Thomas says that he is in fact using the recentchanges bot flag as well as matching a "bot" string in the username [1] (most scripts only do the former).

[1] https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/389826708838547456


On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Stefan Petrea <stefan@garage-coding.com> wrote:

That's very nice, except the only criterion to classify bots there is if the word "bot" is inside the username of the user who edited or not.
I believe there is room for a lot more improvement.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:30 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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