Last modified: 2014-03-07 11:44:06 UTC
The user "Translation Notification Bot" was blocked on svwp since it doesn't take into consideration {{bots|deny=Translation Notification Bot}}, and most likely doens't take {{nobots}} into consideration either. The user isn't a normal bot per-say but since it's automatic and behaves as a bot to all end-users it should follow the same guidelines as any other bot.
A more detailed background can be found here: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:MagnusA#Anv.C3.A4ndare:Translation_Notification_Bot (in English).
It shouldn't. Users have configured the notifications themselves, and can disable them if they want to.
Well, if you read the background, you can see the argument made that the software fills inactive users' talk pages with frequently sent out messages they could have forgotten to unsubscribe to. This, on some wikis, is considered spam. A proposal is made that users who have been inactive for, say, one year on all Wikimedia wikis need to re-subscribe to continue to get the messages.
I am very suprised that the software in this way are allowing blocked users and globally inactive users to affect the content of users_talks in the projects, without any possibility for admins or any other user to turn of the subscription, or at least stop the messages in unwanted pages.
(In reply to comment #4) > I am very suprised that the software in this way are allowing blocked users > and > globally inactive users to affect the content of users_talks in the projects, > without any possibility for admins or any other user to turn of the > subscription, or at least stop the messages in unwanted pages. Since when are inactive users not allowed "to affect the content"? As for blocked users, that's an even more far fetched example, but protection of talk page is often enacted and may work.
I don't know how to add an attachment, but something like this should work. Change (line 53 - 55 in the current source) if ( $content instanceof TextContent ) { $textContent = $content->getNativeData(); } else { Into: if ( $content instanceof TextContent ) { $textContent = $content->getNativeData(); if ( strpos ( $textContent, "|deny=Translation Notification Bot" ) || strpos ( $textContent, "{{nobots}}" ) ) { return true; } else {
Hi, in order to create software patches, you are welcome to use Developer access https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access to submit this as a Git branch directly into Gerrit: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Tutorial Putting your branch in Git makes it easier to review it quickly.
