https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23811
Summary: Hide bot edits in IRC RC feed
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: IRC
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
It would be of great benefit to hide bot edits from the IRC feed somehow. I
understand that some tools depend on the IRC feeds, and for those tools it
might be useful to have the bot edits there; however for us human users they're
just cluttering. I can think of one solution and one workaround for this
problem.
Solution: Create separate channels including or excluding bot edits
One could create additional channels called #xx.wikipedia-bots where all edits,
including bot edits, are listed, or alternativeley #xx.wikipedia-nobots where
humans could read the 'clean' feed. The existence of such channels could be
announced in the topic of both +bots and -bots channels.
Workaround: Change the styling of bot edits
All entries currently are colourful, that is, stuff inside [[]]s are one
colour, edit types (M, B, N, !) are in another colour, usernames another
colour, summaries in yet another colour. For bot edits one could make all of
these a light grey colour to separate them visually from 'real' edits, so that
real edits stand out from the bot edits. If possible maybe also the text size
could be reduced by a couple of points.
I hope someone could have a look and a try at fixing this issue. :-)
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