All bots on a given wiki have a row in the user_groups table with ug_group set to 'bot'. So, you can use that to get the list of all bot accounts on a wiki.
Petr Onderka [[User:Svick]] On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:12, Philipp Zedler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo! > > I'm needing a list of all active Wikipedia bots in all language versions in > order to judge how important the edits are which I read from the table > `revision' from databases like `dewiki_p'. I want to discriminate bot-edits > from other minor edits by checking if the corresponding user name is that of > a bot. > > I could, of course, extract the names of all bots from HTML by parsing the > page about `All Wikipedia bots' > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_Wikipedia_bots > > But very likely there's a much more convenient way, like an sql table > containing the bots. > > (The list of bots running on the Wikimedia Toolserver > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_bots_running_on_the_Wikimedia_Toolserver > contains to few bots for my purposes.) > > Best > Philipp > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
