[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis

[Milos Rancic]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Ryan <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is one of the most problematic issues: Asking for bot flag on
>> ~250 projects is really painful. There should be one place for asking
>> the bot flag for interwiki bots.
>>
>
> I believe this is technically possible with global groups.  Certainly this
> needs to come to some discussion on Meta and here, because of the issues
> with local communities that will inevitably occur.

Communities may elect global bot-only "bureaucrats" (which would be
able to give and to remove bot flags). Let's say, one per project
which already has a bureaucrat, as well as a person has to be a
present or former bureaucrat there (some projects have the rule that
CU may not be a bureaucrat, too; and, usually, CUs are recruited from
bureaucrats).