People whose last name is Abbot will be discriminated. And a true story: A prominent human Catalan Wikipedia editor whose name is PauCabot skewed the results of an actual study.
So don't trust just the user names. בתאריך 18 במאי 2014 19:34, מאת "Andrew G. West" <west.andre...@gmail.com>: > User name policy states that "*bot*" names are reserved for bots. Thus, > such a regex shouldn't be too hacky, but I cannot comment whether some > non-automated cases might slip through new user patrol. I do think dumps > make the 'users' table available, and I know for sure one could get a full > list via the API. > > As a check on this, you could check that when these usernames edit, > whether or not they set the "bot" flag. -AW > > -- > Andrew G. West, PhD > Research Scientist > Verisign Labs - Reston, VA > Website: http://www.andrew-g-west.com > > > On 05/18/2014 12:10 PM, Brian Keegan wrote: > >> Is there a way to retrieve a canonical list of bots on enwiki or >> elsewhere? I'm interested in omitting automated revisions (sorry >> Stuart!) for the purposes of building co-authorship networks. >> >> Grabbing everything under 'Category:All Wikipedia bots' excludes some >> major ones like SmackBot, Cydebot, VIAFbot, Full-date unlinking bot, >> etc. because these bots have changed names but the redirect is not >> categorized, the account has been removed/deprecated, or a user appears >> to have removed the relevant bot categories from the page. >> >> Can anyone advise me on how to kill all the bots in my data without >> having to resort to manual cleaning or hacky regex? >> >> >> -- >> Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. >> Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lazer Lab >> College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University >> Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University >> Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School >> >> b.kee...@neu.edu <mailto:b.kee...@neu.edu> >> www.brianckeegan.com <http://www.brianckeegan.com> >> M: 617.803.6971 >> O: 617.373.7200 >> Skype: bckeegan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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