User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 18, 2013/@comment-452-20130619020813

I really don't like how the automated youtube video uploading script is gives no indication in the edit summary of what is actually happening.


 * In Recent Changes, it's posting the videos AS the user who edited the page, using the edit summary "update".
 * In Special:Contributions for those users, it's listing both the video upload, as well as a page edit, with the summary "update".

This is making it appear as though long-inactive users are uploading videos and editing pages, and giving no indication that it's actually an automated process.

"Automated Wikia video upload" would be a far better summary than "update".

edit: Sure, I know what's going on because I read the technical updates, but the average user won't know that.

edit: The RecentChanges entries I'm talking about are actually what occurs if the video already exists.
 * Someone has added a video as a File page
 * Someone else has used the youtube tag to embed the exact same video
 * The automated updater is causing the user who added the youtube tag to be recorded as updating a new version of the file - with the edit summary "update".

The rest of the youtube tag conversions aren't even being shown in RecentChanges - even with "show bots" selected.

They can only be seen by going to Special:Contributions/WikiaBot.