Hoi,
Most of the projects with less then 1000 articles do not have a bot policy
or a bureaucrat ... that is a completely different world. When I say assume
good faith, I would like you to trust a person who has been able to gain 10
bot flags already...
Thanks,
GerardM
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 10/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
No when there are ten accounts with a bot flag, I would trust that
account
and give it a SUL account with bot flags. Assume
some good faith; the
point
is that particularly in the 100 or so Wikipedias
with less then 1000
articles there IS no bureaucrat and a lot of time IS wasted.
What do you mean by "a SUL account with bot flags"? As far as I know,
there is nothing stopping accounts with bot flags from being merged as
any other account would be. The bot flags won't go anywhere, either.
You seem to be suggesting that they be given bot flags on all the
other projects too - that's what I mean by a global bot flag (exactly
how it is implemented isn't really relevant). It's not a matter of
good or bad faith, it's a matter of different policies. For example,
some small projects may be willing to hand out bot flags quite freely
because they don't have the resources to check them thoroughly, while
large projects like to check through the code and have the bot do some
trial runs, etc. With your system, 10 projects handing out flags
freely would override other projects wanting to be more careful.
In a perfect world all our Wikipedias have more
then 1000 articles and
have
a full localisation. Sadly we can strive to make
it so but there is a
long
way ahead of us.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> On 10/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > There are several bots who work on almost all projects of a kind.
> > Particularly on the smallest projects where there is no
bureaucrat,
it
> is
> > not easy to get a bot status. The consequence is that on these
small
> > projects it is harder then necessary
to establish if there has
been
> some
> > regular activity.
> >
> > When an account with more then existing 10 profiles and bot flags
is
> allowed
> > to be a SUL account, this would make vandalism and regular
activity a
> lot
> > more visible.
>
> I'm not sure I understand you. Are you suggesting that once a global
> account has 10 local bot flags, they get some kind of global bot
flag?
>
> If so, I would be opposed to that. Bot policy is a matter for
> individual projects. Should 10 projects be able to impose decisions
on
all the
rest?
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