Mike.lifeguard
2008-11-09 17:07:50 UTC
There have been only a few people who took notice that there was
a policy proposal up for discussion, so hopefully this will get a
few more people interested.
I've proposed a bot policy for approval. I think it's decent.
Here's why:
* It is descriptive and informative
* Uses a lightweight approval process leaving plenty of
latitude for bureaucrats
* Allows administrators the use of the flood flag (proposal
borrowed from Meta, where it's been working very nicely, I
think). The flood flag portion is important, I think for a
few reasons:
* When admins want to move 500 pages at once, it lets them not
flood RC. Now that we have move-subpages, this will be
important.
* Extends temp bot privileges to admins - until now really only
bureaucrats could to this (in fact, I think WK might be the
only person who's ever done this?) for a few reasons:
* Too much trouble to ask for it
* 'Crat has to be there to give & remove
* There will now actually be permission in policy to let us do
that
Clarifies a few things like "scripts are not bots"Right now,
the only objection I can discern is that the policy is too long
or unfocused or something. I don't see any way to make it shorter
or otherwise remove stuff without losing valuable clarity. I
suppose it is possible to split out the flood flag sections to a
new page, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that all this
should be on one page. If we decide to split it, we would not
need a separate vote or discussion - a simple "{{support}} but
split out the flood flag bits ~~~~" is all we need, I think.
Thanks,
Mike
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Mike.lifeguard
mikelifeguard-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+***@public.gmane.org
a policy proposal up for discussion, so hopefully this will get a
few more people interested.
I've proposed a bot policy for approval. I think it's decent.
Here's why:
* It is descriptive and informative
* Uses a lightweight approval process leaving plenty of
latitude for bureaucrats
* Allows administrators the use of the flood flag (proposal
borrowed from Meta, where it's been working very nicely, I
think). The flood flag portion is important, I think for a
few reasons:
* When admins want to move 500 pages at once, it lets them not
flood RC. Now that we have move-subpages, this will be
important.
* Extends temp bot privileges to admins - until now really only
bureaucrats could to this (in fact, I think WK might be the
only person who's ever done this?) for a few reasons:
* Too much trouble to ask for it
* 'Crat has to be there to give & remove
* There will now actually be permission in policy to let us do
that
Clarifies a few things like "scripts are not bots"Right now,
the only objection I can discern is that the policy is too long
or unfocused or something. I don't see any way to make it shorter
or otherwise remove stuff without losing valuable clarity. I
suppose it is possible to split out the flood flag sections to a
new page, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that all this
should be on one page. If we decide to split it, we would not
need a separate vote or discussion - a simple "{{support}} but
split out the flood flag bits ~~~~" is all we need, I think.
Thanks,
Mike
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Mike.lifeguard
mikelifeguard-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+***@public.gmane.org