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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