User talk:Ops Monitor (WMF)
Is this a bot account?
[edit]Is this a bot account or a human one? Looking at the edits it does seem rather bot like even though it doesn't have bot in the name. ϢereSpielChequers 05:34, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorry this question was not answered sooner. This is a bot, it has special dispensation at the moment as it is used in the course of monitoring performance on the wikis for the Wikimedia Foundation itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ops Monitor (WMF) (talk • contribs)
- Ping @WereSpielChequers:; Perhaps not watching, seems it has been over a year. –Ammarpad (talk) 22:26, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Ammarpad. The norm for bot accounts per Wikipedia:Bot policy is to have bot in the name of the account, and for a bot request to be filed so that the account can be bot flagged so it doesn't clog up in recent changes. If you are only doing edits in your own sandbox I imagine that would be a formality, but with over a thousand bot edits this month you really ought to have a bot flag. I'd also suggest renaming the account to something like User:Ops Monitor (WMF) bot, changing the userpage to say it is a bot and if this page isn't watched it would be an idea to have a contact listed on the userpage. ϢereSpielChequers 23:13, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, @WereSpielChequers: I think there's little misunderstanding here, (If I understand you well) I am not running this "Semi-bot" account and I am not WMF Staff. But it is kind of special role account of WMF. I think, I can call it super global bot. See Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-ops-monitoring, where it has special global user group made for it specifically. It is run by WMF and I don't think they must necessarily label it as such. Now I think I should explain how I got to this page, to help you understand better. Through labyrinth of Wikipedia links I got myself in m:Special:GlobalGroupPermissions and from there I saw the above special user group with this account as the only member. I then clicked through the account and found your question made a year ago and unsigned reply to your question made one day ago. So, I decided to ping you, since it is very likely you're not watching this page. In my ping, I added
{{unsigned}}template to the reply above which was not made by me but by WMF staff running the account. I hope I understand your response and you understand me too. Thanks. –Ammarpad (talk) 00:22, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, @WereSpielChequers: I think there's little misunderstanding here, (If I understand you well) I am not running this "Semi-bot" account and I am not WMF Staff. But it is kind of special role account of WMF. I think, I can call it super global bot. See Special:GlobalUsers/wmf-ops-monitoring, where it has special global user group made for it specifically. It is run by WMF and I don't think they must necessarily label it as such. Now I think I should explain how I got to this page, to help you understand better. Through labyrinth of Wikipedia links I got myself in m:Special:GlobalGroupPermissions and from there I saw the above special user group with this account as the only member. I then clicked through the account and found your question made a year ago and unsigned reply to your question made one day ago. So, I decided to ping you, since it is very likely you're not watching this page. In my ping, I added
- Hi Ammarpad. The norm for bot accounts per Wikipedia:Bot policy is to have bot in the name of the account, and for a bot request to be filed so that the account can be bot flagged so it doesn't clog up in recent changes. If you are only doing edits in your own sandbox I imagine that would be a formality, but with over a thousand bot edits this month you really ought to have a bot flag. I'd also suggest renaming the account to something like User:Ops Monitor (WMF) bot, changing the userpage to say it is a bot and if this page isn't watched it would be an idea to have a contact listed on the userpage. ϢereSpielChequers 23:13, 16 December 2017 (UTC)