User talk:Jayt

Re: Bot
Kernigh writes: You asked me (at User talk:Kernigh) to mark User:Jaytbot as a bot.

I am not able to do this. As a bureaucrat, I am able to give sysop and bureaucrat flags at Wikihack, but not bot flags. (Wikia does not have the "MakeBot" extension.)

Meanwhile there are two options:
 * You (or I, or someone else) could ask that the Wikia staff assign the flag. Any Wikia staff can do this. I usually find staff on IRC (in #wikia on Freenode) but another way is to ask at the Wikia:Forum:Help desk or privately with Special:Contact.
 * You could proceed without a flag. If so, I suggest that you program the bot to wait 2 minutes between edits, so that they do not all appear on Special:Recentchanges instantaneously.

Before you go either way, I suggest that you create a User:Jaytbot page explaining what the bot does and who operates it.

Also, "all contributions to Wikihack are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License", but the NetHack source code itself cannot be under the GNU FDL. (The NetHack General Public License is great, but it does not let someone add an Invariant Section to the NetHack source code, so for that and other reasons it is technically incompatible.) My excuse so far was that the source code pages only quoted the NetHack source code for use amid GNU-FDL'd annotations, and that the annotations were cleary distinguishable from the source code. This is analogous to including NetHack screenshots in pages. However, creating several pages in the style of potion.c that contain only source code is like creating pages that contain only screenshots in that no part of such pages are GNU-FDL'd. I currently think that the creation of such pages - by Jaytbot or anyone else - should proceed because it makes it easier to have line numbers and will help editors add more annotations more quickly. --Kernigh 06:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)