I wonder if Marcel means "crawlers".

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > (*) There is already another convention[2] for bots that EDIT Wikimedia
> > content.
> > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bots
>
> I don't see anything described in [[Manual:Bots]] that would actually
> help you detect bot editing traffic. What am I missing? Bots (or any
> high volume editing user) are typically asked to get specific rights
> on the wikis that they are interacting with but those on wiki
> permissions are associated with the wiki account and not the user
> agent.
>
> Bryan
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