Definitely worth discussing. For ENWP, I suggest bringing this up on VP:T. Thanks, Pine On Feb 11, 2015 12:45 AM, "Petr Bena" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
