[WikiEN-l] Servers down?

[Ian A Holton]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:48 +1100, Tim Starling wrote:
> George Herbert wrote:
> > On Jan 17, 2008 7:39 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >> Rjd0060 wrote:
> >>> Ian A Holton wrote:
> >>>> True, a bot would be better. It wouldn't need admin rights, would it?
> >>>>
> >>  >
> >>  > To move, create, and tag for speedy, the bot should *not* need the sysop
> >>  > bit.
> >>
> >> What's wrong with giving bots sysop access? Are you worried they might
> >> rise up and overthrow the human sysops?
> >>
> >> -- Tim Starling
> > 
> > Damage control on programming errors, mostly.
> 
> Sounds like nonsense to me. It's not like sysops can do anything 
> irreversible. You're just wasting the time of human sysops by making them 
> do jobs which bots could do.
> 
> -- Tim Starling

Tim, a bot that has admin rights and could potentially move wrong pages
to wrong locations if it all goes bad is creating more work for humans,
not less. It's just a rule I have: Limit the power u give the machines.
But maybe that's me just watching to much Matrix ;-)

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]
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