Even if one clicks
Hide bot edits from the watchlist
on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist
That does not affect
Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed
on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal
Yes, maybe it is intended that way. Well all the user can do to stop email barrages is to clear the entire watchlist then.
Hi @Jidanni, for future reference please read and follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and structure your tasks.
Also, why should changing what is displayed in a browser page also influence email notifications? These sound like two unrelated things?
Ah, I found the problem: On Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal
[ ] Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed [ ] Email me also for minor edits of pages and files
it is simply missing a third:
[ ] Email me also for bot edits of pages and files
Note when adding this, it should be checked by default, in order to not change current default behavior.
Let's have a look at the highlights of one of these emails.
Dear Jidanni, The Wikimedia Commons page File:Tractus intestinalis duodenum.svg has been changed on 14 September 2020 by BotMultichillT, see Editor's summary: /* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Adding structured data: source & copyright Contact the editor: mail: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/BotMultichillT wiki: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BotMultichillT There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless you visit this page while logged in. You could also reset the notification flags for all your watched pages on your watchlist.
Sure, we can make a rough SpamAssassin rule to catch
/been changed on .* by .*bot.*/i
However that will not change the fact that the bot is racing through one's watchlist etc. causing
There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless...
thus pretty much laying waste to the watchlist!
I better up this Feature Request's priority!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications#Muting_users notes
Watchlist behavior and emails are not affected by the mute list.
So that won't help. The only solution to avoid the bot wrecking the
state of
There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless...
is to uncheck
Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
@Jidanni: Do you plan to work on fixing this task, as you increased the priority of this task?
All I know is for the first time ever, a bot is munching through all of Commons,
causing the state of
There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless...
to be set to "needs visit to revive" for all pages on all watchlists for all users.
Every hour that this continues more and more damage is done.
So in fact adding a simple
[ ] Email me also for bot edits of pages and files
that I recommended earlier is actually not enough to stop the damage... too little, too late.
All I know is I have now set
Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed
to unchecked, not only to avoid the email barrage, but more importantly to
preserve the
There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless...
on/off state of each page in my watchlist... until maybe a week from now
when others realize the damage that is going on as we speak.
For anyone still looking this has now ben archived to:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Help_desk/Archive/2020/09#How_can_I_stop_receiving_bot_notification_by_email%3F%3F
Change 649743 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lokal Profil; owner: Lokal Profil):
[mediawiki/core@master] [WIP] Add setting to disable e-mail notification on bot edit
Change 649821 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lokal Profil; owner: Lokal Profil):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [WIP] Support setting to disable e-mail notification on bot edit
All I know is I am still getting notifications caused by https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimmy-bot .