Yeah, I would say that a bot is a bad idea. Redirects are cheap and should be used On Feb 6, 2015 4:34 PM, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Keegan Peterzell <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > I'm not a developer my self, so thoughts on feasibility and > implementation > > are welcome. I think such a tool would be highly useful and I'm slightly > > surprised it hasn't been made yet. > > > > It wouldn't be hard to have a bot go through and fix signatures, the > problem in the past has been getting community acceptance. > > In the past on enwiki many have considered such edits to be useless edits > that clutter watchlists and recentchanges, when someone is going around > making edits to thousands of old discussion pages for what seems to them to > be very little benefit. > > And then there's the issue where if "Joe Wiki" renames himself to > "CoolDude1234" and all signatures are changed, it gets much harder to > follow things if people are calling this person "Joe" or "JW" in their > comments. Even with the new style of using linked full usernames to trigger > Echo notifications, would these get replaced since they're not signatures? > _______________________________________________ > 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
