On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Indeed. In fact, it could (possibly) even change the way bots are done >> altogether. Right now bots are put on separate bot accounts so that if they >> are compromised the main user account is still secure (and also so that the >> permissions are separated). OAuth could change this by allowing bots to >> operate directly under the user's account. >> > > I don't think that's something we really want to do. Granting bot > permissions hides someone from RecentChanges by default, > which you wouldn't want as a normal user (well you might, but > I don't think communities would).
Indeed. Communities also want separate bot accounts so it's easy to tell what contributions are automated and so bots can be blocked without blocking their operators. -Madman _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
