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This bot is judging you: here’s how we made it better at it

After two years of planning and migration work, the 3rd generation WP 1.0 web tool has launched! Learn more about how it happened and what it means for Wikipedia’s editors.
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Posted on: November 3, 2020 Last updated on: November 3, 2020 Comments: 2 Travis Briggs
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Bot or Not? Identifying “fake” traffic on Wikipedia

We have been working this past year to better identify and tag the “bot spam” traffic so we can produce top pageview lists that (mostly) do not require manual curation.
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Posted on: October 5, 2020 Last updated on: February 23, 2021 Comments: 1 Nuria Ruiz, Joseph Allemandou, Leila Zia and MusikAnimal

MediaWiki History: the best dataset on Wikimedia content and contributors

Learn about using the Mediawiki History Dataset to explore the every day experience of editors on Wikipedia.
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Posted on: October 1, 2020 Last updated on: October 13, 2020 Comments: 0 Marcel Forns, Joseph Allemandou, Dan Andreescu and Nuria Ruiz

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