https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30245
Krinkle <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2011-08-08 08:24:25 UTC --- Recommending WONTFIX. The IRC feed is highly fragile and used in a gazillion places. There are already plans to create a new system that is more push-oriented and not limited to cleartext (ie. XML or JSON push notification through something with Jabber, WebSocket and/or PubSubHubBub. Atleast for the foundation feed I think changing this would unnecessarily break a many bots that sadly are not in very active development. (ie. there's a few bots that monitor all wikis for log events such as Block, to warn users if that blocked user edits another wiki. If the bot would have to resolve localized SpecialPage names in addition to namespaces that could get tricky, not sure if that's wanted. Calling the API for each edit on all wikis ? Or get them in advance from the API. Not sure, but either way I'm not the one who build those bots.) In general this is a valid bug and has a valid fix. But I think it's best to not touch it and instead let the existing bots work and fight the high vandalism load. There's imho way too few development eyes pointed on the vandalism problem, existing solutions are dirty at best but is highly depend on. In the mean time concentrate on the better system with push notifications with JSON or XML that are much easier to parse, much more flexible to change contents to add more info. No need to 'fix' a deprecated system. A script could be written fairly easily to read from this new feed and format an IRC message. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
