https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16860

--- Comment #8 from Gurch <[email protected]> 2010-04-11 10:01:28 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> At least two steward bots (using stewbot) already access CentralAuth, along
> with JavaScript run by several stewards.

The rate of CentralAuth actions is on the order of 50 every 24 hours.

I'm not convinced it's necessary to run bots for such a small workload. More
importantly, I'm not at all convinced it's wise to trust any sort of
unsupervised process with actions that have no transparency or oversight.

If an adminbot goes mad anyone can look at the log and see that's it's deleting
the wrong pages, or blocking the wrong users, and take action. If a steward-bot
goes mad... "(log action removed) (crosswiki abuse)". It's an awkward enough
situation trusting stewards not to screw up things we can't double-check.
Stewards were chosen though a touch election process because these things are
important, not to sit and let a bot do them.

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