(11-07-2022, 08:25 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: We have several entries in the mod queue this morning from a user called "Babel AutoCreate". It looks like it's some subsystem that's been part of the wiki since at least 2014, but this is the first time it's created pages -- three categories -- in over a year. Is there any reason we shouldn't give it automoderated privileges?
Babel Autocreate is an automated process of the Babel extension, which provides translation capability recognition to MediaWiki. There is absolutely nothing about it to be concerned about, it mostly pipes pre-recorded documentation for users making userboxes for their language proficiency and categories for their maintenance, saving the admins' work on the client side.
For the purposes of transparency (in case it works in error or produces garbled content on the client side), this automated process is logged as a bot style user in the database, but is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. If it does produce any content that is messed up, that can be reported for fixing to the Wikimedia Foundation, as they provide official support for the extension.