I was just wondering if you were referring to bots such as webcrawlers that are merely hitting the site or are you Referring to bots like Yobot and cluebot that are doing actual edits.

Also. Do you count edits done using apps like AWB and twinkle as bots?

Does Analytics have any interest in involvement in a rate-limitingproject as a partial solution to this?On 1 October 2015 at 11:21, Nuria Ruiz  wrote:> We met briefly to weight the pros and cons of taking up a project to tag bot> traffic.>> TL;DR>> While we see several projects that will benefit from a more precise bot> identification we think that at this time there are workarrounds that we can> do to filter bot traffic in most areas and that we should not expend the> resources and computation effort that a through bot detection system will> require.>> We think is worth spending time in quantifying our TRUE bot traffic so when> management has a question like "How much of our traffic is crawling?" we can> give an estimate by, say, researching bot traffic monthly, weekly and daily> in one given month.>> At this time 15% of our pageview traffic (not requests) are detected bots,> we estimate that the real bot traffic might be quite a big higher.>>> More detailed Notes here:> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Bots>> Attendees please modify/correct notes as needed.>> _______________________________________________> Analytics mailing list> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics>-- Oliver KeyesCount LogulaWikimedia Foundation_______________________________________________Analytics mailing listAnalytics@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics