On Jan 31, 2012 9:31 AM, "Petr Onderka" <gsvick@gmail.com> wrote:

All bots on a given wiki have a row in the user_groups table with
ug_group set to 'bot'. So, you can use that to get the list of all bot
accounts on a wiki.

Petr Onderka
[[User:Svick]]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:12, Philipp Zedler <philipp@neue-musik.com> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I'm needing a list of all active Wikipedia bots in all language versions in
> order to judge how important the edits are which I read from the table
> `revision' from databases like `dewiki_p'. I want to discriminate bot-edits
> from other minor edits by checking if the corresponding user name is that of
> a bot.
>
> I could, of course, extract the names of all bots from HTML by parsing the
> page about `All Wikipedia bots'
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_bots
>
> But very likely there's a much more convenient way, like an sql table
> containing the bots.
>
> (The list of bots running on the Wikimedia Toolserver
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_bots_running_on_the_Wikimedia_Toolserver
> contains to few bots for my purposes.)
>
> Best
> Philipp
>
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