[Foundation-l] stewards and bot flagging

Tue Nov 1 19:35:35 UTC 2005

On 11/1/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Please see
> http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-October/032025.html
>
> Why could not bureaucrat set bot flags on their
> projects.
> They know the rules better than any steward. Would not
> that make sense ?

There was an objection to this last time it was raised
(<http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-Otober/032050.html>),
but the main reason it's not possible seems to be technical; there is
currently no interface for bureaucrats to be able to do this
(<http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3855>).

Angela.