On 24.02.19 20:18, Christoph Hormann wrote: > I mainly wanted to make everyone who is not active on the wiki aware of > this.
For the benefit of people who don't know the background, it's worth mentioning that these bot edits did not distort the actual meaning of the wiki pages, but were purely performing a trivial technical maintenance task. Here's an example: https://wiki.osm.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:waterway%3Driverbank&diff=1805725&oldid=1650789&rcid=&curid=2015 To explain what's going on: The infoboxes on tag documentation pages are available in different languages. In the past, users editing the wiki had to manually set the desired language for the infobox with parameters such as "lang=en". That's no longer necessary because the infobox now automatically recognizes that it's part of an English page, and that it should probably display "Description" rather than "Descripción" or "Beschreibung". So as there is no longer a point in having "lang=en" parameters, they were recently removed by a bot. These edits are marked as bot edits, which not only makes it transparent that the edit was performed by a bot, but also solves the practical issue of watchlist spam (because such edits can be easily filtered out from the watchlist). Note that this wasn't some AI making decisions on its own, either, but simply a human editor deciding to remove a particular line of text from more than one wiki page at the same time. The bot API is just a tool that makes this process less tedious. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
