[ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1988912 ] Adds revision number after custom edit-summaries - Pywikipedia-l

9 Jun 2008


      Bugs item #1988912, was opened at 2008-06-09 15:58
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Category: General
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Adds revision number after custom edit-summaries
Initial Comment:
Even when a custom edit-summary is provided as the second argument to
target.put(newtext,"My edit summary")
The bot will automatically add a string identifying the SVN revision to the summary
"My edit summary [r5544]"
While I can see that for some commonly used bots, some projects would like to see this information, it shouldn't be appended in the general case as it needlessly reduces the flexibility of the library.
It can be trivially fixed by changing lines 1235 and 1236 of wikipedia.py as attached but I don't have commit access.
Yours
en:wikt:Conrad.Irwin
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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Date: 2008-06-09 18:10
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That's a behavior introduced in r5523.
While I do agree that this might be sometimes inducing, it's a very, very
reliable way to know if the bot is running a decent version of the bot.
We are being reported a lot of false positives lately, and honestly,
wasting an hour trying to reproduce a reported bug, when the reporting user
simply comes a few days later "oh, finally I tried reading the manual :
updating to the last svn version fixed my problem" is annoying.
I personally think, as both a developer and a bot owner, that the induced
bot owner disagreements are minor compared to the time the developers will
save. I might be wrong on that point, and any example of a very annoying
edit summary case is welcome to prove me wrong; but until then, I don't
think that this change is going to be reverted.
Thanks...
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