El vie., 25 ene. 2019 a las 22:24, WereSpielChequers (<
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>) escribió:
The most recent of IngredientSortBot's 764 edits
was in 2007, so if that
wiki has a bot flagging system the bot flag would have likely been removed
in the last decade. But if 764 edits makes them significant on that wiki I
doubt that wiki ever introduced bot flagging.
What is that bot flagging system about? How does it work?
in Wikia there are users within the "bot" group or the "bot-global"
group,
(see for instance: bots for Cocktails wiki
<https://cocktails.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&list=groupmembers&gmgroups=bot|bot-global&gmlimit=500>
),
and these have the capabilities corresponding to bots for mediawiki API,
but I don't know of any other flagging system :S
You can make the assumption that editors with names ending Bot are bots and
on English language wikis you are pretty safe. If you made the assumption
that accounts ending bot were bots you would lose a bit, three of the 5,000
most active accounts on the English wikipedia are longstanding accounts
that include bot but were created before the rule about usernames ending
bot being reserved for bots.
Not really, I just successfully created an account ending in "bot". I found
this criteria to filter out bots quite naive and not accurate, also it does
not consider non-flagged "bots" without the substring "bot" in their
name.
If you want to filter out edits that *do not represent human collaboration
or community actual status *then you might also want to filter out, or
better give a low weighting to edits flagged as "minor". That feature is
heavily used on wikipedia.
Hum, I am not sure how popular is that feature used in Wikia. It might
depend much on the experience or policy of every specific wiki and, for me,
a minor edit could be still be a indicator of human collaboration, so I
will rather leave them in.
Jonathan
Thank you all for your answers!
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Saludos,
Abel.