2018-06-03 18:41 GMT+02:00 Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec(a)wikimedia.cz>cz>:
I think that Pywikibot's save method should allow
explicit overriding of a
warning raised by abuse filter. It shouldn't be the default state, but it
should be possible. Anyway, having a bot regulary hitting AF isn't a good
idea - talk with an admin of your wiki.
No, this is not regular. But just allowing does not solve the original
problem that the bot silently failed without notifying the owner. (The
solution in this case was a manual archiving.)
On Czech Wikipedia, filters that would be hit by archivebot has exception,
generally !"bot" in user_groups. This allows cs.wiki to warn users that
may or may not know what is happening and allow bots to do their
maintenance work without being warned because their operators are expected
to know what is ok and what is not.
In the given case the filter itself caused the problem, and I wrote the
filter. Many years ago I didn't think of limiting the filter to main
namespace. I opened this thread because the problem is general. !"bot" in
user_groups allows ALL bots to avoid the filter, and this is not right.