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.