On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
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.
Sometimes people have flood accounts that they use to make mass edits through some tools and at the same time use these accounts to make "normal" edits through other tools like the Wikidata Game. I think that is pretty rare though.
Cheers Lydia