[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Mrjohncummings added a comment. OK, so what are the next steps? I guess: 1. Decide on an approach 2. Find someone who can implement it 3. Add some kind of instructions for people making tours if needed TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246814 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Bovlb added a comment. Just to add another perspective on this issue, I have several times come close to blocking/warning a new user for vandalism before I realized they were taking a WikiTour. Having any sort of tag on the edit would be useful. TASK DETAIL

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Bovlb added a comment. > I don't see an option to exclude by tag Worth noting that tags are listed in the RC UI, so even if we cannot use it to exclude wikitour edits, an RC patroller could still see the tag before performing deeper investigation. I believe people are also using

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Mrjohncummings added a comment. @Aklapper how would we find out which developers or which teams work on things like this? Thanks :) TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246814 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To:

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Bovlb added a comment. @Mrjohncummings asked me to share this comment I posted at Wikidata : > From the discussion so far, there seem to be two proposed

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Mrjohncummings added a comment. @Bovlb thanks, I'm really out of my depth, who might know about this stuff? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246814 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Mrjohncummings Cc: Mrjohncummings,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Bovlb added a comment. > what tag would be needed to tell recent changes to ignore it? That's a good question. Tags are normally defined to suggest the edit is bad, so the interface allows you to include by tag, but I don't see an option to exclude by tag. Obviously we don't want to

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Mrjohncummings added a comment. @matej_suchanek do you know what tag would be needed to tell recent changes to ignore it? This feels like a first step before finding out who could add it TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246814 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T246814: Wikidata Tours pollutes Recent Changes

Mrjohncummings added a comment. This is a quite important thing to fix because I'm working on several more tours and its likely the number of people who will use the tours will increase a lot TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246814 EMAIL PREFERENCES