On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan
<mviswanathan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> +1 Oliver - User agents tagged with WikimediaBot are tagged as bot - I do
> agree that our documentation on this can be approved, I'll update the
> Webrequest and Pageview tables docs to reflect this.

Where was this announced?
I don't believe pywikibot does this, or was notified that it should do this...?

Apologies, it wasn't. Here is a task for it - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108599, and it's in our pipeline to get done.
 
Are accounts with the bot flag also tagged as bot?

I believe bot flags associated with accounts are not part of the webrequest data, so we don't look at it. Currently, we use UA-parser + some custom regex to identify and mark spiders. So if you have not adopted the WikimediaBot convention, your bot would be currently tagged as a spider if the UA matched this regex. Only those bots that explicitly tag with WikimediaBot will register as a bot. 

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John Vandenberg

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I have also added notes to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Pageview_hourly and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Webrequest noting this 'bot' agent-type.

--Madhu :)