On Jan 17, 2008 7:48 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 7:39 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@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.
Take this up with the en.wp bot auth group.
There are bots with admin bit set, run by a few people, but it's a small subset of the total (and, predictably, where some of the more really heinous problems came from).
While every action is basically reversible, not all actions are practically reversible. While it's unlikely that an admin bot would be doing stuff which could accidentally lead to some of the nightmare bot vandalism attack stuff I've gamed out playing red team, I prefer caution, as do those running en.wp these days.