On Jan 8, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Raymond wrote:
Because secrecy is detrimental to the project? Because the code may be useful as a basis for other processes?
As has been said numerous times, any trusted user has access to the code. Anonymous people, whose purposes can't be determined, do not. Feel free to e-mail Dragons flight for the code.
Would it? I couldn't possibly say that. Furthermore, the "need" is only partially demonstrated, in my mind. The vandalism on the FA I had requested for the front page might not be protected by this, and this bot may not solve the problem, but merely adjust it.
I have no idea what that means; this bot protects all templates and images transcluded on the [[Main Page]]. That's it. It doesn't protect articles linked to the front page or anything of that sort — it simply handles the extraordinarily tedious process of going through every template used on the front page, checking every template to see if *it* has any templates that need to be protected, copying transcluded images from Commons, protecting them, then unprotecting the templates that are off the front page and requesting deletion of the copied images (it doesn't perform any deletions itself).
These steps are so tedious and error-prone that we have screwed up numerous times already, and that has been exploited. I'm not sure how many more times we can allow pictures of cleft penii or vaginal sores ON OUR FRONT PAGE without losing tremendous amounts of credibility.