https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38874

--- Comment #6 from [email protected] 2012-11-28 00:16:13 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > That's fine. The problem is, when a bot edit doesn't trigger an enotif, *no
> > subsequent edits* to that page will trigger an enotif either (in this 
> > regard,
> > this bug is similar to bug 27884).
> 
> That's a separate problem which doesn't belong to this bug: if it's not the
> same as bug 27884, please open another.
> 
> > This is a problem if you rely on enotifs to
> > keep up with changes on a wiki (as I do). This could be a preference that
> > defaults to "don't send enotifs on bot edits" (vis a vis bug 13992) instead 
> > of
> > just undocumented behavior.
> 
> I agree that the current situation, with flagged bots not triggering enotifs 
> on
> minor edits, is extremely confusing. If one has selected "E-mail me also for
> minor edits of pages" they should receive them.
> Maybe this is even the case but there's no documentation and everyone is
> confused, see bug 13992 comment 6 (which caused a lot of problems to WLM
> notifications on Commons): maybe Benny can shed some light on the current
> behaviour?

Minor edits from bot would not trigger notification.  "E-mail me also for minor
edits of pages" is a user option but it would not overwrite the behavior.  I
think the problem is that watchlist notification timestamp is set even for bot
minor edits, this results in no enotif for subsequent edits

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