On May 20, 2014 8:39 AM, "Dan Garry" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 19 May 2014 19:36, Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is
> > necessary
> >
>
> Sure, but as I'm not a bot operator, can you explain why and what you use
> this for, to help me understand? :-)
>
>
> > 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)
> >
>
> I think so too. Display it only to people with the bot flag, and their
> edits will be tagged as bot edits iff they check the box. The API would be
> unaffected, and continue to function as it did before.
>
> As a product manager I am wary of adding more clutter into the already
busy
> edit interface, but given the scope of the feature (i.e. it only displays
> to people flagged as bots), I think it'd be okay.
If it is role based ('bot'), why not change it (in 1.24?) to always *not*
flag the UI edits as bot edits, displaying a warning to that effect?
Do we have many UI scaping bot frameworks in use these days?
--
John
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