Hi Abel,
I think you need a third category cyborg ;-)
More seriously, there is research on identifying contributor types. See our review in http://wikiworkshop.org/2017/papers/p1627-dahm.pdf section 2.2.3 on this topic. For example, Ron Meier is an account that makes use of scripts excessively. However, up on manual investigation, we got the impression that this was an actual human.
However, I have not looked at the literature on bot and vandalism detection recently. That's probably a good starting point.
All the best physikerwelt
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 11:25 AM ABEL SERRANO JUSTE abeserra@ucm.es wrote:
Hello fellow wiki investigators!
I have observed that, very often in wikis, users not in the bot groups are actually behaving like bots. Since the mediawiki api doesn't restrict normal users to automatize tasks through its API, you might have a "normal" user, actually doing bot things. I would like to identify those and consider them as bots.
Is anyone aware if there's any implemented model already to classify whether an user is a bot or not?
Thanks and nice weekend!
-- Saludos, Abel. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l