2012/5/25 Fabian Kaelin <[email protected]>: > 1. *What is the meaning/purpose of the rc_bot flag on recentchanges? *There > are entries in the recentchanges table from editors that are flagged as > bots in the user_groups and the other bot tables but still have the rc_bot > flag set to 0.
I don't know about the rest, but: * it is possible for any admin to do reverts which are considered bot changes (in order not to clutter the RecentChanges), just add "&bot=1" to the end of any URL where the pages contains rollback links, such as contribs or page history * I think that it is also possible for a bot to make its edit as not-bot, for changes which should be by default visible on RC – apparently ClueBot (en.wiki automatic vandalism revert bot) does this The rc_bot flag just means that the edit is by default hidden on RC and can be shown using "show bots" link, nothing else. -- Matma Rex _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
