On 29 July 2010 22:21, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Slightly under 10% of all edits on enwiki were by bots - that's bot-flagged accounts, not the various automatically-assisted tools. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/PlotsPngEditHistoryTable.htm The proportion has crept up a bit over time, but eyeballing the chart it seems to have been stable around 9% for the last year or two. There's a recent spike indicated there - I don't know if that's an anomaly or not. Across all languages, it's 20% historically, closer to 25% as a proportion of current edits. Interestingly, it's clear that, roughly speaking, the smaller the project the higher the proportion of bot edits: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proportion_of_bot_edits_on_Wikipedia… -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

Here's what happens when you click on "suggest changes" The edit window opens and this message: "Suggesting Changes to Children and Diabetes Type your suggested changes to the Article in the box below and then click the "Submit Suggested Changes" to save them. The changes will go live on Medpedia when an Editor reviews and approves them. See Help:How to Suggest Changes for more step-by-step instructions." I don't suppose this would be a problem if you made a useful well-sourced suggestion. This would have to be tested. My usual reaction once would have been to not even try, but now, after years on Wikipedia, I've got a good idea of what a useful well-sourced suggestion looks like. Fred Bauder