On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The bot flag is rather confusing since edits can be marked as bot edits or non-bot edits regardless of whether they are actually coming from a bot. The edit API accepts a 'bot' or 'notbot' parameter and I believe this is what actually gets recorded in the recentchanges table. Obviously this isn't very helpful for getting reliable analytics on bot edits :(
This is not entirely true: you need to have the bot right in order to mark your edits as bot edits. Typically, only users in the bot group would have the bot right.
Roan