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Add "Interwicket" to the list of bots
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This account, having about 9 million edits on Wiktionary:

Wiktionary interwiki 'bot
User "Interwicket" is the 'bot that adds interwiki (inter-language) links to entries. It is designed for the Wiktionaries. It is not the "wikipedia bot", it is much more efficient. It operates only in the main namespace (NS:0).

However it's listed in https://stats.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/EN/TablesWikipediaHSB.htm#sleeping

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Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript

Hm, I also see "D'ohBot" in the Ido list.

anything "bot" should already be caught

Change 337632 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nuria):
Add "Interwicket" to the list of bots

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/337632

Nuria set the point value for this task to 1.

Change 337632 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nuria):
Add "Interwicket" to the list of bots

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/337632

I'm confused. Does WikiStats really reuse the webrequest code? I meant the list in analytics/wikistats, which I think is $unflaggedbots in dumps/perl/WikiCountsBots.pm: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/ANWS/browse/master/dumps/perl/WikiCountsBots.pm;ac14c38f9837ce3737ab966c249078844cac656c$207

Milimetric triaged this task as Medium priority.May 8 2017, 2:03 PM

Change 337632 abandoned by Nuria:
Add "Interwicket" to the list of bots

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/337632

Aklapper added a subscriber: ezachte.

Removing assignee @ezachte as that Phabricator account has been deactivated. (If there are questions, it seems that @erik_zachte could be contacted.)

nshahquinn-wmf subscribed.

Wikistats 1 has been shut down, and Wikistats 2 has no list of unflagged bots that this could be added to.