Thank you legoktm for exampling, Another case that happened in Persian Wikipedia, is creating bot-generated articles by user request this task is too contervisal to be marked as bot and we didn't mark it but other edits of my bot is marked as bot
Best On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Legoktm <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 5/19/14, 6:39 PM, Dan Garry 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? :-) >> > > If the edits should show up in users watchlists/recentchanges for humans > to look at. An example would be ClueBot NG on enwp which doesn't flag it's > edits with the bot flag so humans can review them. > > Another case where this recently came up is in MassMessage (bug 65180). > Some edits like those to user talk pages should be marked as a bot since > the user will receive a notification regardless, but ones that are made to > Project (or other) namespaces, should not be flagged as bot so users will > see them in their watchlists. > > -- Legoktm > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
