On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > +1 Oliver - User agents tagged with WikimediaBot are tagged as bot - I >> > do >> > agree that our documentation on this can be approved, I'll update the >> > Webrequest and Pageview tables docs to reflect this. >> >> Where was this announced? >> I don't believe pywikibot does this, or was notified that it should do >> this...? >> > Apologies, it wasn't. Here is a task for it - > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108599, and it's in our pipeline to get > done. > >> >> Are accounts with the bot flag also tagged as bot? >> > > I believe bot flags associated with accounts are not part of the webrequest > data, so we don't look at it.
There is a bot request parameter associated with many write actions, and there is assert=bot available for all API requests since 1.23 (and earlier with Extension:AssertEdit) See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Assert . Why cant those be used? They are validated data. user-agent with 'WikimediaBot' is not validated data; anyone can change the user-agent and it magically becomes a bot? That sounds like a way to ensure this data is not reliable and a waste of effort to build. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
