Author: morgankevinj
Description:
After getting a flood flag on simple wikipedia my changes still appeared in the recent changes feed. I used autowikibrowser version 5.2 to make edits with my alternate account morgankevinj AWB.
Version: 1.16.x
Severity: normal
morgankevinj wrote:
Here is a screen shot of the recent changes feed:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/morgankevinj/bugreport/12192010.bmp
does AWB use the api? You can use the api to make edits not be bot edits, even if you have bot (Flood) flag. (in which case that would make this an AWB bug).
morgankevinj wrote:
Reported to AWB developers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Bug_26365_Flood.2FBot_flag_not_working_on_simple_wikipedia
AWB has the infrastructure to support this, and as long as someone is in the bot group, or has the userright 'bot'
AWB only polls for userinfo at user login
So, it seems the user got the right AFTER logging in, AWB would be non the wiser
Not a bug in AWB (what's the point of repeatedly polling for and parsing user info?) or in MW