Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150419120615/@comment-25464118-20150425133333

SuperSajuuk wrote: Cörey wrote: Yes, they could quickly fix the typo if it existed on only one, ur only a handful of pages. In my example I said a typo that exists on hundreds of pages. And typos aren't the only thing it could be used for, you can use it to replace pretty much anything. So if a template was deprecated so a new one could be used, the bot could be used for that. A lot of our wiki pages have intentional typo's, primarily the book pages. These would be wrongly corrected by a bot.

No, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with that at all. I know you well, and you obviously know me to an extent, but this kind of thing is only going to promote "lazy editing" and will encourage editors not to edit at all. They will simply join the chat, spam the bot with commands and not actually bother to do anything themselves.

There are very few templates on this wiki that need replaced. The only one that I'm looking to replace are the individual game quest infoboxes, and I've already configured up my bot for doing the conversion to a central, single quest infobox (that will need a discussion before it's done).

But other than massive link fixing (aka, 450+ links) or template updates, there is no reason to use a bot and it can be done manually. I'll let you in on something about this wiki: one of our sysops, Timeoin, regularly makes a lot of feed flooding edits without using a bot and nobody appears to be criticising him for it, but whenever it comes to other users, they are criticised for doing literally the same thing.

So I oppose your bot on the principle that it will simply result in this wiki community abusing it to get out of actually making edits themselves.

Once again I believe you have misunderstood. In order for the bot to replace something, typo, template, whatever, it has to be told explicitly what it is supposed to be replacing. Intentional typos, such as ones on book pages, would not be touched unless an administrator explicitly told the bot to touch them, so intentional typos are 100% safe.