I call a “registered bot" a registered user of a given project who is member of user_groups.ug_group = "bot". We’re currently working on evaluating different methods for bot categorization, both historically and across projects, as part of an effort to standardize key participation metrics. We’re also considering the possibility of a dedicated bot group purely for analytics purposes, i.e. not associated with any permission [1]. We’ll post the results of the analysis on Meta and we will solicit feedback from people on this list on the merits of different proposals/definitions.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Bot
On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know what a "registered bot" is, but we'll see a drop in new bot accounts, flagged accounts as well as active accounts. On wikis where bureaucrats are less eager to "retire" bots you won't see mass deflags, of course, only the rest.
Nemo
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