Research:Daily main namespace pages created by bots

Standard metric

Daily main namespace pages created by bots

Specification

${\text{daily main namespace pages created by bots}}(D)$ is a count of the number of page creations in namespace $0$ on date $D$ 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

Time lag

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