the bot’s user page must at minimum list … where the bot is hosted or run from.
This requirement is rather unclear: Does it refer to the country? City? Street address? Or the hosting provider? The IP address? Something else? Furthermore, I don’t see why that should be necessary or beneficial.
Bots themselves are not allowed to vote on any edits (to be implemented via code).
This has never been implemented, and last time it came up, it was more or less consensus that implementing a bot-check in the voting routines isn’t necessary. I therefore propose to drop the parenthesized clause.
I know it has never been implemented; the parenthesis links to the ticket for implementing it (which is open). I can’t remember any discussion for it, but I also do think personally that it should be implemented.
Regardless, it wasn’t part of the rewrite, but I’ll bring it up for tonight’s meeting and ask whether that should be included in the rewrite or not.
Whatever the plan (to implement or not to implement), I don’t think the notice belongs into the CoC – implementing the check is not something the bot is supposed to do.
IP or hostname. If more than one bot of a kind run, it can help us to differentiate them and eventually block unregistered ones. Also in case of suspicious activity it will permit faster identification from logs.
Sorry I have to ask this, but are you aware we are speaking about bots here, that have their own user accounts with password and everything? It sounds like you may be confusing it with userscripts that can run in many different people’s browsers and submit edits under their respective owner’s identity.
Oh well, i shouldn’t answer anything before first coffee i guess, that doesn’t make sense to me either I guess the “where” question doesn’t make sense in this context anyway.