Please excuse the combined replies.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely worth discussing. For ENWP, I suggest bringing this up on VP:T.
Probably better to host the discussion on Meta, since it affects all wikis. Then you could advertise it on enwiki and other major wikis.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
As I said, I belive that any registered user should be able to use, with no need for permissions as I see no way to abuse it.
Well, there's marking edits as "tool" invalidly to the point where people can't filter these "tool" edits without missing vandalism.
Bot flag gives you higher api limits which can be abused,
I note you're conflating the 'bot' right (which is what allows for marking an edit as 'bot', and generally forces it for web UI edits) with the 'bot' group that includes several other rights.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
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").
TTO is working on that, with me as the main reviewer. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/188543/