[Toolserver-l] alphabetic codes in irc update streams

[Sumurai8 (DD)]

Wait for an edit with "!", then check onwiki if you notice anything
'strange' with that edit. Usually the ! is used for negation, but that
doesnt make sense here. It might be a tag (abusefilter), but I can't
tell if I am right.

Sumurai8

2011/6/23 Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com>:
> thanks for the advice so far. I monitored 36 of the wikipedia update
> channels for an hour and came up with the following tallies:
>
> "" (7053)
> MB (4274)
> M (1951)
> ! (1250)
> N (436)
> !N (406)
> B (366)
> !M (209)
> !MB (154)
> NB (95)
> NM (67)
> !NM (23)
> NMB (3)
> !B (2)
>
> So it looks like the N, M and B can be combined?  does anyone know
> what the ! means?
>
> //Ed
>
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