On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Flöck, Fabian <Fabian.Floeck(a)gesis.org> wrote:
Hi all ,
two questions, maybe someone can help:
1. I was trying to compile a complete list of all bots that were ever (potentially)
active on the English Wikipedia so that one can identify bot accounts in the dumps. Below
are all the lists (including historic bots) that I could find [1]. Out of those
overlapping lists, I extracted 2795 unique bot names (some seem to be just names for bot
approval request pages). Going through the historic edit data (no current redirects),
1377 user names were actually in that list. Does anyone know if that should cover (almost)
all ever active bots, or is there even a better list/method? I would like to avoid using
unreliable regular expressions. (Similar question for other language editions)
2. I counted bot edits per half year in en.wikipedia and saw a major decrease between in
the first half of 2013 from ~ 3 M to ~1M edits per half year between January and July
2013, which seems to be in line with official stats [2]. This is likely not news, so can
someone enlighten me regarding what brought about that sharp decline of bot edits?
This is probably caused by Wikidata making it unnecessary to run bots
to synchronize language links between language versions.
Cheers
Lydia
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