Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> writes:
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.
...
(I'd bet this doesn't happen so much in
sleepy, picturesque Denmark
as it will on bustlin', head-slammin' en.wikipedia.)
Zzzz :-)
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.
Yes, that's a problem. When I made the change, I hadn't really
thought that one through.
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... :)
It is easy enough to fix. It's a two-line fix, which will bring the
watchlist back to only shoing the latest edit. What the change will
*NOT* do, is showing the last edit by a non-robot editor. So I'm
afraid that this will not be usefull.
In order to implement this properly, I think it would be better to
add another filter to Recent changes, "Hide non-watched items", but
adding yet another filter to that list will make that list rather complex.
// Wegge