Thanks Brad, I'm wondering if it wouldn't make sense to have a dedicated bugday at the end of the sprint?
Strainu 2013/11/13 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org>: > Note these are my own thoughts and not anything representative of the team. > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: >> b. If the robots should _not_ be credited, how do we detect them? >> Ideally, there should be an automatical way to do so, but according to >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bots, it only works for recent changes. >> Less ideally, only users with "bot" at the end should be removed, in >> order to keep users like >> https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilizator:Vitalie_Ciubotaru (which is >> not a robot, but has "bot" in the name) in the contributor list. > > Another way to exclude (most) bots would be to skip any user with the > "bot" user right. Note though that this would still include edits by > unflagged bots, or by bots that have since been decommissioned and the > bot flag removed. > > Personally, though, I do agree that excluding any user with "bot" in > the name (or even with a name ending in "bot") is a bad idea even if > just applied to enwiki, and worse when applied to other wikis that may > have different naming conventions. > >> . The idea is to decide if and how to credit: >> a. vandals >> b. reverters >> c. contributors which had their valid contributions rephrased or >> replaced from the article. >> d. contributors with valid contributions but invalid names > > The hard part there is detecting these, particularly case (c). And > even then, the article may still be based on the original work in a > copyright sense even if no single word of the original edit remains. > > Then there's also the situation where A makes an edit that is > partially useful and partially bad, B reverts, then C comes along and > incorporates parts of C's edit. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
