On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Bots could also benefit from this greatly. > > > 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). -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
