Does Analytics have any interest in involvement in a rate-limiting project as a partial solution to this?
On 1 October 2015 at 11:21, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > We met briefly to weight the pros and cons of taking up a project to tag bot > traffic. > > TL;DR > > While we see several projects that will benefit from a more precise bot > identification we think that at this time there are workarrounds that we can > do to filter bot traffic in most areas and that we should not expend the > resources and computation effort that a through bot detection system will > require. > > We think is worth spending time in quantifying our TRUE bot traffic so when > management has a question like "How much of our traffic is crawling?" we can > give an estimate by, say, researching bot traffic monthly, weekly and daily > in one given month. > > At this time 15% of our pageview traffic (not requests) are detected bots, > we estimate that the real bot traffic might be quite a big higher. > > > More detailed Notes here: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Bots > > Attendees please modify/correct notes as needed. > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
