On 26.08.2015 12:27, Addshore wrote:
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".
Ok, but when a user edits a wiki thourgh the browser, this is not related to the API anyway, is it? I wonder in which cases a users with a bot flag makes an edit through the API that should not be flagged as "bot".
Background: I am currently implementing write access to Wikidata. I am inclined to set the bot flag on all requests to simplify the interface.
Cheers,
Markus
Cheers
Addshore
On 26 August 2015 at 10:51, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech-- Addshore
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