I'm confused. Why wouldn't you just mark a user account as being a bot and simply determine bot edits from username alone?
Any other mechanism seems prone to abuse or being inaccurate... On 20 May 2014 07:36, "Amir Ladsgroup" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
