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

[Jon Harald Søby]

You can't make sysops bots with this feature... Though I don't know if
it's possible to make a bot sysop.

On 4/28/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> A tiny point I'd like to raise is the suitability of bots with sysop
> status. I know it is being done in some places, but it seems generally
> frowned upon.
>
> Recently, a sysop bot on cs:wiki started to blocked ip which appeared
> (how ?) to be anon proxies. 6000 blocks for now...
>
> Good idea ? Bad idea ?
>
> Anthere
>
> .Aphaia wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > On 4/26/06, Essjay <essjaywiki at gmail.com> wrote:> 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.
> >
> >
> > Now it seem to be activated on all projects. Perhaps some wikis may
> > want to have their bot policies multiligualize.
> >
> > If you may want to ask a help for translation, consider to submit your
> > request on [[Meta:Translation requests]]. There you find a section
> > dedicated for "requests from local projects". Cymri (Welsh)Wikipedia
> > has once used it for i18n of their welcoming messages and they seem to
> > be happy with results of their requests.
> >
> > URLs are:
> > Main Page:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests
> >
> > Submittion:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Translation_requests/fromlocalreqs
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > --
> > Aphaea@*.wikipedia.org
> > email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com
>
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