Oliver:

Scott Hale and I have been working on a paper looking at global reach
and how it tracks with internet access growth, in the context of
editing, particularly looking at the mobile web. That, we should be
done with by then; presenting it could be highly useful (Scott? ;p)

I see what you did there, Oliver :J

I believe the showcase in is two weeks (3rd Wednesday of the month), which is a bit too tight to make sure everything is really checked and accurate. I'm in Asia in April, but *we* could definitely present in May on the work, which as Oliver said is correlating Wikipedia editor numbers with mobile and broadband penetration data on a country level.

Dario:

I wonder how many requests from US-based bots/automata we’re still failing to detect.

This reminds me that I would like to engage with the technical development team on the idea of storing the application (i.e., oauth consumer id) for each edit made through the API. Not all bots use the API, I guess, but I would venture that many (maybe most) do and tracking them would then become trivial. Tracking the applications used to make edits via the API would also allow tracking of alternative editing interfaces (e.g., visual editor uses the API and perhaps AutoWikiBrowser or others do as well.) I've never proposed any technical enhancement requests for Mediawiki and so very much welcome guidance.

Best wishes,
Scott