[Foundation-l] Bot flagging, stewards, & bureaucrats

[Essjay]

Apologies if Rob has already posted this elsewhere, but I wanted to make 
sure this was announced as widely as possible:

Developer Rob Church has enabled the [[Special:Makebot]] feature for 
Wikimedia wikis; this feature allows local bureaucrats to flag and 
deflag bot accounts on their projects.

Discussion on this proposal went on for quite a while, with almost 
unanimous support from both stewards and bureaucrats alike; it was 
approved by Jimbo (in March, I believe) for implementation.

A big thanks to Rob for working up a great extension (I've already used 
it on en.wiki, and it works beautifully), and to those who supported 
it's implementation.

As a side note, I suppose this means that stewards will be getting out 
of the bot flagging business on projects with local bureaucrats? (I've 
started a thread on [[m:Talk:Requests for bot status]] on the subject, 
if anyone would like to comment.) I may be being a bit bold in doing so, 
but I encourage those who read the list to make the communities on their 
respective wikis aware of this new responsibility for bureaucrats.

Essjay

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