Petr Bena benapetr@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