Hi everyone,
I'm trying to figure out the reason behind some decisions that were made in
the past about bot flags to see if we can have a more optimal and clear
setup.
Presently, giving an account the bot flag does two things:
1. When editing via the API, allows the user to choose whether or not to
flag an edit as a bot edit using the bot parameter.
2. When editing via the standard editing interface, flags all edits
(i.e. all human made edits) as bot edits.
If you've not got the bot flag, the API will ignore you if you try to flag
an edit as a bot edit using the bot parameter.
So I've got a few questions to help me figure this out.
1. What's the user story for including the edit-level granularity for
bot accounts in the API?
2. What's the user story for making it so that every edit made by a
human on a bot account is flagged as bot edit?
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation