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.
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