Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:07 UTC
I do not think that an interwiki bot should automatically mark a revision sighted, especially not so, if I am the bot operator ;-) having to take the responsibility for all such bot actions. :-(
Isn't this a right that is given to the group Editors, and not to the group Bots? In that case, this is just about removing the group Editors from the your particular bot, or about changing policy on DE-wikipedia. At least - that is how I understand http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Gruppenrechte (without knowing German...). I see my own bot has Editor-rights on DE-wikipedia.
For a while bots were given Editor rights so they could auto-sight. The software was changed so that all bots autosight, so they don't need the full Editor rights anymore. Anyway, any flagged bot should just be making minor changes, and doing them right (since it is flagged already), so auto-sighting for bots is reasonable here. As Lars said, if you want the rights stripped, it can be done by any local admin.
Well, the situation is a bit more complicated. The interwiki bot should not change the status. If it was sighted before the bot came, the article imho should remain sighted. If it was not, the status should remain unsighted after the bot edit. This may, however, not be true for all types of bots. If that is so, we might need to have several types of bot users (imho good) or alternatively have the bot software take care of telling mediawiki about how to handle StableRev status with each edit (imho not as good)
(In reply to comment #2) > Anyway, any flagged bot should just be making minor changes, and doing them > right (since it is flagged already), so auto-sighting for bots is reasonable > here. There is a serious problem: unlike humans, bots can't tell if the page they edit is vandalised or not. So no bot should sight anything by default.
Reopening, since "wontfix" is not a workable solution as comments show. The bug would keep reappearing anyways.
> Well, the situation is a bit more complicated. The interwiki bot should not > change the status. If it was sighted before the bot came, the article imho > should remain sighted. If it was not, the status should remain unsighted after > the bot edit. Hmm, but that is still the current behaviour, isn't it? Did you see any bot sighting a non-sighted article? My bot is acting correctly, like you described it. Or do you actually ask for a [[Special:Preferences]] option to activate or inactivate this behaviour?
(In reply to comment #3) > Well, the situation is a bit more complicated. The interwiki bot should not > change the status. If it was sighted before the bot came, the article imho > should remain sighted. If it was not, the status should remain unsighted after > the bot edit. This is exactly the behavior of bots and nothing else was ever active or suggested.
The current behavoir is that of comment #7. It has to already be sighted.
