https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16604
Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #24 from Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> 2009-01-29 04:34:14 UTC --- (In reply to comment #23) > (In reply to comment #22) > > Thanks to this showing of autocreations and certain logs the rc-feed has > > become > > totally unreadable and broken many bots of the SWMT... > > Each log entry is a separate line... assuming the bots are using some sort of > line-by-line pattern-matching and discarding unrecognized lines, I don't quite > see how this can have broken anything. At any rate, autocreations being shown > in the logs is something completely unrelated to this issue report. > > The changes made as a result of this issue are essential for external programs > to efficiently interact with MediaWiki wikis where patrolling is used. This in > turn is essential to many aspects of some large Wikimedia wikis, monitoring > for > vandalism and other abuse being the main one. > The automatic account creations are hidden in RC for the same reason they should be hidden in the RC feed. They're an artefact of the Single User Login system and flood RC, so they're unnecessary to list (and make the RC feed less usable) - doubly so since unifications are broadcasted in a dedicated feed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
