What if it a bot builder builds one? On 22 February 2015 at 10:35, Ricordisamoa <[email protected]> wrote:
> What if a techie vandal builds a one-click disruption framework? > > Il 15/02/2015 10:54, Petr Bena ha scritto: > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
