As I said, I belive that any registered user should be able to use, with no need for permissions as I see no way to abuse it. Bot flag gives you higher api limits which can be abused, but this would just work to make it easier for users to hide out your edits. The permission could be individually changed though per wiki if users wanted to have it restricted.
The difference from bot flag is that bots are robots, not users, you probably want to keep them separated. Giving bot flag to a regular user is probably not a best idea. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > It's relevant for all projects and languages. > > I haven't done it in a while, but I had my periods of massive AWB editing, > and other RC patrollers rightly complained about it and asked me to do such > things with a bot account. > > <thinkingoutloud>The question is, how would it be different from the usual > bot accounts. Last time I checked, AWB worked through a browser control and > not through API (though again, it was a while ago). And which users will > have a permission to use it? Some "trusted" users? Autoconfirmed? AWB has > its own permissions system based on wiki pages, so maybe this could be > discarded of a new "tool edit" permission.</thinkingoutloud> > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2015-02-11 11:10 GMT+02:00 Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>: > >> Definitely worth discussing. For ENWP, I suggest bringing this up on VP:T. >> >> Thanks, >> Pine >> On Feb 11, 2015 12:45 AM, "Petr Bena" <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I think I proposed this once but I forgot the outcome. >> > >> > I would like to implement a new feature called "tool edit" it would be >> > pretty much the same as "bot edit" but with following differences: >> > >> > -- Every registered user would be able to flag edit as tool edit (bot >> > needs special user group) >> > -- The flag wouldn't be intended for use by robots, but regular users >> > who used some automated tool in order to make the edit >> > -- Users could optionally mark any edit as tool edit through API only >> > >> > The rationale is pretty clear: there is a number of tools, like AWB >> > and many others that produce incredible amounts of edits every day. >> > They are spamming recent changes page - >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges can't be filtered >> > out and most of regular users are not interested in them. This would >> > make it possible to filter them out and it would also make it easier >> > to figure out how many "real edits" some user has made, compared to >> > automated edits made by tools. >> > >> > Is it worth implementing? I think yes, but not so sure. >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
