On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote:
> The bot flag is rather confusing since edits can be marked as bot edits or
> non-bot edits regardless of whether they are actually coming from a bot. The
> edit API accepts a 'bot' or 'notbot' parameter and I believe this is what
> actually gets recorded in the recentchanges table. Obviously this isn't very
> helpful for getting reliable analytics on bot edits :(
>
This is not entirely true: you need to have the bot right in order to
mark your edits as bot edits. Typically, only users in the bot group
would have the bot right.

Roan

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Reply via email to