Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > [...]
> 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. My assumption is that if someone floods recent changes, there is a high probability that all of those edits are "mi- nor" in nature. But I think it would be nice to add an option to the API to attach tags to edits if they are contained in a whitelist (so an editor cannot tag his edits as "hhvm" himself, but only for example as "tool edit"). Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
