Note in certain places for images (special:newfiles), bot flag is counted
dynamically - ie its if the uploader has the bot flag right now, not at
time of upload.
--bawolff
On Apr 26, 2014 3:59 PM, "Niklas Keller" <me(a)kelunik.com> wrote:
Thanks for the "bot=0" suggestion. I couldn't find anything about it in
the docs.
I have not looked at the code yet, but this warning is
actually a bug,
because the parameter is recognized.
Actually, it seems to work for a lot of actions, but it doesn't work for
page
edits. bot=0 will result in a flagged edit. Omission is the way to go
there.
2014-04-25 16:12 GMT+02:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Niklas Keller <me(a)kelunik.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a reason why image uploads using the API are automatically
flagged
as bot edits?
>
>
> It doesn't look like it's anything to do with the API, it's to do with
whether the user has the "bot" flag. An upload via Special:Upload from a
bot-flagged account is flagged as bot too. It looks like the same happens
with any logged action.
>
>>
>> I miss an option do deactivate this behavior.
>
>
> That would be nice. But it looks like the code that does this flagging
is
buried deep without taking parameters to actually control it, so adding
the option to the API in a non-hacky way doesn't seem easy.
>
> OTOH, if you ignore the warning the API will generate about an unused
parameter, you could just pass "&bot=0" to the API action=upload
call.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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