El vie., 25 ene. 2019 a las 22:24, WereSpielChequers (< werespielchequers@gmail.com>) escribió:
The most recent of IngredientSortBot's 764 edits was in 2007, so if that wiki has a bot flagging system the bot flag would have likely been removed in the last decade. But if 764 edits makes them significant on that wiki I doubt that wiki ever introduced bot flagging.
What is that bot flagging system about? How does it work? in Wikia there are users within the "bot" group or the "bot-global" group, (see for instance: bots for Cocktails wiki https://cocktails.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&list=groupmembers&gmgroups=bot|bot-global&gmlimit=500 ), and these have the capabilities corresponding to bots for mediawiki API, but I don't know of any other flagging system :S
You can make the assumption that editors with names ending Bot are bots and on English language wikis you are pretty safe. If you made the assumption that accounts ending bot were bots you would lose a bit, three of the 5,000 most active accounts on the English wikipedia are longstanding accounts that include bot but were created before the rule about usernames ending bot being reserved for bots.
Not really, I just successfully created an account ending in "bot". I found this criteria to filter out bots quite naive and not accurate, also it does not consider non-flagged "bots" without the substring "bot" in their name.
If you want to filter out edits that *do not represent human collaboration or community actual status *then you might also want to filter out, or better give a low weighting to edits flagged as "minor". That feature is heavily used on wikipedia.
Hum, I am not sure how popular is that feature used in Wikia. It might depend much on the experience or policy of every specific wiki and, for me, a minor edit could be still be a indicator of human collaboration, so I will rather leave them in.
Jonathan
Thank you all for your answers!