2018-06-03 18:41 GMT+02:00 Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec@wikimedia.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.