jayvdb added a comment.

The current design of pywikibot is that it always uses the sysop account **only** for actions which require sysop capabilities. It uses the bot account for everything else. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71283 is considering to change that design.

My understanding of this problem is

1. pywikibot logs into site with the non-sysop account, that has the 'bot' flag, maybe does an edit which is a 'bot' edit. 2. pywikibot logs into site with the sysop account, that does not have the 'bot' flag. 3. pywikibot edit using non-sysop account should be marked as a 'bot' edit ('b' in recent changes), .. however the edit isnt marked as a bot edit, and that is this bug.

In step 2, the site object does not keep the login credentials of the non-sysp account. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67196 In step 3, the site object should re-login automatically using non-sysop username and password in config.password_file.

TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57140

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