Thanks for the "bot=0" suggestion. I couldn't find anything about it in the docs. I have not looked at the code yet, but this warning is actually a bug, because the parameter *is* recognized.
Actually, it seems to work for a lot of actions, but it doesn't work for page edits. bot=0 will result in a flagged edit. Omission is the way to go there. 2014-04-25 16:12 GMT+02:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Niklas Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a reason why image uploads using the API are automatically >> flagged as bot edits? >> > > It doesn't look like it's anything to do with the API, it's to do with > whether the user has the "bot" flag. An upload via Special:Upload from a > bot-flagged account is flagged as bot too. It looks like the same happens > with any logged action. > > >> I miss an option do deactivate this behavior. >> > > That would be nice. But it looks like the code that does this flagging is > buried deep without taking parameters to actually control it, so adding the > option to the API in a non-hacky way doesn't seem easy. > > OTOH, if you ignore the warning the API will generate about an unused > parameter, you could just pass "&bot=0" to the API action=upload call. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >
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