The spike is also expected, I think. Wikidata and bots went like this:
* Status quo: dozens of interwiki bots making rare maintenance edits to
lots of articles
* Wikidata appears; the interwiki bots are no longer needed. The regular
interwiki maintenance jobs are stopped, meaning dozens of bots stop doing
anything, mostly overnight.
* Because Wikidata is now working, 95%+ of in-text wikilinks are obsolete
and can be removed. A couple of bots do this over a few weeks, editing the
vast majority of articles across all projects to remove the text interwikis
- so the overall bot edits go up despite number of bots going down.
* New status quo: no mass removal needed any more, and no regular
maintenance jobs going on.
Andrew.
On Friday, 17 January 2014, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Indeed, I should have looked up the Wikidata milestone
timeline.
I added a series of total daily edit counts by registered bots and it
spikes right after the bulk shutdown of interwiki bots.
On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:33 PM, Denny Vrandečić
<vrandecic@gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'vrandecic(a)gmail.com');>>
wrote:
Wikidata. No interwiki bots needed anymore :)
On Thu Jan 16 2014 at 8:09:41 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'dtaraborelli(a)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-
fyukCIlMdHZPbGlaMXdkbjdYZ0RKWnUxWTBXUVE#gid=0
Thanks,
Dario
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