Actually, belay that, I have a pretty good idea. I'll fire the log parser up now.
On 20 May 2014 01:21, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a *lot* of them use the API, but I don't know off the top of my > head if it's *all* of them. If only we knew somebody who has spent the > last 3 months staring into the cthulian nightmare of our request logs and > could look this up... > > More seriously; drop me a note off-list so that I can try to work out > precisely what you need me to find out, and I'll write a quick-and-dirty > parser of our sampled logs to drag the answer kicking and screaming into > the light. > > (sorry, it's annual review season. That always gets me blithe.) > > > On 19 May 2014 13:03, Scott Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks all for the comments on my paper, and even more thanks to everyone >> sharing these super helpful ideas on filtering bots: this is why I love the >> Wikipedia research committee. >> >> I think Oliver is definitely right that >> >>> this would be a useful topic for some piece of method-comparing >>> research, if anyone is looking for paper ideas. >> >> "Citation goldmine" as one friend called it, I think. >> >> This won't address edit logs to date, but do we know if most bots and >> automated tools use the API to make edits? If so, would it be feasibility >> to add a flag to each edit as to whether it came through the API or not. >> This won't stop determined users, but might be a nice way to identify >> cyborg edits from those made manually by the same user for many of the >> standard tools going forward. >> >> The closest thing I found in the bug tracker is [1], but it doesn't >> address the issue of 'what is a bot' which this thread has clearly shown is >> quite complex. An API-edit vs. non-API edit might be a way forward unless >> there are automated tools/bots that don't use the API. >> >> >> 1. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11181 >> >> >> Cheers, >> Scott >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation
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