Last modified: 2009-12-30 05:19:58 UTC
This bug is a request to modify the output of the RC bot operating on irc.wikimedia.org Currently special are reported as below <rc> [[Special:Log/block]] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&diff=0&oldid=0 * BorgQueen * blocked "User:68.98.203.241" with an expiry time of 24 hours: vandalism This creates a number of problems. Firstly [[Special:Log/block]] is translated to diferent languages and hence I cant simply look for a "Special" to check if this is a spesific log event. My suggestion for a fix is a single character, B for block: <rc> [[Special:Log/block]] B http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&diff=0&oldid=0 * BorgQueen * blocked "User:68.98.203.241" with an expiry time of 24 hours: vandalism All rc bots reading this feed are instructed to parse by color codes. The "red" color code (M (for minor), N (new pages)) is unused for special/log events and using it should not affect any existing bots. This is useful in creating a database of blocked vandals, other malicious users as well as open proxies. --------------------------------------------------- Also the current block summaries are problematic. Example: blocked "User:68.98.203.241" with an expiry time of 24 hours: vandalism Users can pick wierd usernames, the following is a valid username: User:User:User:"User:User:Vandal"24 hours:User:Typehere This makes it imposible to successfully parse all the time. Hence I propose a more bot friendly scheme How it is now: blocked "User:68.98.203.241" with an expiry time of 24 hours: vandalism What I propose: [blocked][User:68.98.203.241][24 hours][vandalism] I personaly dont care if it is [ ] or some other character, but it is imperative the seperating character cannot be used in usernames.
URL on special/log enents is useless and does not need to be reported
Regarding the second item: you can't have a different summary between RC and the IRC feed. The problem is that the summary that comes out of LogPage, which is used by both feeds, is ambiguous.
"URL on special/log enents is useless and does not need to be reported"! I was very annoyed just now, as a picture was uploaded that could be deleted right away, but there was no link. Please change that back. The RC channel is mostly for human activity, at least on the smaller projects.
