I think it's pretty clear what I am proposing here
:P there is a real
problem and this is a real solution. Regarding "vandals would have fun
with that" I think you are over estimating them, most of them are
barely able to use regular web based interface for anything more
clever than removing half of article, they don't even understand wiki
code so far to understand API interface.
On other hand if there was a privilege for this, each wiki could
restrict it as they wanted. This is not a bot flag any more than this
"wikidata" flag we have is. It's just another flag. That's all.
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
-- Every
registered user would be able to flag edit as tool edit (bot
needs special user group)
Vandals would have fun with that, but bot group could be
set up like that
(e.g. "flood" group)
-- The flag wouldn't be intended for use by
robots, but regular users
who used some automated tool in order to make the edit
Semantics of flags are up
to wiki communities. They can make it mean
whatever they desire.
-- Users could optionally mark any edit as tool
edit through API only
So like the bot flag (if they have the rights) :p
other suggestion that was somewhere else in
thread about retroactively
matking rdits
Sounds kind of like the little known bot rollback feature minus the
rollback aspect.
--
This sounds either like you are proposing the bot flag, with a minor
varation in the user given semantics. Or are proposing multiple levels of
bot flaggedness so that tool edits could be independently hidden in rc
separate from "tool" edits.
--bawolff
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