Last modified: 2014-09-25 15:39:24 UTC
PDF versions of wikipedia articles (activated via: Left-side menu -> Print/Export -> Download as PDF) do not list the contributors whose username contains a *bot* substring.
Vitalie: How did you find out?
First of all, I'm not the one who found it (saying this just in case someone decides to reward bug-hunters). A very active user of RO.Wiki complained about not being included in the list of authors, even in those articles that were authored by him, or where he was the main contributor. Another user noticed that bots are included only if they have human-like (i.e., not "blahblahbot") names. Yet another user noticed that this behavior affects everyone with a *bot* in their nickname, bots and humans alike. I just rechecked it on several national wikipedias and reported it here.
From a generated PDF: --- Diffuser (sewage) Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=551303689 Contributors: Bkell, Bogelund, Boilerup12, Diannaa, EnvironmentalDynamics, Kktor, Moreau1, MrOllie, PaddyM, Peter in s, Sfan00 IMG, TomFrankel, Wavelength, 9 anonymous edits --- Compare with <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diffuser_(sewage)&action=history>. The bots (e.g., ImageRemovalBot and AnomieBOT) are missing. I'm marking this bug report as confirmed, though I imagine this was intentional behavior in the Collection extension. The question has become whether this is the appropriate behavior.
This doesn't sound right, not with all the content-creation bots now running in different versions of Wikipedia. This is only part of the wider "how to credit various contributors" problem. See the thread started from http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-October/128575.html
I believe <https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib/blob/a09c2ad32350ee9b0c861978952d432a6586fb89/mwlib/authors.py> is the relevant file.
Turns out Ipv6 addresses are not counted as anons. :)
See https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib/pull/41
Created attachment 16579 [details] Diffuser PDF (In reply to MZMcBride from comment #3) > From a generated PDF: > > --- > Diffuser (sewage) Source: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=551303689 Contributors: Bkell, > Bogelund, Boilerup12, Diannaa, EnvironmentalDynamics, Kktor, Moreau1, > MrOllie, PaddyM, Peter in s, Sfan00 IMG, TomFrankel, Wavelength, 9 anonymous > edits > --- Now: • Diffuser (sewage) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuser_(sewage)?oldid=551303689 Contributors: Bkell, Jwanders, Wavelength, SmackBot, PaddyM, Nick Number, TomFrankel, Kktor, ImageRemovalBot, Sfan00 IMG, Moreau1, Addbot, MrOllie, AnomieBOT, Fres- coBot, Peter in s, Bogelund, Diannaa, EnvironmentalDynamics, Boilerup12 and Anonymous: 7 Technically fixed now. > > I'm marking this bug report as confirmed, though I imagine this was > intentional behavior in the Collection extension. The question has become > whether this is the appropriate behavior. The question stands... But see bug 2994 comment 14 for that.
