2018-06-03 18:41 GMT+02:00 Martin Urbanec <[email protected]>:
> I think that Pywikibot's save method should allow explicit overriding of a > warning raised by abuse filter. It shouldn't be the default state, but it > should be possible. Anyway, having a bot regulary hitting AF isn't a good > idea - talk with an admin of your wiki. > No, this is not regular. But just allowing does not solve the original problem that the bot silently failed without notifying the owner. (The solution in this case was a manual archiving.) > > On Czech Wikipedia, filters that would be hit by archivebot has exception, > generally !"bot" in user_groups. This allows cs.wiki to warn users that > may or may not know what is happening and allow bots to do their > maintenance work without being warned because their operators are expected > to know what is ok and what is not. > In the given case the filter itself caused the problem, and I wrote the filter. Many years ago I didn't think of limiting the filter to main namespace. I opened this thread because the problem is general. !"bot" in user_groups allows ALL bots to avoid the filter, and this is not right.
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