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Bug 8128 - Show boteditletter in history
Show boteditletter in history
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
History/Diffs (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2006-12-03 02:15 UTC by Danny B.
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:06 UTC (History)
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Description Danny B. 2006-12-03 02:15:44 UTC
It would be useful to have bot edits marked in history as well as minor edits
are now.
Comment 1 Danny B. 2006-12-03 04:17:12 UTC
See also bug 8129 with similar request for watchlist.
Comment 2 Rotem Liss 2006-12-03 15:17:17 UTC
Unlike the watchlist, it's very hard to have it in the history: the history uses
the table "revision" (which does not mark bot edits), while the recent changes
and watchlist use the table "recentchanges" (which does mark them).
Comment 3 Danny B. 2006-12-03 16:33:23 UTC
I see. Is there any chance to add marking of bot edits into revision table then
to simplify this task or is it too expensive change?

I think that history marking bot edits would be useful because of two major
reasons: not every bot has a name containing the "(B|b)ot" string or vice versa
contains "(B|b)ot" while not a bot. And second: not every edit of bots contains
eg. "Robot:..." or "Robot assisted..." etc. in summary.

I think that it wouldn't be such a big harm to start this feature without having
to synchronize the entire history (which I guess would be the most expensive
part of setting of this feature). So everybody will know that bot edits before
Day D haven't been marked and since then they are. If I remember correctly, this
approach has been already used in some other features.
Comment 4 Rob Church 2006-12-03 22:04:46 UTC
Just remember that altering the structure of the revision table will hit big
wikis hard. For instance, there are about* 95 million rows in this table for the
English Wikipedia alone, so it's certainly not something to be done lightly.

[*Estimate based on Special:Statistics, not definitive, blah blah]
Comment 5 Rob Church 2006-12-19 12:59:12 UTC
Realistically, the bot flag is only advisory, and serves to avoid flooding
recent changes. It doesn't ever affect what goes into page histories, and I
don't think it should be preserved past recent changes.

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