Il 11/02/2015 14:07, This, that and the other ha scritto:
"Chris Grant" wrote in message
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On 11 Feb 2015 17:57, "Petr Bena" <benap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
If anyone can use it, wouldn't the smarter vandals just use it to
avoid the
RC patrollers?
How does a user prove that they're using a particular tool a way that
can't be faked? Something like OAuth comes to mind. All edits made via
an OAuth consumer are already tagged with a unique tag, and I would
assume that it is not possible to falsely represent an OAuth consumer.
I'm not sure whether this could work for common tools like AWB or
Twinkle, though:
* I don't know whether OAuth works for client-side downloadable
programs like AWB.
AFAIK the OAuth extension cannot work for them by design, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#Intended_Users.
* JavaScript tools edit as the user from the user's browser, and as
such, OAuth is not relevant to them. In any case, anything they do
(like adding a specific string to edit summaries, adding a tag to
their edits, or the like) can be easily spoofed or faked by a
tech-savvy user.
Before change tagging could be used as a way to *filter out*
particular tool edits (as opposed to being simply a way of identifying
revisions that satisfy some criterion) the RC tag filter would need to
be improved.
(I'm not pretending that change tagging is the only solution for
Petr's "tool edits" idea: I just think it is the most likely candidate
for implementing something like this.)
TTO
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