[WikiEN-l] Servers down?

[David Gerard]

On 18/01/2008, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> What's wrong with giving bots sysop access? Are you worried they might
> rise up and overthrow the human sysops?


More or less. There's lots of paranoia on en:wp about admin bots going
batshit in sorcerer's apprentice mode. Though I don't think it's
warranted, as *anything* an admin can do is easily reversible except
history merges. (Making those *easily* reversible is one for the
wishlist.)


- d.