Hey Felix,

To answer some questions in order:

1. Bots are automated systems with a Wikimedia specific tag
(WikimediaBot, iirc) in their user agent. We don't expect this to be
widely adopted yet because it hasn't been widely advertised. The
standard itself is very new, which is probably why you don't see any
traffic referring to it in August.
2. The idea is to have traffic no earlier than May 2015 - because
that's when the new pageview definition was instrumented (and so the
earliest point we have data from) but that doesn't mean all the data
has been loaded in yet.

On 14 December 2015 at 18:39, Felix J. Scholz

<felixjacobscholz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> Maybe this question is a little bit too simple, but I did not immediately
> find the answer in the docs.
>
> How does the API differentiate between the two user agents spider and bot?
>
> I'm asking because for some articles, there seems to be no bot traffic at
> all, including the main page in August:
> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/bot/Main_Page/daily/20150801/20150901
>
> ---
> Another, unrelated question:
> By my recollection, I read somewhere that the data available via the API
> dates back to sometime in May of 2015. However, when doing queries today,
> the API only returned data starting on August 1, 2015. Is that correct?
>
> Best,
> Felix
>

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