On simplewiki, my home wiki, I often make lots of minor changes in a short amount of time and when I do so, I use flood, where the changes I make are hidden from recent changes through a "flooder" user right. Edits made when I have flood on are marked as bot edits, but in 2017 wikitext editor, the edits still appear in recent changes for some reason, and I'm not sure why.
Topic on 2017 wikitext editor/Feedback
That's strange. Does the same thing happen with edits you make in the visual editor?
I'm not sure, I haven't tried yet. I will test that when I can.
@Whatamidoing (WMF) I have just tested it in visual editor. Yes, edits made in visual editor aren't marked as bot edits either
Quiddity (WMF), do you still have flood rights somewhere? Could you try to reproduce this problem in VE for me?
Confirmed (with 'bot' usergroup, but functionally the same) on officewiki.
I made an edit with the 2010-editor and it was correctly marked as 'b' in RecentChanges. I made another edit with VE and it wasn't.
Searching phab, it appears this is already filed as phab:T284855.
Thanks, Quiddity. From the looks of the Phab tasks, the answer is buried somewhere in the interaction between the 2017WTE and the API. Unfortunately, my best guess is "won't be fixed any time soon".