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?
Thanks.
brian0918
Brian wrote:
According to "Wegge", da.wp has run fine for 8 months with $wgFilterRobotsWL = true;
Can someone please enable this on en.wp?
It'd be even nicer the have this toggleable with a link on the watchlist page, like "Hide/Show own edits", but I suppose that may take a little extra coding.
Hi Wikipedians,
Ilmari Karonen schrieb am 10.03.2006 11:09:
Brian wrote:
According to "Wegge", da.wp has run fine for 8 months with $wgFilterRobotsWL = true;
Can someone please enable this on en.wp?
It'd be even nicer the have this toggleable with a link on the watchlist page, like "Hide/Show own edits", but I suppose that may take a little extra coding.
You can toggle it already in recent changes, so it shouldn't be too much additional coding.
Bye, Tim.
yes! this would be great if it could be added for all wikis ;) This list is really getting unreadable. (And the rc namespace filter would be really fine too ;) ) thx! Plyd
On 3/10/06, Tim 'avatar' Bartel wikipedia@computerkultur.org wrote:
Hi Wikipedians,
Ilmari Karonen schrieb am 10.03.2006 11:09:
Brian wrote:
According to "Wegge", da.wp has run fine for 8 months with $wgFilterRobotsWL = true;
Can someone please enable this on en.wp?
It'd be even nicer the have this toggleable with a link on the watchlist page, like "Hide/Show own edits", but I suppose that may take a little extra coding.
You can toggle it already in recent changes, so it shouldn't be too much additional coding.
Bye, Tim.
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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.
If the option is enabled, the watchlist changes from showing the last edit for each page to showing *every* edit in the watching time period for each page. If you're watching a page that's edited 500 times a day, this is going to flood your watchlist something fierce.
(I'd bet this doesn't happen so much in sleepy, picturesque Denmark as it will on bustlin', head-slammin' en.wikipedia.)
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.
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... :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber brion@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
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.
It would be useful to people like me whose watchlists are overrun by bots, essentially providing the same relief as the Hide Bots filter on Recent Changes. Over half the edits currently on my watchlist are from bots, and at worst, I've seen over 2/3 of the edits being by bots, making the watchlist difficult to read.
brian0918
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