Hi, I think I proposed this once but I forgot the outcome.
I would like to implement a new feature called "tool edit" it would be pretty much the same as "bot edit" but with following differences: -- Every registered user would be able to flag edit as tool edit (bot needs special user group) -- The flag wouldn't be intended for use by robots, but regular users who used some automated tool in order to make the edit -- Users could optionally mark any edit as tool edit through API only The rationale is pretty clear: there is a number of tools, like AWB and many others that produce incredible amounts of edits every day. They are spamming recent changes page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges can't be filtered out and most of regular users are not interested in them. This would make it possible to filter them out and it would also make it easier to figure out how many "real edits" some user has made, compared to automated edits made by tools. Is it worth implementing? I think yes, but not so sure. Thanks _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
