In my opinion this is pretty easy to implement so to answer "what would it take": few hours of coding.
@Gerard: I would like to make this change to mediawiki core, so it would work everywhere. Question now is: * Do we want to implement tool edit? * Do we want to use thing made by "This that and other" and Anomie instead? * Do we want to use both tool edit and thing made by "This that and other" and Anomie - I am personally for this option because I consider both things to be very different On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > What does this have to do with English Wikipedia ? It is useful > everywhere.. Why limit the scope ? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 11 February 2015 at 10:33, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, the question is however, if this passed "consensus" on english >> wikipedia and I made a patch for mediawiki, assuming code would be >> correct would it be merged to core of mediawiki or is there any other >> requirement? Does it actually even need to pass consensus on >> wikipedia? I think this would be useful for other wikis as well. We >> already have bot flag and most of smaller wikis have no bots. >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
