On Fri, 25 May 2012 22:27:20 -0700, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote:
Fabian, you have found one of my old problems. There is a request on
Bugzilla to store bot edits in a table other than recent changes in order
to be able to sort them out of page histories. As the others wrote, this
is
a
There is 3 different bot thingies you should know about, I'll briefly describe
them each:
== The bot user right:
This is the right that grants the user the ability to perform an edit with a
bot flag.
Facts:
* Not all users with this right are bots.
* The flag can be toggled on a per-edit basis.
Hi,
Sorry about the length of this mail, it reads faster than it looks.
I am working with the recentchanges and the cu_changes (checkuser)
mediawiki SQL tables. I would like to be able to filter bot activity,
unfortunately I am increasingly confused.
Things that I think I know:
- In the
2012/5/25 Fabian Kaelin fkae...@wikimedia.org:
1. *What is the meaning/purpose of the rc_bot flag on recentchanges? *There
are entries in the recentchanges table from editors that are flagged as
bots in the user_groups and the other bot tables but still have the rc_bot
flag set to 0.
I don't
The bot flag is rather confusing since edits can be marked as bot edits
or non-bot edits regardless of whether they are actually coming from a
bot. The edit API accepts a 'bot' or 'notbot' parameter and I believe
this is what actually gets recorded in the recentchanges table.
Obviously this
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The bot flag is rather confusing since edits can be marked as bot edits or
non-bot edits regardless of whether they are actually coming from a bot. The
edit API accepts a 'bot' or 'notbot' parameter and I believe this
The cu_changes table is not at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_layout because it's
provided by an extension.
The rc_bot marks if it's an edit marked as bot. As you have discovered,
a bot can make edits not marked as bot (furthermore, as it is only
stored in recentchanges table,
There are some bots without flag, but usergroups is a good starting point.
As far as i know, only a few counter vandalisms or notifications bots
aren't marked as bots. Like Matma said, bots can have the flag and edit
wothout having the edits marked has bot edits. For example, my counter
vandalism
Fabian, you have found one of my old problems. There is a request on
Bugzilla to store bot edits in a table other than recent changes in order
to be able to sort them out of page histories. As the others wrote, this is
a very complicated question with few hope to get exact results, but please
let
