https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33461

--- Comment #29 from Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> ---
As Niklas said earlier:

"I see it now. The bot flag is set manually by EditPage.php. I don't want add
hacks like that into my code. Recategorizing to core bug."

He said the proper fix to this is in core, rather than a workaround in every
extension.  Siebrand said:

"It should be: a client's edit is a bot edit if the editing user has a bit
flag,
unless that client specifically indicates its edit should NOT be marked as a
bot edit."

I am inclined to agree with both of them.  This means changing the behavior of
the bot parameter for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit such that it
overrides the account's flag (of course, regular users can not use the bot
override), rather than making bot accounts always say "Remember, I'm a bot!" on
every request.

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