Jim Hu wrote:
The problem is that I want to be able to see in recentchanges when a human has edited the pages. So, I want to have the script-generated pages marked as bot edits and let the human changes show through. I can mark the script-generated pages as being from a bot by flagging them in the recentchanges...but the human ones still aren't there because the limit on 5000 entries in recentchanges when rebuildrecentchanges.php runs. My scripts run daily and they typically affect more than 5000 pages at a time.
I'm concerned that just raising or eliminating the limit will make things unacceptably slow and make the table too large. I'm wondering about hacking the script to separate passes for bots and non-bots. Thoughts?
What about making your imports not appearing on RecentChanges? Seems the problem you need to solve.