Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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The rationale is pretty clear: there is a number of
tools, like AWB
and many others that produce incredible amounts of edits every day.
They are spamming recent changes page -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges can't be filtered
out and most of regular users are not interested in them. This would
make it possible to filter them out and it would also make it easier
to figure out how many "real edits" some user has made, compared to
automated edits made by tools.
Is it worth implementing? I think yes, but not so
sure.
My assumption is that if someone floods recent changes,
there is a high probability that all of those edits are "mi-
nor" in nature.
But I think it would be nice to add an option to the API to
attach tags to edits if they are contained in a whitelist
(so an editor cannot tag his edits as "hhvm" himself, but
only for example as "tool edit").
Tim