Last modified: 2011-04-14 15:13:05 UTC
Currently the IRC RC feed does not include any information about change tags. Given that * change tags can be (and are) applied after the change is made * feed lines are already too long sometimes * preserving backwards compatibility with existing clients is important the act of tagging would need to be sent to the feed as a separate line, in contrast to Recent Changes where tags are displayed alongside changes. All feed clients that I am aware of apply line-based pattern matching and ignore unrecognized lines, so this should not break anything. See related bug 18080, which requests that the AbuseFilter extension includes details of filter hits. Since change tags are a core feature, it would be cleaner to include this in core, and not have to re-implement it for any other extensions that start using change tags.
No point IMHO. I would direct efforts to bug 17450.
(In reply to comment #1) > No point IMHO. I would direct efforts to bug 17450. How would that resolve this? Implementing that feature request would change the UDP output format from one intended for IRC to one intended for XMPP, and send it to a Wikimedia XMPP server. You wouldn't get any additional information beyond what is already being sent to IRC.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > No point IMHO. I would direct efforts to bug 17450. > > How would that resolve this? Implementing that feature request would change the > UDP output format from one intended for IRC to one intended for XMPP, and send > it to a Wikimedia XMPP server. You wouldn't get any additional information > beyond what is already being sent to IRC. Added tags to XMLRC's query in r62453. That extension is still nowhere near finished, though. I've been waiting over a year for MediaWiki to have proper change tagging support for external tools and I really don't want to wait much longer.
I don't think the act of tagging an edit should be in RC. A log might make sense, but its questionable which user preformed the action of tagging an edit, since things like the abusefilter (who aren't users) often are the people tagging.
