| Bugreporter2 | |
| Tue, Aug 4, 10:04 AM |
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1.45
They are not bots, they are used by MediaWiki directly, and as a result, they usually skip permission / rate limit checks altogether.
It would be more useful to make sure that they have a user page (and that they are centralized - that's T275931: Have new system users be automatically attached to CentralAuth)
They are not external bots, but rather internal bots, are they not? They are not human users, anyway.
They're system users, which is not really the same thing as bots (it's not even a user group). We don't display that status on Special:ListUsers, maybe we should.
We'd need a cheaper way of detecting systemuser-ness then. (See T212720: System users should be in a dedicated user group for some relevant discussion.)