As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is
necessary but I think the best solution would be having something like
"flag=1" (optional) and this causes bot edits to be marked as human and for
admin (+flooders) edits marked as bot.
Implementing the parameter (whether the current status quo or my
suggestion) in UI is important, I think adding a mark box besides minor and
watch options would be great (for bots, admins and flooders)
Best
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Dan Garry
<dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
1. When editing via the API, allows the user
to choose whether or not
to
flag an edit as a bot edit using the bot
parameter.
I'm responsible for this part of the mess. I don't remember why
it was
done this way though. I think the people that I took over the API edit
code from had put this feature in and I kept it.
What I think was going on is that no one could be bothered to figure
out how to represent "I am a human editing using a bot account and I'd
like this edit to not be bot-flagged" in the UI, so it wasn't done.
But in the API it was trivial (&bot=1), so it was done.
That's just my recollection of it and it's probably flawed, this was
6-7 years ago.
Roan
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