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Story: VSUser has bots filtered out of all metrics
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Description

  • Retrofit bot filtering using research's definition on all implemented VS metrics.
  • delete existing (and invalidated) metric data
  • backfill to August 21st 2014 (our current time window)

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Whiteboard: u=VSUser c=Wikimetrics p=34 s=2014-10-16

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Change 167064 had a related patch set uploaded by Milimetric:
[WIP] Filter out bots from relevant metrics

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/167064

The bot filter has been defined by research as: "exclude any user found in the user_groups table with a ug_group of 'bot'".

Not all metrics will be filtered:

No bot filtering: Edits, Pages Created, Newly Registered User

Yes bot filtering: Rolling Active Editor, Rolling Surviving New Active Editor, Rolling Recurring Old Active Editor

Change 167064 merged by Nuria:
Filter out bots from relevant metrics

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/167064

will be deployed after sprint demo