Last modified: 2014-06-19 12:47:38 UTC
I do not know which criteria uses the extension to choose one or another account but when a translation notification is issued (at Meta, via the notifytranslators special page) some (most of them) are delivered by the personal account of the translation administrator who issued the command <https://meta.wikimedia.org?diff=prev&oldid=5043916> while others are notified via the ad hoc account <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Translation_Notification_Bot>. * Notifications should be always sent by the TNBot no matter the project. * Edits on user talk pages by TNBot should not be marked as "minor" so it is possible for the projects to flag the account as bot, to avoid flooding/cluttering of recentchanges (which already happens now at Meta, each time a translation notification is issued, recentchanges becomes unusable) & possibilitating at the same time that the user receives the orange bar "you have new messages" (since only bots have the 'nominornewtalk' right). Thanks.
Regarding third poing, see also bug 40839. Bug 41637 might be of general interest too.
* poing -> point
(In reply to comment #0) > * Notifications should be always sent by the TNBot no matter the project. > > * Edits on user talk pages by TNBot should not be marked as "minor" [...] Note that the second is already the case, only the first had to be fixed. I think this makes sense, however it may need to be a configuration setting or something else which allows the sysadmin not to have a specific account for the Translation Notification Bot, which might be undesirable for wikis which don't need cross-wiki notifications, especially until bug 39104 is fixed.
The current criteria is very simple: if user "talk page on another wiki", then it is delivered via a Bot.
Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/56896/
Merged. Will be deployed some time soon.
The fix is probably broken, first such edit on wikidatawiki caused bug 47811. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vogone&diff=prev&oldid=32364841
(In reply to comment #7) > The fix is probably broken, first such edit on wikidatawiki caused bug 47811. > https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk: > Vogone&diff=prev&oldid=32364841 Amir, any plan to fix it?
The issue with the fix is that it won't create the account if it doesn't exist yet. A fix like what the AbuseFilter does (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-AbuseFilter/blob/master/AbuseFilter.class.php#L1624) should work.
(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #9) > The issue with the fix is that it won't create the account if it doesn't > exist yet. > > A fix like what the AbuseFilter does > (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-AbuseFilter/blob/master/ > AbuseFilter.class.php#L1624) should work. getFilterUser currently at https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-AbuseFilter/blob/9a632d04ec0812d49d0761ce1cb20d154bf7760c/AbuseFilter.class.php#L1676
Change 140157 had a related patch set uploaded by Kunalgrover05: Make new user if not present https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/140157
Change 140157 merged by jenkins-bot: Make new user if not present https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/140157
