https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47415
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Bug ID: 47415
Summary: creation of new claims (and perhaps other edits) can
be (auto)patrolled on wikidata
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataRepo
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Normally only new pages are available for patrolling or autopatrol, but I see
many entries in the patrol log where bots create a new claim and this is marked
as autopatrolled (since bots hav the autopatrol flag). An example:
10:39, 19 April 2013 VIAFbot (talk | contribs | block) automatically marked
revision 27230780 of page Colin McWilliam (Q5145398) patrolled
You can see in the history of the article,
http://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5145398&action=history
that this edit added a claim but certainly did not create the page. Here's the
claim creation itself:
http://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5145398&oldid=27230780&diff=prev
The side effect of this is that the logging table is filled with these things.
It's already up to almost 27 million log entries, the vast majority of them
bots marking themselves as autopatrolled. In comparison, en wp has around 48.5
million log entries, and it's been running a whole lot longer with a much
larger editor base.
If there is some compelling reason for having this patrol setup, then it should
at least be documented in giant letters someplace obvious.
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