On 01/04/2013 08:21 AM, Matma Rex wrote:
You are both assuming that there are no other wikis
except for the
English Wikipedia.
I'm not assuming that. I explicitly said "Every wiki has a different
approach to bots.". I meant it, and I welcome people providing
information about other wikis.
For example, on pl.wiki, there are basically only two
kinds of bots:
interwiki-only and multipurpose. As long as you're not breaking anything
using the bot and not doing anycontroversial changes, if you've gotten
the flag, you can do any task you deem necessary. A bot control in this
case simply wouldn't work.
Bots could still tell the dashboard what they're working on, even if
they don't need permission to add a new task.
And if this is an en.wiki-only matter, this isn't
really the right list
to discuss it.
It's not. It's an idea that could work for multiple wikis, but we
currently just brainstorming.
Matt Flaschen