Brian wrote:
One of the groups of pages on my watchlist is a large
number of year
articles. My watchlist has been constantly flooded with bots adding
interwiki links to these pages. Out of the 122 items on the first page
of my watchlist, 77 are Chobot year edits.
According to "Wegge", da.wp has run fine for 8 months with
$wgFilterRobotsWL = true;
Can someone please enable this on en.wp?
I've chatted a bit with various people demanding my blood if I don't turn this
on; one wee problem is that the feature is currently a bit broken.
If the option is enabled, the watchlist changes from showing the last edit for
each page to showing *every* edit in the watching time period for each page. If
you're watching a page that's edited 500 times a day, this is going to flood
your watchlist something fierce.
(I'd bet this doesn't happen so much in sleepy, picturesque Denmark as it will
on bustlin', head-slammin' en.wikipedia.)
With 'enhanced recent changes' on it doesn't look as bad, since multiple
edits
to a page fold up, but on default settings it seems maybe not so cool.
I vaguely remember talking to Wegge about this some time ago but I guess neither
of us got around to patching it up. I still think it's a silly option, but I'm
willing to go ahead and turn it on if somebody's willing to fix it to work
right... :)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)