Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 4 2: Difference between revisions

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:::::I would recomment contacting them in the #mediawiki IRC channel, or email [[User:Brion VIBBER]]. If he's not around, try [[User talk:Tim Starling]]. I thought that stewards can only place users into groups, which had the right permissions. If I recall correctly, there is no group just for editing protected pages, one more would need to be created. It's a simple change to LocalSettings.php, so shouldn't be too hard. [[User:TheFearow|Matt/TheFearow]] [[User_Talk:TheFearow|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/TheFearow|(Contribs)]] [[User:DeadBot|(Bot)]] 21:47, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

::::::It's not, but on Wikipedia, it's not something to be taken lightly. I was under the impression that stewards could assign users individual permissions per [[bugzilla:9862|a Bugzilla ticket]], I was wrong; the conclusion was that ''if'' such an ipblock-exempt usergroup were to be created, that stewards could then add users to it. Perhaps if the consensus is that the bot should ''only'' have the protect permission, we should create another ticket. — [[User:Madman bum and angel|Madman bum and angel]] ([[User talk:Madman bum and angel|talk]] – [[User:Madman bum and angel/Desk|desk]]) 22:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

It might just be easier to create a [[WP:RFA|RFA]], considering how the relevant Bugzilla tickets are going. I don't think the chances of it being approved are as slim as [[User:TheFearow|TheFearow]] seems to think, though it may be requested that you give the code to someone else, given that you're not a sysop. The question is whether editing protected pages is ''necessary'', and I don't think we've established that yet.— [[User:Madman bum and angel|Madman bum and angel]] ([[User talk:Madman bum and angel|talk]] – [[User:Madman bum and angel/Desk|desk]]) 22:45, 22 June 2007 (UTC)