I'm not sure exactly what conditions trigger that flag, but I'm pretty sure
the reason you're seeing so many rctype="external" edits is that interwiki
links (usually links to the article in other languages), are now provided
by Wikidata.
So my guess as to your original question is that these are edits triggered
by some external factor changing, or made by an external entity (via AddBot
in Wikidata's case).
Mahmoud
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Liu Chenheng <liuchenheng(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, All,
Does anybody know what the meaning of rctype="external" in recent change
list is. I saw a lot of this type of changes.
Thanks.
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