Research:Daily main namespace pages created by bots

Daily main namespace pages created by bots
Specification
is a count of the number of page creations in namespace on date that were created by users identified as bots.
WMF Standard
no parameters
Measures
Status
completed
SQL
SET @date = "20170801";
SET @wiki = "enwiki";

SELECT
    COUNT(*) AS page_creations_main
FROM
    mediawiki_page_create_2
WHERE
    `database` = @wiki AND
    page_namespace = 0 AND
    performer_user_is_bot = 1 AND
    rev_timestamp BETWEEN @date AND
        DATE_FORMAT(DATE_ADD(@date, INTERVAL 1 DAY), "%Y%m%d%H%i%S")


Daily main namespace pages created by bots is a standardized metric used to measure the number of pages that are created in the main namespace (page_namespace == 0) by users identified as bots (performer_user_is_bot == 1) on a given day.

Discussion

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Time lag

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As this is a daily metric, a full 24 hours must elapse after the beginning of the date (UTC) in order to calculate an uncensored value.

Analysis

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Discussion

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Notes

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