Kunal sent me this note off-list explaining the observed drop in unique bot activity:
I'm not on the analytics list, but I saw your email about bot activity dropping in Feb 2013 on enwiki (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2014-January/001515.html), and the reason is that all interwiki bots were shutoff due to the deployment of Wikidata.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_owners%27_noticeboard/Archive_8#... is the relevant thread with some info.
Dario
On Jan 16, 2014, at 8:18 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
yes, I’m just pulling some year-long data on bot activity and wanted to exclude something trivial (like some Wikidata bot activity in early 2013 that may have suddenly ceased in February?)
On Jan 16, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thursday, January 16, 2014, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote: 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?
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ams-fyukCIlMdHZ...
Thanks, Dario
Do we have usernames/ids for those bots that stopped?
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