Wikivoyage:Script nominations

Latest comment: 2 years ago by SHB2000 in topic Nominations


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Nominations edit

DannyS712 bot - automatically "patrol"ing reverted edits edit

If an edit is reverted via rollback, the original edit is automatically patrolled, but if it is reverted via manual undo or via a manual revert, the old edit is still not patrolled, and thus still shows up when searching for unpatrolled edits in Special:RecentChanges. Since these edits don't really need to be checked by human patrollers, since they have been reverted, I propose that they be automatically patrolled by a bot.

I haven't written the code for this yet, but essentially

  • query the api for recent changes that are edits and are not patrolled, and are tagged with the reverted edits tag ("rctag": "mw-reverted", "rcshow": "!patrolled")
  • for each resulting edit, mark it as patrolled via the api

Thoughts? If this has approval, I'll write the code and grant the patroller flag to the bot account to test it out. --DannyS712 (talk) 21:40, 7 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Sure. Go ahead. The dog2 (talk) 21:56, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Sounds like a good idea to me. —Granger (talk · contribs) 22:03, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
I don't like this idea at all. The most active vandal on this site has reverted a lot of edits. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:50, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Just to make sure it's not a misunderstanding, I think this is to automatically mark as patrolled an edit that was reverted. If the person who reverted is not autopatrolled, the the revert itself will still be marked for patrolling, and patrollers can still go and have a look. The dog2 (talk) 00:19, 19 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
@The dog2 yes, that is correct. Consider the following:
  • User without autopatrol (or an IP) makes an edit, Edit A
  • Someone else reverts, Edit B
Unless rollback is used (which patrols reverted edits automatically), Edit A still needs to be manually patrolled. The bot would mark Edit A as patrolled, since it was reverted and so doesn't really need attention from human patrollers. The bot doesn't care about Edit B DannyS712 (talk) 00:22, 19 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
In that case, sure, this is a good idea. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:25, 19 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Sounds like a good idea. EpicPupper (talk) 21:07, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
No. That guy pretty much never reverts anything. That referred to someone who was the most active vandal at the time I posted that reply. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:10, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Oh I see. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | en.wikipedia) 02:19, 11 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Looking back, Brendan isn't really a vandal, but more a copyright violator. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | en.wikipedia) 02:22, 11 June 2021 (UTC)Reply