Author: sodabottle
Description:
Wikibasha creates a code snippet like this - <!-- WikiBhasha v=1 time=2011-2-6:11:20:20:309--> at the bottom of the article everytime it is used to edit wikipedia pages. If a tracking mechanism is required to keep track of edits done using wikibasha, please add the code snippet in the edit summary instead of the article body.
Adding such a signature to the bottom of the article is tantamount to claiming that the entire article is the work of wikibasha and If such a precedent is set for wikibasha then all automated tools (and editors) will start adding their code snippets, bloating the page with code signatures. If everyone (bots and editors) start doing this. We have had a lot of automated tools before and none do this signing. If a human editor did the same thing, it will be considered spamming at worst and insensitive at best. If a bot did it, its botflag will be removed immediately.
Relevant discussions about this issue were started in en wiki village pump -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28technical%29&action=historysubmit&diff=412346019&oldid=412341947
and the wikimedia India mailing list. Per advice from Siebrand Mazeland, i am opening this ticket too.
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