This will have implications for allowing Co-op members to be matched with a new mentor, as well as making it easier to avoid duplicate posts.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | • Fhocutt | T86407 MatchBot should not deliver duplicate matches | |||
| Resolved | • Fhocutt | T86409 MatchBot: Determine what Flow - newtopic considers a duplicate post | |||
| Resolved | EBernhardson | T86612 A bot creating a new Flow page does not set `flow=enabled` in `flowinfo` (Co-op) |
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I was able to spam https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Co-op/Flowtest2 with duplicate messages/duplicate topics via the Flow API (submodule=new-topic), even when making two consecutive posts with the same parameters.
The problem turned out to be https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86612 ; bot-created Flow-enabled pages are not being listed as such, effectively leading to blank API requests and nochange.
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We don't currently deduplicate repeated submissions, some ideas for solving that are at T76559 but have not had a chance to implement yet. It seems like here the problem is more just that the bot repeats the query, due to not identifying the page as already converted? Following up in the other bug.
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@EBernhardson, correct, that was the problem. It would be nice to detect duplicates, but probably not worth the effort for this.