Bot flags are only given out to people that are trusted to not abuse it. I'd say this works quite well, because cases of people abusing the fact that the bot flag hides edits from recent changes are almost entirely unheard of.
Dan On 20 May 2014 09:05, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
