I was just wondering if you were referring to bots such as webcrawlers that
are merely hitting the site or are you Referring to bots like Yobot and cluebot
that are doing actual edits.
Also. Do you count edits done using apps like AWB and twinkle as bots?
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------ Original message------From: Oliver KeyesDate: Thu, Oct 1, 2015 4:19
PMTo: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an
interest in Wikipedia and analytics.;Subject:Re: [Analytics] Meeting notes -
Identifying Bots
Does Analytics have any interest in involvement in a rate-limitingproject as a
partial solution to this?On 1 October 2015 at 11:21, Nuria Ruiz 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.>>
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