Current Users

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About

The CurrentUsers extension allows a list of currently active users to be embedded into a page using a template. The list contains an entry for each of the registered users who have accessed the wiki within the last hour. The last list item shows the number of anonymous users.

{{#currentusers:}}

Robots

Currently the bot distinction works based on which users have requested the robots.txt file, and it only works if you have friendly URL's on such that the request gets treated as an article title request.

Most of the robots running around out there do not obey the robots exclusion standard and so do not bother to read the file to see what its rules say, or only read the rules for any particular site rarely. There are many databases of user-agent strings out there which could be downloaded periodically and some new web services cropping up which allow dynamic querying of user-agent strings. Incorporating one of these would allow the distinction of guests and robots to be more objective - this problem can never really be solved though because many bots are purposely trying to look identical to a normal browser.