Re: [Wikidata-tech] Question on bot flag in wbeditentity
Sometimes when community want to approve tasks for already flagged bot, they want bot doesn't mark their task as bot edit so it appears on RC and Watchlist as non-bot edit. I think this can be a reason? -- Revi https://revi.me -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 8. 27. 오전 12:08에 Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org님이 작성: On 26.08.2015 12:27, Addshore wrote: The reason our bot flag works like this is to remain consistent with all other mediawiki API modules. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots#The_.22bot.22_flag Mainly, Not all users with this right are bots. Ok, but when a user edits a wiki thourgh the browser, this is not related to the API anyway, is it? I wonder in which cases a users with a bot flag makes an edit through the API that should not be flagged as bot. Background: I am currently implementing write access to Wikidata. I am inclined to set the bot flag on all requests to simplify the interface. Cheers, Markus Cheers Addshore On 26 August 2015 at 10:51, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org mailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: Hi, I wondered why wbeditentity has a parameter bot. The documentation says that this will mark the edit as a bot edit, but only if the user is in the bot group. In other words, users in the bot group can use this parameter to decide if they want to have their API-based edit flagged as bot or not. Is there any reason why a user in bot group would *not* want their API-based edit flagged as bot? Cheers, Markus ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech -- Addshore ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
[Wikidata-tech] Question on bot flag in wbeditentity
Hi, I wondered why wbeditentity has a parameter bot. The documentation says that this will mark the edit as a bot edit, but only if the user is in the bot group. In other words, users in the bot group can use this parameter to decide if they want to have their API-based edit flagged as bot or not. Is there any reason why a user in bot group would *not* want their API-based edit flagged as bot? Cheers, Markus ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
Re: [Wikidata-tech] Question on bot flag in wbeditentity
On 26.08.2015 12:27, Addshore wrote: The reason our bot flag works like this is to remain consistent with all other mediawiki API modules. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots#The_.22bot.22_flag Mainly, Not all users with this right are bots. Ok, but when a user edits a wiki thourgh the browser, this is not related to the API anyway, is it? I wonder in which cases a users with a bot flag makes an edit through the API that should not be flagged as bot. Background: I am currently implementing write access to Wikidata. I am inclined to set the bot flag on all requests to simplify the interface. Cheers, Markus Cheers Addshore On 26 August 2015 at 10:51, Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org mailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote: Hi, I wondered why wbeditentity has a parameter bot. The documentation says that this will mark the edit as a bot edit, but only if the user is in the bot group. In other words, users in the bot group can use this parameter to decide if they want to have their API-based edit flagged as bot or not. Is there any reason why a user in bot group would *not* want their API-based edit flagged as bot? Cheers, Markus ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech -- Addshore ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech ___ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
