The spike is also expected, I think. Wikidata and bots went like this:<div><br></div><div>* Status quo: dozens of interwiki bots making rare maintenance edits to lots of articles</div><div>* Wikidata appears; the interwiki bots are no longer needed. The regular interwiki maintenance jobs are stopped, meaning dozens of bots stop doing anything, mostly overnight.</div>
<div>* Because Wikidata is now working, 95%+ of in-text wikilinks are obsolete and can be removed. A couple of bots do this over a few weeks, editing the vast majority of articles across all projects to remove the text interwikis - so the overall bot edits go up despite number of bots going down.</div>
<div>* New status quo: no mass removal needed any more, and no regular maintenance jobs going on.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew.<br><br>On Friday, 17 January 2014, Dario Taraborelli &lt;<a href="mailto:dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org">dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Indeed, I should have looked up the Wikidata milestone timeline.</div><div><br></div>
I added a series of total daily edit counts by registered bots and it spikes right after the bulk shutdown of interwiki bots.<div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:33 PM, Denny Vrandečić &lt;<a href="javascript:_e({}, &#39;cvml&#39;, &#39;vrandecic@gmail.com&#39;);" target="_blank">vrandecic@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">Wikidata. No interwiki bots needed anymore :)<div><br></div><div><br><br><div>On Thu Jan 16 2014 at 8:09:41 PM, Dario Taraborelli &lt;<a href="javascript:_e({}, &#39;cvml&#39;, &#39;dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org&#39;);" target="_blank">dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org</a>&gt; wrote:</div>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I noticed that the number of daily unique registered bots with at least 1 ns0 edit on enwiki saw a steep drop in February 2013. Does anybody have a clue about the cause, before I dig further into this data?<br>


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