On 5/19/14, 6:39 PM, Dan Garry wrote:
On 19 May 2014 19:36, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
As a bot operator I think API parameter about flagging bot or not is necessary
Sure, but as I'm not a bot operator, can you explain why and what you use this for, to help me understand? :-)
If the edits should show up in users watchlists/recentchanges for humans to look at. An example would be ClueBot NG on enwp which doesn't flag it's edits with the bot flag so humans can review them.
Another case where this recently came up is in MassMessage (bug 65180). Some edits like those to user talk pages should be marked as a bot since the user will receive a notification regardless, but ones that are made to Project (or other) namespaces, should not be flagged as bot so users will see them in their watchlists.
-- Legoktm