On 11.10.2016, at 12:25, Taha Yasseri <taha.yaseri@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Fabian,

We recently did the same exercise for this paper: Even Good Bots Fight .

Have a look at the data collection, where we explained how we made a list of all bots.

Also re edit statistics, see Fig S1. 

Happy to compare the lists and share data. 

Best,

Taha

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Wikistats knows about 8017 bot usernames according to https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-ez/wikistats/csv_wp_main.zip (cut -f2 -d, StatisticsBots.csv | sort -u | wc -l ). Given active editors tend to complain a lot if they get counted as bots, a comprehensive list should probably be a superset of that one.

Flöck, Fabian, 11/10/2016 11:15:

This is likely not news, so can someone enlighten me regarding what brought about that sharp decline of bot edits?

The migration of interwiki links to Wikidata, which is very visible in https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/PlotsPngEditHistoryTop.htm .

There was also some statistic by WMF on whether active users had "migrated" to Wikidata from other projects, but I can't quickly find it now; maybe it was around the time of http://infodisiac.com/blog/2014/03/wikimedia-editor-trends-broken-down-by-project/ .

Nemo

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==New Paper==

Editorial: At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science

Borge-Holthoefer J, Moreno Y and Yasseri T

Front. Phys. 4:37 (2016).

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University of Oxford,

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