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
> >>
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