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Echo should not fire mention notifications when the edit is made by a bot.
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Description

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.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47910
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47946

Details

Reference
bz50148

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:01 AM
bzimport added a project: Notifications.
bzimport set Reference to bz50148.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

(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

  1. 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

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