On 1/10/07, Ligulem <ligulem(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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We are currently discussing giving this user account
only the
permissions from the group "registered" (or "bots") *plus* the
protect
permission alone (instead of the whole sysop group set of permissions).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Protecti…
Do we need a new user group for this on en.wikipedia? Maybe a new group
"protect", containing the protect permission alone?
If we can show consensus for this, would a site admin/developer do this
for us?
If the operator of the bot is not trusted enough to have access to
deletion or blocking, why do you trust him enough to have access to
protection?
Mediawiki isn't built around fine-grained security.