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adding -recentchange -nobot argument
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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/293/
Reported by: reza1615
Created on: 2011-10-27 08:25:02
Subject: adding -recentchange -nobot argument
Original description:
Hi,
in interwiki.py when we set it to -recentchange some times 80% of its result is other bot's interwiki so it is not useful spicily in crowded wikis
please add item like recenchange in wiki that can filter bots


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/293

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bz55044

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:16 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz55044.

It's about pagegenerator (and more precisely it's about method of generator in site class but per [1] I don't think it's possible and we have to wait until this option introduce in API

[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recentchanges

I made this bug 2 year ago. as amir said we should add -nobot to pagegenarator.py

@amir: I saw !bot: Don't list bot edits in that link and API should support nobot

Change 95327 had a related patch set uploaded by Ladsgroup:
Adding option of "-nobots" in order to filter edits of bots when people are using -recentchanges.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/95327

Change 95327 merged by Xqt:
Adding option of "-nobots" in order to filter edits of bots when people are using -recentchanges.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/95327