On 25/06/06, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Clever. Stewards were always able to combine the
flags, it's just
Rob's MakeBot that imposed the additional restriction, but of course
that has no control over whether the standard bureaucrat extension can
add sysop to any user at all.
No, but a future improved version of MakeSysop (or preferably a better
user rights management extension) might ensure the reverse. :)
Well, there my knowledge of the situation ends, so
I'll leave that to
the devs. I couldn't find a feature request at
http://bugs.wikimedia.org/, which is where they generally go, but I
could easily have missed it.
We have support for blocking open proxies and stuff according to the
SORBS DNSBL. Whether we want to re-enable it is another matter.
Rob Church