine the flags, it's just Rob's MakeBot that imposed the additional restriction, but of course that has no control over whether the standard bureaucrat extension can add sysop to any user at all.
No, but a future improved version of MakeSysop (or preferably a better user rights management extension) might ensure the reverse. :)
Well, there my knowledge of the situation ends, so I'll leave that to the devs. I couldn't find a feature request at http://bugs.wikimedia.org/, which is where they generally go, but I could easily have missed it.
We have support for blocking open proxies and stuff according to the SORBS DNSBL. Whether we want to re-enable it is another matter.
Rob Church