"Approved" bots are an enwiki concept; checking for bot flags seems the logical solution.

Fixed for newpages. John, can you help me with the patch? I am not very familiar with git, but I've fixed it in bots/slaves.

I'm not sure it's possible to tell whether a block was made by a bot or not. It might be better to get the operator working and ignore each manually, unless you can show me another way of doing this.

Change 110863 had a related patch set uploaded by John F. Lewis:
Ignore bots in -newpages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/110863

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Fixed for newpages. John, can you help me with the patch? I am not very
familiar with git, but I've fixed it in bots/slaves.

Committed. I'll ask you to review it however.

Change 110863 merged by John F. Lewis:
Ignore bots in -newpages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/110863

(In reply to comment #0)

If the approved bots are ignored from #wmt-newpages and #wmt-blocks then the
channels will be more useful.

How do you propose to recognize bots in #wmt-block? See my above comments.

quentinv57 wrote:

(In reply to comment #7)

(In reply to comment #0)

If the approved bots are ignored from #wmt-newpages and #wmt-blocks then the
channels will be more useful.

How do you propose to recognize bots in #wmt-block? See my above comments.

In my opinion, there are two ways to do this. We can either chose to ignore the users with the "bot" local or global group, or set an ignore list manually. By the way, the *or* is not exclusive.

Remove Patch status