A new app by Thomas Steiner (@tomayac) counting bot vs human edits in real time from the RecentChanges feed:
http://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/
(read more [2]). The application comes with a public API exposing Wikipedia and Wikidata edits as Server-Sent Events. [1]
Dario
[1] http://blog.tomayac.com/index.php?date=2013-10-14&time=16:49:46&perm... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events
That's very nice, except the only criterion to classify bots there is if the word "bot"https://github.com/tomayac/wikipedia-edits-server-sent-events/blob/master/server.js#L111is inside the username of the user who edited or not. I believe there is room for a lot more improvement.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
A new app by Thomas Steiner (@tomayac) counting bot vs human edits in real time from the RecentChanges feed:
http://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/
(read more [2]). The application comes with a public API exposing Wikipedia and Wikidata edits as Server-Sent Events. [1]
Dario
[1] http://blog.tomayac.com/index.php?date=2013-10-14&time=16:49:46&perm... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events
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Thomas says that he is in fact using the recentchanges bot flag as well as matching a "bot" string in the username [1] (most scripts only do the former).
[1] https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/389826708838547456
On Oct 14, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Stefan Petrea stefan@garage-coding.com wrote:
That's very nice, except the only criterion to classify bots there is if the word "bot" is inside the username of the user who edited or not. I believe there is room for a lot more improvement.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote: A new app by Thomas Steiner (@tomayac) counting bot vs human edits in real time from the RecentChanges feed:
http://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/
(read more [2]). The application comes with a public API exposing Wikipedia and Wikidata edits as Server-Sent Events. [1]
Dario
[1] http://blog.tomayac.com/index.php?date=2013-10-14&time=16:49:46&perm... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events
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Very cool. If you include wikidata then more than 50% of the edits on the Wikimedia projects are made by bots. One of the dead horses I like to beat is that bot editors should be treated as first class citizens of Wikipedia and this data nicely illustrates that. I think this is a bigger watershed moment (we might have reached this threshold a while back) then mobile vs non-mobile and we should have a way more rigorous discussion about the future of bots on Wikipedia. Particularly as all our big features are aimed at human editors :) D
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
A new app by Thomas Steiner (@tomayac) counting bot vs human edits in real time from the RecentChanges feed:
http://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/
(read more [2]). The application comes with a public API exposing Wikipedia and Wikidata edits as Server-Sent Events. [1]
Dario
[1] http://blog.tomayac.com/index.php?date=2013-10-14&time=16:49:46&perm... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events
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