https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65494
--- Comment #6 from Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Dan Garry from comment #5) > It is an edit-level setting in the API. It's not an edit-level setting in > the user interface, which is my entire point. I don't know about that. On Special:Watchlist and Special:RecentChanges the little 'b' shows up next to the 'm' for minor edits, rather than being next to the username. And on enwiki at least, it's not too uncommon to find accounts with bot names (e.g. "ClueBot NG") making edits that show up without the 'b'. Although the wording of the toggle as "Show bots" rather than "Show bot edits" does go towards your point, as does the tooltip for the 'b' ("This edit was performed by a bot"). The wording of the bot right, "Be treated as an automated process", doesn't really go either way IMO, nor do the rest of the rights-granting related areas. Things here could as easily be meaning "edits are flagged as 'bot'" or "can flag edits as 'bot'", as far as that goes. Although the existence and description of the "markbotedits" right does hint that edits are individually flagged rather than all edits made by a user. I don't see anywhere else that the bot right or the bot flag show up in core in a quick search. Some of the confusion in all this is likely due to the fact that the bot user right originally did force all edits to be flagged as bot. But it turned out that not all edits by a "bot" account should be hidden from Special:RecentChanges, leading to various bots not being given the bot right so their edits wouldn't be hidden. Then the functionality was changed so the bot right gave permission to flag edits rather than forcing the flagging of edits. What parts of the interface would you change besides the default text of MediaWiki:rcshowhidebots and MediaWiki:recentchanges-label-bot? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
