I think it's pretty clear what I am proposing here :P there is a real problem and this is a real solution. Regarding "vandals would have fun with that" I think you are over estimating them, most of them are barely able to use regular web based interface for anything more clever than removing half of article, they don't even understand wiki code so far to understand API interface.
On other hand if there was a privilege for this, each wiki could restrict it as they wanted. This is not a bot flag any more than this "wikidata" flag we have is. It's just another flag. That's all. On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> -- Every registered user would be able to flag edit as tool edit (bot >> needs special user group) > > Vandals would have fun with that, but bot group could be set up like that > (e.g. "flood" 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 > > Semantics of flags are up to wiki communities. They can make it mean > whatever they desire. > >> -- Users could optionally mark any edit as tool edit through API only > > So like the bot flag (if they have the rights) :p > >> other suggestion that was somewhere else in thread about retroactively > matking rdits > > Sounds kind of like the little known bot rollback feature minus the > rollback aspect. > > -- > This sounds either like you are proposing the bot flag, with a minor > varation in the user given semantics. Or are proposing multiple levels of > bot flaggedness so that tool edits could be independently hidden in rc > separate from "tool" edits. > > --bawolff > _______________________________________________ > 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
