I am running some pywikibot code on a couple of wikis. I constantly find myself going to [[Special:Recentchanges]] and then clicking the "show bots" link (which adds &hidebots=0 as a parameter).
Is it possible to turn the default display of bot edits in MediaWiki's recent changes?
It's not part of MediaWiki core, but I guess it could be done through an extension and possibly there's another way I didn't think of (though I guess [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] is not gonna do much).
There is a preference for Special:Watchlist which you can set for yourself on [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist]] or for everyone with $wgDefaultUserOptions but it's already default:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['watchlisthidebots'] = 0;
There is however no such preference for Special:RecentChanges yet, so you have to bookmark the URL. It will be part of future versions of MediaWiki though: Ensure consistency of how special pages [et al.] switches can be saved (tracking).
