Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval/ProtectionBot: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:19, 7 January 2007

Revision as of 07:32, 7 January 2007

Line 191:

:1. Regarding your "we dont have a +sysop in metawiki all that there currently is is +admin some can call it sysop but it is not" statement: I assume that you meant to reference MediaWiki (not Meta-Wiki), but I don't understand your claim. The <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights user rights log]</span> contains hundreds of instances of the word "sysop" (and zero instances of the word "admin"). "Admin" is a position within the community, ''not'' a user rights designation.

:2. Again, Robert isn't seeking "adminship" for his bot. He's seeking the "sysop" designation, and we have no formal process through which to handle such a request. That doesn't mean that we should fall back on the closest process that we happen to have (thereby anthropomorphizing a computer script). It means that we should devise a new process that makes sense. &mdash;[[User:David Levy|David Levy]] 07:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

::Indeed. Our usual process for deciding whether programs should be allowed special user rights designations is the bot approval system. That system is good for determining whether a certain task should be performed automatically, and whether the given piece of code is capable of performing the task without unacceptable errors.

::RfA, on the other hand, is a system for determining whether human users should be granted adminship, which includes a user rights level but also indicates a social standing within the community. The process is designed to determine whether an individual is trustworthy and familiar with our policies. To apply those standards to a piece of code makes no sense at all. [[User:Christopher Parham|Christopher Parham]] [[User talk:Christopher Parham|(talk)]] 07:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)