[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) & Bots

[Béria Lima]

Well, i received a mail to my global bot account (Ripchip Bot) and the bot
has - at least - 60 local bot flags. So we should assume there are no
checking for bot flags at all.
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2011/6/10 CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian em gmail.com>

> May be it is a good idea to exclude accounts that has blog flag in at
> least one wiki. If it has bot has blog flag on at least one wiki, the
> global
> account can be considered as a bot.
> Otherwise it would give undue advantage to the bot operators like me for
> voting more than once ;)
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Garrett <agarrett em wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:09 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
> > <tinucherian em gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for
> > > Board elections :)
> >
> > This bot isn't flagged on all wikis that it's eligible to vote. In
> > particular, azwiki (I think). Accounts on wikis with blocked and bot
> > accounts were excluded, but I didn't globally exclude them.
> >
> > —Andrew
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Garrett
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > agarrett em wikimedia.org
> >
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