On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Flöck, Fabian <fabian.flo...@gesis.org> wrote: > Hi all , > > two questions, maybe someone can help: > > 1. I was trying to compile a complete list of all bots that were ever > (potentially) active on the English Wikipedia so that one can identify bot > accounts in the dumps. Below are all the lists (including historic bots) that > I could find [1]. Out of those overlapping lists, I extracted 2795 unique bot > names (some seem to be just names for bot approval request pages). Going > through the historic edit data (no current redirects), 1377 user names were > actually in that list. Does anyone know if that should cover (almost) all > ever active bots, or is there even a better list/method? I would like to > avoid using unreliable regular expressions. (Similar question for other > language editions) > > 2. I counted bot edits per half year in en.wikipedia and saw a major > decrease between in the first half of 2013 from ~ 3 M to ~1M edits per half > year between January and July 2013, which seems to be in line with official > stats [2]. This is likely not news, so can someone enlighten me regarding > what brought about that sharp decline of bot edits?
This is probably caused by Wikidata making it unnecessary to run bots to synchronize language links between language versions. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
