Very helpful, Lukas, I didn't know about the logging table. In some recent work [1] I found many users that appeared to be bots but whose edits did not have the bot flag set. My approach was to exclude users who didn't have a break of more than 6 hours between edits over the entire month I was studying. I was interested in the users who had multiple edit sessions in the month and so when with a straight threshold. A way to keep users with only one editing session would be to exclude users who have no break longer than X hours in an edit session lasting at least Y hours (e.g., a user who doesn't break for more than 6 hours in 5-6 days is probably not human)
Cheers, Scott [1] Multilinguals and Wikipedia Editing http://www.scotthale.net/pubs/?websci2014 -- Scott Hale Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.scotthale.net/ scott.h...@oii.ox.ac.uk On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Lukas Benedix <lbene...@l3q.de> wrote: > Here is a list of currently flagged bots: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&offset=&limit=2000&username=&group=bot > > Another good point to look for bots is here: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=Bots%2FRequests_for_approval&namespace=4 > > You should also have a look at this pages to find former bots: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status/inactive_bots_1 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status/inactive_bots_2 > > And last but not least the logging table you can access via tool labs: > SELECT DISTINCT(log_title) > FROM logging > WHERE log_action = 'rights' > AND log_params LIKE '%bot%'; > > Lukas > > Am So 18.05.2014 18:34, schrieb Andrew G. West: > > User name policy states that "*bot*" names are reserved for bots. > > Thus, such a regex shouldn't be too hacky, but I cannot comment > > whether some non-automated cases might slip through new user patrol. I > > do think dumps make the 'users' table available, and I know for sure > > one could get a full list via the API. > > > > As a check on this, you could check that when these usernames edit, > > whether or not they set the "bot" flag. -AW > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Scott Hale Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.scotthale.net/ scott.h...@oii.ox.ac.uk
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