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Bug 50148 - Echo should not fire mention notifications when the edit is made by a bot.
Echo should not fire mention notifications when the edit is made by a bot.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47946
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Echo (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-06-25 02:13 UTC by Brandon Harris
Modified: 2014-01-12 19:56 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Brandon Harris 2013-06-25 02:13:10 UTC 
Bot edits are triggering mention notifications.  Some bots are prolific and could possibly cause hundreds of notifications to be fired from one "event" (via the bot's perspective).

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Notifications&oldid=561448686">This edit</a> can give context.

Possible solutions include:

1) Ignore all bot activity (bot flag = true, then no notification)
2) Create a bot "blacklist" (bot in blacklist, then no notification)

Aside from EdwardsBot, I can think that SineBot may have the same problem.
Comment 1 Technical 13 2013-06-26 20:23:00 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Bot edits are triggering mention notifications.  Some bots are prolific and
> could possibly cause hundreds of notifications to be fired from one "event"
> (via the bot's perspective).
> 
> <a
> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:
> Notifications&oldid=561448686">This
> edit</a> can give context.
> 
> Possible solutions include:
> 
> 1) Ignore all bot activity (bot flag = true, then no notification)

Bug 47910

> 2) Create a bot "blacklist" (bot in blacklist, then no notification)

Bug 47946


> 
> Aside from EdwardsBot, I can think that SineBot may have the same problem.
SineBot is already on [[en:MediaWiki:Echo-blacklist]] FWIW
Comment 2 Alex Monk 2013-06-26 22:53:10 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47946 ***
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