Bot plugins: add assert=bot to the edit query?
lahwaacz opened this issue · 2 comments
lahwaacz commented
Since MW-1.23 there is an easy way to make sure that the bot is logged in and that the account is a bot account: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Assert
Maybe Wiki Monkey's bot plugins should use this method to avoid being run from normal user accounts?
kynikos commented
Well, this feature may indeed be useful in some cases, but Wiki Monkey's bot is more designed for quick fixes to short lists of articles, so I think also normal users should be able to use its plugins. Yes, I have used WM also for big jobs in the past, but a standalone framework like wiki-scripts is better suited for those scenarios.
lahwaacz commented
That's a good point, sorry...