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?
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------ Original message------From: Oliver KeyesDate: Thu, Oct 1, 2015 4:19 PMTo: A mailing
list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and
analytics.;Subject:Re: [Analytics] Meeting notes - Identifying 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.>>
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