On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 01:46, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Since I'm not sure that anybody is minding the shop at SourceForge
I'm keeping track; I get an automatic e-mail notice about anything posted there.
and I'm certain that developers don't read the wiki-based feature request page,
That's fo' darn sure.
To combat this, I would like to suggest the creation of a new type of user account that would just be used for bots.
Done. If the user_rights field contains 'bot', their edits will be specially marked and can be ignored in Recentchanges.
(To simplify this I've added an rc_bot column to recentchanges; if you're tracking updates to the software for a personal test or other wiki, be sure to run maintenance/bot.sql on your database before upgrading to the latest CVS.)
Bot entries are at the moment hidden by default; you can manually show them like so: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&hidebo...
The Recentchanges filtering options need an overhaul to include minor show/hide and grouping by title or author, so I'll put in an interface option when I get to that. (Or if someone else gets to it first, be my guest!)
Like connoting 'sysop' or 'developer' status, marking a user as a 'bot' must currently be done by manually poking the database with pointy sticks until it cries uncle.
Then all edits made by the bot under a registered bot account could be marked with a "B" in Recent Changes
Probably a good idea...
At the very least I wish 'mark this edit as minor' would be disabled for non-logged-in users (as it was in a previous version of the software).
Before I go diving into that; what about marking _new_ pages as minor edits? I know I do this sometimes when creating redirects.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)