Sometimes when community want to approve tasks for already flagged bot, they want bot doesn't mark their task as bot edit so it appears on RC and Watchlist as non-bot edit. I think this can be a reason?
-- Revi https://revi.me -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 8. 27. 오전 12:08에 "Markus Krötzsch" <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org>님이 작성: > On 26.08.2015 12:27, Addshore wrote: > >> The reason our bot flag works like this is to remain consistent with all >> other mediawiki API modules. >> >> See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots#The_.22bot.22_flag >> Mainly, Not all users with this right are "bots". >> > > Ok, but when a user edits a wiki thourgh the browser, this is not related > to the API anyway, is it? I wonder in which cases a users with a bot flag > makes an edit through the API that should not be flagged as "bot". > > Background: I am currently implementing write access to Wikidata. I am > inclined to set the bot flag on all requests to simplify the interface. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > >> Cheers >> >> Addshore >> >> On 26 August 2015 at 10:51, Markus Krötzsch >> <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org <mailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org>> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wondered why wbeditentity has a parameter "bot". The documentation >> says that this will mark the edit as a bot edit, but only if the >> user is in the bot group. In other words, users in the bot group can >> use this parameter to decide if they want to have their API-based >> edit flagged as bot or not. Is there any reason why a user in bot >> group would *not* want their API-based edit flagged as bot? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Markus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-tech mailing list >> Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org >> <mailto:Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Addshore >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-tech mailing list >> Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech >
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