As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is necessary but I think the best solution would be having something like "flag=1" (optional) and this causes bot edits to be marked as human and for admin (+flooders) edits marked as bot.
Implementing the parameter (whether the current status quo or my suggestion) in UI is important, I think adding a mark box besides minor and watch options would be great (for bots, admins and flooders) Best On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. When editing via the API, allows the user to choose whether or not > to > > flag an edit as a bot edit using the bot parameter. > I'm responsible for this part of the mess. I don't remember why it was > done this way though. I think the people that I took over the API edit > code from had put this feature in and I kept it. > > What I think was going on is that no one could be bothered to figure > out how to represent "I am a human editing using a bot account and I'd > like this edit to not be bot-flagged" in the UI, so it wasn't done. > But in the API it was trivial (&bot=1), so it was done. > > That's just my recollection of it and it's probably flawed, this was > 6-7 years ago. > > Roan > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Amir _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
