Is there a way to retrieve a canonical list of bots on enwiki or elsewhere? I'm interested in omitting automated revisions (sorry Stuart!) for the purposes of building co-authorship networks.

Grabbing everything under 'Category:All Wikipedia bots' excludes some major ones like SmackBot, Cydebot, VIAFbot, Full-date unlinking bot, etc. because these bots have changed names but the redirect is not categorized, the account has been removed/deprecated, or a user appears to have removed the relevant bot categories from the page.

Can anyone advise me on how to kill all the bots in my data without having to resort to manual cleaning or hacky regex?

Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.

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