Very cool. If you include wikidata then more than 50% of the edits on the Wikimedia projects are made by bots. One of the dead horses I like to beat is that bot editors should be treated as first class citizens of Wikipedia and this data nicely illustrates that.  I think this is a bigger watershed moment (we might have reached this threshold a while back) then mobile vs non-mobile and we should have a way more rigorous discussion about the future of bots on Wikipedia. Particularly as all our big features are aimed at human editors :)
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
A new app by Thomas Steiner (@tomayac) counting bot vs human edits in real time from the RecentChanges feed:

http://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/

(read more [2]). The application comes with a public API exposing Wikipedia and Wikidata edits as Server-Sent Events. [1]

Dario

[1] http://blog.tomayac.com/index.php?date=2013-10-14&time=16:49:46&perma=Bots+vs.+Wikipedians.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events

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