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". Cheers Addshore On 26 August 2015 at 10:51, Markus Krötzsch <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 > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech > -- Addshore
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