It's relevant for all projects and languages. I haven't done it in a while, but I had my periods of massive AWB editing, and other RC patrollers rightly complained about it and asked me to do such things with a bot account.
<thinkingoutloud>The question is, how would it be different from the usual bot accounts. Last time I checked, AWB worked through a browser control and not through API (though again, it was a while ago). And which users will have a permission to use it? Some "trusted" users? Autoconfirmed? AWB has its own permissions system based on wiki pages, so maybe this could be discarded of a new "tool edit" permission.</thinkingoutloud> -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2015-02-11 11:10 GMT+02:00 Pine W <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
