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Recently we had some vandal edits made by an anonimous user but I've noticed his edits were marked as "BOT edits" (with a "b" in recent changes).

What is wrong?

Helder


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Anonymous_editing_as_bot.png (548×1 px, 156 KB)

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Reference
bz23441

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:09 PM
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Looks like these edits were rolled back with &action=rollback&markbot=1 , which marks both the revert and the reverted edit(s) with the bot flag. This is supposed to be a feature: it prevents the vandalism edits from cluttering recentchanges.

(In reply to comment #1)

Looks like these edits were rolled back with &action=rollback&markbot=1 , which
marks both the revert and the reverted edit(s) with the bot flag. This is
supposed to be a feature: it prevents the vandalism edits from cluttering
recentchanges.

Humm... I see now... =S

But it is a bit weird to have the "b" meaning both things:
(1) The edit was made by a bot
(2) The edit was reverted by an admin using rollback and rollback

It seems somewhat inconsistent (and can be misinterpreted, as I did...), don't you think?

Helder