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It'd be cool to see how this was calculated. Though considering the amount of auto-spellcheck and similar that goes on, it's kind of surprising to see that half

by scythe 15y ago

It'd be cool to see how this was calculated. Though considering the amount of auto-spellcheck and similar that goes on, it's kind of surprising to see that half of the top contributors are human.

davnola 15y ago
The source is linked from the OP. Here it is: http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia-information.html http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia... The author draws a wonderful parallel between bots in the Wikipedia ecosystem and bacteria in the human body.
- lsb 15y ago
  Thanks for your kind words! I was fascinated by that talk. And if you want the code + data, you can just xargs https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs.rb https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs... over all of your pages-meta-history.7z files from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110317/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110317/ or get the sqlite database from Infochimps from http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/entropy-per-revision-of-wikipedia-pages-beginning-with-m http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/entropy-per-revision-of-w...
redthrowaway 15y ago
All bots have to be registered, and there exist simple tools to get edit counts. You'd just have to copy the list of bots and write a quick script to feed the names into the tools. Sum up the results and divide by the total number of edits. You could also just get an outdated version with the work already done for you, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bots_by_number_of_edits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bots_by_numbe...
Dinoguy1000 15y ago
There are no general spellcheck bots (I would say there are none, but it's possible there are some that spellcheck within a very clearly defined area, under very specific circumstances). Spellcheck bots are actually a fairly frequent request, and are always refused.

by scythe 15y ago

It'd be cool to see how this was calculated. Though considering the amount of auto-spellcheck and similar that goes on, it's kind of surprising to see that half of the top contributors are human.

davnola 15y ago

The source is linked from the OP. Here it is: http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia-information.html http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia... The author draws a wonderful parallel between bots in the Wikipedia ecosystem and bacteria in the human body.

lsb 15y ago
Thanks for your kind words! I was fascinated by that talk. And if you want the code + data, you can just xargs https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs.rb https://github.com/lsb/ugc-contributors/blob/master/mh-diffs... over all of your pages-meta-history.7z files from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110317/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110317/ or get the sqlite database from Infochimps from http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/entropy-per-revision-of-wikipedia-pages-beginning-with-m http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/entropy-per-revision-of-w...

redthrowaway 15y ago

All bots have to be registered, and there exist simple tools to get edit counts. You'd just have to copy the list of bots and write a quick script to feed the names into the tools. Sum up the results and divide by the total number of edits. You could also just get an outdated version with the work already done for you, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bots_by_number_of_edits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bots_by_numbe...

Dinoguy1000 15y ago

There are no general spellcheck bots (I would say there are none, but it's possible there are some that spellcheck within a very clearly defined area, under very specific circumstances). Spellcheck bots are actually a fairly frequent request, and are always refused.