Graphs showing non-bot edits have been available for the largest Wikipedias since earlier this month, see Erik Z.'s announcement at http://infodisiac.com/blog/2013/07/new-edit-and-revert-stats/ .
E.g. English Wikipedia: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/EditsRevertsEN.htm
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was poking around on stats.wikimedia.org and reportcard.wmflabs.org to see if I could find out how overall editing levels had changed (if any) over the past year. Unfortunately, it seems that all of our "edits per month" graphs show all edits, including bot edits. Since changes in bot editing levels are often dramatic from month to month, this noise effectively cancels out the usefulness of the graphs. For example, you can see a huge spike in March when I presume the Wikidata bots were running at full force: http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/#secondary-graphs-tab http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm#3
My question is: Would it be possible to replace or augment these graphs with graphs that exclude bot edits? I know that bot status is not stored in the revision table, so this would be quite expensive to tally. Would it be prohibitively expensive? Sorry if this is a dumb question.
Ryan Kaldari
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