[05:00:23] <legoktm[m]>	 <enterprisey> "I wouldn't think "edit" could be..." <- I don't understand why you'd want this or how it would work. "edit" is or should be useless if you don't have "read".
[05:00:59] <enterprisey>	 the idea was to have a bot that only posted notices to a page on a private wiki using appendtext
[05:02:22] <legoktm[m]>	 You can't use the API without "read"
[05:03:15] <enterprisey>	 you're gonna hate this question, but is that documented somewhere
[05:03:47] <legoktm[m]>	 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?modules=edit little right infobox
[05:04:08] <legoktm[m]>	 "This module requires read rights."
[05:04:30] <legoktm[m]>	 Just about every module will have that except action=login and a few other edge cases
[05:32:55] <moonmoon>	 enterprisey: I'd suggest using some sort of feed extension such as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS and using that to pull the notices from your bot instead of having the bot push them
[05:33:40] <enterprisey>	 yeah I'm not really seriously considering putting the bot on the private wiki, it'll probably be too risky
[05:33:56] <moonmoon>	 or if that's not feasible, you could have a second (public) wiki that your bot can write notices to, that are transcluded into the private one via interwiki transclusion ($wgEnableScaryTransclusion)
[05:34:47] <moonmoon>	 well, not necessarily public, but readable to the bot as well as the webserver of your main private wiki
[05:35:11] <moonmoon>	 both of those methods have significant downsides in terms of added maintenance
[05:35:28] <legoktm[m]>	 I don't really think it's a big security risk to have a bot run on a private wiki
[05:35:44] <moonmoon>	 depends on your threat model, but probably not
[05:45:55] <Izno>	 I have a sneaking suspicion I know which private wiki this is :^)
[06:18:44] <enterprisey>	 Izno: correct in one :)