The reason our bot flag works like this is to remain consistent with all other mediawiki API modules.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots#The_.22bot.22_flag Mainly, Not all users with this right are "bots".
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On 26 August 2015 at 10:51, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Hi,
I wondered why wbeditentity has a parameter "bot". The documentation says that this will mark the edit as a bot edit, but only if the user is in the bot group. In other words, users in the bot group can use this parameter to decide if they want to have their API-based edit flagged as bot or not. Is there any reason why a user in bot group would *not* want their API-based edit flagged as bot?
Cheers,
Markus
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