Aside from the sensitivities of this, and yes if there wasn't any doubt calling an editor a bot is not something one should do lightly, it isn't an easy thing to either define or identify. Doing bot edits from a non bot account is a big deal on Wikipedia, I have seen an admin desysopped and then blocked for this. Please be aware that labelling goodfaith non bot editors as bots is unethical and liable to cause another clash between the community and researchers.. Edits per minute might at first glance look like a safe way to go, but then you realise that some people will spend a long time manually building up to a situation where they click a button and that completes dozens of edits almost simultaneously. Type of edit and similarity of a series of edits might look like a good way to go, but what you will have difficulty identifying is that the person who seems to be making a series of edits without individual consideration may be working their way through a list of possible edits and clicking save or skip on each of them as a manual decision. Judging the results from the edits saved without knowing what led up to saving those edits won't tell you if an edit was a bot edit. What you can do is look for dormant accounts that are no longer flagged as bots. On the English language Wikipedia we have a list of them at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_ed… other language versions may have similar lists and are likely to have the same process of removing bot flags from bot accounts that retire. Regards Jonathan On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 10:24, ABEL SERRANO JUSTE <abeserra(a)ucm.es> wrote: are "normal" _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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.

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.

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.

Jonathan