On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Markus Krötzsch <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > 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.
Sometimes people have flood accounts that they use to make mass edits through some tools and at the same time use these accounts to make "normal" edits through other tools like the Wikidata Game. I think that is pretty rare though. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
