There are some bots without flag, but usergroups is a good starting point. As far as i know, only a few counter vandalisms or notifications bots aren't marked as bots. Like Matma said, bots can have the flag and edit wothout having the edits marked has bot edits. For example, my counter vandalism bot reverts vandalisms without the bot flag, but warns users with it.
Search for "Bot" on summary can be also an indicator of an automatic edition, as far has i know, at least on major projects bots must have that indication on summary, but may also fetch false positives for totaly automatic editions, since some scripts act has a semi-automatic tool. Alchimista 2012/5/25 Platonides <[email protected]> > The cu_changes table is not at > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_layout> because it's > provided by an extension. > > The rc_bot marks if it's an edit marked as bot. As you have discovered, > a bot can make edits not marked as bot (furthermore, as it is only > stored in recentchanges table, whether an edit was originally marked as > bot is lost after the entry expires, see bug 11181). > > As you want to filter out bot activity, you will want joining with > usergroups. As a bot account should not perform any "manual" activity, > that's a pretty good indicator. OTOH, you may well discover bot > operators ocasionally running a bot under their own account, and also > bot accounts which weren't given a flag (eg. some patrol bots). > > The presence of 'bot' (case insensitive) in the user name is a good hint > to treat as bot, but again, there are a few humans with that substring, > and a few bots without it. > > > Finally, are you using in any way the special fields of the checkuser > table? As all that data is available in other tables, it may not be > appropiate to use access to that restricted information for anything not > requiring it. > > Regards > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Alchimista http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilizador:Alchimista _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
