Topic on Extension talk:MassEditRegex

Edits don't appear as "bot" and possibility to check "minor edit"

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Stefahn (talkcontribs)

First of all thanks for this great extension!

The description says that edits appear as "bot", but in my case (MediaWiki 1.27.4, MassEditRegex 8.0.3 ca4642e) they only do if I'm logged in as a bot. If I'm logged in as admin, all edits appear under my usual username.

Besides it would be great if we had the possibility to mark all edits as "minor edits" (like you can do in Extension:ReplaceText).

Kghbln (talkcontribs)

I cannot confirm this for 8.3.0 so I suggest to upgrade the extension and test again. Did mass editing on <s-mw.o> lately which everything marked as bot though I am not in the bot group.

I guess it is best to create a task on Phabricator and add @Malvineous: as a subscriber for your feature request.

The more I think about it the more I believe that it will be cool if one could select if it should be marked as bot edit and/or minor edit prior to hitting "Go!".

Stefahn (talkcontribs)

Sorry, my fault. Edits appear as bot edits in both 8.0.3 and 8.3.0. I didn't know that the "B" (for "bot") is only shown under Special:RecentChanges and not under the version history of the edited page (at least this is the case in MediaWiki 1.27.4).

Kghbln (talkcontribs)

Thanks for reporting back. Did you create a task on phabricator for your feature request?

Stefahn (talkcontribs)

No, I didn't. You can if you like.