On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:35 PM, 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... > People gave several examples of bot tasks that needs to be seen in RC and they weren't abuse > 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 > -- Amir _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
