Hi all,

I'm just updating one of my extensions[1] for MW 1.18 and one limitation I am 
coming across is that it doesn't seem possible for a normal user to mark edits 
as 'bot', even when those edits are being performed on the user's behalf in a 
bot-like fashion.

As my extension allows normal users to perform large numbers of edits in bulk, 
it would be nice if the edits could be marked bot, even when the user 
performing them is not considered a bot.

Is there a way to do this when using the API to perform edits within an 
extension?  Or would it be better to dispense with the API and call the 
various functions manually?

I was originally using the FauxRequest class for this, but with 1.18 I had to 
change it to DerivativeRequest (in order for it to accept the edit token) if 
that helps.

Many thanks,
Adam.

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassEditRegex


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