Hoi, What does this have to do with English Wikipedia ? It is useful everywhere.. Why limit the scope ? Thanks, GerardM
On 11 February 2015 at 10:33, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, the question is however, if this passed "consensus" on english > wikipedia and I made a patch for mediawiki, assuming code would be > correct would it be merged to core of mediawiki or is there any other > requirement? Does it actually even need to pass consensus on > wikipedia? I think this would be useful for other wikis as well. We > already have bot flag and most of smaller wikis have no bots. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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