On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 19:18, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote:
> a bot has edited an OSM wiki page on my watchlist Diff(s), please. > spamming my watchlist feed Its possible to exclude bot edits from watchlists; note the checkbox at the top of your watchlist; and the "advanced options" sections of the "watchlist" tab in your prefenrnces. > Should bots continue to make edits on the OSM wiki Depending on the type of edit; yes. > that would for me > mean the end of it as a platform of cooperation and communication. To > me bots messing with the content of communication on a platform like > this makes it fundamentally unsuitable as a means for communication > between human beings in a community project like OSM. I know of several wikis that would cease to function without bots; not least for the removal of spam and abusive postings, but also for performing maintenance tasks in bulk, > Note this has nothing to do with the merits of the edits themselves. That should be the only consideration -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk