Talk:Flow/Architecture/API/Archive 2014

enwiki bots that edit talk pages
I did a database query to find all bots that edited a talk page on enwiki in the last 30 days. I excluded archive bots, signature bots, and anything else that would be unnecessary with or unaffected by Flow.


 * Notifications (adding new sections)
 * BracketBot, Legobot, HasteurBot, Theo's Little Bot, ImageTaggingBot, DYKUpdateBot, RMCD bot, DPL bot, SuggestBot, Cyberbot II (also comments on the sections it creates), Cyberbot I, HostBot, DYKHousekeepingBot, EarwigBot, UcuchaBot, LaraBot, ReferenceBot, MadmanBot, Commons fair use upload bot


 * Cleanup (editing comments):
 * AnomieBOT, OgreBot


 * Editing page header (Wikiproject banners, etc)
 * ProteinBoxBot, DYKUpdateBot, VoxelBot, DumbBOT, Cyberbot I, Lowercase sigmabot, MenoBot II, AnkitAWB, SporkBot, MenoBot


 * Other:
 * JL-Bot

So except for a handful, the vast majority of bots fall into 2 categories. This also shows that there are some limited use cases to allowing bots to edit other peoples' posts. Mr.Z-man (talk) 02:19, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Notes from Zurich Hackathon
From the Flow API session: