Not all bots are in the bot group though, IIRC ClueBot isn't, and neither
are a few others.

Simon
On Jan 31, 2012 9:31 AM, "Petr Onderka" <gsv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <phil...@neue-musik.com>
> 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
> >
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