I was asked today to filter bots from the stats and present them in a
separate list.
I think that would be nice. I also would like to redefine 'edits per month'
to 'edits per month excluding known bots'.
Now the latest stats show a marked increase in edit activity in June, which
in reality is mainly due to 'Template Namespace Initialisation Script'.
So my question is: any suggestions how to recognize bots unambiguously?
I checked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
but the bot list there seems rather incomplete.
Checking on postfix 'bot' would be unreliable, not all are named in this
way, especially in other languages. I might even offend user 'Joe Bot'.
Where does WikiMedia look for filtering Recent Changes?
Erik Zachte